女煞葛洛莉1980

Cassavetes’s tenth feature, GLORIA is a Venice Golden Lion winner, an honor shared with Louis Malle’s THE ATLANTIC CITY (1980), its skeletal storyline anachronistically reminds of late comers such as Luc Besson’s LÉON: THE PROFESSIONAL and Eric Zonca’s JULIA, Gena Rowlands plays an ex-moll Gloria Swenson (a nod to G. Swanson), who is press-ganged into protecting a young Puerto Rican tyke Phil Dawn (Adames), the 6-year-old son of her neighbors Jack and Jeri Dawn (Henry and Carmen), by the aftermath of the Dawn’s ruination at the hand of a mob clan.

The reluctant pairing of a recently bereft, peremptory kid and a childless, trigger-happy termagant takes a tough route in the purlieus of NYC (although it gives audience a wrong impression that a six-year-old can freely ride on a train or take a taxi in the land of freedom), and Cassavetes’s script has no tact in plot plausibility, police force is conspicuous by its own absence after their initial advent, and the ill-fated henchmen from gangster land don’t fare better either, often insipidly and frictionlessly overwhelmed by the outnumbered duo-on-the-lam. Ergo, the momentum is emphatically concatenated by Gloria and Phil’s consecutive hopping from one big yellow taxi to another, transiting from one transitory dwelling to another, concomitant with the bumpy ride of two strangers’ bonding process, to the point where great sacrifice is induced to end all the fracas.

Ms. Rowlands, as fabulous as ever, roundly commands our attention under her hubby’s close inspection, her Gloria, might be a far cry from a competent child rearer, but fo’ shizzle she knows how to handle ruthless yet code-of-honor adhering gangstas by exerting her feminine acuity and quick-on-the-draw second nature. It is a larger-than-life character, but Rowlands prevails with her inimitable flair and pizzazz that even the far-fetched happy ending cannot take the shine off her pervasive brilliance.

Moreover, the interplay between Gloria and Phil, beguilingly detracts from the mushy maternal bond default, also helped by an alternately rambunctious and biddable temperaments of a telegenic Adames (intentionally or not, it also implicitly reflects the sign of its times, how toxic masculinity takes its root at a boy’s young age), there is a rare balance of parity in the duo’s co-existence (which might surprise a prudish mind), far from being a trite exploitation of a childless woman’s effusing motherly love triggered by a cute, doe-eyed boy, in the end of the day, it is a goodhearted human being’s sense of justice and compassion that outflanks one’s primeval self-preserving rationale, and elevates Gloria into a very unlikely heroine.

Opening with Romare Bearden’s water colors, and dialing up Bill Conti’s soaring saxophone-heavy score, John Cassavetes’s GLORIA is as close as a genre practice among his output, while structural and narrative coherence may be in deficit, as far as watchability is concerned, it can still hold court thanks to a magnificent leading lady and Cassavetes’s unorthodox discernment and aesthetics.

referential entries: Luc Besson’s LÉON: THE PROFESSIONAL (1994, 8.6/10); Erick Zonca’s JULIA (2008, 7.1/10); Cassavetes’s OPENING NIGHT (1977, 8.1/10).

这部由百老汇舞台剧大姐大吉娜.罗兰兹出演，拍摄于上个世纪八十年代，故事和《这个杀手不太冷》刚好反过来了，小男主是个不足八岁的孩子，大女主是个风韵犹存的踩着高跟鞋走路扭着屁股的半老徐娘，故事的背景依然是套路化，小男孩一家人被黑帮杀害，侥幸逃出来的小男孩被老女人救了，于是，两个一路躲避追杀。当然了会讲故事的导演并不满足于，讲一个俗套的故事，而是把有意思的点设定在——小男孩被这个老女人迷住了，一路上还想尽办法勾引这个体重都比他重六十磅的女人，人家在单人床上一个翻身就能把你这个玩尿泥的小不点弹下床。好玩的这个设定，其实是定义了男孩和男人的划分了，正如传说中的俗话，有些男的生下来就是男人，有些则不是。对于，影片里一开始呈现出的小男孩，也是肉眼可见的孩子，可是接下来一步步的发展，不得不让你感慨，小男孩是个男人。这也不得不让我们思考一个问题，有图真的是有真相嘛，真实世界的真相就算是导演设计的胶片纪录都在告诉我们，看这个世界通常意义上并非肉眼而要心眼。这部电影的可看点更加有趣在于平铺直叙的讲故事，在今天讲故事已经成了商品，如何讲好一个故事和如何生产出一个好产品一样一样值得琢磨。因为，今天的社会是个商品社会，眼里有点活那也是硬核技术 。被小病毒路过抚摸过的人儿们，没事干可以看看，毕竟闲着也是闲着，看部不错的影片也是利用闲暇时间历练技术，铸就工匠精神，储存混社会的正能量。

这部电影评分那么高，无非又是那种伪“文青”太多了。先说导演名字多么响亮，一句话扯出一些主义，显得自己是多么风雅前卫，说话永远都是故弄玄虚，从来不把话说清楚。前几年豆瓣上虚构北欧电影钓鱼的闹剧历历在目，地球果然不缺各种魔怔人。

《女煞葛洛莉》在中外评论界实属人类最大谜团，我都怀疑各大影评人当时是不是被卡萨维茨拿枪威胁了？

全片叙事，铺垫和逻辑都让人尴尬……

配乐很忧郁，但是叙事节奏拖沓到爆炸。

关于女主战斗力没有什么铺垫，枪法准，毕竟动作戏份不是重点。

电影该有的逻辑：邻居阿婶是我好闺蜜，她把孩子托付给我，我发誓帮她带孩子。邻居一家都被杀了，我决定带着孩子逃亡。孩子不喜欢我，我也不喜欢孩子，但是我遵守承诺，在黑手党的城市里逃出生天……最后复仇成功。

这部电影的逻辑：邻居阿婶我跟你关系一般般而已啦，我不喜欢你家的孩子耶！但我还是帮你带孩子吧，不是我圣母，也不是我们关系好，而是导演叫的……小屁孩我把你扔下算了，小屁孩跟着我，我又把小屁孩扔了，然后又去把小屁孩捡回来……黑手党渣渣来找我，我一枪就崩了他们……我坐完地铁坐巴士，坐的士，闹着玩……

两个人逃命像是逛公园似的，走路慢吞吞，累了喝杯咖啡吃个雪糕，住个旅馆。

黑手党的人全是废物，来一个死一个。但是女主说他们布下了天罗地网，逃不出纽约。阿婶你这么能打，还逃不出去？黑手党的人都是傻乎乎来送死的，你还怕逃不出去？

情感戏就更别说了，两个人十分尴尬……台词也很尴尬……

导演想营造一种两人无处为家，四处逃难，搭乘各种交通工具的慌张和压迫感。对不起，唯一的压迫感就是这部电影太尴尬了。你以为女主要逃亡了，她突然说不如我们坐巴士，找个旅馆歇一下，穿个高跟鞋慢吞吞，天气太热我都懒得逃命了。反正黑手党的人都是废物，我一支小手枪就能搞定。我觉得应该是黑手党要逃命了。这个阿婶拿着小手枪就能把黑手党赶尽杀绝。

《这个杀手不太冷》的动作和感情戏都比这好多了。《女煞》在八十年代也只能算是垃圾，比不过各种B级R级的cult片。没有美感，没有暴力，没有情感，没有恐怖，但也没有所谓中庸之道，让人沉闷。

感觉就是导演为了秀自己老婆人到中年还能四处崩塌，强行加戏……

《女煞葛洛莉》有着中规中矩的制作，无论是运镜、剪辑、叙事，这部片都无甚亮点。这部电影最迷人的地方在于丰满的人物和人物间绝妙的化学反应。

女主角为什么迷人？首先，《女煞葛洛莉》呈现的是一个衰败、肮脏的世界，在这部电影里我们处处能看到萧条的街道、老旧的建筑和贫民窟，甚至片中最有权势的黑帮老大也有个不好使的“缓慢电梯”，而在这个世界里，女主角始终穿着精致、打扮有型，凸显了她与整个环境的格格不入，进一步强调了主题中的“个人对抗体系”。其次，和常见类型片展现的“女人都是天生的母亲”这种刻板印象不同，葛洛莉是位厌恶儿童的单身女性，她的目标不是找个男伴，而是存下钱过安稳生活。这两处独特的处理让葛洛莉的形象丰满又迷人。

一反卡萨维兹常态，本片如同常规类型片一样使用了丰富的配乐，并且丝毫不试图掩饰电影所处的年代。同样的剧本和演员，如果交给一个熟练的类型片导演，比如帕尔马来拍，恐怕电影制作会更精良，几场重头交火戏也会更精彩、更充满悬念。