Carol Jeffries (known as 'Jeff') is a naive American woman staying in the Phillipines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them. ”
“ Legend has it that Sam Arkoff, head of American International Pictures saw a statuesque Grier at his company switchboard and cast her on the spot for her breakthrough hit Coffy. That, as they say, is bull shee-it. The former beauty queen made her film debut in 1970 as an extra in Russ Meyer's big breast bonanza Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, and appeared in a number of B-pics shot in the Philippines the following year for AiP's rival company, Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Alongside her role as the tough-as-nails prostitute in Big Doll House were supports in the horror flick The Twilight People and as a topless hooker (again!) in Cool Breeze, then back behind bars for Women In Cages.
In Women In Cages, Grier plays the sadistic warden for once, a pot-smoking lesbian with a fully-equipped torture chamber (including a guillotine!). The 'New Fish' (a recent inmate, for you prison film novices), a ditzy blonde ex-stripper called Alabama, has taken the heroin possession rap for her pimp boyfriend. She knows too much, so the pimp blackmails her cellmates to execute her. A competent and well-shot entry in the tropical prison genre from Filipino director Gerry De Leon, it places the embittered ex-addict and prostitute Grier in the position of slave owner, watching her white charges toiling away in the plantation with obvious ironic glee.
以及,这不是一部严肃的骑士电影,它是娱乐性的。
三星半吧,一个男孩的Coming of age故事之中世纪神话版,看过的亚瑟王和骑士文学类改编作品虽多,但对原著及其传说还是一知半解,静下心来看完,被营造的气氛、画面和音乐深深沉醉,Dev Patel真的gorgeous,从光洁的额头、薄而紧实的肌肉到修长的腿都散发着性感,好喜欢小狐狸,Joel Egerton本人虽是直男,但演过的好多角色都有种隐隐的酷儿感。
如果是带脑子看这电影估计是2.5星,不带脑子看是4星,毕竟是童话故事,经不起那么推敲,觉得有意思好玩就得了
[Berlinale Competition] L'Avventura
然而不是西方观众 对神话故事 人物 剧情和骑士美德实在不太熟 没啥代入感
7.9 画面和配乐都很精美,只是这么简单个事真没必要拍这么长。
最后一秒幡然醒悟的怂逼蜕变记。大卫·洛维虽然炫技过头,但影像仍值得反复揣摩回味。
追忆、缅怀与反思,是电影也是纪录片,不仅是一个诺贝尔奖作家的骨灰归乡记,也是整个意大利的二战战败史,最后用这个作家写的一个小故事作为结尾,颇有点儿寓言和反思的味道,用暴力来终结暴力是一种小孩子式的思维和处理方式,但这就是战争
太美,拖沓得都这么美。最后竟然是《基督最后的诱惑》那样的寓言。die a knight or live a coward. 中世纪电影就应该拍成这样吧。
太完美了,各方面无可挑剔,从未有过的奇幻之旅,一场骑士精神的探索,在技术上尽显视听层面的诡谲与震撼,在文本上还原古典文艺作品的诗意和隽永,和当年的新版《麦克白》一样,导演在电影的世界呈现一首气势磅礴的叙事长诗,以出色的技巧和无可挑剔的风格打造出足以名留青史的艺术品。
看之前查了一下神话的原版故事,中间从出发到到达领主家里的部分编剧和导演做了发挥和填充,然后后面情节有所改动,和原作还是有一定差别的。最后我惊了以为要整个颠覆原来的故事,后来发现只是导演发挥主观能动性玩了一些花样。
前1小时,皮兰德娄骨灰千辛万苦的回归,有很多引人发笑的讽刺感。无论是汽车司机的轻蔑、飞机乘客的迷信,教堂硬塞儿童棺材才愿意祷告,童言无忌说“皮兰德娄是侏儒”(也许有嘲讽他曾经是Nazi),还是最后骨灰草草装进盒子里,洒了一半也不管。这倒是激发了想去读《已故的帕斯卡尔》。后半小时不是很明白,只能感受到离开家乡的儿童的虚无感,极端又冲动地用杀人祭奠来找寻下半生的精神寄托,是个不太圆满的未完成的故事,可能是跟红与黑里的于连或者是欲望号街车类似的主题吧?管他有没有意义,可能仅仅是导演借此来送别逝者的“陪葬仪式”。
一个场景所能涵盖的秘密数量似乎是无限多的,包裹,隐藏,这是最好的穿透影像。
出去赴约单挑 结果出门就被劫了 然后打了个飞机回来了…
绿🌲骑士在他颈上轻轻一划,一个高尚的骑士灵魂由此诞生。
高文的骑士成长奇幻之旅
一个“迪士尼公主”,披了一层“聊斋皮”,喷上“A24香水”。难受。
纵使系上腰带、挂上头衔……一切的失约皆是临时工的作为。如今不像是骑士的时代,每个人都像是临时工。
漫步石林的那段黑白图像,我愿当作今年十佳。黑白到彩色的过渡很自然,就像时间在脑海里的痕迹,生活终究是有色彩的,希望每个人都能在告别里学会珍惜
光影音画均很出彩,可惜邪气不够,说教意味过浓,中间几乎拍成了聊斋。将时间无限拉长,又穿越几层空间,居然没有展现出多少延展度。对失落的古典道德的探讨具有多少警醒意味则全看这中间有多少文化隔阂,个人比较喜欢结尾,向死而生也好,死亡既是归途也罢,都是对自我的接受与必然。
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