It is surprising that almost all the entertaining movies about business focus on its dark side. In most cases, the tycoons are wicked – from Noah Cross played by John Huston inChinatown to Charles Foster Kane played by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane to Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone in The Godfather. Maybe this jaundiced view reflects the experiences of Hollywood writers and directors with studio bosses.
令人惊讶的是,几乎所有反映商业社会的娱乐影片都着重刻画了商业的阴暗面。在绝大多数影片的设定中,商业大亨们都是邪恶的,例如约翰·休斯顿(John Huston)在《唐人街》中扮演的诺亚·克罗斯(Noah Cross),奥森·威尔斯在《公民凯恩》中扮演的查尔斯·福斯特·凯恩(Charles Foster Kane)以及阿尔·帕西诺(Al Pacino)在《教父》中扮演的迈克尔·科莱奥内(Michael Corleone)。这种偏见或许反映出了好莱坞编剧与导演们在和制片厂老板打交道过程中的亲身感受。
Mind you, I have rarely been to a place more obsessed by money and business than Hollywood – and that includes the creative types, not just the financiers. The former just hide behind their agents. It feels a touch hypocritical that the town likes to bite the hand that feeds it so well.
需要提醒一句的是,我几乎没有去过比好莱坞更痴迷于金钱和商业的地方——从事创意工作的人士也同样拜金,而不仅仅是那些为影片融资的投资商。只不过创意人士可以躲藏在自己的经纪人背后。这个地方如此喜欢抨击自己的衣食父母,令人难免感到有些虚伪。
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