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发信人: cassano.lq(Kit) 整理人: marco_0708(2004-02-05 09:39:58), 站内信件 |
| another lazy sunday afternoon...just woke up, head still in pain from last night's hangover...check out the tv , fast switching channels...no NHL, no NBA ... wait a minute, Robert De Niro ??? looks like a italian gang movie ...seems pretty good...
lay down on the couch with coke and chips byside....1.5 hrs past...woo...two thumbs up! this is a movie set in the background of 1950,60 italian ghetto in Bronx, New York. Robert De Niro as Lorenzo , a diligent bus driver, proud of himself working hard to support family ;Chazz Palminteri as Sonny , a street corner gangster , have control of the whole italian neigberhood. the story is telling by Lorenzo's son, Calogero ,whom got advice from his father and sonny ...first of all ...i really like this first-person narration as a way of telling the story ...it used in many movie <<shawshank redemption>> <<goodfellas>> ....最近看的一个台湾电影《运转手之恋》也是...it's a very simply way ,but it works every time. with the young boy's growing up in his adolescence , he was getting advices from both his father and Sonny...his father told him "nothing more tragic than a wasted talent" on the other hand , Sonny who call him "C" ,told him "Nobody really cares." These pieces of advice seem contradictory, but the boy finds that they make a nice fit. ****...writing is painful.... the following quote from Ebert's review : The movie starts when he is 9. Sitting on his front stoop, he sees Sonny, the gangster, shoot a man in what looks like a fight over a parking space. Then Sonny looks him in the eyes, hard, and the kids gets the message: "Don't squeal!" Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) wants to do something for the kid, and offers a cushy $150 a week paycheck to his father, Lorenzo (Robert De Niro). Lorenzo turns him down. He is a workingman, proud that he supports his family by driving a bus. He doesn't like the Mafia and doesn't want the money. The kid, whose name is Calogero but who is called C, idolizes Sonny. He likes the way Sonny exercises a quiet authority, and talks with his hands, and dresses well. When C is 17, he goes to work for Sonny, against his father's wishes. And in the year when most of the film is set, he learns lessons that he will use all of his life. "A Bronx Tale" was written for the stage by Palminteri, who plays Sonny with a calm grace in the film, but was Calogero in real life. There have been a lot of movies about neighborhood Mafiosos (Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" was the best), but this movie isn't like the others. It doesn't tell some dumb story about how the bus driver and the mobster have to shoot each other, or about how C is the hostage in a tug of war. It's about two men with some experience of life, who love this kid and want to help him out. Lorenzo, the bus driver, gives sound advice: "You want to see a real hero? Look at a guy who gets up in the morning and goes off to work and supports his family. That's heroism." But Sonny gives sound advice, too. One of the things he tells C is that you cannot live your life on the basis of what other people think you should do, because when the chips are down, nobody really cares. You're giving them a power they don't really have. That sounds like deep thinking for a guy who hangs on the corner and runs a numbers racket, but Sonny, as played by Palminteri, is a complex, lonely character, who might have been a priest or a philosopher had not life called him to the vocation of neighborhood boss. It is 1968. Blacks are moving into the next neighborhood. C's friends entertain themselves by beating up on black kids who ride past on their bikes. C has other things on his mind. On his father's bus, he has seen a lovely black girl named Jane (Taral Hicks), and been struck with the thunderbolt of love. From the way she smiles back, she likes him, too. When he discovers that they go to the same school, he knows his fate is to ask her out. But he is troubled, because in 1968 this is not the thing for a kid from his neighborhood (or hers) to do. He questions both his father and Sonny, posing a hypothetical case, and although neither bursts into liberalspeak about the brotherhood of man, both tell him about the same thing, which is that you have to do what you think is right, or live with the consequences. C's romance is a sweet subplot of the movie, which is filled with life and memories. There are, for example, the characters in Sonny's crowd, including a guy who is such bad luck he has to go stand in the bathroom when Sonny is rolling the dice. And another guy with a complexion so bad he looks like raisin bread. And strange visitors from outside the neighborhood - bikers and hippies and black people - who remind us that C lives in a closed and insular community. The climax of the film finds C inside a car he does not want to occupy, going with his friends to do something he doesn't want to do. This part is very true. Peer pressure is a terrible thing among teenage boys. It causes them to do things they desperately wish they could avoid. They're afraid to look chicken, or different. C is no exception. His whole life hinges on the outcome of that ride. "A Bronx Tale" is a very funny movie sometimes, and very touching at other times. It is filled with life and colorful characters and great lines of dialogue, and De Niro, in his debut as a director, finds the right notes as he moves from laughter to anger to tears. What's important about the film is that it's about values. About how some boys grow up into men who can look at themselves in the mirror in the morning, and others just go along with the crowd, forgetting after a while that they ever had a choice. 这部片让我感动的地方，它不像一般那些godfather like movie，revenge, blood, brotherhood ,manhood （当然它里面也有些暴力血腥的镜头，但不多） 它讲的是一个男孩变成一个男人的故事，讲一个男孩眼中的如何权衡不同的价值观。这是Robert De Niro第一部也是唯一一部担当导演的影片，显然，他交出了一分不错的答卷。对了，差点忘了， 里面有个小情节我很喜欢，" the door test" 这是Sonny 对”C“ 去准备去约会时给的一个advice From Chazz Palmentieri's "A Bronx Tale": "Alright, listen to me. You pull up right where she lives, right? Before you get outta the car, you lock both doors. Then, get outta the car, you walk over to her. You bring her over to the car. Dig out the key, put it in the lock and open the door for her. Then you let her get in. Then you close the door. Then you walk around the back of the car and look through the rear window. If she doesn't reach over and lift up that button so that you can get in: dump her." "Just like that?" "Listen to me, kid. If she doesn't reach over and lift up that button so that you can get in, that means she's a selfish broad and all you're seeing is the tip of the iceberg. You dump her and you dump her fast." it's a very italian thing ...and trust me, it works perfect :) ---- ------------------------------------------------------------  |
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