導演：彭浩翔 編劇：彭浩翔
演員：鍾欣桐 陶紅 吳彥祖
在《大丈夫》中，毛舜筠體面讓丈夫避過捉姦在床的尷尬，《出埃及記》女性則以上帝的姿態殺男人，彭浩翔看似賦予電影女性無限權力，足以與男人抗衡之餘，更可成為愛情角力的主導。說實話，一切只是彭導描述兩性爭權的一貫風格，兜兜轉轉，女性始終苦無權力，只有短暫的心靈慰藉，《公主復仇記》正是最佳體證。
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November 25, 2009
《公主復仇記》——公主復仇力量大？ / 馮淑儀
導演：彭浩翔 編劇：彭浩翔
演員：鍾欣桐 陶紅 吳彥祖
在《大丈夫》中，毛舜筠體面讓丈夫避過捉姦在床的尷尬，《出埃及記》女性則以上帝的姿態殺男人，彭浩翔看似賦予電影女性無限權力，足以與男人抗衡之餘，更可成為愛情角力的主導。說實話，一切只是彭導描述兩性爭權的一貫風格，兜兜轉轉，女性始終苦無權力，只有短暫的心靈慰藉，《公主復仇記》正是最佳體證。
Film Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street / Gavin Tse
Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, Christopher Bond, John Logan
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jayne Wisener, Ed Sanders
“There was a barber and his wife, and she was beautiful…”The story of Sweeney Todd was a story of lust, betrayal and revenge. Sweeney Todd’s mind was bent on revenge after his wife and daughter had been coveted by a corrupt judge, and himself unjustly hurled into prison. The plot was strikingly similar to Alexandre Dumas’s epic novel The Count of Monte Cristo, hence articulating certain espousals of the traditional revenge plot. Yet while there were strong intertextual echoes to Dumas’s novel, Tim Burton’s stylistic play with colours created a gruesome, bleak, gothic atmosphere within the film. The dark, moody aura signified London as a cannibalistic society, “a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it”. The setting predicated the mode of revenge in the film: the inevitable brutality and ferociousness.
電影評論: 《表姐，你好嘢!》/ 馮淑儀
《表姐，你好嘢!》 (1990)
導演：張堅庭
編劇：張堅庭、黃宏基
演員：鄭裕玲、張堅庭、梁家輝、林蛟
國內幹部鄭碩男 （鄭裕玲飾） 奉命帶同其助手阿勝 （張堅庭飾） 把在國內幫助香港毒販販毒的阿牛回港，指證販毒商人蘇國榮。來港後，鄭碩男得到香港警察伍衛國 （梁家輝飾） 的接待，但不幸讓阿牛逃脫了。鄭碩男唯有留港協助調查，幫手捉拿阿牛，卻受到了神秘的襲擊，只好由伍衛國保護，暫住他的家中。但伍衛國父親——伍天賜 （林蛟飾） 乃國民黨舊幹部，辦理案件期間，他們相互對立，鬧出了不少笑話，令身為香港皇家警察的伍衛國哭笑不得，束手無策。最終，中港的合作，配合上伍衛國父親與其國民黨老朋友的幫助，成功把販毒商人蘇國榮繩之以法。
自一九八四年，中英簽訂《中英聯合聲明》後，踏入一九九零年代，香港人開始關心政治，並且探求「香港人」這個身分的問題，政治成為了喜劇不可多得的諷刺元素，《表姐，你好嘢﹗》就是當中的表表者。在電影中的鄭碩男，被塑造成喜歡充裝、守舊、嚴肅的形象，身為香港人伍衛國卻沒有多大的政治觀念，皆反映了當時香港人對中國、香港，甚至是台灣的形象與關係的觀感。其中，身為國民黨黨員的伍天賜與鄭碩男、阿勝相互對唱 《梅花》、《義勇軍進行曲》 及 《沒有共產黨就沒有新中國》 的一幕，伍衛國卻輕鬆唱出 『Woo . . . 無心睡覺，Woo . . . 國共交戰』 （改篇自張國榮 《無心睡眠》） 等的情節，以及阿勝在吃早餐時，向身穿國民黨軍服的林蛟、公安服飾的鄭碩男與皇家香港警察制服的伍衛國詢問，像他這樣沒有制服的平民可同桌吃飯時的對話，無疑是幽默的情景，卻又不無政治的反映。最後，伍衛國與其父親及鄭碩男合作，一同擒獲蘇國榮，乃對兩岸三地和諧關係的寄望，可見 《表姐，你好嘢﹗》 是一部不可多得的黑色幽默喜劇，不乏笑料之餘，讓人想到當時香港的政治概況。
馮淑儀，香港大學比較文學系二年級生，香港大學學生會文學院學生會比較文學學會2007-2008
年度出版秘書。
導演：張堅庭
編劇：張堅庭、黃宏基
演員：鄭裕玲、張堅庭、梁家輝、林蛟
國內幹部鄭碩男 （鄭裕玲飾） 奉命帶同其助手阿勝 （張堅庭飾） 把在國內幫助香港毒販販毒的阿牛回港，指證販毒商人蘇國榮。來港後，鄭碩男得到香港警察伍衛國 （梁家輝飾） 的接待，但不幸讓阿牛逃脫了。鄭碩男唯有留港協助調查，幫手捉拿阿牛，卻受到了神秘的襲擊，只好由伍衛國保護，暫住他的家中。但伍衛國父親——伍天賜 （林蛟飾） 乃國民黨舊幹部，辦理案件期間，他們相互對立，鬧出了不少笑話，令身為香港皇家警察的伍衛國哭笑不得，束手無策。最終，中港的合作，配合上伍衛國父親與其國民黨老朋友的幫助，成功把販毒商人蘇國榮繩之以法。
自一九八四年，中英簽訂《中英聯合聲明》後，踏入一九九零年代，香港人開始關心政治，並且探求「香港人」這個身分的問題，政治成為了喜劇不可多得的諷刺元素，《表姐，你好嘢﹗》就是當中的表表者。在電影中的鄭碩男，被塑造成喜歡充裝、守舊、嚴肅的形象，身為香港人伍衛國卻沒有多大的政治觀念，皆反映了當時香港人對中國、香港，甚至是台灣的形象與關係的觀感。其中，身為國民黨黨員的伍天賜與鄭碩男、阿勝相互對唱 《梅花》、《義勇軍進行曲》 及 《沒有共產黨就沒有新中國》 的一幕，伍衛國卻輕鬆唱出 『Woo . . . 無心睡覺，Woo . . . 國共交戰』 （改篇自張國榮 《無心睡眠》） 等的情節，以及阿勝在吃早餐時，向身穿國民黨軍服的林蛟、公安服飾的鄭碩男與皇家香港警察制服的伍衛國詢問，像他這樣沒有制服的平民可同桌吃飯時的對話，無疑是幽默的情景，卻又不無政治的反映。最後，伍衛國與其父親及鄭碩男合作，一同擒獲蘇國榮，乃對兩岸三地和諧關係的寄望，可見 《表姐，你好嘢﹗》 是一部不可多得的黑色幽默喜劇，不乏笑料之餘，讓人想到當時香港的政治概況。
馮淑儀，香港大學比較文學系二年級生，香港大學學生會文學院學生會比較文學學會2007-2008
年度出版秘書。
Film Review: I Heart Huckabees / Amory Ho-wang Hui
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Directed by David O. Russell
Written by David O. Russell, Jeff Baena
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts
An environmentalist, a corporate executive, a spokesmodel, a firefighter, two existential detectives and a nihilistic philosopher. What can possibly come out of this bizarre pack?
Whether I Heart Huckabees is a shallow comedy behind the facade of existentialist discussions or a rigorous philosophical piece embellished with absurd drama, it is your case to argue: Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), leader of the Open Spaces Coalition, has been undergoing a series of bemusing coincidences. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) who advocate the experience of 'universal inter-connectedness,' Albert contemplates his life and relationships. Meanwhile, Brad Stand (Jude Law), an executive at Huckabees, a popular chain of retail superstores, infiltrates Open Spaces in planning to build a new store. When Brad also hires the detectives, they examine his apparently fulfilling life and his relationship with his girlfriend, the spokesmodel of Huckabees, Dawn Campbell (Naomi Watts). To complicate matters, Albert meets anti-petroleum firefighter Tommy Corn (Mark Wahlberg) and the two go against Brad with the teachings of the Jaffes' adversary, the French radical Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert), who persuades them to detach from daily concerns and indulge in individualistic pleasures. The film goes on to elaborate the feminist revolt of the philosophically liberated of Dawn, as well as the conflicts between Albert-Tommy and Brad. Eventually, it brings on a confrontation between the two schools of philosophical thoughts and presents a resolution or synthesis of some sort.
While I Heart Huckabees contains commonplace elements of visual hilarity (you get to see a soaked and whining Jude Law), it contextualizes comedy in a dialectic regarding how we relate ourselves to the world. The discussions may be superficial instead of academically solid, but at the very least the film introduces the possibility of a philosophical comedy where humor derives from actions motivated by seemingly opposing doctrines.
Amory Ho-wang Hui is currently a BA year 2 student at HKU, majoring in Comparative Literature. He is the ex-Academic Secretary of Society of Comparative Literature, A.A.H.K.U.S.U., Session 2007-2008.
Directed by David O. Russell
Written by David O. Russell, Jeff Baena
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts
An environmentalist, a corporate executive, a spokesmodel, a firefighter, two existential detectives and a nihilistic philosopher. What can possibly come out of this bizarre pack?
Whether I Heart Huckabees is a shallow comedy behind the facade of existentialist discussions or a rigorous philosophical piece embellished with absurd drama, it is your case to argue: Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), leader of the Open Spaces Coalition, has been undergoing a series of bemusing coincidences. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) who advocate the experience of 'universal inter-connectedness,' Albert contemplates his life and relationships. Meanwhile, Brad Stand (Jude Law), an executive at Huckabees, a popular chain of retail superstores, infiltrates Open Spaces in planning to build a new store. When Brad also hires the detectives, they examine his apparently fulfilling life and his relationship with his girlfriend, the spokesmodel of Huckabees, Dawn Campbell (Naomi Watts). To complicate matters, Albert meets anti-petroleum firefighter Tommy Corn (Mark Wahlberg) and the two go against Brad with the teachings of the Jaffes' adversary, the French radical Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert), who persuades them to detach from daily concerns and indulge in individualistic pleasures. The film goes on to elaborate the feminist revolt of the philosophically liberated of Dawn, as well as the conflicts between Albert-Tommy and Brad. Eventually, it brings on a confrontation between the two schools of philosophical thoughts and presents a resolution or synthesis of some sort.
While I Heart Huckabees contains commonplace elements of visual hilarity (you get to see a soaked and whining Jude Law), it contextualizes comedy in a dialectic regarding how we relate ourselves to the world. The discussions may be superficial instead of academically solid, but at the very least the film introduces the possibility of a philosophical comedy where humor derives from actions motivated by seemingly opposing doctrines.
Amory Ho-wang Hui is currently a BA year 2 student at HKU, majoring in Comparative Literature. He is the ex-Academic Secretary of Society of Comparative Literature, A.A.H.K.U.S.U., Session 2007-2008.
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