金钱本色

#1 Diegetic Sound Effect

In a movie, diegetic sound can be a very effective way to grab the attention of characters, and also the attention of the audience. At the beginning of The Colour of Money, the conversation between Eddie and his girlfriend is interrupted five times. This is to generally move his attention to the other main character, Vincent Laura. It also makes the audience begin to notice and focus on a new character. The process of the whole transition is done smoothly. When Eddie is chatting with his girlfriend, the first interruption comes in a sudden. Julian touches Eddie's shoulder to lead his attention from his girlfriend to the pool game, which indicates the audience about the other character, Vincent. As Eddie is looking at Vincent, a sharp car horn comes suddenly. This is a non-diegetic sound because it is only shown to the audience. The car horn indicates Eddie's mind and symbolizes the transition of his attention. Also, it is a subtle way to move the camera back to Eddie's scene. Additionally, the second interruption happens when Julian is trying to get the money on the table, while Eddie is astonished and quickly grabs Julian’s hand in a loud and sudden sound. The purpose of this diegetic sound is to tell that Julian is beaten by that young guy, which is a big suprise. The third interruption is Carmen's voice, calling Vincent by name, along with a ball colliding sound. It makes Eddie turns his head to the table curiously. At that time Vincent's face is first shown. When Eddie turns to his girlfriend later, the fourth interruption comes again. Vincent wins the pool games. He shouts like a kid and kisses Carmen. His shouting and the kissing sound are obviously diegetic sound because Eddie turns to them and observes them for a much longer time. This time, he shows the real interest to Vincent, the talented young man who might remind him of his early age. That's why after the fifth interruption, when Eddie hears Carmen's voice again, he cannot sit still anymore. He stands up, and walks to Vincent. Five steps, the director successfully raises Eddie's interest to Vincent, and transfers the audience's attention to the new character from Eddie.

#2 Non-diegetic Sound Effect

 A diegetic music may switch to non-diegetic music to indicate the change of character's moods and feelings. For example, a nice, smoothing bar music is on as Eddie enters the pool game room. This is the first time he decides to play pool game again after so many years. Therefore, the bar music, which is the diegetic music, is very soft and relaxing. The music shows Eddie's happy feeling and his great expectation for pool games. He hopes to give an excellent performance as goog as twenty years ago. With this kind of confidence, Eddie plays his game with a young hustler. He keeps winning at first, just like what he expects. It seems that Eddie is still a skllful and professional player. However, along with the hustler's ball dropping into the pocket, the bar music changes dramatically to non-diegetic music. This is a very loud, sharp interrupting sound played by the guitar, which acts as the turning point of the pool game. Eddie begins to lose, and realizes that he is hustled. After the first shot of the guitar, the music turns down, and becomes diegetic again. This time, the bar music is no longer in a happy tone. Instead, it is a sad music about a man laughing at his ridiculous life, which is like Eddie's state for now. He feels himself like a fool. After the game, he picks the white ball, and drops it down into the pocket. The ball keeps going down, down, down into the system under the table, along with Eddie's heart. At that moment, he feels down and upset like the falling white ball. In a pool game, a person will lose if he hits the white ball into the pocket. The white ball symbolizes losing. After all these years, Eddie still feels like he is a loser. The sound of the ball is so clear, but it should not be heard by characters. In this situation, the sound is neither diegetic nor non-diegetic. Still, the characters can hear a little bit of the ball crashing into the system, but most of the time the sound is imagined by Eddie. It is the sound of his heart filled with disappointment. According to the third scene of the movie, the music keeps changing between diegetic and non-diegetic. Sometimes it does not even belong to diegetic or non-diegetic music. All these changes are for one purpose only. To make the audience feel what a character feels.

7分。《江湖浪子》的续集。当年的毛头小伙子已经成了大佬，而新一代的高手却取代了自己当年的位置。年纪大了后的Newman气场真的是不一样了，显得睿智，成熟。而Tom Cruise那时候真的好年轻啊，那股朝气蓬勃的样子让人难忘。至于那女猪花瓶，完全不知道出现在片子里有什么用处嘛～～～

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《金钱本色》 The Color of Money 年代：1986年 / 国家：美国 / 导演：马丁·斯科塞斯 / 主演：保罗·纽曼、汤姆·克鲁斯

     说实话，我真的没看出来这竟然是马丁·斯科塞斯的电影。事实上，这部《金钱本色》在斯科塞斯的电影履历表中的地位，完全比不上对于两位主演来说的重要性。保罗·纽曼延续了25年前的《江湖浪子》中相同的角色，但是心境已经随着年龄发生了巨大的变化，这个走心的角色让年过60岁的他捧起了一座奥斯卡最佳男主角的奖杯——也是唯一一座。该片的另一大贡献是捧出当时还是个愣头青的演员汤姆·克鲁斯。他那时年仅24岁，光洁无瑕的脸庞棱角分明，留着当时特别流行的潮流发型，简直是迷倒了一票女粉丝。同年的《壮志凌云》则让他彻底步入当红炸子鸡的行列。不得不说，阿汤哥非常幸运，除了有保罗·纽曼的保驾护航，两年后又在《雨人》跟达斯汀·霍夫曼飙戏，十足是“老带新”潮流中获益最多的一位新晋小生。
    虽然没有明说，但谁都能看出来《金钱本色》其实就是《江湖浪子》的续集，当年那个打台球的艾迪，如今也成了花甲老人，于是他也寻觅到了自己的接班人：文森特。文森特的进步也让他想要重出江湖，但他发现江湖已经抛弃了他，甚至最终还要面对与自己的徒弟同台竞争的局面。其实整个故事就是一个很明显的预言：好莱坞已经开始更新换代了。

亮点1
    第70分钟，在文森特和艾迪的这场对话中，镜头在艾迪身后进行了横移，也就是说文森特从画面的右侧，移到了画面的左侧。这违反了表现两个人物关系镜头的基本法则，即出现了“越轴”，但作为“新好莱坞”的主要导演之一，斯科塞斯反常规地尝试刷新电影语言，也是做出了贡献，比如陆川就曾在《寻枪》中让镜头干脆围着两着两个角色旋转。



亮点2
   第114分钟，艾迪一句“让我们消除恩怨吧！”导致了两人半分钟的沉默，随后文森特和艾迪拿起球杆，两人在球桌上一球泯恩仇。其实这一球也很有象征意义，代表着两代电影人的交替，不过最后艾迪的一句“我来了”，也颇有“烈士暮年，壮心不已”的豪壮感。


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        影片讲述的是一个隐退的台球老手艾迪在酒吧里偶遇一个年轻的台球天才文森特，艾迪觉得相互合作有刺激也有利可图，于是艾迪引文森特上道，教其怎样在球局中设局赢钱，随着诈骗之旅的继续，艾迪对自己的人生意义感到一种危机，后艾迪选择直面人生矛盾，自己救赎了自己，这样的一个故事。

    文森特，由当时奶油味十足的汤姆克鲁斯扮演，帅气十足，台球天才，技术了得，机灵又爱玩，在一家超市做导购。

    当他们相遇在台球桌旁的时候，艾迪被眼前这个小伙子吸引了，时空仿佛发生了对折，眼前这个风华正茂，意气昂扬的小伙子就像当年的自己，回忆突然清晰地在现实中放映，心中封存的往事一下涌上心头，残存心底的激情与渴望被再次点燃！

     艾迪按肯定耐不住了，很显然表面淡定的他热血上涌了，他决定培养这个年轻后生，也许是想圈点钱，想借着文森特重温一下年轻时的刺激生活，想再感受一次当年那个叱咤风云的自己，想再走一次青春……

   于是他开始怂恿蛊惑，利用人的欲望，猜忌，搞定了文森特和其深爱的女友，捆绑上路，一路上用尽各种办法让其“成长”——怎么恰当好处地利用球技设局骗钱……

     随着文森特的上道，一个个熟套的骗局下，一技技精准完美的撞击，一沓沓厚厚的钞票，那种左右局势的刺激感，把艾迪尘封已久的那段美妙的记忆给彻底唤醒了，他再次热血沸腾了，一股涌动的力量支配着艾迪，他配了副新的眼镜，拿上送给文森特的家伙后，到老友的球场里尽情地发泄着，释放着。

      一开始惊喜不断，似乎当年的状态又回来了，但到最后，一个由福里斯特·惠特克扮演的业余球手终结了这个幻觉，也许是对手的运气，连输很多盘后，艾迪快要崩溃了，给钱的时候，精神貌似有些恍惚的艾迪连问了好几句“你是在骗钱么”。

    此时我们或许对艾迪这个人物有些了解了。

    看起来六十多岁的他，混迹酒吧，西装革履，英俊潇洒，单身一人，泡着吧女，过着一种放荡不羁的自由生活。我们大概能想象二十多年前的艾迪差不多也就是现在这个状态，看似自信自负自由地活着，因为他骗过很多人，观察过很多人，自自诩在人类学上很在行，懂得怎么在人群中钻营，不用说他肯定鄙视那种平凡的人和平凡的生活，他享受那种掌控一切的自由感，他看透了人生，看透了人性，所以长时间过着一种生活他会寂寞，无聊，对生活感到乏味，甚至连酒精都不再刺激，所以他看上了文森特！他通过文森特看到了自己曾拥有过的那段刺激的时光！

    但是随着故事的继续，艾迪脱轨了，在钱上脱轨了，在这种生活上脱轨了，深谙人性的他知道钱已经不是他真正想要的了，而眼前那个对诈骗游刃有余的小骗子不就是当年的自己么，一面鲜活的镜子竖在他面前，照的他无处可逃，突然间他如大梦初醒！

    他决定要找回当年迷失掉的自己，从球桌上赢回自己……

    骗人骗了一辈子，最后发现自己才是最大的傻瓜，生活中最大的受骗者，无法估算自己到底错过了多少，他被钱裹挟了，那些极具讽刺意味的钱大概就是支付自己一次次变傻的报酬吧，亏大了！

    colour of money？醉生梦死！

粗看了遍，没太费力琢磨蛮值得琢磨的台词。老帅哥Paul Newman的表演完全盖过了小帅哥汤酷，无悬念的得了当年的小金人。小汤当年正在壮志凌云的年代，多年混小角色终于能够和大牌导演老明星齐名共镜除了运气也的确有演技。不过彼时的他如同片中的角色，还嫩呢。

本片的模式，老家伙欣赏、提携、教导、磨砺小家伙，小家伙成长、成名、独立、与老家伙反目、争斗，nine ball or what，无伦输赢，这就是人生。结尾超帅，击节。

教科书式的摄影没得oscar有些遗憾，干净利落如同九球入袋的爽快。

非常美国的片子，带着浓浓的导演个人风格。我喜欢这份纯粹。

        其色冷，其蕊玄，其瑛锐，它开放在诡道的边缘，带着锐利温柔的诱惑。
        一个失意的人为了找回自己失去的东西，努力奋斗，坚持不懈。这个女人在后来背叛了文森特，文森特更加的偏执于金钱。
        只有成熟的人才会看见胜负的影射背后的实体，那只能是——利益。现在赢不赢，在利益面前，不重要。利益是一个长期的，长久的，长远的，获得过程极痛苦的东西。而真正意义上的‘赢’，也只有在获得利益的情况下才算是‘赢’。
        金钱到底是什么颜色的？在今天这样的社会，如果非要对于个人的人生选择加上什么价值判断似乎很没劲，也没意思，但不论怎么样，人活着总得有点追求，甭管你追求的是什么，最重要的是你那种向着目标努力的劲儿。不管金钱是什么颜色的，你只有通过努力拿到了金钱，才能看清它的颜色。
        金钱的魅力和诱惑是怎样把一个青涩的青年变成了一个只为了金钱而不讲良心和道德的赌徒，而一个老道的老手是怎样放弃了金钱的诱惑，讲了一把良心和荣誉。
        有的时候，你看上去是输了，但实际上你却赢了。