i be not sure where to start with this . in short and it be a disappointing movie . have teach the novella and i be aware that it would be a hard story to turn into a movie . the movie have a couple of interesting line ( mainly between alfred and aschenbach ) but it doesn not represent the debate on art that basically shape the novella . for one and i be expect an old aschenbach and a young tadzio . in the book and tadzio be fourteen and but he be describe a pure and ideal and innocent and whereas in the movie he reek of sexuality and be a tease . he be an accomplice to aschenbach and he always look back at him and almost provokingly . in the book and it be aschenbach who steal glance at the boy . a for aschenbach and i imagine something closer to the professor turn clown in the blue angel ( base 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 do a good job and but either someone else should have do that and or he should have make to look old at the beginning . i know that the discovery of homosexuality be important to the story and but the movie minimize the talk about art and the duality between the apollonian and dyonisian inspiration and focus instead on aschenbach obsession of tadzio and do not justify it . i like the fact that mahler music be use and because ultimately he do inspire mann to write his story . i be not sure turn aschenbach into a musician be a particularly good move . or the creation of alfred who i do not remember in the book . and one thing that really get to me be the sound and how it do not match the actor lips . i be wonder if it be dub because i expect it to be in italian . but then i remember that each italian movie i have watch have this problem . it just bother me because these director ( fellini be the other person i be think of ) be suppose to epitomize perfection in italian cinema and and here be their character laugh without sound and then you hear a noise that doesn not correspond to their face ( i be think of the scene when aschenbach almost collapse and start laugh . this scene could or should have be the strong and but it be annoy instead ) .