You can also think that Herzog has refurbished the movie, the car is spacious, the building is taller, and the police officers are also magnificent, but the black temperament of the movie has obviously declined. Ferrara’s "Bad Lieutenant" is a rough aesthetic style. It has raw edges but can produce shocking effects. For example, a scene where Harvey Keitel goes down the stairs, and Martin Scorsese The paragraphs in "The Good Guy" have the same tune with the same effect. Although Walner Herzog’s new version is "bright", it does not have the texture that is always tight. Even if the "gang rape of nuns" is changed to "the massacre of the door" in the movie, the character's case is still stop-and-go. , Completely in a relatively weak state.
There are a few stories retained in the new version. One is that Nicholas Cage forced her to rape a drug addict on the street. (In the original version, Harvey Keitel forced her to groan and hit a pistol), and the other was that he owed a debt to his gambling gambling. In the previous scene, Harvey Keitel’s performance is very different from Nicholas Cage. The former is slowly walking to the window, threatening and persecuting indifferently; Nicholas Cage’s behavior is in a kind of The fanatic state, with some signs of "roaring", also destroyed the cool tone and shock that the whole scene should have. Cage was intimidated by the gang for betting on football. His performance was completely malaise, while Harvey Keitel’s performance was uncompromising and brutal... In fact, all Ferrara’s brushstrokes were better than Herzog’s For example, when Keitel heard of losing, he took out a pistol and smashed the radio in the car.
In the new version of "Bad Lieutenant", we can neither find the decadent apocalyptic breath nor the tranceful character state. Nicholas Cage's performance also indirectly harmed the movie. Compared with Harvey Keitel’s unswerving outbreak, Cage’s public performance has deviated from the film’s own temperament ("My Heart is Wild" also has such a flaw). In other words, Nicholas Cage is not at all Suitable for this role. Eva Mendes is a "stretched" character. Herzog has expanded her role, but it is not obvious that this character himself has contributed to the development of narrative. As for the fight with drug dealers, the new version is "negotiation of terms", and the old version belongs to the seizure. Harvey Keitel's action of putting the stolen money into his pocket is much more powerful than Cage opening the package in front of the drug dealer.
Or in Ferrara’s view, none of these constitute conditions for "going to hell." What really worries is that Herzog changed the ending. McNardo and the drug dealers reached a consensus and then counterattacked. The plot change was very blunt. , (Is it for "harmony") is also completely unreasonable. To a certain extent, this is more like a kind of Herzog's obscene victory, pulling the character back to the right track from the edge, without paving, no motivation, this kind of ending is very embarrassing.
To say how big the difference is between "Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans" and "Bad Lieutenant", I think the difference is at least more than the size between "Bangkok Killer" and "Silent Fire". It is also a remake. The failure of "Bangkok Killer" is due to the decline in IQ caused by the expansion of Thai culture to global thinking. In addition to the gap between "Bad Lieutenant", there are still directors who are not good at getting started ( The directors of "Bangkok" and "Silent Fire" are both the Peng family brothers), the actors' play is wrong, and the "correction" is fragmented. The appearance of such a mediocre film at the Watertown Film Festival is not only the personal sorrow of Werner Herzog, but also the regret of the entire Venice Film Festival.
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