如果說對(duì)奧森·威爾斯的景深攝影和段落鏡頭的褒揚(yáng)已經(jīng)成了一種cliché,那么我們或許應(yīng)該談?wù)勊膫ゴ髣?chuàng)舉如是如何在這部影片中沉淪的（不去討論所謂的完整版究竟如何）；以及從中我們還可以得到些什么。
于我而言，最為精彩的是影片的開頭。旁白徐徐引入，從“那個(gè)時(shí)候”起筆，談著馬車、服飾：
“因?yàn)槲覀冊(cè)诼飞匣ǖ臅r(shí)間愈少，節(jié)省下的時(shí)間就愈多。但是在那些日子里，時(shí)間有的是……”
這是一個(gè)文學(xué)時(shí)刻，它會(huì)讓你想起普魯斯特，想起曹雪芹，會(huì)讓你產(chǎn)生一種眷戀的幻覺

The Magnificent Ambersons
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/803-the-magnificent-ambersons
If events had turned out differently, The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles’ second film, might well be widely regarded as “the greatest film of all time” rather than Citizen Kane. But in Welles’ absence, RKO Studios recut the original version of the film mercilessly—Welles said it looked like it had been “edited with a lawn mower”—reducing its running time from 131 to the present 88 minutes. Nevertheless, what survives is still one of the most strikingly beautiful and technically innovative films ever to come out of Hollywood. It also tells a good story—about the decline of a once powerful and wealthy turn-of-the-century Midwestern family—with a conviction and maturity that are rare for the old Hollywood system.

A quintessential archetype of the irreconcilable chasm between studio system’s groupthink and individual’s directorial reign in Hollywood, butchered, reshot, and then cobbled together by RKO studio, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, the sophomore feature film of Orson Welles, runs about a concise 88 minutes (almost an hour shorter than Welles’ original version, which is allegedly lost forever), bemoans a tampered chef d’oeuvre that should’ve matched the achievement of CITIZE

《安倍遜大族》電影劇本
文/〔美國〕奧遜·威爾斯
譯/聞谷
敘事人：安倍遜家族于1873年開始發(fā)跡。他們所在的中部地區(qū)小鎮(zhèn)日漸擴(kuò)大，發(fā)展成房舍林立的城市，在這些年里，他們始終聲名顯赫，目擊了這一切……
在那些日子里，城里凡是穿綢著緞的女人都互相認(rèn)識(shí)……
……凡是有得起車馬的人家也都互相摸底。
那時(shí)唯一的公共交通工具是街車。……一位夫人在樓窗里對(duì)它打個(gè)惚哨，它就馬上停住，等她關(guān)上窗戶，穿戴齊整，姍姍下樓，找到陽傘，對(duì)女仆吩咐好下一頓的菜單后出門登車。
如今這對(duì)我們來說是太慢了

Orson Welles聲稱這是唯一一部它看過第二遍的自己拍的電影，也就是說這是它自己的“最愛”了。
但我并不認(rèn)為這是他最好的作品， 這主要還是因?yàn)槟莻€(gè)其實(shí)是被愚蠢的制片方硬梆梆嫁接上去的“大團(tuán)圓”結(jié)局。（據(jù)說這還是原著小說的結(jié)尾！？）
在我所看過的Orson Welles的所有作品中，它是唯一一部,沒有使用很多讓人目眩神迷的“交叉蒙太奇”的電影，比前者更難得的是，它居然是一部以感情戲?yàn)橹鞯碾娪埃?br> 細(xì)膩，溫潤的讓人感覺快要讓人認(rèn)不出來是（Orson Welles的電影了）。
整部影片的（主線）基本上就是詳述一個(gè)被慣壞的富家子弟大半輩子的人生（心路）歷程。扮演“富家子”的Tim Holt在這部電影展現(xiàn)了天才般的演技，他是這部電影的靈魂?。ㄉ踔量梢哉f，比導(dǎo)演本人更重要）。

http://ambersons.com/FAQs.htm
What is The Magnificent Ambersons about?
The Magnificent Ambersons is about the proud and celebrated Amberson family. The story shows how the family refuses to change with the times, and the subsequent deterioration of the Amberson name as a result.

《偉大的安巴遜》《安倍遜大族》電影劇本
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