Text/ Guan Yadi
recently watched three suspense films adapted from successful best-selling novels, and I happened to have read the original novels again, and found that these three films basically represent the direction of the adaptation of the three novels. The first is Martin Scorsese's new film "Isolated Island", based on Dennis Lehan's novel of the same name (translated into "Isolated Island" published in China). This movie can be said to have completely surpassed the original novel in terms of overall charm. It is an almost perfect suspense and thriller. The atmosphere created by the entire movie allows people to be involved in the story on the big screen for the first time, and it gets more and more involved. deep. The whole film, whether it is from the director, photography, art, or acting, can make you feel that the front and back of the film is definitely the result of the cooperation of the top film creative team. The film recreates and reshapes the most exciting parts of the original novel, completely "cinematical" the text of the original novel, allowing me to completely shock me under the premise of knowing the end of the original story. I must admit This movie has given me full enjoyment, and it is also the most impressive movie I have seen so far this year. I believe that at next year’s Oscars, Scorsese and DiCaprio, the new golden partner, will definitely win.
The second is called "The Girl with Dragon Tattoo", which is based on the first novel of the same name in the "Millennium" trilogy that has recently become popular in Europe. Recently the mainland has just published the first simplified version. I have to say that the novel "The Girl with Dragon Tattoo" is my most exciting reading experience in the past two years since I watched popular crime novels like Bullock or Keigo Higashino. Reading the tome of more than 300,000 words in one go. The most exciting thing about this novel is that it creates a mysterious and weird heroine in the setting of a seemingly traditional "Island Secret Chamber" investigation case, and it brings out the problems of Swedish society that is very strange to me. And ills, and the final novel brings people the same pleasure of revenge as watching "The Revenge of Monte Cristo". But unfortunately, after seeing the film of the same name, I found that the charm of the novel in the film was completely lost, and it became a mediocre work that crammed many plots into two hours like catching a train. Although the overall production quality of the film is not bad, it is because the story and characters are too complex, which really makes the film lack the space to create an atmosphere outside of the narrative. The movie "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" once again proves that it is difficult for this kind of socially complex crime novel to be successfully adapted into a movie.
The last movie I saw was director Roman Polanski's new work "Shadow Writer", which was also adapted from the novel of the same name by the British best-selling novelist Robert Harris the previous year. But this time I watched the big screen movie first, and then looked back at the novel. What made me find interesting is that the novel is like a film director's desk book, and the consistency with the movie is as precise as a Swiss watch. The novel is only richer in the description of the characters and some details than the movie, but the film adapts the story of the novel with precision and detail. A large number of lines in the film are almost exactly the same as the dialogue in the novel. At one time, I mistakenly thought this. This novel is a derivative film novel after filming. In terms of the high degree of compatibility between movies and novels, in my opinion, "Shadow Writer" is also a rare masterpiece in recent years. What is rare is that the film itself still guarantees sufficient viewing, and the film editing is extremely sharp. I am in Hong Kong. I watched it twice in the cinema, especially the second time I found that in this political thriller film, from the beginning to the end, each shot has its precise purpose, and the whole viewing process is also quite enjoyable.
After watching the three movies, I suddenly felt emotional. First, I feel that the best-selling book culture in the West is closely linked to the movies. In contrast, in addition to Cai Jun’s previous thriller novels, the most recent one is "Dulala’s Promotion" "Finally let people see the signs of some best-selling books driving film production; the other is that I have summarized a rule that may not be regular, that is, Western film directors, whether in the United States or Europe, seem to have filmed before becoming masters. A masterpiece of thriller and mystery movies, and regardless of the type of film, including the New Lywood generation, whether Spielberg or Lucas, they all made the same type of film in the early days. In my opinion, perhaps the West has always had a culture of mystery. In the era when film noir was popular in the last century, filmmakers found the best vehicle for combining these two narrative types, because suspense mystery films may be the most trained film directors. The types of basic narrative skills, so the three films mentioned above all have the temperament of film noir in their bones. But looking at the Eastern movie world, it seems to be a completely different world, so I'm going to say another thing.
10-5-11
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