Films from literary scripts: New tastes for audiences

Films adapted from literary scripts have affirmed their position. The film The Girl from Yesterday proves the great attraction of this film genre.

The Girl From Yesterday - one of the movies that is receiving attention from the audience

From story to... screen

In recent years, Vietnamese cinema has made its mark on domestic and international audiences. Many films have been highly appreciated for their content, cinematographic techniques, and actors' performances. In particular, films adapted from literary works have brought profound humanistic values. Films such as Quyen, Huong Ga, I See Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass, etc. have been successfully adapted and have partly created a brand for Vietnamese films.

The mark of this film genre has also been affirmed in the films that made a splash in the past. Going back in time, films such as Lang Vu Dai Ngay Ay (adapted from a series of short stories by writer Nam Cao including Song Mon, Chi Pheo and Lao Hac); Chi Dau (adapted from the work Tat Den - Ngo Tat To) were very successful in portraying the fates of life in a dark period that was imbued with humanistic values.

Later films such as Thoi vang bong (from Chua Dan by Nguyen Tuan), Dat phuong Nam (from Dat rung phuong Nam by Doan Gioi)... are also very impressive films to viewers.

To successfully adapt films from literary scripts also requires the talent of the screenwriters. Because, if literary works reflect content through the lens of language, cinema uses images as material.

According to Dr. Dao Le Na, a Screenwriting major at the Institute of Comics and Animation: Directors have every right to stick to the original work or change it. But even when respecting the original, directors should restructure and recreate what they get from a literary work.

The effectiveness of images is different from the effectiveness of literature. Literary authors can describe a long text on hundreds of pages, but a film script is only about 100 pages. Therefore, you have to be selective, save time and emphasize the right visual language to impress the audience.

Impressed with the new movie

Riding on the success of the "huge" revenue of the movie Em la ba noi cua anh, director Pham Gia Nhat Linh continues to try his hand at the movie Co gai den tu hom qua. Different from the previous movie which had strong comedy elements with many different emotional levels, the movie is gentle and simple with the romantic love story of Thu (Ngo Kien Huy) and Viet An (Miu Le).

The film was adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Nguyen Nhat Anh. Those of the 7X and 8X generations all remember their youth when watching this film. Although there were no cell phones or Facebook, the love of school-age students at that time was no less poetic and romantic.

The situational element is not the writer's strong point in the plot, however, in his own way, director Phan Gia Nhat Linh has created a rather unique mark. Sometimes people cannot clearly evaluate the appeal of a film but can only feel it through the emotions that the film brings.

If the film I See Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass takes the audience to Phu Yen land with green grasslands, folk games and the lives of poor, hard-working children, then the film The Girl from Yesterday is also imbued with poetry when the land of Quang Nam is mentioned through images in the film.

Interwoven with stories of dreamy school days are rows of three-room tiled houses with green yards nestled next to clear canals; fields of mua and sim flowers stretching as far as the eye can see; and tree-lined village roads.

According to GD&TĐ