A male alien disguises himself as a British citizen Thomas Jerome Newton (Bowie, in his first movie role), who crash-lands on earth in hope of transporting water back to his draught-plagued home planet, but in iconoclast Nicolas Roeg’s thrall, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH is much less a heartstring-tugging inter-species tale à la STARMAN (1984) than a rhapsodic welter of total corporeal abandon and existential chaos.
Shot and edited in a desultory but blistering, wired fashion that leaves large portions of elision in its sprawling plot, Mr. Newton is a quick adapter of earthling mannerism and capitalistic canniness, cashes in lucrative patents he immediately accrues masses of fortune and becomes the reclusive wirepuller behind a technology conglomerate, with a figurehead personified by lawyer Mr. Farnsworth (Henry), an implicit gay character whose loyalty is too inflexible for his own good.
While Newton shacks up with an unsophisticated hotel maid Mary-Lou (Clark) in New Mexico, who introduces commonplace human diet to him, booze, church-going and sex, worts and all; a tributary pivots around a skirt-chasing college professor Dr. Nathan Bryce (Torn, in a rapturously predatory mode) merges into the main stream when he is hired as a key technician in fulfilling Newton’s home-returning project, only Bryce soon begins to suspect Newton’s alienness. After revealing his real form to Mary-Lou (which leaves her incontinent and horror-stricken) and leveling with Bryce, a naive Newton is snatched and immured by government agents nearly before his home-returning journey and put under close scientific examination (who tips off the tidings? Bryce or Mary-Lou? We have no clue, maybe Newton is spotted as early as he first emerges, as we glance a suit-attired figure near the commencement).
Marooned on earth and having no means to return to his wife and children, who are languishing on a remote, desert-looking planet, deadly or alive, the television-addicted Newton stays youthful as time wears on, a reunion with an aged Mary-Lou years later blatantly celebrates the film’s most rousing set piece, the “sex and pistol” manifesto in human flesh, copulation and blank gunshots, a heady delirium capturing the epoch’s ethos. A final encounter with Bryce, on the other hand, reveals that earth-stranded Newton might have already assimilated and acculturated to the life as we know it, a sad sack burdened with eternal youth.
An emaciated, auburn-haired Bowie aptly embodies his cult alter ego under pallor, lethargy and an amusing air of self-awareness, his alien comes across as urbane, benevolent, vulnerable, even in front of a dainty Candy Clark, but also strangely disinterested, inscrutable and sexy; Rip Torn and Candy Clark, represent human race’s different sexes, tangibly establish a triangle tie-in with Bowie, though each’s character arc is dismembered and perfunctorily strewn into the scramble which doesn’t go anywhere eventually. When its deadening clamor anticlimactically settles (the foley artists invent a cacophony of noise through the narrative), Roeg’s bash into Sci-Fi sphere is much more self-revealing than horizon-broadening, for what it is worth, it is a hot mess salted with glint of ingenuity.
referential entries: Roeg’s PERFORMANCE (1970, 6.9/10), BAD TIMING (1980, 7.5/10), DON’T LOOK NOW (1973, 8.3/10).
毕竟大卫鲍伊的美貌就会感觉值回票价,很少见这么苍白消瘦的luo体,真的感觉白的发光,女主的身体也好看,总之我lsp了就喜欢这款的
顺便其实这部电影人设挺有意思的,啊,虽然是我自己理解的有意思,外网有些同人文里塑造的这个角色很有意思,我推荐对这部电影有兴趣的人可以去看看(就是那个因为xx而被墙了的国外最大免费同人网站)
顺便就我久远的看纪录片和大卫鲍伊自传小说的模糊记忆来看
宝爷当时精神状态有点不太好,导演是看了纪录片cracked actor才选他主演的,纪录片里苍白消瘦略微神经质的真我吸引住了导演,然后导演和他说,你不用演,就做自己就好了,然后宝爷就去了,一边演戏一边调整自己的状态,虽然说电影拍完了之后也没调整好……ummmm
后来接受采访的时候看起来还是微微焦虑的压抑,但别误会,宝爷脑子很好,说话条理非常清晰并不会胡言乱语,就是看起来有点压抑,而且过于瘦了
作为鲍爷新粉,慕名为舔颜而来,做好了看不懂的准备,配合着部分良心影评,我终于算是大概看懂了,这部片子,值五星。
不得不否认,我的评分里有粉丝滤镜,但也并不是打高分的无脑粉,这部片子确实很值得。
美丽脆弱的托马斯,来到地球,寻找水,获得名望,金钱,乃至爱情,之后被囚禁,被研究,最后归于世俗,身边人一天天老去,外星球发生的事他也不再去管,依然继续做自己的有钱人。
首先影片的审美和配乐就很在线,足足享受了两个多小时,从这点来讲已经够打三颗星了,虽然有些情节隐晦,靠再刷,靠看影评,大致算是懂了。
"我知道,我摘下了自己的面具,一旦摘下,就很难再戴上了。"
这句话,是他穿着西装革履,准备巡演的时候说的(大致是这个意思和这个场景,欢迎其他粉丝补充或指正)
这个时候,他已经不再是Major Tom或Ziggy,他是大卫鲍伊,是在80s火遍全球的男人。
他迎来了名誉,金钱,粉丝,就和托马斯一样,到现在,我才懂这句话里的悲伤,和影片最后,他低着头,默默不语的场景和符合。
从80s的《Let's dance》后,专辑评分一路走低,却奇异的大卖。
到90s的《little wonder》的mv,和《hallo spaceboy》的歌词里,传递出了平静的痛苦,mv里许许多多从前的场景闪过,那是他从前的摇滚惊艳时光。
" But moondust would cover you."
被月亮的尘埃掩盖,如此的平静。
他害怕自己世俗,害怕自己老去,到后来,这些,他都躲不过。
就像最后的托马斯一样,低着头,默默不语,看着真是太心疼了。
他从来就与众不同,从外表到音乐,他就是天外来客,他来是LIFE on Mars,他是spaceboy,他是Ziggy Stardust
希望我们,能Loving the alien
他何尝不痛苦,他从未一刻放弃音乐,最后的five years,《The next day》和《Black star》就是最好的证明。
他就是他,天外来客,David Bowie。
有宝的颜值还要追求些什么!一个素颜出演却自带眼线和橘色眼影的人是什么感觉!不过剧本也超前卫的,追求物质等回首时却再也回不去以前的生活。每个人似乎都会这样,但只愿自己不要成为自己当初不想成为的那个人。 在阳光下白得透明的宝就像天使一样,nonono,他本身就是一个天使,纯粹且天真。他就是the man who fell to earth,而现在他也回到自己的星球。落入凡间的一颗星辰
这四颗星都是给你的,鲍叔,但其中没有一颗是因为你的演技……
有只大美人儿,再闷的片儿都看得下去。(有一段戏宝爷衣衫被女主拽下半边儿,坦着半边肩膀,姿态表情好像被强了一样,逗死我了……然后头发颜色挑染的好美腻!总之想看最销魂的宝爷就选这片儿没错!
看到波伊的时候我的胃一阵暖我便知道自己爱上他了。
哦哦爲david bowie的全裸獻上五顆星!
本片和《The Hunger》都有David Bowie被女人抱起来的场景,他这么轻吗?
一定是我打开播放器的方式不对,不然我怎么什么也没看懂,就对着BOWIE撸管了……………………
这就算摇滚风格的电影了,声音用得蛮有想法,但镜头未免过于自恋了。断断续续看完,其中的荒诞和疏离,是刻意搅拌而成,而且拌得夹生。
金银妖瞳+超薄身材,大宝果然非人哉,鉴定完毕。枪与性,70年代的摇滚精神与先锋实验。
真是一部悲伤落寞的电影。The man who fell to Earth注定不属于这里,他真诚的对待他遇到的每一个人,可是他也是冷酷的,这就要夸一下David了,他那几个前一秒还温柔和善下一秒就充满杀气的表情转换的太棒。终究,一个异类的身份被发现了,总是躲不过以科学为名的迫害。被囚禁那段太难过,那么有礼貌的说,请不要伤害我的眼睛,可是,还是被粗暴地对待。最后那张专辑,The Visitor, 旅客至少还有归处,可是他在遥远星辰的家已经没有了。。在家的时候,渴望异乡的风景,终于跨越千万光年来到这个渴望的异世界,却又用在思念着家。这样的折磨让人迷失。最后,这是为David Bowie订做的角色嘛,他的气质太贴合了!
因为爷爷的颜+橘色头发+0号身材太犀利,谁来告诉我这到底在讲什么?(外星人来地球找水喝然后回不去的思乡故事么)总之,全片审美超级对胃口!!!很多场景反复看了好几遍,导致2小时片长我看了近4小时。太美太美阿阿阿阿,然后我就不晓得在说什么了。
一言难尽地……怪异。比起自带外星人气质的Bowie,导演的脑回路更像外星人,混乱的多线、闪回,突兀的情感线,诡异的转折……对外星球的联想倒是很有意思,一个滑溜溜的、害怕颠簸的种族hh拿着小电扇同时看七台电视好可爱√
他异常地消瘦,并有一双颜色相异的瞳仁,耀眼的桔色头发更衬得他面白如纸。
大宝实在人间尤物,美艳动人。整个故事不知道在干嘛。这个金丝雀的角色就是为他定制的,他和傻白甜的爱情故事虽然很无厘头但是不失为一段佳话。一颗星给最后外星人出唱片这个悲伤的设定,大宝好可怜,孤身一人没人照顾,让我难过一会儿。
-Who did you make it (the record) for?-For my wife. She could hear it one day, on the radio.原谅我这里看哭了。ps 大家都吐槽鲍伊的演技,其实我觉得很好啊……
鉴于对男主角的偏爱此片不打分
一年前看Bad Timing的时候我完全没有记住Nicolas Roeg。这部呕心沥血的实验作品至少在视觉上令我无比享受。论则前卫性我并不认为有多少超脱之处,毕竟他不是以先锋为耀。但枪与性的那段床戏太棒了。Roeg的电影带有明显的人类学视角,疏离,鸿沟,相异,自我迷失。一次奇异之旅,一部上乘之作。
大卫鲍伊一脸随你怎么折腾我已经是个废外星人了的表情,跟纵欲过度了似的。男女主角的乳头都又小又粉。
DavidBowie露屌 清晰多图
本片是当偶像剧看的 断断续续看了好几遍才看完 也没看懂什么。。。但是bowie绝对够美!
除了香港我实在想不出华人圈哪个地区的人会把<The Man Who Fell to Earth>翻译成《天降财神》。这是一部1976年具有实验性质的科幻电影,影片晦涩且处处渗透着迷茫与绝望,如果您不是大卫·鲍伊的死忠或是资深的科幻迷,真的不需要在这片上浪费时间。