杰克·泰勒第一季

提起英国黑帮片，总想不起里面出现过什么响亮的帮派。不像黑手党，东星帮，山口组，都是有组织有纪律一致对外。英国佬喜欢讲个人体验，用个体的荒谬遭遇，讽刺人世的反复无常。是什么组织，是什么历史，对叙述一个隽永的寓言故事来说毫不重要。可以说英国佬是微观而宏观的，曾经盖•里奇的《两杆大烟枪》和《偷抢拐骗》能让人从大笑看到失笑，搞不好最后还会哭。罗伯特•麦基说，编剧应该将故事拓展到人类经历的广度和深度，无疑英国佬在这件事情上做得尤其好。因为他们做得太好，太聪明，以至于过快得出结论，直接跳过了构建世界秩序的中观结构，譬如道德，譬如政治。所以英国佬的片子大多富有后现代气质，解构生活一时爽，终究因透彻而虚无。

而他的好儿子，处处体现出下克上气质的美国，就特别入世，特爱拽着你大聊特聊民主自由，好像全世界只有他们懂似的。即使是黑帮片，亦不忘构建时代大舞台。譬如《纽约黑帮》这种披着黑帮皮裹着政治肉，讲述阶级矛盾消解和族群融合的社会片，才符合奥斯卡的最高精神标杆。

然后大不列颠爸爸笑了。首先，他把杀伤性武器盖•里奇，以及一众颜正条顺的腐国好青年派去好莱坞，用最基情的故事和最迷人的反派搅乱美国佬的心智。然后，关上门拍起了最精致的时代剧。当人们还没从《唐顿庄园》的华服美食中清醒过来，《浴血黑帮》又为大家送上一桌充斥羊脑和粪便气味的黑暗料理盛宴。这一次，英国佬决定好好玩一下历史梗，让你们看看什么叫拥有狄更斯的大国风度。片子的风格，当然是照着《雾都孤儿》和《远大前程》的路数来的：暗黑而泥泞，仿若人心。

初看此剧，差点以为自己打开方式不对。开头就是华人贫民区的长镜头，虽然有点儿别扭，但也算是鬼佬片里最字正腔圆的粤语，总好过好莱坞不负责任的国粤交杂。然后妖魅的西里安•墨菲身骑黑马翩翩登场，闪瞎双眼。病娇如他，总让人想起《美国精神病人》里瘦到脱型的克里斯蒂安•贝尔，但又有一双顾盼流波的温柔眼睛，实在适合演体弱多情扭曲癫狂的黑化版白马王子。他要是演《哈姆雷特》，一定第一时间捧场。然而片中他却是一战英雄和黑帮灵魂，掌控整个伯明翰暗夜里的秩序。那么瘦弱的身体能迸发出多汹涌的能量，本身就是极大的看点。

说回时代背景。很多人将《浴血黑帮》和《大西洋帝国》比较，首先当然是同一个年代。一战后英美面临新秩序的建立，不同的是，美国是由下至上的洗牌，英国则是上下交锋的多方混战。美国发了战争财，黑帮利用禁酒令促成蓬勃的黑市交易，再以财养政，锻造自己的政治后盾，再黑，也是自己人黑吃黑。英国则负债累累经济衰败，以伯明翰剃刀党为首的黑帮势力四处敛财，轰轰烈烈的工人运动余威持续至今，再加上小强一样打不死的爱尔兰共和军，三股地下势力成了没落自由党政府最头疼的眼中钉。通过一次军火盗窃事件，《浴血黑帮》将四者关系梳理细致，政府对三方的不懈打压，黑帮和布尔什维克的若即若离，爱尔兰共和军的神出鬼没，爱恨情仇在BBC最擅长的糊了锅底灰和黄泥汤的街景里缓缓流淌。

但若只是正派，必然失去英剧原有的灵性和幽默。反黑专员邪教布道一样的就职演讲，和男主放生战后创伤小光头的宽厚温情相互比照，充满了反讽。男主对布尔什维克小领导说的那句，“我们的唯一区别，是你对穷人许诺虚假希望，而我的赛马还有可能赢”，更是从肌底深处散发英国人最擅长的讽刺和虚无。这对初集就现官配走势的好基友，果断牺牲了妹妹，但不要紧，反正那时女人厉害着呢。男人都出门打仗了，家里是女人在管事的时代细节，充分体现出英剧特有的，不经意间流露的用心和完美。

至于丘吉尔，你们别笑呀，《国王的演讲》里还是“虫尾巴”蒂莫西•斯波演的呢，相比起来剧里那位已经十分严肃了。

其实上面全是废话，就凭BGM是Nick Cave，也必须看下去吖。

       从很多层面上来讲，peaky blinders都是一部不错的言情剧。虽然走向过于琼瑶了一点，但是风韵和风骨都还是有的。本片的本质基本上也由尼爷的片头曲涵盖了。导演力求达到的效果无非两点。苏。并且冷酷炫。换句话说，对于这部剧，导演并没有追求史诗效果。野心不足，（当然也可能是经费不足...），只是披着黑帮片的外衣而已。所以那些追求大西洋帝国风格走向的旁友们，你们走错片场了。（蜡烛

        其实从基本的人物设定和第一集的展开情况来说，哪怕排除一切一切客观上的不利因素，本剧也完全可以拍成一个精良的类教父式家族传奇故事。无奈编剧大大一路发梗一路丢，丢到最后一集完全跟第一集失去了联系。而那些本来可以成为矛盾激发点的设定，多数都被轻描淡写甚至选择性遗忘了。

         比如Tommy在前几集中着力描写的PTSD症状。本来可以成为他战后性格转变的原因，与家人矛盾的激发点，和对温情的渴望的源泉。结果竟然到了剧集中间段后就再也没出现过。

         比如Tommy和Freddie的关系。作为一对一起长大又出生入死过的，成了连襟的好基友，Freddie战后成为了走在潮流尖端的共产党人，Tommy则一心想将家族生意合法化。这其中可以潜在的矛盾基本已经足够观众脑补一本三十万字的小说了，结果编剧竟然把Freddie弱化处理到了如此不堪的程度。

         再比如警署的存在感。既然故事主角已经被设定成了战争英雄。警察的上司又是丘吉尔这样的乱世枭雄。那么警察这一Peaky blinders的敌对组织就不应该是剧集刻画出的这个不堪一击又缺乏存在感的样子。警署这个上司蠢成这个样子，还公私不分到想要跟执行任务期间的卧底保持浪漫关系......简直_(:з」∠)_

        总之编剧为了体现Tommy的高大全几乎无所不用其极到了不惜放弃丰富其他角色的机会。不仅警察局的头儿毫无魅力，甚至连敌对家族的头领也被写成了表演型人格障碍且驭下能力低下到连收尸的小弟都没有的蠢货......

        除开数不胜数的被编剧错过的好剧情，本剧的漏洞和交代不清之处也绝不在少数。单以Arthur本人来说，为什么对背叛过家族的父亲轻易交付信任？为什么在账目不清的情况下大哥没有被撤换职位？为什么Grace可以轻易以nobody的身份介入家族事务？为什么大哥心理脆弱矛盾到了可以赴死的程度却能被Tommy一句轻飘飘的承诺拉回来？为什么要选择上吊这种娘炮的自杀方式？......
       
        这样的剧本浪费了精彩的卡司，牛掰的配音师和痴汉（划掉）的摄影师。让一部本可以非常精彩的剧集沦为了一部杰克苏式言情向作品。But, 虽然第一季不甚精彩的结束于一个让人没什么期待的悬念。但是第二季出街之前一样会有人敲碗等番，原因其实也很简单。

       毕竟基里安实·在·是·有·点·太·帅·了·吧。

電視劇木有評論區，那發這裡好了。。。。。

http://www.bigissue.com/features/interviews/3014/cillian-murphy-interview-story-working-class-people-look-sexy

CILLIAN MURPHY INTERVIEW: “IN THIS STORY THE WORKING-CLASS LOOK SEXY”

INTERVIEWS
LAURA KELLY SEP 18, 2013


Peaky Blinders' Cillian Murphy talks Brummies, Batman, and why he doesn't use Twitter
 
We have entered the third golden age of telly. Kevin Spacey hit the headlines recently using the phrase, GQ writer Brett Martin has a new book out, Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution, on the topic and critics around the world are chattering about it.

The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire: a (mostly American) wave of ambitious dramas has shown that telly is now smarter and more ambitious than cinema.

Peaky Blinders, created by Dirty Pretty Things writer Steven Knight, is among the best of the British attempts to compete with these monolithic super shows. Playing like a Brummie Boardwalk Empire and similarly set after the first world war, it follows Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby, a gang leader who’s just returned from the trenches damaged and still in possession of his gun.

In a Birmingham that was at the time a major centre of industry, he finds himself jockeying for position alongside Communists, the IRA and a particularly ruthless Northern Irish police chief (played with vigour by Sam Neill). Favourite of both Danny Boyle and Christopher Nolan, Cork boy Murphy has become a proper Hollywood celeb in the last few years, but he insists that choosing a BBC Two mini-series for his next job is not as odd as it seems. Peaky Blinders fits in just fine, he says, beside 28 Days Later, Sunshine, The Dark Knight and Inception.

Peaky Blinders is a project that has clearly captured Murphy’s imagination; he spent hours listening to archive recordings of Brummies to get the accent right, as well as thoroughly immersing himself in the period. It also allowed him to stay close to his house in north London, his wife, artist Yvonne McGuinness, and his two young sons, seven-year-old Malachy and six-year-old Carrick. It’s from the kitchen in that family home, sustained by a cup of Barry’s Tea (his favourite Irish brew), that he’s speaking to The Big Issue…



Tell us about your character in Peaky Blinders.
Tommy’s been sent home from the trenches. These men came back and they were just spat out into society without any help. Most of them had lost all time for the establishment and the authorities and the church and everything else. They were damaged men. Then they came back into a society that had been run by women for four years.

The obvious comparison is Boardwalk Empire, given the era…
I unfortunately haven’t got round to Boardwalk Empire – it’s one of my box-sets that I’ve yet to unwrap. I think it’s impossible to make a foray into the gangster genre without rubbing shoulders with the American classics, like The Godfather, Bonnie and Clyde and now Boardwalk Empire. You’ve just got to wear those references openly. What we’ve tried to do here is create something very British.

Birmingham at the time was the industrial capital of the world. It was producing more than Chicago and Detroit. Illegal bookmaking was huge all over Britain. It was run by gangs and there’d be pitched battles with guns and knives. It’s never really been investigated dramatically. Steve [Knight] had this whole block of history to play with, so it’s very rich. I think that separates it from the American stories. It’s refreshing that this is a story where working-class people look sexy and glamorous and stylish. Generally it’s the upper middle class and the aristocracy in British period dramas.

It seems like all the big Hollywood stars want to get involved in TV at the moment.
I definitely think that for writers, having the scope of six or 12 hours to tell a story must be so alluring. Also for me to be able to really investigate every corner, to shine a light into every nook and cranny of the psyche of a character is great. People have talked about it being the equivalent of the novel and I can see why that comparison fits. It is a golden age for TV. It’s clear it’s happening, so you’d be silly not to get involved. TV seems to be filling that place in cinema where clever mid-budget, independent films have been pushed out a little bit by the big franchise, tent-pole movies.

Big franchises like Batman?
Well, yeah… [laughs]. I would consider that a slightly more, um, intelligent rendering of the superhero genre.

How did you find the Brummie accent?
It’s not among the most beloved out there. The Birmingham accent and Birmingham itself hasn’t been fashionable for a while. In terms of the accent, we listened to a lot of archival tapes. My remit was to make it as authentic as possible but also as accessible as possible. Birmingham will deliver its verdict.

They can’t be too unhappy – you’ve made the place look a lot cooler than usual.
I really hope so.

The soundtrack on Peaky Blinders is really striking, featuring Nick Cave, The White Stripes and Tom Waits. As a big music fan, was that exciting?
I was thrilled. It was great to know that those guys actually watched it and liked it. There’s something about those artists – an outlaw quality – that really suits the show.

Been to any good gigs recently?
I’m going to see Björk in a couple of weeks. I saw Alice Cooper in the desert in Albuquerque. He has a lot of energy for a man of his age.

Is it harder to get to as many gigs as you’d want now you have kids?
Yeah, it is kind of hard. Some things you’ll move mountains to see but, you know, you get old and at a certain point you think, God, I’m awful tired. I didn’t used to have that in my twenties.

You’re a bit unusual in the celebrity world in that you don’t use Twitter.
No, I don’t do that. I remember the pre-internet days. I remember when you just met at an agreed hour at the bus station. And if someone didn’t show up, you’d just stand there and wait. You’d give them 25 minutes. This immediacy that we expect now, it’s spilled over into film and everything. I mean, ‘spoilers’ – surely the clue is in the word? To spoil something is to ruin it.

So do you Google yourself?
You know, you’re a liar if you say you haven’t. But I really, really try not to do it because it’s bad for you. Human beings, the way we’re wired – or maybe it’s just an Irish thing – but you never believe the good stuff. You just believe the bad stuff. It can be a negative forum, the internet. I try to stay away from it as much as possible.

You may be right. I actually ran into an entire blog someone had set up dedicated to unflattering screen shots of you.
Isn’t that lovely now? What a way to spend your time and express your creativity. That’s the world of the internet.

The IRA makes an appearance in Peaky Blinders – and you’ve dealt with similar themes before in The Wind that Shakes the Barley. It’s still emotive territory – the director of new film A Belfast Story had to apologise after the film’s PR company sent a bala-clava, nails and duct tape to journalists. Is there a responsibility to have a bit of sensitivity?
Of course there is. If you’re dealing with political or social issues, you have to be mindful of the people who have lived through it. The version of the IRA we’re dealing with is almost 100 years old and it’s very different. Similarly in The Wind that Shakes the Barley, so I think it’s fair game. But [The Troubles] are always going to be rich for drama. It’s all about how you tackle it. That’s obviously an example of not a very sensitive way to promote a film, but I thought Hunger was a great example of a film that was sort of about Northern Ireland but it was also an art film.

Last time we spoke, you were telling us about being a vegetarian and a good cook… have you been watching Great British Bake Off?
No. I haven’t got into it. I’m a MasterChef fella. And I’m actually a lapsed vegetarian.

When did this happen?
About a year ago. I felt I needed some meat. I had some venison. It was amazing. My body was like, yes! My wife’s still veggie but the boys eat meat. We’re a very tolerant household. I do sometimes have to cook two dinners, though.

Did you hear that Christian Bale was apparently offered $50m to reprise the role of Batman in Man of Steel 2? [Before the role went to Ben Affleck].
I wouldn’t believe what you read about that stuff.

It’s a testament to how much of a cultural touchstone that series is that people would believe it. Are you glad to have been part of it?
Ah, yeah, I was very lucky to have been involved in it. I didn’t expect to pop up in the second two either, so that was a nice little treat.

Is there a superhero you’d like to play?
Surely they’ve nearly exhausted them...

They didn’t ask you to be Doctor Who?
No. Did that change hands?

Peter Capaldi’s taking over.
Oh, brilliant. I love him. That’ll be amazing. We don’t watch it – Doctor Who has kind of passed us by in this house. But maybe we will when Peter Capaldi’s in it.

What is next for you?
I’m going to shoot this Ron Howard film in September, In the Heart of the Sea. It’s the true story of the sinking of the Essex by a whale. It’s the story that Melville based Moby Dick on. I read the book in my twenties. I loved it. I mean you have to work at it, there’s a lot of going back to the appendix, but it’s a cracking, cracking book. I read it on holiday before we had kids, so I had a lot of time to lie down. I don’t have that any more.