本片是加拿大导演大卫·柯南伯格(David Cronenberg)根据威廉·柏洛兹(William S. Burroughs)同名小说改编。影片里充满了打字机、会说话的甲虫、各种意寓深刻的对话。非常cult,是绝妙的改编。不但具有卡夫卡式意识流派的诗意,也是对the beat generation作家walliam lee创作流程充满传记性的再现。正如美国影评人David Ansen所言:“显然这不是适合大众口味的怪味茶,欣赏此片需要一种对重口味美学的品位。对敢于接受的观众来说,这绝对是一部引人入胜的影片。”
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二战后,美国文学界出现了“垮掉的一代”。他们的特征是:吸毒、尝试新的性行为、对东方宗教的兴趣、反物质主义和充满狂热的表达。柏洛兹的《Naked Lunch》正是“垮掉文学”的重要代表作之一,与之齐名的是阿兰·金斯伯格的《嚎叫Howl》和捷克·凯鲁亚克的《在路上On the Road》他们都推崇即兴创作。即在吸食某些药物后,凭着热情和幻觉创作文学作品,也是标志其难以影视化的记号。
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柏洛兹的Naked Lunch是无线索、不叙事化、不情节化的小说,把它改编成电影貌似一件“不可能完成的任务”,大卫·柯南伯格此番改编,不仅源自小说本身,还来自柏洛兹的其他小说和柏洛兹的亲身经历。电影里的Bill Lee就是柏洛兹,柏洛兹的确做过“杀虫人”的工作;Hank和Martin的人物形象基于捷克·凯鲁亚克和阿兰·金斯伯格,他们是帮助柏洛兹整理小说原稿的朋友;Tom和Joan Frost基于柏洛兹在摩洛哥丹吉尔生活时认识的朋友Paul和Jane Bowles;而用枪射杀妻子的情节也取自作者的真实经历,他在1951年墨西哥醉酒后玩一个叫做“威廉·泰尔William Tell”的游戏时杀死了自己的结发妻子Joan Vollmer,此后柏洛兹正式开始了写作生涯。电影的叙事逻辑就是柏洛兹本人的经历,整部影片就是对柏洛兹文学创作流程具有传记性的再现。
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我在豆瓣标记的这部影片同步到了微博上。一向清静的微博上突然就出现了两条评论,原来是有人希望我加入他们的ONS俱乐部。当然,这只是对《裸体午餐Naked Lunch》这个名字的字面误解,一如柏洛兹的朋友金斯伯格,他一开始竟把书名读作了《Naked Lust》。据柏洛兹在书里的介绍,这本小说的名字实际上来自凯鲁亚克的建议:naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork。
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影片中让人印象最为深刻的,应该是那两台风格迥异的打字机。一台打字机化身为甲虫克劳克·诺娃,用屁眼说话,它自称是男主角的“代理人”,还指导男主角杀掉自己的妻子,考虑同性恋的行为。另外一台打字机,则化身为具有男性性特征的妖怪玛格瓦姆,在打字的间隙,它头上的触角会如JJ一样勃起,并流出一些乳白色的液体。这一系列的影像,都是男主角Bill在古玩店用手枪换取打字机时看到一个小挂件的印象,小挂件上是一只玛格瓦姆在吸食一名裸体男子。对应后面Kiki被化身成怪物的瑞士同性恋Cloquet吃掉。而那些打印机都是普通的打印机,这在影片里有所揭示,幻化出来的形象都是Bill吸食药物后的作用。
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Bill吸食的药物,最先是用来杀虫的黄色粉末,后来接触到了一种黑色粉末,在Interzone里,发生了同性性行为后,开始食用妖怪玛格瓦姆分泌的液体。这些粉末和液体在现实中分别对应一些毒品。现实中的柏洛兹对意外杀死妻子耿耿于怀,开启了他的写作生涯,在写作中也对此念念不忘。杀死妻子之前,Bill接触到了一种黑色粉末,药物作用让他发生意外。后来在一个市场,他看到晒干的巴西蜈蚣后悲痛不堪,也是因为这种动物制作的黑色粉末让他错杀爱妻。Bill后来接受建议准备和与妻子酷似的女人开始新生活时,又一次在玩“William Tell”的游戏中杀死了她。
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影片也有对写作态度的表达。Bill第一次和两个写作朋友聊天时,他们在争论:应不应该对写出的作品进行修改。Bill的回答也正是柏洛兹的态度:清除一切合理的思想都是错误的。这种对写出的作品保留原状的态度就是“垮掉文学”的写作价值观:即兴,并保留原状。在Interzone的第一天,Bill遇到一个向他兜售“黑肉”的人,他说:“在艺术世界里能够助你一臂之力”。“垮掉文学”就是在毒品的影响下的即兴创作,所以毒品是能助作家一臂之力的。Bill第一次遇到瑞士同性恋者时,他说出了他的另一本书《QUEER》里面的句子。这就是毒品和性。
第一遍看完,不敢说理解。这堆废话作记录之用。本片绝对是值得多次回味的blockbuster。不推荐给寻求娱乐重口味情色的观众,这注定离你们的期待太远。
大卫·柯南伯格的《裸体午餐》=电影原著-威廉·巴勒斯的《裸体午餐》+巴勒斯的个人经历+俄耳甫斯神话结构+巴勒斯的文学观+“肛门宇宙”+柯南伯格的私货。
1、电影原著-威廉·巴勒斯的《裸体午餐》:
美国作家、垮掉派代表人物威廉·巴勒斯(William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997)发表于1959年的小说。电影只是运用了许多原著小说中的元素:比如Interzone、Dr. Benway、黑肉、巴西水生蜈蚣、外星人等等,并没有照搬情节(小说也基本没有情节可言)。巴勒斯的小说多为自传体,主角一般都叫Lee,因此电影中的主角也叫Lee,暗指巴勒斯本人。
2、巴勒斯的个人经历:
巴勒斯本人当过灭虫员,还写过一本叫《灭虫者!》(Exterminator!)的小说。于1951年,巴勒斯在墨西哥醉酒后失手枪杀了妻子琼·沃尔莫(Joan Vollmer),随后前往摩洛哥,定居丹吉尔城(丹吉尔对应电影以及小说中的Interzone),并在丹吉尔写作了《裸体午餐》的许多情节。片中还出现了垮掉派的另外两个代表人物杰克·凯鲁亚克(Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969)与艾伦·金斯堡(Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997),以及巴勒斯的前男友之一齐齐(KiKi)。
3、俄耳甫斯神话结构:
古希腊神话。主角是阿波罗与缪斯女神卡利俄帕之子,善于弹奏金竖琴的神俄耳甫斯(Orpheus)。
俄耳甫斯心爱的妻子欧律狄刻(Euridice)被毒蛇咬到后死去,心碎的俄耳甫斯只身前往冥王哈迪斯(Hades)处请求他让欧律狄刻还阳。哈迪斯被俄耳甫斯感动,便同意了他的请求,但提出了一个条件:在俄耳甫斯领着妻子走出地府的过程中,决不能回头看她,否则欧律狄刻将永远不能回到人间。俄耳甫斯在整个路上都强忍着回头看的欲望,不过就在看到人间的微光时,欧律狄刻再也忍不住丈夫的冷遇,在身后抱怨起来。俄耳甫斯听见后忘掉了哈迪斯的叮嘱,回头想要拥抱欧律狄刻。此时,死亡的长臂从深渊处升起,又将欧律狄刻拉回了地府,俄耳甫斯功亏一篑,孤单地回到了人间。
《俄耳甫斯与欧律狄刻》,Edward John Poynter,1862.
在这个结构中,巴勒斯作为作家,等同于俄耳甫斯(一个善于写作,一个善于弹奏,都是富有创造力的艺术家);片中的Interzone对应地狱(俄耳甫斯在这里找到了欧律狄刻,电影主角Lee在这里找到了自己死去的妻子),同时也对应巴勒斯写作《裸体午餐》的地方丹吉尔城。片尾Lee再一次打死自己的妻子的情节对应神话中欧律狄刻再堕地狱。
4、巴勒斯的文学观:
巴勒斯发明了剪裁法(Cut-up),因为他认为语言等于病毒(Word Virus),只有用剪裁的手段打乱语序,让文本自身发挥其潜力,才可以把人从语言的控制中解脱出来,从而进入一种“新宇宙”(有点类似诺斯替主义)。对于剪裁法的论述也可以在德勒兹《资本主义与精神分裂》一书中找到。
将一篇文本叠合(pliage)进另一篇文本之中一——这就构成了多元的、甚至是不定的根(比如一根插枝),对于所考察的文本来说,它意味着一种替补的维度(dimension supplementaire)。正是在这个叠合的替补维度之中,统一性继续着其精神的劳作。正是在这个意义上,最为碎片化的著作也同样可以被视为“全集”或“巨著”(le Grand Opus)。——《导论:根茎》,德勒兹:《资本主义与精神分裂》,姜宇辉译本。
“剪裁法”,图片出自《Burroughs:The Movie》,1983.
5、“肛门宇宙”:
精神分析学家Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel在1985年的著作《Creativity and perversion》中提出的“肛门宇宙”理论,目前无中译本。该理论指出,粪便婴儿象征的肛门宇宙足以作为推翻象征着父权的阴茎宇宙的手段。若将话语的生产等同于粪便的生产,人类便具有无穷的创造力。与巴勒斯语言病毒的文学观相呼应。所以片中打字机变成的虫子用肛门说话(话语=粪便)。
6、柯南伯格的私货:
机械异化为有机物。虫子、虫子、虫子。触角、触角、触角。肉体、肉体、肉体。粘液、粘液、粘液。
大概就看出了上面这些,还有一些关于性的隐喻没必要提太多。由于论文在做巴勒斯的研究,就顺便谈谈这部电影。其实本片的结局很伤感,倘若俄耳甫斯能忍住那回头的一眼,他也许真能与妻子欧律狄刻团聚。固然琼·沃尔莫的死亡使得巴勒斯成为了一个作家,成就了他的名声与地位,但巴勒斯的确一生未曾走出妻子的死亡带来的阴影。
2021年1月27日再增补:又看了一遍,佐以1986年的纪录片《Burroughs:The Movie》,更加感觉到结局的悲伤。显然巴勒斯和沃尔莫是深爱着对方的,也许他这辈子再也找不到一个比沃尔莫更懂他的人。而沃尔莫也彻底信任巴勒斯,以至于完全可以将生命交给他处置,或者说她欲借助巴勒斯寻找某种真正的解脱,以逃离她这一生犯下的错误与无穷无尽的罪孽感(诚如金斯堡所言)。因为,可能巴勒斯在1951年酒后的那一枪根本没有射偏,或者当他说出“让我们玩威廉•退尔游戏”的时候,早就做好了“射偏”的准备,抑或他就是为了“射偏”才要求玩这个游戏的。他已经想帮沃尔莫解脱了。影片的结局表现的是:巴勒斯并不后悔。尽管这是他一辈子挥之不去的阴影,或者说枪杀妻子这件事确实毁了他的一生,但如果可以再来一次,他依然会拿起那把点38口径的左轮,不偏不倚地打中妻子的眉心,因为这是她想要的。从这个角度看,琼•沃尔莫得偿所愿了。她能够死在一个她爱也爱她的人的枪下,这样的死亡比自杀强的多。
作为小说的《裸体午餐》是美国当代文学中很有名气的代表作品,但是我作为一般群众从来没有也没想读过它,看到wiki上的介绍就吓退了:小说由好些个松散片段组成成,作者William Burroughs说这篇作品从哪里起头阅读都可以,因为没法概括情节。在没有上下文的情况下带着严重的未知开始看电影,柯南伯格虽然难舍昆虫和alter ego情节,但是这部片和几部前作相比实在太甜了,我看完都感到意外,依稀有种《黑店狂想曲》和《爱丽丝梦游仙境》的奇幻和嘲讽气质,与此同时这部片也足够让人犯晕,电影中有杀虫子杀老婆贩毒嗑药搅基写小说当间谍情节,地点在纽约与异域风情鲜明的interzone之间穿梭,男主角在一群基佬中简直成了万人迷,还半推半就地当起了情报人员,仿佛穿越到了格林的冒险小说,主线还安排他成了一个心中一直住着自己老婆的痴情汉,一个枪法超烂的痴情汉——一种难以言表的荒诞自嘲之气喷薄而出。心想这片可真神了,虽然看得我稀里糊涂,却也饶有趣味,和之前想的完全不一样。
没有什么血腥怪物,原著小说是能够让柯南伯格发挥他整天研究精神分析的专能的作品。作为小说的《裸体午餐》是一个松散的体系,导演没有照搬原著,而是选择一部分内容,并把作者William Burroughs创作小说的情节放进电影,等于实现了Burroughs写作的出发点,男主角Bill Lee就是他本人。1951年,时年37岁的Burroughs在与妻子Joan在墨西哥的酒吧里心血来潮玩起威廉退尔的游戏,当时的Joan安非他明成瘾,二人兴致勃勃,但是Burroughs的手枪射中妻子额头一枪毙命,当地法官判定这是事故杀人,Burroughs关押了12天并交付保释金后就重获自由了。他一生对杀妻过失深感罪责,并受此激发写出了《裸体午餐》——创作生涯中的第一部小说,他曾说没有Joan就不会有这部作品。而柯南伯格等于拍了一部半传记色彩的电影:讲述一个叫做Bill Lee的男人如何在误杀妻子之后写了一部叫做《裸体午餐》的小说,小说的创作过程也是他建构Interzone并目睹和经历和各种奇异和死亡的过程。或者可以说,按照柯南伯格的路数,这部电影讲述一个因为杀妻而变成精神病且拥有写作技巧的男人看到听到想到的各种奇幻体验,尽管这情节离奇出格地难以概括,姑且梳理个大概:
驱虫人Bill Lee的妻子Joan药物成瘾,他邂逅了一只用屁股说话的巨大甲虫(名副其实的talking asshole),得知Joan是来自北非某个叫做Interzone的间谍。
Bill从一个自称Dr Benway的男人那里买到一种巴西水生蜈蚣做成的黑色粉状药物作为解药。
回家后Bill提议和妻子玩William Tell routine然后开枪打死了Joan。
在酒吧里Bill遇到一个叫Kiki的同性恋男孩,并认识了一个长得好像苦瓜外星人的奇怪生物Mugwump,要他前往Interzone,用Clark Nova打字机写报告。
Bill在Interzone遇到用黑色蜈蚣肉做的毒品的德国人Hans。
房间里的打字机变成用屁股说话的巨大甲虫,让Bill以同性恋为掩护从事间谍活动。
Bill参加当地派对重逢Kiki,并结识来自美国的作家夫妇Tom和Joan。Tom还把自己的Martinelli打字机借给他。
晚上两台打字机都变成甲虫,Clark Nova攻击Martinelli,说它是敌方间谍,并让Bill去诱骗Joan从而摸清黑色蜈蚣肉的来龙去脉。
Bill和Joan的偷欢被女房主Fadela打断,捣毁了一台变成奇异甲虫享受二人欢愉的打字机。
Clark Nova打字机告诉BillJoan是Fadela手下的间谍,原型是只蜈蚣。
纽约的两个哥们Hank和Martin也和Bill碰面了,他们催Bill尽快完成这本叫做Naked Lunch的小说。
Bill用上了Mugwump变的打字机。
为了进一步摸清黑蜈蚣肉工厂的秘密Bill又和瑞士人Cloquet勾搭上,其间不得不牺牲了Kiki,变成虫型基佬的Cloquet品尝Kiki的那场戏堪称全片最重口的一幕(Cloquet先森你这里有看得见风景的房间吗?)
Bill用Mugwump变的打字机从Tom手里换回了被抓走的Clark Nova,并且最终来到挂满了Mugwump的黑肉车间,也就是Hans的毒品加工厂。他找到了正在帮工的Joan。Fadela现身,一扒皮是Dr.Benway。Bill以带上Joan为前提,答应Dr. Benway前往Annexia做毒品交易。出境时Bill为了向Joan证明自己的作家身份而再次玩起了“William Tell Routine”(看似毫无逻辑,但是现实中就是如此),又是一枪要了Joan性命。
Bill泪流满面,电影结束(观众也要泪流满面了,这情节确实没法概括)
电影颇有点宿命悲观的意味,虽然主要情节关联性太差,但是似乎又确实朝着一个方向前进的,有充满异国风情的谍战情节(如果talking asshole也算的话)和血液黏液齐流人体物体异化的超现实画面,讲述一个失去妻子的零动机作家为了追查莫名的黑蜈蚣肉毒品加工厂而成为听屁股指挥的间谍,最终发现毒品工厂老巢,带上妻子远走,但是最后还是失去了心爱之人的经历(简直不能称之为故事),就好比所有理论人员所说,讲故事和钟表的“滴答”声一样,有tig就要有tag,但是很明显从原著到电影这tig和tag之间不是隔得太远就是干脆被按住压回去了,而且许多留白段落,比如Bill在Interzone参加的Party压根没演,Cloquet是如何与Billd搭讪任何起因,全靠他们的对话得知或者推测这两个人在Party上见过。
导演的专场之一的化妆和道具特效当然也是瞩目焦点,他电影里的很多怪物甲虫的显著特点是具有能激起厌恶感的丑,Mugwump出场的时候真让人难受,但是看到齐刷刷挂在毒品工厂里的Mugwumps的时候忽然觉得它们好萌,负责视觉特效的还是以Fly拿到小金人的Chris Walas团队。电影里Bill的两个作家伙伴Hank和Martin原型据说就是凯鲁亚克和金斯堡(垮掉三巨头齐聚柯南伯格这种想想觉得奇特),我感觉里面Martin的形象和金斯堡尤其传神。
Cult Films have limited but very special appeal. Cult films are usually strange, quirky, offbeat, eccentric, oddball, or surreal, with outrageous, weird, unique and cartoony characters or plots, and garish sets. They are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions. They can be very stylized, and they are often flawed or unusual in some striking way.
Most cult films cut across many film genres (science fiction, horror, melodrama, etc.), although some film genres are also more prone to being cultish, such as the horror or sci-fi genres. Teen comedies are also more often rated as cult films, such as Dazed and Confused (1993), and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), with quotable lines of dialogue, and memorable characters and scenes.
Many cult films feature or effectively showcase the performance of newcomers or other unknown talented actors/actresses. These often-obscure and cheesy films are usually made by maverick, highly individualistic film-makers with low-budget resources and little commercial marketing. And cult films are rarely, if ever, sequels, since then they would have attained mainstream appeal and widespread success. Some directors are more prone to making cult films, such as John Waters, Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch, especially early in their careers, because of their individualistic perspective and style, although they can often make a conventional 'mainstream' film too (such as David Lynch's The Straight Story (1999)).
Many cult films fared poorly at the box office when first shown, but then achieved cult-film status, developing an enduring loyalty and following among fans over time, often through word-of-mouth recommendations. Sometimes, they were revolutionary, brilliant films 'before their time' (i.e., Fantasia (1940)) and not bound by the conventions of their day.
They elicit a fiery and intense passion in devoted fans, and may cause cultists to enthusiastically champion and become devoted to these films, leading to audience participation, fan club membership, and repetitive viewings and showings. Cult films have tremendous followings with certain groups, e.g., college campuses, 'midnight movie' crowds, independent film lovers, etc. Cult movie worshippers persuasively argue with all about the merits of their choices, without regard for standard newspaper or movie reviews from critics.
There's no hard-and-fast rule or checklist to gauge what makes a cult film. A cult film is often designated as such "in the eye of the beholder" without fufilling any definition. It's often a matter of opinion. One viewer's cult film may not be judged the same by another viewer. And just because a segment of devoted viewers (pre-teen girls) repeatedly watch a film - such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - to view its star Johnny Depp, or Titanic (1997) (to see Leonardo Di Caprio), or to view the latest George Lucas Star Wars film, doesn't make a film a cult film. However, there are the most popular cult films, such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and any of the Star Trek films, that have developed cult followings with all the trappings.
One of the biggest, best-known cult films was not intended to become so popular. It was a low-budget, government 'documentary' propaganda film from the mid-30s created to dramatize the dangers of marijuana use and demon weed - Reefer Madness (1936). However, Tod Browning's grotesque Freaks (1932), was deliberately advertised as "the strangest...most startling human story ever screened," and had alternate titles including Forbidden Love, The Monster Show, and Nature's Mistakes. It used real-life dwarfs, pinheads, and other human freaks (portraying sideshow circus performers) to present a jolting story of revenge.
When first released, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Almost Famous (2000) were almost instantly pronounced as cult films, but as time progressed, they didn't really fit the category. They were highly-acclaimed, award-winning films that were prominently shown in the mainstream, and it had been too early to judge them as cult films. The media often labels an unusual film as a 'cult film' when it really shouldn't. It takes time for a film to reach cult status.
Camp films are cult-type films, but they are often poorly made or ludicrous, yet still enjoyable and appreciated. Cult films follow no rules or pattern - some cult films are popular only among certain limited groups of audiences or friends.
Music-Based Cult Films:
Some cult films are music-based, such as director Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap (1984), a tongue-in-cheek spoof of rock documentaries, following a faux British heavy metal band's disastrous US tour; Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), a bizarre film based on the popular rock album; Ken Russell's Tommy (1975), the Who's rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind kid who sure plays a 'mean pinball'; and The Blues Brothers (1980), a farcical musical comedy involving two loser musicians who resurrect their old blues band.
The first of two other quintessential rock musical cult films include the transgender The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - notable for inspiring the craze of interactive, 'midnight movie' screenings. The iconic film was essentially a trashy tale set in a mysterious castle with kinky extraterrestrial Transylvanian transvestites, two stranded young people (including an underwear-clad Susan Sarandon), and a mad scientist. The second was a rebellious teenage musical comedy Rock 'N' Roll High School (1979) that featured a rock band named The Ramones. Perry Henzell's urban-crime drama The Harder They Come (1973) with musical star Jimmy Cliff, featured a reggae soundtrack and a seamy look at poverty and crime in Jamaica.
Well-Regarded Cult Films:
A number of cult films are well-regarded, such as Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), that became popular many years after its initial release due to repeated television showings. Likewise, the classic weeper An Affair to Remember (1957) has developed a loyal following (it was a remake of Love Affair (1939), was paid homage in Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and remade as Love Affair (1994) with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening).
Others include the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet (1956) that has developed a wide cult following, Kubrick's intriguing A Clockwork Orange (1971) - a surrealistic tale of an ultra-violent future and the danger of psychological reconditioning, or Coppola's anti-Vietnam war epic of a terrifying journey into hell in Apocalypse Now (1979), or another Kubrick classic, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964).
Frank Darabont's subversive, allegorical, and life-affirming prison story about two life-sentenced prisoners, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based upon a Stephen King story, failed at the box-office during its original release, but established a strong cult following its video release. George Roy Hill, the director of such Oscar-winning hits as The Sting (1973) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), also helmed the comedy-drama Slap Shot (1977) with Paul Newman - noted as one of the raunchiest, most foul-mouthed, macho sports films ever made. Another highly-regarded cult film is Monte Hellman's low-budget Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - a late 60s to early 70s entry in the road film genre - that was both an existential character study and a car-chase/race film.
A visually rich Philip-Marlowe style detective film, director Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), set in futuristic, proto-punk Los Angeles in 2019, and about an ex-cop (Harrison Ford) who hunts down renegade human replicants, has developed a wide cultish following. An early 70s big-cult favorite was director Hal Ashby's dark, eccentric and macabre Harold and Maude (1971) about a strange taboo romance between a 20 year-old boy (Bud Cort) and a fun-loving, joie-de-vivre 79 year-old woman (Ruth Gordon) to the tune of a Cat Stevens soundtrack - with ingenious scenes of the spoiled rich boy's mock suicide attempts staged to upset his mother. A year earlier, Bud Cort had starred in Robert Altman's quirky and satirical fairy tale Brewster McCloud (1970) as a bespectacled boy living in the Houston Astrodome where he was building a machine to escape and fly away. The Sound of Music (1965) when re-released in the late 20th century was presented as a sing-along version (with subtitles) along the lines of the participatory Rocky Horror, with fans dressing up as nuns, lonely goatherds and Nazis.
Conversely, some of the most praised films have pornographic origins, such as the ground-breaking Behind the Green Door (1972) due to its star Marilyn Chambers appearing in her first adult role (she was a former All-American Girl and Ivory Snow detergent model).
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理解不能。
化用剧中人的语言来讲,观看柯南伯格的《裸体午餐》确乎有种“卡夫卡式的快感”。诸多意象令人想起卡夫卡的《变形记》。甲虫代表着Bill或说每个人本人内心被压制的酒神欲望,认同却不敢承认的内心世界。而结尾无疑形成了一个新的环形结构,伴随西西弗斯式无奈与宿命轮回,欢迎来到安耐克斯
太难懂了...各种无逻辑的剪辑满是隐喻的台词,就像进入因杀虫粉变High的柯南伯格的大脑,他所有疯狂恶心变态色情扭曲的幻想一并爆发,可惜我实在受不了那些让我浑身不适的虫类...
那个制作black meat的巫婆是Will&Grace里的Rosario吗!!!!!!!
@ Prince Charles Cinema 搞隐喻大概没几个人搞得过柯南伯格,他那令人发指的美学观念和极尽恶心的隐喻指称对象让我心服口服,极端异质的影像某种程度上完美还原了原著,现实与幻想交织,如同一个吸毒者混沌大脑的癔症。逃离如果是向着interzone,困顿宿命还是注定的,毕竟没人逃得出自己内心的阴影。
柯南伯格与巴勒斯合体构建的异质性世界令人着迷,我一度感到头皮发麻,仿若有水蛭从毛孔中排泄出来。服麻醉品的迷幻旅程&颓废堕落的社会象喻。结构有如半切开的洋葱,辛辣繁复。甲虫打字机,遭批量屠宰的巴西大蜈蚣,枪击游戏,蜕下的女性皮囊,打字机的互撕与碎裂,笼中人兽黏附似[怪形]。(8.5/10)
一场关于写作的隐喻。比预期的低了一点点……因为如果按原作来的话,大概只能改成泡面番了,而那颠狂气控制的扭曲感画面,导演只能是汤浅政明了(见samurai champloo某话)。另,北非毒品爵士……这样的关键词,难道渡边(Cowboy Bebop剧场)有致敬?
你知道作家的生存是多么艰难,你知道CULT片的诞生是多么纠缠。异化的内心世界,随着用肛门说话的甲虫变得鲜血淋漓。无比邪恶怪诞的场面信手拈来,不过分夸张煽情,你看第二第三遍的时候,就能如同面对自己晦涩的内心一样来面对那些可怖的隐喻。其实总的来说我没看懂,还是大卫林奇能够理解一点。
1.这片子的成功改编,意味着颠覆了巴勒斯的巴勒斯,也许是更成熟的巴勒斯;2.结尾其实就是字面意思,杀死爱(和空气同在的瘾),是从内心边境进入的通行证……
战后文人的状态:披着君子面具的颓废内心,沉浸在虚幻的精神世界中。 p.s.由于智力原因,并没有太看进去
it's time for cult 《nacked lunch》是那种...像冰凉的黑色液体慢慢渗入到皮肤里,皮肤在变色,并感受到温度的降低,皮下的某个或某些部位在瘙痒,但抓不到准确的位置,找不到确切的入口,知道它的存在和它存在带来的变化,却摸不到看不见也表述不出的电影。now...it's time for cult.这又是一部被认知成“my style”的电影,像树婴、涨潮海岸一样被攫取到自己的体内,当别人提到我的名字的时候,就该一同说出它,例如可以在我冗长的墓志铭里写上诸如“十
怪诞象征中的挣扎与绝望,本质上是柯南伯格的《穆赫兰道》。相较于林奇的诡谲梦幻,柯南伯格的梦魇更为冷硬,呈现的是更富视觉冲击力的惊悚。虽然过于直白的影像呈现与幽郁且含蓄暧昧的文本情境有一点割裂,但柯南伯格这次在形象之外讲好了故事,属实难得,且足够惊喜
怕虫党缩成了一小团 捂着眼睛从指缝里偷偷地看完了 久违的 温馨感。。。
影片改编自美国作家威廉·巴洛斯的同名经典颓废小说,小说的主题是海洛因和吸毒。影片所涉及的则全是虚构的所谓“毒品”,毒品在片中仅仅作为背景出现。这是最接近柯南伯格自己的《录影带谋杀案》的风格的作品,充满大量超现实和隐喻;也很像同年的科恩兄弟的《巴顿·芬克》,只不过更加晦涩。
【C–】对各种隐喻体系的编排交织和柯南伯格标志性的邪魅道具所共同构成的作者表达已经到了让人作呕的地步,可以用晦涩来搪塞,但也止步于此。
写作对于作家而言,就是一种社会化的性行为,不论是金甲虫的肉色肛门,还是玛格瓦姆的提神粘液,都充斥着赤裸裸的肉欲。整个控制体系利用你“心中的污点”(原欲),让你沉迷于其不断更新的毒品(意识形态)所营造的幻觉,而在追逐欲望的循环中无可自拔。【9↑】
在气质上,柯南伯格是最接近卡夫卡的天才导演。他又一次为我们构建了一个充满诡谲和梦幻的世界,生理上的不适感逐渐被探索的好奇所代替。「异化」的主题作为最直白的表述付诸在以文学写作为基础的行为当中,虫化的比喻阴冷潮湿,甚至带着无法抵抗的粘稠和诱惑,当人格分裂和幻觉逐渐占据上风,癫狂的想象力开始主宰整个世界。即使原著没读过,隐喻没看懂,也不影响这是一部具有魔力的作品。
如果对威廉·巴勒斯的生平,以及他的作品有一定了解,这会是一部有趣的电影。现实与幻想交叉,充斥着吸毒者的癔症;遍布隐晦的情色,同性与异性的,加上柯南伯格的恶心美学或者说虫子美学,无法不称之为经典。再不济也会是一部蒙太奇教材范本。
隐喻,隐喻,隐喻。让我们这些无比反感唧唧歪歪的人情何以堪
总是让我想到《巴顿芬克》。虽然晦涩不堪,但隐喻的超现实风格显著。