風とライオン [DVD]
フォーマット | 色, ワイドスクリーン |
コントリビュータ | キャンディス・バーゲン, ショーン・コネリー, ジョン・ミリアス |
言語 | 英語, 日本語 |
稼働時間 | 1 時間 59 分 |
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商品の説明
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1904年、米英など列強諸国の陰謀渦巻くモロッコのタンジールで、アメリカ人女性イーデン(キャンディス・バーゲン)とその子どもたちがリフ族首長ライズリ(ショーン・コネリー)に誘拐された。選挙を目前に控えていた米国大統領セオドア・ルーズベルト(ブライアン・キース)は夫人奪還のために大西洋艦隊を派遣。ここに一度も会ったことのない男同士の戦いの火蓋が切って落とされた…。
『ビッグ・ウェンズデー』のジョン・ミリアス監督による戦争スペクタクル映画の傑作。まったくタイプの違うふたりの男の生き様を通して、英雄とはかくあるべきというミリアスの理想論が豪快に奏でられていく。戦闘シーンのダイナミズムにはミリアスが敬愛する黒澤明監督作品の影響も濃いが、少年から銃を奪う馬上のライズリをスローモーションで捉えた秀逸なクライマックスから、本作が少年の目線で捉えられたものであることも理解できよう。またミリアスは『若き勇者たち』でもT・ルーズベルトに敬意を表するショットを挿入している。名匠ジェリー・ゴールドスミスの音楽は、彼の優れたスコアの中でも特筆すべき素晴らしい出来であった。(的田也寸志)
レビュー
監督・脚本: ジョン・ミリアス 撮影: ビリー・ウィリアムズ 音楽: ジェリー・ゴールドスミス 出演: ショーン・コネリー/キャンディス・バーゲン/ブライアン・キース
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- アスペクト比 : 2.35:1
- 言語 : 英語, 日本語
- EAN : 4547462009067
- 監督 : ジョン・ミリアス
- メディア形式 : 色, ワイドスクリーン
- 時間 : 1 時間 59 分
- 発売日 : 2004/5/26
- 出演 : ショーン・コネリー, キャンディス・バーゲン
- 字幕: : 日本語, 英語
- 販売元 : ソニー・ピクチャーズエンタテインメント
- ASIN : B0001WGM0E
- ディスク枚数 : 1
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トップレビュー
上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
見終わった時の心に残る余韻が何とも言えない。
150年以上前の外国様子が想像できます
クライマックスの展開がいまひとつ!
ラストシーン男の子から銃を受け取りに行くシーン、キャンディスバーゲンが男らしさに傾倒していく言葉使い、夜の焚火シーンが良かった。
ジョン・ミリアスが一番キレていた時の名作だと改めて思いました。
ショーン・コネリーファンは必見の映画です。
他の国からのトップレビュー
Avec livret intègre au lieu d'un simple boîtier plastique bleu !
Very loosely based on a real incident at the turn of the Century, the story involves an American woman and her two children who are kidnapped by a dashing Berber lord, who wants to provoke an international incident in the hope of bringing down the coorrupt ruling government. This he manages to achieve, upsetting no less a person than the then president of the United States Teddy Roosevelt. Things are complicated further when those dastardly Germans get involved as well. It doesn't involve penalties thank goodness! At first she is unsurprisingly hostile toward her kidnapper, but then gradually warms to him, finding him to be a man of honour and not the brigand that some would make him out to be. He is also a man willing to fight his own battles, and there are plenty of opportunities for him to do this.
Milius admitted that he was influenced by the stories of Rudyard Kipling, which the film bears out. There are also two scenes which have clearly been borrowed from "The Wild Bunch". No bad film to borrow from! Some of the scenes with flags blowing in the wind was very reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa. Milius is a writer/director steeped in Hollywood knowledge and film lore, which he uses intelligently to fine effect. As a writer he had few peers, and on this showing it is a great pity he did not direct more films. He assembled an excellent cast. Brian Keith steals the honours as Roosevelt, and Scotsman Connery makes a very dashing Berber Lord. Candice Bergen offers feisty support and John Huston, away from directorial duties, is good fun as a crusty old aide to the president. Not just an adventure story the film manages to say something about American foreign policy. In a lovely little interview with the press in Yellowstone Roosevelt compares America to a Grizzly bear. Strong, fearless, intelligent and ferocious. A little blind at times but courageous. He goes on to say "the world will never love us, but it will respect us and may even fear us". Later he describes America as "blind and reckless at times". I guess not a lot has changed in the world since Milius made the film!
The film was made on location in the Spaghetti western haven of Almeria, Spain, which substitutes seamlessly for Morocco, even containing the same architecture, a legacy of past Moorish occupation. Strange that Morocco itself is now such a popular location for filming! People will no doubt raise an eyebrow at Connery as a Berber chief, but I actually think he is pretty convincing. He certainly looks the part and wisely does not attempt any silly accent. Omar Shariff was the original choice but turned down the role, which would have been a glaring case of type casting. The film was interestingly well received in the Islamic world for its accuracy. The stunt men definitely earned their money on this film, with some spectacular falls from buildings and horses. There is wonderful charge into the German guns that is one of films finest. Unfortunately, unlike the guns of Aquaba in "Lawrence of Arabia", this time they are pointing the right way. It was this type of film that made me fall in love with cinema, and I can see that Milius had a similar mis-spent youth. This is one of my favourite adventure films of all time. It deserves to have a bigger reputation, and for goodness sake will somebody out there give it a decent region 2 release.
that gives even more depth to the film. The actual events portrayed are only somewhat accurate. This might be viewed as a "what if" type of film.
Sean Connery as Rizuli, the "Lord of the Rif" is outstanding and quite different from his mostly James Bond casting up until that point. While classes as a bandit, he is also the uncle of the Sultan of Morocco - a quite immature young man as portrayed. in the film who has great memories of his times with his "uncle". It was an early, and possibly unintentional example, of the convoluted nature of Mid-East and African politics. Connery portrays a man of great dignity and personal honor who, in a way, although classified as a bandit, is likeable and charming. He grows on you - from the first scene all the way until the voice over narration at the end. He exhibits and exudes majesty.
John Huston as John Hay is another exceptional portrayal. He is shown doing his best to prevent an all out war but I think one can see the grandstanding going on for the sake of the diplomatic corps then in Washington. He makes the typical "Ugly American" mistake of assuming that the Japanese Military Attache' does not speak English and is put in his place quite nicely by the attace' at a luncheon.
Brian Keith is terrific as Theodore Roosevelt and gives not only a fine perfromance of the man, but captures the spirit of America then and now. The analagy to the grizzly bear is quite effective and moving. His problems with the fitting of his rifle are quite amusing as well as his difficulty in getting them resolved. One would think that even in the 1900s the President could get better customer service than was portrayed. His problem with his vision is portrayed in a very interesting way and depends on the young girl playing Alice Roosevelt to make it work. Roosevelt and the family at the rifle range is well done - musical selections played by the Marine band to the accompaniement of rifle fire makes a nice contrast and could be seen as pointing out the contradictions in Roosevelt as a person.
Candice Bergen is fine as Eden Pedicaris, even though historically 100% wrong. The person she portrayed was actually a man who was a naturalized American citizen who was Greek originally. She is a bit of a Murphy Brown charecter even in 1975, but does it well. Yet what makes her role work is the fine performances by the young boy and girl who represent her children. The children give Bergen greater scope to show her charecter. The children even start to undergo something of a "Stockholm Syndrome" as they start to become comfortable with their captors - the boy is given a dagger by one of the guards and looks at Connery as something of a father figure.
The hurly-burly of Moroccan politics is protrayed quite well. The German cavalry and French infantry are shown in great force. The US intervention is one of those moments that makes you want to sit and cheer as the Marines take on first, the Moroccan Army and then later the German cavalry. The meeting between the US diplomats in Morocco and the Navy and Marine representatives is an excellent portrayal of diplomats wanting a military sloution without getting into any fighting.
This is a movie that has just about something for everyone, even for those who viewed or view the United States as less than benevolent power, but, for the vast majority of us, it was an entertaining film that portrays versatility of Connery, Bergen, Houston and Keith in a way not usually seen. I recommend it for everyone but bearing in mind that its actual relation to history is tenuous at best - Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay and Rizuli existed but this portrayal is totally fictional. But still it is worth several viewings.
Five years after writing this review, I think of some of the things that the character of Theodore Roosvelt is saying and wondering if someone had a crystal ball and was looking 30 years into the future. Listen to the words about America and it's audacity and then think of Iraq. American certainly charged into that country with audacity and made a lot of enemies in the process.
Sean Connery plays Raisuli with unbeatable charisma and his own fruitily imperturbable accent which may irritate the purists but if you loved Hugh Griffith as an Arab from Anglesey in BEN-HUR you should have no trouble here. If it bugs you pretend his mother was a tourist from Edinburgh. A man's a man for all that and Connery is certainly the man. He and the comely widow (Candice Bergen) hit it off right away - he backhands her for laughing at him falling off his horse (Sir Sean reportedly approved of treating 'em rough in real-life too) but when he tells her "You're going to be a great deal of trouble" we start getting that King & I feeling. "Do you play checkers ?" he later asks. "No, I play chess," she replies and they do while swapping cute aphorisms and cultural critiques. She has to take a couple of beheadings in her stride but the children William and Jennifer (both played by Brits but what the hell) adjust to life on the desert with aplomb, discovering such exotic wonders as a human tongue lying on the sand "from someone who had nothing pleasant to say." The fatherless boy seems to fancy Raisuli as a possible surrogate. "He has the way with him, hasn't he Mother ?. He sure has the way." Mother nonetheless bribes a guard to help them escape one night only for the family to be sold into the hands of brigands. Raisuli comes after them alone, despatches his enemies one by one and takes his hostages back to camp. The reason for the snatch and the ransom-demands is mainly to embarrass his brother the Bashaw of Tangier (Vladek Sheybal) who'd had him imprisoned once and whom he despises for sucking up to European interests and alliances. His dream is to raise holy war against them but the widow becomes sufficiently concerned about his possible fate to warn him it would be futile. By this time she's invited an exchange of first-names. "I am Eden," she announces serenely. (He's Mulai). "Eden, " he mutters. "Of course."
Back in the U.S.of A. the 'cowboy' President (a warm and wonderful Brian Keith) limbers up for the political fray with whistle-stop tours, boxing workouts and target-practice. On a hunting-trip he expounds to the press-corps about the Grizzly Bear which he sees as the Spirit of America - "Indomitable, unconquered - but always alone. The world respects us, they might even grow to fear us but they will never love us." In real-life the Pedecaris affair was resolved without bloodshed. But this is an action-adventure so when the Bashaw refuses to cough up the ransom a gung-ho Marine officer Captain Jerome (Steve Kanaly) suggests taking him prisoner. The Marines jogtrot in formation through the streets of Tangier, watched with apprehension by the European legations, before storming the Palace with some help from the U.S.Navy. Raisuli delivers his hostages but at the trade-in is seized by a German cavalry-unit and thrown into jail. The Marines are unable to intervene but Eden takes the initiative, enlisting their support for a rescue-mission. They walk the walk like the Wild Bunch, the music solemn and proud and Raisuli is released after a flurry of gunfire. When he goes out the door to take on the Hun he gives her a great gratified and incredulous smile and tells her they'll ride on golden clouds together. The German colonel makes to shoot him down but switches honourably to a sword, Raisuli's only weapon. Their duel around the market-place ends with Raisuli about to deliver the coup-de-grace but he stops within inches and spares the German with a laugh. In a stunning climax the boy William waits at the edge of the square with Raisuli's rifle, spellbound as the desert hawk rides towards him, an arm outstretched. But it's just the rifle he snatches up not the boy and is gone into the distance like Shane, leaving a memory to last a lifetime.. Teddy is sharing a tranquil moment with a newly unveiled exhibit of his favourite animal when he reads a letter from Raisuli that explains the difference between them and gives the film its title. "I like the lion must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours."