Touch Of Fragrance

◆In 1985,the full-length novel"Perfume:The Story of a Murderer"written by the German writer Patrick S(u|¨)skind was compiled and published.It triggered a huge stir in the German society at that time.The novel depicts the lifelong pursuit of a genius named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille without any smell on his body to the finding of a kind of fragrance that smells as fresh as sea breeze,as sweet as nut and as soft as apricot flower.He was so indulged in his goal that he brutally killed twenty-six young girls with the most beautiful appearrance in Paris.With their body fragrance,Jean-Baptiste Grenouille made out a bottle of exceedingly aromatic perfume that touched and tamed all the people.And he also died in this charming smell.In 1987,the author gained the exclusive prize of the outstanding foreign novel in the Paris Book Fair for the novel's excellent plot design and wonderful diction among the fifteen novels which were all awarded Gutenberg Award. In 2006,the amazing novel was successfully shooted into a film through the hard work of a new film director Tom Tykwer from Germany.The film not only scored an achievement of 100 million euro in its book-office returns, but also received the 57th German Film Silver Prize.There must be many factors that makes this film a success.Only in terms of the creation of the work itself,there are many places worthy of our thinking and learning for the producion of the future films,let alone the huge social impact of the original vesion of the book.Firstly,in terms of the film's narrative strategy,the whole story was developed in the centre of the seclusive hero and his perfume.However,the movie version of"Perfume"is not so profound compared with author's espial of the socity deformity and the wicked aspects of human beings caused by the society through Patrick S(U|¨)skind's constant narration of the hero's loneliness,persistence,desire and evil in his novel.In order to get a communicatin with the narration object,the director seized Jean-Baptiste Grenouille's incapacity in communication and strengthened the depiction of his sufferings in life and seclusive character to reveal his perseverant pursuit of the feeling of love and being-loved and his experience in chasing the dream which led to his extreme and doom. Secondly,in terms of movie's image narration,the director combined the comprehensive effect of the picture,music,sound,vedio-over and performance of the figures to desbribe the amazing"fragrance"and sense of smell.With the use of the rich and shocking Audio-visual language,the wonders of audio-visual scenes were made.And in this way,it promoted the story development from another visual angle. At last,as a seldomly used method in film shooting,the wonders of video narrative built in the regular narrative is worth of our discussion.The presence of the wonderful scene constructed in the process of the movie narration was usually regarded a usual routine of display in Science fiction movies.But nowadays,it has deeply integrated into the narration domain of normal dramas and can achieve a unique effect in expression.So it can be comprehended that this kind of display could be the"supplement and spread the film's amazing power from the partial angle"and reveals an important development direction of the future film-making and a valuable subject in the film science.All these are yet to be confirmed by the time.