蜡笔小新大人帝国反击战

The Deserted Archipelago was my first independently directed and produced film. The film won the Grand Prix at the Nyon International Film Festival and garnered considerable attention both overseas and in Japan. The film follows an extremely simple story of a plain boy who matures into manhood while constantly manipulated by nuns. But woven into this narrative are my own experiences and the history of postwar Japan as well as a series of fantasies. The result is a multifaceted and multilayered objet, the birth of a newly sur-realistic filmmaking. On August 15th, the day the war ended, I was in the third year of primary school. That day, when the reality that I had known turned completely upside down, I was saddled with the trauma of no longer being able to believe in anything. Searching here and there for some kind of spiritual salvation, I finally found the existentialism of Albert Camus. From there, I was able to build up my own kind of existentialism and this film is best understood as based in that “Kanai Katsu Existentialism.” The film was praised by European film scholars Max Tessier and Tony Rayns and was screened as part of “Eiga: 25 Years of Japanese Film,” a special program at the 1984 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

本片1932年获得奥斯卡最佳动画短片奖。清晨，森林中的花儿、树儿、鸟儿从睡梦中醒来，舒展腰肢梳洗打扮，准备充实愉快地度过崭新的一天。自然，枯干的老树桩也醒了过来，不过他可不觉得生活有什么美好，睁开眼即不耐烦地驱赶他身旁的花儿、鸟儿。见男树正向女树浪漫地求爱，他不由分说强行将女树揽入怀中，男树见状，起身与他决定，老树桩败下阵来。不甘心的老树桩心生毒计，没料想遭殃的是他自己。

孩子眼中的世界在这部电影里美妙的展开，父母双亡的小玛丽（凯特·马伯里 Kate Maberly饰）来到苏格兰的亲戚家住了下来。这是个美丽而又有点神秘的庄园，尤其是秘密花园更是玛丽心中的一个大谜团。原来，玛丽的姨母曾经在自己这个花园的千秋上丧命，姨父便从此紧锁了花园大门。无意中发现了钥匙的玛丽打开了花园的大门。从此，花园成为了玛丽与大自然水乳交融的圣地。玛丽还带上了长期坐在轮椅上的表弟科林（海登·普劳斯 Heydon Prowse饰），他本来封闭的视野在神奇的大自然面前变得豁然开朗，而朋友迪康（安德鲁诺特 Andrew Knott饰）更是在这里和他的鸟儿朋友们聊天，秘密花园的大门就这样通向了孩子们心中的天堂……

本片依据Howard Hughes的生平改编。Howard Hughes（Leonardo DiCaprio 饰）出生于美国德州休士顿，18岁时，他继承父亲德州油井的财富，心怀电影梦想移居好莱坞。1926年他买入125家戏院的控制权，砸下数百万美金拍了实景空战史诗电影《地狱天使》，成为著名的制片人；1939年，他入主环球航空公司，他迅速使公司扭亏为盈，二战期间与美国军方合作，主持了蓝云杉飞机的发明和改进。Howard Hughes在事业上取得巨大成功的同时，他也饱受了忧郁症和精神官能强迫症的折磨；他的感情生活波折重重，Katharine Hepburn（Cate Blanchett 饰）、Ava Gardner（Kate Beckinsale 饰）先后离开他，让他备受打击。影片选取Howard Hughes重要的生活事件，真实地再现了他的传奇。