浮生若梦
The Dream Merchants
Drama, 3hrs 20min
1980
Starring: Eve Arden, Kaye Ballard, Don "Red" Barry ...more
Synopsis
Old-time Hollywood director Vincent Sherman brings a glossy studio-bound look to The Dream Merchants, a two-part, four-hour adaptation of Harold Robbins' novel. The story follows the career of a pioneer filmmaker (Mark Harmon), who comes to Hollywood in the early 20th century with a pocketful of dreams and helps build the sleepy California orange-grove community into the world's entertainment capital. Typical of the Harold Robbins ouevre, most of the characters are based on real-life movie personalities: Robert Goulet's vainglorious matinee idol is a combination of John Barrymore and Douglas Fairbanks, while Vincent Gardenia's vitriolic mogul can be taken as a low-budget Louis B. Mayer. The film is rife with historical inaccuracies (Goulet is informed that the closeup has "just been invented by D. W. Griffith" as a means to convince him to sign a long-term contract assuring him plenty of closeups!), while the haircuts and speech patterns are firmly locked into the 1980s. All the same, The Dream Merchants was a profitable entry in the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" series of TV specials.
大意是:这部名为《梦幻商人》的影片根据哈罗德罗宾斯的小说改编,分为两部四个小时。故事描述一位早期电影制作人(Mark Harmon扮演), 20世纪初带着梦想来到好莱坞,将加利福尼亚这块沉睡的土地建设成世界娱乐中心。剧中很多人物身上都有真实人物的影子。
另外,其中涉及一些电影史部分的内容,估计楼主就不需要了吧。
其实,留意一下片头字幕(尤其是影片英文原名),就明白了。