For its sheer beauty, its mesmeric compositional sense and pure balletic poise, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s distinctive and slow-moving wuxia tale The Assassin demands attention.
侯孝贤独具一格的慢动作武侠电影《刺客聂隐娘》画面唯美,组合镜头如梦如幻,演员动作如翩翩飞舞,值得一看。
易词解词
sheer adj. 绝对的;透明的;峻峭的;纯粹的,adv. 完全;陡峭地。不止看起来像,这个单词确实和share等有关,其本意是to cut。于是,share那就是砍下一块来分给别人,shear就是剪刀和修剪,plowshare是划开地面的犁,shareholder是持有一部分的股东,short是被切割了所以短小,shrub是要被砍下来烧火做饭的,sheer则是砍掉了多余的东西,所以纯粹了。宝马的广告语:Sheer driving pleasure.纯粹的驾驶乐趣。
genre n. 类型;种类;体裁;样式;流派;风俗画。这个单词与genus n. 类,种;[生物] 属的区别是:genre指文艺形式的种类,比如小说里的言情、纪实和武侠等,电影的科幻、动画和警匪等,绘画的抽象、野兽和写实等,或者音乐里的饶舌、摇滚和布鲁斯等。genus指的是生物学分类上的种属。二者的词根都是gen-,表出生,出生时身份的不同,基本都在说这个。
There is no doubt that The Assassin – Hou’s first feature for eight years – is a movie of great intelligence and aesthetic refinement; there is majesty and mystery in this film, particularly in the visually remarkable final minutes, when its enigmatic power begins a kind of final ascent.
作为侯孝贤暌违八年的新作,《刺客聂隐娘》无疑是一部集智慧与美感于一身的精品之作——场面恢宏,谜团重重,尤其表现在电影的结尾:一股神秘的力量掀起了最后的高潮,给予观众震撼的视觉冲击。
Hou is concerned to do something new with the wuxia genre, to take it to the next level in his own language, and I think he is more successful here than Wong Kar-wai was with his The Grandmaster. He has brought to the wuxia material his own uncompromising seriousness, and welded this seriousness to the form’s mythic resonance.
侯孝贤想对武侠做一个全新的诠释,用自己的方式把武侠提升到一个更高的层次,在这方面我觉得他做得比王家卫的《一代宗师》更出色。他把不落俗套的严肃带到了武侠题材中,并使这种严肃与武侠电影的表现形式产生了神秘的共鸣。
It is based on the tale of Nie Yinniang or The Assassin, from the era of the Tang dynasty: in 809, a young girl played by Shu Qi is kidnapped and trained to be an assassin. But over a decade later, she is sent away by her master after failing to complete a killing and told to return to her hometown where she has a new target: a military governor who is her cousin and first love, played by Chang Chen, and so must choose between her family, her heart and her assassin’s creed.
这部电影取材自唐代刺客聂隐娘的故事:公元809年,一个年轻女子(舒淇饰)被强行带走训练成刺客。十多年后,她因为没有完成暗杀任务而被遣返回乡,在那儿她有了新的刺杀目标:一个藩镇节度使(张震饰),同时也是她的表兄兼初恋。她必须要在家人、内心和刺客的信条之间做出抉择。
The Assassin is beautifully shot by Hou’s regular cinematographer, Mark Lee Ping-Bing, and staged with flair. There are scenes of conventional action and martial arts confrontation which seem to have their own particular power, as if the combatants are flashing out from a delicate painting; but otherwise Hou sees the assassin’s life in a more occult or metaphysical sense.
《刺客聂隐娘》风格独特、美轮美奂的画面是由与侯孝贤长期合作的摄影师李屏宾拍摄的。电影里有传统的打斗和武功的较量,这些场面都具有特殊的魔力,让刀光剑影也似乎跃于精美的画幅之上。而侯孝贤对刺客的生活作了更多形而上的思考。
The movie is a distillation of the assassin’s life of watchfulness, survival and fear.
这部电影是对草木皆兵、艰难求生的刺客生活的升华。
At other times, it has a dreamlike quality: a floating hallucination. The Assassin baffles, but more often it quietly captivates and astonishes.
电影的其他部分还有一个美妙的地方,就是会让你产生飘忽的幻觉。《刺客聂隐娘》不易看懂,但它能无声无息地俘获你的内心,令你如醍醐灌顶。
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