片名：How Green Was My Valley
中文：青山翠谷
出品：美国20世纪福克斯公司
年份：1941
导演：约翰·福特
主演：沃尔特·皮金 、莫林·奥哈拉 、安娜·李 、罗迪·麦克道尔 、约翰·洛德 、萨拉·奥尔古德 、汤纳德·克里斯普
摄影：亚瑟．Ｃ．米勒
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剧 情 简 介
约翰．福特导演的这部社会伦理片，改编自英国小说家李察．勒埃林的畅销小说《青山翠谷》，透过一个矿工家庭摩根家小儿子休的观点，追忆十九世纪末威尔斯朗达峰矿区的生活点滴。影片由男主角休收拾行理准备离开故乡开始，透过他的旁白和摄影机的移动将时光带回数年前，家庭中发生的种种不幸及家破人亡的过程。对角色个性和伦理亲情刻划得生动感人，并藉着具体而微的生活细节真实地反映出时代的风貌和环境转变。导演在悲剧气息浓厚的情节中，仍设法营造出一些喜趣效果，让观众得到情绪上的平衡，也形成了一种生活化和抒情化的艺术风格。
The story is told by an adult who remembers his childhood:Roddy McDowall gives a very sensitive performance in this part,he's simply the best actor of a topflight cast (to think that nowadays McDowall is remembered by the young generations mainly for Cornelius's ape part?)All the scenes which involve the boy are simply wonderful,particularly the one with the daffodils (it 'd have been shot in color!),and the one with his father in his arms at the end.John Ford ,as usual , is a master when it comes to depict a small community who's got to stand together to survive.And he does not spare us the tragedies ,the bigotry ,the slander,but he adds humor,joie de vivre (the men,turning their nose on tea and wanting beer).
But sometimes it seems too good to be true:the boss's offspring marrying a miner's daughter,even when she's a beauty like Maureen O'Hara?The boss asking the poor father's permission?We are far from Emile Zola's "Germinal" :both stories happen about during the same era ,both with the miners' life both are radically different.Zola's world is a bleak,desperate world ,his depiction of the families' houses and meals (when there is food) and the pictures of Ford's movie are worlds apart.But the biggest difference is the omnipresence of the Lord's will:in "how green" the minister is a cool young handsome man (Pidgeon),in "Germinal" ,the priest's only a silhouette,but a selfish cruel one,unconcerned to man's plight:Zola's miners do not put their trust in a God anymore .
Wales and the east of France ,were they that much different?You can only say they were novels and movies,and reality is probably somewhere between them.
