| 词条 | V.I. Warshawski (film) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| name = V.I. Warshawski | image = V.I. Warshawski (film).jpg | image_size = 200px | alt = | caption = Film poster | director = Jeff Kanew | producer = Penney Finkelman Cox Jeffrey Lurie | screenplay = Edward Taylor David Aaron Cohen Nick Thiel | based on = {{small|Deadlock by}} Sara Paretsky | narrator = | starring = {{plainlist|
| music = Randy Edelman | cinematography = Jan Kiesser | editing = Debra Neil-Fisher Carroll Timothy O'Meara | studio = Hollywood Pictures Chestnut Hill Productions | distributor = Buena Vista Pictures | released = {{Film date|1991|07|26}} | runtime = 89 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $24 million | gross = $11,128,309 (US) }} V.I. Warshawski is a 1991 film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Kathleen Turner. PlotVictoria Iphigenia "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago-based freelance private investigator who lives the part of the hard-boiled detective. But in her heart of hearts, she is a softy. One night, while she is drinking at her favorite bar, she meets an ex-Blackhawks hockey player named Boom-Boom Grafalk (Stephen Meadows). The two connect and a romance appears to be in the making. But Warshawski is nevertheless surprised when Boom-Boom appears at her doorstep later that night with his 13-year-old daughter, Kat (Angela Goethals) in tow. He asks Warshawski if she could watch her and Warshawski agrees. Later that night, Boom-Boom is killed in a boat explosion and Kat hires Warshawski to track down her father's killer. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter; together they set out to crack the case. Principal cast
ProductionWritingThe film was based on a series of books by Sara Paretsky. Screenwriters Edward Taylor, David Aaron Cohen, and Nick Thiel adapted only one of Sara Paretsky's novels, Deadlock, for the script for this movie, which took at least one liberty with the story. Whereas Paretsky had written the novel as a serious mystery, the screenwriters took an almost comedic approach. Paretsky was especially angry over the original script that had the independent female detective subordinate to a male counterpart for fear that a female character could not hold the lead role. The film's plot is very different from that of the original Sara Paretsky novel Deadlock. In the book the ex-Blakhawks player Boom-Boom was the protagonist detective's cousin and lifelong companion, rather than a chance-met stranger; he had no daughter; and "Grafalk" was the family name of another character altogether, a devious shipping magnate who had a major role in the book but was dropped from the film. CastingInitially, the producers wanted to set the film in Baltimore and cast either Amy Madigan, Bette Midler or Jane Fonda as Warshawski. Kathleen Turner reprised her character V.I. Warshawski in a series of radio plays on BBC Radio 4, the radio version of Deadlock itself being broadcast in 1993. FilmingPrincipal production began in Chicago in November 1990. Scenes were filmed at Wrigley Field, Chicago; Green Mill - 4802 N. Broadway Avenue, Chicago, (used as the Golden Glow Cocktail Lounge); San Pedro, California, Long Beach, California; Fire Station 23 - 225 E. 5th Street, Los Angeles, and Warner Bros Studios. Completed shooting February 27, 1991. ReceptionJanet Maslin of The New York Times had mixed thoughts about the film but commended the acting: {{cquote |It's too bad that V.I. Warshawski is itself a lot less glamorous than Ms. Turner's performance, since the character could easily be the centerpiece of a more appealing film.... V.I. Warshawski has a breezy style and a serviceable, even surprising detective plot. And it has Ms. Turner, who makes the most of V. I. Warshawski's sardonic humor.[1]}}Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and also praised Turner's performance: {{cquote |Kathleen Turner fits the character more closely than I would have imagined. Her laugh seems aged by whiskey, her smile is brave in the face of trouble, she kisses guys as if she'll never see them again, and she's usually right.[2]}}The movie debuted poorly at the box office.[3] On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a rating of 21% based on 24 reviews.[4] Home mediaThe film was released on VHS on November 13, 1991; it was released on Laserdisc (4:3 ratio) the following year and on DVD on June 4, 2002 (in a 1.85:1 ratio). It was released on Blu-ray in May 2011. LegacyIan Frazier's book Travels in Siberia recounts an instance where Frazier, visiting the city of Irkutsk in the early 1990s, sees a young girl dancing alone to Randy Edelman's theme song played during the closing credits of the film. At the time, and again in his later reflections upon Russia, Frazier sees this episode as emblematic not only of the sensuality of Russian culture ("Russians can really dance") but of the spirit of the entire nation. References1. ^{{cite news|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9D0CEEDB1330F935A15754C0A967958260 |title=V.I. Warshawski|authorlink=Janet Maslin|work=The New York Times|date= July 26, 1991|accessdate=2010-10-04 |first=Janet |last=Maslin}} 2. ^{{cite news|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19910726/REVIEWS/107260303/1023 |title=V.I. Warshawski|work=Rogerebert.suntimes.com |date= July 26, 1991|accessdate=2010-09-02}} 3. ^{{cite news|author=|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-30/entertainment/ca-326_1_weekend-box-office |title=Weekend Box Office : 'Mobsters' Is the Only Solid Opener - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=1991-07-30 |accessdate=2012-07-09}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vi_warshawski |title=V.I. Warshawski (1991) |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |date= |accessdate=2018-11-29}} External links
12 : 1991 films|American films|Films based on American novels|Films set in Chicago|Films shot in Chicago|Films shot in Los Angeles|Hollywood Pictures films|1990s mystery films|Detective films|Films directed by Jeff Kanew|American mystery films|Films scored by Randy Edelman |
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