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Okay, okay, we're inside the endless "the matter of taste" maze... In
my case, Solaris (the book) made so deep impression on me, that maybe
any movie has an impossible mission to win me on its side.
> Yes I've read it several times and I saw the ending has a happy one
>("we want no harm" and that bullshit)
Well, you can also see it as the final failing in the attempts to
communicate with the ocean... It's the message that should've
exchanged between humans and the ocean _first_...
(BTW, I've never understood, why it's supposed to be somehow more
artistic and noble to use sad endings than happy endings...)
> compared to the mind-freezing
>ending of the movie.
I was only frozen because of boredom... I had seen Stalker before. In
both cases, I had read the book first.
> 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.
Yeah, as I said, Stalker is a very succesful adaptation, in my humble
opinion. Then again, Solaris is art crap, in my humble opinion.
(We'll probably win a nobel prize with this kind of dialogue... ;) In
Stalker, the slow style, the ragged landscape and the disappointed,
depressed, hopeless overall feeling work very well with the _theme_
of the original book. In Solaris (the movie), the meditative style
doesn't work (for me). To me, it's either bad scifi or poor art house
crap.
Stalker - the movie - is a lot different from the original book than
Solaris is. Maybe the thing in Solaris (the movie) that pisses me off
the most, is that its plot is so close to the original book. Maybe
the director should've traveled a lot _further_ from the book than he
did... In Stalker, tarkovskinesses don't annoy me, because he doesn't
try to put symbolic bullshit into a rather classical science fiction.
He made his own kind of movie about the same theme as the original
book.
"Stalker - The Book" (Roadside Picnic) is very realistic in style. It
has the same kind of richness of details as Blade Runner - The Movie.
Then again "Blade Runner - The Book" (Do Androids...) has the same
kind of meditating and slow style as the Stalker - The Movie.
That's why I've often wondered, whether Tarkovski and Scott should've
changed the films they were shooting...
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