Similarities and Differences of the Two Editions of "Peony Under the Flower"

Trystan 2021-12-29 08:01:46

Similarities and differences between the two editions

1. There are black maids in both the novel and in the 1971 Hegel version. She has a lot of scenes in it. The maid who wiped McCamby's body originally was also a maid. Coppola deleted this role on the grounds that the issue of slavery was too important, and he only wanted to focus on showing the relationship between women in a state of isolation.

2. The Higel version of Miss Martha has an incestuous relationship with her brother, and a portrait of her with her brother is also hung in the room, which is completely erased in the Coppola version. Moreover, in order to show Miss Martha's repressed and crazy desire, Sigel also filmed Miss Martha's dream of desire, which was a 3P. But Coppola removed all Martha's desire passages, leaving only an incomplete tentative kiss at the door.

3. In the Hegel version, Edwin has a very good relationship with Miss Martha. Martha regards Edwin as her successor and made a will to inherit the inheritance by Edwin. Edwin's identity is just a school teacher. But the Coppola version allowed Edwin to assume the role of a black maid, and the relationship between the two became a master-servant relationship, and Edwin fled the school wholeheartedly.

4. In Hegel's version, Edwin is a young female teacher who has never been in love in her early 20s. Because her father betrays her mother, she is full of distrust of men, but suppresses her desires and is full of contradictions. Coppola's version of Edwin becomes an aunt, not very much like a virgin, and often mentions his father.

5. In the Higel version, the girl student who has an affair with McCamby is called Carol, and she has shown debauchery from the beginning, but in the Coppola version, Fanning plays the girl who has an affair with McCamby, whose name is Ai Lisia, and be more innocent.

6. In the Higel version, McCamby claimed to be a member of the Quakers who participated in the war without weapons, but in the Coppola version, he became a mercenary who took 300 US dollars from Ireland to fight for others.

7. In the Higel version, Carol ran into McCamby and Edwin kissing in the garden. He became jealous and tied the blue cloth strip to the door. This attracted soldiers on patrol, leading to McCamby's discovery. But Miss Martha appeared and lied that McCamby was his Texas cousin before escaped. The Coppola version deleted this scene.

8. In the version of Sigel, the soldiers of the Southern Army entered the school at night and tried to betray Miss Martha and the students. The scene was very tense. The Coppola version of the Southern Army soldiers had no intention of committing a crime and dealt with it very plainly.

9. In the Higel version, McCambie escaped the room to find the gun with Carol’s help, but the Coppola version did not explain how McCambie escaped the room and found the gun.

10. In the Hegel version, McCamby told everyone at dinner that he would marry Edwin early tomorrow morning and go far away. But the Coppola version said that he left after a few days as originally planned, and did not mention the progress of the relationship with Edwin.

11. In the Higel version, everyone thinks that Amy’s poisonous mushrooms poisoned McCamby, but Amy said, "Do you think I can't tell the difference between good and bad mushrooms?", leaving behind the cause of McCambi’s death The doubt. But the Coppola version is the poisonous mushroom that caused McCamby's death.

Miscellaneous

1. The 1971 version of "Under the Peony" is the most satisfying personal work of Eastwood master Don Sigel.

2. Coppola refused to admit that his film was a remake of the 1971 version, thinking that he was just another filming based on the original novel.

3. The new version of the movie all uses natural light, and the photographer is Philip Lesu, the photographer of "The Great Master".

4. The filming took only 26 days.

5. In both movies, Eastwood and Colin Farrell, who played Corporal McCamby, had their birthdays on May 31.

6. Dunst, who plays Edwin, refuses to lose weight for the role...

Unlike the obvious male perspective of the old version, this film is obviously based on women, and the role of the intruder is therefore compressed. In addition to deleting the black slave, the story was added to Edwin without major changes. A lot of adjustments have been made to the details to make the emotional presentation more delicate, but the erotic arousal part has also been deleted, making the plot blurred, and Edwin's character image lacks charm. At the same time, the old version of the slavery system and the human nature of the war was deleted, and it put all efforts into the erotic desires of women and intruders, but tried to control the sensational and dramatic stories, making the story structure smaller and unusually flat. . In acting, Colin Farrell is more innocent than Eastwood, but lacks charm. Dunst couldn't see any charm at all to fascinate the corporal, Fanning was too innocent, only Nicole Kidman performed well. The overall feeling is not as good as the old version.

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Extended Reading
  • Kale 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    The story is not full: First, because the characters carry too little information, which leads to insufficient deep passwords (that is, insufficient hints of distortion factors that can be stimulated in the depth of personal character), and second, the emotional conveyance is not detailed enough. It should have rolled out of layers of waves like the sea, but only the tip of the iceberg was exposed. The screen password is richer than the text password.

  • Mona 2022-03-20 09:02:12

    A Farrell fell from the sky, I was expecting to see the undercurrent surging, but I found it boring and boring

The Beguiled quotes

  • Amy: Do you like birds?

    John McBurney: Oh, I love them. Anything wild, I love. Wild and free.

  • Martha Farnsworth: [Admiring the pin Edwina in wearing] Très jolie. Seems like the soldier being here is having an affect.