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HBO 的電視劇 Sex & the City 有好幾個元素讓我著迷: 女性問題的全方位探討, 內心世界的真實披露, 不同理念和生活方式的實踐, 主人公在精神上的迷茫和成長, 還有, 無論生活如何起伏, 永遠可以依靠的忠誠的女友, 這部電視劇將女人之間的友情展現出前所未有的深度. 更不用說多姿多彩的時尚, 熟悉的紐約街景, 和妙趣橫生的經典對話. 所有這些, 讓我覺得Sex & the City 是一個空前的跨時代的女性電視劇.
這套劇伴我渡過了最後幾年的單身女郎生活, 是同女友們聚會必談的話題. 後來我還把老公也拉進來陪我一起看, 雖然他不承認是粉絲(尤其在哥們麵前), 但我知道他也常常被四個女人的對話逗得樂不可支.
直到幾天前, 我看了這一部老電影 An Unmarried Woman, 才知道原來 Sex & the City 根本談不上空前, 甚至談不上原創, 所有以上我提到的元素它全都有, 它的message也差不多, 我想這電影應該可以說是SNTC的鼻祖吧?
故事情節很簡單, 但很緊湊, 我懶得寫了, 從IMDB抄來這個故事簡介:
Erica (Jill Clayburgh), is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. The film shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right rather than as an extension of somebody else's personality, and finally going out with another man. Erica refuses to drop everything for Saul (Alan Bates), an abstract expressionist painter, simply out of love for him because he expects her to. It is not so much loneliness that is her problem, and the problems that men, flitting around this newly "available" woman like moths round a flame, bring to her sense of independence.
Erica在我看來, 是Carrie 和 Charlotte的混合體. 她的外表也介於她們之間, 出門的時候高雅大方, 看上去非常 upper east, 然而在家裏也有穿內褲跳舞的場景, 令人忍俊不禁. 故事發展到後來, 她也有些比較大膽前衛的funky的打扮, 尤其最後一個場景, Erica抗著比自己還高的油畫, 行走於曼哈頓的大街小巷. 她穿著白色緊身的tank top, 下麵配著白色束腰大擺裙, 長批肩卷發, 瘦瘦的如同巴蕾舞演員的身材, 恍忽如重見Carrie.
這部拍攝於1978年的電影在三十多年後的今天看來, 居然非常摩登, 不論是裏麵的主題, 對話, 甚至fashion, 都絲毫沒有過時的感覺. 包括紐約的街景, 雖然街道上的建築和店鋪完全不同, 但各個neighborhood的大致感覺還是沒有變. 還能輕易辨認出哪裏是Soho, 那裏是Upper East, 哪裏是 Chinatown, FDR, 等等. 這更加強了電影的現代感, 仿佛時光倒流三十年, 發現那時的人們居然和我們今天的人有同樣的喜怒哀樂, 麵臨的也是同樣的問題. 真是”太陽底下沒有新鮮事”啊! 正如它的電影海報上寫的:
“She laughs, she cries, she feels angry, she feels lonely, she feels guilty, she makes breakfast, she makes love, she makes do, she is strong, she is weak, she is brave, she is scared, she is... an unmarried woman.”
這套劇伴我渡過了最後幾年的單身女郎生活, 是同女友們聚會必談的話題. 後來我還把老公也拉進來陪我一起看, 雖然他不承認是粉絲(尤其在哥們麵前), 但我知道他也常常被四個女人的對話逗得樂不可支.
直到幾天前, 我看了這一部老電影 An Unmarried Woman, 才知道原來 Sex & the City 根本談不上空前, 甚至談不上原創, 所有以上我提到的元素它全都有, 它的message也差不多, 我想這電影應該可以說是SNTC的鼻祖吧?
故事情節很簡單, 但很緊湊, 我懶得寫了, 從IMDB抄來這個故事簡介:
Erica (Jill Clayburgh), is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. The film shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right rather than as an extension of somebody else's personality, and finally going out with another man. Erica refuses to drop everything for Saul (Alan Bates), an abstract expressionist painter, simply out of love for him because he expects her to. It is not so much loneliness that is her problem, and the problems that men, flitting around this newly "available" woman like moths round a flame, bring to her sense of independence.
Erica在我看來, 是Carrie 和 Charlotte的混合體. 她的外表也介於她們之間, 出門的時候高雅大方, 看上去非常 upper east, 然而在家裏也有穿內褲跳舞的場景, 令人忍俊不禁. 故事發展到後來, 她也有些比較大膽前衛的funky的打扮, 尤其最後一個場景, Erica抗著比自己還高的油畫, 行走於曼哈頓的大街小巷. 她穿著白色緊身的tank top, 下麵配著白色束腰大擺裙, 長批肩卷發, 瘦瘦的如同巴蕾舞演員的身材, 恍忽如重見Carrie.
這部拍攝於1978年的電影在三十多年後的今天看來, 居然非常摩登, 不論是裏麵的主題, 對話, 甚至fashion, 都絲毫沒有過時的感覺. 包括紐約的街景, 雖然街道上的建築和店鋪完全不同, 但各個neighborhood的大致感覺還是沒有變. 還能輕易辨認出哪裏是Soho, 那裏是Upper East, 哪裏是 Chinatown, FDR, 等等. 這更加強了電影的現代感, 仿佛時光倒流三十年, 發現那時的人們居然和我們今天的人有同樣的喜怒哀樂, 麵臨的也是同樣的問題. 真是”太陽底下沒有新鮮事”啊! 正如它的電影海報上寫的:
“She laughs, she cries, she feels angry, she feels lonely, she feels guilty, she makes breakfast, she makes love, she makes do, she is strong, she is weak, she is brave, she is scared, she is... an unmarried woman.”
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