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In Reply to: I am sorry to admit... posted by Alex Yakovlev on March 16, 2004 at 09:36:59:
Alex, I was under impression that you were at least ten years younger than I... is that so?If that is so, then it sounds like you were able to develop a strong and clear taste for Tarkovsky at the age of 10 or so. And then, when you were just 12, Solaris came and crashed you?
Where am I wrong?
As far as Tarkovsky destroying Strugatsky... I never liked their books. Read them many times, but never got impressed.
I guess all these things are quite personal.
I loved Lem, and I do love Tarkovsky's Solaris perhaps even more. They are loosely related, like most movies and their literary origins, and that is fine with me, as I can perfectly see each one of them on their own merits.
Follow Ups:
Of course I am oversimplifying! :)
I was born in 65, so most of his movies I saw as I was growing up and getting interested in them.
However, I saw Solaris AFTER I read Lem (if it was the other way I would probably like T better) and same with "Piknik na obochine".
Of course. And I am not going to try to win you over to the Solaris lover club, but all I can say the film is deeply human, more so than the book, I think. Lem is more interested in technical aspects (relatively speaking), and Tarkovsky - in human beings.
I always have this problem when watching a movie based on a book - for me the original has to be as untouched as possible.
This is why I love "Dawns are quiet here" (my pathetic translation of "A zori zdes' tikhiye") and why I hate all american versions of "Three Musqueteers".
For me the problem with AT is how freely he treats the book his film is based on. If I did not care for that particular book I would probably think different of AT.
But then again - even his non-literature-based movies are too far from my understanding and my style in movies.
Well, that's why different people like differen things. I am not bothered by the departures - to me the book is usually just the starting point, unless the director intentionally tries to stay close... that is why the term "based on". Sometimes just the very general idea is borrowed.Zori is a great film, I didn't read the book.
One doesn't have to love Tarkovsky, and I would not mention him among my favorite directors either, but to me his greatness seems fairly well established. And works like Rublev and Mirror are solid justification for that.
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