Talk:Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)

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Contents 1 Horror or Drama? 2 Error 3 Differences 4 Synopsis 5 Why eat him?

[edit] Horror or Drama?

Since the book is a horror novel, shouldn't the film be a horror film?Algikone 15:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Could be categorized as both, I guess, because it is a very unconventional horror film. ARBlackwood 00:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

The book is very much not a horror novel. Just because the main character happens to go around killing people does not a horror story make. Personally, I see it almost more as a fairy tale, albeit admittedly a rather unconventional one.60.234.147.5 09:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

The book is written in a postmodernist fashion and thus is a mix of many types. It is each: romanse, drama, psychological novel, pastiche and I suppose that also a few more. M2tek (talk) 16:10, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Error

I want to point out a mistake in the movei .. can i?

ok , it is in 1:05 mintute where the perfumer grasp a bottle of Alcohol to make the essense out of the prostitute's remenant , the word alohol is written clearly in pencil or other modern mean , I want to say that the bottle should have looked more old by typing the word alcohol properly with ink and gross peice of wood iam not expert but the bottle looked modern to me.

[edit] Differences

What about the differences between the film and the novel? For a start, in the book he is allowed to have some free time, and this is when he smells and kills the red hair girl: he does not follow her around the town, but crosses the river while everyone is watching the fireworks following her scent. Then, he does not get hit by Grimal. I don't think, actually, that they had gone into city to deliver anything. I can't remember right now. The way Mme Gaillard dies, if I am not wrong, is not the same. Then, when he is in the cave, he spends there 7 years. Nothing said about Taillade-Espinasse. Nothing said about why he didn't kill Laure just when he learned how to get her scent (as he was waiting for her to grow). I am not sure, but I don't think the twins appear. Certainly, there was no such party. And I don't remember the scene with the prostitute - and the dog. When the Richis leave Grasse and stay at the pension, they go along with the nanny, who does not sleep in the same room even though he had been sleeping with her for a while. The door is not locked and Grenouille gets in rather easier; Richis is sleeping peacefully for first time after months as he feels safe. The place where he lives is much poorer in the novel, and, I don't think that many people works for Mme Arnulfi. The final hours between Grenouille and Richis are missing.

Though, there is something new in the movie that I was missing in the novel: where does he keep the perfume.

I don't think there are more changes, but if someone remembers and wants to add it to the article, it would be great. --Nauki 14:24, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, he spots the plum girl another time, not while delivering something. The next thing is that he does spend 7 years in the cave but the film, as far as I remember, does not point out how much time he spends there. In the film he has much longer hair while he goes out of the cave and looks like he spent in there a solid pice of time. I agree with that the twins does not apper in the book, in fact, in the book he killed 25 girls (including Laura), not 13 as in the film. However there was one scene about a dog in the book. Grenouille destillates the scent of a young dog and then fools his dog-mother. Nothing about the prostitute. Also, for Madame Arnulfi work only Drout and Grenouille.

Although, I don't think this article needs a differences section. Perfume is adaptation and as such it differs from the book. It: seems to me that pointing out differences is meaningless. M2tek (talk) 15:50, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Synopsis

The plot of this film, with some differences, is substantially that of the novel, and as the synopsis section had been tagged as overlong I've replaced it with a brief summary referring to the article on the novel. --Tony Sidaway 00:43, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why eat him?

I suppose I'm not too knowledgeable of mythological superstition, but why eat what you believe to be an angel? It doesn't really make sense to me...--Kisaoda 20:23, 08 April 2008

I believe the idea is that they love him so much, and are so enraptured with him, that they must have a 'piece' of him. They need to make him part of them. Although they do eat him, I don't really think it could be classified as 'cannibalism'. Bizarelly, it really is an act of love, such is his power over them. Bertaut (talk) 15:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)