? 【#夏日國際電影節】銀幕再現：《愛與死》、《喜劇之王》 如果你嫌無厘頭鬧劇硬搞笑，兩大美國名導的知性喜劇必定合你脾胃。對白句句有骨，劇情尖酸反諷，考你能看出多少絃外之音。#活地亞倫 的《#愛與死》將俄式的哲學思辯植入美式的詼諧荒誕，懦夫陰錯陽差成了戰爭英雄，更要刺殺拿破崙；在 #馬田史高西斯 的《#喜劇之王》，#羅拔迪尼路 化身成 #謝利路易 的狂粉，綁架偶像決心要一夜成名，偏偏又真的成功了。

在8月19日映後談，講者王勛談到《愛與死》是活地亞倫早期從瘋狂喜劇轉型的重要作品，密集笑料糅合了不同題材，如監獄父子對談仿傚杜斯妥也夫斯基的文學對話；床戲大玩愛森斯坦蒙太奇理論的剪接方式；白衣死神更直接向仰慕的英瑪褒曼致敬，開啟後期如《安妮荷爾》等哲學探討的喜劇電影類型。

《愛與死》：http://cinefan.com.hk/zh-hant/movie/love-and-death/ 《喜劇之王》：http://cinefan.com.hk/zh-hant/movie/the-king-of-comedy/

? [#SummerIFF17] Back to the Screen: LOVE AND DEATH and THE KING OF COMEDY For those all familiar with #WoodyAllen as the overanxious, underachieving intellectual in Manhattan, you’ll find incredible funs seeing him play a Russian coward-turned-war hero trying to kill Napoleon in LOVE AND DEATH, an early work purportedly a satire of all things Russian. For those all familiar with #MartinScorsese’s crime genre, you’ll find #RobertDeNiro unpredictably hilarious, playing a nerdish man who has gone nuts in kidnapping #JerryLewis just for a chance to become THE KING OF COMEDY, creating the current vogue of “anti-comedy.”

In the post-screening talk on 19 Aug, critic Geoffrey Wong stated that LOVE AND DEATH marked the end of Woody Allen’s early funny period. The film was full of interesting references: the father-son prison talk was a parody of Dostoyevsky; the appearance of the Grim Reaper was taken from Ingmar Bergman’s THE SEVENTH SEAL; and Allen’s slapstick acting was a kind of tribute to Chaplin, Hope and Marx. The mock-serious philosophical debates later became iconic in his classic films like ANNIE HALL.

LoveAndDeath: http://cinefan.com.hk/movie/love-and-death/

TheKingOfComedy: http://cinefan.com.hk/movie/the-king-of-comedy/