The beginning of "The Killers" (The Killers) is adapted from Hemingway's short story "The Killer." Adapting a novel into a movie is probably not too satisfying, because "a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlet", the director is only one of the readers, and it is impossible to take care of everyone's feelings and imaginations. At the beginning of the movie, I felt that the two murderers were fierce enough, but they didn't seem to be scornful enough. The two murderers in the novel are even more yin and yang. Perhaps this is the charm of literature.
Hemingway's novel is just a short one, and it was filmed in the first two or three scenes of the movie. The whole movie is two hours long. It takes a lot of work to develop such a rich plot from such a short novel. But it may also be the opposite. They may first write a rich script, and then feel that Hemingway's novel fits the movie well, so they use it.
The movie is very exciting, such as the love entanglement between the male protagonist "Swedish" and the female protagonist Katie. On the night they were planning the robbery, Katie was sitting on the bed. She didn't love him. She was the woman who planned the robbery. The "Swedish", a sad man who loved her so much, served her in jail. After he was in jail, she didn't even write a letter to him. He sat next to her and didn't look at her, he just took out the embroidered scarf she gave him. They were silent, other people were discussing the robbery, the camera was facing them, and the picture was in their silence, as if there was nothing to say.
One interesting place is the "Swedish" boxing scene. After being knocked down, the "Swedish" stood up again. At this time we thought he was going to turn defeat into victory, because all movies are like this, there will be a reversal. But in the end we only saw him being beaten worse and losing worse-and because we had expectations of him, we felt that he lost worse.
The role of an insurance company investigator is not well established. He is just an investigator of an insurance company. He does not need to spend time and effort or even risk his life to investigate a case where even his boss threatened him to give up by firing. He made this kind of investigation that completely departed from his interests, making him look like a Lei Feng. His serious attitude looks more like a melancholy detective or a reporter. If he is a detective or a reporter, there is no problem. Because he depends on this to eat.
He visits various figures and investigates the life experience of the dead, so that the truth is revealed a little bit, quite a kind of "Citizen Kane" feeling. Perhaps it borrowed the storytelling method of "Citizen Kane".
The drama of the movie is greater than the reality. For example, when the investigation reaches a certain level, the insurance investigator has obtained enough information that he believes that the next step should be to go to the hotel to find the robber. As a result, he went to the hotel, and the robbers really appeared. It is as if God is saying that there must be light, so there will be light. This is not true. Why didn't those robbers have been to the hotel before your investigation was in place?
The heroine is very beautiful. As shown in the figure:
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