Same content, two stories

Carmel 2022-05-10 21:15:10

I have never experienced such a movie-watching experience: I watched two versions of the same drama starring actors, and then I watched a movie with the same story as the theme, and the narrative style of the movie and the drama was completely different, making the same content to watch. Seems like two different stories. But after watching it, I have to say that I still prefer a more dramatic way of telling, and those flashbacks are simply magical.
I checked the Internet and it seems that the movie script is closer to the narrative style of the original novel, that is, to see the whole story from Keith's perspective, as a bystander, and go deep into layers, so that I can't extricate myself in this mutiny and trial. . But from the effect of the movie, it is obvious that Keith cannot be omnipotent and omnipotent in many cases. For example, when Keith first instilled the concept of "paranoia-like personality" into Marek, Keith was not present. While the presentation makes the audience full-time and omnipotent, it also exposes the identity of the film director as an omniscient and omnipotent narrator, and greatly weakens Keith's bystander role, making this role wandering between Marek and Kiefer dispensable. .
The bigger difference from the drama is that the movie arranges the military trial to the end in a sequential manner, so that the lawyer Greenwald only appears in the last half hour of the movie. After watching the movie, people will believe that this is a very powerful lawyer, but It won't be like the admiration in amazement after watching the play. Because Quig in the movie suddenly collapsed, and Quig in the play could already be overwhelmed by the testimony of several witnesses before he collapsed.
But in any case, after watching it, I still feel very sorry for the Quegger played by Bogart. Zhu Xu's version of Quegger in the play is a bit like him. Feng Yuanzheng is too young, and the heat is still worse. If the most profound impression of the talk play is Greenwald's superb defense art, the film shows the recklessness and ignorance of young people. A good story can be understood in many ways, let alone a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. I really admire the author's ability to delete and revise his novels so much, and use the same story to bring us classic works of various art categories!

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The Caine Mutiny quotes

  • [Discussing Captain Queeg's sanity]

    Lieutenant Tom Keefer: Will you look at the man? He's a Freudian delight; he crawls with clues!

  • Barney Greenwald: I'm going to be frank with you two. I've read the preliminary investigation very carefully, and I think that what you've done stinks.