From the preparation to the release of the film, from the shooting location in Pennsylvania to New Zealand, from the resignation storm to the finalizing of the cast, Peter Jackson dedicated all six years of his life to it. However, after six years of hard work, we still failed to win more Golden Globe nominations for "Bone", but the media praise rate is getting worse and worse-Rotten Tomatoes praise rate 39%, Metacritic 44 points, once rated the original work as "Life" "One of the 100 indispensable novels in the "Guardian" only gave two stars. Amidst all the doubts, Peter the Great, who has survived the storm, has not escaped the accusations of all living beings. We can only be more surprised at what happened to Peter Jackson? !
If the success of the "Lord of the Rings" series is a miracle, it is because no one thinks that this imaginative and creative literary work can be adapted into a reliable live-action film, but Peter did it; and the accident after the release of "Bones" The embarrassment can also be regarded as a "miracle in miracle", because before this no one expected that the warm story of holding the family card would become Peter's Waterloo.
It can be said that as long as Peter is there, "Bone" will undoubtedly be a beautiful visual feast. But for viewers who are used to reading fairy tales enough, the special effects of this film successfully put together the unmatched "Alice in Wonderland" and "M is the Murderer" after being torn apart. The director tried to give the whole movie a warm headline, using artificial methods to interpret it, but in the end, the overly ostentatious computer special effects dilutes the shock of the plot.
As the story progressed, I was restless because of the battered "bones", and secretly rejoiced that I had guessed the plot of the story. In the process of adapting the original book, our Peter is obviously more stunned than anyone else-several drastic changes have caused the film to completely fail in the stage of building the emotional tone, not to mention the loopholes in the plot, the weak and weak characters. , And emotions that don’t fit the story at all. If the original is a healing medicine, then the film will lead the audience on a path of no return from the 30th minute of the movie. It seems that the comparison of the two scenes at the beginning of the film has clearly expressed the director’s rich hints: the world in the crystal ball is snowy, the camera stays on the pure expression of the little penguin for a few seconds, everything is sacred and quiet, like heaven. ; On the other side, the picture is suddenly noisy and disorderly, turning into a world of bleakness. The director's purpose of exhausting all costs to depict heaven is nothing more than dragging reality into hell simply and rudely. "The way of existence of two worlds echoing each other" has long been wrapped up by Peter as "a crystal clear, golden pink heaven". At this moment, Susie has forgotten her pain for a long time, driving the silly audience to also forget it. The meaning of why watching this film.
The unsatisfactory nature of "Bone" does not mean that the film is useless. And some moments in the movie are more worthy of our recollection. In the scene where Susie was killed, the camera was first drawn not far from the cornfield, where a group of children were playing football, people returning home from work were preparing dinner, and Susie and Harvey entered the bleak cellar. The hints of the rape and the dismemberment, and the tears filled with the girl's blue eyes, have long disturbed people's minds, and achieved director Peter Jackson's horrible but ordinary goal of this scene. As for the hard performances of the actors, it is even more escort for the spread of the plot-Harvey's actor Stanley Tuqi has little lines, but only uses his body movements and subtle expression changes to gain insights into this child abuser and murderer. He even understands that the true horror comes from his heart, he is definitely a powerful faction. What's more worth mentioning is that Hilsa Ronan showed her maturity beyond her age in this film in showing Susie's life from life to death, from the happiness of looking up to heaven to the sadness of looking down on the world. And this fourteen-year-old girl has won Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress with "Redemption", and staged the miracle of two sparrows turning into phoenixes.
Needless to say, "Lovely Bones" is not a masterpiece, but it's far from being as bad as the media's previous renderings on the cliff. Too many people wishfully use the original work as a reference to characterize the film, but forget that it is a film first and a "literary adaptation film" second. However, "adaptation" and "copying" are fundamentally different. But for the rigor of artistic creation, perhaps our "bones" should be supplemented with calcium.
kang.
2010/02/13
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