In 1995, the BBC once filmed about 6 episodes of the TV series "Persuasion". To put it bluntly, the heroine in it was not very flattering in appearance, and a kind of bitter cauliflower temperament permeated the whole body. If it is to reflect that Annie is for love Eight years of torture is too far-fetched. But compared to the male lead, the female lead's disproportion is almost negligible. Many people have infinite fantasies about Wentworth Shangwei, and the author praised his handsomeness and suaveness in the text. As far as I feel, Mantworth is arguably the second-best male protagonist in Austen's novels. But it is such a male protagonist, in the 95BBC version, he has become a middle-aged uncle with a sluggish face and a dull face. He was not the Wentworth comforter in the book, but the naval man that Sir Elliott had so sneered at. Watching this pair of male and female protagonists perform this reunion love story in the film, there is really an indescribable feeling of awkwardness. It can be said that this film completely subverted the strong confidence I had in the BBC because of Pride and Prejudice.
The film version in 2007, or the TV movie version, should be much less stressful than the situation in which Zhuyu was in front of the 2005 "Pride and Prejudice". As far as I'm concerned, it's completely hopeless. But I didn't expect this movie, but it made me watch it three times in two days.
At the beginning of the film, we also used a set of long border heads. In the piano music, we started the story with the figure of the heroine. Compared with the harmony and comfort of 05 "Pride and Prejudice", the piano music in the film is compact and depressing. This is also caused by the different beginnings of the two stories. At this time, Annie's family had to rent out Kaylinch because of the debt problem, and all she could do was register and seal it up, and there was nothing else she could do. The heroine Sally Hawkins is very appropriate and natural in this coherent performance, busy but helpless. In fact, in terms of appearance, the heroine is still average, but through this performance, this woman with a slightly resolute face grabbed my heart at once. There are many details in the film that reflect the delicate emotions of the heroine. What is surprising is that the film uses a relatively special way to connect with the original work, that is, to give the heroine a desk and let her face the camera. The voiceover is in the original work. sentence. The kind of solo performance is a test of skill, but Sally Hawkins' performance is remarkable.
I always feel that this version of the heroine's body glows with a different kind of self-confidence and strong light, and the film seems to deepen our feeling. The last part of the Bath chase can be seen as the heroine's active love attack, straightforward and urgent. The film captures and amplifies the author's changing trajectory of emotional cognition from youth to middle age. So there is this set of shots, but I think people living in today will smile knowingly when they see this scene. This is actually the result of the constant impact of the changing times on women's social roles.
The male protagonist of the film, Rupert Penry-Jones, is rarely seen on the screen. After watching the film, he went to check the information. Except that he had acted in the British intelligence drama "MI6", he didn't know anything about it. Rupert Penry-Jones' performance can be described in four words, but it is also in line with the tone of the whole film to weaken the hero. In fact, for our audience, Wentworth Shangwei is enough as long as he is handsome enough to be jealous of Annie and affectionate enough for Annie.
The only regret is that the film did not show the wonderful scene of the male lead proposing to the female lead. Anne's remarks to Javier in the book not only expresses her view of love, but also dispels Wentworth's misunderstanding, and then musters the courage to woo. It's a pity that the movie is completely ignored, and only a topic about renting is used to dispel doubts. Later, I heard that this is said to be the first version written by the author, but perhaps the author himself felt that it was too bland. Why do we need books because our lives lack passion.
But we can look to the future, where classic remakes will never go out of style or stop. So we might as well wait for one classic after another in the beautiful piano music and in the text of silk show.
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