溫布爾敦 (2004) （圖）(CH & EN)

《溫布爾敦（ 2004 ）》是一部以網球為背景題材的喜劇片。

我們看過許多以其他體育題材為背景的電影：籃球、足球、棒球和橄欖球，但是很少有人看過涉及網球題材的電影。其主要的原因是要在短期內將一個職業演員訓練到蒙得過影迷眼睛的網球選手的程度實在太難了，甚至連握著網球拍走幾步的動作都不像。所以很少有人願意出資拍這樣電影：風險太大。

作 為同時是網球迷和影迷的漫遊，始終夢想著有一天拍網球題材電影的困難能夠得到克服。據說《溫》是第一部借用了高科技這樣的電影，於是漫遊抱著小心翼翼的心態去看，沒想到卻是興高采烈地回來。一興奮就寫了一篇觀後感。趁今年的溫網賽即將開始之際，特將此文找了出來，湊個熱鬧。

******* 原文 Sep 27, 2004 ，略作修改 *********
Wimbledon (2004)
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, Bernard Hill Directed by: Richard Loncraine
Produced by: Debra Hayward, David Livingstone, Tim Bevan
Genres: Comedy, Romance and Sports
Running Time: 1 hr. 38 min.
Release Date: September 17th, 2004 (wide)
Rating: PG-13 for language, sexuality and partial nudity.
Distributors: Universal Pictures

Usually the beginning of a film can tell me how good a movie will be. This exactly happened when I began watching the movie ‘ Wimbledon ’ last Saturday. It made you feel like watching a tennis match by letting you hear the sound of the ball hitting and bouncing from one side of court to the other. Accordingly the spectators were oscillating their heads from right to left, left to right, back and forth, following an imaginary flying ball from side to side. It is a slower version than a real tennis rhythm but with an artistically exaggerated pops. The great unique tennis rhythm and sound give you such a wonderful feeling of attending an important tennis match. I thought I liked this only because I am an active tennis player. But I was wrong. Other moviegoers, who knew nothing about tennis, have expressed their same feelings about this scene on the Internet.

From time to time I don’t mind to go and see a light movie in a theatre, but the ‘ Wimbledon ’ caught my eves right away because of its involving tennis. I knew there are very few movies about tennis. Before “Wimbledon’ the only such movie I had ever seen was the one about the tennis gender match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King in 1973. Lacking of tennis related films was probably mainly attributed to the difficulty in making an actor look like a real tennis pro on court, as it was the case in Bobby vs. Billie’s. But the ‘ Wimbledon ’ really surprised me. Thanks to the technology, everything on court in the movie looks so real: The serves, ground strokes, topspins, slides, as well as overheads and volleys! Suddenly all your concerns about the fakeness disappeared.

The movie caught the emotional part of tennis very well too, when it showed what was going on in a player’s mind right before each serve at a big point. The film also gave me a few touching moments through the movie. Afterward I saw someone complained about the lacking of original romantic ideas in the plot. But to me it is unique and original, as long as the tennis gets involved.

I must haven’t paid a regular movie ticket for a very long time, because I was a little surprised when I was asked to pay $9.25 for the movie at our local theatre. The cashier said the bargain ticket time ended at 2:00PM and the movie I was going to see started at 2:25PM . But after the movie, I felt it was well worth the money I paid.

[漫遊]

Thenks Melly. But is the blog the only place we can write? :)

[melly]

By the way, I am wondering where you hide all of your old writings? Do you have one more blog? Or you just simply enjoy writing and hiding....hehe...