Of course, Chen Yingying doesn't believe in first-class works and second-rate movies. He may not believe in evil, and he even pleases Haruki Murakami. The problem mentioned at the beginning is not necessarily that Chen Yingying has not considered it. After all, he still manipulates every character. Watanabe didn't have the memory of falling into youth at the beginning, Naoko didn't have the experience of facing suicide, Midori didn't have cute words, and didn't watch A-movies together, Yongze didn't like to read books, and the death squad went straight to death. The most exaggerated thing is Reiko is begging Watanabe to have sex... It can be seen that he is not a lazy creator, but to the readers of the original book, he is definitely a rude editor.
I understand the drool of the fans of the original book very well, and I sympathize with Chen Yingying's tragic experience. How to turn a book into a movie is never a good job, or it's a total mess at all. Because as long as they have read books, all of them will first restore the movie to a book, and then compare the existing picture sense in their minds and collide with the stubborn memory impression. As for the consideration of pure film itself, that can only be relegated to second or third place. Mistakes also appear in actors, such as Rinko Kikuchi, who has a lot of negative voices. Obviously in "Tower of Babel", she is so good, so international, and can withstand beating, but in "Norwegian Wood", her big face and hard facial lines are a nightmare, comparable to her in the How terrifying the 2007 Oscars red carpet was. When the 30-year-old said she was approaching 20, I inevitably fell into an emotional breakdown.
"Norwegian Forest" can be described in many ways, but it should never be a pure love version, not to mention that Chen Yingying still retains so many sexual elements. But it happens that so many lusts are intertwined, so profound life and death pass by, the film is still made into a hopeless pure love model, and a small freshness blows. The wind in spring, the grass in summer, the trees in autumn, and the snow in winter, such a set of scenery film shooting methods indeed guarantees the beauty and ensures that the audience will not slander it from the picture. Opening a contract is a bit too much. I try to understand Chen Yingying's approach. He may want to attract young audiences and avoid the so-called old-fashioned movies. But as the youth love of the 1960s, the disbanded bands and the people who passed away, this film should have exuded a strong nostalgic flavor. Obviously, although he learned a little bit of narration and copied the contents of the book, this Watanabe did not have any doubts about the past, nor did he get lost. Just by looking at his silent growl and not knowing where he is at the end, you should know that this is a glass of pressed grape juice, not fermented wine.
Therefore, Chen Yingxiong is too ingenious and skillful. He can't find the essence of the original work at all, and he can't find the self that has been lost for a long time. To say that it is difficult to compress and adapt novels, Raoul Luz took only two and a half hours to film "Reminiscence of the Time Is Like Water", with 7 volumes and 15 volumes. Although it is difficult to be fully recognized by the public, the director has preserved himself well, the atmosphere of the original work is still there, and the stream of consciousness exudes infinite charm. "Norwegian Forest", which is also a reminiscence of the past, has a bunch of distinctive characters, but after it was made into a movie, it failed to produce a kind of aesthetic feeling of scrutiny and aftertaste. It is said that this is because the distance is too far, or the modern atmosphere is too heavy - anyway, it is not like horizontal and vertical, or it should burn after reading it. 【Player Benefit Column】
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