| 词条 | Prospero's Books |
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| name = Prospero's Books | image = Prospero's_Books_poster.jpg | image_size = | caption = Theatrical poster. | director = Peter Greenaway | producer = Masato Hara Kees Kasander Katsufumi Nakamura Yoshinobu Namano Denis Wigman Roland Wigman | writer = Peter Greenaway | starring = {{plainlist|
| music = Michael Nyman | cinematography = Sacha Vierny | editing = Marina Bodbijl | distributor = Miramax Films | released = {{film date|1991|8|30|United Kingdom|df=y|1991|11|15|United States; limited}} {{film date|df=yes|1991|12|6|Australia}} | runtime = 129 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = £1,500,000 | gross = $1,750,301[1] }} Prospero's Books is a 1991 British avant-garde film adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, written and directed by Peter Greenaway. John Gielgud plays Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story characters. Stylistically, Prospero's Books is narratively and cinematically innovative in its techniques, combining mime, dance, opera, and animation. Edited in Japan, the film makes extensive use of digital image manipulation (using Hi-Vision video inserts and the Paintbox system), often overlaying multiple moving and still pictures with animations. Michael Nyman composed the musical score and Karine Saporta choreographed the dance. The film is also notable for its extensive use of nudity, reminiscent of Renaissance paintings of mythological characters. The nude actors and extras represent a cross-section of male and female humanity. PlotProspero's Books is a complex tale based upon William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Miranda, the daughter of Prospero, an exiled magician, falls in love with Ferdinand, the son of his enemy; while the sorcerer's sprite, Ariel, convinces him to abandon revenge against the traitors from his earlier life. In the film, Prospero stands in for Shakespeare himself, and is seen writing and speaking the story's action as it unfolds. Ariel is played by four actors: three acrobats — a boy, an adolescent, and a youth — and a boy singer. Each represents a classical elemental.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}} The BooksThe books of Prospero number 24 according to the production design which outlines each volume's content. The list is reminiscent of the lost books of Epicurus.[2]
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Production and financingGielgud is quoted as saying that a film of The Tempest (with him as Prospero) was his life's ambition, as he had been in four stage productions in 1931, 1940, 1957, and 1974. He had approached Alain Resnais, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, and Orson Welles about directing him in it, with Benjamin Britten to compose its score, and Albert Finney as Caliban, before Greenaway agreed. The closest earlier attempts came to being made was in 1967, with Welles both directing and playing Caliban. But after the commercial failure of their film collaboration, Chimes at Midnight, financing for a cinematic Tempest collapsed.[3] The film was screened out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.[4] Michael Medved attacked the film extensively in his book, Hollywood vs. America for the nudity, and in particular, the scenes of urination. SoundtrackThis was the last of the collaborations between director Peter Greenaway and composer Michael Nyman. Most of the film's music cues, (excepting Ariel's songs and the Masque) are from an earlier concert, La Traversée de Paris and the score from A Zed & Two Noughts. The soundtrack album is Nyman's sixteenth release. Track listing{{div col|colwidth=25em}}
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ReceptionAggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 67% approval of Prospero's Books, with an average rating of 5.9/10 and a critical consensus of, "There is no middle ground for viewers of Peter Greenaway's work, but for his fans, Prospero's Books is reliably daring."[5] Roger Ebert gave the work three stars out of four and argued, "Most of the reviews of this film have missed the point; this is not a narrative, it need not make sense, and it is not 'too difficult' because it could not have been any less so. It is simply a work of original art, which Greenaway asks us to accept or reject on his own terms."[6] References1. ^{{Mojo title|prosperosbooks}} 2. ^Prospero's Books: A Film of the Shakespeare's The Tempest, Peter Greenaway, Four Walls Eight Windows (October 1991) 3. ^Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters, Arcade Publishing (2004) 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/95/year/1991.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Prospero's Books |accessdate=2009-08-12|work=festival-cannes.com}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/prosperos_books/ |title=Prospero's Books (1991) |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |accessdate=January 27, 2017}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/prosperos-books-1991 |title=Prospero's Books Movie Review (1991) |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=November 27, 1991 |accessdate=January 27, 2017}} External links
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