罗美薇
发表于7分钟前
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:另一种视野的越战电影 当然，越战不只是发生在地面上的作战，空中也有相当值得以电影描写的场景。1988年有一部相当知名的越战电影，也是军事迷普遍相当熟悉杰作－【野狼呼叫21】（BAT 21）。这部电影，由著名硬汉演员金哈克曼（Gene Hackman）饰演一位真实人物空军上校I. Hambleton。这位Hambleton上校当年在美国空军，是一位空中压制（SEAD）作战的「领航者」（Navigator）专家，特长是侦测北越防空飞弹阵地，并且将目标传给野鼬部队（Wild Weasel）的F-105进行反辐射攻击，这在当年是相当先进且机密的战术，所以Hambleton也是越军急欲追缉的目标。1972年4月2日复活节当天的一次任务中，Hambleton的EB-66电子反制机被SAM-2飞弹击落，Hambleton惊险逃生之后，遂在地面展开与越共间的猫捉老鼠游戏，手中的URC-64求生无线电，成为他与空中联系的唯一管道。一位前进空中管制机（Forward Air Controller, FAC）驾驶B. Clark上尉（由电影【致命武器】黑人警探Danny Glover饰演），不眠不休的与Hambleton联系，除了校正他的方位之外，也提供Hambleton一些心灵上的慰藉。在同时，Hambleton也藉由密集的联系，与空军合作摧毁相当数量的北越地面装备。这部片让一位越战中遭击落的美国空军最高位阶军官，落在地面上之后亲眼目睹血淋淋的越南战场，来为这场战争进行反省。Hambleton（代号Bat 21）向观测机驾驶（代号Bird Dog）聊起观感，说他自己一直都在高空中指挥作战，一个命令就可以摧毁相当数量的敌人，但是他从来没有想到，地面上的战争与他在空中所想像的，完全不一样。而当他误杀一位急欲保卫家人的越南农民之后，更将整个越战质疑观点，暴露无疑。这部电影是真实改编自越战后期的一段故事，由电视导演Peter Markle拍来，虽是低成本的电影，但是节奏与考据，以及剧情的张力，都让人惊喜。
桃丽芭顿
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:Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
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