read the original book before, and on a whim, went to watch the adapted movie. The black-and-white movie released in 1948 had the unique style of that era: there was no gorgeous lighting and pomp, the makeup was not as delicate as it is now, and the background music was all music, but it matched the plot just right.
As I said before, movies adapted from the original book will be more or less distorted, and the plot, length, dialogue, and plot development will not develop exactly as written in the original book.
In the original book, he was a writer, and in the film he became a musician for no reason; the last meeting was disappointed and left in the morning, but in the film it became night... It is these changes that allow us to see different small details, The same ending comes from different directions.
In the original book, a large number of adjectives, a large number of detailed descriptions and the tone of confiding thoughts let us meet a woman who is full of love and never regretted loving him; in the movie, she panicked in a flattered tone and frequently dodged eyes. It interprets what is called the admiration of "being in love is all panic and fear of making mistakes".
As an adult, she returned to Vienna and waited again and again to usher in an encounter. We talked very much. She was a lovely person who knew nothing about him, but she knew everything about him. He and her were someone who had been thinking about the grave for three years and now actually sits across from her." The luminous body" (I'm serious, girls look at the person they like and feel that he is shining~)
That meeting must be the happiest time in her life: for her, he turned off dating with others ; Talking for a long time on the "running" train, he was reluctant to put down the white rose he gave her all day; the two danced for so long that the performers slipped away; he laughed at her like a child and said she could help her The elf... These were things she would not have dared to hope for three years ago.
The state of the two is clearly a couple who fall in love at first sight, and they have a day where they can't talk more than they can talk. She always had a smile on her face when he played for her and she listened beside her. His eyes ranged from dodging, afraid of being seen through at the beginning, to approaching later, as if he wanted to test and finally unloading his heart. The content shown in the film is far more exciting than we imagined.
It's not like in the original book, I only vaguely remember a few fragments, and I want to pick it up but it is washed away by the torrent of memory. The biggest comfort the film gives us is that he finally remembered the girl and all the pasts with her, his housekeeper "told" him her name, and he called her name involuntarily.
After reading the letter, he shed tears, regretted that he missed her, was angry for himself, and felt sympathy and regret for her final fate. There must be some moved parts in these tears.
Some of the adapted movies will destroy the original work, making a large wave of fans of the original work unbearable to look directly at them, but there are also works that will surprise the audience after the adaptation. "Letter from a Strange Woman" is the latter.
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