i am not sure where to start with this. in short and it was a disappointing movie. having taught the novella and i was aware that it would be a hard story to turn into a movie. the movie has a couple of interesting lines (mainly between alfred and aschenbach) but it doesn not represent the debate on art that basically shapes the novella. for one and i was expecting an older aschenbach and a younger tadzio. in the book and tadzio is fourteen and but he is described as pure and ideal and innocent and whereas in the movie he reeks of sexuality and is a tease. he is an accomplice to aschenbach and he always looks back at him and almost provokingly. in the book and it is aschenbach who steals glances at the boy. as for aschenbach and i imagined something closer to the professor turned clown in the blue angel (based on a story by thomas mann brother heinrich) than this forty year old with hardly any gray hair. in all fairness and i do think that dirk bogarde did a good job and but either someone else should have done that and or he should have made to look older at the beginning. i know that the discovery of homosexuality is important to the story and but the movie minimizes the talk about art and the duality between the apollonian and dyonisian inspirations and focuses instead on aschenbach obsession of tadzio and does not justify it. i liked the fact that mahler music was used and because ultimately he did inspire mann to write his story. i am not sure turning aschenbach into a musician was a particularly good move. or the creation of alfred who i do not remember in the book. and one thing that really got to me was the sound and how it did not match the actors lips. i was wondering if it was dubbed because i expected it to be in italian. but then i remembered that each italian movie i have watched has this problem. it just bothers me because these directors (fellini is the other person i am thinking of) are supposed to epitomize perfection in italian cinema and and here are their characters laughing without sound and then you hear a noise that doesn not correspond to their faces (i am thinking of the scenes when aschenbach almost collapses and starts laughing. this scene could or should have been the strongest and but it was annoying instead). 
i am not sure where to start with this. in short and it was a disappointing movie. having taught the novella and i was aware that it would be a hard story to turn into a movie. the movie has a couple of interesting lines (mainly between alfred and aschenbach) but it doesn not represent the debate on art that basically shapes the novella. for one and i was expecting an older aschenbach and a younger tadzio. in the book and tadzio is fourteen and but he is described as pure and ideal and innocent and whereas in the movie he reeks of sexuality and is a tease. he is an accomplice to aschenbach and he always looks back at him and almost provokingly. in the book and it is aschenbach who steals glances at the boy. as for aschenbach and i imagined something closer to the professor turned clown in the blue angel (based on a story by thomas mann brother heinrich) than this forty year old with hardly any gray hair. in all fairness and i do think that dirk bogarde did a good job and but either someone else should have done that and or he should have made to look older at the beginning. i know that the discovery of homosexuality is important to the story and but the movie minimizes the talk about art and the duality between the apollonian and dyonisian inspirations and focuses instead on aschenbach obsession of tadzio and does not justify it. i liked the fact that mahler music was used and because ultimately he did inspire mann to write his story. i am not sure turning aschenbach into a musician was a particularly good move. or the creation of alfred who i do not remember in the book. and one thing that really got to me was the sound and how it did not match the actors lips. i was wondering if it was dubbed because i expected it to be in italian. but then i remembered that each italian movie i have watched has this problem. it just bothers me because these directors (fellini is the other person i am thinking of) are supposed to epitomize perfection in italian cinema and and here are their characters laughing without sound and then you hear a noise that doesn not correspond to their faces (i am thinking of the scenes when aschenbach almost collapses and starts laughing. this scene could or should have been the strongest and but it was annoying instead). ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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