大景堂

2012版大亨小傳:巴茲魯曼還真把它當歌舞片玩...
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大亨小傳於默片時期就曾有過一次平淡的首出場;
而二度翻拍則是由亞倫賴德貝蒂菲爾絲領銜的1946版;之後,1974年,再由勞勃瑞福掛帥拍了糟糕透頂第三回;演daisy的是米亞法蘿.
瑞福和法蘿,很明顯地是miscasting....
書中的主人翁是個有著神秘過往卻仍癡心妄想返轉年少之純真的悲劇人物----型與神契合了此位主角,全戲方能成其核心.
準此,二回目挑了慣演黑色電影/意態深邃難測的亞倫賴德,味道還是最適配的.

第四版,看看也便罷了,正如片中煙花胡放一氣的模樣----還談啥費茲傑羅氣質?

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伊朗名導阿巴斯的片子印象中都很簡陋質樸;沒想今年參展坎城的新作“如沐愛河”卻雕琢得玲瓏剔透----影音效果非常到位.

片子的女主角是靠援交饡學費並用以支撐其留學夢的美麗女子;沒想卻在這些過程中與一名已日暮東山的老人
有糾纏不休的牽絆....
電影同名主題曲like someone in love,阿巴斯選用了ELLA FITZGERALD演唱的版本,的確高明.
聽時真有仙樂飄飄處處聞----那種既溫暖又浪漫的極感.
話說回來,此歌名演無數,莎拉梵、辛那屈這些歌王歌后唱的,與ELLA一比,不免遜了三分;總之,她真是后中之后,無與倫比了.

2012坎城影展得獎熱門片一覽
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月升之國
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on the road上路
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killing them softly
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lawless
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amour愛
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like someone in love如沐愛河
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淺說雍正奪嫡：由大陸劇步步驚心談起
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聽聞大陸歷史電視劇備極精彩,此中尤以二月河小說改編的幾齣講康熙與雍正的,據云皆是叫好又叫座.
但在書店隨手翻過二月河的小說, 覺得寫來不湯不水沒啥滋味(也許深讀後會漸入佳境也說不定)不過第一印象不佳,也就不太有動力坐在電視前看那又經二手改編的連續劇.
於是乎,至今,仍一齣未看地,維持與大陸劇絕緣的狀態.

但步步驚心的火紅程度真到了某種驚人的程度....連某些找我拍照的小女生,都拿著圖片要我依樣畫葫蘆地東拍這個/西拍那個場景的...
這令我抑不住窺奇之念,便找來半小時的濃縮版一觀究竟!

嗯,雖是極速精簡版,片子調調倒是一眼即可洞穿---- 要真一集集耐心嚼,敢肯定我是半途收攤的.
宮廷劇加個穿越噱頭,然後擺出俊男美女陣都已是老套了-----真有看頭的部份,倒是要看它對雍正奪嫡提出啥醒目的驚世看法----
於是在三十分鐘中段,居然便看到劉詩詩搖頭晃腦地連毛澤東那首沁园春都搬了上來擺譜的荒誕場景,不免失笑翻倒....

(觀劇最叫人坐立難安的:就是明明一派淺薄卻又故扮高深的那種令人雞皮疙瘩大起的場景.)

看來,這也無非就是瓊瑤古裝劇的重裝甲版;三十分鐘濃縮版囫圇吞過也便了事了.
不由不說,這戲畢竟仍有幾個亮點:
一.戲裝做得真夠挺拔;配色及造型確有先聲奪人之效.劇組不知有否下過考據功夫,但我猜,當年的絲綢材質及染色工藝應沒此劇所呈現那麼搶眼罷?
清皇廷其實還蠻有CIS觀念的,這可由孥爾哈赤將部落名由金改清說起;而皇室服飾更是特色層出不窮----這不知是起於何人手筆?
我常跑大陸書店,卻還沒看到有人針對此大加考據----想來必有深趣....

二.CASTING極佳;不知這是否是製片廠乃出於上海之手的緣故----挑的盡是非當紅的潛力人選,反而讓一干二線演員盡都鹹魚翻身了.

至於雍正奪嫡一事,通俗史書一再翻炒----很難說倒底有誰真踩住歷史的真相
我的看法是(抱歉不敢說是專家,只是憑直覺胡猜.)
1.這事會鬧到後來無可收拾的程度,康熙本人絕對難辭其疚;半世紀掌握天下至尊權柄,乾綱獨斷/無人不敢不從的一個專制帝王
其心理狀態絕對會蒸騰至某種非常理所能揣測的異常狀態.
（比方說,朱元璋晚年那血流成河的大開殺戒----何嘗不有以其強悍為可能偏安逸樂的子孫預先清除威脅的意味）
康熙的矛盾就在於既一手操控諸子之互競,但又時時深懼勝出者會危及其絕對權柄...
於是舉措反反覆覆----終於釀出禍端了.
話又說回來,雍正也未必不是康熙中意之選---就有學者如此論斷,這說來話長,我看過其申論---倒覺得言之成理.
2.康熙之血統確實優秀,四子八子十四子甚至如敲邊鼓的十三子等,任何一人為帝諒必都不差;但雍正為帝對清室未嘗不是大幸.
就有學者說,康熙晚年太過寬厚,致吏治有敗壞之勢,是靠雍正之苛刻與精明一舉扭轉;總之,壞人還須壞人治----雍正上台害了一眾兄弟;卻利民利國.
觀史能有另類角度剖析,也便不會非黑即白/老那麼義憤填膺了....

●拍鋼琴手cd照的成果與心得

上週,某爵士酒館老闆突致電,謂其旗下外籍鋼琴手的cd專輯缺張封面照,問我是否有空幫他出過內外景?

sure, why not?!

一直很想拍音樂家肖像,這回既有鋼琴吧棚拍,又可出外造景----何樂不為?---於是一口答應,隔了兩天就浩蕩開拍了.

未料盤算簡單,真正進行起來可沒那麼順當-----一是其經紀人 (後來才知乃其女友)辦事很馬虎;事前去電問是否須開會敲定拍照主題及其餘細節---一概不置可否,
這也便罷了-----當天約了三點出外景,卻整整遲了一小時方到(這季節的天光到六點就天黑了,才兩小時能拍啥名堂-----還好我沒帶電池棚燈否則還更費事)
更扯的是,等天黑拍竣一夥人去吃海鮮,才由老外口中得知cd title叫" wandering through danshuuei"是他由台語歌流浪到淡水得到的靈感...
既然有title,而經紀人完全沒告知,讓我埋頭悶拍半响....
噫!難怪剛剛一叫他擺pose,其人就擺動步伐繞個不停----這下子傻眼----原想擺好景抓些漂亮構圖就交差----這回可算踢到鐵板;無怪乎,入鏡者於過程中頻頻搖頭一副不太滿意的神情

這外景算是先砸了一半了罷,烏龍!

回到鋼琴吧續拍棚照也未必順利----鋼琴手的執拗於這時畢露無遺-----起先是介意壁布上的某一個裂痕不好看,因此鋼琴移動了好幾個角度耗時良久(雖說曾告知後製可輕鬆去除....)
繼之,又限定鏡頭只能框景於臉至手部不許帶到腳(於是乎拍來憋手礙腳地,事後更發現框得太緊.全無裁圖的彈性)
更要命的是,他不要臉上有暗部----這回可死了;雖然一再跟他解釋這種明暗對比較powerful----他仍不依!
只好重佈光,將半逆光的燈法改成順光(事後亦證明後者確平淡許多).
總之,拍人像不易,拍這類頗有個性的藝術家更是波折多多----殊有難度矣!

淡水外景是剛雨後的大陰天,既暗霾又無雲朵,正屬最不討好的外景天----只好以ps營造氛圍----算亡羊補牢啦!
內景則還算小滿意,尤其以半逆光拍得的前段照,補捉到鋼琴手盡情投入的彈琴神態而動作清楚微妙----畢竟得加打棚燈方可.

討次經驗,下回要再碰上龜毛的入鏡者指東劃西,一概不理儘拍我的,一記.