Mediocre Restoration Fiction

After reading the book, I watched the British film version in 1984, starring John Hurt, and was pleasantly surprised to see the rock and roll fat manager in "Love Actually" as Parsons. Although there were not many appearances, it was the finishing touch. The movie version perfectly restores the plot of the novel, especially the point of "Big brother is watching you", which can be said to be everywhere, and the eyes of the big brother are also piercing people's hearts.

However, although the original novel has a strong sense of picture, the biggest problem in adapting a literary work to a movie is the contradiction between text description and image. For example, the expressions of all the characters in the novel must not have the slightest indecision, otherwise they will be vaporized, but movie actors cannot express their psychology without expressing their expressions. Another example is the scene outlined by a few strokes in a novel, but the movie has to fill the screen with effort, and the time spent in a few strokes is difficult to advance without appearing hastily. Although the coverage of the film is very comprehensive, it still feels rushed at the beginning, and there is not enough space for the audience to experience this world shrouded by an iron curtain. And that large section of Goldstein's writings is even more difficult to represent. The space saved is probably spent on the final thought reshaping. The climax of the last thought reshaping is quite the style of the stage play, and there are also some difficulties in the film, such as only the dialogue in the book. However, at the climax of the movie, the film still takes advantage of the camera lens that the stage play does not have.

The dark scenes in the movie are in line with my imagination, and the male and female protagonists are basically in line with the image in my heart, but Julia can be more original and sexy, or clever, and their cheating is not as exciting as what the novel describes and what I imagined (: Eyes) ), presumably the movie simplifies their emotional base. Richard Burton's O'Brien is also good, but the movie omits the very important, from the very beginning, the complicated speculations and feelings that Winston has for O'Brien. In the film, O'Brien is about to climax as soon as he appears, which weakens the power of O'Brien's character.

The film version also specially composed several Soviet-style chorus songs, which are quite good.

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