《野草莓》，英格瑪‧伯格曼，1957
喬爾·邁耶羅維茨，88歲，攝影師
曼哈頓上西區曾經有一家名為「塔利亞」的藝術電影院，我記得1963年或1964年在那裡看過《野草莓》。該片講述了一位老先生（維克多·斯約斯特羅姆飾）從斯德哥爾摩開車前往隆德接受榮譽學位的故事。伯格曼捕捉了這段公路旅行中發生的種種細膩情感。搭便車的乘客爬上車後座，他們彷彿是青春的化身；老人被他們逗樂，回憶起自己的青春歲月。最終，他彷彿穿越回了自己的記憶之中。我曾在美國各地搭過很多便車，我認為以每小時60英里的速度在路上行駛，會讓人產生一種迫在眉睫的懷舊之情。你穿梭於時空，眼前的一切彷彿都已飛逝而去，成為過往的記憶。伯格曼懂得如何用影像吸引觀眾的注意力，但他不會讓畫面停留太久。他能把握住轉瞬即逝的瞬間。
"Do you know what moviemaking is? Eight hours of hard work each day to get three minutes of film. And during those eight hours there are maybe only ten or twelve minutes, if you're lucky, of real creation. And maybe they don't come. Then you have to gear yourself for another eight hours and pray you're going to get your good ten minutes this time. Everything and everyone on a movie set must be attuned to finding those minutes of real creativity. You've got to keep the actors and yourself in a kind of enchanted circle. An outside presence, even a completely friendly one, is basically alien to the intimate process going on in front of him. Any time there's an outsider on the set, we run the risk that part of the actors' absorption, or the technicians', or mine, is going to be impinged upon. It takes very little to destroy the delicate mood of total immersion in our work. We can't risk losing those vital minutes of real creation. The few times I've made exceptions I've always regretted it."
Ingmar Bergman began writing the screenplay for "The Seventh Seal" (1957) while he was in Stockholm's Karolinska Hospital, recovering from a stomach complaint. The inspiration for this film was said to be drawn from the period films of Akira Kurosawa, of which IBergman was a big fan.
The film's representation of Death as a white-faced man who wears a dark cape and plays chess with mortals has been a popular object of parody in other films and television. Several films and comedy sketches portray Death as playing games other than or in addition to chess. In the final scene of the 1968 film "De Düva" (mock Swedish for "The Dove"), a 15-minute pastiche of Bergman's work generally and his "Wild Strawberries" (1957) in particular, the protagonist plays badminton against Death, and wins when the droppings of a passing dove strike Death in the eye.
Bergman credited his working on "this film with helping him overcome his crippling fear of death. Because the film dealt so overtly with the subject, he found it a highly cathartic experience. (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Born: July 14, 1918, Uppsala, Sweden
Died: July 30, 2007, Fårö, Sweden
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The Wild Strawberries Movement (Chinese: 野草莓運動) is a protest movement in Taiwan begun on 6 November 2008 after the visit of the People's Republic of China's ARATS chairman Chen Yunlin to the islan
protest of Taiwan's Parade and Assembly Act [zh].[3]
Background
The name chosen by the students for their initiative, "Wild Strawberry", makes a pair of references. The word wild recalls the Wild Lily student movement of 1990, which led to vast political reforms and Taiwan's first general democratic elections. The word strawberry makes ironic use of the term "strawberry generation", a description of Taiwan's youth employed pejoratively by their elders to portray the newest generation as "soft", lacking strength of character and political convictions.[4]
The Wild Strawberries Movement (Chinese: 野草莓運動) is a protest movement in Taiwan begun on 6 November 2008 after the visit of the People's Republic of China's ARATS chairman Chen Yunlin to the islan
protest of Taiwan's Parade and Assembly Act [zh].[3]
Background
The name chosen by the students for their initiative, "Wild Strawberry", makes a pair of references. The word wild recalls the Wild Lily student movement of 1990, which led to vast political reforms and Taiwan's first general democratic elections. The word strawberry makes ironic use of the term "strawberry generation", a description of Taiwan's youth employed pejoratively by their elders to portray the newest generation as "soft", lacking strength of character and political convictions.[4]
The official logo for the Wild Strawberry movement, including the Chinese name as well as "TWAction1106"