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Robert Altman’s inside-Hollywood meta-comedy THE PLAYER is shot with a shoe-string budget but reverberates with sardonic, rapier-like kicks, and affixed with a chilling frisson that defies ethics and our expectation thanks to Michael Tolkin’s trenchant script which brings Tinseltown's treacherous attributes to the forefront.

Altman’s much eulogized opening gambit, a nearly 8-minute long-take in the lot of a Hollywood studio, vocally pays tribute to Orson Welles’ counterpart in TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), is a coup de maître to be rewound and repeatedly viewed for its sheer coordination of the ensemble and the camera’s agility in motion. Taking the center stage is Griffin Hill (Robbins), a young producer whose job is to listen to screenwriter’s pitches of their ideas and to assess whether they are marketable enough to merit a go, and this producer-writer correlation is put under scrutiny as Griffin is dogged by anonymous, invective-scribed postcards, which he receives on a daily base, and after combing through telephone records, he gets the idea it is sent from David Kahane (D’Onofrio, bristling with ire and contempt), a bitter writer who might be rankled for receiving the short shrift. But gauging from Griffin’s quotidian workload and the ratio of pitches he must disregard (the studio has a yearly quota of 12 to green-light), we don’t get why Griffin is so sure it is David.

Trying to bury the hatchet by renewing his interest in David’s script set in Japan (Sofia Coppola’s LOST IN TRANSLATION arrives a decade later in 2003), Griffin seeks him out and "accidentally" kills him when verbal vitriol escalating into physical violence, here Altman shrewdly predates the occurrence with Griffin calling David’s home, and getting instantly bewitched by the latter’s girlfriend June Gudmundsdottir (Scacchi), an Icelandic painter, under a voyeuristic spell. So whether the subsequent accident is a homicide or manslaughter, the answer is quite out there.

The rest of story is against all odds, how Griffin gets away with the killing and lives happily ever after with June, does it sound like a joke? Yes, but the engagé Altman is in no fickle mood of maxing out Griffin’s quagmire before the anti-climatic reveal: his current post is in a perilous state of being superseded by the new blood Larry Levy (Gallagher), a diligent detective (Lovett) breathes down his neck closely and the relationship with his colleague-cum-girlfriend Bonnie (Stevenson) turns sour as he courts June with tenacious guilt stuck in his throat, in the end of the day, he gets what he wants not what he deserves, and the final turnabout of the fictive movie starring Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis is such a slap in the face of those who harbor an airy-fairy ideology of retaining a writer's integrity in this rotten industry, only tempered by Altman’s tongue-in-cheek mordancy that tactfully keep both industry insiders and outsiders entertained but not miffed, not to mention its effervescent star-spotingg game of umpteen celebrity cameos.

Tom Robbins is the recipient of Cannes’ BEST ACTOR award but unjustly fails to nab an Oscar nomination (the film per se is a 3-times nominee including a well-earned BEST DIRECTOR bid for Altman), who takes us through quite a rollercoaster ride with his portrait of Griffin par excellent, smirky, craven, vulnerable, besotted and careworn, all these facets are contributory to such degree of ambiguity that viewers are inwardly battling against their own conscience in terms of his denouement.Greta Scacchi is given a sizable role to send up the ostensibly exotic, free-spirited type (she might not even hail from Iceland) who just cannot say no to an opportunity of comfort and wealth like anyone else, and whose inner state is tellingly belied in their torrid love-making/confession-denial sequences, a fine achievement. Among the peripheral players, no one stands out significantly in the fray, except for awisecracking Whoopi Goldberg, who duly earns her stripes with tart and hilariouscomedy chops.

In retrospect, THE PLAYER is a thrilling return-to-the-game comeback for Altman after his nadir in the 80s, and is among the most phenomenal works tackling the Hollywood hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness by lending an honest-to-goodness spin salted with tacit irony.

referential points: Altman’s 3 WOMEN (1977, 8.2/10), COOKIE’S FORTUNE (1999, 7.9/10), GOSFORD PARK (2001, 9.1/10).

电影开篇是一个令人惊艳的长长的镜头，让人眼花缭乱，把视线钉在电影荧幕上，影片对好莱坞工业电影制片业的讽刺很有趣，非常妙，在这场游戏里，玩的究竟是电影还是制作电影的人，难说。客串阵容真的是太华丽太强大了，也许这就是在好莱坞工作的一种好处吧，美中不足的是后半段稍微有些沉闷，没有前半场好看

九零年代诞生的这部《大玩家》更能证明好莱坞的强大体系，电影尽可能包含了：悬疑、笑料、暴力、希望、爱心、裸露、性以及快乐的结局的诸多元素。这些元素经电影主角格里芬之口说出，也道出了好莱坞电影的结局为何如此千篇一律的原因。格里芬是负责审核一个剧本是否有潜力要对其立项的人，也就是说一部电影是否进入拍摄计划得获得他的许可才行，也因此如果剧本缺乏以上的这些元素，他都有理由将其无情地刷掉。故事在格里芬接连收到神秘卡片时开始走向失控，他找到一位曾经被他婉拒的编剧，他确信这就是不断寄恐吓信件的人。然后意外发生了，格里芬失手杀死了他。作为一部有“爱心”的电影，当然要安排一次救赎，在格里芬被凶杀案所困扰的时候遇到了两位编剧，他们说了一个故事：一位检察官在调查一桩命案时怀疑凶手是死者的妻子，随着调查的深入他与该女子陷入了爱河，但无奈所有证据都指向了她，在他痛苦万分地将该女子送进毒气室处决的时候，他发现那位丈夫并没有死，可惜为时已晚他已亲手杀死了这位爱人。那两位编剧再三强调“坚决不用大明星”与“一定要以悲剧结尾”，格里芬也鬼使神差地头一次认可了这一非“快乐结局”的剧本。他把剧本推荐给了拉瑞，一位刚从福克斯跳槽来的制片人，拉瑞觉得这个剧本很有前途，并承诺绝对不用大明星也绝不修改结局。这里还有个很有趣的场景与之后的剧情形成对应：一位秘书告诉拉瑞这是她所听过的最棒的剧本……一年后，制片厂相关人员们正在看那部检察官杀错人的戏的毛片，我们看到扮演那位妻子的是朱莉娅·罗伯茨，当她走进毒气室时、当毒气被打开时，似乎一切都在按照最初的剧本走，但是这时扮演检察官的布鲁斯·威利斯出现了！敲碎了毒气室的玻璃救出了爱人，字幕打出，电影完。这个反转不仅让戏里负责改编剧本的邦妮惊讶也让作为观众的我惊讶，看着之前一直以求真正直的形象出现的拉瑞露出狡黠满意的笑容，看着那位秘书说的“你拍了部了不起的电影，拉瑞”，看着那位始终坚持“不用大明星”“悲剧结尾”的编剧得意的眼神，这才恍然大悟，一个精妙至极的结尾，这才是好莱坞。最后的最后，电影给出了这样一种可能性：格里芬开这车来到自己的豪宅，接到了一个探讨剧本的电话，这回他听到了一个与他的经历一模一样的故事，为了自己今后的幸福生活不受打扰他希望这个故事有个快乐的结局……如果你从这个角度看，就能体会制片人的苦衷，或许能够理解如此多的快乐结局的来由了。整部电影就成了替好莱坞制片人们的一次极具讽刺意味的“申辩”，而作为“正面形象”的格里芬得以逃脱法律制裁，显然也是一个标准的好莱坞式结局。不知道《大玩家》是不是第一部这样拍的电影，但这部电影的出现一定又一次丰富了好莱坞的拍片公式表。

英文名“THE PLAYER”，日文名“ザ・プレイヤー”,该片由罗伯特奥特曼 导演，《肖申克的救赎》男主角“安迪”扮演者 蒂姆罗宾斯 以及格列塔斯卡其和朱丽娅罗伯茨 主演，托马斯里曼 配乐，第65届奥斯卡最佳导演/改编剧本/剪辑 提名作品，第45届戛纳最佳导演/男演员 获奖作品，金棕榈 提名作品

下面为大家分别介绍两个不同版本的LD镭射影碟

第一个是美国版，双碟装3面录制，片长124分钟，数字音频，NTSC制式

第二个是日本版租赁金盘，双碟装3面录制，片长124分钟，PILR-8002 立体声 数字音频，CLV NTSC，日文字幕 英文发音

和奥尔特曼学拍平凡剧

明明有那么多巧合

你却几乎看不出编剧的痕迹

因为确确实实都是想不到的剧情反转

谁会想到

明明是抱着一颗虔诚的心来和谈的

却把人杀了

这也许就是落差造成的吧

自己已经降低了身价

却被人奚落

加之工作又要丢掉了

自己却是唯一蒙在鼓里的人

这样过失杀人就显得合情合理了

直到25字出来

有点像《凶案连载》

忘了这个人是不是就是一开始他的父亲参与《夺魂索》的，如果是这样，就太棒了

刚开始你看到了一个纨绔子弟

形成了刻板印象

接下来他的精明却让你意外

（刻板印象特别好做文章）

最后的部分

为什么可以流畅和自然

是因为镜头一直拉远了

再说《大玩家》的时候他和新婚燕尔的妻子在拥吻

而悬疑编剧成了麦格芬

换个功力差点的导演

怕是会在两边的电话人物切特写

那么就不容易

出现这种

静水深流的感觉了

嗯

学习了