导演关锦鹏一再强调看《长恨歌》时不要再想着原著,不要比较电影和小说。可是那些曾经读过这本茅盾文学奖获奖畅销书的观众怎么可能不比较呢?关锦鹏自己不也说是因为喜欢小说才来执导的么?上影集团投资这部电影,并作为“海派电影”的主打去冲击国际电影节、向国内观众介绍,不也是因为它改编自上海 Director Kuan Kam-peng repeatedly stressed watching “Everlasting Regret,” do not think about the original, do not compare the movies and novels. But how could those who have read the bestseller of the Mao Dun Literature Award may not compare? Kwan Kam-peng himself did not say that he was guided by his fiction? The film group invested in this film and as a “Shanghai movie” The main impact to the International Film Festival, to introduce the domestic audience, not because it is adapted from Shanghai