生日舞会 (1968)
The Birthday Party
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
演员阵容
- 罗伯特·阿奇博尔德·肖 — Stanley Webber
- 帕特里克·马吉 — Shamus McCann
- Dandy Nichols — Meg Bowles
- Sydney Tafler — Nat Goldberg
- Moultrie Kelsall — Pete Bowles
- Helen Fraser — Lulu
趣闻
The Birthday Party is a 1968 British drama neo noir directed by William Friedkin and starring Robert Shaw. It is based on the 1957 play The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. The screenplay for the film was written by Pinter as well. The film, and the play, are considered examples of "comedy of menace", a genre associated with Pinter.
Production
The film was a passion project of director William Friedkin who called it "the first film I really wanted to make, understood and felt passionate about". He had first seen the play in San Francisco in 1962, and managed to gain funding for the film version from Edgar Scherick at Palomar Pictures, in part because it could be made relatively cheaply.
Scherick saw Friedkin's first feature Good Times and felt it "quite good, unusual." The producer admired star Robert Shaw calling him "my great love. If ever a man could love another, I love Robert Shaw. It was one of Palomar's first films. Shortly after the film version was announced a production of the play appeared on Broadway where it had a short run.
Pinter wrote the screenplay himself and was heavily involved in casting. "To this day I don't think our cast could have been improved," wrote Friedkin later.
The original choice for the part of Goldberg was Zero Mostel but he was not available.
There was a ten-day rehearsal period and the shoot went smoothly. Friedkin says the only tense exchange he had with Pinter in a year of working together came when Joseph Losey saw the movie and requested through Pinter that Friedkin cut out a mirror shot as it was too close to Losey's style; Friedkin refused as "I wasn't about to destroy the film's continuity to mollify Losey's ego".
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