This story has been circulating for 225 years. French writer Choderlos de Laclos' novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangereuses) published in 1782 is the prototype of this movie. Back then, this novel not only caused dissatisfaction in aristocratic society because of its allusions to real characters, but was also criticized for challenging sexual morality. Banned, Choderlos de Laclos even went to jail because of this.
[Chinese Title]: Fatal Games/Dangerous Games/Temptive Games/Dangerous Relationships
[English Title]: Cruel Intentions (1999)
[Distribution Company]: Columbia Pictures...
[Release Date]: 1999 March 5th
[Video Type]: Love/Thriller/Plot
[Duration]: 97 min
[Country and Region]: United States
[Dialogue Language]: English
[Imdb Rating]: 6.6/10 (43,792 votes)
[Imdb Link]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139134/
[Official website]:http://www.cruelintentions.com/
[Director]: Roger Campbell Roger Kumble
[Actor]: Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Michelle Gellar... Kathryn Merteuil
Ryan Phillippe Ryan Phillippe... Sebastian Valmont
Reese Witherspoon .... Annette Hargrove
Selma Blair Selma Blair .... Cecile Caldwell
Louise Fletcher Louise Fletcher .... Helen Rosemond
restraint Ya Jackson Joshua Jackson .... Blaine Tuttle
Eric Mabius .... Greg McConnell
Sean Patrick Thomas .... Ronald Clifford
Swoosie Kurtz ... Dr. Regina Greenbaum
Christine Baranski .... Bunny Caldwell
Alaina Reed Hall .... Nurse
Deborah Offner .... Mrs. Michalak
Tara Reid.... Marci Greenbaum
[Classification]: Germany-16 Norway-15 United Kingdom-15 France-U United States-R Sweden-7 Canada-PA
Australia-MA Hong Kong-IIB Brazil-18 Belgium-KNT Chile-18 Netherlands-16
Singapore-R Mexico-C Argentina-16 Iceland-12 Finland-K-14 Spain-18
[Production cost]: $11,000,000 (estimated)
[Copyright]: Original Films
[Date of shooting]: June 1998 9th-15th July 1998
[Production Date]: 9th June 1998-15th July 1998
[Introduction]:
Catherine (Sarah Michelle Gillan) and Sabastine (Ryan Phillips) is a pair of sex elder brothers, they are rich boys who like to manipulate people very much. When the two of them saw how innocent Cecil (Sema Blair) and Annie (Ress Wisepoon), who are both children of the rich family, were so innocent, they decided to play a sexual manipulation game, and The bet is...
During the summer vacation, Catherine was abandoned by the police and Kurt because Kurt fell in love with the innocent Cecil. In order to retaliate against Kurt, Catherine persuaded her half-brother, Sabustine to seduce Cecil, and then educate her into a nympho, in order to combat Kurt's innocence of Cecil's description. However, because Sabastine has almost all the girls in Manhattan, New York, he has long been interested in general prey. At this time, he was choosing the next prey as the daughter of the new principal, Annie, because Annie published an article in the "Seventeen-year-old Magazine" in which she wrote: She will keep her virginity until her wedding night. Such a difficult and interesting prey aroused great interest in Sabastine, so Sabastine was not interested in seducing Cecil, so Catherine made a big bet with Sabastine: if If Sabastian can seduce Anne before school starts, then Catherine will have to provide one-night sexual service to Sabastian; and if Sabastian fails, Sabastian will have to seduce his precious Jaguar. The sports car was given to Catherine and admitted failure. As a result, Sabastine and Catherine also started to play this "dangerous game". People around them were gradually involved in this gambling game, and the game became more and more complicated...
[Behind the scenes production] ]: This
film is adapted from the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Relationships) published in 1782 by French writer Choderlos de Laclos. This novel not only caused dissatisfaction in aristocratic society because of insinuating real characters, but also because of challenging sexual morality. Being banned, Choderlos de Laclos even went to jail.
"Fatal Game" is the fourth time the novel "Dangerous Relationship" has been put on the screen. In 1959, French director Roger Vadim filmed the modern version of "Dangerous Relationships," starring Jera Philip and Jeanne Moreau. In 1985, British dramatist Christopher Hampton (Christopher Hampton) adapted the novel into a stage play for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and won the Best Foreign Language Drama Award at the New York Drama Critics Awards. Three years later, Christopher Hampton again adapted the novel into a screenplay. This "Dangerous Relationship" is directed by Stephen Ferrez and is composed of Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman performed together, and the film won the Oscar for best art direction set, best costume design and best screenwriter awards in one fell swoop. In 1989, the British and French co-produced the film "The Most Poisonous Woman's Heart", which was also adapted from the novel "Dangerous Relationship", which was directed by Milos Forman and starred by Colin Firth and Annette Bening. The film won two Caesar Awards.
Director Roger Campbell (Roger Kumble) is a fan of the original novel and has been paying attention to the adaptations on the big and small screens and on the stage. Campbell said: "I always thought this was an immortal novel that could be adapted for young audiences. As we all know, many middle school students have bad behaviors. When I reread the novel two years ago, I began to realize the behavior and behavior of these little guys. What is written in the novel is very similar."
Although Campbell has completed the script, he has never directed a feature film. Before embarking on this film, Campbell successfully directed two stage plays "Pay or Play" and "d-girl", and accumulated some preliminary experience in directing the film, but he knew that it was still difficult to shoot this film, because I am afraid not. There will be mainstream producers who agree to let him be the director. "I had to make a low-cost movie," Campbell said, "I have no other way to prepare a million dollars by myself."
Co-producer Heather Zeegen (Heather Zeegen) has worked with Campbell in the past and loves his script very much. He thinks that Neil H. Moretz, the producer of "I Know What You Did Last Summer," H. Moritz) will make this film fully cater to the young market. At the time, Moretz was preparing to shoot the sequel to "I Know What You Did Last Summer Vacation". Moretz was very optimistic about the script. Not only agreed to lead the production and find the producer, but also recommended Ryan Phillips and Sarah. Michelle Gellar came to play the siblings in the film. He said: "In Hollywood, very few people can choose actors according to their wishes. This film has a market potential, and all young actors will like this story. Under this premise, you can seek the best actors. Ryan And Sarah has incredible talent. Although other producers are also working hard to win these two actors, I still have to fight for them to join."
Similarly, Philip and Gellar are very good in their candidate screenplays. Almost discovered the shining point of the script of this film. Philip said: "The script not only stimulated my great interest, but also made me face serious challenges. Although the opportunity to play Sebastian is rare, it will also be under tremendous pressure, because many outstanding actors have performed this. Characters, the requirements for actors have risen to a very high standard. However, even so, in the face of such attractive scripts and characters, I still don’t want to miss this opportunity. Although there are no thrilling scenes such as explosions and car chases in the film , But the dialogue, relationship, and complexity between the characters are thrilling. In a sense, this is more like a drama."
In order to further highlight the characteristics of the characters in the film, production designer Jon Gary Steele (Jon Gary Steele) can be described as painstakingly, not only meticulously designed the interior of the residence of Sebastian and Catherine, but also decorated with various well-made Furniture, a French Gothic building was found in New York as the exterior scene, and the color selection was carefully considered. Among them, Catherine's bedroom is full of silver and blue. These cool colors complement the glamorous characteristics of the characters. Sebastian's bedroom is dominated by dark colors to cater to the character's dark psychology. The color of the whole film is dark in the background. "I see this film as a tragedy," Steele said. "Although the characters in the film are all young people, this is not a sunny youth film. They In order to achieve the goal, they used all means to use and humiliate others. Their fate is self-evident. The film has a tragic color, so we used a lot of dark colors."
[Facts]:
·The whole film was shot for 6 weeks.
Swoosie Kurtz, who starred in the film, also appeared in "Dangerous Relationships" in 1988.
The cover character of the magazine where Annette’s article was published was Jennifer Love Hewitt, who starred in "I Know What You Did Last Summer Vacation" with Ryan Phillips and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
·The temperature of the pool water in the film was only 4 degrees during the filming.
·Towards the end of the film, Catherine told Ronald Sebastian that she had beaten her. In fact, the film crew shot Sebastian assaulting Catherine, but it was later deleted, in order to let the audience know whether Catherine was true. Was skeptical of being beaten.
·The soundtrack created by John Ottman was used in the trailer for this film, but before the film was released, the producer rejected the soundtrack of John Ottman and replaced it with Ed Shearmur.
·The pornographic actress Alisha Klass once played the cheerleader in the film, but her scene was cut.
·The scene where Annette slaps Sebastian in the film is not the content of the script design, but the actual performance of the actor. At that time, Reese Witherspoon was so deep in the play that she couldn't help but waved and beat Ryan Philip, and Ryan Philip's reaction was also true.
·Director Roger Campbell completed the script in 12 days.
[Clear shot]:
· When Sebastian was driving with Annette, the photographer was shown on the windshield.
When Annette drove out of town, the photographer and camera were also reflected on the windshield of the Jaguar.
· In the New York subway screen, the Los Angeles subway train appears in the background.
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