The movie was chicken stewed with mushrooms, and it was still stewed.
I was so depressed to watch the movie, just because I had seen the original works "Night Watcher" and "Sun Watcher". It turns out that the film director is the director of "Wanted Order", and that's how it is. That's someone who can shoot authentic and cheap B-level movies with no amount of investment.
I personally think that when an original work is too superb, the director should not try to modify the picture in key places, so as not to cause such "too sorry for the raw materials."
1 The relationship between the characters completely reduces the depth of the original worldview. The biggest failure was the design of Yegor as the son of Anton.
Yegor is just an ordinary dark other, but Anton still cares about him, not because it is his son. Most of the others in the original book, whether dark power or light power, are people who have lived hundreds of years, although Anton and his girlfriend Sveta are still humans of normal age-they all have non-humans. His worldview is just like those wizards in "Essence Fire Sacrifice". Using the blood ties between humans as the key plot reduces the magic and atmosphere of the story.
2 After watching "The Watcher", the director unexpectedly arranged that the ending was "Anton saved the world by erasing the trace of killing." To some extent, it is in line with some of the spiritual essence of the original work, which is that the dark others use human evil to gain power, while the light others use human happiness to gain power-human beings can only get rid of Your own evil can change your world. However, this is just a little meaning that the original book wants to express. Perhaps in the eyes of Sergey, good and evil are inevitable traits of human nature, and what human beings need to do is actually a balance. That's why he was not in the book, let Sister Sveta, the great female magician, finally grow up, cutting the dark others to death like cutting Chinese cabbage.
3 The characterization is too unsuccessful. Whether it is Anton (the student turns Anton into a haggard uncle with 12 children), the great female wizard Sveta, or the originally beautiful and evil grandfather Zaolong, and the very cunning grandfather Chege You, and the bright others with their own characteristics, all have only one tenth of the charm in the original book. The most frustrating thing is the look of Grandpa Zaulong’s witch and girlfriend in the sun watcher. Mother, she also used styling glue to make her hair a devilish horn shape. If I didn’t know it, I thought it was the little dragon who grew up and changed sex. It's gone bad. The only charming one is Grandpa Segel’s girlfriend, but the shots it appeared as an owl were too KUSO. It turned out to be taken out of a packing box, and taken out of the cabinet like a Christmas present.
4 Twilight world. It is full of garbage, which is the most unacceptable to me. The director's performance has fully demonstrated his tendency to judge ugliness.
In general, maybe you can't blame the director for his clumsy work. The original is really good. If you only watch the movie, you will be finished.
The problem is that the original is so good-looking. For those of you who only watched the movie, please go and read the original. That's the essence.
And for those who commented that these two films are the pinnacle of Russian cinema, I deeply doubt that you are being satirical.
What makes other excellent Russian films so uncomfortable.
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