真爱一生

  The film “The Scarlet Letter” tells a story of a brave woman. We call her “Hide”. She had married, but her husband was older than her and she didn't love him. One day, she came to a town of the USA and met a young priest. The priest's sermons lecture touched her heart deeply. And that, Hide's charm also moved the priest, they were fallen in love. Hide was pregnant. For this reason, she was accused of “adultery” and forced to wear clothes with “The Scarlet Letter”. But she was brave and unrepentant. She borne the baby, and lived hardened. With the help of the Indians, she got the happiness finally.

   Hide is touched my heart deeply. The woman is so brave and loyalty. She always conviction the love of the priest and full of virtue, even under the harsh realities. The letter “A” stands for shame first, but Hide makes it stand for “able”、“angle” by her brave. She strives for true love. She is a soldier who struggling with the feudal tradition!

  In the end of this film, the “Scarlet Letter” was throwing away. it is stand for the beginning of Hide's new happy live.

   May be in her heart, the “Scarlet Letter” was stand for "Amour"...

早就有人说过，文字和电影是不同的表达方式。表达方式的不同也让内容发生了变化，有些时候，这种变化甚至发生在本质精神上和核心人物的性格上。
我觉得，一个好的电影改编。首先的要求这个导演驾驭大场面的能力。像名著，多数时候是波澜壮阔的篇章，错综复杂的情节和性格深沉的人物组成的。如果没有驾驭能力，就要顾此失彼。再者，他还要有很好的把握影像表达的素质。不过，最最重要的，是这个改编者的思想深度，也就说他可以和原作者达到什么样的精神沟通。
回过头来说《红字》。
如果不是因为我看了书，我觉得我实际上没有那么多的耐心看一部离自己很远，很多地方看不明白的一部长达两个多小时的阴沉电影。不过，说实话，现在的节奏这么快，人们追求的是速食的快乐。我能在上下班的地铁上阅读完这本书也是一件奇迹。就我本人来说，基本上是没享受到什么阅读的快乐。不过，名著的魅力并不是用你看了这本书能获得多少快乐的来体现的。
虽说我更喜欢电影，但是也不得不承认，电影和书基本上是南辕北辙了。
在小说中，海斯特白兰是在宗教和环境的压抑下生存不得不伪装起坚强来反击的，电影中的这个女人，从头到尾都很强。那种强，不但体现在体魄上还有精神上，甚至可以说，有很多女权意识的萌动在里面。在电影的最后，海斯特问：我为什么要留在这？为他们所接受，为他们所驯服？然后，这个女人毅然决然的要离开。事实上，根据我的理解，既然小说发生的背景是一个受压抑的阴暗年代，那么，那个时候的女人是根本不可能说走就走的。电影增加了海斯特独立意识觉醒的光辉，这是原作者内心隐隐的想要表达却囿于时代和思想的局限没有表达出来的。于是，海斯特的形象固然光辉了，可是却有些不现实。那种年代，如果女人生出了这种思想，我想，只有被钉在耻辱架上问吊的唯一结局。
电影给了黛米摩尔太多戏，让我觉得这就是一部女人的励志史诗。小说中的海斯特从始至终就认为自己是罪恶的，但是电影中她昂起了高傲的头，从没承认过自己的爱情是罪恶。
我更喜欢电影，是因为故事发生的年代太久远，故事发生的背景我不甚了解。我更愿意接受电影中有几个具有同情心的妇女在帮助海斯特，更愿意接受在海斯特受训的时候牧师走上前去，还有，最后，在海斯特生死攸关的时刻，他站出来说，我爱这个女子，我是这个孩子的父亲，在神的眼中我是这孩子的父亲。这其实已经颠覆了原著中丁梅斯代尔的全部人格。在原著中，他虚弱，他懦弱，他伪善，他冷酷甚至残忍。明明敢爱为何不敢承担责任？圣坛的光辉吸引着他使他不能放弃自己高洁的名声。说起他在肉里陷刻红字和鞭挞自己，与其说这是他对爱情的忏悔不如说这个宗教的腐朽毒液侵蚀后的必然结果。他对海斯特毫无怜悯，反而认为他们是或许诱惑堕落的一对，这一切都有悖他自认为圣洁的内心。这才是他痛苦的根源。
那些泯灭人性的清教教条，是霍桑想要控诉的，但最终他含而不露。也许是没勇气也许是自己也没有看到自己内心这种诉求。因为人性的纠结和深厚历史的纵贯，这部小说得以名垂青史。
或者可以说，电影改编不成功，因为内涵和精髓有些离题甚远。不过，我倒认为这更符合现在的人欣赏的视角。电影的最后，牧师和白兰以及珠儿一家三口走了，这是一个很美好的结局。总而言之，人们希望通过电影得到的，是美好的享受和期盼，而原著的精髓就是一个十足的悲剧。
推崇电影。可是，想要领略名著的魅力还是去看原著。

本来冲着“红字”的标题、Gary Oldman还有海报去看的片子。。。

没想到看得不知所云！！！

136分钟的片子，看完了发现，两个多小时再也回不来了！！！

把原著改得乱七八糟，人物简直是顶着原著名号的冒充者罢了。。。

以Demi Moore的声音怎么适合演女主？？？

说着说着就像缠带卡壳了，让人听着浑身难受！！！

而且，原著中女主那隐忍、逆顺的外表哪去了？？？

被Demi演成了一个拓荒欲望极强的女权主义者！！！

更夸张的是：Demi在片子里面强壮地像个汉子！！！

有没有搞错？？？

Gary Oldman也把原著中闷骚的男主演成了明骚的愤青！！！

还有Gary湖中洗澡露PPJJ的场景太扯淡了点吧？？？

男主一个美洲殖民地拓荒期的牧师，遮还来不及，怎么可能经常跑去人家后院裸泳呢？？？

再说红鸟勾引女主、女奴偷窥女主洗澡、长发男试图强奸女主、长发男被女主老公暗杀、女主老公自杀的桥段，乱七八糟哪里来的啊？？？

这不是美剧好不好！！！

至于Pearl，和个道具差不多。。。

完全没有原著中小女孩的灵气和妖质！！！

还有片子的画外音，一直听得我蛋疼！！！

亏了我是个男生，可以很精确运用“蛋疼”这个词来形容自己当时的感受。。。

总之，不靠谱啊不靠谱！！！！！！！

    All the encounters are reunions after a long separation in the world. I guess, Hester and Arthur must have seen much affliction before they meet each other. Their love sprouts like the seed of evil, and bursts into bloom.
     Red roses in prison, which offer the fragrance and fragile beauty to the dying prisoners, have already predicted a vivid metaphor at the beginning. Love is beautiful, like rose; yet love is cold and painful, like its thorn.
    I don’t understand the treatise on Good and Evil in transcendentalism of Emerson, I don’t understand the concept of salvation in the Bible, more don’t understand the puritan tradition in the United States. The scarlet letter, for me, is not only a piece of love history, but also a confession related to the original sin. With the fall of Adam and Eve, human beings are originally sinful. The Bible tells us love covers over all wrongs. Moreover, the innocent is not the one to blame. A kind-hearted and honest couple, once trapped in the puzzle of extramarital affair, they are destined to walk into a dilemma——since the flame of love and the perfection of morality mostly can’t live together. As in Paradise Lost, the hero and heroine choose to suicide in their blissful love.
    There are no ugly loves, nor handsome prisons. For Arthur, Hester is undoubtedly beauteous in looks, and seductive in personality. For Hester, when Arthur says I love you affectionately to her, she can feel the love that he bears patiently in this man’s eyes and hands, even silence. In their seven years, determination, hypocrisy, and self-deception are all human nature; in their whole life, long waiting, sense of guilt, and endurance for the contempt are all atonement. In my eyes, Hester veritably has the right to say love although her purity and courage deviate from morality and ethics. Love is colder than death——their love is holy but miserable, like the sacrificial offerings on the altar.
    The bible says that love can bear all things, hope all things, and endure all things. Miss Hester keeps silence for their forbidden love for seven years, while Mr. Arthur pays for this piece of virtueless love at the cost of his life. Who dares to say that the affection between Hester and Arthur is not true love? Common customs tear their bodies apart, but their souls will stay together forever. They feel each other in their stomachs, and they enjoy the ecstasy of sex. Who dares to say that sex doesn’t mean love? There is no doubt that Pearl is the crystal of their love.
    Love is a kind of curse, and love is a lonely carnival. The Scarlet Letter not merely tells the process of romantic love, it tells the ending of love——more accurately the consequence of love that knocks on everyone’s soul. When Arthur falls down on the scaffold due to the heavy burden in mind, when Hester’s ashes are buried beside Arthur after many years, have they ever regretted for the things they had done, including love and the confession of love? Love is colder than death——Hester and Arthur break the curse——chains of morality, and the sublimation of their love burns all the people’s eyes.
    With a bloody letter A on his naked chest, Arthur died in Hester’s arms——he is finally released. However, his deep love for Hester will never disappear. The moment when Arthur eventually stands in front of the multitude and shouts loudly I LOVE THIS WOMAN, we witness a scene of extraordinary love, and the shameful letter A is endowed with new meaning.
    Every character in the book is adorned with a letter A. Hester and Arthur are the undertakers of A. Those righteous people in New England who propose to punish Hester with A——they are the makers of A. And those crowds of onlookers are witnesses of A. Hester’s husband is a dirty dog——he is the enquirer of A. Little Pearl is compared to the fruit of sin, and she is the savior of A. I think the scarlet letter A can be considered as Adultery, Able, Admirable, Amour, Angel, Advance, and even America.
    In the end, Hawthorne writes, On a field, sable, the letter A, gules. I seem to see a woman kneel on the wasteland, in front of her there is a tomb. The woman is so devout that she looks like a statue of a nun. She firmly believes that there will be a new era some day, a bright and heavenly era.
    Love is colder than death. Hester and Arthur, have already lost their names, bodies and souls.
    Now, maybe I should go to read Moby Dick by Melville. That’s for Hawthorne.

“我很敬重和爱这个孩子的父亲，而我不可能也不能说出任何给他带来伤害的话。”

向这样的女人致敬。

所有的宗教禁忌都是人们凭空想象出来的，有宗教信仰不代表就有崇高信仰，有一时的信仰不代表能坚守一生。真正的崇高信仰是严于律己、宽于律人。

所有的信仰之争、主义之争都是权力之争和利益之争。只有为人类和广大人民的终极幸福而追求的才是值得称道的。

人类从最初原始社会的夭折、饥饿、寒冷、病痛、乱伦到现代社会的长寿、美食、温暖、舒适、爱情，每经历过一次王朝的更替和帝国的消逝和民众的觉醒、民主和独立，人类的文明都在螺旋式的上升。

我坚信人类会因为文明而永恒。