塘鹅暗杀令英语

    记得悬疑电影大师希区柯克曾经说过：“悬疑电影和普通电影的普别在于：在普通电影里，观众不知道桌下藏有一颗炸弹，然后炸弹会突然爆炸；而在悬疑电影里，观众知道桌下藏有一颗炸弹，而且看着炸弹上的表在倒计时，但不到最后一刻永远不知道这颗炸弹是否会爆炸。只有这样，观众的心才会跟着电影里人物的处境一起颤动。”
    大师的思想多次出现于《塘鹅暗杀令》中，无论是躲在橱柜里的杀手，还是掩在衣服下的手枪，或是藏在车下的炸弹，都跟桌下的炸弹一样，不到最后一刻你永远不会知道结果是什么。如果这种情节多次出现，聪明的观众可能会推测出结果，但却依然要紧张电影里身处险境人物的命运。

沼泽上纷飞的塘鹅与东莞夜色下的姐妹
       吃饭的时候，朋友还在玩着他那2年前的苹果4，忽然对我说，原来东莞最大的夜总会老板的太子辉，在卡塔尔搞了好几个油田，投了好多亿；看看，触动了石油大佬的生意，被人搞死了吧，皮肉生意都搞不成了。这是腾讯的新闻。
    这不由让我想起了前几天看过的一部片子，《塘鹅暗杀令》，导演帕库拉，主演 朱莉娅·罗伯茨 、丹泽尔·华盛顿，颇有异曲同工之妙。

    影片的开端由三条线组成，貌美如花、聪明睿智的某法学院大三学生茱莉亚，正在和其法学院教授师生恋搞的如火如荼；高大帅气的丹尼尔是知名记者，正在为美国各种环保问题奔走；一个行将就木的高等法院大法官，和一个偷偷溜到三级片电影看片的高等法院大法官。

形势急转直下，两个高等法院大法官转瞬之间干脆利落的被人杀死，整个美国为之震惊，在总统督促之下，fbi、cia各路人马纷纷出动寻找答案。

    茱莉亚在与其教授情人一阵缠绵之后，茶余饭后之余聊到此事，一时起想，奔走各大图书馆之间，搜罗各类资料，然后运用各种分析手段，抽丝剥茧，整理出一份档案，名为《塘鹅报告》。又是在与其教师情人一阵缠绵之后，茱莉亚把这份报告给了其教授情人。而其教授情人在随意之中把这份报告给了其在fbi的朋友，这位朋友也在随意之中给其同僚传阅，大家都没把这份报告当回事。

    忽然之中，情人教授发动汽车爆炸身亡，侥幸逃脱的茱莉亚随之遇到各路人马的追杀，最后找到丹泽尔，再次在逃避追杀与寻找证据之间游走，最后把真相公之于众。大批人马下台，总统退出续届选举。

    在丹泽尔在电视上受采访，唏嘘不已的时候，茱莉亚隐姓埋名，别走他乡。

    我对苏苏说，这事真不好玩，谁碰谁死。

     《塘鹅报告》的论点是，总统的金主，马氏集团在沼泽的那段发现了好大的油田，值好大的钱。但是要把油采出来，得在沼泽的下面铺设油管，而这会破坏这大片的湿地。环保人士最后发现了在这沼泽之上有一群塘鹅，是濒临灭绝的动物，根据美国某个法案，是绝对要保护的。马氏集团绕不过这个坎，但是有好多好多的钱，于是准备把立法的大法官解决掉，然后让继任的大法官修改这份法案。是为《塘鹅报告》，真相如此简单。

    塘鹅保护了那片湿地。

    所有的大帽子，所有的争斗，最后都只是为了利益，与道德无关。

    这让我想到了英国哲学家边沁的话，宣扬牺牲之道德的人并不是受谬见之害的人，他们是想要为他们而牺牲。

   另一个朋友微信上，文化衫上一句话很应景，blowjob is better than no job.

Two Supreme Court justices, the liberal Justice Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn) and conservative Justice Jensen are assassinated. A terrorist named Khamel (Stanley Tucci), who works as a hired assassin, shoots one of the justices as he lies in his sickbed. He strangles the other in a gay porn film theater. As the nation learns the shocking news, the authorities including the FBI (charged with protecting the lives of the Supreme Court Justices), do not seem to have any clear indications of who may have been behind the assassinations.

Tulane University Law School student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) theorizes that there may be some similarity in their otherwise-different voting patterns that may provide a motive for their assassinations. She decides to research the two justices' records and cases pending before the Court, suspecting the real motive might be simple greed, not politics. She discovers that both were protective of the environment in their votes. She writes her theories into a legal brief, which she shows to her law professor, mentor and lover Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard). Callahan, a recovering alcoholic, is grieving for Rosenberg, whom he interned for. He finds Darby's work interesting, but fails to recognize the high stakes involved. Nevertheless, he gives a copy of the paper (which becomes known as the "Pelican Brief") to Gavin Verheek (John Heard), a friend of his who works as a lawyer with the FBI.

Not long after this, Callahan is killed by a car bomb as the couple is leaving a bar in New Orleans; Darby escapes the attack because she holds back from getting into the car with her drunk lover. She soon realizes she is under surveillance, and is subsequently attacked by an unknown assailant. Realizing that her brief was accurate, she goes into hiding and reaches out cautiously to Verheek for help.

Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., political reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) is contacted by an anonymous informant who calls himself "Garcia" and claims to have information about the assassinations which he had apparently seen inadvertently at his place of employment. Grantham manages to take a photograph of "Garcia" but is unable to identify him. "Garcia" subsequently disappears. Darby then makes contact by telephone with Grantham and mentions the Pelican Brief; although initially skeptical, Grantham discovers that the limited information Darby discloses has validity.

Darby finds out from fellow classmate Alice (Cynthia Nixon) that her apartment has been ransacked and her computer, disks and files are gone. Soon after, the man who had attacked her previously finds her again and gives chase, but Darby evades him a second time. She contacts Verheek and arranges to meet him the next day in a crowded public place. Prior to their meeting, Verheek is murdered in his hotel room by Khamel, who then goes to meet Darby dressed as Verheek. Just before Khamel can kill her, however, he is shot and killed by an unknown agent, and Darby flees.

Darby contacts Grantham again and agrees to meet him in New York City. There, she gives him the details of her brief.

The legal brief speculates that the assassinations were committed on behalf of Victor Mattiece, an oil tycoon who wants to drill for oil on a Louisiana marshland which is a major habitat of an endangered species of pelicans. A court case on appeal, filed on his behalf to gain access to the land, is expected to make its way to the Supreme Court. The two slain justices had a history of environmentalism — their only common view — and thus Darby surmised that Mattiece, who has a pre-existing business relationship with the President, hoped to turn the case in his favor by eliminating the two justices, thus leaving his friend, the President, in a position to appoint new justices more likely to rule in his favor.

Grantham tells her about "Garcia", and together they discover that "Garcia" is Curtis Morgan (Jake Weber), a lawyer in the oil and gas division of White & Blazevich in Washington.

Darby visits White & Blazevich, pretending to have an appointment with Curtis Morgan. When she is told that Morgan had been killed by muggers just a week ago, she suspects that his discovery of incriminating evidence was the real reason for his murder, and Darby hurries out of the office. She and Grantham visit his widow, who gives them a key to a safe deposit box he owned.

While Darby visits the bank to retrieve the contents of the box, she is followed and a bomb is planted in her car. When she and Grantham return to their vehicle, Grantham has difficulty starting the car, and Darby recognizes the faltering sound as what she heard just before Callahan was killed. She stops him and they flee the vehicle. They are instantly pursued on foot and by a car, which finally crashes into their parked vehicle, detonating the bomb and killing one of their pursuers.

They escape to the Washington Herald building, where they review the documents and a videotape from Morgan's box. The tape contains testimony from Morgan that confirms his discovery that Mattiece ordered the assassination of the Justices and the documents are memos that confirm these accusations. With the evidence that he needs, Grantham writes his story. He gives the FBI a chance to comment, and Director Voyles (James B. Sikking) comes to meet with him personally. On the record, Voyles confirms that the Pelican Brief was delivered to the White House; off the record, he reveals that the President ordered the FBI to "back off". He tells Darby that CIA agents were investigating Mattiece, and that one of them killed Khamel to save her life. Voyles arranges for a plane to fly Darby, accompanied by Grantham, to an undisclosed foreign location. Upon arrival, they are given a copy of the day's Herald with their story, which credits both Grantham and Darby in the byline. After embracing, Darby departs in a waiting van and Grantham returns to the plane.

The movie ends with Darby in her foreign hideaway, watching Grantham being interviewed on TV, where it is revealed that Mattiece and two of his lawyers have been indicted in federal court, the President's chief of staff has resigned, and the President himself will not run for office again. Grantham deflects speculation that Darby is fictional, a composite of sources, but does agree that she is "almost" too good to be true. Her life having been saved, Darby smiles as the screen cuts to black.

   我个人对这片电影推荐程度一般，对丹哥和大嘴姐有爱的人可以看看。
   比起这片的盛名，感觉有些失望。我是在悬疑片里头找的，但是这片说不上是部悬疑片，比较类似励志片，无名小妹为报爱人之仇不畏艰险掀翻政治黑金巨头，把遛狗总统拉下马。茱莉亚罗伯茨后来还拍了一部类似的电影，具体叫什么忘记了，扮演一个环保主义的母亲，好像也获得了很大的成功，重温17年前的这部电影，感叹再漂亮的美女也有人老珠黄的一天。
  比较失望的地方是觉得剧情的安排不够严谨，记者和小妹二人组的反侦察能力也忒差了，看开头那几位被人暗杀的无声无息，再看这两位，估计自己被人拆了还不知道怎么回事，但愣是没死成。比如小妹去找杀手假扮的警察碰头，你跟人家牵什么手，碰面直接来一枪不就完事了；记者住在小屋里头按理说很容易就能跟踪到，不懂为什么杀手没干掉他；最让我不能接受的是小妹明明知道对方手眼通天，到处窃听，事先还跟丹泽尔华盛顿来一反间计，故意说自己出国了，完事在雨夜潜入丹泽尔小屋，这说明他们俩应该都知道对方会窃听了啊，为什么在那寡妇打电话的时候又没料想到呢？最后搞的很狼狈，还好停车场莫名其妙有条狗救了他们，而杀手偏偏这时候突然智商垂直下降到0，稀里糊涂地就撞车了……反正这些细节处理我看着是挺别扭的。
 片里头把总统描绘的跟个傻子一样就知道逗狗，那狗都比他出彩。出了啥事跟刘邦一样就会问旁边的狗头军师：如之奈何？不懂的人还以为美国总统真就那样。
    不过还是佩服美国人，别说中国人揣测美国人搞阴谋，他们自己也天天琢磨国家在搞阴谋，我都数不过来这是我看的第几片抹黑美国政府、妄图颠覆美国政权、影响美国社会稳定和谐的片了，而且票房好像都还不错。