Perfume - The Story of a Murderer - Review

Cruel, I never knew love, orphan Jean-Baptiste Grenouille has achieved this success by only one field - among perfumers he has never been equaled. In his spirits going crazy all the high society, unaware of what a terrible price to be received last, the perfect scent.

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The film is based on a novel by Patrick Suskind, "Perfume. Story of a Murderer »(Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Morders, 1985).
In the director's chair "Perfume" could get Tim Burton and Ridley Scott.
Among those who wanted to become a director, "Perfume", it is worth noting Martin Scorsese and Milos Forman. Stanley Kubrick was also considering the possibility to adapt the novel for the screen, but eventually came to the conclusion that the creation of Patrick Suskind is not subject to the film adaptation.
For many years Patrick Suskind refused to producer Bernd Eychingeru in acquiring the film rights to the novel. Only in 2001, the parties were able to agree. Price question - 10 million euros.
As you know, Patrick Suskind applied to the film adaptation of his cult novel extremely skeptical. The experience of his association with Bernd Eychingerom and other enterprising producers are desperately trying to acquire the rights to adapt the novel, was depicted in the satirical movie "Rossini" (1997). Suskind wrote his own script of this film, the protagonist of which - a fancy writer Jacob Windich. The image of the other hero of the film - Oscar Reuter was copied from Bernd Eychingera. Most of the rest, "Rossini's" characters are caricatures of the representatives of the Munich media business.
Budget "Perfume" became the highest in the history of German cinema (50 mln. Euros).
On the role of the protagonist he auditioned subsequently died tragically top model Ruslana Korshunova.

Errors in The Film

Attention! The list of errors in the film may contain spoilers. Be careful.
In the scene prostitute murders in Grasse, we clearly see that Jean-Baptiste cuts her hair (which is later Drouot, buried in the workshop) however, when in the morning the police makes the body from the stretcher hangs mop of black hair.

Historical thriller eve of the movie "Perfume" had initially (although belatedly) to get acquainted with the original - Patrick Suskind's novel, published in 1985. More. The product, which wanted to film the many outstanding directors of world cinema: from an already late Stanley Kubrick (he eventually found it material nekinematografichnym) to still alive Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Milos Forman and Tim Burton, is a strange and mysterious is not so much the material (we have already seen a lot of the most unusual in the movie maniacs!) but by the method of narration.

Pretty dullish historical novel (in addition, you can find some distant roll with Dickens' stories about orphans "), then suddenly turns into a kind of" Enigma of Kaspar Hauser "with tangible stinging barbs against conceited provincial society, and later turns heartbreaking thriller about killer virgins but in the final of all evil is transformed into political satire (here, by the way, there may be an analogy with kubrikovskim "a Clockwork orange" and a sarcastic response to his film "O lucky Man!" Lindsay Anderson). Although also remembered for some reason, "Apocalypse Now," Francis Ford Coppola - that scene when in front of the alleged insane Colonel Kёrtsem leaning silently submissive crowd. And yet come to mind ... Hitler and Stalin, too, is a kind of aura possessed impact on millions of people who genuinely idolized these nondescript killers.

So that a reading is a natural question: whether the German director Tom Tykwer will cope with all this? And there was fear in advance, that is unlikely. Still, that does not mix scale and director. As a result, the film "Perfume. History of the killer "was much worse than you could even imagine. Boring, dull and helpless with a cinematic point of view (perhaps with the exception of the near-final scene on the square) spectacle proves, unfortunately, that the current movie, of course, gives in to the literature and can offer not only a worthy equivalent, but at least somehow built scenic composition . Well, you can not make a film as literalist! And if it happens in rare departures from the text, so it would be better they were not there at all.

It comes down, in principle, to the primitive notion of sexual desire Dissatisfied protagonist. There is no sense of fear, no sense of possession. And nothing about playing philosophical views (in spite of their confused), author of the novel does not have to dream. On the contrary - in "Perfume" by Tom Tykwer annoying pointless effort to be identical with the literature. And this film there are practically no. One would generally welcome to Tykwer has managed to Suskind how tanning lotion - with the bodies of the virgins, to squeeze out of them distilled drop of the finest spirits. But no! Film and does not smell!

Perfume - The Story of a Murderer - Review