After reading these ten classic movies, it is equivalent to reading ten classic literature!
1905 movie network news The ancients said, "There are poems and books in your belly that flatter you."Reading makes people wise and sensible.It is also the source of our happiness — —"The book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu."
On the history of film,Films based on literary works also have a place.This kind of film has a certain basic audience.But it is always criticized by the audience."A thousand people have a thousand Hamlets in their eyes."There must be a novel in your heart that is worth adapting.
April 23 rdIt coincides with World Book Day.In this season of "sharing the four monsoon seasons and sharing reading pleasure",Let’s recall the ten years when literature was adapted into movies.From it, I can see the fireworks that collide with literature and movies.
Tangshan Earthquake is adapted from Aftershock, a novel by Zhang Ling, a writer from Canada, which tells the story of a surviving girl who was separated from her family in Tangshan Earthquake for 32 years.
In 2009, one year after the Wenchuan earthquake, director Xiaogang Feng decided to adapt it into a movie."23 seconds" and "32 years" are the core of novels and movies — — The short 23-second earthquake changed the life of the girl and her family for 32 years.It shows the impermanence of life in the face of great disasters and praises the tenacity of life.
When the film was adapted, the scene of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake was added. In the film, the brother and sister met each other at the scene of the Wenchuan earthquake relief after many years, and reached a life dialogue through time and space with images.
"33 days of lovelorn love" pioneered the domestic "chick movie", and also pushed the light novel with relaxed and pleasant words into the field of film literature adaptation.Bao Jingjing, a writer, successfully became a screenwriter across the border with his pungent, clean, slightly teasing and self-deprecating style.
The film "33 Days of Lovelorn Love" truly presents Bao Jingjing’s language style, brisk camera language, lively editing, and constantly emerging golden lines.At the beginning, did you also laugh and follow the heroine step by step out of the trough of lovelorn?
Because the movie tells us that love is very important, but life itself is more important.
Listening to the Wind is not the first time that Mai Jia’s novels have been made into films and television. The TV series Plot Against the Wind and the movies are the pinnacles of domestic spy war themes.Listening to the Wind is a movie version of the novel "Assassination", which tells the story of how the blind He Bing uses his keen hearing to help the organization obtain information.
Mai Jia’s novels not only have strict logic like detective novels, but also present the characters’ hearts and the changes of the times through legendary twists and turns and suspense stories.
"Listener" invited the cast, with Siu Fai Mak and Zhuang Wenqiang as screenwriters and directors, and Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Zhou Xun as starring roles, and presented an exciting spy war drama for the audience.
"To the Youth We Will Die" started the wave of domestic youth films. Since this film, almost every generation of youth has been filmed.
As a masterpiece of online literature, To Youth also sets a benchmark for the adaptation of movies by online literature.The profound thinking about youth in the original works, through the intuitive presentation of nostalgic scenes in the film, directly aroused our memories of youth, which made us have similar life experiences and triggered youth feelings.
The charm of literature may lie in empathy, and images can lead you through time and space, which is also the charm of movies.
"To Youth" tells the story of the youth of the post-70s generation, while "In a hurry that year" is a youth film customized for the post-80s generation.With humorous words, the novel depicts a picture of post-80s youth through the ten-year love story between Fang Fen and Chen Xun.The green campus, ignorant feelings and precious friendship are slowly unfolding with one national event after another.
The film version of "In a hurry that year" has beautiful pictures and sincere feelings. Are Eddie Peng Yuyan and NiNi the best candidates for Chen Xun and Fang Fen in your mind?
And the song "In a hurry that year" sung by Faye Wong, did it ever make you cry, reminding you of those years when you buried your love in your youth?
As a novel with a length of 540 thousand words, Wolf Totem has been written for more than 30 years. It is the testimony of the author Jiang Rong who lived in Dongwuzhumuqin Grassland in Ximeng, Inner Mongolia for 11 years.The protagonist of Wolf Totem is not a man, but a wolf. Therefore, it is more difficult to film and television the novel, and it also attracts the French director Jean-Jacques Arnault to come to China not far from Wan Li to shoot.
In 2009, when the film project was established, "Wolf Totem" took six years to shoot, and it was destined to be a masterpiece that could not be reproduced since it was domesticated for the film.
Although the space is limited, the film Wolf Totem restores the legendary story about wolves in the original work to the greatest extent, and also presents the Inner Mongolia prairie with abundant water and grass on the big screen, and reveals the close relationship between the natural environment and human behavior.
The film "July and An Sheng" is a rare masterpiece of film and television adaptation beyond the text — — It not only captures the exquisiteness and degeneration between Anne Baby’s words, but also enriches many details.The film sublimates a youth literature centered on love into a film and television work focusing on women’s feelings and discussing growth, choice and fate.
The success of July and An Sheng is also inseparable from Zhou Dongyu and Sandra.The two young actresses, one static and one dynamic, are full of tacit understanding in contrast, and their wonderful cooperation in the film has also made their acting career a highlight moment.
Ceng Guoxiang, a young director, also stood out with July and An Sheng and became one of the representatives of young directors.
The Legend of the Demon Cat is adapted from the famous novel Shaman Empty Sea by Japanese writer Baku Yumemakura. The twists and turns are the characteristics of his works, and his love for the culture of the Tang Dynasty makes him write all the romantic stories of the Tang Dynasty in his book.
In order to reproduce the style of the Tang Dynasty, director Chen Kaige spent six years building a palace in Xiangyang.During the filming, Baku Yumemakura went to Xiangyang to visit the crew of The Legend of the Demon Cat, and when he got off the bus, he burst into tears — — Director Chen Kaige’s restored book, Datang, can be presented to him. As a writer who constructs a dream world with words, how lucky he is.
For the ultimate pursuit of art, The Legend of the Demon Cat not only tells a sad and tactful love story, but also presents a dreamlike Tang Dynasty.This is the charm of images, which leads us to cross the time gap and appreciate the prosperity of the Millennium.
As a Beijinger, Zhang Beihai wrote his love for Beijing in the novel "Xia Yin". In his works, the prosperity of the capital, the chivalrous courage of Beijingers and the warmth and coldness of the people in Beijing are presented one by one.
Jiang Wen, a Beijinger, also empathized with his feelings, and made "Xia Yin" into "Evil Does Not Suppress Righteousness".The film magnifies the romantic feelings in the book, and also bears a deep imprint of Jiang Wen. The beautiful silhouette on the eaves of an alley in the sunset is the "chivalrous seclusion" in Jiang Wen’s mind.
Although it is a martial arts story, whether it is a novel or a movie, it is obvious that the story is telling the times, the wheel of history is rolling forward, and the old and the new alternate, and the Beijing is misty, but it is not the same.
Liu’s science fiction is so wonderful that it is very suitable for adaptation into a movie. However, Liu’s science fiction is so grand that it is difficult to adapt it into a movie.
The Wandering Earth in 2019 is a successful attempt. It is not a complete re-enactment of the plot of the novel, but an interception of a story line in the novel.The operation of simplifying the complex allows the film creator to have enough space to present the sci-fi world in detail in the novel.
Therefore, The Wandering Earth has made a leap in the sci-fi genre of China’s films, providing an excellent template for the "aborted" Three-body film.
Literature is the nutrient solution of the film, which has been nourishing the film since its birth — — The fireworks between them are gorgeous but not short-livedThe first incense burnerFlowers in FlowersA Writer’s Odyssey… …
Many literary adaptation films are being made. While we are waiting for new works, we should take advantage of this spring to read a masterpiece, wander between the lines and cultivate ourselves. Watch a film adapted from literature, have some fun in the video story, find a comfort, and feel the charm of words and light and shadow together!
