As a book searcher, in order to meet the needs of those ancient book gluttons, Corcey is constantly looking for rare ancient books, and in this regard, he is obviously as gifted as Sherlock Holmes. Like Sherlock Holmes's good brother Watson, Corcey also has his comrade, Rabondi, a secondhand bookseller who is as greedy and shameless as Corcey, but deeply infatuated with classical literature. Their acquaintance is related to Melville's Moby Dick, our searcher is familiar with almost every whaling ship in Moby Dick, and his good comrade yearns for the life of a whaler, in the bar They chatted like this for a night, and then they became best friends for life. The movie deletes all the relevant plots of Dumas' manuscript in the novel, and only retains the main clues of "The Nine Doors of the Dark Kingdom". Rather than reducing the color of the film, such changes make the framework of the story clearer. Therefore, we mainly focus on the main clues of the movie, supplemented by the background in the novel, to show the story to everyone.
After explaining the background of Corcey's identity, the movie enters the main line - exploring the authenticity of the three "Nine Doors" - the novel chooses the collector of the book as a bookseller, and the movie Then simplify the plot using the professor. But both booksellers and professors share the same aura—an unquenchable desire to pursue. The choice of booksellers highlights worldly material desires, while the choice of professors highlights spiritual pursuits. But the novel and the movie deal with this in roughly the same way, and the pursuit of the result is, without exception, depravity.
After receiving the task, Corse conducted investigations with the previous owner of the book, a glamorous widow, a fake book maker, and the owner of the other two books. As a result, it was found that the 27 interludes in the three books were the key to the Jiudaomen puzzle. However, after careful and repeated comparison, he found that only nineteen of the twenty-seven pictures were made by the author of the book, while the remaining eight patterns were completed by people referred to as lcf. During the investigation, the successive murders of the other two holders of the book made Corce feel that the devil was around. He kept calling the professor and kept asking about his whereabouts. Let the whole story cast a layer of mystery.
In the movie, the cult ritual performed by the glamorous widow and the magic trick performed by the professor after she obtained the "Nine Doors" brought the movie into an absurd ending. From a certain point of view, the protagonist of this novel is actually only one eros and the devil. And this beautiful, green-glassed devil in the movie looks more like a soy sauce. In addition to helping Corse avoid danger to his life, he actually follows our protagonist like a follower. When the widow and the professor's farce all fail, Corce asks the devil why he was chosen. The devil replied that she also did not want to seduce an idiot, because it was of no use.
This story happens to be earlier than "The Da Vinci Code", and the movie is almost five years earlier. However, the main framework and methods of the novel are strikingly similar. Layers of puzzles revealed, with a hilarious ending. And the protagonist is equally powerful and omniscient. Of course, the pagan color is also suffocating. The Ninth Gate has a strong religious overtone in terms of story and setting. People are secularized to the point that they no longer throw away and run away when they see the theme of the devil, but bargain with the living devil. And what drives the development of the story, or the progress of history, may be pointed out in the theme of the film - the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, driven by the power of money. And all of this is undoubtedly an important driving force for calling out the devil.
Money and Wisdom are in the novel as Bookseller Poha and Professor Bakken, who in the film become a man who teaches Bakken both money and knowledge. And this person is not only the murderer of the murder in the movie, but also the most persistent person to summon the devil. This can't help but make us think, who is the person who so strongly advocates modern life, which has both wealth and wisdom, and implicitly pointed out in the novel, because these people can't resist the temptation of the devil, and they have fallen into reality one after another. demon. And what is it that makes them unable to resist the temptation of the devil? The main force that drives the story and history is thus exposed - eros, an unstoppable lust for wealth, for wisdom, and this erotic impulse will inevitably call out the demons of the world.
This point can also be found in history. The twentieth century is a history full of devils. All devils are selling two weapons on which they are famous. One is called wealth and power, and the other is called science. Today's economists believe that people's desire for wealth is more reasonable, and scientists also claim that the pace of mankind's pursuit of knowledge will not be stopped by the appearance of nuclear weapons. And we have already seen that the human devils Hitler, Mussolini and others used these two weapons to constantly deceive humanity and launch wars and disasters. What is it that confuses their minds and makes them fall into the devil's way, I think this novel-movie tries to find out for us. But the reality is a little darker, because we are all on the way to opening the ninth door.
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