Carol Jeffries (known as 'Jeff') is a naive American woman staying in the Phillipines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them. ”
“ Legend has it that Sam Arkoff, head of American International Pictures saw a statuesque Grier at his company switchboard and cast her on the spot for her breakthrough hit Coffy. That, as they say, is bull shee-it. The former beauty queen made her film debut in 1970 as an extra in Russ Meyer's big breast bonanza Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, and appeared in a number of B-pics shot in the Philippines the following year for AiP's rival company, Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Alongside her role as the tough-as-nails prostitute in Big Doll House were supports in the horror flick The Twilight People and as a topless hooker (again!) in Cool Breeze, then back behind bars for Women In Cages.
In Women In Cages, Grier plays the sadistic warden for once, a pot-smoking lesbian with a fully-equipped torture chamber (including a guillotine!). The 'New Fish' (a recent inmate, for you prison film novices), a ditzy blonde ex-stripper called Alabama, has taken the heroin possession rap for her pimp boyfriend. She knows too much, so the pimp blackmails her cellmates to execute her. A competent and well-shot entry in the tropical prison genre from Filipino director Gerry De Leon, it places the embittered ex-addict and prostitute Grier in the position of slave owner, watching her white charges toiling away in the plantation with obvious ironic glee.
北爱版<八月> 儿童视角 情感主线 相似度太高
陪女儿第一次去电影院看的电影,她喜欢就好。
我觉得也没必要特意去踩他一脚,不过真的没什么好说的就是了
我居然和孩子一起认认真真的看结束了,尤其阿奇被抓那一段,儿子哭了,以小朋友的视角去看应该还不错
散文诗一样的电影 但拍的有点平淡寡味 演员加分不少
街道的制景感太强了。整部影片好似孩童的回忆散漫无重点。整部影片属于有佳章但非佳作。
可能这就是拍时代剧能用的"最高级"方式了。虽不让人厌,但看过罗马,看过其他英国文艺片,就明显很东施了。
最后半小时哭得我 [苦涩]
没能看进去,肯尼思·布拉纳的《八月》。★★★/6
台词动辄引用爱尔兰诗人名句的情况多到不行,像作文不会写而引经据典故作高深的学生。爱尔兰民谣和各种插曲多到几乎是一个接一个MV;知道你是爱尔兰故事了倒也不必硬拗那么多爱尔兰元素吧。
还挺喜欢的,配乐特别在线,逼格又高曲子又好听~电影本身的话很多人都提到了就像罗马、痛苦与荣耀、上帝之手一样,这次“我和我的家乡”命题轮到了哈姆雷特/雷神/东方快车/尼罗河的导演来作文,迷影初心、情窦初开和迷茫中寻找生活方向的内容都挺能同感的
画面、剧情和音乐三足鼎立的经典案例,三者谁也不服谁,各玩各的。画面借鉴《罗马》,用黑白影像展露自传体故事,抛弃色彩强调光影。而剧情却是十足的现代人喜闻乐见的现代故事,在剧情方面没有任何升华点,全程都在营造幽默感,用尽全力铺垫的忧伤和悲痛终于在戏谑与欢快的配乐中化为泡影。音乐总是如歌剧中那么一鸣惊人,但是电影中显得那么喧宾夺主,每每想要引导观众情绪,却搞的要把好不容易产生情感的观众通通拉出戏。肯尼思布拉纳在导演这方面就像个孩子,想要凭着孩童的天真与单纯博取观众的好感。
想到龙应台的《目送》,有些父母把孩子往前推,有些用情感枷锁让你寸步难行。致从未到达的香格里拉
每个导演心中都有一个《罗马》,但肯尼思·布拉纳并不是阿方索·卡隆。
8/10.
人物在一看就没有居住功能的人造置景里表演乡愁,黑白影像里塞满陈词滥调自我沉溺的金曲+蒙太奇段落组合,那个自以为在模仿西部片决斗的场景更是简陋到可笑,进一步凸显导演在片中无数次强调的“影迷”身份之不合格。
一上映就带孩子去看了,反正孩子看得很开心,说还想看
What works还是1969年北爱尔兰这个历史性的背景,把影片的深度和维度都拔高了,(thanks to当年写过Derry Girls 3000字essay 还算有了解)。Kenneth Branagh再次证明是个mediocre导演;摄影方面的deep focus, 构图有点公民凯恩的风格,但挺不适合这种家庭回忆的drama... still, rooting for Caitriona Balfe to get that Oscar!
别人带着娃,我带着自己,毫无不好意思,谁说大人不能看动画。冒险城新当选的市长喜欢猫讨厌狗,喜欢戴高帽,为了自己的喜好随意改变城市,给城市带来了麻烦,于是靠解决困难组成的狗狗战队来到冒险城处理麻烦。在这里队员阿奇克服了幼时对冒险城不好的回忆,也迎来了他们的新队员贝贝。而新任市长的面子工程最终给城市带来致命危机,并给自己带来生命危险。最终汪汪队历经困难拯救了城市,解救了危机制造者市长。里面不断能变化形态的多功能车应该是孩子们喜欢并且向往的,而喜欢戴高帽的市长是孩子不能理解但成人心知肚明的,至于里面那个满口职业术语不会说简明语言的科学家,成功验证了书呆子的形象。小孩子看个热闹应该会喜欢吧。
眼前的生活未必那么糟,远方的生活也不见得那么好,为了可能的生活远离故土,决心是很难下的,特别是,这里还有你闭着眼睛都不会迷路的街道,像呼吸一样自然的口音,一直爱你的人,你第一次心动的人,为你打开一扇窗的事。这是导演很私人的回忆,黑白的形式又比较劝退,可能有类似心境的人才比较容易共情吧,后半段我哭得像个傻逼
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