It was the first time I knew that this novel/movie was from a show in Blackwater Park. After listening to the show, I wanted to watch a movie, but I didn’t really have a deep impression of the movie. I happened to buy a novel this time, read the novel, and watched it again. Movie again.
The novel is very short and will be finished soon. Here are some imaginable film adaptations of novels. (The movie refers to the 1966 version)
1. Rewriting of Clarisse
In the movie, Clarisse and his wife are the same actor, with different hairstyles. This is not mentioned in the novel. Clarisse (should) be really dead in the novel, not in the movie. It doesn't matter that the woman burned to death in the novel also has Clarisse.
2. Deleted Faber
In the novel, the male protagonist meets a retired professor Faber. In the later period, Faber is basically helping the male protagonist. The role of Faber is deleted from the film and the role of Faber is handed over to Clarisse. In the novel, Faber also invented a small headset for the male protagonist, allowing the male protagonist to wear the headset to listen to him. He also reads novels to the hero before going to bed, and accompanies the hero to his boss. In the novel, the male protagonist finally burned his boss because the boss found the little headset and threatened the male chief to find the person behind the headset. The male protagonist burned his boss to protect Faber. (What an epic friendship!) Faber is also in the novel, not Clarisse tells the hero to find the person in the book.
3. The main wife is not so cute
In the novel, the hero's wife is called Mildred, and the movie is changed to Linda. I don't know if it is because the name of the hero is too similar (incorrect). I think Linda in the movie is quite cute, and I am more concerned about the male lead's mental state. Mildred in the novel is a fool who only knows how to watch TV (this may be the legendary tool fool?).
4. Robot Dog
In the novel, the male protagonist is threatened by a robot dog, which is deleted from the movie. Maybe it's not easy to shoot robot dogs in 1966?
5. TV on the fourth wall
In the novel, the hero’s house is equipped with three walls of TV. After hearing the protagonist’s promotion, the protagonist’s wife wants the protagonist to also install a TV on the fourth wall.
6. The male protagonist in the novel is more temperamental
It's a novel after all, and it describes the male protagonist's psychology in more detail. After the male protagonist realized the goodness of the book, what he wanted to do was to overthrow this deformed world. When he ran away, he ran to a firefighter colleague's house and stuffed a few books on him.
7. For the dead ghost
The last scene in the movie seems to have found an actor to fake death. In the novel, a suspect was found, and the robot dog killed the suspect.
8. Read a poem
When the friends of the male protagonist’s wife went to meet at the male protagonist’s house, the male protagonist in the movie seemed to read a story. In the novel, the male protagonist read a poem, and he cried his friend.
9. War
The country of the hero in the novel is fighting with other countries, and the gap between the rich and the poor in the world is also very large. These backgrounds are deleted in the movie.
In general, the biggest difference is two points: 1. The merger of the heroine and Faber storyline; 2. The reduction of science fiction details.
The merger may be for the story to be simpler and better to understand? The sci-fi details may be limited by the technology at the time?
The story 70 years ago is still happening today. Today’s Toutiao, Douyin and other software are like the “family” on TV in the novel, “killing” people’s time and filling the gap with so-called happiness.
However, the criticism of television in the novel is too absolute, and film and television works are not all "time-killing" works. After all, there is still film/TV art.
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