"Lady of Camellia"

Libbie 2022-04-19 09:02:44

I watched this movie 8 or 9 years ago when I was in junior high school. "La Traviata" was also the first love story I saw, but it was the love story that moved me the most so far. I have read this novel 5 times. Although Garbo's movie won the Academy Award, I feel that it really didn't play Margaret in the original book. In the original book, Margaret was coughing up blood in her dim and luxurious room, sitting on the bed with her back to her. The delicate, desolate and helpless image with her head tilted back was not played at all. The contrast with her bright, warm and cold image in front of others was too strong. Too many plots were deleted in the movie version, and the relationship between the two warmed up. Margaret The plot of selling the property and living a good life with Armand is too short, and when Marguerite finally fell ill, the movie did not show how miserable she was at that time. The property was seized and the creditors came to collect the debt. In a mansion, nothing belongs to her, not showing her breathlessness when she falls sick again and again, not desperately trying to grasp her soul but unable to lower her hand, not holding a pen to write a diary for Armand with trembling Because of the trembling so much that he could no longer make out the handwriting, he did not look out of the window at the hustle and bustle of the crowd on the street, he did not desperately miss Armand's disappointment that he had been looking at the door but couldn't wait, and there was no later reflection, nor was he in the hospital bed at the end. I shed tears and died, and I still remember Dumas's words here. It was a straightforward "she died", and it seemed that he was finally relieved. I think the most moving thing in the novel is Marguerite's letter to Armand, that letter and wording, a series of parallel sentences really brought tears to my eyes, "Maybe I can still see spring, maybe you still love Me, maybe we can start a future life!" These letters best show how much Margaret loved Armand and how much he cared about him, but it's not mentioned at all in the movie, and the adaptation is so poor as the original It's too far, and the script isn't changed well. Garbo was not too young at that time, his age did not match Margaret! Moreover, the appearance of Margaret described in the novel is not as deep as Garbo's European-style eyes. Margaret's eyes seem to be inlaid with jet black, the hair on her face is like a fleece on a peach, and her nose is slightly The drum looks like a longing for life, the bridge of the nose is quite small and small, the cherry mouth, the curly black jade hair, parted from the middle and dragged to the back of the head, this hairstyle is not at all in the movie! In short, there is nothing like Margaret in Garbo. I feel that only Vivien Leigh was the movie star of that era. The degree of sophistication and similarity of facial features and hairstyles can only be achieved by Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh often has mid-parted curly hair. Grete's head shape must be beautiful, except for the color of the eyes, it is comparable to Margaret's image

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Camille quotes

  • Baron de Varville: No one has to tell me, you found a playmate for this rustic holiday of yours. It's in your face.

  • Armand: Tired?

    Marguerite: Only nicely tired. Let's go as far as the top of the hill and see what's beyond.

    Armand: Yes. I don't care what's behind, do you?

    Marguerite: No.