虚荣的篝火 (1990)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
一位华尔街大亨，他在第五大道的情妇，一位渴望成名的记者，在布朗克斯区拐错了弯……接下来，就等着好戏上演吧。
一个华尔街的弄潮儿，住在上东区的豪宅，每天坐出租车去下城的华尔街上班，老婆很刁，在家不工作。此公某天去机场接情妇，结果高速公路一个出口没有下来，开进了穷人区，还撞伤了一个黑人小孩，因为怕记者赶来拍到他与情妇在一起，在没确定是否撞倒小孩的情况下开车跑了。结果，因为他开一辆BMW，有人看到了后面几位车号，被一位新闻小报记者给查出来了，惹上了官司，而且官司的开庭地点是布朗士区，总之是从此生活天翻地覆。
演员阵容
- 汤姆·汉克斯 — Sherman McCoy
- 布鲁斯·威利斯 — Peter Fallow
- 梅兰妮·格里菲斯 — Maria Ruskin
- 金·凯特罗尔 — Judy McCoy
- 绍尔·鲁宾内克 — Jed Kramer
- 摩根·弗里曼 — Judge Leonard White
- John Hancock — Reverend Bacon
- 凯文·邓恩 — Tom Killian
- 克利夫顿·詹姆斯 — Albert Fox
- 路易斯·詹巴尔沃 — Ray Andruitti
- 巴顿·海曼 — Det. Martin
- Norman Parker — Det. Goldberg
趣闻
- 票房：US$1569.1万
- 预算：US$4700万
- 票房达到预算的 0.3 倍
- 改编自：夜都迷情
- 拍摄地：纽约
- 获奖：0 · 提名：5
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed and produced by Brian De Palma, and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall and Morgan Freeman. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the bestselling 1987 novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe.
Production
The novel The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe was a bestseller, and the author sold screen right to Warner Bros. Pictures for $750,000. The film's production was plagued by controversy. Among them were the casting choices.
Walter Matthau was initially offered the role of Judge Myron Kovitsky but demanded a fee of $1 million. The producers balked at meeting his price and signed Alan Arkin instead for a modest $150,000. Arkin was then replaced by Morgan Freeman when the studio decided to change the judge's ethnicity from Jewish to African American in order to respond to criticism of the film's racial politics.
The studio made significant changes to the source material, making Sherman McCoy (Hanks) more sympathetic and adding a subplot involving a minor character, Judge White (Freeman). Michael Cristofer's original script ended cynically with Henry Lamb (Patrick Malone), the supposed victim of the hit-and-run, walking out of the hospital, suggesting that the whole scenario was concocted. That ending did not test well with audiences and was dropped.
In one notable scene in the film, Maria Ruskin (Griffith) arrives in New York on an Air France Concorde. The film's second unit director, Eric Schwab, calculated the time and day when a runway at JFK Airport would line up exactly with the Empire State Building and the setting sun, to serve as a backdrop, and then hired a Concorde from Air France and managed to film it landing in the single 30-second time period when this occurs in any given year,…
Several of the sets parodied the home decorated by Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade for Carolyne Roehm and Henry Kravis. Sherman and Judy McCoy (Kim Cattrall)'s luxury apartment was built at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, designed by Richard Sylbert. The Park Avenue exteriors were shot on location late at night, using rain effects and a prop phone booth. The lobby scenes were shot at 77 Park Avenue.
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