美人计

以现在的眼光看来，肯定是很一般了，就是一对相爱的男女，因为家国大业，被迫分手，女的舍身嫁人，以美人计去做卧底。

最后，男女又在一起，终成眷属。

地窖那一段戏超抓人，希区柯克真的很擅长捕捉观众心理，让人跟着角色提心吊胆。

最可怕的地方就是女主为执行任务嫁给德国人。德国人和他妈发现女主是卧底特工，但是不敢声张，因为如果被组织发现他娶了一个美国特工，他也是要被暗杀处决的。

德国人和他妈就想出了一个可以铲除女主又不被组织问责的阴办法，天天在咖啡里给女主下慢性毒药，女主的身体眼看着日渐不好。

由此可见，即使是在欧美，夫家想搞死一个上门媳妇，只要人家一家人齐心，是神不知，鬼不觉的。但是，性别反过来却很难操作，因为女儿是外嫁的，跟自己家庭的常住链接早就斩断了。要杀女婿也只能在某一次聚餐时下烈性毒药，暴露很快，肯定要偿命的。

住在别人的地盘上，是真住不安心，万一有了利益冲突，死都不知道怎么死的。😂

正常来讲，女主被下慢性毒药之后，是必死无疑。但毕竟是好莱坞电影，为了大团圆结局，坏人都得强行弱智。

但凡德国人母子不是工具人，保留一点正常智商，女人与世隔绝的情况下，病了那么长一段时间，早就被病故下葬了，还能等来男主拯救？

我觉得这种一看就漏洞百出，不符合逻辑，强行让坏人弱智的剧本，看着就挺无趣的。😂

看希区柯克 7⃣️ 《美人计》

二战后希胖的第二部作品，在我看来，与前作《爱德华》相比，这部要逊色很多，更像是一部披着间谍，悬疑外皮的爱情电影。

是什么可以让“褒曼”冒着生命危险，去成为一名肩负国家利益重任的间谍呢，是对“格兰特”深切的爱！而其情绪波动变化，源自于“格兰特”有没有在下派任务时说出关心自己的话语，显得很矫情，不像是一个间谍。影片后半，也是影片氛围营造相对较好的，藏钥匙那段很妙！想必是惊天魔盗团的手法来源吧！打碎的酒瓶和撒落的铀，也解释了前面埋下的一个小伏笔。结尾很有意思，塞巴斯蒂安渴望被拯救无果后，在德国佬的呼唤下，恐慌的回到房子里，大门关上隐入黑暗。迎接他的大概率是死亡，也展现出了战时敌人冷血，虚假的丑恶嘴脸。

影片里有一段褒曼和格兰特的吻戏，间断的亲了好几次，一边亲一边说台词，颇具喜感！原来是《海斯法典》规定吻戏不能超过三秒，所以他俩不得吻三秒后停下再吻，哈哈哈哈！

Yet let us recall the final scene of Notorious (1946): Devlin elopes with the poisoned Alicia from Sebastian's house in full view of the latter's Nazi collaborators. What we have here is a homologous underlying structure of the three gazes, of the three subjective positions: the ignorant Other is here the members of the Nazi ring who do not know that Alicia is an American spy and that Sebastian knows it (the reason why he is slowly poisoning her with his mother's help); the actants are Devlin and Alicia-Devlin escorts her down the staircase, posing as her friend who will take her to the hospital, with Sebastian's agreement; the helpless opponents are Sebastian and his mother, reduced to the role of passive observers-although Devlin's act is directed against them, any public countermove of theirs would instantly reveal to the members of the Nazi gang present that Alicia is an American spy and that Sebastian knows it, whereby Sebastian would sign his death warrant. What makes this scene different from the three above-mentioned comic interludes is the character of the third agency, the ignorant big Other, the public which witnesses the duel of the actant and his opponent: the Other loses here its benevolent innocence and assumes features of a threatening paranoiac agency. Those who range Notorious among the few Hitchcock's films which display noir sensibility are therefore in the right: one of the features which characterize the noir universe is precisely this mutation in the status of the big Other.

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Enjoy Your Symptom!

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Slavoj Zizek / 2007 / Routledge

The very notion of the big Other (of the symbolic order) is founded on the special kind of double deception that becomes visible in a scene from the Marx brothers' Duck Soup, where Groucho defends his client before the court of law with the following argument in favor of his insanity: "This man looks like an idiot and acts like an idiot—but this should in no way deceive you: he IS an idiot!" The paradox of this proposition exemplifies perfectly the classical topos of the Lacanian theory concerning the difference between animal and human deception: man alone is capable of deceiving by means of truth itself. An animal can feign to be or to intend something other than what it really is or intends, but only man can lie by telling a truth that he expects to be taken for a lie. Only man can deceive by feigning to deceive. This is, of course, the logic of Freud's joke about two Polish Jews often cited by Lacan. One of these men asks the other in an offended tone: "Why are you telling me that you are going to Cracow,, so that I'll think you're going to Lemberg, when you are really going to Cracow?" This same logic structures the plot of a whole series of Hitchcock's films: the amorous couple is at first united by a pure accident or an external constraint, i.e., they find themselves in a situation in which they must pretend to be married or in love, until, finally, they fall in love for real. The paradox of such a situation could be adequately described by a paraphrase of Groucho's plea: "This couple looks like a couple in love and acts like a couple in love—but this should in no way deceive you: they ARE a couple in love!" We find perhaps the most refined version of this in Notorious, when Alicia and Devlin, American agents in the house of Sebastian, a rich Nazi supporter and Alicia's husband, furtively enter the wine cellar to explore the secret contents of the champagne bottles. There, they are surprised by the sudden arrival of Sebastian. To conceal the real purpose of their visit to the cellar, they embrace quickly, feigning a clandestine meeting of two lovers. The point is, of course, that they are effectively in love: they succeed in deceiving the husband (for the time being, at least), but what they offer him as a lure is truth itself. This kind of movement "from outside inward" is one of the key components of the intersubjective relations in Hitchcock's films: we effectively become something by pretending that we already are that. To grasp the dialectic of this movement, we have to take into account the crucial fact that this "outside" is never simply a "mask" we wear in public but is rather the symbolic order itself. By "pretending to be something," by "acting as if we were something," we assume a certain place in the intersubjective symbolic network, and it is this external place that defines our true position. If we remain convinced, deep within ourselves, that "we are not really that," if we preserve an intimate distance toward ''the social role we play," we doubly deceive ourselves. The final deception is that social appearance is deceitful, for in the social-symbolic reality things ultimately are precisely what they pretend to be. (More precisely, this holds only for those of Hitchcock's films designated by Lesley Brill as "romances," in opposition to the "ironic" films. The "romances" are ruled by the Pascalian logic whereby social play gradually changes into an authentic intersubjective relationship whereas the "ironic" films [Psycho, for example] depict a total blockade of communication, a psychotic split where the "mask" is effectively nothing but a mask, i.e., where the subject maintains the kind of distance from the symbolic order characteristic of psychoses.)

引自

Looking Awry

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Slavoj Žižek / 1991 / The MIT Press

What matters in Notorious is not the fact that there are some bottles of wine filled with sand ('ore'), but that the wine is in the cellar; that the cellar door is locked; that the key is in the husband's possession; that the husband is in love with his wife; that she herself is in love with another; and that the third party wishes to know what is in the cellar.

第二部分第五章

Everything You Always Wanted to Kno

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Zizek, Slavoj (EDT) / 1992 / Verso

美人计主要写潜入酒窖那段(个人认为最紧张的地方)交叉蒙太奇，侍者反复查看酒是否减少，另一条线男主女主潜入酒窖寻找，侍者找男主人要钥匙去地窖去酒，这时候男主不小心把酒瓶打碎，一-地碎沙...两条线反复切换以增加悬疑感和紧张感。又通过几个特写和人物反应镜头把男主人发现女主拿走钥匙表达出来。在镜头和转场上，希区柯克玩的很有创意，在本片第一视角模拟女主醉酒后躺在床上看男主，在《三十九级阶梯》里用女人的尖叫和火车的汽笛声转场，无缝衔接富有创意，把剪辑上的“动作匹配”转换成“声音匹配”，搁在现代也照样让人眼前一亮。美人计，这个美人是情感炽热敢爱敢恨的女子，她对警察不屑，内心柔弱但表面刚强，同样她可以左右逢源，拥有超高的洞察力与观察力，在其他人要喝她咖啡而她的丈夫和婆婆制止那人时，她从两人不对劲儿的反应知道自己被人下毒，在描绘她中毒的那段,也是用了第一视角把人物扭曲模糊化，表达她精神迷乱不收控制的状态，有一点“幻想”色彩。《美人计》里男女主的情感十分隐忍，这也是让观众除了对她卧底身份捏一把汗以外紧张的另一因素，到最后皆大欢喜，恶人自有恶报，不禁让人感到轻松。希区柯克的片子里常常有欢喜的，正战胜邪(积极)的结局。