雷納德(芭芭拉·貝爾·戈迪斯 Barbara Bel Geddes 飾)從小的夢想就是能嫁給一個金龜婿,做全職家庭主婦,長大后,她和百萬富翁史密斯(羅伯特·瑞安 Robert Ryan 飾)相愛,并且最終攜手步入了婚姻的殿堂??墒牵Y婚之后雷納德才發(fā)現(xiàn),婚姻生活并不是她想象的那么美好,而史密斯也有著不為人知的另一面,雷納德想要和史密斯離婚。
雷納德離家出走了,她寧愿去做診所接待員,自食其力,也不愿意再活在史密斯的淫威之下。在診所,雷納德邂逅了名為拉里(詹姆斯·梅森 James Mason 飾)的醫(yī)生,兩人墜入了愛河,可與此同時,雷納德發(fā)現(xiàn)自己竟然懷孕了。
#老片經(jīng)典#《情海驚魂》
情節(jié)有些落俗 但畫面、攝影調(diào)度一流!
從一臺式電話機為中心來回切換的兩位倚門而立的醫(yī)生對話的 你一句我一句,對稱視角特別有意思,還有大宅院里的各種大氣移動 調(diào)度 ,跟著攝像機跟隨主人公進進出出,上上下下,超賞心的視覺享受[鼓掌]
其實我覺的富豪男也不是完全的反派,雖然他心理有問題,控制獨占欲過強,有富人天生的優(yōu)越感和自私自利,但他至少不花心,對妻子在物質(zhì)上有求必應,也沒有在外面花天酒地玩女人。說好聽點是事業(yè)性太強,太想要更大成功,野心太大。而梅森的醫(yī)生角色又太過于完美,但他本身特有的陰郁氣質(zhì),私以外感覺演,正面角色都帶有神經(jīng)質(zhì)、其實他和演富豪的演員可互換一下,沒有懸念,猜得到的套路結尾,但是多么美好,還是好喜歡這樣的情節(jié)劇!
女主角芭芭拉.戈迪斯的溫柔嫻雅的氣質(zhì)和五官很像安妮.巴克斯特,差點搞混。
一部黑色氣質(zhì)的馬克斯的作品。
The penultimate feature made in Ophüls' transitory active stint in Hollywood (from 1947 to1049, 4 features totally), CAUGHT is an unconcealed reproach of the hidebound “marrying rich"indoctrination that poisons beautiful young women (from less affluent background) into taking it as their sole goal in life.
The specimen under analysis is an unassuming young model Leonora Eames (Bel Geddes), who admittedly isn’t cut out to be a devout gold-digger, however, by way of sheer serendipity she falls in with just the right target, the multi-millionaire Smith Ohlrig (Ryan), but their rushed matrimony doesn’t augur well, as it is Smith's spur-of-the-moment decision to willfully contradict his headshrinker, only Leonora would have known better.
Blatantly modeled after Howard Hughes, Smith is a callous, high-handed megalomania, incessantly suffered from psychosomatic angina when he cannot get what he wants. After a fallout, Leonora strikes out on her own, leaving their august mansion and starting to work as a secretary of Dr. Larry Quinada (Mason, in hisstateside debut), a man who is the antithesis of Smith, mutual attraction sizzles during their working/after-working time, but to extricate herself from an abusive marriage, she has everything to sacrifice, including an unborn baby. The film’s espousal of pro-choice is a gallant coup-de-thêàtre transpiring as the exit route to the ill-sorted nuptial pairing, yet it is so emphatically abrupt, to a point it almost demonizes Larry for semi-foisting her in such a dazed state, and foreshadows their future in the end, which is not exactly a happy one one might foresee.
Entrusted with a very sympathetic role as the gaslighted wife who is caught into a snare, objectified as a rich man’s property and agonized by his contempt and sneer,Barbara Bel Geddes handsomely struts her stuff in manifesting disparate layers of Leonora’s emotional states, to a terrific impression. Regarding to the two dichotomy of her male co-stars, James Mason looks exquisitely dashing under the noir-ish shade, butas usual, it is the villain strikes gold, Robert Ryan effectively reveals a rough edge in his character and doesn’t relent even in those tender moments, a monster crystallized by his own obstinance, vanity and oceanic ego, and he knows it too well to readdress his atrocity.
Last but definitely not the least, what leaves a viewer profoundly awestruck is Ophüls under-appreciated (at least in its time) modality in his dexterity of unspooling the story, economy is judiciously achieved by applying newspaper tidings to inform the narrative's progression, not to mentionthose majestic-looking shots enriched by sublime composition, unconventional depth of field and transcendent chiaroscuro, often in gliding tracking shots meticulously choreographed by an invisible but steady hand. To all intents and purposes, CAUGHT is a neglected beauty needs to be dusted off from its ill-fated obscurity.
referential points: Ophüls’ LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948, 8.1/10), LA RONDE (1950, 6.5/10).
你別說,這劇情還有點帶感,而且一點都不過時。出影院的時候聽到兩個小朋友(一男一女)在交換自己對本片的不喜之情。我細細想了想,這部電影竟然沒什么讓我不喜歡的地方。
據(jù)說是最新4K修復拷貝的全球首映,片中男主的原型對于電影中的影射勃然大怒所以把奧菲爾斯從《龍?zhí)多┭烽_除導致他只能重返歐洲。故事的劇情并不復雜,也談不上有多狗血,但是二男一女的人設立得很正,也就是人物都非常堅定于自己的立場,這就很有意思了。工廠大亨與心理醫(yī)生的輸贏博弈,半夜招待工作伙伴要妻子華服相陪,動輒嫉妒別人更能取悅妻子,為了全國分廠巡視又去找回女方并允諾她一直想要的蜜月,這些套路在大強子凡凡瓜田紛飛的當下看起來是多么熟悉的味道。但是也正因為如今大家接受的信息都更廣泛更多元了,所以反而很難守住固定的立場,從這個角度講,無論是醫(yī)生還是女主如果放到當代都會有更多的蛻變和進退自如,交給韓國大概能虐個天翻地覆,然而這也就是70多年前的黑白電影魅力吧,讓我們依舊可以回味那個單純的時代
竟然看出點兒女性覺醒的意思,道具大衣戲足,鏡頭跟跳輪舞似的,來回蕩(流暢?。瑆對塑造人物也起到作用,女主背對鏡頭那段,很難被忽略掉。
我對奧爾菲斯的技術活只能是認可,而很難激賞,這一次的《情海驚魂》也是這般,他漂亮的移鏡有時會破壞空間的自然邏輯,好比從門內(nèi)走向門外,攝影機還像個跟屁蟲一樣,全然不顧還有墻壁在擋阻。那片子最有趣的是那位會彈鋼琴的管家,挨了女主人一耳光,還要繼續(xù)彈,其它部分,都不過爾爾。
?? Film noir but the femme fatale gets to tell the story
那個無人稱主視角運動鏡頭真的像在簽名,如同希胖總是在自己的電影里現(xiàn)身一樣
9 雖然有點刻意地想要把富豪男主人公丑化,但是這是一部很令人感動的電影。奧菲爾斯讓鏡頭說話,用畫面展示信息。女主角嬰兒肥,詹姆斯·梅森紳士風度。Double Feature@Film Forum, NYC
為了烘托女性覺醒的主題,對“霍華德休斯”的刻畫比較弱,尤其是有《飛行家》在后。女主婚后走向反抗的過渡太快了。神來之筆是直白講出孩子死了你就自由了這個大實話,放在今天,大部分拍電影的也不敢這么說。鼓掌!
女主這種并非絕世美女的長相倒是很搭。喜歡神經(jīng)質(zhì)control freak男主滾桌球和玩彈珠機,非常神經(jīng)病的感覺。兩個醫(yī)生談女主頁很獨到,鏡頭最后落在空位上。就是最后1/4的展開我有點lost…什么懷孕后關禁閉,最后Larry出現(xiàn)解救…就很沒勁了 = = @大光明
精神黑片,男主原型竟是Howard Hughes
二刷。奧菲爾斯的調(diào)度與Lee Garmes的攝影。導演對鏡頭語言的運用爐火純青,以及如果塢里有除Wyler之外比奧菲爾斯還會描繪女性心理的男導請務必告訴我。一些她逃,他追,她插翅難飛的老套劇情,但是利奧諾拉自由意識的覺醒與利奧諾拉和拉里的健康情感關系值得一看,并且難得地拉里只是在扮演利奧諾拉反抗丈夫的同盟而非她的拯救者。主演都很贊,Robert Ryan這個長相和身形確實適合演霸總,如此病態(tài)到把James Mason的角色襯得如此討喜,雖然原本就算Mason在戀愛關系中最討喜的角色之一。很好奇在沒有法典限制的情況下,劇本會怎樣以流產(chǎn)之外的方式去處理刻畫女主生下霸總孩子后面臨的道德困境,不過這也足夠去拍一部新的電影了。(對于原型是休斯毫不驚訝,休斯就是個邪惡可憎極端且物化任何人與情感的大變態(tài))
Copie 35mm restaurée par UCLA Film & Television Archive, avec le soutien de The Film Foundation et de AFI/NEA Film Preservation Grants Program.后重看Lola Montès 35mm
3.5?? 這個劇本換成別人拍估計就瞎了吧。腦補了黃曉明演。
這不能算是黑色電影,自始至終都不夠黑,倒像是尷尬的婚外戀,劇情的推動力主要是偏執(zhí)極端丈夫的控制欲,本質(zhì)上是家庭矛盾,雖然大師功底猶在劇本不太好
y 要門當戶對啊。。。FOOL
三星半,鏡頭的運用在兩個地方最讓我印象深刻,一是夫妻爭吵對峙,妻子以背影面對觀眾,鏡頭在整個屋子里游走,大小的對比,造成緊張和壓迫感。另一處是兩醫(yī)生隔著空座位討論女主角,鏡頭不斷轉(zhuǎn)換。劇本不給力,奈何奧菲爾斯水準在。
超一流的調(diào)度和畫面,奧菲爾斯的作品總是讓人享受。倒是沒覺得有太多黑色電影元素。
女主長得一般,還能迷倒兩個男神
運動鏡頭很搶戲但還是被劇情吸引過去了。關于精神虐待的黑片里這部是比較有趣的吧,描繪施虐者心理和施虐過程效果時的細膩和不加評判幾乎使sociopathy顯得像是正常的人性,反而讓人后背更發(fā)涼。Notorious之類相比起來就是打情罵俏。Ryan的表演很棒。
7/10。放映廳回來夫妻爭執(zhí)那場戲,妻子背對觀眾,以她為構圖中心同時攝影機對丈夫進行移動拍攝(從遠景走向中景),妻子經(jīng)常被困在樓梯/房門構成的對角線構圖,身形高大的丈夫占據(jù)前景;受不了丈夫羞辱的妻子另謀出路卻不以肉體誘惑/出賣男性,奧菲爾斯塑造女性、營造鏡頭和空間感都比同代導演進步太多。