English Title: Bugsy
Chinese Title: Generation Love owl Bisbee / Bugsy
Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Retail price: $ 24.96
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dating back to 1991 , Barry Levinson teamed up with one of Hollywood's most powerful bigwigs at the time, Warren Beatty, and made this gangster movie "Biss of Love" based on real people, plus powerful Ben Kingsley, Annette Bay Ning, became a popular choice for the 64th Academy Awards, and was nominated for ten awards including best film, but in the end only won two irrelevant awards for best art direction and best costume. Success and failure.
More than ten years later, this once-popular gangster movie has gradually faded out of people's attention. In such an era where paranoia can survive, it is obviously understandable that a movie that seems to be nothing but loses the attention it deserves. In terms of depth and value, it is slightly thin compared to Coppola's "The Godfather" and "The Godfather 2"; in terms of the pomp and skill of form, it is also slightly thinner than Scorsese's "Goodfellas" and "Las Vegas". Slightly bland; in terms of heaviness and deconstruction, there are Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America" and John Huston's "Honor of the Pritzkers" first.
Forget it, I'd better say another way, otherwise this movie would be really useless. In fact, this story is about a person who has a dream to build a mansion in a barren land, and then the desolate desert will become a luxury city known as the world's first... I don't know you. Will it change? Yes, this story is about a real person, he is a gangster who is in a h "Flamingo" casino, which is the predecessor of Las Vegas, known as the City of Dreams, his name is Benjamin Seager, this casino named "Flamingo" is named after his most beloved woman. Named after the nickname, many people later called this casino the "Bug Dream".
The first time I saw this movie was in 1994, when I was still living in a small town by the Yangtze River. I remember watching it with a friend in the projection hall. After watching it, I was completely intimidated. I was a little dazed when I sat in the seat, and I hesitated to leave under the urging of my friend. The feeling of that moment is really hard to describe. It was like it suddenly opened a window for me. Before that, the movie was just a movie. After that, the mountain was still a mountain, and it seemed that it was no longer a mountain.
It's just a moment.
"Madman" Seeger was assigned by the gang to go to Los Angeles to take over the gangland there. Georgie is a member of the gang to which Seager belongs, and his current identity is a big star in Hollywood. Although his accomplice warned Seager not to contact Geage, so as not to attract attention, Seager still finds Georgie and talks to him. He came to the studio to watch them film. The movie is also obviously a gangster movie, and the scene that is being filmed is a scene of several people fighting in a bar. Seeger was attracted by one of the actresses, Virginia, nicknamed "Flamingo". Her identity was a small supporting role with only two lines, and she was known in Hollywood for her flirtatiousness. At the same time, she was also Seeger's associate, a gangster. Member Joey's lover. This woman was destined to attract Sig for no reason. When the scene was over, Virginia walked past Seeger, Seeger walked over to strike up a conversation, the two had a casual conversation, and then Virginia left, her reserved attitude further aroused Seeger's interest, so she asked Joe Qi knows everything about Virginia, and after learning a lot of negative news about her, his affection for this woman has not changed at all, so he chases after her. What moved me was the next scene. This episode took place in a corner of the studio, and the location where the two were located was also a studio scene. The big set board on the background is blue sky and white clouds, and the foreground is a winding road with a small gas station on one side and a small tree on the other side, which looks like it should be in the afternoon. Virginia talked to people at the beginning of the road, and walked to the other end of the road, surrounded by people; Seeger caught up along the road, and the two started talking on the road between the tree and the gas station. Seeger directly confessed his affection, but was icyly rejected by Virginia, who has long been known for this playboy. When Virginia turned around and walked in the direction of the road, the spotlights on the set board suddenly went out, the background was dark, and a lamp shone from the top of the tree, illuminating a corner of the road, and the whole scene was like night in an instant. Seeger stood in the middle of the road, watching Virginia leave.
It was this seemingly ordinary scene that got me thinking. This studio scene is a fictional theatrical space, and it is located in a fictional time; Seeger's love for Virginia exists in the time and space that the film itself tells. These are two different time and space, but at this moment Combining them skillfully, a new space-time is derived, which has far-reaching significance. The closing of the lights in the studio means the end of a photography session, but it is full of symbolic meaning at this moment. It also represents the end of the scene where the two meet, but in terms of their relationship, it is a beginning and a A moment full of contradictions and tension. In this scene, the two met in a bright space and ended with a dark image. For the entire relationship between the two in the story, it is a foreshadowing full of allegorical meanings, no matter how tortuous and moving the relationship is. , in the end it will end in tragedy. And this image on the road corresponds to Seeger's biggest dream, which was also born on the road during a time when the two were not in harmony. In this scene, Virginia walks off this road, while Seager stays on this road, which is another example of the stumbling, inseparable but always out-of-sync relationship between the two in their relationship. Vivid metaphor... This moment is so powerful that it completely conquers me. It turns out that movies can still be shot like this, and it turns out that one moment can tell so many things!
What I didn't know at the time was that Warren Beatty and Annette Bening fell in love because of this play and became husband and wife. They have been inseparable for many years. They are a rare couple in Hollywood, where feelings go along with each other. When I learned of this tidbit years later, the scene added another layer of real meaning.
Rewatching this scene a few days ago, I still feel it. This is a fragment similar to a play within a play, but the scene of the play within the play did not happen, only a studio scene representing existence was left, and in this scene representing another time and space, something happened that the movie now tells s story. Play within a play is one of the characteristics of this film, and many scenes are deliberately created to this effect. In a later story, for example, Virginia accepts Seeger's affections and comes to his home where Seeger is showing a video of himself. At that time, the film was finished and the projector was idling, casting a strong white light on the screen. At this time, the two couldn't help embracing passionately in front of the projector. The camera turned to the back of the screen, and the strong light of the projector projected the silhouette of the two kissing on the screen, outlining a romantic kissing scene. The play within the play is really a very strange technique, which can integrate our act of watching a play into the space expressed by the story, and create an appearance outside the film.
In addition to the fact that the story itself takes place in Hollywood, the director deliberately combines the storyline with the movie, which is a wonderful idea to pursue the perfect integration of form and content. Movies exist as a dream-making space, Hollywood exists as a dream-making factory, and Sig, who is told in this story, is a dream chaser himself. Dreams are the most important imagery in this film. Seeger is a gangster known for his madness, but he's an idealist at heart, and his world is even more romantic than madman. Because of his excitement, he would suddenly have the idea of assassinating Mussolini, and has been planning an action; because of a whim, he decided to build a luxury casino in the uninhabited desert of Nevada; he is full of love for movies, His life also seems to be under the camera, and he is a performer in pursuit of perfection.
In this story about "dream", although most of the dreams end in disillusionment, and the tone of the director is a little joking, the inside is positive. First of all, as far as the ending of Seeger's death is concerned, it was the killer sent by his lifelong friend Meyer, but Meyer has been trying his best to protect him. Meyer's friendship with him is sincere and beautiful. In addition to love, the most touching friendship. Secondly, in terms of Virginia's betrayal, which led to the death of Seeger, when he was at a dead end, Virginia suddenly returned to him and was willing to hand over the huge sum of money he had swallowed from the casino. Even the gang gave him one last chance, only for the poor timing of the opening to render Meyer's guarantee ineffective. In a sense, his death was actually a perfect footnote for his life. His trusted lover took the huge sum of money from the gang. Whether he knew it or not, he had to take responsibility. An intolerable act of betrayal, either to the gang or to Sig himself. At the beginning of the movie, Seeger killed him personally because his subordinates embezzled public funds; in the middle of the story, a friend who betrayed Lucino to join Seeger was killed by Seeger himself; he could have recovered the money from the gang from Virginia, But out of that strong love, he forgave Virginia, and in the end he had to bear all the consequences himself. His death fulfilled his pursuit of perfection, and also enabled the director to successfully create this complex and charming character.
Back to the topic at the beginning, at the 64th Academy Awards, "Bagshe" failed, most of the reason was due to "Silence of the Lambs", which was not favored at first, won the best picture and best director. , Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay five awards. The so-called unpopular, first of all because the probability of winning psychological thrillers in the history of the Oscars is extremely small, and secondly because "Silence of the Lambs" was produced by a very small company, Ogussy. Before the film was released, the company declared bankruptcy; and "Bagashi" is a typical product of the Hollywood film industry, with big production companies, big stars, Oscar team, legendary deeds, and a lot of publicity and production. cost. So it is said that "The Silence of the Lambs" won because of the judges' sympathy for Oglesia's bankruptcy. At that time, independent production was not yet popular. Oglesia was one of the few companies in the Hollywood system that adhered to the principle of independent production. They respected the artistic creation of the director and seldom interfered with the administration. As a symbol of independent production, it used to be brilliant for a while. At the Oscars, "Dances with Wolves" produced by the company won seven awards. Now that independent production has become the mainstream of the Hollywood film industry, Oglesia is undoubtedly one of the pioneers. "The Silence of the Lambs" made a big hit at the box office after its release, but the bankrupt Oglesia couldn't turn around because of it.
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