| 词条 | The Delicate Art of the Rifle |
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| name = The Delicate Art of the Rifle | image = | caption = | director = D.W. Harper | producer = T. Todd Flinchum | writer = Stephen Grant | narrator = | starring = David Grant Stephen Grant | music = | cinematography = Martin Brown | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1996}} | runtime = 93 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }}The Delicate Art of the Rifle is a 1996 independent film directed by Dante W. Harper, with a screenplay by Stephen Grant, based on his short story by the same name. It is a surrealistic comedy-drama about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay. Walt Whitman, the shooter, is loosely based on Charles Whitman, but the film is not in any way a factual account of the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas.[1] PlotThe movie takes the point-of-view of Jay (David Grant), a college student whose main interests are theater and computer games. While Jay moves around his school's well-equipped theater building he delivers a long voice-over soliloquy revealing his quirky personality. Jay has difficulty interpreting other people: he mentions that his classmates often try to trick him into believing absurd statements, and he cannot always tell whether girls are just being polite to him or if they especially like him. Jay's voice-over is intercut with scenes of the production that is being performed in the theater, a fashion show version of Hamlet. Jay leaves the theater and encounters one of his professors, Dr. Max Boaz (John Kessel). As Jay and Max are walking outdoors a sniper opens fire from a rooftop and kills all the people around Jay. His roommate Walt (Stephen Grant) yells from the rooftop, asking Jay to come up and join him. Jay assumes Walt must be up there trying to assist wounded people or stop the sniper. Eager to help, Jay enters the building and tries to get to the roof, experiencing several bizarre encounters with other people along the way. After Jay arrives on the roof he learns that Walt is actually the sniper. Between outbursts of shooting, Walt says he comes from a long line of sharpshooters and has been working on a book about his family entitled The Delicate Art of the Rifle. Walt also tells Jay about incidents in which Walt tried to locate his girlfriend. She had disappeared and her friends and relatives did not remember her. Walt has come to the conclusion that there is some sort of "metaphysical virus" that erases people from history, removing all traces of them. Walt believes that he also has the virus and will soon disappear. The movie ends with a long steadicam scene that follows Jay as he walks through the theater building closing doors and turning off lights. In his voice-over monologue Jay reveals that Walt vanished and was never found. Jay says he has lost all his newspaper clippings of the sniper incident. At the very end Jay's voice-over intimates that Walt "erasing virus" theory might have been correct, but with Jay as a classic unreliable narrator this is never definitively established. Cast and crew
ProductionThe Delicate Art of the Rifle was filmed on the campus of North Carolina State University. The rooftop scenes were shot atop the D. H. Hill Library, the tallest building on campus at the time.[2] Filming was completed during a 14-day period in 1995. The cost of production was approximately $110,000.[3]ReleaseThe film was screened at over 30 American and international film festivals in the mid 1990s[3] and had a limited theatrical release in selected American cities in 1999.[4] It appears occasionally on the Independent Film Channel. It has not yet been formally released on DVD or other home media. Awards
ReceptionKevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "one of the best American independent pictures of the past year or so."[4] Cindy Fuchs wrote, "The movie is by turns delirious, provocative, obnoxious and intriguing."[5] Sandra Brennan in Allmovie, after describing the film as difficult and imperfect, wrote that "those who stick with it will be rewarded with the rare opportunity to see a refreshingly intelligent bit of modern American cinema."[6] References1. ^{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/the-delicate-art-of-the-rifle-1200445250/ | title=The Delicate Art of the Rifle | accessdate=8 October 2018}} 2. ^1 Nelson, Connie and Harris, Floyd (2004) Film Junkie's Guide to North Carolina. {{ISBN|0-89587-269-2}}, page 160 3. ^1 Span, Paula. Big Dreams for the Big Screen, Washington Post, October 3, 1997 4. ^1 Movie Review; 'Rifle' Carries a Painfully Timely Impact, Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1999 5. ^Philadelphia City Paper, October 9–16, 1997. 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:136048|title=review at AllMovie|accessdate=2008-12-21}} External links
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