Not only is Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-'70s film, it is beyond question the best book we'll ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candour, humour, and venom again.
Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. Rather more responsible than some of his sources, Biskind always carefully notes the denials as well as the astounding stories he has compiled. He tells you about Scorsese running naked down Mulholland Drive after his girlfriend, crying, "Don't leave me!"; grave-robbing on the set of Apocalypse Now; Faye Dunaway apparently flinging urine in Roman Polanski's face while filming Chinatown; Michael O'Donoghue's LSD-fuelled swan dive onto a patio; Coppola's mad plan for a 10-hour film of Goethe's Elective Affinities in 3-D; the ocean suicide attempt Hal "Captain Wacky" Ashby gave up when he couldn't find a swimsuit that pleased him; countless dalliances with porn stars; Russian roulette games and psychotherapy sessions in hot tubs.
But he also soberly gives both sides ample chance to testify. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is also more than a fistful of dazzling anecdotes. Methodically, as thrillingly as a movie attorney, Biskind builds the case that Hollywood was revived by wild ones who then betrayed their own dreams, slit their own throats, and destroyed an art form by producing that mindless, inhuman modern behemoth, the blockbuster.
When Spielberg was making the first true blockbuster, Jaws, he sneaked Lucas in one day when nobody was around, got him to put his head in the shark's mechanical mouth, and closed the shark's mouth on him. The gizmo broke and got stuck, but the two young men somehow extricated Lucas's head and hightailed it like Tom and Huck. As Peter Biskind's scathing, funny, wise book demonstrates, they only thought they had escaped. --Tim Appelo, Amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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这部作品简直就是一剂猛药,直击好莱坞黄金时代的幕后要害。它没有那种老生常谈的励志鸡汤,反而像一把锋利的手术刀,精准地剖开了七十年代那批才华横溢却又桀骜不驯的导演们的内心世界。我读的时候,感觉自己像个偷窥者,窥视着那些在片场上呼风唤雨、在生活中放浪形骸的“电影王子”们。他们拍出的那些开创性的电影,从《教父》到《出租车司机》,那种原始的、未被驯服的艺术冲动,在这本书里被描绘得淋漓尽致。作者的笔触冷峻而犀利,他没有美化他们的疯狂,但却让你不得不承认,正是那份近乎自毁的激情,才催生了那些定义了一个时代的电影杰作。读完后,你对“电影人”这个词的理解会被彻底颠覆,它不再是西装革履的制片人,而是那些在酒精、毒品和无尽的自我怀疑中挣扎的天才。整本书的节奏感极强,仿佛有一部无形的、充满张力的电影在你眼前播放,那种混乱、迷人和最终的失控,让人欲罢不能。
评分读完后我的感受是复杂而矛盾的,一方面是对那个时代涌现出的创作活力的无限崇敬,另一方面是对那些人才最终走向自我毁灭的深深惋惜。这本书的独特之处在于,它没有进行道德审判,而是采取了一种近乎客观的记录姿态,将那些狂妄、天才、脆弱和偏执的特质并置于光天化日之下。我尤其对作者描绘的那些幕后交易和权力斗争感到震撼,这远比电影情节本身更具戏剧性。它揭示了一个残酷的事实:在光鲜亮丽的电影工业背后,是人性的挣扎、预算的紧绷以及永无休止的妥协。对于任何一个想要了解电影工业的运作机制,或者对探讨“天才与疯狂”之间模糊界限感兴趣的人来说,这本书都是一个不可多得的深度文本。它强迫你直面真相,即使真相是肮脏、混乱且充满魅力的。
评分这本书的叙事方式简直是教科书级别的精彩,它不是按部就班地讲述历史,而是通过一系列碎片化、但又相互关联的轶事和深度访谈,构建出一个极其复杂且多维度的权力与艺术博弈的生态图景。我特别欣赏作者如何捕捉到那个时代特有的那种“我们是局外人,但我们要改变游戏规则”的叛逆精神。书中对某些标志性电影的幕后故事挖掘得非常深入,让你在回顾那些经典片段时,脑海中浮现的不再是银幕上的完美呈现,而是镜头后那些充满火药味的争吵、临时的天才之举,以及制片厂老板们焦虑不安的踱步。它探讨了艺术的纯粹性如何与商业的冷酷现实不断碰撞、妥协,乃至最终被吞噬的过程,那种宿命感是如此强烈,让人读后心头一紧。这种对结构性变化的洞察力,远超一般的人物传记,它更像是一部关于美国文化转折点的社会学观察报告,只是载体是好莱坞的“坏小子”们。
评分这本书的叙事像一条奔腾的河流,时而湍急猛烈,时而暗流涌动,将读者裹挟其中,身不由己地体验着七十年代末期到八十年代初好莱坞的剧变。我注意到作者在引用口述历史时,保持了一种令人信服的平衡感,他没有过度依赖某一个声音,而是通过交叉验证,勾勒出了一个更加清晰、但也更加令人不安的行业全景图。那些关于预算超支、临时换角、导演与制片人之间针锋相对的场景,写得犹如精彩的法庭辩论,充满了紧张感。它不仅仅是关于电影制作,更是关于美国社会在面对文化冲击和新一代价值观冲击时,其权力核心如何做出反应。读这本书的过程,就像是进行了一次深入的考古发掘,你挖出的不仅仅是旧胶片和老故事,更是对一种时代精神——那种敢于打破一切却又必然被规则反噬的时代精神——的深刻理解。
评分与其说这是一本关于电影制作的书,不如说它是一部关于“过度”的哲学探讨。书里的人物,无论是导演还是制片人,无一不是将自己的生命力和创造力推向了极限,甚至超越了安全线。他们的生活方式——那种无节制的享乐主义,仿佛是在用生命来加速创作的进程。我仿佛能闻到空气中弥漫着的香烟味和陈旧威士忌的气息。作者的文字功力非凡,他能用极其简洁的语言勾勒出复杂的人性弱点,比如那种一旦成名便难以自控的傲慢,以及对外界批评的极度敏感。更令人着迷的是,这种野蛮生长最终是如何被体制所驯服,那些曾经挑战一切的“牛仔”们,是如何一步步被纳入好莱坞的既有轨道,成为了他们曾经鄙视的对象。这种转变的细腻描摹,充满了悲剧色彩,让人不禁思考,艺术的自由边界究竟在哪里,以及这种边界一旦被突破后,代价究竟有多沉重。
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评分作者写八卦真是身临其境,就像是隔墙偷听一样,看起来当好玩儿。
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评分作者写八卦真是身临其境,就像是隔墙偷听一样,看起来当好玩儿。
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