Basic information of Norwegian forest films
Norwegian Wood is a Japanese film released on 20 10, which is adapted from Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood with the same name, directed by Chen Yingxiong, written by Haruki Murakami himself and starring Matsuyama Kenichi, Rinko Kikuchi and Mizuhara Kiko.
The film tells the love-hate entanglement between Naoko Watanabe and Luzi, a college student, and was released in Japan on 2010/211.
20 1 1 The film won the Best Photography Award at the 5th Asian Film Awards and the Golden Lion Award at the 67th Venice Film Festival.
Brief introduction of Norwegian forest films
With the shadow of his friend Muyue's suicide, Watanabe entered a university in Tokyo after graduating from high school and started a new life in a city with no acquaintances. Life in Tokyo is going well, but something seems to be missing.
On this day, Watanabe met Naoko by chance. Naoko is Muyue's girlfriend. Only one of Muyue's friends, Watanabe and Naoko, are familiar with each other, and they have played together. Watanabe and Naoko are getting closer and closer, and Watanabe falls in love with Naoko with a pair of clear eyes. On Naoko's twentieth birthday, they spent an evening together. However, the deeper Watanabe's feelings, the stronger Naoko's sense of loss. Eventually Naoko left without saying goodbye and lived in a nursing home in Kyoto.
Watanabe met Lvzi in college, a lovely girl like a small animal who returned to earth in early spring. Because he couldn't see Naoko, who missed him deeply, Watanabe began to contact Qing Zi, who was completely different from Naoko. Qing Zi invited Watanabe to have dinner at home, and they kissed naturally. It was a gentle and peaceful kiss, but I didn't know where to go.
Soon after, Watanabe received a letter from Naoko. He went to the nursing home to visit Naoko. Naoko's roommate Reiko Kobayakawa is playing The Beatles's Norwegian Forest on the guitar, which is Naoko's favorite song.
"When I heard this song, I felt as if I had lost my way in the jungle. I don't know why this happened. I just feel lonely, cold and dark, and no one comes to save me, but this is really my favorite song. "
Naoko, who always cried when he heard Norwegian Forest, said, "It doesn't matter as long as there is Watanabe", but he still couldn't stop crying.
Behind the scenes of Norwegian forest movies
1. The theme song of this movie is Norwegian Forest sung by The Beatles. This song is of great significance to both the original novel and the film. The film producer began to negotiate with the copyright owner of the song very early, and it was not settled until the film was finished. Producer Ogawa Shinji even considered using a cover version. Finally, after more than a year of unremitting efforts by Nana Ogawa and Chen Yingxiong, they finally got the license.
2. Haruki Murakami participated in the script revision of the film. For example, when Watanabe celebrated Naoko's birthday, Naoko said, "If only people could always wander between eighteen and nineteen." This line was written by Murakami.
3. The first public screening of the film Norwegian Forest will be held in the lecture hall of Waseda University. Waseda University is the alma mater of Haruki Murakami and one of the locations of the film.
Matsuyama Kenichi's first impression of Mizuhara Kiko is that she is not very green, because water has waist-length hair. Later, in order to match the green shape, Shui Yuan cut off her proud long hair.
Naoko's confession to Watanabe on the grassland is a highlight of the film. The film crew laid a track of 120 meters on the grassland, and filmed the scene of two people walking side by side with a camera. This scene of five minutes and six seconds was shot with one lens.
6. While filming the dinner scene, Matsuyama Kenichi ate twenty eggs repeatedly.
7. When the film was shown in Chinese mainland, some scenes in the film were deleted.
Evaluation of Norwegian Forest Films
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At first, after several shots were used to pave the way for the relationship between Muyue and Naoko, he directly entered the suicide process of Muyue. The suicide process of Muyue in the accurately copied original works brings the audience into an invisible heavy, hesitant and depressed atmosphere. In the roar of the car engine, they seem to have entered a world of fear and confusion like Watanabe in the film.
Although compared with the smooth narrative of the original story, the film gives people the feeling that the story lacks a sense of integrity. After some scenes are deleted due to censorship, the various behavioral motives of the characters in the story are even more difficult for the audience who have never seen the original. However, Chen Yingxiong is Chen Yingxiong after all, and it makes sense for Haruki Murakami to choose him among so many directors to adapt his own works. Chen Yingxiong grasped several essences of the original work to interpret Murakami's story.
When Watanabe ran across the corridor, the blurred yellow light moved with the flowing curtains, and the whole picture almost became a picture, which was breathtaking. Chen Yingxiong's obsession and attention to color is fully reflected in this film, in which the use of big green blocks highlights his consistent image characteristics since The Taste of Green Papaya, which is also a good continuation of the director's own style. Most of the forest and wilderness scenes in the film have strong aesthetic feeling, and some of them can even be directly used as desktops. For example, the scene of Watanabe and Naoko lying in the field near the nursing home in the film can be called amazing. In addition, Chen Yingxiong's own film shooting method is almost harsh on his own works, and the film is excellent in creating atmosphere and setting the time space, which well shows the characteristics of the times in the late 1960s set in the original work. This is the outstanding embodiment of the overall exquisite style of the film, and it is also an important weight to guide the audience to go deep into nostalgia.
Watanabe and Naoko left their original city for another strange city after Muyue committed suicide. After reunion, they began to fall in love at arm's length. Until Naoko's birthday, they finally had a relationship. Perhaps because of the deletion, this * * * drama, which is based on the sound of rain and Naoko's crying, is properly interpreted as green and pure on a blue rainy night.
Naoko has been living in a nursing home since then. Junichi Watanabe's several scenes of visiting Naoko in a sanatorium are almost comparable to Zhang Yimou's, stretching the lyrical tension of the scenery to the extreme: a large area of dazzling green in the sanatorium valley, forests shrouded in light fog, snowflakes everywhere in winter, and fluttering snowflakes all constitute beautiful pictures, which make the audience feel pure love and enter a beautiful world far from the secular.
The end of the film is faithful to the original almost unchanged, but a line is added to Watanabe: "The distance between me and the deceased has also widened sharply with the change of seasons. Muyue is still seventeen, and Naoko is still twenty-one, forever. " In Murakami's original words, it is even better. "We are alive, and the only thing we must consider is how to survive."
The curtain of some people's life is slowly opened, and the curtain of some plays is slowly opened. Norwegian Wood is a barely successful adaptation, although there are many regrets. Phoenix entertainment evaluation
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When the actor appeared, Rinko Kikuchi played Naoko. Although he was a student with clear soup and dried noodles, his mature eyes, obvious bags under his eyes and stiff facial lines were not the natural and refined Naoko in Murakami's works at all. In the original book, even though Naoko, who has been suffering from mental illness, is always quiet and shy, Naoko, adapted by Chen Yingxiong, has become a crazy woman running and screaming in the wilderness in beautiful pictures, which leads Naoko not to commit suicide and makes the audience in front of the screen have a nervous breakdown almost first.
Another protagonist in the original work, Lv Zi, has also been changed beyond recognition. The image of the actor is not only far from Qing Zi in Murakami, but also completely different in personality. Qing Zi was originally a careless girl who didn't like to care, but she ignored him angrily because of Watanabe's words in the film. Perhaps Chen Yingxiong successfully filmed Naoko and Watanabe's drama "In the Rain", and Watanabe went to Lvzi's house for dinner. The plot of two people eating, singing and watching the fire suddenly kissing has also been adapted into chatting in the rain.
After Naoko committed suicide, Watanabe wandered to the seaside. In the film, Watanabe's feelings are expressed by large sections of choppy shots and waves, as well as Watanabe's growling and crying, omitting the story that Watanabe met a fisherman at the seaside and the fisherman invited him to eat and drink. He repeatedly said that the food he ate these days was "bread, dry cheese, tomatoes and chocolate", which lacked the deeper meaning expressed by Murakami in his original work with mechanical repetition and numbness.
In this film, the director used too little pen and ink on Reiko Kobayakawa. As an autistic, melancholy and vacant teenager, Watanabe has been looking for the answer to love. He experienced a friend's suicide and walked around blankly. Finally, Reiko Kobayakawa talked with him and encouraged him. During this period, Ling He naturally * * *, and finally he got up the courage to start exploring life again. I don't know if the director didn't shoot or deleted the key shot between Reiko Kobayakawa and Watanabe at the end of the whole story. This love affair is a sign of energy saving.
Perhaps because of cultural differences and different understandings of the works, the film finally failed to express the essence of the original work truly and intuitively. In Haruki Murakami's original work, the emotional entanglement between Watanabe, Naoko and Green Son is the main line, and a sentimental story reveals a kind of juvenile confusion and helplessness. Although the film faithfully follows the narrative style of the original work and the beginning is excellent, after the role of Yoko appeared, the whole film became a little confused. An important problem is that the emotional expression of Naoko Watanabe and Yoko's entanglement in the whole film is a little superficial, which makes the most touching and sad feelings in this part of the original become inexplicable and superficial, greatly weakening the power of the original. In addition, in the case of limited time for video works, the film fails to well reflect the anxious and empty inner world and the confused and fragile living state of urbanites behind an ordinary love story in the original work. The description of "death" in the original work has a deeper meaning. The death of Muyue, Naoko and Chumei is also a heavy theme with fatalism and lead gray, which coincides with the gloomy and sentimental theme of the whole work. Although these plots are all shown in the film, due to the lack of sufficient bedding and rendering, they only stay in a superficial sadness, and the connection with the whole work is intentionally or unintentionally separated.
In the final analysis, it is actually the difference between literature and film. As a sentimental love novel, Haruki Murakami mixed topics about sex, death, life, society, etc. in this work, and even included a discussion on the confusion and living conditions of young people. It is really not easy to present these things completely in a film of about 120 minutes. We can see that Chen Yingxiong kept his own style and tried his best to show a Norwegian forest that he could show and understand on the basis of being faithful to the original work. As far as the image of this film is concerned, it is also a rare aesthetic work in recent years. Many times, directors can only interpret the original works according to their own understanding, but because of this, it is difficult to meet everyone's requirements. There always seems to be an insurmountable gap between literature and images. Netease entertainment evaluation