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词条 Diamond Skulls
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  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Rating

  4. Reception

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}}{{Use British English|date=July 2014}}{{infobox film
| name= Diamond Skulls
| image=Diamond Skulls film.jpeg
| caption=
| director= Nick Broomfield
|producer= Tim Bevan
Jane Fraser
| writer= Nick Broomfield
Tim Rose Price
| starring = {{plainlist|
  • Gabriel Byrne
  • Amanda Donohoe
  • Michael Hordern
  • Judy Parfitt}}

| music=Hans Zimmer
| cinematography=Michael Coulter
| editing=Rodney Holland
| released=Sept 1989 (London Film Festival)
| runtime=100min
| country=U.K.
| language=English
}}

Diamond Skulls (also known as Dark Obsession) is a British 1989 thriller directed by Nick Broomfield who also co-wrote with Tim Rose-Price. An established documentary filmmaker, this is Broomfield's first work of fiction.[1] It is produced by Tim Bevan and Jane Fraser and stars Amanda Donohoe, Gabriel Byrne and Struan Rodger and has a music score by Hans Zimmer. It includes the last film performance of Ian Carmichael.[2]{{cbignore}}

Plot

Lord Hugo Bruckton is a young Englishman who is the heir to a vast fortune. He is married to Ginny, who seems devoted and loyal to him, and they have a young son. But Hugo is haunted by jealousy, for he imagines Ginny in the arms of a colleague. He begins to spy on her and goes into a rage over her suspected infidelity. One night, after a social gathering with members of his old British Army regiment, Hugo and his friends go out for a drive. He accidentally runs over a woman, who dies at the scene. All but one of his friends urge Hugo to drive on. In his drunk state of mind, Hugo had imagined himself running over Ginny.

Over the next few days, a psychological war ensues. Peter, Hugo's business associate, wants to use the cover-up to leverage power over the estate. Jamie, who's dating Hugo's sister, wants to go to the police to report it. Hugo's family closes ranks as Ginny and the rest side with Hugo, who fears that his arrest and imprisonment will ruin the family's reputation. As the police investigation closes in on Hugo, the power struggle leads to deadly consequences.

At the end, Hugo and Peter murder Jamie and arrange it to look like a suicide--that it had been Jamie driving the car that killed the woman--and he had killed himself out of guilt by throwing his dead body off a seaside cliff. The police believe the story and close the case, and the amoral Hugo gets away with everything as he continues his sordid and unwholesome life undisturbed.

Cast

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  • Amanda Donohoe as Ginny Bruckton
  • Gabriel Byrne as Lord Hugo Bruckton
  • Struan Rodger as Peter Eggleton
  • Douglas Hodge as Jamie Skinner
  • Ralph Brown as Jack
  • Peter Sands as Colonel
  • David Delve as Alec
  • Alexander Clempson as Edward
  • Catherine Livesey as Nanny
  • Michael Hordern as Lord Crewne
  • Ian Carmichael as Exeter
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  • Matthew Marsh as Raul
  • Judy Parfitt as Lady Crewne
  • Sadie Frost as Rebecca
  • Edward Burnham as John the Gardener
  • Phyllida Hewat as Lady Castlemere
  • Patrick Field as Detective 1
  • Jay Benedict as Joe
  • Eiji Kusuhara as Ewo Nagasaky
  • Robin Summers as Detective 2
  • William Hoyland as Inspector Orchard
{{Col-end}}

Rating

Diamond Skulls received an NC-17 rating upon its release in the United States during June 1991.

Reception

Diamond Skulls received generally mixed reviews: the film carried an 80% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes in 2010 but it has now slipped to 36% from 11 critic's reviews, with no consensus.[3] The film was given two thumbs up by Siskel & Ebert.[4]

In the New York Times review Diamond Skulls; Aristocracy When It Thinks No One is Looking, Janet Maslin considered that "rarely does a documentary film maker make the transition to fiction as adroitly as Nicholas Broomfield has in Dark Obsession, a psychological thriller displaying a documentarian's fascination for small,telling details." Maslin praised "an eerie score by Hans Zimmer, a chilling performance by Struan Rodger as Sir Hugo's cold blooded business associate and the unremarked upon inclusion of many odd bits of traditionalism that have presumably made men like Sir Hugo what they are".[5]

References

1. ^{{Cite news|title = Portrait of the artist: Nick Broomfield, documentary-maker|url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/sep/11/1|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 2007-09-11|access-date = 2016-02-05|issn = 0261-3077|language = en-GB|first = Interview by Laura|last = Barnett}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325023340/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/12257/Diamond-Skulls/details|title=Diamond-Skulls – Cast, Crew, Director and Awards – NYTimes.com|date=2016-03-25|access-date=2016-06-19}} (slow loading, as are links)
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/diamond_skulls|title=Diamond Skulls (Dark Obsession)|website=www.rottentomatoes.com|access-date=2016-06-19}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dark-obsession-1991|title=Dark Obsession Movie Review & Film Summary (1991) {{!}} Roger Ebert|last=Ebert|first=Roger|website=www.rogerebert.com|access-date=2016-06-19}}
5. ^{{citeweb|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CE1DF1E3BF934A35755C0A967958260&partnerRotten%2520Tomatoes|title=New York Times Review- Diamond Skulls; Aristocracy When It Thinks No One Is Looking}} by Janet Maslin, 7 June 1991

External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0097158|title=Dark Obsession}}
  • {{Mojo title|darkobsession}}
  • {{Amg movie|12257|Dark Obsession}}

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