亚当有四子的剧情介绍,格利高里.拉托夫导演的一部家庭伦理片。故事描述一名家庭女教师在女主人去世后,与男主人一起照顾家中四个男孩的故事。剧情没有新意,大团圆结局不出所料。但是故事流畅,时间跨度大,由小见大反应了大萧条前后美国社会中产阶级的生活。影片唯一的亮点是英格丽.褒曼让人倾心的清新形象,她凭本片开始在美国影坛立足。苏珊.海沃德则饰演顽劣的大儿媳妇而崭露头角。
Early 1905, French governess Emilie Gallatin (Ingrid Bergman) is hired to care of a luxurious family mansion and the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) and his wife, Molly Stoddard (Fay Wray). Things couldn't be more perfect, until in 1907, first Molly dies, and then the stock market crashes, wiping out the Soddard's fortune. Emilie is forced to go back home to France. The parting is difficult, for the teenager boys - Jack Stoddard (Billy Ray), David Stoddard (Steven Muller), Chris Stoddard (Wallace Chadwell), and Phillip Stoddard (Bobby Walberg) - had grown to depend on Emilie more after the loss of their mother, and Emilie had fallen in love with Adam. Seven years later, just before the beginning of World War I, the family's fortunes have improved, and Adam insists with Emilie to return and stay on as part of the family - preserving her from the foreseeable fates of war. The four boys are adults, and they all serve in various branches of the military - Jack Stoddard (Richard Denning), David Stoddard ('Johnny Downs (I)'), Chris Stoddard (Robert Shaw), Phillip Stoddard ('Charles Ling'). Meanwhile, David, the second son, brings home his carefree, gold-digging wife named Hester (Susan Hayward). To make things worse, she comes to live in the family home while David is out at war. Hester degrades Emilie, cons Adam into believing she is a sweet young thing, and cheats on David by attempting to seduce his brother Jack, who will have nothing to do with her. One night, the father sees a silhouette of the supposed lovers, but before he can identify them, Emilie enters the room from another door and pretends that it was her, not Hester, with Jack. This cover-up for Jack will strain Emilie's relationships with both the boys and Adam, and makes an easy target of her for the gutter-snipe Hester. The internecine war between the governess and Hester culminates in an out-and-out brawl. Adam unwittingly sides with Hester, who showers crocodile tears on his shoulder (with a telling close-up as she displays a wicked smile over his shoulder) while he comforts her. Hester's malicious personality is revealed to a visiting aunt, Adam's cousin Phillippa (Helen Westley), and Hayward is exposed as an uncontrollable vixen.
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看过的几部苏珊海沃德的表演都是这种张牙舞爪、用力过猛的模式,感觉就连头发丝都在使劲,对比之下褒曼的演绎就令人舒适许多,自然流畅,温和又充满力量。
天使爱美丽之秋日传奇?……苏珊·海沃德早期生涯并不顺遂,当时许多成名女星都不太愿意与之合作,因为她很会抢戏!评论普遍认为本片也不例外。究其根源,海沃德自己就是强势女一的实力(1影后4提名),屈居反衬之位却获得更大角色跨度和戏剧张力!观众倒未必主观上愿意移情坏女人,实在是魅力不弱与角色优势的双重加持不自觉地将其拱向银幕焦点……但“英格丽褒曼也会被人抢戏”这件事本身,到可以在迷影维度上构成此片的最佳看...
八点档啊八点档……看起来是不知什么原因特别仓促的改编,四个儿子两个是摆设,就剩看俩女主飙戏了。角色要求都不高,沉稳大气的Bergman当然更讨喜;Hayward的恶毒女二无论写得还是演得都有点过火。Richard Denning比较有存在感的角色,听My Favorite Husband之前对他的印象就是各种三分钟路人甲。
前三分之一明明有强烈戏剧冲突但叙事显得枯燥,Hester出现后影片节奏才步入正轨。细节讲得不太清楚,Emilie和Philippa初见Hester就有的敌意有点夸张,刚开始我还以为Emilie和Hester之前就有什么过节。男主和原配、续弦之间的感情都相当动人。Ingrid很适合这种清新脱俗、陷入矛盾处境、内心挣扎的角色;Susan的表演风格比较用力,大女主苦情戏有时看着累,在略微流水账的家庭伦理...
我的妈呀,你就是英格丽褒曼啊,我错了,小时候看的,印象深刻。