【尋寶智多星】(Treasure of Matecumbe)是迪士尼在1976年所推出上映的一部電影,是部走冒險路線的作品。 【尋寶智多星】的劇情故事改編自 Robert Lewis Taylor 的小說《A Journey to Matecumbe》,故事背景是發生在經歷南北戰爭之後的美國肯塔西州,少年 Davie Burnie 意外得知了他家族代代相傳的一大秘密,那就是一張通往神秘 Matecumbe 寶藏的藏寶圖,在佛羅里達蠻荒之處,深埋著這個失落許久的寶藏,於是少年 Davie 就踏上了他的尋寶之途。他與四位同伴結伴同行,他們分別是 Jim 、Lauriette Paxton 、Thad 以及 Ewing T. Snodgrass 博士。然而 Davie 父親生前的死對頭 Spangler 也虎視眈眈,也伺機想奪得 Matecumbe 寶藏,而且還有颶風、印地安人、沼澤種種威脅等待著他們,他們必須一一化險為夷,才能找到神秘的寶藏。 本片是由 Vincent McEveety 執導,片中飾演少年 Davie 的是 Johnny Doran ;飾演 Jim 的則是 Robert Foxworth ;飾演 Lauriette Paxton 的則是 Joan Hackett ;飾演 Ewing T. Snodgrass 博士的則是還曾經演過迪士尼電影【黑鬍子】等片的 Peter Ustinov ;至於和 Davie 生死與共的少年 Thad 則由 Billy Attmore 擔任;大反派 Spangler 則是由 Vic Morrow 擔任,片中其他演員還包括 Jane Wyatt 、Dick Van Patten 、Virginia Vincent …等等。至於本片配樂則由 Buddy Baker 負責,歌曲“Matecumbe”則是由 Shane Tatum 所作。
Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial. -Steve Grayson my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty. - Jonathan Rosenbaum
三十年代美国经济大萧条,市面上一片荒芜。家庭主妇Cecilia(米亚·法罗 Mia Farrow 饰)白天应对沉闷的服务生工作(由于经济崩溃 ,很快也失去这份工作),晚上面对毫无情趣的丈夫。身为狂热影迷的她日日走进影院观看一部叫《开罗紫罗兰》的电影,熟习到连台词表情都能记住,电影里没有经济萧条,电影里是上流社会的宴席与取乐。这日奇怪的事发生了,戏里面的男主角Tom(杰夫·丹尼尔斯 Jeff Daniels 饰)从荧幕上走了下来!直接走到Cecilia面前,和她私奔。而电影里的人物也跟着议论纷纷,剧情不按剧情走,而变成了讨论会。 Cecilia与Tom去游乐园,互诉衷情,虽然一开始很浪漫,但后来发现这并不能填饱肚子,男主角Tom在现实中的扮演者Gil(杰夫·丹尼尔斯 Jeff Daniels 饰)也出现了 ,同样为了夺得Cecilia芳心与Tom展开比拼决斗。这个荒谬的闹剧将会如何结束?走进戏院观看电影的确会让人暂时忘怀现实世界的不快。
The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna. The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator, the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination. Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.