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Slumdog Millionaire, the weight of silence

Nee 对 贫民窟的百万富翁 的书评 发表时间：2009-09-14 06:09:24

I don’t watch many movies, but Slumdog Millionaire was well worth the time. I borrowed the book from Queens Library the next day I watched the DVD in my tiny living room with my roommate. It was written by Vikas Swarup and was originally published under the name Q & A. Usually when books are remade into movies, there is found to be a whole lot of difference. It is true for this one.

The differences between the book and movie start with the main theme itself. The movie was no doubt very well made. If it is the intense action and romance that pulls you in deep, it is the bruised characters that hold you to the film from the beginning to the end.

Only the broadest outline of movie’s story resembles the book. Jamel is not Jamel, he is Ram and he has no brother. His love, Latika appears in the book but is not his love. She appears for the first time in the 11th of 12 chapters. The program is not Who Wants to be a Millionaire, but is rather Who Will win a Billion? The top prize is not 20 million rupees, it is rather 1 billion rupees.

From my point of view, the movie is darker in some ways than the book. The movie diverges completely in most of the places and takes the route of fiction, away from the facts as given in the book. It makes me certain that the director did this to increase the drama quotient of the movie. All the actors performed amazingly, including the kids.

However, there is much to be gained from reading the book. It provides another, almost completely different perspective on urban living in India. Both the movie and the book are highly recommended. (Somehow I love the movie more.)

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P.S. I really like that one song from the movie that they play on the radio. This movie really put my quality of life into perspective for me.

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Nee
Nee 2010-05-02 14:54:34

To the best of my knowledge, I guess that would be the movie which was more realistic to reality. For instance, in the book, the author mentioned about Voodoo Doll which essentially being used as a tool to kill one of the characters. To me, I really think that story was a bumper, at least makes nonsense to me. Nonetheless, I also think no one will deny the book was well organized by the intense storyline as well as the movie. They both awesome.

yea, as u said, the girl was really hot, specially the acting was superb!

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阿古
阿古 2010-05-01 23:40:40

the different between the movie and the book is surely very huge.
i think the director want to tell his own story, his own impression about india.
whose india is more real and true? the writer's or the director's?
a good director had his right to tell a good story.
by the way, the heroine seems like my favorite girl very much. watching the movie, my heart was being killed softly.
i miss her.

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Nee
Nee 2009-09-16 11:43:30

准备在豆瓣驻扎下来咯 嘿

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Illusion
Illusion 2009-09-15 03:01:13

终于看到了你的文字 嘿

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书名： 贫民窟的百万富翁
作者： 维卡斯·斯瓦鲁普
出版社： 作家出版社
译者： 楼焉  |  寄北
出版年： 2009-3
页数： 340
定价： 27.00元
ISBN： 9787506346382