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6月19日 Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich?
The Guardian writes a short but interesting ode to filmmaker Robert Aldrich, wishing there was another Hollywood director like him today. Thinking of "Le Gros Bob" (as Cahiers du Cinema coined him), the writer asks if any Hollywood director could craft both populist and political cinema so effortlessly, "someone with a tight, punchy, tabloid sensibility, politically edgy, interested in corruption and violence, and capable of rendering slices of the zeitgeist quickly onto film, all while entertaining a mass audience, and making money doing it." The essay goes on to say that indeed, there is no such deeply subversive yet wholly mainstream Hollywood director currently out there. I'd argue David Fincher gets somewhere close but then, his films feel more obviously pointed. Aldrich's finest film is the seminal, sleazy noir "Kiss Me Deadly" with "The Longest Yard," "The Dirty Dozen" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" running a close second and third. I love what the piece says about the underrated, popular though highly political "Longest Yard" (re-made, horribly, last year): "An angry response to the suppression of the Attica prison riot three years earlier by his own cousin, New York governor and future vice-president Nelson A (for Aldrich) Rockefeller. Casting Eddie Albert as the explicitly Nixonian governor of a vicious southern prison farm, Aldrich asked why we shouldn't root for the prisoners in the inmates-vs-guards football game if the alleged good guys were so corrupt." So, good question. Why can't films be made like this today? --posted by Kim 评论 (4)
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