This year may be the first year of lesbian movies. Two blockbuster movies with lesbian themes as the main line will be launched at the end of the year. "Life Rejected," adapted from "Life Insured" for Best Documentary Oscar, starring the Ellen Page you all love.
In the other part, we must first introduce an aggressive old grandmother, because her IQ is too high, and she is familiar with Dostoevsky at the age of 9 (I have to Baidu to confirm whether it is correct when I type this name, she is 9 years old) I'm familiar with it!!), so I can only write some genius crime novels. Hitchcock has adapted her work twice, for her debut novel "Stranger on a Train" and for a short film in "The Hitchcock Tales." Since then, "Stranger on a Train" has been adapted into a movie several times.
In fact, she is a beautiful girl
. In 2000, director Anthony Minghella made a movie of the same name based on her masterpiece "The Genius Ripley" (note: the starring is Matt Damon and Jude Law!), and also won many awards in one fell swoop. An Academy Award, the highest award at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award...
If it is said that in addition to the characteristics of horror and crime, the sexual orientation of the protagonist in her novels is extremely vague, so in "The Genius Ripley" Today, 15 years after its release, someone on Zhihu still asks the protagonist of the movie "Does Tom really love Dick?". The Times described the novel "The Genius Ripley" as "a charismatic, handsome, and morally free bisexual con man who turned into a killer."
What a wayward setting.
She is the original author of the novel "Carol", which won the crown of the film queen at the Cannes Film Festival in May this year. Patricia Highsmith, a master of popular literature in the United States, was selected as one of the "50 Greatest" by "The Times". Crime novelist. An aggressive jerk.
Compared with other reasoning and crime writers, Highsmith's life's creation is not much. A total of 20 novels and 7 short stories have been collected, yet they have created a "Highsmith School" with many believers. What's so magical about her novels? Take her masterpiece detective novel "The Genius Ripley" as an example:
The detective appeared in chapter twenty-seven and left early in chapter twenty-eight. There are thirty chapters in the whole book, so what is this novel talking about? (Excerpted from "The Disturbing Highsmith")
However, the bizarre story setting is not enough to make her a big man, but a kind of temperament that she first showed in the novel:
two people who met on the train, one has enough One has enough reason to kill his own wife, and another has enough reason to kill his own father. Therefore, if they each go to murder each other, their motives will not be discovered. Drawing on the mouths of the characters in the novel, Highsmith makes a philosophical point that runs through all of her writing: Anyone can commit murder. This is purely determined by circumstances and has nothing to do with temperament. People can do this - it takes a very small event to push them across the border - anyone.
After middle age, she lived a very reclusive life, and little information about her was reported. However, her ex-girlfriend, who had been in love with her for two years, published a book, allowing fans to glimpse a more three-dimensional, perverse, alcoholic, and smoking Highsmith.
This story tells everyone not to fall in love with a woman who loves to publish books easily.
Aside from the ex-girlfriend of the book, little is known about Highsmith's other romances, and most of them, to be sure, didn't go well. "The Times" put it this way:
Highsmith's eccentric temperament and rebellious attitude were actually derived from her unfortunate and traumatic childhood and a life plagued by repeated failures of homosexuality, as well as her paranoid personality, unrestrained temperament Alcoholism, unbearable loneliness and abnormal living habits.
"The gay love that keeps failing"
"The gay love that keeps failing"
"The gay love that keeps failing" is
so truthful and hurtful~~
The report also pointed out that Highsmith's "tricky love", she was keen on Turpentine, but was mocked by her mother, who said to Highsmith, "Pat, it's ridiculous that you like the smell of turpentine."
The real reason is that Haima tried to use turpentine to get an abortion when she was pregnant. What if you think that Highsmith is at odds with her mother? Not quite, this discordant mother-daughter relationship is so intricately convoluted in Highsmith's 19-year-old note: I married my mother and never married anyone else.
Same-sex + incest + kill each other and love each other, Turpentine said: Blame me~~
When Highsmith was nearly 30 years old, in order to pay for the long-term and expensive psychological treatment of "homosexual disease", he had multiple jobs and went to the department store as a salesperson. It was also there that she met a lady who made her heart pounding. The lady bought a doll, and Highsmith packed the bill for her with a thump in her heart. This is the origin of the movie "Carol". , and then gone!
Highsmith, who is looking forward to a beautiful love story like all the spectators, wrote the novella "The Price of Salt" through this short encounter. In the traditional version of "Salt", the preface reads:
Highsmith went home after work that day. , It only took two hours that night to come up with the idea of the story "The Price of Salt": a young and lonely department store saleswoman, a wealthy but lost beautiful middle-aged woman, after the two met, they fell in love with each other. Both were not sure if this was love, or if this was the beginning of a life disaster.
Was it during that affair that Highsmith began to confront his sexuality.
The influence of this novel can be described as a one-stone startling of thousands of trees and pears. In the United States at that time, "The Price of Salt" was regarded as an avant-garde work for the awakening of sexual minorities, and the description of the protagonist's tossing and turning mentality was incisive. , and even some people speculate that "Lolita" was influenced by it. Highsmith himself probably did not expect that the thriller and crime novel he had written all his life would inadvertently create a world in the romance world. Just like Jin Yong, who has written martial arts all his life, suddenly found that painting "Slam Dunk" is also a good way.
But those accolades didn't come in time, and 40 years after The Price of Salt was published, and just a few years before Highsmith's death, she publicly admitted to being the novel's author. The status of "Salt" has no doubts at this time, and it will be included in various lists such as "100 Best Gay Literature Works of the Century" and "World's 50 Best Gay Novels".
The difference between Highsmith's protagonist is that he neither pays for his crimes nor does he have any question of spiritual redemption. Even more shocking than Ripley's indifference is that Highsmith acquiesced in this behavior. While her attitude might irritate readers, she takes it in stride, even deserving of her success in subverting the morality that people are accustomed to once again. I think it is for this reason that the American public has never given her the accolades and recognition she received in Europe. They thought she was too nasty. So, in the 1960s, Highsmith moved to more open Europe, and eventually died in Switzerland in 1995 at the age of 74. ——"The Times"
about Highsmith's final destination, maybe she will die alone, or she may be walking with her, no matter what kind of life she is in, she always keeps a low profile, which also confirms what she said at first: "I never Considering my 'place' in the history of literature, maybe I really don't have any. I see myself as someone who can provide entertainment, and I just want to tell you a wonderful and engaging story Story."
In 2015, the film adaptation of "The Price of Salt" "Carol" will be released at the end of the year, and in May of this year, it has taken the lead in winning the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The director is GAY, so this is a lesbian film made by gay men.
Based on the original book, the film tells the story of a pair of shopping guides in a shopping mall and a lady in the 1950s who secretly fell in love and then doubted themselves. The story is probably like this. There should be nothing special to tell. Cate Blanchett, the queen who has admitted to being bisexual, starred and has a sex scene!
In the play "Carol", the queen has an air of "seeing the old lady can't bend you, you little bitch" from beginning to end.
However, it was not the Queen who won the Best Actress crown at Cannes (the Queen had already won the Oscar last year and didn't care about awards), but another actor who saw flowers bloom, "The Dragon Tattoo" "Girl" Rooney Mara plays the shopping guide girl, this cp combination is really every minute.
I don't know if this movie can make up for Highsmith's heartbeat that never started and ended in a hurry, as well as the trauma of his life full of bumpy emotional experiences.
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