In fact, I can understand the excitement of the original party when they saw this film. It is a kind of excitement that the image in their minds has finally been materialized. The admiral performed all the key nodes, and the realization of the picture was also in line with the original party's imagination. The problem is that the original party knows the context, and knows the foreshadowing of a dozen or even dozens of pages of text behind each specific node, but for those who haven't read the original, they don't know! In this way, the impression given to ordinary audiences is, "Why are you so powerful all of a sudden?" "Why did you get back a bunch of younger brothers who were said to be thorns?" "Why did you see Zerg in a dream and love the whole universe?" .
To give an inappropriate example, when I went to the concert of Eason Chan for the first time, I was so excited when I saw a fat man appear alive in front of me, and the audience followed the chorus, and I had lost my basic ability to judge; How can people who have heard his songs think that this fat man is not handsome, his voice is hoarse, his butt is not good-looking, and there are so many cold jokes. I had the latter feeling while watching this movie.
In my opinion, the reason for this effect is that the director and screenwriter were tied to the original work and pursued too much re-enactment of key scenes, resulting in the loss of focus in the limited space, and the same intensity was used for each key node. It also resulted in a dull narrative. In my opinion, at least it is a qualified narrative to express why Ender changed from a war madman to a merciful commander of the Zerg.
Few of the excellent novel adaptations of films have copied the original plot. As great as "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", many characters were cut off in the 11 hours of the three parts to ensure the clarity of the main line. "Forrest Gump" also only selected the first 11 chapters of the original work and skipped directly to At the end, the domestic "Red Sorghum" mainly selects the parts of the novels "Red Sorghum" and "Sorghum Wine". These films are not 100% re-enactments of novels, but by grasping the feeling of the original work and expressing the sense of text in the original work through pictures It is very appropriate, the rhythm is relaxed, and the spirit of the original work is visualized to create a classic. As for the full copy? "The Da Vinci Code" is not enough for you to complain?
As for how to resist the saliva of the original loyalists while adapting the abbreviation? If even I knew what to do, there wouldn't be so many failed works. It's true that the directors don't know how to copy it, they just don't dare to change it.
PS. The kid did a really good job. After a while, I watched his 2008 "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", but I haven't watched it for two or three years on my hard drive.
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