《纯真年代》是马丁·斯科塞斯耗费九年时间拍摄的一部影片。仅是研读原著就花了导演七年时间。另外又用了两年时间选择道具和布景。临到最后算上影片剪辑所费的一年,总计10年时间,《纯真年代》被送上荧幕。有趣的是,在这堪称漫长的10年里,这本小说原著的新读者并不会增加得人多太快,即使小说文本转化成银幕故事,它的观众也许也很有有限。像媒体评论所说“尽管这部作品天才四溢,但这个发生在19世纪70年代纽约上流社会的悲剧罗曼史注定只能有着有限的观众。”那一部分对上流社会生活拥有猎奇心,或者以学者式的人 The Age of Innocence is a movie that Martin Scorsese took nine years to film. Just read the original spent director seven years. In addition it took two years to choose props and scenery. Nearly a year before the final movie clip, a total of 10 years, “innocence” was sent to the screen. It is interesting to note that the new readership of the original novel will not increase too much in this long span of 10 years. Even if the novel’s text turns into a silver screen, its audience may be limited. As the media commented, “Despite the genius of the work, this romance, which took place in the high society of New York in the 1870s, was doomed to have a limited audience.” "That part has a curiosity about upper-class social life, Or scholarly person