Legend of the Fall is a very successful film adaptation of a novel, so successful that it overshadowed the original literary work.
If Legend of the Fall is called a beautiful and tragic piece of music about the wild prairies of the American West, then Tristan is a musical scale with all the ups and downs that are unpredictable and can never be judged by boundaries.
The movie Legend of the Fall was produced in 1994 and won an Oscar
Brad Pitt plays Tristan
Tristan is a wild boy and has such strong instinctive blood in him that when he encounters social conventions, he cannot control himself.
I still like to call Tristan a bad boy, because that word is both reproachful and loving to describe a complex essence of kindness and compassion combined with the desire to overcome everything, to build
Susannah – the girl who has had love affairs with all three Ludlow brothers – is a counterpoint character to Tristan.
Between Tristan and Susannah is a beautiful and sad love
Between Tristan and Susannah is love, certainly a deep love.
In the movie, the Indian man who narrates the story commented about Tristan that he was `a rock that everyone crashed into and then broke apart`. Deep down, he didn’t want to be that rock and he didn’t want to be anyone.
The poet Rumi once wrote: “Somewhere above right and wrong, there will be a garden, and we will meet there.”