adaptation

Eloy 2022-02-02 08:13:07

After reading "The Tin Drum" and watching the movie, the original book is better than the movie, and it is true, but it's not that the movie is bad, the movie is beyond imagination, it's just a few of Günteglass The colors depicted are more splendid than any image.

The most moving part of the original book is the story of Yang's unintentional participation in the defense of the Polish Post Office and his death. In the book, Oscar was anxiously standing on the road opposite the post office, hoping to meet Yang. After waiting for a long time, he almost wanted to give up, when someone blindfolded him behind him, and what he saw when he looked up was Yang's unobstructed blue. The erotic eyes are really touching, and this section is only a short, very short passage. I think Yang should be thinner and paler for the better. The second is the scene where a family of three meets a horse's head to catch eels on the beach. I thought it would be more scary to see eels drilled out of the nose, eyes, ears, and mouth of the swollen horse's head, but it was just a shot. Oscar decided to grow up. In Günterglass's writings, the snow and a few drops of blood are necessary for the characters to complete the "transformation". Little Oscar was hit on the head with a stone by his little "son", and he fell on the snow and flowed out. Nosebleed, it was decided that he would grow up and rise from clown to Hamlet. It's the same in "The Years of the Dog" where Amzer, the fat Jew, jumps into the snowman, gets all his teeth broken by the SS, comes out of the snowman thin and picks up in the snow with his bleeding mouth in his hands Blood stained teeth. If you know Grass's intention, the snow in the Matzerath cemetery should be the focus. At the end of the film, Maria leaves Danzig with him and his "son". Before the departing train disappeared into the dense sky, the old lady had already started roasting potatoes by the field. There is also a third chapter in the original book, which basically talks about Oscar's fortunes growing up. Until he was 30 years old, the whole movie was omitted, but it was understandable.

The movie shows all the key stories in the book, but in just two hours, it can only be told out of breath, too nervous, so it appears dull. The original book also provides us with a perspective. After the defeat of Germany in World War II, the Danzig people in the ruins of Danzig showed the life of the Germans after the defeat. In fact, it is also very interesting, but the film did not show the pre-war and post-war very powerfully. . All in all, it feels unfinished. Of course, there is no need to discuss the theory of film adaptation here. A great work is ultimately the limit of film adaptation, not to mention such a "Tin Drum" that is full of important points and details.

The most outstanding is the little boy who plays Oscar, with angry eyes, patented screams, big strides beating tin drums with his head held high, watching his mother and Yang worriedly, squatting in the corner with grievances and crying, it's so lovable . In the third chapter, Oscar confesses to his master Betra, his favorite Miss Rosta, his father Yang, and his other father Materazer's death is actually caused by him, in such a three-year-old child Under his appearance, his "Satan" heart has never been seen in the movie.

How amazing the words are.

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  • Sherwood 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    It is easier to understand the relationship between Germany and Poland by linking the three protagonists with the town, but it is indeed a work of imagination, and I look forward to reading the original in the future! The young actor was only 10 years old when he acted, and his acting was astounding. And really only Europeans can so boldly use underage actors, this should have been sentenced to prison in the United States

  • Jamarcus 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    Ridiculous political movie, disgusting.

The Tin Drum quotes

  • Agnes Matzerath: Don't expect me to touch your eels.

    Alfred Matzerath: Don't put on airs.

    Agnes Matzerath: I'll never eat fish again. Certainly not eels.

    Alfred Matzerath: You've always eaten them, and you knew where they came from!

  • Bebra: You must join us, you must!

    Oskar Matzerath: You know, Mr. Bebra... to tell the truth, I prefer to be a member of the audience, and let my little art flower in secret.

    Bebra: My dear Oskar, trust an experienced colleague. Our kind must never sit in the audience. Our kind must perform and run the show, or the others will run *us*. The others are coming. They will occupy the fairgrounds, they will stage torchlight parades, build rostrums, fill the rostrums, and from those rostrums preach our destruction.