| 词条 | The Illustrated Man (film) |
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| name = The Illustrated Man | image = The Illustrated Man 1969 poster.jpg | image size = | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Jack Smight | producer = Ted Mann Howard B. Kreitsek | screenplay = Howard B. Kreitsek | based on = {{based on|The Illustrated Man|Ray Bradbury}} | narrator = | starring = Rod Steiger Claire Bloom | music = Jerry Goldsmith | cinematography = Philip H. Lathrop | editing = Archie Marshek | studio = | distributor = Warner Bros.–Seven Arts | released = {{Film date|1969|03|26}} | runtime = 103 minutes | country = United States | language = English }} The Illustrated Man is a 1969 American science fiction film directed by Jack Smight and starring Rod Steiger as a man whose tattoos on his body represent visions of frightening futures. The film is based on three short stories from the 1951 collection The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury: "The Veldt," "The Long Rain," and "The Last Night of the World." PlotSet in the backroads of America, the film enacts three of Bradbury's short stories set in the future, with Steiger as a man named Carl telling tales behind some of his tattoos, which he insists are not to be called tattoos, but only ever "skin illustrations." The stories are about virtual reality ("The Veldt"), a mysterious planet ("The Long Rain") and the end of the world ("The Last Night of the World"). Carl, accompanied by his dog, Peke, tells his tales to Willie, a traveler. The tie-in prologue tells of how Carl came to be tattooed after he encountered a mysterious woman named Felicia (Claire Bloom) in a remote farmhouse. Story summaries
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ProductionThe Illustrated Man comprises three science fiction short stories from Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories The Illustrated Man. Howard B. Kreitsek wrote the screenplay that encompassed the stories "The Veldt," "The Long Rain," and "The Last Night of the World"; Jack Smight directed the film. Bradbury was not consulted for the adaptation.[1] Since the collection included eighteen short stories, Smight chose three stories and used the carnival sideshow freak who appeared in the collection's prologue and epilogue as the film's primary narrative. As the tattooed man, the director cast Rod Steiger, whom he had known since the 1950s.[2]ReceptionThe Illustrated Man was considered a critical and financial failure.[2] Time wrote, "Responsibility for the failure of The Illustrated Man must rest with Director Jack Smight. He has committed every possible error of style and taste, including the inexcusable fault of letting Steiger chew up every piece of scenery in sight."[3]Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Kreitsek's screenplay is unsharp, without focus, working into and out of the hallucinations with great awkwardness." Canby found the film to have "moments of eerie beauty" but believed that the director was limited by the screenplay. The critic said, "Everything remains foetus-like and underdeveloped, although shrouded in misty pretensions of grandeur."[4] Echoing Canby, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "Smight's confused, wandering film never does quite come to terms with what it wants to be." Ebert pointed out the film's weaknesses to be acting and character but did not find them to be fatal. He believed that the film's major flaw was "inadequate attention" to the audience's expectations, distracting it with logic and lack of logic in the film's three stories. He concluded, "And so the film finally doesn't work for the same reason that comic Westerns usually fail: Because it's risky to fool around with a genre unless you know what you're doing."[5]Ray Bradbury said: "Rod was very good in it, but it wasn't a good film ... the script was terrible." According to John Stanley, "a major disappointment, for producer Howard B. Kreitsek's script fails to capture the poetry or imagination of Ray Bradbury's famous collection. Jack Smight is too conventional a director to give this the technique it screams out for."[6] The film was nominated for the 1970 "Best Dramatic Presentation" Hugo Award, but did not win. When The Illustrated Man was released on DVD in 2006, a retrospective review of the film wrote that the counterculture of the 1960s was evident in the film and that its depiction of the future did not age well.[7] RemakeIn August 2007, Zack Snyder signed on to direct a remake of The Illustrated Man with Watchmen co-screenwriter Alex Tse as screenwriter.[8] No other announcements about this remake appeared, and the project is assumed to have gone into development hell from which it has not emerged. See also
References1. ^{{cite book | last=Reid | first=Robin Anne | year=2000 | chapter=The Illustrated Man (1951) | title=Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion | publisher=Greenwood Press | isbn=0-313-30901-9 | pages=37 }} 2. ^1 {{cite book | last=Weller | first=Sam | year=2005 | chapter=Remembering the Future | title=The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury | publisher=William Morrow | isbn=0-06-054581-X | pages=279–280 }} 3. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840041,00.html | title=New Movies: Walking Nightmare | work=Time | date=4 April 1969 }} 4. ^{{cite news | last=Canby | first=Vincent | authorlink=Vincent Canby | url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A06E6DB153AEE34BC4F51DFB5668382679EDE | title=The Illustrated Man (1969) | work=The New York Times | date=27 March 1969 }} 5. ^{{cite news | last=Ebert | first=Roger | authorlink=Roger Ebert | url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19690806/REVIEWS/908060301/1023 | title=The Illustrated Man | work=Chicago Sun-Times | date=6 August 1969 }} 6. ^John Stanley. Creature Features: The Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Movie Guide". NY: Berkley Boulevard, Aug 2000 (updated ed), p. 260 7. ^{{cite news|last=Kehr|first=Dave|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E4DC1E31F935A15751C1A9609C8B63&pagewanted=2|title=Critics' Choice: New DVDs|work=The New York Times|date=26 December 2006}} 8. ^{{cite news|last=Billington|first=Alex|url=http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/the-illustrated-man-remake-directed-by-zack-snyder/|title=The Illustrated Man Remake Directed by Zack Snyder|date=27 August 2007|work=Firstshowing.com|accessdate=9 February 2017}} External links
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