The book made up for the slightly abrupt dialogue in the film completely, and specially supplemented some plots inside and outside the film for reference.
Celliers and Yonoi account for very little space in the full text, and they are not ambiguous at all. What's more, Yonoi appreciates Celliers' cross-identity. They have the same inner temperament and beautiful appearance.
Celliers has no feelings for Yonoi. He has his own outlook on life and death, and he is full of expectations for physical death. Challenging Yonoi is more like a fateful arrangement for him, but in a special way.
Lawrence said this about what Celliers did.
Celliers' younger brother was average in appearance (not blond), a little clumsy in action, and physically disabled (like Luo Guo). He was bullied in his hometown, so when he went to his brother's school, Celliers said he was too scared.
There is a clip of playing billiards, and his classmates greet his brother.
It is described in the article that Celliers is a member of the Student Union, and as a freshman like his brother, according to the convention, the rest of the students will have the ceremony of bullying the new couple, and the student union members hint whether it is necessary to come forward to protect his brother, but Celliers refused out of love for his image.
Finally, he saw it with his own eyes in the laboratory and heard that his younger brother was bullied by other students. And he won greater respect from the rest of the student union, and finally won a rare all-around award from the school when he graduated.
Cellers' description in the book is that everything is excellent by nature, especially the appearance is particularly beautiful, and the only shortcoming is tone-deaf.
Celliers comrades commented on him as
Celliers himself said
Celliers' younger brother has a mysterious sense of nature and can always find water in the land.
Cellers was infected with malaria before being captured. After lying on the hillside all night, he became hallucinated and enlightened. He went back to his hometown to see his brother, repented of his betrayal and asked his brother's forgiveness.
In the movie, when Yonoi gathered all the prisoners of war, Celliers said it's beautiful, I wish I could sing.
It is described in the book that when Celliers stood there, he heard music in his ears, and his brother, who was thousands of miles away, was awakened by the music in his sleep, sensing that Celliers might encounter misfortune, and began to sing for his brother, with tears streaming down his face. Shortly after Celliers died, my brother died, too.
there is no paragraph in the book about Yonoi practicing knives. But it's true that I was strongly attracted to Celliers from the first day I met them.
All the Japanese who tried at the same time were attracted by Celliers' beauty and stared at him. Only Yonoi never looked away from the beginning to the end.
Yonoi's beautiful face with abstinence is true. (However, it may be a poor word for a straight man to describe a man's beauty.)
It is true that Cellers were planted in the soil and guarded by soldiers, and Yonoi cut a strand of hair. Finally, Cellers' bravery was respected not only by prisoners of war, but also by Japanese officers and men.
Yonoi's English is not as good as that in the movie, and she can only speak very simple English. Communication mainly depends on translation.
Yonoi was sent to guard the women's prison camp after leaving JAVA, as a humiliation (inexplicably funny and pitiful).
After being arrested, the British soldier found this strand of hair, thinking that he had violently attacked some female prisoner (indeed, his brain was strong) and took the opportunity to give Yonoi a fat beating. Yonoi didn't argue and complain (again, it was funny)
When Yonoi was tried, he gave Celliers' hair to Lawrence, ready to die. As a result, he was only sentenced to seven years, and finally he was released after spending four years in prison. After the war, Lawrence returned his hair to Yonoi, who burned it at the altar as a memorial to the gods and left a poem to his ancestors.
The book is divided into four parts, which is based on Lawrence's visit to "I" and leads to the story.
Christmas Eve: Lawrence recalled the story with the former Staff Sergeant. (The appearance of the former Staff Sergeant was really ugly, with a chain and big gold teeth when he smiled. ) the contrast is complete, and finally Lawrence's farewell part is a little tearful. The movie version is perfectly restored.
Christmas Morning: In the first part of the story, "I" showed Lawrence a memoir written by Celliers in the war, which wrote a story between Celliers and his younger brother. In the country, his younger brother was bullied, betrayed by his older brother when he went to school, and his younger brother's pet was injured and euthanized by his older brother when he was hunting. Celliers' memoirs are full of guilt about his brother.
I feel that my younger brother represents the natural spirit of Africa in the book. He is simple and plain, but full of life's spirituality and vitality. He always silently bears and tolerates the betrayal of human beings, and finally he still loves this desolate land and his relatives who have betrayed him.
The second part of the story belongs to Celliers and Yonoi. A large part of the story is about how Yonoi tried to save Celliers in the trial. The chat between Celliers and Lawrence is more of an observational description of the Japanese.
and most of the Celliers are in the state of "I want to die, I want to die, I am looking forward to death, and I am not afraid of death at all".
There is a slightly cute place. When Celliers thought that he was going to die, he thought about seeing Yonoi and then deliberately attracted him. I made up my mind and dismissed the idea. (Yonoi's inner OS: you, bad bad man, very bad)
There are not as many scenes of confrontation between two people as there are conversations with Lawrence, and Celliers' body recovered from nursing and went directly to the kissing part. Therefore, there are really few scenes for two people.
Christmas night: After "I" and Lawrence recalled, the relationship between men and women in the war caused by my two children playing with toys.
Through Lawrence's experience in commanding battles in Southeast Asia, this paper describes the lives of local residents and soldiers stationed in the war. Among them, Lawrence has a strange feeling for one of the girls, and the girl makes him feel the strength of women, forbearance and the strength revealed in all kinds of misfortunes from another vision.
Before the Japanese landed, he and the girl applauded for love. The man left a letter and went to the battlefield. The woman may die, maybe there are no children, maybe there are children who died in the war. In short, there is no news.
Four seemingly independent stories are subtly related to the title of Seeds and Sowers.
The former Staff Sergeant's compassion for Lawrence and Lawrence's forgiveness and even sympathy for the former Staff Sergeant were, in his words, that he was a prisoner living in the Japanese environment, but he didn't realize it, because no one had told him about it since he was born.
However, Celliers betrayed his younger brother again and again, which made his younger brother gradually break away from his childhood spirituality and become mediocre. All this also affected Celliers and was finally reconciled.
in the third story, Celliers are really "planted" like seeds.
In the fourth story, Lawrence and the girl represent the light of hope that is suffering at the same time and still exists.
The film really restored the original work very well, and it was cleverly arranged, interspersed with four stories and kept the main line of the plot, which was very powerful.
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post wrote this book more like an autobiography, and each character has the author's experience, which is higher than the image of experience.
The author was born in South Africa (Celliers is a South African in the book) and grew up on his father's farm in his early years. There are large sections of scenery descriptions in the book.
He opposed racial discrimination. He once stood up for two humiliated Asians in a restaurant. After chatting, he found that the two Japanese were well-known newspaper workers, and later he was invited to live in Japan for some time.
When World War II broke out, he was captured by the Japanese in the war. Knowing Japanese saved his life, and he set up a school with other prisoners of war in the prison camp.
In an interview, the author described an incident in which a Japanese officer beat a prisoner of war in a rage. After he was beaten, he quickly ran back to the front. When the officer lifted a stool and beat him, he realized that he had just beaten this man. This accident broke his punishment for the others. So this violence was resolved (familiar or unfamiliar)
After the war, he and the BBC made a documentary "The lost world pf the Kalahari" about an endangered tribe in Africa, that is, the Kalahari tribe mentioned by the hostess in the recent "Burning". People have two kinds of hunger, big hunger is the pursuit of spirit, and small hunger is the desire of satiety.
In 1981, he was awarded the British Knight's Order, and he was also the godfather of Prince William of England.
Hehe ~ He was handsome when he was young, but the hairline problem is inevitable when he is old. He is still very powerful when he is 9 years old.