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the Judge DEE The film " Murders in the monastery " is available in sale, as well as the pages of Spirou's comic strip . Researches are under way for TV Series. If the main form of the inquiries of the Judge DEE is - and stays - the novel, it is interesting to know that the writings of Robert Van Gulik inspired other forms of presentations,from the comic strip to television by way of the Theatre... -
Comic strip:
The
newspaper " Spirou " introduced " THE JUDGE DEE ", an inquiry, in 1967,
taking place in 667 in boundaries of the region of Mien yuan. The
drawings of Frits Kloezeman accompany a scenario of Robert Van Gulik.
format is two pages by weekly, and begins by N° on 1518 of May 18th,
1967 the coverage of which makes presentation. It is reached with it a
notice of a page relating to Robert Van Gulik and Frits Kloezeman.
Adventure continues up to the number 1528 of July 27th, 1967. The last vignette carries mention "to be followed". We can think that Robert Van Gulik had wanted to carry this work also in his term. His decease, two months later, prevented it from it. I acquired the eleven aforementioned numbers, and digitized it. A CD is available containing this strip and an index, available on the page Mass media and Support. - Films: There seems to be only the single film, and a short television series, relating the inquiries of the Judge DEE. I succeeded, after several research months, in acquiring a VHS tape in French of "murders in the monastery". I nevertheless kept the note accomplished during my first vision of this film, in B.N.F, introduced below. 1-Film
Original Title: The Haunted Monastery. Duration: 120 minutes. Colour. Sound: Mono. Language: English (Except tape French Version.) Actors:
Some elements: The job accomplished by J.P. Kagan is, for a supporter of the novels of the judge Ti, very close to the idea which they can make of our hero. Certainly, there is difference between the novel and the film, but they do not denature too much the general mind of the works of Robert Van Gulik. I saw this film in B.N.F, in the conditions of a reading room of library, with a helmet on ears... And am concentrated to me on the parallel between writings and film, finally. It is going to be necessary me to see again it to deepen this summary. The history that is related in " The Haunted Monastery ". In my sense, It is necessary to greet the quality of the job made on decors: Buildings correspond truthfully to those that I had imagined in the reading of the book, and one treated on the clothes of the actors. Although ancient, the general rhythm of the film makes it nice-looking, although there is none of the special effects to which the American cinema too much got used us. The actors play correctly (Except for a not much inspired musician who entertained a lot me: I let you guess which of four!). Of the quoting of the Purists: Tao Gan, played by Mako, has only one rather secondary role, when they know the importance which it has in the team of the Judge; it lost its verruca in the three long hairs and intervenes only little in the inquiry. Khigh Dhiegh (The judge Ti) plays his role correctly; I regret the choice of this actor nevertheless for physical reasons: Ti Jen-tsié is introduced in works as particularly big and muscular, and carries a chignon needles of which have to help it to solve the mystery of the secret room. Except, the size of the actor does not correspond to this criterion, and the impression of tiredness to be linked to its cold seems rather owed to its overweight; alloyed with the shaven skull, the short beard and his favourites in battle, they are far from the picture of potency and waited authority. It should have made a perfect magistrate Lo, on the contrary! (See the Red Pavilion). Moreover, the judge Ti is introduced with a dress of ceremony of blue Brocket, while it should have been green; in the first stage of the storage, it is seen take out a dirk of its sleeve, what our Magistrate would never have been able to make, as much as it does not carry weapon, except for dragon de Pluie when he moves on horseback. Voices heard in the halls of the monastery disappeared in the film, as well as the cupboard in the storage; the secret room takes colossal proportions, Rose's discovery - White in the gallery of terror differs a little from the book and everybody meets in the flats of the Judge, what is completely unthinkable. When on the death of True Wisdom, literary fall brought more than the film suicide. Finally, French adaptation transforms " Your Excellency " into " Your Honour ", " the spouses of judge " in " the women of judge " (what makes too coarse to my taste) and the "henchmen" become " the police "... But these are points minor for whoever there only do not tie the importance which I carried in the analysis of this adaptation. On the contrary, two things seem to me indeed incongruous. first of all, the end: The judge fights against MB Mb-T square, cut down against staff, and use the attack to park master Souen with the bear. This stage does not bring the message which it transports in the book, and that is a major key of the Mind of the judge Ti: In the film, they understand that it is one fine to bretteur, and an opportunist with regard to the presence of the bear. Whoever knows the inquiries of the judge Ti know that the Magistrate is a solid adversary, but especially that it is the upper intelligence and a fine psychologist: The debate which it had with master Souen made understand to him that no appeal in justice is possible. And it is knowingly that it decides to use trick to put the criminal in front of his hangman "... It is in effect what it will make if you are still of this world. Do not forget that the instrument of justice is in your quoting. ". Then, the Judge collects himself twice in front of the Altar of his forefathers; when they know the importance of this ritual, and its involvement, these stages are, in my view, of surplus in the film. In spite of these some criticisms, there remains nevertheless the interest of the only film existing this day. Others have classes of realization... The file is far from being rounded off! |
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