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百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[50]Zodiac 十二宮

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導(dǎo)演:大衛(wèi)·芬奇
編?。赫材匪?middot;范德比爾特
主演:杰克·吉倫哈爾/馬克·魯弗洛
安東尼·愛德華玆
小羅伯特·唐尼
首映日期:2007-03-02
百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[50]Zodiac 十二宮
With its unhurried pace and cerebrally engaging plot, Zodiac is an unusually haunting and compelling horror film.
伴隨從容的節(jié)奏和理智的動人情節(jié),《十二宮》是一部讓人非常困擾和信服的恐怖電影。
——Claudia Puig, USA Today
A film that is both emotionally and intellectually unsettling.
這部電影在情感和理智上都讓人不安。
——Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
This was a really good film. I was on the edge of my seat and the fact that it's a true story is an even more scary thought. All of the cast were exceptional.
這真是一部好電影。我一直很緊張,而更讓人提心吊膽的是這是一個真實的故事。所有的演員都表現(xiàn)非凡。
——Murphmann93

The film opens on July 4, 1969, with the Zodiac killer's second attack, the shooting of Darlene Ferrin(Ciara Hughes)and Mike Mageau(Lee Norris)at a lovers' lane in Vallejo, California. Mageau survives while Ferrin dies from her injuries.
One month later, a letter written by the Zodiac arrives at the San Francisco Chronicle. Paul Avery(Robert Downey, Jr.)is a Chronicle crime reporter. Robert Graysmith(Jake Gyllenhaal)is a political cartoonist there. The newspaper receives encrypted letters that the killer sends, taunting the police. Because of Graysmith's status as a cartoonist, he is not taken seriously by Avery and the editors and is excluded from the initial details about the killings despite his interest in the case. In particular, he is drawn to the encrypted code that is included with the letters and is given access to one. When he is able to crack one of the codes and makes several correct guesses about the killer's actions, Avery begins sharing information with him. While at a bar together drinking Aqua Velvas, which Avery initially makes fun of Graysmith, they discuss the coded letters.
The Zodiac killer attacks again, stabbing Bryan Hartnell(Patrick Scott Lewis)and Cecelia Shepard(Pell James)at Lake Berryessa in Napa County. Shepard dies as a result of the attack, while Hartnell survives. Soon afterward, San Francisco taxicab driver Paul Stine is shot and killed in the city's Presidio Heights district. San Francisco police detectives Dave Toschi(Mark Ruffalo)and his partner Bill Armstrong(Anthony Edwards)are assigned to the case, liaising with other detectives such as Jack Mulanax(Elias Koteas)in Vallejo and Ken Narlow(Donal Logue)in Napa. The killer, or someone posing as him, continues to toy with authorities by speaking on the phone with celebrity lawyer Melvin Belli(Brian Cox)when he makes an appearance on a television talk show. Avery and Graysmith form an alliance, delving deeper into the case.
In 1971, Toschi, Armstrong and Mulanax question Arthur Leigh Allen(John Carroll Lynch), a potential suspect in the case. However, a handwriting expert(Philip Baker Hall)insists that Allen did not write the Zodiac letters. Avery receives a new letter threatening his life. He becomes increasingly paranoid and turns to drugs and alcohol. At one point he shares information with a rival police force, angering Toschi and Armstrong.
百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[50]Zodiac 十二宮
By 1975, Avery leaves the Chronicle. Armstrong quits the homicide division, and Toschi is demoted for supposedly forging a Zodiac letter. Graysmith, meanwhile, continues his own in-depth investigation, interviewing witnesses and police detectives involved in the case. Obsessing over the unsolved case, he begins receiving anonymous phone calls with heavy breathing(on the night of Ferrin's death, Graysmith discovered that someone prank-called the victim's family and did the same thing), Because of his submersion in the case, Graysmith loses his job and his wife Melanie(Chloe Sevigny)leaves him, taking their children with her.
Graysmith persistently contacts Toschi about the Zodiac murders and eventually impresses the veteran detective with his knowledge of the case. While Toschi cannot directly give Graysmith access to the information he discovered over the years, he provides contacts of other police departments in counties where the other murders occinred, The cartoonist acquires more information that points to Allen as the Zodiac, and although circumstantial evidence seems to indicate his guilt, the hard evidence, such as fingerprints and handwriting samples, exonerate him.
In December 1983, a full 14 years after the original slayings, Graysmith tracks Allen down to a Vallejo hardware store, where he is employed as a sales clerk. After Allen asks if he can help Graysmith with anything, they stare at each other for a moment with blank expressions before Graysmith simply replies with a “No”,and leaves the hardware store.
Eight years later, in 1991, Mageau(Jimmi Simpson)meets with authorities and identifies Allen from a police mugshot.
Final title cards, however, inform the audience that Allen died in 1992 before he could be questioned further by police, and that DNA tests performed in 2002 did not match samples gathered from the Zodiac letters.
影片開場是在1969年7月4日,十二宮殺手的第二次襲擊發(fā)生在加利福尼亞的瓦列霍的一個情侶小路上,達(dá)琳·費林(席亞拉·休斯飾)與邁克·麥基歐(李·諾里斯飾)被槍擊,費林重傷致死,麥基歐則幸存了下來。
一個月后,《舊金山紀(jì)事報》收到了一封來自十二宮殺手的信。保羅·艾弗里(小羅伯特·唐尼飾)是《舊金山紀(jì)事報》犯罪欄目的一個記者。羅伯特·格雷史密斯(杰克·吉倫哈爾飾)是政治諷刺漫畫家。報社接到了殺手送來的嘲弄警察的密碼信件。因為格雷史密斯是一個漫畫家,艾弗里與編輯都沒有認(rèn)真對待他,雖然他對兇案很感興趣,卻沒有讓他看兇殺案的原始細(xì)節(jié)。很特別的是,他沉迷于信中包含的密碼里,并被允許接觸其中一封。當(dāng)他破解了其中的一個密碼,并猜中了殺手的一些行動后,艾弗里開始與他共享信息。他們在酒吧一起喝Aqua Velvas時,也就是艾弗里一開始取笑格雷史密斯的酒吧,他們開始討論密碼信件。
十二宮殺手開始了新的襲擊行動,他在納帕縣的蒙蒂塞洛漏斗水壩襲擊了布賴恩·哈特納爾(帕特里克·斯科特·劉易斯飾)與塞西莉亞·謝潑德(佩爾·詹姆斯飾)。謝潑德被殺死了,哈特納爾活了下來。不久之后,在舊金山的普雷西迪奧高地區(qū),出租車司機(jī)保羅·史坦恩被槍殺。舊金山警探戴夫·特斯奇(馬克·魯弗洛飾)與他的搭檔比爾·阿姆斯特朗(安東尼·愛德華茲飾)負(fù)責(zé)這個案件。他們與其他偵探進(jìn)行聯(lián)系,如瓦列霍的杰克·穆拉納科斯(伊萊亞斯·考迪亞斯飾)與納帕的肯恩·納洛(唐納爾·羅格飾)。殺手,或者冒充他的人,通過給正在參加電視脫口秀節(jié)目的著名律師梅爾文·貝里(布萊恩·考克斯飾)打電話,來繼續(xù)玩弄當(dāng)局。
百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[50]Zodiac 十二宮
1971年,特斯奇,阿姆斯特朗與穆拉納科斯正在詢問嫌疑犯亞瑟·利·艾倫(約翰·卡洛·林奇飾)。然而,筆跡鑒定專家(菲利浦·貝克·霍爾飾)堅持認(rèn)為十二宮信件不是艾倫寫的。艾弗里收到了一封新的威脅信。他開始越來越沉迷于毒品與酒精。有一次,他與一名與他們競爭的警察共享了信息,特斯奇與阿姆斯特朗都很生氣。
到了1975年,艾弗里離開了紀(jì)事報。阿姆斯特朗退出了兇殺案部科,特斯奇由于被懷疑偽造十二宮殺手的信件而被降級。與此同時,格雷史密斯獨自一人繼續(xù)調(diào)查采訪涉案的目擊者與警探。格雷史密斯執(zhí)著于這些未解決的案件時,他開始接到一些只有沉重呼吸聲的匿名電話(在費林死亡的那晚,格雷史密斯發(fā)現(xiàn)受害者家屬接到了同樣的惡作劇電話)。由于他過于沉迷于案件,他失去了工作,他的妻子梅勒妮(科洛·塞維尼飾)也帶著孩子離開了他。
格雷史密斯不斷地就十二宮兇殺案與特斯奇聯(lián)系,他對案件的了解程度,連經(jīng)驗豐富的偵探都印象深刻。當(dāng)特斯奇不能直接給格雷史密斯提供他這些年發(fā)現(xiàn)的線索時,他給他提供了其他謀殺案發(fā)生地警局的聯(lián)系方式。漫畫家發(fā)現(xiàn)了更多的線索來證明艾倫就是十二宮殺手,盡管間接證據(jù)表明他有罪,但無法找到能定罪的直接證據(jù),如指紋、筆跡樣本。

1983年12月,最早的兇殺案發(fā)生十二年后,格雷史密斯跟蹤艾倫到瓦列霍的五金商店,艾倫是這里的一名銷售員。艾倫問格雷史密斯是否需要幫助,他們什么都沒說只是互相盯著看了一會。格雷史密斯回答說“不需要”,然后離開了五金商店。
8年后,在1991年,麥基歐(吉米·辛普森飾)被當(dāng)局召喚來從警方的面部照片中指認(rèn)艾倫。
然而,最后顯示的字幕告訴觀眾,艾倫在被警方進(jìn)一步審訊前,就在1992年去世了。而2002年進(jìn)行的DNA測試則發(fā)現(xiàn),艾倫的DNA與十二宮信件中發(fā)現(xiàn)的DNA樣本不一致。

cartoonist[kɑ:'tu:nist]n. 漫畫家
exclude[iks'klu:d]vt. 排除;排斥;拒絕接納;逐出
liaise[li'eiz]vi. 保持聯(lián)絡(luò);擔(dān)任聯(lián)絡(luò)官
alliance[?'lai?ns]n. 聯(lián)盟;聯(lián)合;聯(lián)姻
handwriting['hænd?raiti?]n. 筆跡;書法;書寫;手稿
submersion[s?b'm?:??n]n. 淹沒;浸沒
circumstantial[?s?:k?m'stæn∫?l]adj. 依照情況的;詳細(xì)的;詳盡的
exonerate[ig'z?n?reit]vt. 使免罪
重點掌握
■ ...continues to toy with authorities by speaking on the phone with celebrity lawyer Melvin Belli...
我們都知道,toy作為名詞使用時,有“玩具”的意思,作為動詞使用時,有“玩弄;調(diào)情”的意思。所以文中,toy with是“輕率地對待;不太認(rèn)真地考慮”的意思,比如:George toyed with the idea of buying a car. 喬治動過買車的念頭,但只是隨便想想而已。此外,toy with還可用來表達(dá)“調(diào)戲;與……調(diào)情;玩弄(女人感情等)”的意思,比如:Never toy with a woman's feelings or it could be the worse for you!絕對不要玩弄女人的感情,否則你將遭到報應(yīng)!

Chloe Sevigny Interviewed by Paul Fischer
You don't do these kinds of big movies very often, if at all, and so first of all what did you think you could do with this character when it was offered to you?
I agreed to do the movie not so much as a character as just more so to serve the greater good of the movie and to work with David Fincher, because I think that he has a very distinct vision amongst all of these kinds of mediocre filmmakers working today in the business. Then I thought the character was interesting in that she's not this kind of girly girl but she's very practical, smart and kind of tough with her husband and I like that about her in that aspect of their relationship. Also she was very respectful of him and kind of let him run his course with this whole Zodiac mess that he had gotten himself into.
Now I mean in your case you didn't really need to do any research on this because I assume that in terms of your character,it's pretty much what's on the page. Did you allow yourself to do anything, did you meet with the real character?
I read most of Zodiac Unmasked. I didn't get through it because I found all of the insane detailing into all of the investigations just a little too much for my taste and a little hard to get through and the violence was definitely hard for me to read. It was very disturbing and I met with the real wife of Robert Graysmith. She came to the set with her daughter, briefly. But we didn't really get too in depth into their relationship or her life or anything.
百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[50]Zodiac 十二宮
你并不經(jīng)常拍這樣的大片,即使有的話,這也是第一次,是什么讓你認(rèn)為你能接拍提供給你的這個角色?
我同意拍這部電影不是只考慮角色,更多的是能為這部電影服務(wù)以及能和大衛(wèi)·芬奇一起合作,因為我認(rèn)為,在所有這類平庸的電影制作人打理業(yè)務(wù)的今天,他有著非常獨特的視角。還有我覺得這個角色很有趣,因為她不是那種嗲聲嗲氣的女孩,但是她很實際、很聰明,和她的丈夫有些糾結(jié),我喜歡他們之間的關(guān)系的那一面。還有她很尊重他,讓他調(diào)查整個十二宮那些亂事兒,他得到了自我實現(xiàn)。
現(xiàn)在我是說,就你的情況,你真的不需要在這上面做任何的研究,因為我的假定是根據(jù)你的角色而言的,這顯而易見。你有沒有讓自己做些什么?你見過真實的這樣的人物嗎?
我讀過《解開十二宮的真相》的大部分。我沒讀完,因為我發(fā)現(xiàn)所有的進(jìn)入調(diào)研的瘋狂細(xì)節(jié),對我來說有點太多了,有點難以讀完,對我來說暴力絕對是很難讀的,非常令人不安。我見過羅伯特·格雷史密斯真正的妻子。她和她的女兒來過拍攝現(xiàn)場,很短。但我們真的沒能太深人到他們之間的關(guān)系,或她的生活或任何事。

編劇西恩·薩勒諾(Shane Salerno)在他19歲的時候就買下了羅伯特·格雷史密斯(Robert Graysmith)的小說《十二宮》的版權(quán),并與格雷史密斯兩人在故事方面鉆研推敲了多年,然后把劇本賣給了迪斯尼旗下的試金石影業(yè),得到了七位數(shù)的稿酬。雖然本片的編劇不包括西恩·薩勒諾,可是他確實曾為那個描述真實的舊金山系列殺人犯的故事撰寫過多個版本的劇本。

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