Robert Rossen’s Oscar BEST PICTURE victor is a prestige production right out of the box, on the strength of its eponymous Pulitzer’s winning source novel from Robert Penn Warren, which is a piercingly acute and tub-thumping reconstruction of the rise and the sudden cessation of an American hick politician encroached by power and corruption, loosely based on the real life figure Huey Long (1893-1935), the former Louisiana senator and governor, who was assassinated on his heyday.
In this film, the politician is Willie Stark (Crawford), and John Ireland plays Jack Burden, a journalist who becomes one of Willie’s closest cronies and his PR man, and almost exclusively, the story enfolds from John’s standpoint, a prodigal son of a well-off family who cannot stand his uppity stepfather (Rhodes), he aspires to make good so that he can marry his sweetheart Anne Stanton (Dru). After a congenial start with Willie and impressed by his mettle, ardor and populist ideal, Jack is fingered for Willie’s righthand man during the latter’s second governor campaign.
Seen on the sidelines, Jack’s moral compass starts to veer when Willie comes off to be exactly the same shady politician he claims to fight against in the first place. But what is more complicating is after sussing out what kind of a person Willie has become, Jack doesn’t leave, he condones the ugly side of Willie’s political game, while is burdened with a hard-pressed complicity, however, the film doesn’t care to spell out his motives (he even swallows his pride after Anne gets infatuated with Willie and becomes a home-wrecker), all seems to simply put him there to be the eye witness of the final poetic justice.
For my two cents’ worth, Crawford attains his Oscar statuette by the sheer volume of his vociferousness, a barnstorming force that is all mighty and impressive at first glance, but teeters onto a one-trick pony after being multiply edited and superimposed on the screen. By and large it is just too incredible that Willie could muster such a magnitude of followers - who is treated with hallowed close-ups of their God-fearing piety in the climatic ferment - after all the evil deeds we have seen that Willie is capable of doing without any modicum of relentlessness, and not much of the counterexample is presented to offset the bitter taste. Although the film still retains its pertinent insight about and its demythologizing resolution to probe into the muddy waters of democratic politicking.
While politics is predominantly a boy’s game at then, ALL THE KING’S MEN’s female characters are much more complex than arm-candies or guileless wives, Mercedes McCambridge’s Sadie Burke is as ambitious and ruthless as her employee Willie, hampered only by her sex persuasion, she can roar like a lioness, shoot venom and barbs at will, not feign a teardrop after receiving a fat slap,and winning an Oscar for her silver screen debut, what a manna from heaven a gal can ever dream of. Joanne Dru, on the other hand, is less fortunate being saddled with a half-baked character, as her Anne is implicated by some real faulty, fatuous decisions which the movie equivocates about, mainly a plot device, albeit Dru clearly has more to offer.
Rapier-like in its censuring attitude, whirlpool-like in its executive fashion, Rossen’s ALL THE KING’S MEN is a major film kit out to dazzle and stun its oblivious audience with its assault on our sensoria, to point up Hollywood’s liberal-minded gesture to welcome something none too patriotic into the fray, one might quibble its cynical footing and minor arrangement in the screenwriting process, but nonetheless, it is a helluva experience to fine-tune our understanding of certain rotten business.
referential entries: Rossen’s THE HUSTLER (1961, 7.7/10); Steven Zaillian’s ALL THE KING’S MEN (2006, 6.6/10).
美国西南部的一个小城市,政客们明知威利不可能,却要他出来竞选州长。在一次竞选演讲上,威利丢掉了政客们为他准备的演讲稿,讲了许多老百姓爱听的内容,政客们虽反对,欲阻拦他,却遭百姓轰;威利的声势反而越来越大,最后当上州长。威利当上州长后,筑路,造水库,修学校,建医院,做了不少竞选时答应民众的事。反对派能楸住他的,一是他的养子酗酒开车肇事,使女伴受伤致死;后来女孩的父亲失踪,尸体被发现是遭打死。二是威利任命的首席检察长辞职,被威利逼问后自杀,在议会否决“威利失职案‘的当场,本已接受威里任命为新建医院院长的首席检察长的儿子开枪打死威利。影片对所有这些事件最后也不作交代,不给个水落石出,似乎要向观者说:这就是美国社会,这就是美国式的民主。
受不了了男主臭深柜明显暗恋王鱼青梅竹马自己全家都被王鱼忽悠瘸了还舔狗舔到底死心塌地追随他还不忘给自己开脱struggle with良心为王鱼辩解两句,太毫克了杀杀杀!和原著和现实王鱼出入都挺大的而且这个土到经典的叙事和剪辑方式真的撑不起原型那么重量级(额)的人,王鱼本人别说那堆诡异的感情纠葛了甚至都没出轨过,但是Broderick Crawford演得真好真王鱼啊……朗州长你带我走吧
好看!不管他上任前是怎样,都是假的——宇宙通用的政客法则。看着看着真是不由得代入到我国,呃。就是人物有点多,比较模式化...
被政治腐蚀的人。其实片子里有很多内容都可深入拓展开来,只是篇幅有限,原著内容无法一一兼顾,反而有点浮光掠影了。
煽动(无产阶级)的民意+基建狂魔,即是当时时代下的「奸雄」,非常平铺直叙和「善恶对立」(以传统美式价值观)的叙述中,依旧有「反英雄」和对于社会复杂民意的抨击与讨论。
一个政治暴发户的发家史与堕落史。主角和民众的形象都略欠立体。
男主角的原型来自大萧条时期的路易斯安那州州长休伊.朗格。电影里的剧情几乎就是如实反映了他的一生。此君绰号“王鱼”,非常激进,竞选口号就是“人人都是国王”,这大概也是国王班底这个电影名字的由来。如果不是被一个青年医生刺杀身亡,他说不定会在大选中击败罗斯福,比元首更早建立专制帝国。
威力史塔克做的非常正确,修桥造路,修医院,造学校。他的确独裁,但哪届政府换任后不是把重要政府官员换了个遍,全安插上自己的亲信。电影里把他孩子的矛盾,他对手下犯错后的解决方式,对控制他人意愿方面做了大量反面描述,但仔细想想,史塔克做了这么多事难道会比不上前一任玩忽职守的州政府么?
@filmoteca 相当具有普遍性意义的黑色政治剧,弥赛亚还是独裁者,这个问题放到今天也还是无解。主角们在背离初衷的道路上越走越远,也未尝不是一种必然。台词堪称精妙绝伦,从头到尾的节奏也非常好,完全没有废戏,但似乎太想还原原著的宏大,角色性格和论点挖掘的深度有些欠缺。
虽然也是鲍嘉的粉丝,但必须说,谢天谢地他没演(不知道是本人原因还是制片方的意思),鲍嘉实在不适合演克劳福德这个角色,克劳福德身上有种憨厚感,这使得他赢得选民爱戴有了很强的说服力,鲍嘉缺乏亲和力。克劳福德的表演甩新版西恩潘一条街
82/100 专制和独裁总是打着为贫民造福的幌子登堂入室的,这些人往往又有严重的自恋人格障碍,俘获忠心的卖命者的同时又悄然摧毁他们的生活。
第22届Oscar best picture,政治讽刺片。学校事故导致群死群伤,丑闻,互挖黑历史…简直是最近某朝的集中写照…
片中的每一个人都让我觉得恶心,尤其是杰克,女朋友都让人抢了当情妇了,还跟在别人后面吃屎。真恶心。
美国二三十年代的争议政客“王鱼”休伊朗为原型,公共工程计划、医疗教育事业改革获得大批穷人追随,同时独裁手腕干涉选举,控制州法院,肃清异己。人物复杂性未能很好地体现出来,剪辑、表演也有瑕疵,但这个题材不会过时,政客操弄选民的前后言行不一、权势集中带来的道德沦丧在现实中永远能找到参照
《国王的人马》是以30年代美国路易安那州州长休伊·朗的生平为基础的。郎本是默默无闻农家子弟,从未上过大学。但他通过刻苦自学,8个月修完了大学法学院两年的课程,通过考试,21岁便当上了律师。3年后,郎进入政界,担任铁路专员。1924年,休伊·朗竞选州长,但因对三K党的态度不明而落选。四年以后,朗重整旗鼓,终于因争取到农民的支持而以微弱的多数当选州长。朗执政后,一面大修土木,另一方面,他拉帮结派,排斥异己,安插亲信,大搞独裁政治。朗采取了顺我者昌,逆我者亡的高压政策,甚至还办了一份报纸,诋毁攻击反对派,为自己更功颂德,大造舆论。朗用强权政治巩固了在路易安娜的绝对统治之后,便向华盛顿进军,于1923年当上了美国国会参议院。然而1935年正当朗飞扬跋扈、不可一世的时候,被一位医生莫名其妙的枪杀了。……-百度百科
比06版好不了多少
Bloody, dark politics. Do't try to improve their minds.->The people's will is the law of the State.->End by violence.
结尾“领袖”出现群众欢呼的镜头俨然纳粹纪录片的架势。然后演变成。。哦。不剧透了。 不过最后Columbia公司那个肖似自由女神像的logo再次出现极有讽刺意味。
乡巴佬如何成为政客,如何失去为民做主的初衷...权力是怎样侵蚀一个人的
人心中所想双目所及,生来就是腐败;善由恶生,可不惜一切代价,天下政治一般黑,奸雄赢天下,弄臣得江山;杜鲁门时期拍的,你们形秽吧
1.语言的力量;2.原来当公众媒体被权利控制时,大众便陷入了甜蜜的迷雾中;3.领袖养成记,深谋远虑、高瞻远瞩、未雨绸缪、慧眼识珠、甜言蜜语、壮志雄心,最后还有就是不择手段。