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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  • Todd Bowden: Have you lost your mind? What the hell were you thinking, 'Grandpa'?

    Kurt Dussander: What are you so excited about?

    Todd Bowden: Oh, you've got some fucking balls! I could have screwed you up, anything could have happened!

    Kurt Dussander: You played it beautifully, boy. I knew you would.

    Todd Bowden: Are you fucking drunk? I could have busted you right there!

    Kurt Dussander: Yes, you could have, but you did not. Now, why was that? Your Edward French is not going to give you any more trouble, so now you are upset because the only way you can make things right is to work.

    Todd Bowden: I'm upset because you had that asshole thinking I can do something that can't be done!

    Kurt Dussander: Oh, but it can. And it will. You will simply have to work. No more stories. No more screwing around.

    Todd Bowden: I don't take orders from you.

    Kurt Dussander: [sniggers] You do now.

    Todd Bowden: Oh, you think so? Yeah, well, don't forget I could walk right in there and pick up that phone...

    Kurt Dussander: And do what? Do you really think that I would stand aside and let you turn me in without dragging you with me, do you? Your American self confidence is so bloated you've forgotten the reality of the situation. 90,000 died in Patin. To the whole world, I am a monster. And you have known about me all this time. If I'm caught, when those reporters stick their microphones in my face it will be your name that I will repeat over and over again. Todd Bowden, Todd Bowden... Todd Bowden, yes, that was his name. For how long, for months, almost a year, he wanted to know everything. That was how he put it, yes, everything.

    Todd Bowden: You're crazy. They'll never believe you.

    Kurt Dussander: It doesn't matter. Oh, you're going to be infamous, boy, take my word for it. And do you know what such a scandal can do? It never goes away. Not for you, not for your parents. And besides, lying to judges and reporters isn't as easy as you think. You'd have to be brilliant. Can you do that? I know I can.

  • Kurt Dussander: Boy, be careful. You play with fire.