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良心花絮片。
13分钟讲沃恩的阶级非常有意思,是由本片的作者约翰逊:他是上等的中产阶级,特别想成为上层阶级,而害怕沦为中产阶级。
就是我们说的中富农的意思。反正也属于黑5类之一。他这种阶级上不了伊顿公学。
说实话,这也是我所了解的原著,之所以当年受到批判就是因为他的阶级感不稳定。长期以来它都是作为一个讽刺作家出现的,比如说a handful of Dust, scoop.但突然就来了这么一本同情富农的书。
请原谅我在这里结合了中国国情。其实就是为了方便大家理解。
他们在牛津度过的20年代,都是让自己有乐子,多交朋友多跳舞。这是对他采访的原话:Getting tight a lot of the time. Entertaining, making new friends. Jazz.那时候宿舍还有校工,帮你打扫房间。
塞巴斯蒂安的原型叫格雷汉姆Alistair Graham,是沃恩的老情人。" The friend of my heart"作者从未否认过。
约翰逊在第23分钟总结说。 He came through as a snob, he cultivated the character of a snob, especially in later life, but inside that snobbish shell, there was a very intelligent, very acute, And very sympathetic human being, recording life as it was going on, and writing it down for our benefit.最后一句话亮了
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如何评价布兰奇:
Enormously camp.女子气,怪怪的。 He was part Gaelic,flamboyant, part Yankee, part, perhaps Jew. Fleshy in a rather unappealing way. Outrageously camp. But wholly exotic.
I think he was a conflation of one or two rather disreputable old queens. Waugh heaped Unto him all his own unease About what it would be like to be a queen.
上映后的结果是 It became compulsory viewing. You just sat down and let it wash over you. 正好那时是撒切尔上台,很多人都失业了。 Precisely that time the people are drawn to escapist nostalgia.