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无语问苍天 Johnny Got His Gun(1971)

简介:

    故事发生在第一次世界大战期间,强尼(蒂姆斯·伯特姆斯 Timothy Bottoms 饰)是一位普通的美国青年,怀着报效祖国的心情拿起枪杆走上了战场。不幸的是,在残酷的战争中,强尼身受重伤,失去了他英俊的面庞,也彻底失去了行动能力。残缺不堪的强尼被送入了陆军医院,对亲人的思念支撑着强尼度过了一个又一个充满了疼痛和绝望的夜晚。

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  1. In the late 1930s, the novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo read an article about the Prince of Wales paying a visit to a hospital in Canada for veterans of the first World War and meeting a soldier who had lost all of his limbs and senses from an explosion. From that inspiration Trumbo wrote his most famous novel, Johnny Got His Gun, about a soldier who wakes up in a hospital to find his arms and legs amputated and that he is blind, deaf and mute. It was published in 1939 to great success and in 1971 was adapted into a film that has since become a classic. But the adaptations didn’t stop there: it was also turned into a play in 1981, and the version you are probably most familiar with was the inspiration for Metallica’s 1989 song “One,” with scenes from the 1971 movie appearing in the music video.

    When it was published in 1939, Trumbo knew that Americans were hoping to avoid having to enter World War II and that people would respond well to a book portraying the horrors of war at its worst (incidentally, that sentiment backfired on him after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, after which his book went through a period of great unpopularity). The film adaptation was not made until 1971, when anti-war sentiments towards Vietnam were at their height and younger filmgoers were once again open to the message Trumbo (who also directed the film) had originally tried to convey. By the time the late 1980’s rolled around and Metallica recorded its version, much of the controversy around the book and the film had died down and so the group was able to write a song that spoke to the horror of being imprisoned inside your own body without the baggage of pro or anti-war sentiments.
    --by Adam Breckenridge

    未看,目前是隨意評分。
  2. 可能是我看过的最好的反战电影。看完电影,我突然想要了解摩尔斯电码了。父亲在梦中告诉儿子要动脑子,儿子于是动脑子想到了摩尔斯电码,而且悲哀又讽刺的是,他只用动用他唯一可以动用的器官——他的脑袋,来用摩尔斯码与人交流。这难道是父亲所说的“动脑”的全部含义吗?

    本片竟然在美国遭禁,其反战的激烈程度可想而知。而艺术上的追求也让它不出意料地在戛纳获奖。 布努埃尔盛赞本片的艺术和力量。他本人其实也参与了剧本的改编和创作,片子里的梦境片段确实有明显的布努埃尔特征。