Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's best-selling 1985 novel. Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) toiled his childhood away in a rank tannery run by the thuggish Grimal (Sam Douglas). Subsequently obsessed by smell, Grenouille's keen olfactory sense becomes so finely tuned that it eventually overpowers such human qualities as love and compassion. Though he has indeed discovered the unmistakable scent of a woman, Grenouille finds it impossible to connect with the fairer sex on any sort of meaningful level. Roaming the streets of Paris late one night, Grenouille catches the scent of a young girl selling plums and impulsively strangles her, later sniffing her nude corpse in a twisted attempt to preserve the distinctive scent in his memory. After persuading legendary perfumer Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman) to take him on as an apprentice, Grenouille travels to the town of Grasse in Southern France in order to learn the art of enfleurage at a firm run by the highly respected Mme. Arnulfi (Corinna Harfouch). It is there that Grenouille becomes dangerously drawn to the vestal aroma of the young and beautiful Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), the daughter of widower merchant Antione Richis (Alan Rickman). Soon driven to madness by such a pure scent, the spellbound Grenouille continues to claim the lives of the numerous young girls in a tragic attempt to bottle the impossibly elusive smell of virginal womanhood.

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*Tagline: He lived to find beauty. He killed to possess it.
*若說德國的通俗小說,就屬香水最為有名了~(哈,也只知道這本啦)
*要將嗅覺為主的劇情,利用視覺影像來呈現,實在是一大挑戰,導演利用鏡頭的轉移,讓觀眾想像現在葛乙奴聞到什麼味道,可能就是唯一的方法囉~
*在Singin' in the Rain (1952)中,有介紹當年默劇轉型至有聲電影時,曾有電影工作者,突發奇想推出嗅覺電影,簡單地說,便是當電影中的主角去餐廳吃牛排時,觀眾就能聞到牛排的味道;上洗手間時,可以聞到......當然,最後因為電影院殘留了太多味道,難以消散;甚至不小心在電影播出時,冒出大量的白煙而無疾而終~
*雖然已經有點忘記小說的內容,但是有一點可以確定,小說中的葛乙奴,不是為了收集12種香水而存在~