Monday, March 16, 2009

Old

Ok. I am telling some old memories after viewing trailer of "The Cake Eaters (2007)" which starred by Kristen Stewart who was famous for her last year greatest hit "Twilight".
The Cake Eaters is an independent film, directed by Mary Stuart Masterson who was an actress now become a director, and she also starred in one of the films I'm 'bout to say. Kristen Stewart is especially mentioned of her "dynamic" performances in this film.
The Cake Eaters is now in theaters USA, but according to IMDB, March 2009 was original its DVD released date.

Anyway, first time we saw Kristen Stewart was in Panic Room and she was so young,
so it reminds me of two other girls's early films.
Both films are about friendship of young and elder.
這個,看完了暮光之城女主角Kristen Stewart主演的07年獨立製片the Cake Eaters的預告後不免想到一些舊東西。
The Cake Eaters是由演員轉職導演Mary Stuart Masterson導演的獨立影片,(Mary Stuart Masterson
也主演了我接下來要說的其中一部電影。)Kristen Stewart則是在其中的爆炸突破演出廣受推崇。

這部片目前正在美國上映。但根據一些資料顯示,2009年應該是販售dvd的時間。

總之,我第一次見到Kristen Stewart是在顫慄空間,那時候他還好小,這讓我想到另外兩個小朋友的片子。
而且都是和年長人之間的友誼故事。


Lawn Dogs (1997)
Directed by John Duigan
Written by Naomi Wallace
Starred by Sam Rockwell, Mischa Barton
This is the only film I've seen Sam Rockwell acted as a nice person.
Next time I saw him was in Green Mile as the crazy prisoner Wild Bill.










扮狗臉的日子<1997>
(不過我印象中它的片名不是這樣耶)

由Sam Rockwell、Mischa Barton主演。
這是我看過Sam Rockwell唯一演好人的片子,之後再看到他是在綠色奇蹟裡演最壞的囚犯瘋狂比爾。

But to Mischa Barton was whom I really attached.
This is the first time I saw this pretty girl,
and the next time I saw her was with her mouth full of vomit and under the bed or in a tent of Cole in the 1999 movie The Sixth Sense as a ghost.

Lawn Dogs is an ordinary drama,family relations, friendships, arguments and fight, but not until the end of the film.
Friendship between Mischa and Sam was so great part of this film, and also some other characters relations to Sam, like Kathleen Quinlan as Mischa's mother.
I only saw this film on TV once or twice, thus I don't really remember.
Most remarkable part of this film is at the end.

不過在這部片子裡比較吸引我的是Mischa Barton,這是我第一次看到她。
之後再看到是在靈異第六感裡,柯爾的床下還是帳篷裡,演個滿嘴嘔吐物的鬼。
現在最常看到她則是在Keds這個鞋子廠牌的廣告上,還有一些時尚潮流雜誌,已經是上流世界的人類。

"扮狗臉的日子"就像是一般的劇情片,一堆的關係,家庭、朋友、衝突、爭執,除了劇終前的幾分鐘外。
Sam Rockwell和Mischa Barton之間的友情部份不錯看,但是Sam和飾演Mischa母親的Kathleen Quinlan間的對手戲也是一個重點。
只有在電視上看過一次還兩次這部片,印象不深。
但是永遠忘不掉這部片的結局,大經典!


Digging to China (1998)
Directed by Timothy Hutton.
This is the one and only film that features Timothy Hutton as director who also famous as an actor.
Written by Karen Janszen.












真愛赤子情<1998>
這部片有三項特點,
第一、Timothy Hutton(演員)唯一的銀幕導演作品
第二、Evan Rachel Wood銀幕處女作
第三、Kevin Bacon精湛演出腦麻病患(Kristen Stewart在The Cake Eaters裡好像也是)

不過似乎勢逢1998年是一堆大場面電影再次抬頭的一年,所以Kevin Bacon的突破演技反而沒什麼人注意。
上面說的Mary Stuart Masterson有演的就是這一部,然後我之後對她的印象都是一些精神衰弱的角色。

This movie ought to be highly mentioned of Kevin Bacon's performance (like Kristen Stewart, they both acted as disabled), but somehow not really be noticed. I guess it was the time that huge budgets and high tech films were out that year made simple issue drama like this one not easily get attention.
I saw this movie in theater 1999, this was Timothy Hutton's screen debut and also Evan Rachel Wood's screen debut.
Mary Stuart Masterson was in this movie too as Evan's older sister but turned out to be more than her sister.
This is the first time I saw Evan Rachel Wood and as a smart child leading role, the next time(I did see her in supporting roles like "Practical Magic" and "S1m0ne" which are good) I saw her as leading role was 2003's "13" which was horrible, a horrible character. And then there is the affair between her and the notorious but whom I really liked Marilyn Manson, she even cast in his 2007 album single music video "Heart Shaped Glasses" which was so amazing and I posted before.

1999年我在電影院看了這部片,
是第一次看到Evan Rachel Wood演一個聰明靈俐的主角,之後再看到她演主角,則是2003年的芳齡13,演一個相當恐怖的角色。(是說他這段時間也有演一些好角色,但都是超小配角,像虛擬偶像和超異能快感)
之後就是她和大怪角Marilyn Manson間的事情,還拍了他的音樂影片等等。

At last, it took me several hours to finish this post and I don't even know what the point is.

最後就是這篇文章好像沒有什麼重點。

(all pictures are from www.youngactressreviews.org excepted The Cake Eaters)

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