"Why don't you do a dance?" ", a short story by Carver, less than 3,000 words, if the words are read aloud in full, it will only take more than ten minutes, but I really don’t understand why Hollywood has taken a fancy to it. I have to go to Xingshi and move the crowd to shoot such a long one. Hours of film-"Big Sale".
With his short stories, Carver has entered the ranks of classic masters. His works are often related to the lingering and troubled life in his early days. Instead of investigating the completeness of the story, he often starts from a cross-section of life, and pervades the bleak and hopelessness of life. "Why don't you do a dance?" There are only three people on the stage. One is "I" who is auctioning furniture on the lawn. The lines between the lines imply that the marriage has broken down. The other two characters are a pair of boys and girls in love, symbolizing the good old days of a couple. Laughing and laughing in the old furniture of life. The novel is not shocking, the man arbitrarily reports the low price that is almost for nothing, the gesture is to be quick and messy, but the heart is weak, but the pair of boys and girls who have never experienced the world still has the youth and the ability to laugh at men. love.
Compared to movies with beginnings and endings, "Why don't you dance?" "It can be said to be headless. If you add a little distraction or absent-mindedness when reading, you will even accidentally discover the end of the novel without knowing why. Therefore, "Big Sale" seems to be easier to understand.
Nick was kicked away by a company that had spent most of his life because of his alcoholism. The house leak happened to be rainy night. When he was not at home, his wife changed the door lock and threw all his belongings to the front of the house. On the lawn, Nick had a home and couldn't return, so he settled on his lawn and began to sell the bits and pieces of his past life.
However, what the film lacks is precisely the Carver-like despair permeated in the original book.
Compared with the novel, the movie directly deletes boys and girls, but in other respects it is a full addition. There are more than a dozen characters in the scene alone, and the character's trend has become full and full. Not only the background omitted from the original novel is fully complemented one by one, but also the protagonist arranges countless branching plots. For example, Nick flipped through his original graduation guestbook on the lawn, and went on a whim to find the old female classmates, and the other party’s youth was no longer, and it was only a misunderstanding at the beginning, and finally returned in anguish; for example, just a few days, living in Nick on the lawn and a similarly frustrated female neighbor actually had a dim affection; another example, Nick suddenly discovered that his wife, Hong Xing, had come out of the wall with a police friend who had been helping him; at the end of the end, Nick even more It seems that the expectations for life have been rekindled, but these plots, the more they reach the end, the more they show the essence of Hollywood's consistent bloodshed.
"Big Sale" gives "Why don't you guys have a dance?" "Make a complete addition, abruptly destroying a classic novel. In fact, Carver’s novels are destined to not change the movie. Even if a great director such as Robert Atman adapted Carver’s nine novels in one fell swoop to form a "Floating World of Men and Women", it is still invisible and godless after all. , The charm is lost. Strange to say, a complete chapter is always a fatal blow that is no more than a short story without a head or a tail.
On one side is a serious writer, on the other side is Hollywood; on the other side, despair and loneliness are written, and on the other side, the beauty and expectation of life must be rekindled no matter what.
But "Big Sale" also had an unintentional journey into the willows. Nick was completely blocked financially by his wife. He couldn't get the money from his credit card, and he couldn't even make calls on his cell phone. He was struggling to buy a few cans of beer in a small supermarket in good clothes. In order to take care of his face, his neighbors were watching jokes. At first, he was willing to strike up a conversation with him and make friends, but he was just a child of a black helper. The middle class with garden houses is so fragile. The prosperous life they live in is just a glitzy dream. One day, if you say no, there will be no more. Reminiscent of the "Occupy Wall Street" that is in full swing in the United States, described in "The Big Sale" This scene is also the nightmare that many demonstrators fear most.
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