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香港早期經(jīng)典電影《豪情夜生活之完全馬監(jiān)手冊(cè)》
香港早期經(jīng)典電影《豪情夜生活之完全馬監(jiān)手冊(cè)》
影片講述了奧茲國(guó)兩位女巫鮮為人知的成長(zhǎng)故事。因綠色皮膚而備受誤解的艾芙芭(辛西婭·埃里沃 Cynthia Erivo 飾)與光彩奪目、野心勃勃的格琳達(dá)(愛(ài)莉安娜·格蘭德 Ariana Grande 飾)在西茲大學(xué)結(jié)識(shí),性格迥異的二人卻建立起了深厚的友誼。然而,隨著與奧茲國(guó)大巫師的邂逅,她們的友誼走向十字路口,二人面臨著截然不同的命運(yùn)之路。這段奇幻冒險(xiǎn)揭示了友誼、力量與自我發(fā)現(xiàn)的真諦。
1936年冬,抗聯(lián)戰(zhàn)士劉文澤等人于林海雪原伏擊日軍,欲奪回被竊國(guó)寶,卻發(fā)現(xiàn)是贗品。他們與渡邊一郎部周旋,多名戰(zhàn)友犧牲,后在情報(bào)員老吳、僧人觀空協(xié)助下找到地宮。最終眾人與日軍激戰(zhàn)殉國(guó),而他們用生命守護(hù)的國(guó)寶,50年后在般若寺遺址重現(xiàn)。
該片故事靈感來(lái)自于布萊姆·斯托克的經(jīng)典小說(shuō)《德古拉》,是一部當(dāng)代恐怖驚悚片,講述一個(gè)年輕女子因被追求而變得神魂顛倒,但她意識(shí)到,一個(gè)哥特式的陰謀正在發(fā)生。
Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart. Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory? n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in. What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts. On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired. One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places. Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.