Readers of the novel said that they couldn't be more intimate with the movie. Thompson played Miss.Kenton was what they imagined. The housekeeper played by Hopkins was reminiscent of Hannibal at first (pay attention to the corners of the eyes and mouth of the old man, seriously suspecting that the director deliberately Even the lighting gives a Hannibal feel).
James Ivory probably knows the novel very well. Kazuo Ishiguro wrote in the novel: "I don't agree with many of Mr. Churchill's views... But there is no doubt that he is a great man" In the movie: "Churchill is a war Crazy Demon..." The director is not as black as the original author, but he is more blatant...
The major changes in the film to the novel are the ending, which is no longer the simple textual borrowing of the novel, but adds some more rude plots (such as Miss. Readers said that they never dreamed of it) The original line spoken by passers-by was spoken by Miss.Kenton: "…The evening is the best part of the day...".
Miss. Kenton and Mr. Stevens are so beautifully photographed at the end, in the kitsch bistro, on the long green bridge and the benches in the early evening lights, and at the rainy station where they say goodbye to each other. Leave a shadow. In the last scene of the parting, Miss. Kenton had tears in his eyes through the window on the bus, and Stevens smiled sadly, and returned to the car, the rain on the window seemed to be Mr. Butler's. tears.
Compared with the indifferent feeling of frustration at the end of the novel, the ending of the movie is undoubtedly much more optimistic. At least at the moment when the male and female protagonists reunite briefly at the end, it feels like what they said: "Evening is the most beautiful time of the day." As well as changing the role of American Louis, he finally bought the decaying and decadent Darlington House and restored it to its old appearance, which is a little gratifying (in the novel, another American bought it in one hammer. , including the housekeeper himself, and it seems very ironic), here is the director's own intention. At least in the movie, Louis is portrayed as a fully positive image, including the final scene of the pigeon being released by him. The director himself is more optimistic about the former than the group of kitsch gentlemen who talk about peace, do not know the reality, and only engage in politics with naivety. In addition, the trapped pigeons flying out of the mansion also reveal the housekeeper's state of mind.
Although Mr. Stevens played by Hopkins is too good at coping (in words and expressions) compared to the butler in the novel, so he is not clumsy enough, and the style of the movie and the novel is also very different, but the movie Still good, after all, the movie has its own look and sometimes it's not bad.
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