In the history of thriller films, there is a type of character who is the most perverted -
Evil Girl.
Esther of "Orphans' Grudge", an adult woman who is only 9 years old in appearance but is actually 33 years old, has a naïve and well-behaved appearance, but hides a twisted and extreme heart.
Mildred Ratchet, the head nurse of "Flying Over the Insane Asylum", after 45 years of her perversion is still at the top, and returning to "Ratchet" again is still frightening.
But compared to her, these evil women were more or less weak.
This woman, who exists as a deceased throughout the film, never appears.
Even so "low-key".
She still let this nightmare last for 80 years—
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01
First Sight: Haunting Dreams
To be precise, the film should be called "Rebecca", which is the woman's name.
She was the prototype of the snake and scorpion beauty in many later film noirs.
In 1940, her name first appeared on the screen.
Directed by classic suspense master Hitchcock, it was also his first Hollywood film, which won the Oscar for best picture at that time.
The story is based on Daphne Du mullier's suspense novel Rebecca.
The whole story can only be described in two words —
Mysterious and terrifying.
The story itself, quite advanced, the real protagonist Rebecca does not really appear from beginning to end, completely living in the descriptions and impressions of others, she is a deceased person, influencing everyone in the world.
And the Mandeli Manor where she was born is more like having a "curse of the ex-wife", full of gloom and weirdness.
Sleeping here will leave you in a cold sweat every night.
Hitchcock, who is good at creating suspense in his own right, gives the story more contemplation.
Make it more seductive and more dangerous.
Rebecca is like the Chunyuan Empress in "The Biography of Zhen Huan".
"Don't hear it, don't see it."
It has left others haunted by dreams, or rather nightmares.
02
Resurgence: Nightmares
The new version of "Butterfly Dream" is almost a reproduction of the original version.
It begins with a domineering president's novel-style encounter—
The heroine is the personal attendant of the noblewoman Mrs. Van Hopper, with a naïve and kind personality.
But the wife was very unfriendly to her, often satirizing her, and in order to make money and live, she had to stay here, like Cinderella in a fairy tale.
Until he met her and accompanied his wife on a trip to the south of France, where he met the rich British de Winter, handsome and dashing, and appeared in time every time she encountered trouble, like a prince who saved her.
A young maid meets a rich and handsome man who has a manor and a wife who has just died.
The plot of the novel takes place in them, derwent rediscovers the joy of life in a mournful mood, and the two fall in love at first sight and enter the palace of marriage.
But it was only after the maid married into the rich that she found that everything was not as beautiful as she thought.
As Lady Derwent, she was very different from her previous life, she was very uncomfortable here, her hands and feet were clumsy, and she could only show a false fake smile.
But what broke her even more than this embarrassment was the strangeness revealed in the manor.
The housekeeper, the servant, the neighbor, almost everything around her was telling her how good the original mistress of the manor was, both intellectually and otherwise.
Danfoss Butler, in particular, is Rebecca's brain-dead fan.
She is always telling the new lady of the gap between rebecca and Rebecca through various details, like walking on thin ice, because of her former identity, she is very cowardly and humble throughout the manor.
And her husband couldn't be on her side.
Whenever she mentioned anything related to Rebecca, he said he hated the topic very much and would get into an argument.
Rebecca's belongings were everywhere throughout the manor, causing her to panic and resent into nightmares.
Until something happens —
Rebecca's body was found.
It turned out that the body that Derwent had claimed two months earlier was not really Rebecca, and those long-hidden secrets were also beginning to be exposed.
How perfect Rebecca is portrayed in the first half of the film, and how terrifying the second half is in Derwent's accusations, and he even mentions her as a torture.
Rebecca is not the perfect goddess in everyone's mouth, but a prodigal woman who messes around with her private life, because she can't discredit the family, So Derwent doesn't dare to file for divorce, and their marriage is just a contract.
Until Rebecca told him that she was pregnant with someone else's child, she repeatedly provoked.
In a hurry, he killed Rebecca by mistake.
The court reopened to investigate the case.
Rebecca's lover appears at the right time to extort money, and with the secret evil of Danfoss's butler, it seems that Derwent's murder charges will be confirmed.
At this time, there was the greatest reversal.
This is also the best part of the whole movie.
Mrs. Derwent finds evidence that Rebecca secretly went to the doctor, and it turns out that Rebecca is not pregnant at all, but has cancer, and Rebecca's secret is also revealed.
Until the truth is revealed, the praise of the previous people has become the strongest contrast, and the viciousness behind Rebecca's perfect mask cannot be hidden.
A film full of darkness and depression, and the eerie emotions and atmosphere created through skillful film techniques, are the success of this film.
But in the new version, even if it is almost a complete reproduction, the audience sees only mediocrity and chaos.
03
Awakened by a nightmare after 80 years
80 years passed.
Butterfly Dream has become quite elaborate.
The film's outdoor filming and interior decoration are impeccable, especially the journey to France at the beginning of the film, where each scene is as beautiful as a pictorial.
But that doesn't make it the standard for a good movie.
In this film, this delicacy has lost its own characteristics.
When the film was first filmed, in order to maintain the dark atmosphere in the original novel, Hitchcock insisted on making "Butterfly Dream" into a black and white film, and it can also be seen that the overall presentation has a different kind of weirdness.
Then to the new version, instead of using the current conditions to create a thriller, the solid plot of the original script was filmed quite messily
Excellent homework remakes turned into failures.
Douban 5.8 is the most objective examination of this film.
Especially in contrast to the original version, the new version has two points that are the most disappointing.
One is the lily terrier named by fans.
The butler and Rebecca in the old version have an inexplicable affection, so the butler will fall into a state of infatuation, and after her death, her entire life will be occupied by revenge, and finally choose to destroy the manor together.
But in the new version, there is no explanation for this, and the age looks like the housekeeper is more like Rebecca's mother, and she seems a little overwhelmed by Rebecca's maintenance for no reason.
The first is the climactic reversal plot in the play.
In the original version, the fact that Rebecca had cancer was not foreshadowed, nor was it known, until the police and all the parties found the doctor together, and the contrast was even stronger.
The new version is that the heroine sneaked into the doctor's clinic to steal Rebecca's case, and finally learned some, lacking the sense of contrasting excitement, and the truth became powerless and flat.
It is precisely for this reason that many people are indignant about the new remake.
There are many film and television works adapted from the original work of "Butterfly Dream", and this version is the lowest rating, in addition to the shooting method, many of the horror atmosphere is also a bit flat.
But Uncle Pickpocket still has some feelings about this ending.
The last fire in the original version destroyed the manor and ended with the embrace of the male and female protagonists.
But the new version adds something, and they look everywhere for a place that belongs to them.
Eventually, in a slightly crowded room, they have fun every day, and the heroine revels in her husband's body.
It's more like laying a foreshadowing.
Perhaps the progress of the true female mind, not compromising on external voices;
Or maybe she's addicted to this state of male and female love and becomes another Rebecca.