Sunday, August 05, 2007
Saturday, June 30, 2007
South Park is Funny, Crudely
昨天我看了几集“久仰大名”的《南方公园》,虽然不能说名不虚传,但也可以说至少让人印象深刻了。
我并不是按顺序来看,就是随便找了两集来看。我看的第一集,在前十分钟内就已经让我说不出话来了,那集讲的是Cartman拍照片的故事——当然看过的人都知道那集讲的是什么…可以说惊世骇俗。
我原来还有听闻《南方公园》有些库布里克,这话没说错。事实上我从来没有看过库布里克的作品,例如他最著名的《发条橙》,但我看过《人工智能》,还看到有评论说里面集中“屠杀”机器人的场面是斯皮尔博格在向库布里克致敬,我还看过一些库布里克作品的评论,所以我想我大概知道库布里克在作为一个形容词时的涵义。
“残忍”是一个很重要的元素,我感觉里面还有一种反抗,但这种反抗又是很绝望,是这种绝望比残忍更让人痛心。所以一个人可以很容易得把画面拍得很残忍,给人视觉上的冲击;但一个人却很难把精神拍得很库布里克,冲击到人的心灵。
《南方公园》有些库布里克,但又不那么纯粹;有些叛逆,但还是没有偏离主流,有点擦边球的意思。不知道是不是它的制作人有意如此,还是它的制作人本意是想要拍一部” THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM CONTAINS COARSE LANGUAGE AND DUE TO ITS CONTENT IT SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYONE.”的另类动画片,却只是发现他们最终还是没能逃离主流思想的束缚——来自未来的人们告诉我们要保护环境,Cartman的好友Jennifer Lopez最终还是要离开他以使Cartman成为一个“精神正常”的孩子,诸如此类。
不知道为什么,我突然想起Radiohead的一个动画MV Paranoid Android了。
我想我还是比较喜欢《樱桃小丸子》,简单但又不简单。
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Have a Little Patience
Take That is history. Yet sometimes history replays.
Their new single "Patience" is typical brit-pop, and therefore, not bad. The theme is sorta like Enrique's Sad Eyes, though.
And how about Erique's Sad Eyes?
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Is a Losing Battle Worth Fighting For?
It has been a long time since last time I logged on to Blogger. And the next time I tried jennifersadventure.blogspot.com, there was this good old GFW.
Well let it.
Long time no see. How have you been pals? I missed you.
I have been really busy these days, but I learned a lot of new things, and still I am learning. Although I think that probably the lazy days when I logged on to Blogger everyday and shared my thoughts with you will never come back, I am still here--I am not leaving.
Love
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
What is G * F * W
Simply Fact.
(If you encounter some problem after clicking the link above, you got the fact.
Find it out in the Mar. 17, 2007 entry at BillConan Studio. )
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Paradise Lost 失落桃花源
昨天开电视,恰巧在放温接受访问的现场直播,我正准备换台,恰巧有个记者问了个有意思的问题,就看了一小会儿。问题有意思,回答更有意思。
后来想,要是把我看的这一小段录下来就好了,可以放在博客上面。然后当天晚上又遇到一个台在重播,我准备好了录,但我早晨恰好看到的那一段却被剪掉了。今天上网搜了一下,找到的中文transcript都是被裁减过的,想要搜英文的却得到上图中显示的结果。
就我看的那一段,只找到了新浪的"director's cut"版本,我就不全引了,因为不想把博客文章弄得太长:
[法国世界报记者]:
最近您在人民日报发表了一篇文章,我想引述其中的一些话,您提到社会主义制度和社会主义民主并不是相互排斥的,您同时还说社会主义的初级阶段还要建设一百年。请问您是否意味着说中国在未来的一百年都不需要民主?
[温]:
我最近这篇文章讲述了一个道理,就是社会主义民主与法制不是悖离的...
问题被砍了一半,回答中最有意思的那一段也被砍了。我也不想说回答中被砍的那一段了,反正是挺可笑的。然后在director's cut版本里还看到有记者问到中国互联网的问题,然后回答就是那些话啦...不看也可以想到。
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