I recently watched "The Witch" starring Anne Hathaway with my children. The film is based on the children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It tells a 7-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother. He encounters a witch and is transformed into a witch. Adult rats and prevent them from destroying the world. Educational meaning is profound, don’t eat strangers’ candy...
Thirty years ago, "The Witch" had been filmed in 1990. This time it was a remake, but domestic theaters were not online, so I had to look for resources on the Internet. I found both versions to watch them together and compared them. Because Zhan Rui had seen the original work before, and watched the movie this time, I wanted to deepen his impression.
The new version of "The Witch" only selects a few plots from the original work for shooting, so it seems that the content is relatively simple and not coherent. Stronger force.
The 1990 version respects the original work and has more details. Mr. Bean plays the role of the hotel lobby manager. Now it looks a bit old, and I can feel that it was also a very good movie at that time.
There are several changes in the comparison of two movies with the same content:
One is the change from white boys to black boys. More and more movies feature blacks as the protagonists.
Second, there is no good witch in the new version, and the plot is single. The witch in the 1990 version is also divided into good and bad, which is more in line with the public psychology.
The third is a happy ending. In the 1990 version, the boy turned back to human; the new version of the boy and his friends did not become humans (maybe there is a sequel), and the ending is very warm, no matter who you are, a mouse or a human, grandma still loves You, are willing to accompany you, because I only love you, how many parents can do this now?
Roald Dahl, the original author of "The Witch", his most famous book is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and his series of works include "Charlie and the Big Glass Lift", "James and the Fairy Peach", "Matilda", "The Good-Eyed Giant" and so on.
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