In terms of setting, the story and carrier of the drama version of "Snow Country Train" are basically the same as those of the film version:
When the end is coming, the earth is no longer suitable for survival.
The rich paid exorbitant tickets to ride the train that was turned into a utopia for later generations, while the poor rushed to get on the train, fateful.
Class difference is a major theme that the drama version follows the movie version.
The people at the rear of the car are "untouchables", their living environment is cramped and dirty, and the food is black strips of unknown origin;
The "noble" people in the carriages enjoy the pre-apocalyptic high-quality food, and there are waiters who come and go when they are called.
When the people in the back of the car take mouse pups as food, the people in the car are still worrying about the "difficulties" of sharing the sauna with other naked people.
Every time a "hospitable person" (manager) came to report news to the rear of the car, he would put on a fur coat and let the person at the rear of the car kneel down.
It is completely class suppression and spiritual insult.
In addition, the plots of both editions mentioned the word "balance" . In the drama version, the ecological environment on the train is used as an analogy, and the murder on the train is regarded as an imbalance point that disrupts the balance.
The film version is relatively more direct, killing as a means to maintain the number of "untouchables" at the rear of the car to maintain a balance.
In order to balance, the upper class cruelly deprived the people at the rear of the car of fertility.
In order to balance, the upper level reduced the poor food that was already scarce.
For the sake of balance, the lower-class people are not qualified to take a step behind the car.
Everything that happens on the train is the so-called "balance," and it's an act of imbalance that is laughable and ridiculous.
However, when I saw half of it with joy, I found that compared with the movie, some places have changed.
Indeed, the drama version has the same light and dark tones, similar plots, sharp attack on class differences, and seemingly cool fighting scenes.
From the first episode, the protagonist of the drama version is named Layton. Before the end of the world, he was a Detroit policeman. At the back of the car, he belonged to the leader of the revolutionaries. Because of the many murders in the train, he was valued by the management.
Although there are different considerations in the genre of TV dramas and movies, I think the direction of the story is still crooked.
The drama version of "Snow Country Train" seems to have become a suspense drama, which greatly weakened the original film version's color for the resistance of the people at the bottom-thus leading to class-level discussions .
The protagonist Layton changed from the leader of the uprising to a detective, swaying too fast, all kinds of motivating factors were all in the first episode, and they were all put on Layton.
Such as being attracted by food, entangled with the past of his ex-girlfriend, and the failure of the rear uprising directly led to his submission.
The character design has changed, and it does not fully conform to the image of a calm and important leader.
From the perspective of the distortion of the storyline, pure class resistance has turned into an investigation of multiple murders and leaderless uprisings.
The screenwriter designed a part of the murdered corpse to be missing, which is full of gimmicks.
Instead, the audience's interest is drawn to how to solve the case. In this way, not only the focus of the plot is shifted, but also the class struggle is placed in a secondary part.
The change of the protagonist's identity from the leader of Leighton to the detective also caused the main plot to change from a struggle to a case, which is really plain.
At the beginning of the movie version, the protagonist proposed to seize the engine that controls the train, but in the drama version, the vital object of the engine was only slightly brought out at the end of the episode, and it was still brought up by the second leader of the uprising.
Not only does it make me wonder, apart from dissatisfaction with inhuman life, what are the people at the back of the car fighting for?
Is it for a quality life? Is it to retaliate for unfair treatment? Or is it for the standard of equality?
In the absence of the leader, the purpose of the struggle has also changed, which is really doubtful.
The drama version has a serious narrative and has its own plot narrative, but it lacks a little bit of black humor.
In the movie version of "Snow Country Train", Tilda Swinton plays the "hospitable man" with a smile of his own. He is only nonsense, timid, and extremely hypocritical, and is a series of black humorous characters.
The drama version does not. It does not secretly express the black humor, but relaxes the tension of the audience through the tasteless smile.
The photocopy is a portrayal of class struggle in a closed space.
The drama version focuses more on portraying the invisible pressure of ideology.
If Melanie claims that her duty is to maintain the harmony of the train, isn't it the spiritual enslavement of people who, in her view, are only valuable?
Use hypocrisy to corrupt people's hearts.
What impressed me most about the drama version was that it created a bit of poetry-for example, the old Ivan chose to commit suicide on his birthday.
Old Ivan is the oldest person in the world. His only requirement on his birthday is to be alone for an hour and listen to Rachmaninov’s music.
Everyone was immersed in the music, some imitating playing the piano, and some shaking gently, spreading joy.
The death of Old Ivan became the last straw to start the uprising, and death disillusioned their poetic moments.
This is romantic, this is poetic, and this is another color added by the director of the drama.
The drama version creates an "empire", invisible pressure makes people breathless, struggling, but can't escape.
But I have to say that when I went to watch the new work produced by Feng Junhao with anticipation, I only saw the lackluster "Snow Country Train".
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