時報影評 智取威虎山

“The Taking of Tiger Mountain,” a protracted, oddly proportioned Chinese war picture from the director Tsui Hark, celebrated for his action movies, begins in New York, as Jimmy (Han Geng), about to leave for a Silicon Valley job, attends a farewell party.

著名動作片導演徐克執導的《智取威虎山》(The Taking of Tiger Mountain)是一部漫長的、比例失調的中國戰爭電影，故事從紐約開始，韓庚飾演的吉米即將去硅谷工作，他參加了一場告別派對。

The movie then flashes back — for reasons not clarified until a closing-credits sequence — to 1946 China, where a squad of the Communist People’s Liberation Army works to root out bandits. The premise, with fighters helping villagers, bears a resemblance to that of “Seven Samurai.”

之後電影就閃回到1946年的中國——這個閃回的原因直到最後播放片尾字幕時才說明——當時有一支中國人民解放軍的小分隊正在剿匪。影片的引子是解放軍戰士在幫助村民，這有點像是《七武士》。

The source of the residents’ terror is Hawk (Tony Leung Ka-fai), a bandit leader who plots to rule northeast China. An investigator from the soldiers’ group, Yang (Zhang Hanyu), infiltrates Hawk’s fortress as a spy. His success is rarely in doubt: Even before he arrives at the bandits’ lair, he single-handedly fights a tiger to the death.

爲居民們帶來恐懼的是土匪頭子座山雕（梁家輝飾），他打算統治整個中國東北。解放軍小隊的偵察員楊子榮（張涵予飾）作爲間諜打入座山雕的要寨。他的本領絕對不成問題：潛入匪穴之前，他還徒手打死過一隻老虎。

That sequence has clearly been designed for 3-D, but in North America the film is being released in 2-D. And you cannot help but feel shortchanged by this as the movie unfolds with a swooping camera, spurting blood, flying bullets, airborne knives, falling rocks, cannon fire and — most spectacularly — a covert raid by ski.

這段插曲顯然是爲3-D設計的，但在北美，這部影片以2-D形式放映。當電影中出現一個俯拍鏡頭，血花四濺、子彈亂飛、刀光劍影、石頭崩裂、大炮開火，這時你忍不住會覺得自己受到了虧待，更何況還有最壯觀的一幕——一場滑雪奇襲。

The material is adapted from Qu Bo’s novel “Tracks in the Snowy Forest,” the basis for “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy,” one of eight model operas produced during the Cultural Revolution. With its fanfare score, the movie has a nationalistic, didactic flavor and a tiresome devotion to spectacle. Even the climax is staged two ways.

影片改編自曲波的小說《林海雪原》，“文化大革命”中的八個樣板戲之一《智取威虎山》(Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy)也是根據這部小說改編的。影片有着喧鬧的配樂，顯示出一種民族主義的迂腐趣味，對大場面的追求亦令人厭倦。甚至影片的高潮也是以兩種方式呈現的。