The devil's apprentice hides the knife in his smile

Rupert 2022-11-17 10:19:08

I went to see this film immediately after turning the last page of the novel. This is the first time I have drawn the novel and its film adaptation so closely, and indeed the most recent one. In the past, I couldn’t help but watch the movie first. When I came back to read the novel, I would feel that the novel was a bit boring, and my imagination of the novel stayed in the movie scene. When I saw the character name, I couldn’t help but think of a certain Hollywood movie. big-name actors. This time I'm not just doing it the other way around, but I'm doing it so close, what will be the result?

I found that the structure of the novel is indeed more rigorous and meticulous than the movie, and the agents in it have much more flexible brains. I actually figured out that Todd often goes to Dushande's house because he wants to satisfy his fantasies of love to kill. This is impossible. Ask an agent to think of himself as a regular agent, but to think of himself as someone who has gone awry. However, the film did not mention Todd's killing of the homeless person, and the ending was changed. The adaptation materials are ready-made, but the screenwriter made such additions, enrichments, and changes to it, perhaps to open up a different way for the story. You know, killing someone and not killing someone are two completely different things. In the novel, the young man is arrested for a completely crazy act, and the young man in the film is threatened by a frivolous evil, and then he may be put back into his life, in the school, between his family and his classmates. , these are completely two different things, even though the latter needs to make a decision quickly, the young man couldn't hold back after all, and bombarded everything with 400 rounds of bullets, and that was the end of the novel. Or do you not talk about it from now on, and continue to use the "sunshine smile" to repay the forgetfulness of life?

Finally, a word about the actors. When I just finished reading "The Nazis", I was wondering if anyone could really play the complex role of Dusand, but Ian McCollum's eclectic performance completely put my doubts. Sweeping the floor, he is undoubtedly an actor with a changeable expression. He plays a dire and sometimes cunning old Nazi in a mirrored world. A complicated smile outputs a hard-working description in the book, so perfect It is true that the understanding of him should not stop at "Grandpa Gandalf". A friend pointed out the shining point of a film, that is, the old Jew, why didn't the film spend every brick and brick to give a reason for all this? The film informs him of his identity in an extremely subtle place, that is, the number on his wrist. As for why he happened to be admitted to the hospital and his roommate is precisely Du Sande, this is no longer known in the film. Why? It was just the convulsion on his face and the fear that was almost scratched on his face with a large carving knife. When Dushande woke up the next day, he told him that he would be extradited to Jerusalem to face trial. He looked next door, and his roommate had already left. In addition, this is the first time I know the little actor who played Todd, and I admire his performance very much. In fact, with the increase of European and American suspense films and black-colored films recently, there are more and more young actors with faces that can be feared at any time, or the young actors are more and more grasped. Well, it's true, that look can control the audience, but I always think, yes, Jiang is getting hotter with age, and Sir Ian is really handsome.

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Apt Pupil quotes

  • Kurt Dussander: [seeing the SS uniform Todd has bought for him] Mary, Mother of God!

  • Todd Bowden: [about the killings at the death camps] What did it feel like?

    Kurt Dussander: It was something that had to be done. A door had been opened and couldn't be shut. It was the end... You don't understand.