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“神州镖局”老板侯天彪欲称霸京城镖行，将“天下镖局”视为眼中钉。此时，恰好官府张贴出榜文召开夺镖大会，最终获胜的镖局可以负责押运一年的皇杠。于是，“神州镖局”设法打压各家报名参加大会的镖局，小王带头与之作对，双方就此结仇。这时，与飞燕青梅竹马的李云聪忽然出现，搅得小王心神不安，而李云聪偏偏是这次夺镖大会的监擂官。侯天彪带人到“天下镖局”踢馆，老王被铁掌李打伤，又牵出一段沉积多年的恩怨。就在侯天彪阴谋即将得逞之际，小王终于挺身而出与“神州镖局”订立“生死状”，誓言为京城镖行清除败类。风起云涌的夺镖大会上，小王一路过关斩将，在身负重伤的情况下艰难击败铁掌李，小王和“天下镖局”一举扬名，而作恶多端的侯天彪也受到了应有的惩罚。

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.

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