In Conversations with Wilder , Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.
Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs, and never-before-seen pictures from Wilder's own collection -- the ninety-three-year-old icon talks to Cameron Crowe, one of today's best-known writer-directors, about thirty years at the very heart of Hollywood, and about screenwriting and camera work, set design and stars, his peers and their movies, the studio system and films today. In his distinct voice we hear Wilder's inside view on his collaborations with such stars as Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, and Greta Garbo (he was a writer at MGM during the making of Ninotchka . Here are Wilder's sharp and funny behind-the-scenes stories about the making of A Foreign Affair, Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Love in the Afternoon, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment , and Ace in the Hole , among many others. Wilder is ever mysterious, but Crowe gets him to speak candidly on Stanwyck: "She knew the script, everybody's lines, never a fault, never a mistake"; on Cary Grant: "I had Cary Grant in mind for four of my pictures . . . slipped through my net every time"; on the "Lubitsch Touch": "It was the elegant use of the super-joke." Wilder also remembers his early years in Vienna, working as a journalist in Berlin, rooming with Peter Lorre at the Chateau Marmont -- always with the same dry wit, tough-minded romanticism, and elegance that are the hallmarks of Wilder's films. This book is a classic of Hollywood history and lore.
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这本书带给我最大的震撼,来自于它对“沉默”的艺术处理。很多关键性的冲突和情感爆发,并不是通过激烈的对话来完成的,而是通过人物的眼神、停顿,甚至是他们选择回避的那个瞬间来传达的。这种留白的处理,给了读者巨大的想象空间,让情感的涌动在人物之间“溢出”纸面,流淌到读者的内心深处。我常常需要停下来,反复阅读一个场景,去感受那些未说出口的话语的分量。这种对微妙心理活动的精准捕捉,使得整部作品的基调显得内敛而深沉,它不急于告诉你一切,而是邀请你一同去探索那些深埋的秘密和未解的情绪,这是一种高明的互动。
评分作为一个习惯于快速获取信息的现代读者,这本书提供了一种难得的“慢阅读”体验。它构建的世界观是如此丰满和自洽,以至于我几乎忘记了外界的存在。角色们的动机和选择,不是简单的“好”与“坏”的二元对立,而是充满了灰色地带,充满了那些源自环境、历史和个人局限的无奈与挣扎。作者对社会背景的细致描摹,让我对那个特定的历史时期有了更立体、更具人情味的理解,远超教科书上的冰冷记载。它不是在说教,而是在展示:在特定的压力下,人类可以做出何种惊人的反应,这比任何说教都更有力量。我强烈推荐给那些渴望深度交流而非肤浅娱乐的读者。
评分我必须说,这本书的语言功力达到了一个近乎苛刻的境界。它不像某些当代小说那样追求华丽的辞藻堆砌,而是用一种极其精准、甚至可以说是克制的笔触,去描绘那些宏大叙事下的微小震颤。你会发现一些句子极其精炼,仿佛数学公式般严密,却又蕴含着巨大的情感张力。读起来的时候,我经常需要放慢速度,不是因为晦涩难懂,而是因为生怕错过那些转瞬即逝的微妙之处。它让我重新思考了“简洁”的力量,真正的深刻往往不需要铺陈冗长,只需要那么几个恰到好处的词汇组合。这种对文字的敬畏之心,在如今这个追求即时满足的时代,显得尤为珍贵,它要求读者付出同样的专注和尊重。
评分这本书的叙事手法真是让人耳目一新,作者仿佛是一位老练的导演,镜头在不同的时代和场景间游走自如,每一个转折都恰到好处地勾勒出时代变迁下的个体命运。我特别欣赏它那种不动声色的力量感,没有矫揉造作的煽情,却能轻易触动人心最柔软的部分。读到某个段落时,我甚至能清晰地想象出那些历史场景的声响和气味,仿佛真的置身其中,与书中人物一同呼吸。这种沉浸式的体验,在近年的文学作品中是相当罕见的。它并非一部快节奏的通俗小说,更像是一部需要静下心来细细品味的艺术品,每一页都值得反复推敲,去发现那些隐藏在文字深处的意象和哲思。那种对人性的复杂性的深刻洞察,让人在合上书本后,仍需花费时间去消化和反思。
评分这本书在结构上的处理,堪称精妙绝伦的迷宫。它不是按照传统的时间线索推进的,而是像一幅多层次的壁画,不同的篇章似乎在互相呼应、互相折射,引导着读者在不同的时间点之间穿梭。初读时,可能会感到一丝迷茫,仿佛手里握着一堆被打乱的碎片,但随着阅读的深入,你会惊奇地发现,那些看似不相关的片段,正被一条无形的、坚韧的线索巧妙地串联起来。这种非线性的叙事方式,极大地增强了故事的宿命感和历史的厚重感。它挑战了我们习惯的阅读习惯,却也因此带来了巨大的智力上的满足感——那是破解谜题后的豁然开朗。
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