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本以为影片也会像《霸王别姬》一样从梅兰芳儿时学艺讲起,结果一开场,出现的便是一个小有名气的梅兰芳。不过后来了解了一些梅兰芳成名之前的经历后,才明白这样的安排似乎是最妥当的。影片的前半部分很精彩,很大程度上得益于饰演青年梅兰芳的余少群和饰演十三燕的王学圻一少一老两位演员的出色表演,另外,影片中让人赏心悦目的京剧表演画面多数是在前半部分出现。相比之下,后半部分无论在演员表演、画面表现和故事情节上都稍显平淡,乏善可陈。 最让人遗憾的是,影片的剪辑实在让人不敢恭维。首先是剧组执意删掉了阿娇的镜头,却又不能加入自然的过度或者不能下决心删除更多的相关镜头,以至于有些情节太过生硬。比如梅兰芳结婚一段,他是怎么和福芝芳(阿娇饰)相识?一点交代都没有,甚至之前福芝芳都没有出现过,突然就结婚了,让人摸不着头脑。还不如直接把结婚的镜头一并删掉,等陈红的中年福芝芳出场时打一条字幕:“福芝芳,梅兰芳之妻”,岂不好?还有其他一些镜头(比如突然出现的新戏《一缕麻》),要么处理得不够自然,要么交待得不够清楚,让人觉得突兀。或许2个多小时的时间,要完整而饱满地在萤幕上展现出梅兰芳的一生,的确很难办到(有些事件本身就可以拍一部完整的电影);或许再多几十分钟的空间,影片的表现会更完整。期待导演剪辑版吧——如果有的话。 很自然,看完《梅兰芳》会拿《霸王别姬》来对比;也很自然,结果是《霸王别姬》完胜。或许,两部影片根本没有可比性,一部是在其后人监督下完成的单纯的个人传记片,一部是在导演灵感激发下带着对文化和时代反思的文艺片,起点不同,注定终点不同。《霸王别姬》是一座丰碑,是几乎不可逾越的巅峰,是让人回味悠长的经典,但这并不意味着《梅兰芳》不好。就冲着影片的前半部分,也值得掏钱坐进影院欣赏,至于后半部分,当作买一赠一的附送,岂不很超值? 最后,斗胆点评一下主要演员的表演: / 流影 / 《济公》无意间将频道换到重庆卫视,一个“鞋儿破,帽儿破,身上的袈裟破;你笑我,他笑我,一把扇儿破”的瘦和尚出现在屏幕上,虽酒肉不离口,却嬉笑间,惩恶扬善,除暴安良,看得我好不痛快。果然是传说中的济公。 《济公》,隐约在某个时间看过一点,却因为播放的电视台太少,一直没完整看过,尽管只有短短八集。回家来Google一下,86年,在我出生那年《济公》就已经在电视上露面了,据说当时就引起了全国轰动,万人空巷。与同时代的《红楼梦》的为人津津乐道和《西游记》的轮番重播形成鲜明对比的是,时至今日,人们对《济公》的记忆似乎正在淡去。这次偶然再看到,竟突然有一种莫名的惊喜。 画面就不说了,在怎么炫目怎么唯美怎么清晰都不过分的今天,20年前的设备拍出来的东西,怎一个粗糙了得。因为技术所限,《济公》尽量避免了特效的使用,作为神话剧难免让人遗憾,也为后来新拍的济公故事留下了不小的提高空间。不过值得一提的是,在仅有的几个特效画面里,还是因为技术的限制,特技镜头都做得朴实无华,完全没有现在的电视剧里动不动就有的五彩炫目的光辉,反而与真实镜头融合得恰到好处。 再说剧情,现在看来是乏善可陈。可是看看如今的电视剧,居然也跳不出20年前的框框套套,动辄几十集的“鸿篇巨制”,不过是把大把的篇幅浪费在所谓的“感情戏”“对手戏”“激情戏”甚至是“风景片”上而已,还没有别人的短短八集来得过瘾。究其缘由,也不过是一个“钱”字作怪。 最难忘的还是表演艺术家游本昌对济公的演绎。消瘦的身材,皮肤松弛满是皱纹的脸,吊儿郎当的姿态,嬉皮笑脸的表情,而藏在这幅身体后面的分明又是一颗深谙佛法洞察一切的心,要演好济公这个角色本不是件容易的事。然而看了游本昌收放自如信手拈来的表演,能说出口的就一个字,绝!不得不让人怀疑,这个姓游的会不会是济公活佛转世? 下载MP3 / 《济公》主题曲《鞋儿破,帽儿破》 @ 左岸原创 / 流影 / 暖春放假寝室通宵给电,关灯,拉上窗帘,没日没夜的守着一台本本看片子,《神雕》、《指环王》、《黑客帝国》,更多的是记不得名字的,几天下来看得恶心。不过倒是想起了那天学校放的《暖春》,很感人的片子。 剧情一向不在评论范围之类,演员的表演才是值得称道的地方。田成仁的老父亲形象入木三分,而整部电影真正的主角是那个叫做张妍的小女孩所展示出的小花。每一滴泪,每一面笑,每一次的畏惧、哀求、惊讶和喜悦,还有那双水灵的大眼睛和不断奔跑的四肢,每一个细节都很投入,每一次感情的流露都很自然,从头到尾表演都很出彩,让人不得不佩服,潜力无限啊! 前面说过了,片子很感人。感人不是随便说说的,在我前面的一排男生和在他们手中不断传递的一盒纸巾说明了一切。老实说,有几滴泪我也没能忍住。 都去看看吧,尽管这个春天已经过了,但是下个春天应该是个暖春。
/ 流影 / King Kong下午闲来无事在动感影院(movie.cq139.com)转悠,正好有清晰版的《King Kong》。花了2个小时看完,得出两个字:好看。 只是,原以为会很喜欢King Kong这只巨猩猩,等到它出场才发现,这只巨大的黑家伙丝毫没有值得喜欢的地方,它的所作所为,总结起来也是两个字:恐怖。 当Ann被进贡给King Kong,King Kong一路狂奔到悬崖边准备把Ann撕得粉碎的时候,它脚下的那堆厚厚的白骨说明了一切;当最后它在镣铐里苏醒发现在它面前的不是Ann而挣脱镣铐之后,纽约街头粉碎的高楼、残破的汽车和横飞的无辜行人说明了一切。当然,一切的一切都可以理解:孤零零地称霸原始森林,发泄自然是最好的消遣,于是白骨只能空山鸣冤;自由了一辈子突然被镣铐禁锢,爱一个人的权利也被人拿来当作喜剧演出让人嘲笑,于是人类也应该付出一张高昂的门票。只是King Kong的爱,对于Ann来说是伟大,对于他人来说,却是灾难。所以结局早已预见,King Kong必死无疑。一只头脑简单的猩猩,我们尚且不能原谅,若是一个人爱到如此狭隘,我们该怎么做? 最后Ann与Jack在楼顶深情相拥的时刻,才是整部影片最美的镜头。 / 流影 / 海上钢琴师
Ship or land? It's a question. Get off, and let it become a fair tale. Stay on board, and then it is to be a legend. Our 1900 stayed, and ashed, with the ship, which made it a real Legend of 1900. Quote: 1900: [The last words of 1900] All that city. You just couldn't see the end to it. The end? Please? You please just show me where it ends? It was all very fine on that gangway. And I was grand too, in my overcoat. I cut quite a figure. And I was getting off. Guaranteed. There was no problem. It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max. It was what I didn't see. You understand that? What I didn't see. In all that sprawling city there was everything except an end. There was no end. What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end. The end of the world. Take a piano. The keys begin, the keys end. You know there are eighty-eight of them, nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You are infinite. And on these keys the music that you can make is infinite. I like that. That I can live by. You get me up on that gangway and you're rolling out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end, and that's the truth, Max. That they never end. That keyboard is infinite. And if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play. You're sitting on the wrong bench. That's God's piano. I was born on this ship, and the world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time. And there were wishes here, but never more than fit between prow and stern. You played out your happiness, but on a piano that was not infinite. I learned to live that way. Land? Land is a ship too big for me. It's a woman too beautiful; it's a voyage too long, a perfume too strong. It's a music I don't know how to make. I could never get off this ship. At best, I can step off my life. After all, I don't exist for anyone. You're an exception, Max, you're the only one who knows I'm here. You're a minority, and you better get used to it. Forgive me, my friend, but I'm not getting off. 于有限之中创造无限,还是于无限之中而茫然无措?也许我们每个人都会面临这样的选择。表面看来,答案似乎很明显,然而未知世界的诱惑是很难抵挡的。固守自己的钢琴,还是去触碰上帝的那一架? / 流影 / 心火 Firelight
他们说这是一个借腹生子的故事,我不这样想,最后他们不是成了一家人了嘛。最喜欢这里的 Sophie Marceau,可爱而执着。 对白: Quote 1 Elisabeth: In the firelight you do what you want, say what you want, be what you want. When the lamps are lit again, time starts again, and everything you said or did is forgotten. More than forgotten, it never happened. Quote 2 Elisabeth: [about the Lake House] What do you do out there? Quote 3 Louisa: Why did you give me away? |
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