"What is Metaphysics" .. What was lost by Amr Salama from Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq's original novels?

Under the pretext of artistic vision, Amr Salama, as the author of the creative vision of the series "Metaphysics", taken from the series bearing the same name by the late writer Dr. Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq, changed the events of the original novels, which are 5 original stories that were modified and merged, to form a continuous work over the course of 6 episodes with Creation Main enemy of the character.

The changes that Salama and his team made in the series since its inception met with the approval of a number of seasoned readers of the series, while others were angered by them for distorting the original works and not reaching the depth of events, and there are even narratives that have been completely digested in favor of the artistic vision.

Focal differences

One of the most important differences is the character of Shiraz, as the "house" itself in the legend of the house was evil and was not the soul of a young girl inhabiting it. Shiraz in the novel is blue-eyed and does not suffer and when she was shrouded in her head, no blood appeared, and the longitudinal wound swirled with her hair and she continued playing normally.

In the original story, Rifaat and his friends from the past return to fight the evil of the house again, in a snapshot similar to the return of the heroes of the novel "The Thing" to the American Stephen King after their maturity, and fighting the evil in their small town, and the narration of the main house legend ends by burning the house itself until its evil ends forever.

Another major difference is that Rifaat Ismail from an imaginary village that Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq created called Kafr Badr, but in the series they made the character from the East for reasons unknown until now!

Also, Raifa’s sister, Rifa’at, was not a resident of Cairo, but a villager who lives in the same town as her family and her brother Reda.

Howaida and Maggie

Howayda is the fiancée of Rifaat in the series and the novel was not the daughter of his cousin, but he got to know her through one of his friends, and she was not so tender, on the contrary, in the novel she represented the traditional Egyptian repulsive model for Rifaat's character, which made them incompatible.

If Maggie represents Raisat all that he dreams about, as he described her as a quiet gentle that walks on the grass and does not bend him anything, then Howaida represents the reality that Rifaat is repelled from, and this does not mean that she is hated, but she is the model that Rifaat does not prefer.

With the merging of the two characters in several novels, this duality should have been presented as it should be, but for an unknown reason it was not presented in an appropriate manner, and that duality became two female characters who are fighting quietly over Rifaat without strong or logical reasons.

Alasas and Jathoom

The embodiment of monsters in the series was at its worst, as the assas who terrified Rifaat Ismail in the novel the legend of the cave keeper, and who refused to describe Rifaat's ugliness and heinousness, turned into a giant gorilla inhabiting the desert.

Al-Jathoom is one of the strongest and most terrifying monsters in the world of metaphysics novels, he turned into a cartoon character, and the novel was not raised as a hero for her, but it was a letter from one of his followers after his fame increased in the world of metaphysics, as for Howayda, his former fiancée at this time, she married After her separation from Rifaat, but she and her husband were present in this story.

Lucifer

The character of Lucifer did not appear in the events of the five novels, and linking it to the events was a good intervention, but the appearance of the character himself made the seasoned readers of the series divided about this appearance, some of them loved him deeply and others did not accept the actor nor his appearance in this way.

Lucifer is the main and greatest enemy that Rifaat Ismail has faced, and his descriptions are always absolute and that he captures the soul from the moment of his appearance, while his presence was very light in the series, especially in the worst episodes of the series, with the agreement of everyone - those who loved the series and those who hated it - which is the third episode, the legend of the cave keeper.

A clash of visions

Tawfiq says in his book, ridiculous superficial thoughts: Any film presented about a famous novel does not appeal to the readers of the novel even if it was directed by (Stanley Kubrick) himself, but of course it is very liked to those who did not read the novel.

The truth is that, to a large extent, this applies here to "Beyond Nature," as the series was greatly admired by the majority of non-readers, in addition to a small percentage of the series' veteran readers.

The majority of readers see the missing details, the different episodes, and the changing personalities, which is what makes them deeply troubled.