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2018-04-04 Rosie DreamingDiary


Rosie作为一个游戏玩家,最近已经去电影院看了好几遍《头号玩家》了。不得不说,Spielberg拍的商业特效片非常好看了。但系,国外也有批判的声音,今天,选一篇INDIEWIRE的影评跟大家分享~文章太长,分两天发。


Spielberg Invented the Modern Blockbuster, but ‘Ready Player One’ Suggests He Might Regret It



With “Ready Player One,” Steven Spielberg is looking at the mainstream movie culture he helped to create, and desperately trying to fix things before it’s too late.

 

David Ehrlich


Steven Spielberg is going to die. Hopefully not today or tomorrow or anytime soon, but at some point in the near-ish future — after more than five decades of projecting his soul directly onto movie screens — the bearded architect who built so much of the modern world’s collective imagination will fade into its collective memory. Considering that the increasingly prolific filmmaker has released two major studio features in just the last four months, it might seem a bit premature to speculate about Spielberg’s demise (or even his retirement), but the guy is 71 years old, and not even the gods can live forever.

作者认为斯皮尔伯格命不久矣。

near-ish: rather near, not really miserly, but nearish a nearish escape from serious injury


More to the point, Spielberg has clearly started to think about this himself, the shadow of his own mortality creeping into his body of work. Case in point:(例如=for example) “Ready Player One.”

 但拍摄头号玩家更重要的原因是他想把自己永远留存在电影里。


Read More:‘Ready Player One’ Review: Steven Spielberg Delivers Astonishing Sci-Fi Spectacle and Relentless Nostalgia — SXSW 2018


While Spielberg’s sexagenarian(60-69岁的人) years found him continuing to zero in on the themes that have always defined his oeuvre (particularly the value of a single human life, which he’s been searching for and celebrating with so much of his post-“Schindler’s List” 辛德勒的名单filmography), recent efforts like “The Post,” 华盛顿邮报“Lincoln,” and even “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”夺宝奇兵4 have been uncharacteristically preoccupied with the legacies that icons leave behind.

斯皮尔伯格的电影核心:歌颂他曾拍出的电影偶像

zero in on sb/sth 

1 to fix all your attention on the person or thing mentioned 集中全部注意力于    They zeroed in on the key issues. 他们集中讨论了关键问题。

2 to aim guns, etc. at the person or thing mentioned (用枪炮等)瞄准 


oeuvre: all the works of a writer, artist, etc. (作家、艺术家等的)全部作品   

◆ Picasso's oeuvre 毕加索的全部作品 


Spielberg spent the latter half of his 60s transfixed by the figurative and literal giants of their time, men (and a Meryl Streep) who stood astride跨着 a world that had been made in their image and endeavored to leave it a better place. For a director who’s never been shy about his autobiographical streak, this period of Spielberg’s career has almost felt like an act of self-portraiture. He may not have freed the slaves or risked his reputation to defend the First Amendment, but he implicitly understands what it is to know that you’re making history. Few storytellers have ever become so monolithic指斯皮尔伯格的电影叙事体系庞大,不易改变 while they were still alive, and even fewer have been able to watch their legacies take shape before their eyes.

transfix:to make sb unable to move because they are afraid, surprised, etc. 使(因恐惧、惊愕等而)动弹不得;使惊呆 

Luisa stood transfixed with shock.卢萨大吃一惊,站在那里呆若木鸡。 


First Amendment:(百度百科)

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

译文:国会不得制定关于下列事项的法律:确立国教或禁止信教自由;剥夺言论自由或出版自由;或剥夺人民和平集会和向政府请愿伸冤的权利。


美国新闻自由的法律根源是美国宪法第一修正案:"国会不得制定关于下列事项的法律:确立国教或禁止信教自由;剥夺言论自由或出版自由;或剥夺人民和平集会和向政府请愿伸冤的权利。"前十条修正案于1789年9月25日提出,1791年12月15日批准,被称为"权利法案"。其中关于新闻言论自由的这一条被列为第一修正案,很多人可能会认为这是因为那个年代美国的民众和政治家们把它当作是最重要的一项民权法案。这个"自由第一"的看法可算是关于美国新闻界的第一个神话。


现实


是逃避的了的吗?


Read More:‘Ready Player One’: T.J. Miller Is Still in Steven Spielberg’s Blockbuster, And Technology May Be to Blame

Judging by “Ready Player One,” Spielberg isn’t thrilled about what he’s seeing. As disjointed支离破碎的 and (dazzlingly) inert as anything its director has ever made, “Ready Player One” is a lot of different things — many of them contradictory, and the majority of them dull — but most of all it’s an Ozymandian 有巨大影响力的spectacle by an artist who’s reflecting on his works and despairing over what they’ve wrought. It’s a corporate blockbuster about the corporatization of blockbusters, directed by the man who invented blockbusters; more than that, it’s an inherently derivative studio film about the crisis of originality in today’s studio filmmaking, and a sexless orgy狂欢 of intellectual property that tries, in its too gentle way, to liberate fans from the franchises特许经营权 and iconography图腾,偶像崇拜 they love a little too much for their own good.


It’s a corporate blockbuster about the corporatization of blockbusters, directed by the man who invented blockbusters; 这句话讽刺意味十足:这是一部由商业大片导演拍摄的关于商业大片公司化的大公司出品的商业大片。

With “Ready Player One,” Spielberg is looking at the mainstream movie culture he helped to create, and desperately trying to fix things before it’s too late. Before he’s gone.

 

Transforming Ernie Cline’s masturbatory自慰式的 geek novel into a caricature of the modern event movie, Spielberg offers a grim沮丧的 vision of a future where the culture is eating itself just to stay alive. While genuinely celebrating the power of pop iconography, his “Ready Player One” also recognizes the sadness and stagnation of a time when branding has become more important than creativity, and easter eggs are the only form of personal storytelling that we have left.


where the culture is eating itself just to stay alive. 斯皮尔伯格眼中,未来文化的特点就是自我消耗而得以留存







Rosie今天太累了,剩下的明天一起更~(撒娇ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

还有一篇关于头号玩家的中文报道,推荐给大家,有点短,但可以给不了解的同学扫盲:新瓶里只有旧酒 斯皮尔伯格也懒得想了吗?http://ent.cnr.cn/zx/20180403/t20180403_524185404.shtml



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