Let’s talk about the original first, a famous book is a famous book, and the dual heroine setting of the black lotus and the white lotus is not outdated at all.
The heroine Becky is very interesting. She is the female version of her beautiful friend Durova. She is the daughter of a poor family. She has tasted the taste of poverty, so she will use all means to flatter and flatter, walk through the back door, and fly up the high branches. Her character is cunning. Treacherous, evil and selfish, hypocritical and debauched, she is morally corrupt, scheming, a proper black lotus flower.
The other heroine, Emilia, is a rich girl who loves a white lotus flower. She loves a husband George who doesn't love her all her life (George likes to mess around, and plans to run away with Becky). Her family's bankruptcy is a good thing for her father-in-law. , she still loves her husband as always. Her husband died in battle, and she devoted herself to widowhood with her son.
Emilia has a knight-type guardian Dobin who loves her deeply. Dobin is a model of an infatuated man, who guards Emilia wholeheartedly and loves Emilia for decades.
The author writes very ironically that when Becky helped Emilia and Doberman's lover finally get married, Doberman's chivalrous love for Emilia died out, just like the flames went out.
In fact, the person who is truly satisfied with devotional love is the devotee himself, not the goddess who is consecrated by him.
Back to the movie, there are too many changes. In terms of characters, Becky of the Black Lotus is portrayed as decent and affectionate (in the original book, Becky doesn't love anyone, even the man who is associated with her destiny. Everyone is a The ladder for her, along which she can rise step by step, with money and power. Once she no longer needs this person, she will not hesitate to kick him away), and finally In love with a brain.
In the movie, the rise of Vanity Fair's dealings is portrayed as Becky's success as a dancer. This... The original book is not Paramount, but the social field of high society.
I think the adaptation is a failure.
The advantage is that the picture of the movie is very beautiful. . .
Famous book adaptation, the most basic one: respect the original book, which many adapted movies can't do. Since the screenwriter has such a desire to express and innovate, he can write original scripts himself, so why bother to waste famous works.
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