最危险的游戏 The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

那个年代，正值二战、大萧条啊！拍出这种片不容易呢！而且场景、动作、道具的处理都很不错！可惜没有故事原版好看.

The story describes the most unusual adventure of Rainsford ,a world-renown hunter,who ,cruising in the Caribbean Sea on a moonless night, fell into the sea.He struck out toward an island he could barely make out ,and found himself a captive of the ex-Czarist Russian general, Zaroff,whose great passion was hunting.Having become bored with conventional hunting he amused himself hunting the "most dangerous game",man.

现在看这部1932年的恐怖片，感觉会有点无聊，但是仔细想想，所有这些类型片的元素，似乎七十多年来也没有什么变化。这短短62分钟的电影，如果用今天的特效、CG、露点戏撑起来的话，也应该是部120分钟以上的惊悚大片了吧。既然如此，反而应该是今天我们看得这些电影更加没营养，快一百年了，不过也至多搞出些大金刚大战格斯拉式的东西，侮辱智力也侮辱审美。
这片子和德莱叶的《吸血鬼》拍摄于同一年，也算是恐怖片的鼻祖了，当然还带有好莱坞式的典型特征。吃人的俄国人，耍飞刀的中国人，神勇正确而又死不掉的美国人，一个不知道在什么位置的荒岛（怀疑制片人第二年就在这个布景里拍摄了《金刚》），接着便是猎杀与逃生，主角大难不死，坏蛋自食其果，简直就是教科书一般的范本。这一套也不知糊弄了多少代观众了，换个壳搞得花哨一点，我们今天仍然会是津津乐道。娱乐就是这样子，总是不满足现状，而最简单的却最能解决问题。现在放这片子给大家看，绝大多数人都会说傻透了、无聊死了这类话吧，但电影工业一个世纪来还是在以同样的模式运作，所量产出的产品还能有…

Amateurish film even for is day. Everything is bad: caddish hero, shop-girl-like heroine, stupid plot, shoddy make-believe set (broad river with a great cascade, in a tiny, flat island?!), and absurdly implausible lighting that doesn't even get one frame right.

I value historical interest as much as the next person, and I have enough piety on reserve for the occasion, but I fail to see any historical significance here at all. I can't believe this movie was made in the same year in which Lubitsch did "Trouble in Paradise", and 7 years after Lubitsch's "Lady Windermere's Fan", and 8 years after Murnau's "Las Laugh". I thought film-making was supposed to progress forward, not regress backward. Maybe someone can enlighten me?

This is from the folks who gave us the original King Kong. Why am I not surprised?!