It is said that this is a film adapted to the original work. Of course, under the pressure of the original novel to sell 30 million copies worldwide, which director has the courage and courage to do "individual play"? And the world premiere box office of 224 million US dollars, ranking second in history, also fully proves the rationality of this strategy. Imagine that a materialist country like China, which has a weak belief in killing Buddhas and gods, actually contributed more than 40 million yuan to the box office of the premiere. A group of atheists endured more than two hours of religious debate in the dark. Nouns such as the Mountain Priory, the Ministry of Affairs, the Knights Templar, and the Holy Grail are entangled. If they weren't rushing to the novel, it would be hard to explain today.
Ron Howard did a thankless job, no matter who changed this job. The fire of "The Da Vinci Code" is based on the topicality of religious themes, and the plot setting of suspense solving puzzles. Religious subject matter will not be discussed. The church over there has already made a lot of noise, calling on the believers to "pray more, strengthen their beliefs, and expel temptations." This is the current battle of the enemy. The suspense novel is about the dark, the willow, the unexpected, and the reason. It is a kind of hide-and-seek intellectual game between the author and the reader. The ingenuity and skills in the text layout are transformed into visual presentations, and there must be gains and losses. This has to involve the respective lengths of the two media.
According to McLuhan’s theory, the film should be a hot medium, which means that the information has a high degree of clarity and can extend a certain sensory organ of the human body with high definition. Correspondingly, a rich imagination is required in the process of acceptance, and text novels with a high degree of participation can be regarded as cold media. In the process of reading the text, the reader can pause, stare, meditate or turn back to the previous page to pick up details and clues again. The rhythm and direction can be freely controlled, and the fun of reasoning is in it. In the movie theater, the film flies, For the deceased, the viewing time and space are fixed. You can’t go back to a shot three seconds ago, or stop for a while at a key frame. Your senses can only keep chasing the light and shadow on the screen. Changes and emotional impacts exceed intellectual judgments, which means that not just a novel is suitable for adaptation into a movie.
As a result, we can see that although Ron Howard used the tricks he used in the Oscar-winning film "Beautiful Mind", he was still struggling to crack the Fibonacci sequence and related transposition codes. Can the bright letters replace the complicated thinking and reasoning process? The audience will be regarded as John Nash. Similar nonsensical scenes and decryption of cryptex, it is almost the same as the Chinese-style "pating the head". The end result is that there is too much information, no suspense, old-fashioned action, and insufficient reasoning. It has become a second-rate action movie that is remedied by big names, visual effects and scares.
Of course, the fault is not Ron Howard. After all, he showed us the gorgeous supporting cast of Doctor Octopus from Spider-Man, Mask Man from Batman and Magneto from X-Men. After all, he Let us see the cultural miracles of the business age, and also appreciate the powerful power of semiotics in the market game in the context of globalization.
Europe is civilized, wealthy, and human; art is noble, noble, and intelligent; what is science? Faith?
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