影片《乞力马扎罗的雪》改编得失谈

The Success and Failure of Filmizing "The Snows of Kilimanjaro

20世纪福克斯公司1952年拍摄的影片《乞力马扎罗的雪》是根据美国“迷惘的一代”代表作家厄内斯特·海明威的同名小说改编的。好莱坞当年的编剧们有一套适应观念习惯的编剧法,虽老练但不怎么高明,尽管表达了了原作的主题思想和表现了原作的风貌,但他们将小说中那些精辟的警句和鲜活的情感,外化成一段遭遇和一场悲欢,像珍珠串成项链一样,最后变成一部有头有尾催人落泪的情节剧,这显然还不那么如人意。

The Snows of Kilimanjaro' is a film shot by 20th Fox Company in 1952, which is re-composed from a short story by the representative writer of 'the lost generation' Ernest Hemingway. Hollywood playwrights those days had their own way of writing that adapted to conceptual habits. Although their tact expressed the original motif and feature, they changed those incisive apothegm and fresh emotion into an encounter and a scene of sorrow and happiness, which failed to achieve full satisfaction.