指环王1:魔戒再现
比尔博•巴金斯是100多岁的哈比人,住在故乡夏尔,生性喜欢冒险,在年轻时的一次探险经历中,他从怪物咕噜手中得到了至尊魔戒,这枚戒指是黑暗魔君索伦打造的至尊魔戒,拥有奴役世界的邪恶力量,能够统领其他几枚力量之戒,在3000年前的人类联盟和半兽人大军的战役中,联盟取得了胜利,并得到了至尊魔戒,数千年的辗转后,魔戒落到咕噜手中,被比尔博碰巧得到。 因为和魔戒的朝夕相处,比尔博的心性也受到了影响,在他111岁的生日宴会上,他决定把一切都留给侄子佛罗多(伊莱贾•伍德 饰),继续冒险。 比尔博的好朋友灰袍巫师甘道夫(伊恩•麦凯伦 饰)知道至尊魔戒的秘密,同时,黑暗魔君索伦已经知道他的魔戒落在哈比族的手中。索伦正在重新建造要塞巴拉多,集结无数的半兽人,准备以大军 夺取魔戒,并且征服全世界。 甘道夫说服佛罗多将魔戒护送到精灵王国瑞文希尔,佛罗多在好朋友山姆、皮平和梅利的陪同下,在跃马旅店得到了刚铎王子阿拉贡的帮助,历经艰难,终于到达了精灵王国。 然而,精灵族并不愿意保管这个邪恶的至尊魔戒,中土各国代表开会讨论,达成意见,准备将至尊魔戒送到末日山脉的烈焰中彻底销毁,佛罗多挺身而出接受了这个任务,这次,陪伴他的除了三个好朋友,还有甘道夫、阿拉贡、精灵莱戈拉斯(奥兰多•布鲁姆 饰)、人类博罗米尔、侏儒金利。 一路上,魔戒远征军除了要逃避索伦爪牙黑骑士和半兽人的追杀之外,更要抵抗至尊魔界本身的邪恶诱惑,前途困难重重。
红花之歌
“Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” ( “Song Of The Scarlet Flower” ) was a recent and remarkable silent surprise for this Herr Von; the oeuvre is an excellent Herr Stiller silent film that this German count watched in a newly restored and tinted copy. It combines the well-known aesthetics, technical improvements and artistic merits for which the Nordic director was known and praised since those early silent times till today.  The film tells of the merry and carefree love life of young Olof ( Herr Lars Hanson ) a woodsman who during his search for true love, seduces many frauleins ( just like this German aristocrat… well, not exactly because the purpose of this Herr Von’s seduction of rich fräulein heiresses are their great fortunes… ). He will suffer disappointment and deception, all those problems that turn up in any loving relationship. Finally he will find responsibility and maturity, learning during his particular quest that his actions always have consequences in different degrees to the people around him. This Herr Von can describe “Sangen Om…” as a kind of coming of age film, the special introspective growth toward maturity of a free and easy youngster.  As this German count said before, the film displays Stiller’s characteristic artistic virtues. ; in the first part of the film, we can see elements of comedy, not exactly like the comedy of intrigues in other Stiller films, but humor of a more cheerful sort, highlighting the self-involvement of our hero. Olof ‘s frivolous flirtations with the different girls eventually turn romantic and then turn into drama. There is conflict in the troubled relationship between Olof and his father and later with the father of his beloved. The beautiful and wild natural landscapes of Norrland and northern Sweden lend the tale a certain power and is characteristic of Herr Stiller’s other silents where Nature emerges as an important character in the story. This is strongly reflected throughout the film but especially during the frantic scene wherein Olof descends into the troubled waters of a river, a beautiful metaphor for the hardships that our hero has to endure until he finds himself.  “Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” is an excellent, beautiful film, a solid, technically perfect and intricate production of 1919 that demonstrates once again the importance of Herr Stiller for silent film history.
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