- 終於看到兩名六七專家對此片的看法,再次確證對六七解讀是《憂鬱之島》的重點。
- 這應該不是上一代跟新一代人如何解讀歷史,而是對歷史真實的堅持是如何進行。
- 另外,還有鍾劍華的評論:
舒琪老師的評論很中肯。現在能這樣評論一部集萬人迷的電影要很有勇氣的!
1 - 導演不稱職。沒有好好利用「電影」這個媒介,還是用「舞台劇」的形式。
2 - 編劇不合格。故事多條發展不合理,更多是沒頭沒尾,沒有邏輯,沒有推進,往往只能用對白交代,戲劇效果是零,沉悶無比。
3 - 演員力不從心。劇本設置沒有深度,發揮有限。即使有毛舜筠這個老牌專業演員,也不見得起死回生。歌手就唱歌吧,因為不是人人是梅艷芳是張國榮的。
1. 《嚦咕嚦咕新年財》拍攝好短時間,所以係全片係好趕的情況下迫出o黎。
It's so sick to watch this documentary, this woman, this country ...And it's even worst is looking at my own place -- Hong Kong is approaching being like it.
//“Look, I am no longer the first lady. I am not even allowed to go around the world anymore. They prohibit me. … I have money in 170 banks and deposits of assets. I cannot even have them. And I, even at this stage, even at my age, I can go around the world and bring world peace. I befriended all of them. Gaddafi was a friend. Um, Saddam Hussein. Mister, um …Mao Tse-tung. I just gave respect to him. He looked at my hand and kissed it. In five minutes, he said, “Mrs. Marcos, you started the end of the Cold War. In five minutes - Mao! So, who is Imelda? ” //
// “Martial law, that was the best years of Marcos because that was when he was able to give the Philippines sovereignty, freedom, justice, human rights.”//
Review: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/12/the-kingmaker-imelda-marcos-philippines-documentary-lauren-greenfield
If
假如
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
假如舉世倉皇失措,人人怪你,而你能保持冷靜;
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
假如舉世見疑,而你能相信自已,還能原讓他們的懷疑;
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
假如你能等待,而不怕等得累,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
或受謗時不屑以牙還牙,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
或被恨時不怨天憂人,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
然而別看來太好,話也別講得太聰明;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
假如你能作夢——而不成為夢的奴隸;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
假如你能思考——而不只以思老為目的,
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
假如你能面對勝利和慘敗,而把這兩個騙子一視同仁;
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
假如你聽到你講的真話給壞蛋歪曲了去陷害蠢人,卻仍能泰然自持,
Twiseted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
或者你看到你曾拼命維護的珍貴東西破碎了而仍能彎下腰用陳舊的工具去修理;
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
如果在你把你贏的一大堆錢全部孤注一擲而不幸輸掉,
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
但仍能從頭幹起,並對你的失利三緘其口;
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
假如你能強迫你的心、勇氣和體力,
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
在它們早已枯竭時為你效勞,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
因此當你一無所有,
Except for the Will which says to them: "Hold on!";
只剩下吩咐它們:「撑下去!」的意志時,你就這樣撑下去;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
假如你能跟群眾講話而仍保持你的美徳,
Or walk with Kings -nor lose the common touch;
或者與帝王同行而不忘群眾,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
假如敵人或摯友都不能傷害你,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
假如人人都依賴你,但沒有一個期望過奢;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
假如你能用相等於六十秒的奔跑來填補毫不容情的一分鐘,
With sixty seconds worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
地球和它所有的一切,就是屬於你的,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
而且——更重要的是——
兒啊!你將是個男子漢。
2021 年很失敗,只完成了三星期,然後什麼也沒有跟。2021年的challenge list ,在這裡看。
2022年,我決定再跟這個list,再來一次,可以的話,再補回去年的。
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1. Watch a movie from the year you were born. -IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Jan 2, 2022) ★★★★★
2. 1920s - The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) (Jan 7, 2022) ★★★★★
3. 1930s - The 39 Steps (Jan 8, 2022) ★★★★★
4. 1940s - Rope (1948) (Jan 30, 2022) ★★★★★
5. 1950s - No Way Out ★★★★ (Jan 9, 2022)
6. 1960s - Torn Curtain (1966) ★★★ 1/2(Jan 22, 2022)
7. 1970s - Family Plot (1976) ★★★★★ (Jan 19, 2022)
8. 1980s -
9. 1990s - The Virgin Suicides (1999) ★★★★★ (Jan 30, 2022)
10. 2000s
11. 2010s -
12. Genre: War
13. Genre: Science Fiction
14. Genre: Musical/Music Themed
15. Watch a film by a director whose work you haven't seen before
16. Directed by Chantal Akerman (Directed by Chantal Akerman)
17. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
18. Directed by Wong Kar-wai (Directed by Wong Kar-wai) - Days of Being Wild ★★★★★ (April 1st, 2022)
19. Directed by Claire Denis (Directed by Claire Denis)
20. Isabel Sandoval's Top 10 (Isabel Sandoval’s Top 10)
21. Bill Hader's Top 10 (Bill Hader’s Top 10)
22. Ana Lily Amirpour's Top 10 (Ana Lily Amirpour’s Top 10)
23. Richard Linklater's Top 10 (Richard Linklater’s Top 10)
24. Made in the United States - Marnie (1964)
25. Made in Poland
26. Made in Iran
27. Made in Mexico
28. Made in Senegal
29. Watch a film that has an out of print physical release (Out of Print Criterion Releases)
30. Watch a film from the "America Lost and Found: The BBS Story" collection (America Lost and Found: The BBS Story)
31. Watch a film with a spine #1-100 (Criterion Collection by Spine Number)
32. Watch a film with a spine #500-600 (Criterion Collection by Spine Number)
33. Cannes Film Festival Winners (Cannes’s Big Winners)
34. Midnight Madness: Watch a cult classic (Midnight Madness)
35. Growing Pains: Watch a coming of age film (Growing Pains)
36. Stage to Screen: Watch a stage adaptation (Stage to Screen)
37. Out at Criterion: Watch an LGBTQ film (Out at Criterion)
38. Watch a film on the Summer Travels list (Summer Travels)
39. Watch a film on the Hollywood Classics list (Hollywood Classics)
40. Watch a film from the Animation Before the 2000s list (Animation Before the 2000s)
41. Starring Catherine Deneuve (Starring Catherine Deneuve)
42. Starring Anna Karina (Starring Anna Karina)
43. Starring Jeanne Moreau (Starring Jeanne Moreau)
44. Paul Dano's Closet Picks (Paul Dano’s Closet Picks )
45. Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman's Closet Picks ( Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Closet Picks )
46. Michael K. Williams’ Closet Picks (Michael K. Williams’ Closet Picks)
47. Sean Baker's Closet Picks (Sean Baker’s Closet Picks)
48. Amy Heckerling's Closet Picks (Amy Heckerling’s Closet Picks)
49. Agnes Varda's Closet Picks (Agnès Varda’s Closet Picks)
50. Random number generator (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
51. Watch a film featured in any of the Essential Art House box sets (Essential Art House Films)
52. Any Criterion film on your watchlist - Rear Windo (1954)
香港少年真係好叻! 好詩欣賞! Fricatives by Eric Yip To speak English properly, Mrs Lee said, you must learn the difference between three and free. Three men escaped from Alcatraz in a rubber raft and drowned on their way to Angel Island. Hear the difference? Try this: you fought your way into existence. Better. Look at this picture. Fresh yellow grains beaten till their seeds spill. That’s threshing. That’s submission. You must learn to submit before you can learn. You must be given a voice before you can speak. Nobody wants to listen to a spectacled boy with a Hong Kong accent. You will have to leave this city, these dark furrows stuffed full with ancestral bones. Know that death is thorough. You will speak of bruised bodies skinnier than yours, force the pen past batons and blood, call it fresh material for writing. Now they’re paying attention. You’re lucky enough to care about how the tongue moves, the seven types of fricatives, the articulatory function of teeth sans survival. You will receive a good education abroad and make your parents proud. You will take a stranger’s cock in your mouth in the piss-slick stall of that dingy Cantonese restaurant you love and taste where you came from, what you were made of all along. Put some work into it, he growls. C’mon, give me some bite. Your mother visits one October, tells you how everyone speaks differently here, more proper. You smile, nod, bring her to your favourite restaurant, order dim sum in English. They’re releasing the students arrested five years ago. Just a tad more soy sauce please, thank you. The television replays yesterday on repeat. The teapots are refilled. You spoon served rice into your mouth, this perfect rice. Steamed, perfect, white. https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/fricatives/ //The title, Fricatives, comes from the term given to a type of consonant made by the friction of breath in a narrow opening, producing a turbulent air flow, including the sounds “f” or “th”, such as in “free” or “three”. Benson said: “Fricatives is an immensely ambitious and beautifully achieved poem. It puts its reader into the position of a student of English as a second language, the fricative consonants tangling our mouths as we speak the poem, and intriguing us with the alternate meanings that rest precariously on the pronunciation. ‘Proper’ achievements – the correct pronunciation, the good education abroad, and the proud parents – are countered by an underworld of political prisoners and risky, grim sex.” She added: “This is an incredibly powerful, vulnerable story of an uneasy assimilation, and of government surveillance… It’s a poem of poise and counterpoise, and is personal, political and acutely musical. What a tensile, high-wire reckoning.”//
Asian Pop-up Cinema: https://www.asianpopupcinema.org/season-14-calendar/ribbon
張國榮:「有些人你是不忍心見他變老的,在他們最美麗的時候走,可能是最好的。」
Leslie Cheung, "Some people, you can't bear to see them grow old. They leave when they are at their peak. Maybe it's for the best."
全文重點,反習不反共,而最重要的是,薄希來是中國的希望。
表面反習,實質在捧薄。
或者簡單點說,作者應該係站在延續鄧小平改革開放的角度去寫,而文未重點點出能繼續這條路線的人只有薄希來,而薄雖則也不是什麼民主人士,但他的統治會是「軟性的獨裁」,即是鄧小平二世。
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編按:近日海外中文網流傳一篇長達4萬字的習近平評論《客觀評價習近平》。該文作者在海外中文網《留園網》的帳號為「方舟與中國」,多個海外中文網站均轉載此文,廣為引發各界對習近平今年秋天20大的連任之路與其未來命運的討論。
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二零一二年,中國成為了舉世矚目的焦點;——中國共產黨作為世界最大的一黨制政權,在此年舉行高層換屆,而這必將影響到全球的政治風向。在無數目光聚焦之下,新任領袖習近平站在了人們面前;就如傳統的政治戲碼一樣,這位領袖經「黨內選舉」和「不記名投票」成為國家元首;十八大會議宣布他就任中共中央總書記,併兼任軍委主席。
外界對這位新晉領袖的信息很模糊,而中國人對他亦不甚了解。新當選的政治局常委在各國記者前亮相,最高領袖向媒體揮手致意,在按慣例宣講了共產黨對中國的積極意義後,習近平表示新的領導班子將承繼歷史,帶領民族前進。他總結道:「中國需要更多地了解世界,而世界也需要更多地了解中國」。
此時大家都在猜想,這個人將把中國帶往何處;許多人對習近平做了正面評價,認為他是一個平實的領導人。而民間亦對他寄予厚望;大家認為他是一個開明的君主,會帶領中國走向變革,甚至走向民主;在這一點上知識分子尤其抱有殷切的期望。
在文學改編電影的一百多年歷史中,香港導演許鞍華的《第一爐香》有着超乎尋常的際遇。來自方方面面的高度關注與張愛玲如日中天的文學聲望,以及原著小說《沉香屑.第一爐香》在張氏全部作品中的重要地位有關。許鞍華二○一七年底接下這部影片,二○一八年開始資料收集,定下王安憶擔綱劇本寫作,接着是找景、勘景、修改劇本、選演員。二○一九年五月開機,三個月內大部分鏡頭在廈門鼓浪嶼的觀海園、容谷別墅和黃家花園拍攝,年底前完成後期製作,配音則是二○二○年疫情中遠程完成的。二○二○年九月許鞍華帶着剛完成的影片去參加威尼斯影展,獲得終身成就獎的殊榮。疫情持續至今,影片檔期一再延後,於二○二一年十月下旬首先在內地影院上映,我們這些身在香港的觀眾看到完整的片子已經是十一月中了。從兩年多前公布選角開始,這個漫長的過程中的每一個節點都被大量「圍觀」,網評蜂擁,各種吐槽、挖苦、譏諷,廣大「張迷」和「非張迷」全程「在場」,步步參與,在影片正式上映之前就已然成為疫情時代的一個特出的文化現象。如今熱度漸漸散去,希望可以藉着影片,細談幾個文學改編電影的議題。
改編的「滑鐵盧」
文學改編電影的歷史其實就是一整部電影史和文化遷移史,其中穿插着文字與影像剪不斷理還亂的糾葛。改編有太多的同義詞,例如重寫、轉化、延續、模擬、戲仿、批判、翻譯、轉世、再生等等。所有這些概念都強調文字是源頭,電影則是後來者,是支流。這些同義的概念裏往往又帶出一長串的貶義詞,例如不忠實、背叛、扭曲、糟蹋、冒犯、表層化、庸俗化、毀壞等等。對許鞍華版《第一爐香》的海量評論中,這些貶義詞出現的頻率很高。說改編「不忠實」,無疑是一個道德層面上的價值判斷,而「背叛」這種字眼,則帶有居高臨下的審判意味。貼上「庸俗化」和「表層化」的標籤,是拿定了文化有高低之分,帶有階級的屬性。諸如此類,無非是給文學原著披上了近乎宗教般神聖不可侵犯的外衣。張愛玲如果在世,應該不會想要那樣一件神袍。
改編張愛玲,儼然是華語文學改編華語電影這個領域裏的一尊聖杯,這艱難的高度,許鞍華導演比誰體會都深。《第一爐香》是她第四次「觸張」。一九八四年由繆騫人和周潤發主演的《傾城之戀》是第一次,一九九七年由黎明和吳倩蓮主演的《半生緣》是第二次,第三次是二○○九年王安憶編劇、焦媛主演的粵語舞台劇《金鎖記》。《第一爐香》在內地上演後,許鞍華做客梁文道主持的音頻節目《八分》,說《第一爐香》是她的第二次「滑鐵盧」:「拿破崙都沒有兩次『滑鐵盧』,我想不會有第三次了,(我的)上一次『滑鐵盧』是在《傾城之戀》。」這無疑是將改編比做戰場。文學改編電影若有一敗塗地的「滑鐵盧」,那大獲全勝、凱旋歸來又是什麼樣子的呢?