After reading the 92 version, I feel that it is necessary to overturn the 39 version that I have demolished before: In my opinion, the biggest failure of 39 is to seriously vulgarize the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine, but now it seems that this It is an unavoidable tragedy for all adaptations. For film and television adaptations that want to attract more audiences than just readers of the original work, it is impossible to copy the essence of restoration. In the TV series "A Dream of Red Mansions", after Baoyu was scalded by wax oil, Baodai was alone, and the two were getting closer and closer. I can't stand the vulgar scene; I see two versions of "Wuthering Heights". The expression of his heart was even more painful to the point of death. Therefore, in terms of script adaptation, the two versions, regardless of their superiority, are both rotten and reasonable.
But in terms of candidates, the difference is more obvious: Lawrence Oliver is a good fit for Heathcliff, but unfortunately he can only play the adaptation of Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, not Emily's original. And the most suitable Catherine candidate in my heart is Vivien Leigh, a willful, cunning, selfish, ruthless and crazy woman, and even the method of death is almost the same, but unfortunately this great couple has no chance to copy this heart-wrenching similar love on the screen. . But Merle Oberon, the heroine of the old version, is really not bad, at least in terms of image.
Although the new version of the candidate seems to have both fame and strength now, it is not satisfactory in comparison: Leif Fiennes is still good, the shape is a little farther from what I imagined, the temperament is similar, but the acting skills Really top notch. It can be imagined that although Fan Ens was over 30 at that time, he had very few works. He had only acted in two TV series, and he was able to play such an important protagonist when he first appeared on the big screen. It must be because of his similarity and strength. Especially the scene of Cathy breaking into the church after her death and hugging the body and crying, not to mention whether it looks like Heath, it is really touching, it makes people feel that the later "English Patient" finds her lover dead in a cave. Pediatrics. Originally, with Fiennes's performance, the emotions could be expressed more fully, but because no one cooperated - the selection of the heroine was outrageous, and it was simply the biggest failure of Juliet Binoche's life.
If you've watched Binoche's films a lot, it's not hard to see that her characters are always in the same pattern: cold and seductive, beautiful and rational. It is precisely because of her inescapable cookie-cutter quality that she is destined to never be able to play Cathy's type of woman well. Although Binoche was only 28 years old at the time, her face and temperament had not changed in the slightest: her facial lines were too cold, no matter how fake she was, she didn't look like a woman who was crazy for love, her kind of deliberately innocent The evil smirk is so stupid that one can't wait to slap her twice. Her expression of extreme love is more like a mentally handicapped child. Apparently, she was better at playing the daughter than the previous generation Catherine, because little Cathy was already annoying enough.
The most difference between the new edition and the old edition is the coverage of the following chapters: the 39th edition came to an abrupt end after the entanglement of the previous generation had basically subsided, and the new edition completely faithfully adapted the lackluster content of the original book about the next generation ("Wuthering Heights"). The tediousness of the second half is just like the last forty chapters of Gao in "A Dream of Red Mansions"). There's not much to say at this point, and I didn't have any expectations for the second half. The most daring part of the 92 edition is that the beginning and the end even try to use the identity of Emily Bronte to narrate. These monologues are superfluous and completely contrary to the character of the original author-"Wuthering Heights" has received ups and downs for more than 100 years. Comments, one of the most controversial points is its "bloated structure", the original adopts the perspective of the insignificant tenant Lockwood, and then listens to the old servant Nelly as the narrative point, and there are complex multi-person narrative structures such as Isabella's writing in the middle. , some criticized it as a superfluous and confusing structure, and more mainstream experts later believed that this was the author's unique way of hiding his views, and we know that every word of Catherine and Heathcliff is not Emily's own cry. And the 92 version actually put Emily Bronte on the stage of confession, how abrupt and rash, it is the 92 version that is the most clever.
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