蒙骗1915

看完《蒙骗1915》，你会发现自己被一种缓慢而沉重的紧张感牢牢攥住。剧情核心的性勒索与种族禁忌，即使在今天看仍觉刺骨。适合喜欢早期电影叙事技巧、想感受默片时代演员如何用脸“说话”的影迷，以及对跨阶层、跨种族道德困境题材感兴趣的观众。早期默片常用夸张肢体动作推动剧情，这部却靠光影对比和特写镜头制造心理压迫感——尤其法庭一幕，角色间微妙的权力反转远非当时一般情节剧可比。早川雪洲的角色不是扁平的恶人，他那种压抑的优雅与突然爆发的侵略性，全靠眼神和肢体传达，比很多有声片还抓人。比如主角在昏暗房间中与早川雪洲对峙的戏，半明半暗的面孔比任何字幕卡都更有张力。

　　Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy oriental Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}
　　Richard Hardy, a hardworking stockbroker, labors overtime to keep up with the ruinous bills incurred by his beautiful but irresponsible wife Edith, a venal, spoiled socialite who is impervious to his pleas for fiscal restraint. Acting on what she believes to be an insider information, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the Red Cross charity she chairs for a stock tip. When she finds the money has been lost, she desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader with whom she has been thoughtlessly flirting and persuades him to replace the money in exchange for an assignation. When her husband's long-awaited business deal finally materializes, she desperately tries to withdraw from their agreement by replacing the money. Angered and disappointed with her resistance to his advances, he uses a branding device to mark her shoulder as his property. Feeling violated, Edith shoots him in the shoulder and leaves. In order to protect his wife's reputation, Richard confesses to the crime and faces trial for attempted murder. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)

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