Film -- Biography The films of Fritz Lang depict an entrapping, claustrophobic world in which people are controlled by larger forces. His overriding theme is the struggle against fate and against the traits of human nature that doom us. His life and work spanned six decades of film history-from the silent era through the golden age of German Expressionism of the 1920s and the classic studio system in Hollywood to the rise of the international co-production. In Hollywood he worked for every major studio except Disney. He made blockbusters, modest B movies, and everything in between. Among his films are classics of German cinema-including "Metropolis" and "M." In America he made some of the most notable crime movies ("Fury"), noir films ("The Big Heat"), and Westerns ("The Return of Frank James") of the studio era. Despite the different time periods, nations, and genres in which he worked, his films remain stylistically consistent. Lang (1890-1976), a notoriously difficult interviewee, granted relatively few interviews apart from short publicity exchanges in the promotion of his films. Fully aware of his public persona, he was a canny self-promoter who carefully constructed half-truths and myths about himself. This fascinating collection covers his conversations about his life and his works over a period of forty years. They reveal how cinema for Lang was an intensely personal art. "For me," he said, "cinema is a vice. I love it intimately. I've often written that it is the art form of our century." Barry Keith Grant, a professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, is the author of "Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman," co-author of "The Film Studies Dictionary," and editor of "The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film," "Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video," and "Film Genre Reader."
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這本書的敘事節奏把握得非常老練,讀起來絲毫沒有枯燥感,即便其中包含瞭大量的技術分析和曆史背景介紹。作者在敘述朗晚年在電視領域所做的嘗試時,那種冷靜而略帶批判的筆調,令人印象深刻。仿佛能看到一個曾經站在電影藝術巔峰的巨人,如何以一種近乎固執的姿態去擁抱新興媒體,試圖將他那套嚴謹的視覺語言移植到方寸之間的屏幕上。書中對朗晚年作品的梳理,展示瞭他作為一位“老派”導演在麵對新興文化浪潮時的那種堅守與迷茫。尤其是對那些鮮為人知、甚至未完成項目的追溯,展現瞭作者非凡的史料挖掘能力。它讓我們看到,即便是“大師”,其創作生涯中也充滿瞭未竟的雄心和被時代洪流裹挾的無奈,這種復雜性,遠比教科書上描繪的成功事跡要真實得多。
评分讀完整本書,我最大的感受是,它不僅僅是一本電影史的梳理,更像是一部關於藝術與政治拉鋸戰的編年史。特彆是關於朗如何處理納粹崛起這一曆史性轉摺點的論述,筆觸極其細膩和富有張力。作者巧妙地將朗的個人情感波動,比如他與泰雅·萊恩的復雜關係,與當時德國政治氣候的急劇變化交織在一起。書中對朗如何運用其電影語言,無論是潛意識的恐懼錶達,還是對權力象徵的解構,進行瞭非常精妙的解讀,這些解讀甚至能觸及當代社會的一些隱秘角落。我特彆欣賞其中關於朗在好萊塢的經曆部分,它沒有簡單地將這段時期視為其創造力的衰退,而是將其視為一次成功的(盡管是妥協的)跨文化適應過程,展現瞭一個歐洲藝術大師如何在商業體係中進行博弈與自我保護,那種掙紮與最終的選擇,讀起來讓人唏噓不已。
评分這部關於弗裏茨·朗的傳記,著實讓我大開眼界。作者顯然是下瞭苦功的,對這位電影巨匠早期的創作環境,特彆是魏瑪共和國末期的柏林,描繪得栩栩如生。我仿佛能聞到那些煙霧繚繞的咖啡館裏,知識分子們激烈辯論的氣味,感受到社會底層那種壓抑而躁動的氛圍。書裏詳盡地分析瞭《大都會》是如何在技術和美學上達到瞭一個前所未有的高度,以及它所蘊含的階級對立和對未來科技的隱憂。書中對朗在美學選擇上的堅持,那種對形式主義的偏執,有著非常深入的探討,甚至不惜花費大量篇幅去剖析他如何運用光影、構圖和建築設計來構建其獨特的敘事空間。對於那些隻看過《M就是凶手》或者《芙莉茨·朗的西部片》的觀眾來說,這部分內容無疑是極具價值的,它揭示瞭一個更宏大、更復雜的藝術傢的思想脈絡,遠超齣瞭單一類型片的範疇。
评分我必須得說,這本書在對“創作者的內心世界”的挖掘上,達到瞭一個令人敬畏的深度。作者顯然是深入研究瞭大量的私人信件、訪談錄以及同時代人的迴憶,使得朗的形象不再是一個冷峻的符號,而是一個充滿矛盾的、極度敏感的個體。書中對朗童年經曆的側麵描寫,特彆是他對權威和秩序的早期反叛情結,被視為他日後所有電影創作的心理基石,這種溯源分析極其有力。它解釋瞭為什麼他的鏡頭總是聚焦於那些在社會邊緣徘徊的“局外人”,以及他對道德模糊地帶的迷戀。整本書讀下來,仿佛經曆瞭一場漫長而深刻的心理分析過程,我們不僅瞭解瞭“他拍瞭什麼”,更深刻地理解瞭“他為何要那樣拍”,這對於任何一個想真正進入弗裏茨·朗內心世界的影迷來說,都是一份不可多得的寶藏。
评分這本書的結構設計堪稱一絕,它沒有采取嚴格綫性的時間順序,而是巧妙地在不同時期的作品之間建立起隱秘的對照和迴響。比如,它會突然從《虎!虎!虎!》的拍攝現場,跳躍到《裏斯本的秘密》中的異域風情,然後又迴到《芙莉茨·朗的西部片》中的道德睏境,通過主題和視覺母題的重復齣現,構建瞭一個立體的朗的藝術宇宙。這種非綫性的敘事方式,非常貼閤朗本人那種碎片化、充滿潛意識暗示的電影風格。閱讀過程中,我不斷地停下來,拿齣以往的電影片段與之對照,那種“原來如此”的豁然開朗感,是閱讀其他枯燥傳記時難以體會的。這簡直是一本解讀朗電影“密碼”的優秀導覽手冊。
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