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> > > Don't mix up "Solaris - The Movie" with "Solaris - The Book". The
> >> movie is very different from the book. Stanislaw Lem himself hates
> >> Tarkovski's film version of his book.
> > Whaaat, I think they're pretty much the same except that the movie is
> >better (mostly because there's no boring happy end)!
> Tell that to Stanislaw Lem... And the book (have you even read it?)
> has an open - not a happy - end.
Yes I've read it several times and I saw the ending has a happy one
("we want no harm" and that bullshit) compared to the mind-freezing
ending of the movie.
> The movie - which is extremely boring, pseudo-artistic and badly made
> - uses the plot from the book, but ads all kind of artistic crap into
> the soup, totally forgetting the original theme of the book. I can
> understand Lem's disappointment very well... In Lem's book, there's
> no Slavic melancholy or nostalgia, reflections from Tarkovski's own
> life as an alternative artist in Soviet Union, pathetic symbolism,
> pointless floating in zero gravity, etc... All this didn't prevent
> the movie becoming to a canonized _art_ movie. (Then again, whatever
> Godard shoots using whavever camera, it's always _art_, because it's
> a Godard movie...)
>
> Fortunately Tarkovski learned from his mistake and made his second
> sci-fi movie in collaboration with the original authors (the
> Strugatski brothers). Although again the movie has as little to do
I couldn't agree less! I think Stalker (the movie, haven't read the
book unfortunately) is pseudo-artistic bullshit, and Solaris a
masterpiece (both as a piece of literature and cinema). Okay, it might
be partially because 1) I read the book first so I knew what the movie
was about and 2) I had seen several of Tarkovski's films before so I
were familiar with his techniques. It can be pretty rough if you go
check it just like that with no previous experience in these things, I
suppose.
And BTW, I don't think it's a crime that a movie and a book don't
resemble each other much. Why should they? They're _way_ different
artforms anyway.
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