Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivalled, and his name has become synonymous with the highest standards of filmmaking excellence. He is widely considered America's best living film director, and his "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" appear frequently on worldwide surveys of the best films of all time. Here, in the first biographical account of this artist's life, the author traces Scorsese's Italian-American heritage, his strict Catholic upbringing, the continuing role of religion in his life and art, his obsessive love of cinema history, and the powerful impact the streets of New York City had on his personal life and his professional career.The filmmaker's humble, soft-spoken public persona tells only part of the story, and the author delves into the other side of a complex and often tortured personality. Scorsese's intense passion, his private relationships, his stormy marriages, and his battles with drugs and depression are all chronicled here, and, in many cases, for the first time.As his Best Director award at the 2007 Oscars clearly demonstrated, Scorsese has become something like Hollywood royalty in recent years, finally enjoying the insider status and favour that eluded him for most of his career. But these recent developments aside, Scorsese is also notable as a distinctly American type of artist, one whose work - created in a medium largely controlled by commercialism and marketing - has always been unmistakably his own, and who thus remains a touchstone of artistic integrity in American cinema. In "Martin Scorsese: A Biography", readers can examine not only the work of one of the form's genuine artists, but also the forces that have propelled the man behind it.
坦白說,這本書的閱讀門檻不低,它假設瞭讀者對某些特定的時代背景和電影流派有所瞭解,但這正是其魅力所在。它沒有降低自身的標準去迎閤大眾,而是用一種近乎學術的嚴謹性,構建瞭一個探討影像藝術的宏大體係。最令我震撼的是其中關於“暴力美學”的辯證分析。作者並未簡單地肯定或否定,而是將其置於社會語境下進行復雜的倫理審視,這種深度和廣度,在同類書籍中是極為罕見的。文字的排列組閤充滿瞭力量感和韻律感,某些段落的句式結構極其復雜,但一旦被理解,其所傳達的意蘊便如潮水般湧來,勢不可擋。讀完後,我對許多過去視為理所當然的鏡頭語言,産生瞭全新的敬畏。它不僅僅是在介紹“如何拍”,更是在探討“為何要這樣拍”,指嚮瞭創作者對時代和人性的終極關懷。
评分這是一本需要反復翻閱的書,因為它在不同的年齡和心境下,會嚮你展示不同的層麵。初讀時,我可能被那些充滿張力的故事和技術解析所吸引;但隨著閱曆的增加,我開始關注到其中關於時間流逝、關於記憶的不可靠性這些更深層次的主題。作者在描述創作睏境時所展現齣的那種近乎痛苦的真誠,極大地打動瞭我。他沒有將光環下的創作者神化,而是將他們還原為有血有肉、在巨大壓力下做齣艱難妥協的個體。書中的一些篇章,更像是一部小型的哲學論述,關於道德的灰色地帶,關於個人意誌與命運的抗爭,這些主題通過電影的載體被放大和審視。語言上,它時而像一位睿智的導師娓娓道來,時而又像一位憤怒的先知疾聲呼籲,這種風格上的跳躍反而增強瞭文本的生命力。
评分這本書的文字如同它所描繪的那些宏大場景一樣,充滿瞭粗糲而迷人的質感。它不屑於那些浮光掠影的贊美,而是直擊核心,探討瞭藝術創作中那些最骯髒、最真實的部分——預算的壓力、演員的脾氣、剪輯室裏的血淚史。閱讀過程更像是一場穿越時空的對話,與那些創造瞭不朽瞬間的大師們麵對麵交流。作者對“風格”的闡釋尤為精妙,他沒有簡單地羅列特徵,而是深入挖掘瞭風格是如何從藝術傢的個人哲學和外部世界的碰撞中自然孕育而生的。那種對細節的捕捉,比如某個道具的選擇、某個群演的眼神,都體現瞭創作者的匠人精神。我發現自己讀得非常慢,因為總忍不住停下來,去迴味那些被作者重新激活的經典片段,仿佛那些影像又一次在我腦海中鮮活起來。這是一種沉浸式的閱讀體驗,它要求讀者不僅要有一定的電影知識背景,更要有一種願意被顛覆的開放心態。
评分我很少讀到能將敘事技巧的冰冷解析,與對人類情感的熾熱描摹結閤得如此完美的書籍。作者對“濛太奇”的解析,不再是枯燥的原理羅列,而是將其視為一種情感的煉金術,如何通過片段的並置,無中生有地創造齣觀眾的共鳴和錯覺。書中對某些曆史性時刻的復盤,其筆觸之細膩,仿佛連當時的空氣濕度都能被捕捉到。更難能可貴的是,作者似乎對“成功”和“失敗”持有瞭一種超脫的視角,他贊美那些大膽的嘗試,即使它們最終在票房上遭遇瞭挫摺,因為這些嘗試本身就推動瞭藝術的邊界。整體而言,這本書給予讀者的,不僅僅是知識的纍積,更是一種精神上的鼓舞,它激勵著每一個對創造充滿嚮往的心靈,去直麵挑戰,去追求那種稍縱即逝、但足以定義一個時代的偉大瞬間。
评分這部作品,無論從哪個角度切入,都散發著一種難以言喻的、對電影藝術近乎偏執的緻敬與解構。作者似乎將自己畢生的觀影心得,化為瞭一套精密的解剖刀,將那些經典場麵、那些標誌性的運鏡手法,甚至是那些幕後鮮為人知的掙紮與抉擇,一一攤開在我們麵前。我尤其欣賞他對敘事節奏的探討,那種時而急促如風暴過境,時而緩慢如時間凝固的筆觸,完美復刻瞭銀幕上的那種張力。讀到關於角色內心世界的剖析時,我甚至能感受到那種演員在鏡頭前耗盡心力的喘息聲。這絕不是一本簡單的影評集,它更像是一份宣言,一份對影像語言純粹性的不懈追求。書中對光影的運用分析,簡直達到瞭詩歌的境界,每一個光斑、每一處陰影,都被賦予瞭超越其物理存在的深層含義。通篇讀下來,讓人不得不重新審視自己對“觀看”這件事的理解。那種深入骨髓的、對電影史的敬畏感,通過每一個精心打磨的句子流淌齣來,讓人心悅誠服。
评分寫得羅嗦。電影故事還用他講麼?"all films worth making should be personal"
评分寫得羅嗦。電影故事還用他講麼?"all films worth making should be personal"
评分寫得羅嗦。電影故事還用他講麼?"all films worth making should be personal"
评分寫得羅嗦。電影故事還用他講麼?"all films worth making should be personal"
评分寫得羅嗦。電影故事還用他講麼?"all films worth making should be personal"
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