阳光下的罪恶

我开始质疑我看完原著再看电影是不是明智的。跟我理解的角色形象偏差有点大，帕特里克的角色跟原著里的阳光体育英俊风流大男孩差太远了。当红女明星阿琳娜是20年后的阿琳娜吧，喜欢社交的性格非常还原。对继女琳达来说，嚣张跋扈的后妈形象太猛了她俩的互动真的典型一后妈跟继女哈哈，原著里琳达跟阿琳娜的关系只能算是琳达单方面对阿琳娜的讨厌，而阿琳娜是不在意不在乎甚至是忽视琳达的。忍气吞声丈夫肯尼斯并不符合原著沉稳洞察一切的旁观者形象，改成了一个老实憨厚的实业家，作家居然被写成了一个gay。克里斯蒂娜的性格偏差也蛮大。再说波洛，emmm，不喜欢，整个一笨重深沉的老头，并没有原著里的那份狡黠和随性。胡子算是复刻了原著。也可能因为这是我看的第一个波洛系列的电影，之前一直看的马普尔小姐系列，所以不太习惯这个形象。 很多情节也是完全脱离了原著，最最不理解的是为什么帕特里克故意设下的不在场证据改成了意料之外的偶然事件，搭个顺风船呢? 琳娜为什么要撒谎说并没有看到作家，这个情节的意义是为了观众混淆视听?还是为了扰乱探案的线索过程，完全没必要啊，琳娜跟凶杀案件一点关系都没有（除了被调了手表时间，但琳达完全是个局外人）。最后波洛请求大家一起去游玩这个情节，电影里并没有出现，但在这个情节里判断出了克里斯蒂娜的孱弱、恐高是假装的，并不是弱不禁风。最后波洛分析的凶杀案过程还原了原著。

四星。 我看的目的就是想知道小说如何妥当的改编成电影，尤其是这本人物众多、线索众多、各个场景切换频繁的小说。 因为电影和小说的重点还是不同的，小说重推理，读者可以随时停下来自己推理自己思考，所以对读者造成各种误导是很重要的，可以搞很多嫌疑人和很多障眼法线索，但电影重观感，观众在看电影时是没法边看边自己进行大量思考和推理的，只能跟着电影的思路走。 所以电影不能重误导和障眼法，只能把重点放在核心诡计上。 电影做出了几个改编：1 精简人物，去掉了小说中很多障眼法的功能式人物。把小说中两位女性角色合成了一个，另外两位女性角色又合成了一个。这样起码保证观众在认人不会脸盲。 2 精简障眼法。小说里的其他乱七八糟来误导读者的四个障眼法全部砍掉，就留下核心诡计，并且最后多次重复这个案子的困难之处就在于“每个人都有不在场证明”，其他障眼法都不存在了，就这一件事是重点。 3 原作中的作案过程在解谜时波洛讲得比较糙，很多细节都省略了，包括凶手是怎样卡时间等，电影中讲得要细很多。 4 原作中波洛的分析只是无限接近于真相，电影中又加了好几层保障，比如中午的午炮，海员服作家与小女孩琳达的相遇，以及最后指认凶手时的一堆笔迹、语言之类的，让波洛的分析“无限无限接近于真相”了，这点我是很满意的。关于“悬崖上招手”这个点还一石二鸟，也改编得不错。 当然电影也有无语的地方，比如原著中被害女的设定是“漂亮，很容易勾到男人”，但电影你找的这个女演员的颜完全撑不起这个设定啊，你起码找个比出轨男的妻子更漂亮的演员来演吧……每当这时我就很怀念格蕾丝.凯利。

根据看的小说，来和电影做个对比。电影的视觉图像正好可以让我脑补一下书中的场景。我不知道为什么在看书的时候，看到Marshall，脑子浮现的是Matt Damon的样子😂

现在来说说这部小说/电影里的女人们吧。

👩Christine Redfern

👩Arlena Marshall

👩Rosamund Darnley ：电影里合为了旅店女老板。

👙👒Christine Redfern

1⃣️ 首先，这部电影里的Mrs Redfern竟然是Jane Birkin扮演的（看片之前完全不知道😺）。在出场的时候，因为丈夫出轨，她表现得像个受气小媳妇儿，但是在小说（未揭露真实身份以前），她是一个沉着，忠诚，聪明，有艺术天赋的女性（不然就不会去海湾画画了）。一开始，我对Christine是充满好感的。

这是Poirot对她的评价，就是一种“厌世美”啊：

She is quiet, pretty in a washed-out way. She is, I think, devoted to her husband. She has something that Arlena Marshall did not have.’ ‘What is that?’ ‘Brains.’ Inspector Colgate sighed. He said: ‘Brains don’t count for much when it comes to an infatuation, sir.’

而且我隐隐觉得她和Poirot有点惺惺相惜，因为记得在书上有两次，她都称赞Poirot聪明。

2⃣️ 电影：这是Chiritine看到丈夫和Arlena出轨，哭诉的场景。

原著：小说里是雨过后，月色温柔，繁星满天的场景。“The rain has stopped and the mist had dispersed. it was a fine night again." Chrisitine坐在湿漉漉的椅子上，Poirot劝他垫块手绢，不然容易着凉。Chrisitine拒绝了。其实小说里她表现得比较冷漠和倔强，直到Poirot开导后才忍不住大哭的。

这个场景我真的很喜欢了：🌛✨🌊

Hercule Poirot paused in the hall on his way from the dining room. The doors were open—a breath of soft night air came in. The rain had stopped and the mist had dispersed. It was a fine night again.

Hercule Poirot found Mrs Redfern in her favourite seat on the cliff ledge. He stopped by her and said: ‘This seat is damp. You should not sit here. You will catch the chill.’

‘No, I shan’t. And what does it matter anyway.’

‘Tscha, tscha, you are not a child! You are an educated woman. You must look at things sensibly.’

She said coldly: ‘I can assure you I never take cold.’

Poirot said: ‘It has been a wet day. The wind blew, the rain came down, and the mist was everywhere so that one could not see through it. Eh bien, what is it like now? The mists have rolled away, the sky is clear and up above the stars shine. That is like life, Madame.’

Christine said in a low fierce voice: ‘Do you know what I am most sick of in this place?’

‘What, Madame?’

‘Pity.’ She brought the word out like the flick of a whip. She went on:

‘Do you think I don’t know? That I can’t see? All the time people are saying: “Poor Mrs Redfern—that poor little woman.” And anyway I’m not little, I’m tall. They say little because they are sorry for me. And I can’t bear it!’

但是Poirot一直认为，她有的东西Arlena没有，就是brain；emmm...脑子🧠是个好东西。

Cautiously, Hercule Poirot spread his handkerchief on the seat and sat down. He said thoughtfully: ‘There is something in that.’ ‘That woman—’ said Christine and stopped. Poirot said gravely: ‘Will you allow me to tell you something, Madame? Something that is as true as the stars above us? The Arlena Stuarts—or Arlena Marshalls—of this world—do not count.’

Christine Redfern said: ‘Nonsense.’

‘I assure you, it is true. Their Empire is of the moment and for the moment. To count—really and truly to count—a woman must have goodness or brains.’

Christine said scornfully: ‘Do you think men care for goodness or brains?’

3⃣️ 原著：Arlena死后，警官来问话时，Chrisitine穿着是网球服; 因为在案发的时候，她在打网球。换上网球服，气质就显现出来了。这段描述我也很喜欢。

She was, as always, calm and a little precise in manner. She was wearing a white tennis frock and a pale blue pullover. It accentuated her fair, rather anaemic prettiness. Yet, Hercule Poirot thought to himself, it was neither a silly face nor a weak one. It had plenty of resolution, courage and good sense. He nodded appreciatively.

电影里：在和侦探对质的时候，她穿的并不是网球服。

4⃣️ 还有一些搞笑的装束描写，比如穿得像棵“发蔫的生菜” 😂

Christine 和Linda准备go sketching时候：

原著里这么描述的：

She was wearing beach pyjamas of a loose floppy pattern with long sleeves and wide legs. They were made of some green material with a yellow design. Rosamund’s tongue itched to tell her that yellow and green were the most unbecoming colours possible for her fair, slightly anaemic complexion. It always annoyed Rosamund when people had no clothes sense. She thought: ‘If I dressed that girl, I’d soon make her husband sit up and take notice. However much of a fool Arlena is, she does know how to dress. This wretched girl looks just like a wilting lettuce.’

通过这部电影，我终于见识到了这种beach pyjama长什么样了。😂

Rosamund认为黄绿色系不配她肤色，像棵生菜。那个时期，东方元素还挺多的。

5⃣️ 最后在影片里，Chiritine在真相揭发后，因为侦探找不到证据，洋洋得意，换装后，准备撤离旅店的时候，哇，真的被惊艳到了！和她之前的穿着，判若两人！（书上未出现）

👙👒Arlena Marshall

1⃣️这个女人一出场就是这么隆重。

红发，妖艳，拜金，自大，喜欢展现自己，让男人围绕自己。她的闪闪发光的确让男人移不开眼，但是也让女人都嫉妒她。"a personification of evil; a menace; she was a woman who liked smashing up homes."

Mrs. Redfern形容她 likes a beast. 书中也描述她为“a sleek happy cat-it was animal, not human.” 但是Poirot 却认为她没脑子，她的美，只是昙花一现。

原著描述：

Her arrival had all the importance of a stage entrance.

Moreover, she walked as though she knew it. There was no self-consciousness apparent. It would seem that she was too used to the invariable effect her presence produced.

She was tall and slender. She wore a simple backless white bathing dress and every inch of her exposed body was tanned a beautiful even shade of bronze. She was as perfect as a statue. Her hair was a rich flaming auburn curling richly and intimately into her neck. Her face had that slight hardness which is seen when thirty years have come and gone, but the whole effect of her was one of youth—of superb and triumphant vitality. There was a Chinese immobility about her face, and an upward slant of the dark blue eyes. On her head she wore a fantastic Chinese hat of jade green cardboard.

There was that about her which made every other woman on the beach seem faded and insignificant. And with equal inevitability, the eye of every male present was drawn and riveted on her.

电影：电影中的演员是“权游“中荆棘女王的扮演者，还真想不到呢。在这部片子里感觉有四十岁了（可能太阳晒多了，皮肤真的很显老😂），和书上不太符，书中描述她看上去只有三十岁。没有达到我的预期。

不过也够妖艳的。要是红发就更好了。像火吻那样的。

2⃣️她的帽子一直是我的关注点。

Arlena在原著里戴的一直是jade-green hat；在被掐死的那一天，戴的也是这顶帽子。

在电影里，都替换成了红色，可能因为视觉需要吧，这红色，的确很扎眼。但也可以自行脑补一下，如果换成绿玉色，会是什么样。 😂

描述：Arlena在被掐死的那一天到pixy cove 和情人幽会。因为不想被别人知道，就骗Poirot说自己想一个人呆着；但是老狐狸一眼就看穿了，她才不是一个想要独处的女人呢。

‘M. Poirot?’

Poirot leaped to the water’s edge.

‘Madame.’

Arlena Marshall said: ‘Do something for me, will you?’ ‘Anything.’ She smiled at him. She murmured: ‘Don’t tell anyone where I am.’ She made her glance appealing. ‘Everyone will follow me about so. I just want for once to be alone.’

She paddled off vigorously.

Poirot walked up the beach. He murmured to himself: ‘Ah ça, jamais! That, par exemple, I do not believe.’ He doubted if Arlena Stuart, to give her her stage name, had ever wanted to be alone in her life.

Patrick 发现她“尸体”的时候：

Patrick Redfern got there first but Emily Brewster was close behind him. She saw, as one sees in a dream, the bronzed limbs, the white backless bathing dress—the red curl of hair escaping under the jade-green hat; saw something else too—the curious unnatural angle of the outspread arms. Felt, in that minute, that this body had not lain down but had been thrown …

书中描述的“死状”和电影中是不一样的。书里的是向下趴着，手臂张开。

这个女人，有可恨，也有可悲之处。看似在玩弄男人，其实是被男人骗财骗色。🤷‍♀️

未完待续。。。