黑色喜剧。片头这四位主演一出来,看到丫们一张张非职业演员的面孔,就产生了一些诡异的预期。看看那位当哥的杀手Otto吧,捧着一大厚黑本尼采在那可劲儿的读,听到铃铛响翻滚转身拔枪射击那个利索劲儿就够神经了。果不其然,和那可疑的妹妹跑到boss住处,看到丫欺负那结巴仆人的小段子,就觉得有戏。
--You really like animals, don't you,Kenny? What's they attraction?
--Because you can tr...trust them and they don't sh..sh..sh...sh.....
--Shit on you?
--Show off... all time.
--You know what Nichsche said about them?
He said they were god's second blunder.
果然,剧情的展开绝不拖泥带水,刚布置完任务,十分钟的段落,忽悠一下,银行就给打劫了,镜头转换的干脆利落。带三只狗遛弯的老太太也埋下利索的伏笔。
剩下的故事才算是正文。当然,自然黑道人物的黑吃黑,出卖与反出卖是核心要素,故事都从这里引发开来:有中年美女的色诱记、有中年危机古板大律师的怀春症、有在家通奸险被活逮的尴尬、有老大在监狱里密谋翻供、有马仔在外头给毁灭证据(阿Ken误杀那三条狗的段落十分精彩,虽然老套但细节可爱)。这些情节都不陌生,给它们罗列出来的目的终于还是反讽。于是一部成本不高,包袱却不少的片子就着么出炉。
其实,最有意思的还是片子对文化差异的嘲讽。尤其是糟蹋英国佬的厉害,该中年律师老夫聊发少年狂却屡屡被糗,因为是被女飞贼看上了,所以其命运要比American Beauty里的斯派西悲惨不止一万倍。好在最后大贼小贼良心都发现,导演也给攒出来个光明的大团圆结局。(不好,感觉很失败的ending)
丫带着自由的疯癫对情儿Wander说,英国人的有一种“怕作错事恐惧症”,也就是逃避尴尬强迫症,其具体症状表现在害怕给人一本假正经的客套寒暄,
如问:你结婚了么?却听到:我太太今天早上离开我了。或问:你有孩子么?却听到:他们在周三被一场事故烧死了。
不知道此情此景下英国人会怎样涨红了脸在那里怎样的吭哧吭哧呢。
好在英国人还颇懂得绅士自嘲的风度,丫自己也觉得和同事们一起活动很无趣,像“dead corpus”。所以丫一见到美国美女wander的热情奔放,就得意忘形,像一团内骚的大火呲啦一下就着了,根部顾不上职业道德嘛啦,甚至忘了把公文包从车顶取下来。
可见,英国人之岸然外表下的xxxx。
还有,出于平衡两国人民一衣带水的世代友好感情考虑。对美国糙人Otto也是揶揄挖苦。丫倒是一挺奇怪的复合体,爱看尼采却智商不足,爱练武功却定力不足。听到人骂stupid就找不到北,野火窜上,哪里还记得夺宝大计?丫把大律师倒挂在窗台上引来观众无数那一段很搞笑,把英国人骂的那个痛快,太爽了。令人头疼的是,这个实用主义糙人居然把片名这条名叫Wander的小鱼儿给活活嚼碎咽下去了。可恶至极,导演应该在最后不给丫翻身作南非移民部长的机会,而是给冻在速干水泥里边作雕像。
笑完了,还学了一个单词,stutter:结巴。
对了,难道意大利语不但适合歌剧,还适合调情不成?莫非俄语也有此奇效?
http://www.blogcn.com/user3/yilima/blog/1651338.html
I don't watch comedy very often, while recently I 'm really into it."A Fish Called Wanda" is not the funniest movie I have seen in a long time,but it is the best one.When we are fed up with too many American laugh-loudly comedies, some British comedies are really precious and fresh.Although "A Fish Called Wanda" is sort of a teamwork between its two American stars (Curtis and Kline) and its British Monty Python veterans (Cleese and Palin). But it is not a compromise; this is essentially a late-1950s-style British comedy in which the Americans turn up to do and say all of the things that would be appalling to the British characters.
The movie involves an odd, ill-matched team of jewel thieves led by Tom Georgeson, a thief who is locked up in prison along with the secret of the jewels. On the outside, Palin, Kline and Curtis plot with and against each other, and a great deal depends on Curtis' attempts to seduce several key defense secrets out of Cleese. Among one hilarious sequence after another, Wanda is the key role, a beautiful,sexy and triky woman,who shifts between these men,just like a fish. And the funniest part is that,a character played by Kevin Kline is very particular about one thing: "Don't you ever call me stupid!" He is then inevitably called stupid on a number of occasions, leading to the payoff when his girlfriend explains to him in great detail why and how he is stupid and lists some of the stupid things he believes ("The London Underground is not a political movement".
I think it is the great and overwhelming passions that make the movie successful.See, that is what comedies do.When Ken (played by Michael Palin) was trying to murder an old woman who is a witness harmful to them.He failed three times but succeeded in killing her three dogs which made Ken quite guilty ,as he is an animal lovers and he is desperately in love with a tank of tropical fish(there is one called Wanda among them).And Wanda fell in love with Archie ,which was meant to be a trick.Well, in the end ,there is a happy ending, they got married and had 17 babies (sounds incredible).
A good comedy to see !
好可怜的小狗狗。。。。。。。还有小鱼鱼。。。
N久没看让我笑到这程度的喜剧了!!!高兴!!!真他妈的高兴!其他的:吃热带鱼,重口味。BL神马的,鸭梨大——其实肯和乔治是真爱!最后旺达选择了阿奇哥——拯救了一个老男人悲剧的生活! ╮(╯▽╰)╭ 这种电影,在我心里满分!
异域语种是姐的G点。
我一直以为片名是“一条叫卢旺达的鱼”所以我一直以为这是部严肃的种族电影···==
新年一早醒来又看无厘头喜剧了... 这部片子讲的就是英国人和美国人互相黑的故事,但本质其实是英国人黑了美国人外加自黑,毕竟美国人骂人哪里会用排比句的啦!岛国人的幽默感还是可以的,比如“美国人一听外语就高潮”。。。
真尼玛好看,想起宁浩刚出道的时候也有这种风范,虽然不纯属但很够劲,可是到《黄金大劫案》开始往假大空的爱国主义主题上靠,塑造了一个虽然仍是小混混但骨子里特伟光正的主人公(以及群体),彻头彻尾让人失望。
可能是我看过的第一部黑色喜剧。那个结尾印象深刻。女主角后来和施瓦辛格一起演《真实的谎言》。
挺好玩儿的,自从真实谎言后就没再看过女主的片,卡········卡··卡······笑死姐了。。王尔德蜀黍大龙套
记得谋害老太婆那段吗?笑死人了`
【B】其实我不觉得有多好笑,对我而言这部电影更像是在讲人与人之间的欺骗和背叛,和一种世事无常
长的像杜可风的那位结巴,你赢了。
是为了学剧本特意看的,剧本很强大,笑点频出,验证了罗伯特麦基在《故事》里说的话。PS里面的插曲被《旋风小子》引用过;女主是《月光光心慌慌》的女主,身材超好的说
没有一处能戳到我笑点,慕名已久,非常失望。也许在那个年代黑色喜剧比较少吧,但我觉得经典应该是能触动任何时代的观众的。
天哪,现在数起来,已经整整半年没有一部电影能让我笑得如此放肆了!!!巨蟒帮和SNL帮的正面交锋,一个犯罪片都尼玛玩成这样了~至今还分不清英式幽默和美式幽默各自特点的童鞋们,本片就是标准的教科书!!!
剧本真有趣,典型的英式幽默。人物各个出彩——牵着三条狗的老奶奶;性感妩媚、听外语就瘙痒的旺达;深陷英式生活无聊渴望奔放自由的利奇;口吃爱动物的肯;操着一口意大利语的奥图。疯疯癫癫、略显愚蠢的剧情却不让人生厌,反而从头笑到尾。最后,这些做了坏事的人,都成了伟大的人。
没想到老喜剧这么好看...那些日子,除了大菠萝就是看老片,简单简朴
导演查尔斯·克瑞奇顿是英国老牌导演,伊林时代的主力干将,他曾对编剧兼主演约翰·克立斯调侃说自己开始拍片时希特勒还没上台呢。片中,麦科帕林的口吃肯三杀遛狗老妪的情节让克立斯很担心观众是否能接受,试映的结果没有半个人表示非议,真正使他们焦虑的是:肯开始吃金鱼了……
每个角色都融入英国喜剧范,很有憨豆式的风格,几个桥段非常好笑。谋杀那个老太太,肯的口吃,奥图的弱智,律师的性压抑,G点是外国语的女人。8.1
那种无法控制的突发事件和出乎意料的剧情让我想到了科恩兄弟。但是这部英国犯罪小幽默片既不同于科恩兄弟那种近乎冷酷的叙事方式,又打破了英国片的优雅。实在很搞啊。Curtis阿姨那时候好英气。
女主真是演技魅力盖过长相的最佳范例,明明长着张男人脸但就是能演出是个人都能迷住的魅惑劲,厉害了