Walking out of the door, encountering warmth and coldness, he subconsciously stuffed his arm in his pocket.
"Go back and buy another disc." I always express my love like this.
"Yep".
"It's just... I don't like that picture. Katie left Meitan Mansion by boat, and the black smoke rising from the boat filled the air.. It was [black] smoke... I would rather it be [white] smoke..." .
"That kind of *boat is burned*, and it emits black smoke...". He is always so rational, keeping him sober and realistic.
The black smoke rises and settles with the boat that is slowly going away in such a pure landscape. The ship is no longer visible, and the smoke is still thick and has not dissipated...
Maybe this is some kind of cryptic.
? The veil.
This is the best movie I've seen recently.
The theme of the eternal classic, about love. Commitment and betrayal, punishment and redemption. The plot, structure, picture, and music can all be high scores.
Box office has always been the main parameter for movie audience selection. However, as far as the box office is concerned, it does not matter to the masses. As long as you sit in the theater, whether it is what you want, word of mouth, cheated or fooled, it is all "audience", a definition and number that has been materialized. . "The Veil" has a wide audience in China and does not belong to the mass movie, especially it does not belong to the kind of popular vulgar aesthetic education that can be seen satisfactorily with eyes staring, butt support, and no IQ. "Product" products, and were affected by serious mistakes in marketing strategies: who don’t know the reality are directly in charge, the makeup is not strong and the people are not gorgeous, and they can’t afford it. There is "still holding the pipa and half covering the face", and people don’t bother to worry about it. At this time, I have to come up and die with the mature woman who has been riveting enough. Cold is inevitable.
Box office scores simply boil down to two aspects: good films and good marketing. For the audience, the real meaning lies in the former. "The Veil" should belong to the former, and hope that the real audience will not miss him because of the latter.
I didn't buy the disc, but read Maugham's original work.
After watching it, I discovered that behind the movie "The Veil" is a face that has been repainted.
A: The place where the
story happened was changed from Hong Kong in Maugham's works to Shanghai. In the international community, Shanghai, especially its special status as China's commercial center city, has become increasingly prominent, and it has become an element that represents China more than Hong Kong and even Beijing. In the plot, Pingtian's Peking opera is also interesting with Chinese elements.
B: Related character
Weddington: The
original outline of Weddington is very detailed and full, and the characters in the lens come alive and impressive. The reason for leaving him in Meitan Mansion in the movie is attributable to the official order, but in the original book it is "someone has to stay and clean up, right?". A "good person ([Lu Yan] language)" who is kind and helpful.
"He has a tall, round forehead, and the face below the forehead is very small, but it is chubby, without edges and corners, and his face is very rosy. This face is very similar to the face of a monkey. Although it is ugly, it is not lacking in charm, because it is very Funny. In his facial features, his nose and mouth are about the size of a child; his eyes are not big, but they are bright and blue; his eyebrows are light-colored and very sparse. From a distance, he looks like an old boy He kept pouring himself wine, and as the dinner progressed, Katie felt that he was not solemn and reserved at all. However, even if he was drunk, he didn’t say anything that was hurting others. , On the contrary, it is elated, and looks quite like a
lewd man who has been drinking three times." Widdington's woman:
The "Manchurian woman" who loves Weddington in the original work is just a vocabulary without any extended description. It is called the rescued girl in Hankou in the movie. The actor, Lu Yan, doesn't have many scenes, but with a smile, he possesses the strange, mysterious, lazy and confused feeling in just a few words, and it is a perfect match with the shrewd and funny drunk Widdington. I don’t understand the intention of changing to a Hankou woman, but I feel that the "Manchurian woman" is closer to the characters and atmosphere in the film. At first glance, it reminds me of the book "The Second Half of My Life" by Puyi I watched more than ten years ago. , There are photos of Empress Dowager Zhang Cixi, the full faces of the first two court ladies, and the calm and sleepy facial features resemble Lu Yan's character modeling.
Head Yu:
The original book only mentioned Walter when he was dying, with very little pen and ink, "He is tall, with a sturdy back and a khaki uniform, and his khaki uniform looks very unfit. His eyes are looking at Walter. She noticed that his eyes contained something. With tears, I couldn't help feeling shocked. Why does this man with a yellow face shed tears!" Many plots have been added to the movie. Including closure of water sources, anti-aggression, etc.
Brave guard Song Qing, Doctor (played by Xia Yu):
No original work.
C: The main character/plot of the
original book uses a flashback technique. The opening is the plot where Katie and Charlie cheat and are discovered by Walter, so the whole film loses suspense. The plot unfolds in chronological order in the movie, which makes suspense and conflict more expressive.
The original work is described and narrated from an objective and rational perspective, and the main characters Katie, Walter, and Charlie are outlined with real brushwork, without any commendation or moral hints. The adaptation of the film follows the principles of traditional morality and truth, goodness and beauty, and makes the characters more idealized and perfect, which caters to the psychological needs of the public to a certain extent, but also loses the meaning of deeper thinking.
Katie VS Walter's
original Katie never received Walter's forgiveness and forgiveness. Even at the last moment of Walter, Katie sincerely confessed to him and asked for his forgiveness.
"At the beginning, he was a beauty in the eyes of his lover, and he enshrined her as a priceless treasure, but later found out that she was in fact nothing but gold and jade, so he would never forgive himself or her. His soul has been split in half. His life is purely false. When the truth is before his eyes, his life is actually over. For obvious things, he will not forgive her, because he can't forgive himself at all."
"She realized Val Te is about to die. She has only one idea, and that is to remove the resentment accumulated in his heart and let him die peacefully. If he forgave her, then he forgave himself, so that she can calmly stare at her. I didn’t think about it for her.” When
Walt was dying, he only said “It’s a dog who is dead”, a puzzling sentence. The original book did not give an explanation, but later mentioned that it was a poem by Gold Smith—— The last sentence of "Elegy". I have no way of finding this poem, and the meaning of Walt's last words can only be a mystery for the time being. (Who knows, please follow along)
Walt didn't look at him, Head Yu closed his eyes for him.
Katie did not fall in love with Walt until his death and even after his death. Although he "doesn't want him to die", she did not grieve for his death, and felt physically and mentally "released" because of Walt's death.
In the film, Katie not only received Walt's forgiveness, but also found a feeling of love in him. Walt's departure made her know how to cherish love.
Some of the small additions are quite interesting. Eating vegetable salad together-leaving the rest together; dinner seeking communication and reconciliation; special martini; drinking with Widdington and his women the wine that makes love return.
Katie VS Charlie
’s lover, the original Hong Kong Assistant Chief Secretary was changed to the British government’s deputy consul in Shanghai. The office was promoted and the natural scenes were more perceptive. appetite).
The scene in which Katie and Charlie's office looked for him was polished. Charlie, with a guilty conscience, took Katie and wanted to find a place to talk, pushing and opening the door again and again, all in full view! Charlie's panic, anxiety and unconcealable embarrassment for fear of raping Qing Qing make people laugh. There is a small detail in the original book. Katie went to Charlie's office and saw Charlie wearing a pair of glasses. This was the first time Katie saw him wearing glasses, she didn't know he still used them before. He noticed that she was staring at his glasses and took them off. This detail seems to be somewhat metaphorical. In fact, this man she loves may have more things she doesn't know or can't think of.
Katie finally sees Charlie in the original book. Katie, who returned to Hong Kong from Meitan Mansion, received an unprecedented courtesy brought by her deceased husband, and she was also given the aura of loyalty and bravery (the scheming Widdington wrote a "commendation letter" for her), and Under the kind invitation of Dorothy Tangsheng, she moved into Charlie's house. However, Katie couldn't help Charlie's temptation to get close to him again. Afterwards, Katie was ashamed and regretful and returned to England. Before leaving, she expressed to Charlie her extreme contempt and dislike for him, and strongly denied (she also felt that she wanted to cover it up) that she was Charlie's daughter in her belly (Charlie joyfully bluntly said that she hoped to be a girl, and implied that the child would be very similar to him) .
What's interesting is that Katie and Charlie meet on the street many years later. The child she led is indeed like Charlie, but a boy.
Katie and her parents
skipped almost all of this in the film except the beginning.
Maugham's description of Katie's family clearly reveals the source of Katie's misfortune.
A bitter, ambitious mother created a family without warmth and family tragedy.
Mrs. Justin worked hard to marry her beautiful daughter into a wealthy family. In order to support her, she has repeatedly held family banquets for many years, and almost broke her family. However, Katie has repeatedly wasted opportunities and has reached the age of twenty-five. She is still single and unmarried. Mrs. Justin was furious, and often showed Katie's face relentlessly. She asked Katie how long she wanted her father to support her. Not wanting to fall behind Doris, the sister of the son who was about to marry the baron, Katie quickly married Walt in a fit of anger.
"Recalling her own growth experience, she knew that everything she had was caused by her mother. However, a woman who was once arrogant and ambitious, but now she lay down without saying a word, is a little bit emotional. . She has worked in calculations and intrigue all her life, but pursued those low-level and boring things. Katie felt that her mother's secular life even surprised her to some extent."
Katie's father-a wife who lives with In the shadow, the poor man who is burdened with food and clothing for the whole family, but is scorned by his family because of his shabby salary and cannot provide a more luxurious life. He is still kind and humble poor man. He knew that his family was bored with him, and in turn he felt the same for them. His wife's death did not make him sad. He felt relieved and relieved, and unexpectedly got the opportunity to succeed in the career that his wife longed to see when he was alive, and to completely break with the past and new freedom.
After going through hardships, Katie returned home and saw her deceased mother and father who was about to leave Britain to serve as Chief Justice of the Bahamas. She suddenly woke up and asked to be with her father, make up for the debt to him, and gain his love. My father finally accepted Katie, they longed for and started a new life together.
"Uh, father, I have gone through too many things, too many misfortunes. I am no longer the Katie before I left here. I am still very fragile, but I am by no means the despicable and merciless person I used to be. You can give me Is there a chance? I have no one in this world now, only you. Let me try to make you love me. Uh, father, I am so lonely and so miserable, I long for your love.
" When I think that we have been relying on you for a living, but have not given you anything back, I feel very guilty. We don’t even have any affection for you. Your life is unhappy. You can make me do something about the past. Make up?"
D: Music
Music cannot be expressed concretely with words and pictures. However, the caress it gives to people's hearts is so real and delicate.
The same goes for the piano and singing in this "veil".
It's beyond words, so listen carefully.
There is also a piece of yarn, hoping to wipe the dust of love in my heart.
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abbot opened the door of the reception room and was about to go out, but he hesitated for a while. She looked at Katie meaningfully again, putting a hand lightly on Katie's arm.
"You know, my dear child, peace, you can't find it at work, it's not in joy, it's not in this world or in this monastery, it's only in the human soul."
The past is over. Let the dead die. Is such an idea ruthless? She hoped that she had learned compassion and compassion. She doesn't know what is waiting for her in the future, but she is ready in her heart. No matter what happens, she will accept it with a relaxed and optimistic attitude. At this moment, she suddenly remembered something, as if it came out of the depths of her consciousness for no reason. It was on their way—she and poor Walter were on their way to the plague city that killed him. One morning, when it was still dark, they boarded the sedan chair and set off. As the sky got brighter, she saw--or a breathtakingly beautiful scene appeared in the hallucinations, which instantly soothed her suffering heart, and she seemed to feel that all the suffering in the world was nothing. NS. The sun rose, dispelling the fog, and a rugged path appeared in front of him. It traverses rice fields, crosses small rivers, and undulates over the vast land, extending to places invisible to the eye. Now she understood, if she walked along the path that became clearer and clearer in front of her eyes—not the road where there is no destination as the witty old Weddington said, but the nuns in the monastery without complaints and regrets. The road on which the earth walks—perhaps all the wrong things and stupid things she has done, all the hardships she has endured, not all are meaningless—that will be a road to peace. "
-Maugham "The Veil"
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