美女与野兽

不爱特效的艺术家导演，光影就是最好的魔法师。作为影史最杰出的的魔幻片之一，1946版《美女与野兽》所营造的已经不仅仅是梦境般的童话，而是美梦成真的绝妙。精心的剪辑让魔法变成了现实，充满童趣的回忆以简朴真实的影像出现在眼前，再次给了成人相信梦、愿意梦、渴望梦、喜欢梦的力量。

“孩子们总是相信我们说的话，他们对我们总是完全的忠诚，他们相信从花园里采集来的玫瑰会将一个家庭拖入矛盾中，他们相信人兽的手会冒烟，当他杀了一个受害人时，会使野兽感到很羞愧。当一个年轻的少女住在他家里时，他们相信会有很多其他简单的事发生。我希望你有一点孩子般的天真，给我们带来幸运。让我说四个真正有魔力的字，孩童时期的芝麻开门——很久以前......”

片头的开场白所给的提示弥补了影片剧情上的不足之处，例如贝儿与野兽的感情发展毫无转折，与其说顺水推舟倒不如说木已成舟；或者被诅咒的金钥匙来源和王子受诅原因仅仅因不信魔法而一笔带过，而贪婪还是信仰导致受诅咒等等都没有说明。然而拿出小时候读童话的情感来看，这些问题似乎都迎刃而解：这个故事是贝儿和王子的，那他们肯定会渐渐爱上彼此，然后坏人受到惩罚，好人永远幸福，这就够了。所以编剧丝毫没有解释为何野兽常常身冒青烟一身伤痕、贝儿为何爱着第一个向自己求婚的男人却答应了王子的求婚（王子和这个男人共用一张脸是最难以解释清的），他仅仅是让恢复人形的王子带着贝儿飞走了，没错，恢复人形后的王子带着贝儿飞回了自己的王国，而变成了另外一只野兽的男人留在了孤独的城堡之中，等待下一个贪婪人的到来。

本片最大的看点就是依靠光影和化妆营造出人间童话的气氛，戏剧式的肢体表演和台词在精美的服饰和背景衬托下轻易将观众拉回了很久以前：晚风浮起走廊上的窗帘，脆弱的女孩惶恐的迎着月光一步步深入城堡，那时的她还不知道，在爱情开始的时候，人们总是这样惊慌。

第20届法罗岛电影节第3个放映日为大家带来《美女与野兽》，下面请看前线进入野兽城堡的美女们化险为夷的评价了！

果树：

抹去时代滤镜来看不足很多，但无比贴近角色的镜头选择与整体艺术定位带来的唯美观感让人印象深刻。

保嵩：

童话故事是给孩子看的，我们还是别看了，对不起，无感。替身来了，变回人形了，咋还会飞呀。

Morning：

这才是真的丑野兽，不像其它版本只是动物。这部电影是按照童话的逻辑来的，就是忽略成人的逻辑，只给你看表现的这个层面，我比较喜欢野兽的城堡部分，那些真人扮演的塑像和烛台，古怪有趣，这个随着技术进步如此方法也不太能用。贝拉的演技有点糟糕，许多反应她演在前面，这对于童话爱情而言是降低了那个体验的。

Not Here：

先看的2017版的对这一版的期待还挺高。不知道是不是更追求更贴近原本的故事而不是美化后的童话，这种略有诡异的感觉真好。歌剧版的增色效果太好了，没有那一次观影是这样轻飘飘的状态。这一版两主角的关系很有意思，虽然梦幻，但写实感总是在不经意中展现出来。

子夜无人：

算是最早的一版《美女与野兽》电影，剧情上其实改编的是18世纪的法国文学版，而非大家后来更加熟知的迪士尼版本，女主的人设同时融合了贝儿和灰姑娘，男主的特效妆容虽然简陋但全然兽化。当然有打碎童话滤镜的一些阴暗面存在，但仍然没能让我信服这两个人爱情的萌生和由来，她到底何以说出那句“我爱你”，只要这点无法成立，那么它就始终都是童话范畴内才能自圆其说的文本而已。

SONGMJ23：

或许是谷克多最不张扬的一部作品。类似奥菲斯三部曲，在谷克多眼里，童话并非从现实中逃离，而是现实的延伸。整部影片就像一个魔法。

给艾德林的诗：

神话寓言下的“优质电影”。

#FIFF20#第3日的场刊将于稍后释出，请大家拭目以待了。

At Cocteau's behest of retaining our childlike sympathy in the preamble, one should enter his surreal realm of this timeless fairy tale with a tabula rasa (purging the classic Disney animation and Bill Condon’s 2017 extravaganza out of our system for a while), and for today’s new audience, a critical prerequisite of suspending one’s disbelief is to lower the expectation of the Beast’s appearance, who is played by a dreamboat Jean Marais under the camouflage of primitive make-up andclunky costumes.

To one’s sheer amazement, what Cocteau and his uncredited co-director René Clément rip-snortingly constructs is an otherworldly, bizarre setting in and around the Beast’s abode, ripe with magic touches like living statues, disembodied hands and invisible forces, which becomes all the more chilling on the strength of its black-and-white quaintness and orotund audio accompaniment, an exalted achievement which one must see with one’s own eyes to induce that astounding impression.

But contrary to the forbidding surroundings and applied with a faintly subversive flourish, the Beast is emphatically portrayed as a sad-eyed, lovelorn gentleman, without brimming with the assumed masculinity and bestiality (smoke is archly deployed here), and totally throws himself on the mercy of Belle (Day), he accords plenary trust in Belle by granting her a week’s away to visit her bedridden father (André), and bestowing her the key to his fortune in case she chooses to defer her return which will result in him dying with a broken heart, offering his sickly capitulation to a beauteous youth which rousingly empowers Belle’s discretion.

However, it is human-looking monsters that should be answerable to Belle’s delay, namely her two the-green-eyed-monster-spurred sisters Félicie (Parély) and Adélaïde (Germon), her inept brother Ludovic (Auclair) and his friend, a wooer of Belle, Avenant (Marais, again), all schemes to do away with the Beast and take their shares in his treasure trove. As expected, human avarice is punished, none other than by the arrow of Roman goddess Diana, then an inexplicable transmogrification comes about which returns a moribund Beast to his human form, aka, the Prince, when Belle falls completely under his spell of inner kindness and devotion which eventually lessens and surmounts his physical unsavoriness, a dream-comes-true of every plain-looking man and ironically, if one changes both Belle and Beast’s sexes, would the yarn's appeal remain as the same? Highly unlikely.

Granted, Cocteau sprays his own magic potion onto the story’s child-friendly prospect, and its ending comes off as both expected and unexpected, what if Belle prefers the rough-diamond Beast to the four-square Prince? A mischievous Cocteau knows the best.

P.S. for music aficionados, there is an opera version composed by Philip Glass in 1994 available which dubs all the dialogue with a more ear-soothing tenor.

referential films: Bill Condon’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017, 7.1/10),Jean-Pierre Melville’s LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (1950, 6.6/10); René Clément’s FORBIDDEN GAMES (1952, 8.7/10).