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  • 漠西
    2022/3/25 23:11:47
    前十五分钟
    前十五分钟从氛围到情节到动作戏能封神,末日感设计的挺好,而且很有想象力,滑冰穿越海洋,全程就是活靶子。但影片超过半小时之后就完全落入俗套,所有人的领盒饭都挺莫名其妙,尤其在老两口家那段,完全没必要啊,大家突然就暴起了,对死何必呢,再往后看就没啥意思了,最后...  (展开)
    前十五分钟从氛围到情节到动作戏能封神,末日感设计的挺好,而且很有想象力,滑冰穿越海洋,全程就是活靶子。但影片超过半小时之后就完全落入俗套,所有人的领盒饭都挺莫名其妙,尤其在老两口家那段,完全没必要啊,大家突然就暴起了,对死何必呢,再往后看就没啥意思了,最后...  (展开)
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  • 影视VIP送
    2020/4/10 21:59:34
    爆笑王小丽,非常高兴的网络大电影
    非常爆笑,建议吃饭的时候别看,我怕你会喷!不过需要会员才能看,需要1年会员的,豆我。限前50名 非常爆笑,建议吃饭的时候别看,我怕你会喷!不过需要会员才能看,需要1年会员的,豆我。限前50名 非常爆笑,建议吃饭的时候别看,我怕你会喷!不过需要会员才能看,需要1年会员...  (展开)
    非常爆笑,建议吃饭的时候别看,我怕你会喷!不过需要会员才能看,需要1年会员的,豆我。限前50名 非常爆笑,建议吃饭的时候别看,我怕你会喷!不过需要会员才能看,需要1年会员的,豆我。限前50名 非常爆笑,建议吃饭的时候别看,我怕你会喷!不过需要会员才能看,需要1年会员...  (展开)
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  • 陶者无缰
    2013/1/15 8:01:27
    有一个少年——by龙凤奶黄包子
           赤裸裸,日暮天寒
        赤裸裸,日暮天寒

        13是个不吉利的数字,它记录了光明之神的死亡。
        电梯的数字停留在大大的13上。一个俊美的少年十指纤纤打着字,置
           赤裸裸,日暮天寒
        赤裸裸,日暮天寒

        13是个不吉利的数字,它记录了光明之神的死亡。
        电梯的数字停留在大大的13上。一个俊美的少年十指纤纤打着字,置身于一个面无表情机械麻木的人群之中。少年轻皱皱眉,微撅着可爱的小嘴完成工作。

        “有一个赤裸的少年,他赤裸的来到世间,世间是苍茫的丛林,他只有赤裸的心田,心田里撒一把心种。”

        少年搂着野合的女孩说,“这里阴森森的,早晚我要烧一把火驱驱邪。”
        女孩不漂亮,脸蛋圆圆像小甜饼,配合着旁边鼓鼓的小包子竟十分和谐。她说:“我就是你的火种?”
        你怎么会是他的火种?
        女孩终究是不理解少年的,少年的火种是他自己。
        少年偏执地拉着女孩躺倒自己的办公桌上,在办公桌这个一丝不苟的地方行人世间最大的享受。他是那么大胆,因为他是少年,少年有的是资本放纵与藐视,只要不再长大。

        “丛林中有猛兽万千,吞噬燃烧,燃烧吞咽。”

        大卫嘲笑他:“你永远都只是试用期。”
        那是因为少年还没有被吞噬燃烧,他仍一脸得意游离在既行社会之外恣意张扬,嘲笑每一个忙忙碌碌的人。
        大卫和“老爷”是张纯的好朋友。
        每个男人体内都曾有着一个张纯,每个男人也都渴望有一个大卫那样的朋友。但是少年却要长大,长大后成为一个自己曾经嘲笑过的人。

        “丛林中空余劫灰,再不见火光炎炎。”

        少年却是拒绝长大的,所以,大卫死了,“老爷”毁了,死亡是他唯一的出路。
        “张纯”不说教,不表扬,亦不批判,他只展现青春的美好。我不喜欢他,不讨厌他,只爱死他的率性天然。
        张霹雳并不一开始就是张霹雳。张纯,张彻,难道真的只是巧合。

        大家爱着张纯的美,可谁又能真正的接受他。张老师一边宠爱着叛逆的大卫一边却又说:“他要是我儿子,烦也被他烦死。”
        成年的世界就是这么可笑。

        世间只得一个张彻,张霹雳也只得一个《死角》而已。

        他赤裸的来,他赤裸的去。
        我依然怀念他。

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  • ZiTa
    2011/8/16 0:14:13
    漂亮妈妈很美丽
    在我看来没有太多煽情,只是很写实。
    突然明白了我们班级里的慧慧,一个唐氏综合症的宝宝,她的爸爸妈妈也是把他硬送来我们班级,让他享受和正常孩子一样的教育。
    终于明白了,在爸爸妈妈的眼中,自己的孩子永远不是最差的,他们的聪明都在自己的眼中,在心里。
    有多少父母含辛茹苦着养育着我们,看到巩俐的辛酸,真想安慰她一句,撑住,加油。
    看到郑大,真想抱抱这个孩子,也对他说句,健康,努力!
    在我看来没有太多煽情,只是很写实。
    突然明白了我们班级里的慧慧,一个唐氏综合症的宝宝,她的爸爸妈妈也是把他硬送来我们班级,让他享受和正常孩子一样的教育。
    终于明白了,在爸爸妈妈的眼中,自己的孩子永远不是最差的,他们的聪明都在自己的眼中,在心里。
    有多少父母含辛茹苦着养育着我们,看到巩俐的辛酸,真想安慰她一句,撑住,加油。
    看到郑大,真想抱抱这个孩子,也对他说句,健康,努力!
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  • Apple
    2020/5/11 21:40:10
    22集(剧透)

    21集的时候因为减速带戴维打算竞选议员,一般这种20分钟的喜剧不太上下承接剧情,没想到22集就是戴维一心一意打算竞选了。

    卡尔文开始果然没有站在他那边,老婆劝也没用。理发店的黑人们也根本不在乎权益,只在乎是不是同肤色。原议员居然还在网上黑戴维,好气啊。还好卡尔文果然帮助戴维澄清了(哈哈哈哈猜到了老套路了)

    希望可以竞选成功吧。毕竟美剧的套路太深,当时摩登家庭里就没有竞

    21集的时候因为减速带戴维打算竞选议员,一般这种20分钟的喜剧不太上下承接剧情,没想到22集就是戴维一心一意打算竞选了。

    卡尔文开始果然没有站在他那边,老婆劝也没用。理发店的黑人们也根本不在乎权益,只在乎是不是同肤色。原议员居然还在网上黑戴维,好气啊。还好卡尔文果然帮助戴维澄清了(哈哈哈哈猜到了老套路了)

    希望可以竞选成功吧。毕竟美剧的套路太深,当时摩登家庭里就没有竞选成功

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  • 花怜要开车
    2017/6/28 23:12:23
    连这部都出动漫版了?!

    发现今年好多漫画都出了动漫版啊,而且都是我当初有在追都很喜欢的都很不错几部漫画!!国漫终于舍得把一些好的作品呈现在更多人面前了!!!虽然这部番每一集都很短,但是作为一个泡面番绝对是OK的了,笑料足足的!动漫画面感更强,人物也更鲜明,那个逗比哥哥感觉更逗比了(?ò?ó?)虽然这一部的配音还是有点儿差,但是整体还是不错的啦!!!

    发现今年好多漫画都出了动漫版啊,而且都是我当初有在追都很喜欢的都很不错几部漫画!!国漫终于舍得把一些好的作品呈现在更多人面前了!!!虽然这部番每一集都很短,但是作为一个泡面番绝对是OK的了,笑料足足的!动漫画面感更强,人物也更鲜明,那个逗比哥哥感觉更逗比了(?ò?ó?)虽然这一部的配音还是有点儿差,但是整体还是不错的啦!!!

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  • 豆友IBmsr7goT8
    2022/11/12 17:21:03
    我菲姐呢!

    没有我菲姐就没有第一季的感觉了啊,为什么不等等我菲姐呢!,没有她感觉没必要出第二季,没有原来的味道了,请剧组也好好想想啊,没有菲姐肯定没有第一部的收视率高,这个百分百,但是还是希望原班人马啊,这样看起来,会有更好的观看体验,就算出了也是很多人奔着菲姐,和男主去了啊,他们两个少一个人就没有太大的看点了,因为在第一部剧他们已经留下深刻的印象了,没有菲姐,还是刺

    没有我菲姐就没有第一季的感觉了啊,为什么不等等我菲姐呢!,没有她感觉没必要出第二季,没有原来的味道了,请剧组也好好想想啊,没有菲姐肯定没有第一部的收视率高,这个百分百,但是还是希望原班人马啊,这样看起来,会有更好的观看体验,就算出了也是很多人奔着菲姐,和男主去了啊,他们两个少一个人就没有太大的看点了,因为在第一部剧他们已经留下深刻的印象了,没有菲姐,还是刺猬女孩嘛请问~

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  • 风间隼
    2010/2/5 15:04:43
    武侠正宗,执手故人如初见
    郑渊洁曾写过一个童话,假托古代的神奇生物——龙——穿越时空来到现代,结果“龙的传人”因为它长得与画像中不一样而拒绝承认它的“龙格”,甚至给他起了一个名字“亚龙”,以资区别。故事的最后,真正的龙黯然离开了龙的传人,回到属于自己的时代。

    《锦衣卫》就是这样一条穿越时空的龙,秉承了所有香港电影黄金时代的风采,而且百尺竿头更进一步,却发现曾经被新武侠电影哺育的那帮所谓“老港”已经不认得它了。
    郑渊洁曾写过一个童话,假托古代的神奇生物——龙——穿越时空来到现代,结果“龙的传人”因为它长得与画像中不一样而拒绝承认它的“龙格”,甚至给他起了一个名字“亚龙”,以资区别。故事的最后,真正的龙黯然离开了龙的传人,回到属于自己的时代。

    《锦衣卫》就是这样一条穿越时空的龙,秉承了所有香港电影黄金时代的风采,而且百尺竿头更进一步,却发现曾经被新武侠电影哺育的那帮所谓“老港”已经不认得它了。理由是“故事太肤浅,台词太雷人”。这种错位,未免令人尴尬。那么,究竟是谁错了呢?是这部电影确实稀松平常,不值一哂?还是我们已经被内地电影市场的风刀霜剑陶冶得连好坏香臭都分不出来了呢?

    我先挑明自己的观点,我认为这部电影是新世纪以来最好的一部武侠作品,其美学形态是中国武侠电影的最前沿。扣除剧情方面的失分,即使放到90年代初的新武侠大潮中,也会是中上的素质。

    为了不让问题过分复杂化,我们可以从八九十年代新武侠电影入手,来解读这部作品的来龙去脉。原因一是这部近作显然与这类型电影的渊源最深,二是因为新武侠片是中国武侠电影的巅峰时代,通过它,可以追索到之前所有的武侠脉络。这里我们摘开新世纪的大陆武打电影不提,因为那些是怪胎。

    先从一个最基本的问题开始,那些当年令我们痴迷的新武侠作品,其核心要素是什么?区别出这些,然后才好说《锦衣卫》的渊源。我自己总结了一下,大概有4点,1,动漫式的夸张美工,2,摄影、剪辑和特技,2,音乐,3,胡风。这肯定不完全,期待同好补充,不过我自认为它基本囊括了我们称为“新武侠”的那些作品留给人印象最深刻的方面。

    以下一个一个来说。

    一,动漫式的夸张美工

    在很长一段时间内,香港武侠片就是华语武侠的全部,其美工可以大致分为三个阶段。一是六十年代初以前,以粤语残片和邵氏武侠为代表的舞台化阶段,主要借鉴的是京剧的装扮,当然据说《王氏三侠》中还有西部牛仔的装扮,我没见过,邵氏六十年代末期的服装和舞美多有借鉴日本剑戟片处,这倒是领教过的。不谈那些民族主义的废话,这反映了类型片之间相互吸收和融合的旺盛活力。

    第二个阶段是写实阶段。邵氏电影从六十年代后期开始,逐渐摈弃了那些舞台化、不利于打斗的扮相。伴随着武侠电影向功夫电影的嬗变,符合人体运动要求,并且有一定历史现实依据的服装和道具成为主流,最终阶段就是我们在TVB武侠剧里面看见的那些。胡金铨的电影代表了写实阶段的极致,但是因为费工费料,并未成为主流。

    第三阶段就是新武侠的夸张动漫风格了。这种风格的源头之一是以日本为代表的动漫文化,例如东方不败的今川义元扮相和炼锋号里的短打扮。但是我认为——我要冒天下之大不韪了——新武侠电影最主要的美工灵感源泉,就是胡金铨!

    尽人皆知,徐克跟胡大师在《笑傲江湖》中闹得很不愉快,但同样明显的事实是,徐克电影的形态显然极其类似胡金铨电影,尤其是在服装这方面,是百分之九十的照抄。例子可谓俯拾皆是。《新龙门客栈》中鞑子头上系的手巾,是吴明才在《空山灵雨》中戴过的。《倩女幽魂》中宁采臣的背囊,也是从《空山灵雨》中的孙越那里借来的。《笑傲江湖》中侠客们穿的书生服,显然是《忠烈图》中伍继园那一身。当然,一阵风可不只这一身衣服,还有身白的,借给了《青蛇》、《梁祝》和《刀》。《空山灵雨》中徐枫的发髻,传给了《倩女幽魂》中的小倩。《大醉侠》中的罩袍,也叫《笑傲江湖》中的古公公借去施展了一回气功。

    凡此种种,不胜枚举。有心人比较一下徐克《笑傲江湖》之前的武侠作品如《蝶变》,就能看出来他在美工方面受了胡金铨多大影响。以至于他的作品无论时代背景是哪个朝代,看起来都像发生在明朝!新武侠旗手都如此,跟风的就更不必说了。

    也正因为如此,不好说新武侠的风格是写实,而只能说是融合了哥特、东方和洛可可风格的动漫风。

    《锦衣卫》不用说,继承的就是这股脉络。而且很纯很纯——是直接回到了胡金铨那里。那顶为人诟病甚多的帽子,导演自己解释过,还不明白,还有疑问的,请看这里。你可以质疑李仁港的历史常识,可总不能跳起来说胡金铨也犯糊涂吧?

    还有刘松仁扮演的赵审言的纯静冠。

    《锦衣卫》里的美工分写实的和写意的两类,写意的一类,我们后面再谈。这里只要明确写实的一类即可。宣传总在把李仁港和张彻相提并论,他自己也承认不讳,不过我始终认为,无论徐克也好还是李仁港也好,他们欠胡金铨的,远远超过欠张霹雳的。

    二,摄影、灯光、剪辑和特技

    新武侠电影在这方面的成就,堪称其最鲜明的特色。我还深切记得第一次在录像厅里看到《人间道》的经历,出来之后,整个人都傻了。

    看过《武林圣火令》、《如来神掌》之类老片的人应该会明白,那些快速剪辑、钢丝和动画特技之类的手段,在香港电影中是有根的。但是集大成的,显然是新武侠,它彻底革新了中国武侠电影的形态。

    这篇文的题目毕竟不是《新武侠电影论》,为节省篇幅起见,我就挑《锦衣卫》中涉及到的一些段落来谈好了。

    关于摄影,《锦衣卫》与新武侠中徐克一派的风格大不相同,通篇基本没有什么刁钻古怪的机位和视角。我想这是因为李仁港的世界观与徐克不同,比较中庸平和,没那么偏激。李仁港拍文戏时候,摄影机多半是保持在水平位置上,中规中矩。

    《锦衣卫》的摄影让人想起最多的还是另两部新武侠经典《白发魔女传》和《东邪西毒》,要言之,就是升格拍摄静态影像,放大时间的流逝。中间曾有几次用来渲染英雄人物的细节,有兴趣地可以留意一下,拍出来的人特别有神采,所谓浪漫武侠嘛。这种手段说来简单,没在大银幕上看见却也有十几年了也!

    另外就是新武侠没落之后才兴起的快慢镜,伴以机位的快速移动。自从老杜在《暗战》里玩开了这个花活之后,武侠电视剧里倒是很快就抄了去,可惜用得太滥了,也太烂了。《锦衣卫》里面让人印象深刻的镜头,有开头青龙在赵太傅府吊钢索躲避迎面的官兵,还有中间火枪队赶路的一个镜头,打戏中大概也用过几个渲染人物造型,但是不明显。这就是李仁港的聪明之处了——用,但是不滥,只用在该用的地方。

    全片的镜头可以说分得非常细致,说是商业制作,比国内的艺术电影还漂亮。举个例子,青龙在太傅府与赵审言的那段对话,随着谈话内容冲突深入,正反打的景别不断变大,最后青龙大喝一声:“够了!”本来已经是面部近景的镜头居然猛拉了一下,变成特写,剧力陡增。香港导演就能细致到这个地步。

    新武侠电影的灯光,大饼总结过一个重要特征,就是体积光的运用。这一点在雁门关地窖里和天狼古城里最明显,前者伴以花纹繁复的大门,后者是狰狞的金刚像。效果超好!

    影片的前半小时的打光是最新武侠的,照大波的说法,电影里香港的夜总是蓝得出奇,亮得出奇。前面半小时的情节让我想起《带子雄狼》第一集(最酷的一集),而纯夜景拍摄又让我想起了另外两部也是主打夜景的电影,《白发魔女传》和《笑傲江湖》。顺说,影片这样的安排是有道理的,前面表现青龙的黑暗使命,所以是夜景,后面多是日景,则是表现他弃暗投明后人性的复苏,最后拍他在落日中策马,则是寓意与光明化为一体,涤尽罪恶。都是很好的安排。

    《锦衣卫》的剪辑,当然秉承了新武侠的快速剪辑(其实源头又在胡金铨那里),好多人抱怨剪得太碎不好看,我建议这些人还是去看跆拳道比赛,那个一定能看懂。不是新武侠熏陶出来的人,是很难快速接收到那么多信息,然后拼成一个完整格斗场面的,这跟老爸老妈看不懂漫画是一个道理。

    这一段的最后说说电脑特技,新武侠所谓的电脑特技,其实很简陋。跟后面那些《风云》啊,《中华英雄》啊之类不好比,可是它有一个好处,就是服务于剧情,不会为了秀特效来硬扭桥。这一点,《锦衣卫》也继承了,影片的特技镜头其实也不少,但是都很妥帖地镶嵌在故事发展之中,让你看了不出戏。例如从天鹰帮马队冲锋的俯视镜头突然拉到空中,呈现雁门关的大全景,这是在交待环境,脱脱金蝉脱壳的神功则融入了格斗和美女的元素,只会觉得一种诡异的美,并不是为了展示技术。特技出现在这里,是为了营造戏剧冲突,这是个好习惯。

    说到天鹰帮冲锋那段,有个剪辑失误不得不谈,就是远景上看来笔直的冲锋道路,后面为了回避锦衣卫的弩箭为什么射不中他们这个问题,居然加了一个马队转弯的交代。

    三,音乐。

    论音乐,新武侠比旧武侠是一大进步。传统武侠片配乐,黄梅调时代就不用说了,七八十年代多是东抄一点西抄一点,电影真正有专门的原声配乐,又是新武侠的功绩。而且这配乐中又多有一首带有古风的主题曲,《黎明不要来》、《傲》、《沧海一声笑》、《白发红颜》等等,不用多说。算来,只有《新龙门客栈》和《东邪西毒》是例外,然而那配乐也是经典。可以说,有完整的电影配乐,有极为衬戏的主题曲,这是新武侠横行江湖的一大法宝。

    《锦衣卫》的配乐,可以说是集《东邪西毒》交响乐风格与传统民乐主题曲之大成,捷克乐团自从《见龙卸甲》开始,就以其大气磅礴的演奏,为传统武侠带出一份苍凉豪迈的意境。剧中无论“白虎斗脱脱”的妖异香艳,还是天狼古城伏击战中的热血搏杀,配乐都极强地扩张了画面的氛围。最后黄沙落日中青龙策马踩着鼓点而来的一幕,竟让我想起了《东邪西毒》中的“天地孤影任我行”的配乐经典。

    主题曲《锦衣卫》以悠扬的马头琴开场,萨顶顶的演绎虽然失之浮滑,但歌曲本身确实是近年难得的佳作。不管对电影什么态度,至少这一点大家还是认可的。

    与音乐相关的是音响。《锦衣卫》中那些凌厉的格斗场面,音响的功劳不可磨灭。印象最深的是脱脱出鞭时,至少用了两种声音来衬托威势,一种是金属破空之声,另一个是类似响尾蛇在沙上爬行的响动,一刚一柔,效果极佳。大漠判官决斗脱脱时,空中下劈的一刹那,响起一声狮吼。对比前一阵子的《刺陵》就能看出,《锦衣卫》打戏中声音的运用要考究得多。可惜这些抓人的音效,普通观众紧张过后就忘了,不懂得体会。

    从音乐和声响这方面来看,《锦衣卫》不但继承了中国武侠巅峰期的成就,还百尺竿头更进一步。国内武打片连砍竹子的音效都要拿出来炒作,说起来就是个玩笑了。

    四,胡风

    胡风只是个概括的说法,文一点的话应该说多元文化,或者文化混杂。历史本来就是多元文化混杂的,这一点已经越来越成为史学界的主流。武侠片的古代背景使得它不可避免地要对这个问题表态。而这表态中的差异,也是新武侠的特点之一。

    传统武侠片一般都是关于汉人社会的内斗,异族顶多作为中原文明的挑战者或仰慕者出现。日本武士挑战中原侠客的桥段百拍不腻,那是挑战者,而六十年代《儒侠》中出现暗恋侠士的番邦女子,就是仰慕者了。

    这种情况到了八九十年代,有了很大改观。某种程度上,新武侠可以看作是新浪潮的余波所及,而新浪潮的旗手们,多有海外留学背景。对国外新史观耳濡目染,而且亲身经历过文化碰撞,对于异文化自然会有一份敏感。反映在电影中,那就是“胡风”大盛。

    徐克的那几部经典三部曲就不用提了。老树妖的发髻借自蒙古族,十三姨的西洋装迷得黄飞鸿七荤八素,好端端的日月神教被放到了苗疆,东方不败阿姨和东西方不败阿姨的手下更是从东洋的武士、忍者到西班牙火枪手,整个一八国联军。《龙城歼霸》里的海盗举杯畅谈在巴黎的艳遇,还没讲完就丧生在黄飞鸿和鬼脚七的左轮枪下,《刀》里定安在街市上买的十字架最后救了他一劫,白发魔女的满头珠翠分明又是藏人装扮。直到《七剑》里面,徐老怪还不忘给风火连城的士兵每人配备一顶西班牙头盔。

    总而言之,新武侠的美学风格就是一个多元文化的杂货铺。只要你有一颗开放的心,你可以在里面神游天下。

    好玩的是,新武侠的这个渊源,无巧不巧又是继承的胡金铨。前面我们说过,《忠烈图》的美工堪为《笑傲江湖》系列的原形,从一开始日本浪人站在海边图谋复国的镜头,到伍继园的打扮,《笑傲江湖系列》无不亦步亦趋,而畲族女英雄伍若诗的打扮,完全可以认为启发了苗疆的设定——研究民族学的人都知道,苗瑶畲是不分家的。胡金铨的美学理念,在当年可谓极为前沿。这一点看看张彻在《江湖汉子》和《八道楼子》里把蒙古人拍成什么德行就知道了。

    《锦衣卫》的美工,直接让我想起徐克晚期的《刀》。虽然都是发生在西部边城两部经典,但《刀》的美工显然比《东邪西毒》更能折射当地的文化混杂状况。那些富有西北少数民族特色的服饰,标志着徐克盛年在美工上最为混搭的一部经典。而《锦衣卫》比这还要更进一步,干脆把雁门关打扮成了一座伊斯兰教城市,市面上跑的都是胡儿。符不符合史实我不知道,不过当年茶马互市的集散地,有胡人聚居还是有可能的。关键是李仁港的这种多元文化诉求,我估计跟他在加拿大求学的经历有关系,跟他受徐克的熏陶,肯定也离不开关系。

    有心人可以注意一下大漠判官,别只懂得挑剔吴尊的台湾腔,注意他手里那枚金币。没人觉得奇怪吗?为什么不是一锭银子或者一枚铜钱?因为那是中亚的货币,而在边贸中,这种货币相当常见。电影中的那一枚从特写看,有伊斯兰武士骑马的像,边缘有字母文字,李仁港显然是参照过历史实物的。《孔子》里季孙斯丢给仆人的那一枚是银子还是铲币,他敢给个特写让你看吗?这就是细处的功夫。

    《锦衣卫》的美工结合了中原和伊斯兰的特色,关键是不管哪边他都做得很到位,从开始的中原庙堂之上,到汉人的江湖,再到胡儿的边城,只要不是故意追求造型的夸张,每一个细节都很地道。很多人骂《锦衣卫》不懂史实,问题是,他们还没证明自己懂史实呢!

    通过上面的分析,我相信已经可以看清楚,《锦衣卫》是对中国武侠文化的最高峰——香港新武侠电影的继承和发展,涵括了所有那些最为关键的核心特征。有人说,你还没说故事呢!那是因为我认为,相对于其他核心要素来说,新武侠电影的故事并不出奇,大多数“新什么什么”是旧瓶装新酒,顶多是多了一些同性恋的元素,跟老片比起来也并不算新鲜。新武侠的那些关键的影像标志,其实是可以放进各个导演不同的诉求,绽放出不同的美丽。

    我希望这些分析可以说明一点,那就是《锦衣卫》是有根的,脚下站的是武侠电影一百年的龙脉,后面支撑着的,是几代武侠电影工作者的心血积累。这本来就是一份属于所有中国人的遗产,只不过在最近十年中被无知地丢弃了。轻佻的内地导演们以为他们可以在这片被深翻过无数次的沃土上移植自己在文艺片中的成功,事实只是证明了他们的愚蠢,拍出来的那些簇新的廉价品完全就是在开历史的倒车。而《墨攻》、《投名状》和《七剑》这样的电影虽然也是在新武侠基础上的前进,但都只是实验品,还没有形成独特的风格。近十年来,能接续新武侠脉络并在吸收东西方先进美学基础上前进的电影,只有一部《锦衣卫》。

    所以也就不难明白,我为什么这么激动了。电影是现场的艺术,对走出影院的普通影迷而言,声光的冲击会逐渐淡漠,只有剧情和台词可以反复咀嚼,咀嚼得多了,所谓不合理和硬伤自然会出来。但别忘记,在电影院里的那一份心潮澎湃同样不是虚假,那都是细致的声画铺垫出来的,值得细细品味。我这么说不是给《锦衣卫》难尽人意的剧本开脱,我只是觉得,这样一部在视听方面做出了杰出效果的作品,不宜被一句“文戏零分、武戏不错”的场面话打发过去。

    对于武侠片的拥趸而言,如果你确实受过新武侠的熏陶,如果你对最近十年的武侠片现状不满意,那么我希望你能像我一样支持《锦衣卫》。只因为他证明了一件事——我们的记忆没有死去,他还在伴着我们一起成长。面对历劫归来的老友,你还愿意认他吗?

    PS.五年前,也同样为《七剑》激动过,写了一篇长文,过程非常快乐,五年后,这样的感觉又回来了,因为让我感觉回到了那个不知天高地厚的小影迷阶段,少了很多这五年来沾染上的世故和俗气。因为是随性文字,零七碎八不可避免,看在这是我给李仁港,不,是给武侠电影打的一份义工的份上,千乞读者谅解!
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    原报道:AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: THE BALLAD OF RICHARD JEWELL
    On July 30, 1996, the media identified Richard Jewell as the F.B.I.'s prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing. For the first time, the 34-year-old security guard tells his extraordi
    On July 30, 1996, the media identified Richard Jewell as the F.B.I.'s prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing. For the first time, the 34-year-old security guard tells his extraordinary story, to MARIE BRENNER: his brief moment as a national hero, his hounding by the Feds and the press, and his eccentric friendship with the unknown southern lawyer who helped him through his public torment.

    FEBRUARY 1997 MARIE BRENNERDAN WINTERSThe search warrant was short and succinct, dated August 3, 9:41 A.M. F.B.I. special agent Diader Rosario was instructed to produce "hair samples (twenty-five pulled and twenty-five combed hairs from the head)" of Richard Allensworth Jewell. That Saturday, Atlanta was humid; the temperature would rise to 85 degrees. There were 34 Olympic events scheduled, including women's team handball, but Richard Jewell was in his mother's apartment playing Defender on a computer set up in the spare bedroom. Jewell hadn't slept at all the night before, or the night before that. He could hear the noise from the throng of reporters massed on the hill outside the small apartment in the suburbs. All morning long, he had been focused on the screen, trying to score off "the little guy who goes back and forth shooting the aliens," but at 12:30 the sound of the telephone disturbed his concentration. Very few people had his new number, by necessity unlisted. Since the F.B.I. had singled him out as the Olympic Park bombing suspect three days earlier, Jewell had received approximately 1,000 calls a day—someone had posted his mother's home number on the Internet."I'll be right over," his lawyer Watson Bryant told him. "They want your hair, they want your palm prints, and they want something called a voice exemplar—the goddamn bastards." The curtains were drawn in the pastel apartment filled with his mother's crafts and samplers; A HOME WITHOUT A DOG IS JUST A HOUSE, one read. By this time Bryant had a system. He would call Jewell from his car phone so that the door could be unlatched and Bryant could avoid the questions from the phalanx of reporters on the hill.Turning into the parking lot in a white Explorer, Bryant could see sound trucks parked up and down Buford Highway. The middle-class neighborhood of apartment complexes and shopping centers was near the DeKalb Peachtree Airport, where local millionaires kept their private planes. The moment Bryant got out of his car, the reporters began to shout: "Hey, Watson, do they have the murderer?" "Are they arresting Jewell?" Bryant moved quickly toward the staircase to the Jewells' apartment. He wore a baseball cap, khaki shorts, and a frayed Brooks Brothers polo shirt. He was 45 years old, with strong features and thinning hair, a southern preppy from a country-club family. Bryant had a stern demeanor lightened by a contrarian's sense of the absurd. He was often distracted—from time to time he would miss his exits on the highway—and he had the regional tendency of defining himself by explaining what he was not. "I am not a Democrat, because they want your money. I am not a Republican, because they take your rights away," he told me soon after I met him. Bryant can talk your ear off about the Bill of Rights, ending with a flourish: "I think everyone ought to have the right to be stupid. I am a Libertarian."At the time Richard Jewell was named as a suspect by the F.B.I., Watson Bryant made a modest living by doing real-estate closings in the suburbs, but Jewell and his lawyer had formed an unusual friendship a decade earlier, when Jewell worked as a mailroom clerk at a federal disaster-relief agency where Bryant practiced law. Jewell was then a stocky kid without a father, who had trained as an auto mechanic but dreamed of being a policeman; Bryant had always had a soft spot for oddballs and strays, a personality quirk which annoyed his then wife no end.The serendipity of this friendship, an alliance particularly southern in its eccentricity, would bring Watson Bryant to the immense task of attempting to save Richard Jewell from the murky quagmire of a national terrorism case. The simple fact was that Bryant had no qualifications for the job. He had no legal staff except for his assistant, Nadya Light, no contacts in the press, and no history in Washington. He was the opposite of media-savvy; he rarely read the papers and never watched the nightly news, preferring the Discovery Channel's shows on dog psychology. Now that Richard Jewell was his client, he had entered a zone of worldwide media hysteria fraught with potential peril. Jewell suspected that his pickup truck had been flown in a C-130 transport plane to the F.B.I. unit at Quantico in Virginia, and Bryant worried that his friend would be arrested any minute. Worse, Bryant knew that he had nothing going for him, no levers anywhere. His only asset was his personality; he had the bravado and profane hyperbole of a southern rich boy, but he was in way over his head.For hours that Saturday, Bryant and Jewell sat and waited for the F.B.I. From time to time Jewell would put binoculars under the drawn curtain in his mother's bedroom to peer at the reporters on the hill. Bryant was nervous that Jewell's mother, Bobi, would return from baby-sitting and see her son having hairs pulled out of his head. Bryant stalked around the apartment complaining about the F.B.I. "The sons of bitches did not show up until three P.M.," he later recalled, and when they did, there were five of them. The F.B.I. medic was tall and muscular and wore rubber gloves. He asked Jewell to sit at a small round table in the living room, where his mother puts her holiday-theme displays. Bryant stood by the sofa next to a portrait of Jewell in his Habersham County deputy's uniform. He watched the F.B.I. procedure carefully. The medic, who had huge hands, used tiny drugstore tweezers. "He eyeballed his scalp and took his hair in sections. First he ran a comb through it, and then he took these hairs and plucked them out one by one."Jewell "went stone-cold," but Bryant could not contain his temper. "I am his lawyer. I know you can have this, I know you have a search warrant, but I tell you this: If you were doing this to me, you would have to fight me. You would have to beat the shit out of me," Bryant recalled telling the case agent Ed Bazar. Bazar, Bryant later said, was apologetic. "He seemed almost embarrassed to be there." As he counted out the hairs, he placed them in an envelope. The irony of the situation was not lost on Bryant. He was a lawyer, an officer of the court, but he had a disdain for authority, and he was representing a former deputy who read the Georgia law code for fun in his spare time.It took 10 minutes to pluck Jewell's thick auburn hair. Then the F.B.I. agents led him into the kitchen and took his palm prints on the table. "That took 30 minutes, and they got ink all over the table," Bryant said. Then Bazar told Bryant they wanted Jewell to sit on the sofa and say into the telephone, "There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have 30 minutes." That was the message given by the 911 caller on the night of the bombing. He was to repeat the message 12 times. Bryant saw the possibility of phony evidence and of his client's going to jail. "I said, 'I am not sure about this. Maybe you can do this, maybe you can't, but you are not doing this today.'"All afternoon, Jewell was strangely quiet. He had a sophisticated knowledge of police work and believed, he later said, "they must have had some evidence if they wanted my hair. ... I knew their game was intimidation. That is why they brought five agents instead of two." He felt "violated and humiliated," he told me, but he was passive, even docile, through Bryant's outburst. He thought of the bombing victims— Alice Hawthorne, the 44-year-old mother from Albany, Georgia, at the park with her stepdaughter; Melih Uzunyol, the Turkish cameraman who died of a heart attack; the more than 100 people taken to area hospitals, some of whom were his friends. "I kept thinking, These guys think I did this. These guys were accusing me of murder. This was the biggest case in the nation and the world. If they could pin it on me, they were going to put me in the electric chair."I met Richard Jewell three months later, on October 28, a few hours before a press conference called by his lawyers to allow Jewell to speak publicly for the first time since the F.B.I. had cleared him. Jewell's lawyers also intended to announce that they would file damage suits against NBC and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It was a Monday, and that weekend the local U.S. attorney had delivered a letter to one of the lawyers stating Jewell was no longer a suspect. "Goddamn it," Bryant had told me on the phone, "the sons of bitches did not even have the decency to address it to Richard Jewell."I had been instructed to come early to the offices of Wood & Grant, the flashy plaintiff lawyers Bryant had pulled in to help him with Jewell's civil suits. When I arrived, I was alone in the office with Sharon Anderson, the redheaded assistant answering the phones. "Wood & Grant . . . Wood & Grant . . . Wood & Grant"—the calls overwhelmed her. Lin Wood and Wayne Grant were rushing from CNN to the local NBC and ABC affiliates, working the shows. "Everyone has theories of who the real bomber is," Sharon said. "I just write it all down and give it to the boys."When Lin Wood arrived, he was still in full makeup. Movie-star handsome with green eyes and styled hair, Wood has the heated oratory of a trial lawyer. "It's a war! Why in this bevy of stories does not anyone point out the fact that Richard was a hero one day and a demon the next? They have destroyed this man's life!"Watson Bryant had worked with Wood and Grant years before in a local law firm. He admired Wayne Grant for his methodical sense of detail; Grant, a New Yorker, had once forced the city of Atlanta to pay large damages to a man injured while illegally digging for antique bottles in a park. But Lin Wood's suppressed rage was a marvel to Bryant. "He is so tough he could make people cry in depositions when we were kids," Bryant told me. Wood possessed the smooth style of a member of the Atlanta establishment, but he had a hardscrabble past. He was a boy from "the wrong side of the tracks" in Macon who at age 17 discovered his mother's body after his father had murdered her. His father went to jail, and Wood wound up as a lawyer. He went through college and law school on scholarships and with part-time jobs. I could hear Wood on Sharon's telephone: "He's more than innocent. He's a goddamn hero. . . . Everyone is going to pay who wronged Richard Jewell. Besides NBC and The A.J.C., we are going to look into suing CNN and Jay Leno."Through the large picture window, I had a clear view of the remains of the Centennial Olympic Park, where the bomb had exploded on the night of July 26. Where the sound-and-light tower had once been, there was now a flattened dirt field. It was possible to see the Greek commemorative sculpture that Richard Jewell used to describe for tourists at the AT&T pavilion, where he worked as a security guard.Suddenly, Jewell was in the room. "Hi. I'm Richard. I'm a little late. I don't want you to think I am rude. I am not like that." He had an open face, a bland pleasantness, an eagerness to please. "Can I get you a Coke?" he asked me. "How about some coffee?" Jewell wore a blue-and-white striped shirt and chinos. He occupied physical space like a teenager; he sprawled, he lumbered, he pawed through Sharon's candy bowl. On TV his face had a porcine blankness; he appeared suspicious. In person, Jewell has a hard time disguising his emotions.We were alone in the conference room; I noticed that Jewell avoided looking out the window toward the park. He shifted his glance nervously away from the view. He often awakens in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, thinking of the events in the park in the early morning hours of July 27. "It took me days before I could even come in here," he said anxiously.The newsroom atmosphere resembled that at F.B.I. headquarters; there was a frenzy to be first.When Jewell noticed a local ABC reporter outside near Sharon's desk, his face darkened. "I don't want to be around reporters right now. I guess I am a little nervous. What is he doing here?" The atmosphere was now filled with tension; the reporter was escorted out.Moments later, we gathered in the hallway. Wood was steely: "We are going in two cars. Richard, you drive with me. Your mother will go with Wayne. As we walk down the hall right now, if the ABC people are outside, I will tap you on the shoulder and I will say, 'How are you doing?' You will say, 'Fine.' Is that understood?" "O.K., Lin. I understand," Jewell said quietly, head bowed.As Jewell walked down the hall, an ABC cameraman photographed him looking grim. Seconds after the elevator doors closed, Jewell exploded: "What are they doing here, Lin? Did you invite them? They are animals. Why didn't you get them out of here?""ABC has been good to you. How do I get them out of the office on the day of your press conference?""That is what security is for!" Jewell said, quivering with rage. "Where is Watson?" he asked in the garage. "I told you: he's at a real-estate closing. He will meet you at the press conference," Wood said. Jewell moved to his mother's side, as solicitous as a child. "Are you all right, Mother?" he asked. "It is all I am going to be able to do not to do something!" she said angrily.When we arrived at the Marriott hotel on 1-75, there was another discussion in the parking lot, about who would walk with whom in front of the cameras. Jewell turned to his close friend Dave Dutchess: "Are you all right, man?" Dutchess, a truckdriver who worked with Jewell years ago, has long hair and a tattoo of a panther on his forearm. "Richard and I are like brothers," he told me. "I would die for him." As the cameras closed in on them, the group fled to a private room in the Marriott. The auditorium was filled with reporters. "Showtime! Showtime!" the cameramen yelled when Jewell, his mother, and all the lawyers took the stage."I hope and pray that no one else is ever subjected to the pain and the ordeal that I have gone through," Jewell said, his voice breaking. "The authorities should keep in mind the rights of the citizens. I thank God it is ended and that you now know what I have known all along: I am an innocent man."After the press conference, Bobi and Richard Jewell remained in a private room. The bookers from Good Morning America and the Today show pressed Jewell to step before their cameras, and when Watson Bryant told them no, Monica, the G.M.A. booker, began to cry, "I'll lose my job." Then Yael, the Today-show booker, cornered Nadya Light: "Is Richard doing something with G.M.A.?'Upstairs, Jewell and his mother were being filmed by a CBS camera crew for a 60 Minutes news update. "Well, Bobi, did you get your Tupperware back?" Mike Wallace asked by phone from New York. "Richard, you need to lose some more weight." Despite Wallace's festive spirit, the atmosphere was curiously flat. Bryant urged Jewell to talk to a USA Today reporter. Jewell balked: "They can all go suck wind."In the car on the way back to Wood & Grant, Bobi was angry. All of her possessions had come back from the F.B.I. marked up with ink. "Every piece of Tupperware I own is ruined, thank you very much. They wrote numbers all over it, and I have tried everything to clean it—Comet and Brillo—but nothing works."Back at the office, she sat on the sofa and listened as Bryant negotiated with Yael for a flight to New York— Delta, first-class, 9:30 P.M. Jewell was scheduled to appear on three shows in New York, visit the American Museum of Natural History, and then fly to Washington, D.C., for Larry King Live. "I would like to go home, put on my outfit, and walk in the woods," Bobi said. "Richard, we are leaving.""Yes, ma'am," Richard said.One hour later, a telephone call came in to the offices of Wood & Grant. The lawyers had the call on speaker, and it blared through the room. "Goddamn it, Lin. When will this be over?" In the background, you could hear Bobi sobbing. "What in the world?" Wood asked. Jewell explained that a sound truck from ABC had been waiting in the parking lot when the Jewells got home. There had been words and threats, and Dave Dutchess had taken his stun gun off his motorcycle and waved it at the ABC van. The cameraman yelled: Stop harassing us! Dave yelled back: You are harassing us! Now get your ass out of here!Wood shouted into the speakerphone: "Do not meddle! You cannot jeopardize where you have gotten to and what you want to do! All you have to do is put up with this for one more day and the damn thing is over. Bobi, there is nothing you can do about it; you have to stay cool." Bobi cried back, "They are going to destroy me!"The moment they hung up, Wood turned to Bryant. "New York is canceled. No Katie Couric. No Good Morning America. They are losing it. You better call Yael." "No," Bryant said, "they have lost it. All of the above: their patience, their temper and heart."That evening a very testy Katie Couric tracked Bryant down at Nadya Light's apartment, where we had gone to watch the news. "I want you to know that I canceled interviewing Barbra Streisand in L.A. for Richard Jewell. Don't think he is always going to be a news story. No one will care about him in three days," she said, according to Bryant. "Look, Katie, I am sorry. But Richard is in no condition to talk to the press. He is worn out," Bryant told her.Later, Jewell would tell me that that day, which should have been one of his most satisfying, was actually his worst. His notoriety had tainted the triumph; everything positive had become negative. "I was in despair," he said. As he had for most of the previous 88 days, he spent the night confined in the Buford Highway apartment, a prisoner of his circumstances, with his mother, Dave Dutchess, and Dave's fiancee, Beatty, eating Domino's Pizza and watching himself lead the newscasts on NBC, CBS, and ABC."This case has everything—the F.B.I., the press, the violation of the Bill of Rights from the First to the Sixth Amendment."'This case has everything— the F.B.I., the press, the violation of the Bill of Rights, from the First to the Sixth Amendment," Watson Bryant told me in one of our first conversations. It has become common to characterize the F.B.I.'s investigation of Richard Jewell as the epitome of false accusation. The phrase "the Jewell syndrome," a rush to judgment, has entered the language of newsrooms and First Amendment forums. On the night of Jewell's press conference, a commentator on CNN's Crossfire compared Jewell's situation to "Kafka in Prague." The case became an investigative catastrophe, which laid bare long-simmering resentments of many F.B.I. career professionals regarding the micromanagement style and imperious attitude of Louis Freeh and his inner circle of former New York prosecutors, who have worked together since their days at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District. Within the bureau, the beleaguered director now has a new nickname: J. Edgar Hoover with children. Like Freeh, those near him have also acquired a nickname: Louie's yes-men. Two of Freeh's closest associates, F.B.I. general counsel Howard Shapiro and former deputy director Larry Potts, have been severely criticized, respectively, for advising the White House of confidential F.B.I. material and for an alleged cover-up of the mishandling of the 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge, where F.B.I. agents killed the wife and son of Randy Weaver, a white supremacist.In November and December, the Office of Professional Responsibility conducted an exhaustive investigation into the Jewell affair. Responding to an attempt by headquarters and certain officials to distance themselves, according to F.B.I. sources, several agents, including a senior F.B.I. supervisor in Atlanta, have provided the O.P.R. with signed statements insisting that Freeh himself was responsible for "oversight" during the crisis. These agents "shocked the investigators" because they reiterated, when asked who was in charge of the overall command of the investigation, that it was the director himself.What happened to Richard Jewell raises an important question central to Freeh's future tenure: in the midst of a media frenzy, does the F.B.I. have any responsibility to protect the privacy of an innocent man? Over the last year, this concept was broached with Bob Bucknam, Louis Freeh's chief of staff. During the long Pizza Connection trial in the 1980s, it was Bucknam who handed Freeh files at the prosecutor's table. According to highly placed sources in the bureau, Bucknam's answer was immediate: the F.B.I. has no responsibility to correct information in the public domain.Richard Jewell had a reverence for authority that blinded him to the paradox of his situation. He idealized the investigative skills of the F.B.I. and could not understand that he had become ensnared in a web fraught with the weaknesses of a self-protective bureaucracy. Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter has invited Jewell to Washington to testify at congressional hearings on the F.B.I.'s conduct in the Atlanta bombing. Ironically, the bungling of the investigation might lead to the reshuffling of personalities at the top of the bureau and threaten Freeh's reputation. In October, according to The Washington Post, Freeh sent an unusual memo to all 25,000 F.B.I. personnel: He would not be abandoning his post amid reports of problems with the Jewell case and Filegate, and of a growing dissatisfaction inside the bureau. "I am proud to be the F.B.I. director," Freeh wrote.From the beginning, Jewell was perceived in the public imagination as a hapless dummy, a plodding misfit, a Forrest Gump. On one of the first days he worked as a security guard at the AT&T pavilion, he noticed that his co-workers were covering the steps inside the sound tower with graffiti. On one step Jewell scrawled with a flourish two bromides: IF YOU DIDN'T GO PAST ME, YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE and LIFE IS TOUGH. TOUGHER WHEN YOU ARE STUPID. Soon after he was targeted as a suspect in the Olympics bombing, the F.B.I. confiscated the step. Analysts appeared to believe that the graffiti contained a clue to his character. "They told the lawyers the statement was an obvious taunt," Jewell said. In fact, the second line was an expression he had cribbed from one of his favorite actors, John Wayne.Within the F.B.I., the beleaguered director has a new nickname: J. Edgar Hoover with children."To understand Richard Jewell, you have to be aware that he is a cop. He talks like a cop and thinks like a cop," his criminal lawyer, Jack Martin, told me. The tone of Jewell's voice drops noticeably when he says the word "officer," and his conversation is filled with observations about traffic patterns, security devices, and car wrecks. Even the vocabulary he uses to describe the 88 days he was a suspect is out of the lexicon of police work, and he continues to talk about his situation then in the present tense: "This is an out-and-out ambush, and I am a hostage."Jewell has a need to accommodate. He can be startlingly opaque. On the afternoon of July 30, Jewell answered the door of his mother's apartment to Don Johnson and Diader Rosario from the F.B.I. "We need your help making a training film," they told him. "I never questioned it," he told me. The next day Rosario appeared again with a search warrant. "The weird thing was that when they were searching my apartment I was, like, 'Take everything. Take the carpet. I am law enforcement. I am just like you. Guys, take whatever you are going to take, because it is going to prove that I didn't do anything.' And a couple of them were looking at me like I was crazy."Leaving the apartment on one occasion, he told the agents, "I am wearing a bright shirt so y'all can see me easier." He recalled feeling anger when he read descriptions of himself as a child-man, a mama's boy, and "a wannabe policeman," but he said, "If I was in the place of everybody else and I saw a 34-year-old guy living with his mother, I would have reservations about that, too. I would think, Why is he doing that?"The December issue of Atlanta magazine reported that there was no record of a Jewell family in Danville, Virginia, where Richard Jewell was born. Atlanta referred to an article in the Danville Register & Bee which asked, "Did Richard Jewell ever sleep here?" "This is a part of my life Richard and I do not like to speak about," Bobi Jewell told me one night at dinner. Richard was born in Danville, but his name was Richard White; his father was Bobi's first husband, Robert Earl White, who worked for Chevrolet. According to Bobi, Richard's father, who died recently, was "irresponsible and a ladies' man." When Richard was four, the marriage broke up. Bobi found work as an insurance-agency claims coordinator and soon met John Jewell, an executive in the same business. Shortly after John Jewell married Bobi, he adopted Richard.From the time Richard was a child, he and his mother were a unit. Bobi, a woman of intelligence and disciplined work habits, is both tender and tough on the subject of her son. She still calls Richard "my boy," but she has a peppery disposition. Richard was brought up in a strict Baptist home. "If I didn't say 'Yes, ma'am' or 'No, ma'am' and get it out quick enough, I would be on the ground," he said. When he was six, the family moved to Atlanta. Richard was the boy who helped the teachers and worked as a school crossing guard, but he had few friends in high school. "I was a wannabe athlete, but I wasn't good enough," he said. He ran the movie projector in the library. A military-history buff, he liked to talk about Napoleon and the Vietnam War and read books on both World Wars.Jewell's ambition was to work on cars, so he enrolled in a technical school in southern Georgia. On his third day there, Bobi discovered that her husband had packed a suitcase. "He left a note saying that he was a failure and no good for us," Jewell said. Almost immediately, Richard moved back home and took a job repairing cars. "My mom and I tried to take care of each other," he said. "I think I handled it pretty much better than she did." Richard took the brunt of his father's abandonment; Bobi pulled even closer to her son. "She hated all men for about three years after that, and she became overly protective of me. She looked at it that I was going to do the same thing that my dad did. I was 18 or 19. I was working. She never liked my dates, but I never held that against her. We have always been able to lean on each other."Richard managed a local TCBY yogurt shop and once stopped a burglary in progress. At the age of 22, he was hired as a clerk at the Small Business Administration, and he impressed Watson Bryant and the other lawyers in the office with his personable nature. They called him Radar because of his efficiency. "You could say, 'I'm hungry,' and suddenly this kid would be by your side with a Snickers bar," Bryant recalled. When Jewell's contract with the S.B.A. ran out, he moved on to be a Marriott house detective. In 1990 he was hired as a jailer in the Habersham County Sheriff's Office, and in 1991 he became a deputy. As part of his training, he was sent to the Northeast Georgia Police Academy, where he finished in the upper 25 percent of his class. He finally had an identity; he was a law-enforcement officer.Jewell was unlucky in love. He presented one woman with an engagement ring, and later, in Habersham County, he would give another a large wooden key with a sign that read, THIS IS THE KEY TO UNLOCK YOUR HEART, but both relationships came apart. In northern Georgia, Jewell worked nights and became wedded to his job. By his own description, he was methodical. "I am the kind of person who plans everything. I like to go from A to B to C to D. This going from A to D and arguing over everything—I say no." Habersham County, a scenic part of the piney woods in Georgia's Bible Belt, was for Jewell like "leaving the 1990s and going into the 1970s in terms of law enforcement." Many rich Atlantans have country houses in the mountains, but the small towns of Demorest and Charlottesville are relatively undeveloped, reminding one of Jewell's lawyers of the scenery in the movie Deliverance. "If you get lost up there, you might find a guy with a bow and arrow," the lawyer said.Recently, Jewell and I took the 90-minute drive from Atlanta to Habersham County, which has acres of apple orchards. The leaves were turning, and the roads were mostly deserted. In the towns, however, were stores, apple stands, and even a good Chinese restaurant. As Jewell's blue pickup truck turned into the parking lot of a shopping center, several people came out to greet him.Jewell had lived in a small yellow house up a steep rocky driveway. On the day we visited, the current resident's Halloween decorations were still up, as were faded white satin ribbons hanging from many trees, remnants of a campaign to clear Richard Jewell organized by area friends. Jewell had lived 50 yards from the Chattahoochee River near a kayak-and-canoe tourist concession on a main road—not in a "cabin in the woods," as several reports stated after the bombing. He worked the night shift, and when he would arrive home at dawn, he told me, he could look up and "see a sky filled with stars."He was not a loner; he made friends with several local families. He would often leave a box of Dunkin' Donuts on friends' porches at four A.M. During the O. J. Simpson trial, he and the other deputies would meet in the turnaround on Highway 985 in the middle of the night and review the day's events and the bungling by the Los Angeles Police Department. Jewell would later be annoyed that the F.B.I. confiscated his copy of former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's account of the trial. Jewell dated a local girl, Sheree Chastain, and had a close relationship with her family.Jewell had a complex history working at the Habersham County Sheriff's Office. When he was still a jailer, he arrested a couple making too much noise in a hot tub at an apartment building where he did part-time security work. He was arrested for impersonating an officer and, after pleading guilty to a lesser charge, was placed on probation on the condition that he seek psychological counseling.By his own estimation, Jewell's strength as a cop was "working car wrecks." He had his mother's diligence; he worked 14 hours a day and organized a safety fair. Later in 1995 he wrecked his patrol car and was demoted to working in the jail. Rick Moore, a local deputy, advised him to accept the job, but Jewell despised the jailhouse atmosphere. He told me, "It was a small room filled with cigarette smoke. I couldn't take it." He resigned, and in a short time he moved to a police job at Piedmont College, a liberal-arts school with approximately 1,000 students on the main road in Demorest. The college police had jurisdiction only on campus and in an area extending out 500 feet. Jewell chased cars speeding down the highway and had arguments over turf with other officers. He was instrumental in several arrests, including that of a suspected burglar he discovered hiding at the top of a tree. For his work on a volunteer rescue squad, he was named a citizen of the year.According to Brad Mattear, a former resident director, Piedmont was a school of "P.K.'s"—preachers' kids. It was 80 percent Baptist with a strict no-drinking rule. The college had many rebellious students, according to Mattear, kids who were "away from home for the first time and wanted to party and drink." Mattear knew Jewell well and recalled his good manners and playful nature. "It was always 'Yes, sir' and 'Yes, ma'am.'" Jewell would tell students, "I know y'all are going to drink. Don't do it on campus."Jewell felt confined by his boundaries and could be heavy-handed when it came to writing out reports on minor infractions. Once when we were driving by the campus, he pointed to a small brick dormitory. "That was where all the partying would go on," he told me. Jewell would raid dorm rooms and report drinking violations. "I did not hesitate to tell the parents—in no uncertain terms—what their kids were up to," he said.He soon made enemies at the school. "Three or four times a week," Mattear said, Piedmont students were in the office of Ray Cleere, the president of the college, complaining about Jewell and other Piedmont police. After Jewell was admonished for a number of controversial arrests, he resigned.Jewell had an out: his mother was going to have an operation on her foot. He would go home to Atlanta for the Olympics and look for a new job. He called his mother: "Is it all right with you if I stay with you while you have your surgery?" He hoped he might get a job with the Atlanta police or, failing that, work security at the Olympics. "I thought, Working at the Centennial Olympic Park will look really good on my resume."At the age of 33, back in his mother's apartment, he was at first treated like a wayward teenager. Bobi was sharp with him about his slovenly habits, his weight, and his driving. Bobi had carved out a life for herself; she arrived at work by eight A.M. each morning and had many friends. Trim, with short-cropped hair, Bobi Jewell is the kind of woman who labels her clothes and spices and spends much of her spare time baking cakes and babysitting for extra money. She carries on telephone friendships with claim adjusters at other companies. It was somewhat unsettling for her, she told me, to have Richard at home after she had grown used to living with only her dog, Brandi, and her cat, Boots. Bobi was annoyed that he had wrecked a patrol car, and worried about his safety. "Every time he leaves the apartment, I'll say, 'Richard . . . ' And he'll say, 'Yes, ma'am. I know. The person that I am going to see will be there when I get there,'" she said. On one occasion Bobi talked about Richard's return to Atlanta. "What is wrong with trying to revamp your life?" she asked me. Her eyes filled with tears. "Why does everyone in the media think it is so strange?"On Friday, July 26, Bobi Jewell was home waiting for her niece to arrive from Virginia for the Olympic softball competition the following week. In preparation, she had stocked her apartment with food. It was a clear Georgia evening, not as hot as had been expected. As usual, Richard left for the park at 4:45 P.M. and arrived at the AT&T pavilion about 5:30. His stomach was bothering him; he was convinced that he had eaten a bad hamburger the day before. Lin Wood and Wayne Grant had arranged to take their children to Centennial Park that night. The park, in downtown Atlanta, stretches over 21 acres. There were air-conditioned tents, concerts on the stage, and hot-dog and souvenir stands. Downtown Atlanta was usually deserted in the oppressively hot, humid summer, but this year thousands of tourists filled the sidewalks, or sat on benches in the shade of some crape-myrtle trees, or cooled off by a fountain. Tour buses clogged the main arteries, and everyone complained that it took hours to get anywhere; stories were traded about athletes' getting to their competitions late because of the poor planning of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games.As always, Jewell was working the 12-hour night shift near the sound-and-light tower by the stage. He was pleased because one of his favorite groups—Jack Mack and the Heart Attack—was going to perform at 12:45. Jewell had a routine: he would check in and fill the ice chest he kept by a bench at his station. Jewell liked to offer water and Cokes to pregnant women or policemen who stopped to rest.After he arrived at the park, his stomach cramps grew worse and he had a bout of diarrhea. At approximately 10 P.M. he took a break to go to the bathroom. The closest one was by the stage, but the security staff was not allowed to use it. "I really have to go," Jewell says he told the stage manager. "And he said, 'Well, O.K. this time.'"When Jewell came out, he noticed that it was "real calm" and there wasn't much wind blowing. At that time of night, the crowd from Bud World became a little more raucous. Jewell was annoyed when he saw a group of drunks near his bench and beer cans littering the area beside the fence nearby. As he went to report the trash and the group that was carousing, he spotted a large olive-green military-style backpack, known as an Alice pack, under the bench. There had been a similar bag found the week before. Jewell later told an F.B.I. agent that he was annoyed that one of the drunks had tried to get into the lens of a camera crew. Jewell had told them to cut it out. "They were running off at the mouth," Jewell would later tell Larry Landers of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (G.B.I.)."I was light about the package at first," he told me, "kidding around with Tom Davis from the G.B.I.: 'Well, are you going to open it?' At that point, it was not a concern. I was thinking to myself, Well, I am sure one of these people left it on the ground. When Davis came back and said, 'Nobody said it was theirs,' that is when the little hairs on the back of my head began to stand up. I thought, Uh-oh. This is not good."I never really had time to be frightened. My law-enforcement background paid off here. What went through my head was like a computer screen of this list I had to do. I had to call my supervisor. I have to tell people in the tower that something was going on. I have to be firm with them, stay calm, and be professional."Almost immediately, Jewell and Tom Davis cleared a 25-foot-square area around the backpack; Jewell made two trips into the tower to warn the technicians. "I want y'all out now. This is serious."Two blocks away on Marietta Street, approximately 300 editors, copywriters, and reporters from Cox newspapers around the country had taken over the extra desks in the new eighth-floor newsroom at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to prepare the special Olympics edition they put out each afternoon. The paper had gone "Olympics-crazy," according to one reporter. The editor, Ron Martin, and the managing editor, John Walter—"WalMart," as they were called—had let it be known that no expense would be spared. Ann Hardie, who normally covers science, had been sent around the world to master the fine points of beach volleyball; Bill Rankin, officially on the federal-court beat, was assigned table tennis. The paper intended to set new standards in its hometown during the games, but in addition there was a hint of redemption in the air.Since Cox newspaper executives had forced the resignation of the distinguished editor Bill Kovach in 1988, the paper had suffered a severe loss of reputation. "We all felt just kind of beaten down," one reporter said. Kovach had been brought to Atlanta from The New York Times to elevate The A.J.C. into being the definitive paper of the New South, but eventually he irritated the local powers. Atlanta was inbred, a city of deals, and he resigned in a blaze of press outrage. Kovach now ran the Nieman journalism-fellowship program at Harvard, and the movie rights to his turbulent years in Atlanta—reported in these pages by Peter J. Boyer—had been sold to Warner Bros.Within the profession, The A.J.C. had become something of a joke. More and more, its emphasis was on what John Walter called "chunklets"—short bits in a soft-news style known as eye-candy. The paper published features on couples massage and how mushrooms grow in the rain. Walter had fired off several terse memos to ensure that there would be no more jumps of news stories to back pages and no more unsourced news stories, except on rare occasions. "I don't see any reason why you can't report hard news in a short form," one editor told me.The A.J. C. style of reporting in declarative sentences had a name, too: the voice of God. It was omniscient, because it allowed no references to unattributed sources. Subjects such as AIDS, which often required confidentiality, could not be covered properly in the paper, in the opinion of several reporters. The A.J.C. picked up news stories with unnamed sources from The New York Times, however, and reporters groused about the hypocrisy of the double standard.On Saturday morning, July 27, Bob Johnson, the night metro editor, left the newsroom at one A.M. The sidewalks were still crowded; Johnson sat on a wall outside waiting for an A.J.C. shuttle bus to pick him up. About 1:25 he heard a strange noise. "It sounded like an aerial bomb at a fireworks show," he said. He recalled thinking, Damn, that is sort of foolish. Then he heard screams and saw people running. Johnson rushed back upstairs to the almost deserted sixth-floor newsroom. Lyda Longa, a night police reporter, was still there. Johnson sent her down to the park and turned on the news, but nothing had moved across the wires. Just after two A.M., Longa called from the park. She told Johnson that one person had been killed and dozens were down—it was absolute chaos. Johnson could hear the sirens and the screams through the telephone; he began to type into his computer. "We were trying to get a bullet into the street edition," Johnson recalled. In the crisis, it took only minutes for reporters to return to the newsroom; several had been at the park when the bomb went off. Rochelle Bozman, an Olympics editor, appeared and took over for Johnson. Soon John Walter was there, as was Bert Roughton, who would assist him in supervising the A.J.C. coverage of the bombing.At the park, Jewell spoke with the first F.B.I. agents to arrive on the scene. The smell and the noise, he remembered, were overwhelming, and sensations blurred together. "It was hard to describe the sound," he said. "It was like what you hear in the movies. It was, like, KABOOM. I had seen an explosion in police training. We had ear protection when it went off. It smelled like a flash-bang grenade. The sky was not filled with black smoke, but grayish-white. All the shrapnel that was inside the package kept flying around, and some of the people got hit from the bench and some with metal."Bobi Jewell had just gone to sleep when the telephone rang. It was Richard. "Mom, they had a bomb go off down here, but I am O.K. regardless of what the TV says." He could hardly speak; he seemed paralyzed. Jewell did not mention to his mother that he had found the backpack and alerted Tom Davis. Bobi was perplexed. "I thought, What does he mean?"All night long she stayed on the foldout sofa watching the news reports. She was frightened by the ambulances, the noise, the bodies in the park.Soon veteran homicide detectives in the Atlanta police arrived at the bomb site. One sergeant was trying to make his way through the crowd when an Olympics official stopped him. "Tell these cops to get the hell out of here," he said, according to a captain in the homicide division. "Well, you get the fuck out of here. Who are you?" the sergeant demanded. Agents from the Atlanta F.B.I. office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were in a shouting match over jurisdiction. "We are handling this!" one said. "No, this is ours!" an F.B.I. agent snapped.In the command center at F.B.I. headquarters in northeastern Atlanta, there was complete pandemonium. The Olympics were a national convention for law enforcement. Some 30,000 security personnel were on hand. Over the next few days, there would be an internal debate: Who was going to be in charge of the bombing investigation? In Atlanta at that time were three veteran investigators with executive experience: Tom Fuentes, who is credited with helping to bring John Gotti to heel; Barry Mawn, who has worked extensively in organized-crime probes; and Robin Montgomery, the head of the critical-incident unit at Quantico, who at Ruby Ridge in 1992 questioned the disastrous "rules of engagement" which led to tragedy.In the early-morning hours, F.B.I. agents picked up several suspects, including one referred to as "the drunk in the bar." According to F.B.I. sources, Louis Freeh himself got on the telephone to Barry Mawn. Freeh, a former F.B.I. agent, was personally monitoring the initial investigation by means of a series of conference calls from the command post at F.B.I. headquarters. He focused on "the drunk in the bar," who had been making threats the night before, and within hours the information was leaked that the F.B.I. had a suspect. From Atlanta, Barry Mawn contacted his superiors in Washington. "This suspect is not the bomber," he reportedly said, according to a former highlevel F.B.I. executive. Freeh allegedly lost his temper and belittled Mawn's professional abilities. He is said to have told Mawn that he "had handled this all wrong." The words one hears characterizing Freeh's telephone calls to the agents on duty in Atlanta are "abusive," "condescending," and "dismissive." A story went around the command center that Freeh was already saying, "We have our man," according to a source in the bureau.Watson Bryant was thinking, I cannot believe that I know anyone who throws pipe bombs into gopher holes.Freeh made a decision: however experienced Montgomery, Fuentes, and Mawn were, this investigation would be run by Division 5 of the F.B.I., the National Security Division, a former counterintelligence unit that has been looking for a purpose since the Cold War ended. Trained in observation, division members rarely made a criminal case—their strength was intimidation and manipulation rather than the deliberate gathering of evidence to be presented in court. The F.B.I. promptly declared the bombing a terrorism case and placed it under the authority of Bob Bryant, head of the division. David Tubbs of Division 5 was sent to Atlanta to be the spokesman and to augment Woody Johnson, the Atlanta special agent in charge (S.A.C.), who had been trained in hostage rescue and who was awkward in press briefings. Tubbs was not as experienced in criminal cases as Mawn or Montgomery, who returned to Newark and Quantico, respectively, "to get out of the line of fire," according to numerous F.B.I. sources. But Bryant and Freeh were reportedly micromanaging the S.A.C.'s and, later, the case agents Don Johnson and Diader Rosario.106107 VIEW ARTICLE PAGESOn the morning of the bombing, Watson Bryant's alarm went off at six A.M. He was going to the Olympic kayak competition on the Ocoee River with Andy Currie, a friend from his Vanderbilt University days. He learned of the bombing on the radio as he was getting ready to go to Currie's house. "Whoever has done this should be skinned alive," he told Currie. He spent the day in the country, and on Sunday he went out to run errands. When he got home, there was a message on his answering machine: "Watson, this is Richard Jewell. You may have heard that I found the bomb and people are calling me a hero. Somebody told me I might get a book contract." It had been years since Bryant had spoken to Jewell, but he did not immediately return the call; he was busy finishing up some contracts so that he could take a few days off to enjoy the Olympics.In addition, Bryant was annoyed with Jewell. After Bryant had befriended him in their days at the Small Business Administration, Jewell had borrowed his new, $250 radar detector and never returned it. He had promised to pay him $100 for it, but he never had. In the meantime, Bryant's life had changed; he had set up an office as a solo practitioner. Bryant despised corporate politics and had no gift for them. His penchant for taking on pro-bono work for friends annoyed his wife, however. Bryant believed that Richard Jewell had attached himself to him years earlier because he lacked a father, but nevertheless Jewell could get on his nerves. By the summer of 1996, Bryant was preoccupied; his marriage had come apart two years earlier, and he was trying to sort out his life.When he finally returned Jewell's phone call, he said, "Well, damn it, where's my $100?" Jewell laughed uneasily and told him about discovering the green backpack that contained the bomb. "Didn't you see me on the news?" Bryant reminded him that he rarely watched TV. "I am proud of you, Richard," he said. "About this book contract, I think it's far-fetched, but don't sign anything unless I see it first."In the Newsweek cover story detailing the bombing, published Monday, July 29, there was no mention of Richard Jewell. It said only that "a security guard" had alerted Tom Davis of the G.B.I. that no one had claimed the backpack under his bench. By the time Newsweek was on the stands, however, Jewell had been interviewed on CNN. The AT&T publicity department had booked him on TV and told him to wear the shirt with the AT&T logo. Jewell reluctantly agreed. "The idea of going on TV made me nervous," he told me. "I was not the hero. There were so many others who saved lives."In Demorest, Ray Cleere, the president of Piedmont College, was home on Saturday, July 27, watching CNN. Cleere had at one time been Mississippi's commissioner of higher education, but he was now posted at the rural Baptist mountain school. He was said to feel that he had suffered a loss of status in the boondocks, where he was out of the academic mainstream. He called Dick Martin, his chief of campus police. Shouldn't they call the F.B.I. and tell them about Richard Jewell? he asked. Cleere had had a strong disagreement with Jewell when one of the students was caught smoking pot. Jewell wanted to arrest him; Cleere said no. Cleere, Brad Mattear recalled, "worried constantly about the image of the college." According to Mattear, "Cleere loved the limelight. He wanted public attention"—the very trait he reportedly ascribed to Richard Jewell.Dick Martin, who was fond of Jewell, suggested a compromise, according to Lin Wood: he would call a friend in the G.B.I. Cleere then called the F.B.I. hot line in Washington himself. Wood says Cleere later complained that no one had seemed to want to listen to what he had to say about Richard Jewell. But his telephone call would trigger a complex set of circumstances in Habersham County, where F.B.I. investigators fanned out over the hills, attempting to uncover evidence that could lead to Jewell's arrest. "The F.B.I. took his word, and what it actually did was get them both in a bunch of trouble," Mattear said. (Cleere has declined to comment.)For Richard Jewell, Tuesday, July 30, would become a haze in which his life was turned upside down. "The hours of the day ran so fast it is hard to remember what all happened," he told me. He started the day early at the Atlanta studio of the Today show. He was tired; the evening before he had had his friend Tim Attaway, a G.B.I. agent, for dinner. He had made lasagna and had drawn Attaway a diagram of the sound-and-light tower. Jewell had talked into the night about the bombing; only later would he learn that Attaway was wearing a wire.Despite the late evening, Jewell was excited at the thought of meeting Katie Couric and being interviewed about finding the Alice pack in the park. His mother asked him to try to get Tom Brokaw's autograph. "He was a man my mom respected a great deal," he said.When he got back to the apartment, he was surprised to see a cluster of reporters in the parking lot. "Do you think you are a suspect?" one asked. Jewell laughed. "I know they'll investigate anyone who was at the park that night," he said. "That includes you-all too." Jewell did not turn on the TV, but he noticed that the group outside the door continued to grow. At four that afternoon, Jewell received a phone call from Anthony Davis, the head of the security company Jewell worked for at AT&T. "Have you seen the news?" Davis asked. "They are saying you are a suspect." Jewell said, "They are talking to everybody." According to Jewell, Davis said, "They are zeroing in on you. To keep the publicity down, don't go to work."Within minutes, Don Johnson and Diader Rosario knocked on Jewell's door. They exuded sincerity, Jewell recalled. "They told me they wanted me to come with them to headquarters to help them make a training film to be used at Quantico," he said. Johnson played to Jewell's pride. Despite the reporters in the parking lot and the call from Anthony Davis, Jewell had no doubt that they were telling the truth. He drove the short distance to F.B.I. headquarters in Buckhead in his own truck, but he noticed that four cars were following him. "The press is on us," Jewell told Johnson when they arrived. "No, those are our guys," Johnson told him. This tactic would continue through the next 88 days and be severely criticized: Why would you have an armada of surveillance vehicles stacked up on a suspected bomber?It was then that Jewell started to wonder why he was at the F.B.I., but he followed Johnson and Rosario inside. Rosario was known for his skills as a negotiator; he had once helped calm a riot of Cuban prisoners in Atlanta. Johnson, however, had a reputation for overreaching. In Albany, New York, in 1987, he had pursued an investigation of then mayor Thomas Whalen. According to Whalen, the local U.S. attorney found no evidence to support Johnson's assertions and issued a letter to Whalen exonerating him completely, but Whalen believed it cost him an appointment as a federal judge.As Jewell sat in a small office, he wondered why the cameraman recording the interview was staring at him so intently. After an hour, Johnson was called out of the room. When he returned, he said to Jewell, "Let's pretend that none of this happened. You are going to come in and start over, and by the way, we want you to fill out this waiver of rights.""At that moment a million things were going through my head," Jewell told me. "You don't give anyone a waiver of rights unless they are being investigated. I said, 'I need to contact my attorney,' and then all of a sudden it was an instant change. 'What do you need to contact your attorney for? You didn't do anything. We thought you were a hero. Is there something you want to tell us about?'" Jewell grew increasingly apprehensive and later recalled thinking, These guys think I did this.When the agents took a break, Jewell asked to use the phone. "I called Watson four times. I called his brother. I told his parents that I had to get hold of Watson—it was urgent. I was, like, 'I have to speak to him right now.' What was going on was that Washington was on the phone with Atlanta. The people in Washington were giving them questions." Jewell said he knew this because the videotapes in the cameras were two hours long and "Johnson and Rosario would leave every 30 minutes, like they had to speak on the phone." The O.RR. report, however, would assert that no one at headquarters knew about the videotaping or the training-film ruse. Lying to get a statement out of a suspect is, in fact, not illegal, but clearly Johnson and Rosario were not making decisions on their own. Even the procedure of having a fleet of cars follow a suspect was an intimidation tactic used by the F.B.I. Later, according to Jewell, Johnson and Rosario would both tell him privately that they believed he was innocent, but that the investigation was being run by the "highest levels in Washington."Within the bureau, the belief is that during one of the telephone calls Freeh instructed Johnson and Rosario to read Jewell his Miranda rights. Freeh is said to have learned of Johnson's history from a member of his security detail, who had worked in Atlanta. He told Freeh that "Johnson had a reputation for being obnoxious and a problem." In addition, a week after Jewell's interview, Freeh reportedly received a call from Janet Reno, who had learned about the ruse from Kent Alexander, the local U.S. attorney, and Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick. Freeh wondered aloud how it was that, of all the agents in Atlanta, Johnson had been selected to work on the Jewell case. Like Jewell, Johnson had wound up in Atlanta because of his overzealous behavior—according to an F.B.I. source, the Whalen episode had resulted in a "loss-of-effectiveness transfer," an F.B.I. euphemism. (Johnson declined to respond.)On that same Tuesday, Watson Bryant and Nadya Light closed the office early and went to Centennial Park. Light, 35, a pretty Russian immigrant, had never met Radar, Bryant's old friend, and wanted to buy him a celebratory meal. Killing time until Jewell came on duty, they went into the House of Blues and then bought some hot sauce. Walking toward his car, Bryant saw newsboys hawking the afternoon edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "It was like out of a cartoon. They were all yelling!" he recalled. "I caught the headline out of the corner of my eye." The headline read: FBI SUSPECTS 'HERO' GUARD MAY HAVE PLANTED BOMB.Bryant borrowed 50 cents from Light to buy the paper and began to read: '"Richard Jewell, 33 . . . fits the profile of the lone bomber.' I could not believe it."At that moment, Bryant's brother, Bruce, who was on his way to the diving competition, got a call from Jewell. "Where is Watson?" As Bruce Bryant walked past a Speedo billboard with a TV screen, he saw Richard Jewell's face filling the screen. "Oh, my God," he said to his wife. At the same moment, Watson was in his car a block away on Northside Drive when he too noticed the Speedo screen. He could not get back to his house—the streets were blocked off for the cycling competition. From his car he called F.B.I. headquarters and demanded to speak to Jewell. "He is not here," the operator said. From his home phone, he picked up his messages and heard Jewell's low, urgent tones. "He didn't leave a number," Bryant told Light. "Call Star 69," she said. The number came back: 679-9000, the number for F.B.I. headquarters, which he had just dialed. Within minutes, Bryant had Jewell on the phone. Jewell told him he was making a training film. "You idiot! You are a suspect. Get your ass out of there now!" Bryant told him.Before The Atlanta Journal-Constitution broke the story of Richard Jewell, there had been a debate in the newsroom over whether or not to name him. One block away, CNN's Art Harris and Henry Schuster had alerted the network's president that Jewell was targeted, but they held the story, because they understood its potential magnitude. At The A.J.C., Kathy Scruggs, a police reporter, who had allegedly gotten a tip from a close friend in the F.B.I., got a confirmation from someone in the Atlanta police. According to the managing editor, John Walter, the first edition of the paper that Tuesday had a brief profile of Jewell. It was dropped in later editions as Walter questioned whether the paper had enough facts to support the scoop. Because of the voice-of-God style, the paper ended up making a flat-out statement: "Richard Jewell . . . fits the profile of the lone bomber."When I asked John Walter about the lone-bomber sentence, he said, "I ultimately edited it. . . . One of the tests we put to the material is, is it a verifiable fact?" One editor added, "The whole story is voice-of-God. . . . Because we see this event taking place, the need to attribute it to sources—F.B.I. or law enforcement—is less than if there is no public acknowledgment." John Walter indicated that he had not seen a lone-bomber profile. I asked him, "Whose profile of a lone bomber does Richard Jewell fit? Where is the 'says who' in this sentence?" Walter said that he felt comfortable with the assertion.The page-one story had a double byline: Kathy Scruggs and Ron Martz. Walter had told these two early on that they would be the reporters assigned to any Olympic catastrophe. Martz, who had covered the Gulf War, had been assigned the security beat for the Olympics; Scruggs routinely covered local crime. Scruggs had good contacts in the Atlanta police, and she was tough. She was characterized as "a police groupie" by one former staff member. "Kathy has a hard edge that some people find offensive," one of her editors told me, but he praised her skills. Police reporters are often "dictation pads" for local law enforcement; recently the American Journalism Review sharply criticized The A.J. C. for the scanty confirmation and lack of skepticism in its coverage of Jewell.The newsroom atmosphere resembled that at F.B.I. headquarters; there was a frenzy to be first. Kent Walker, a newsroom intern, published a story in the same edition, with a glaring mistake in the headline: BOMB SUSPECT HAD SOUGHT LIMELIGHT, PRESS INTERVIEWS. Since Ray Cleere's tip to the F.B.I., the "hero bomber" theory had been circulating among Atlanta law enforcement officers. Maria Elena Fernandez, a reporter, was sent to Habersham County on July 29. By coincidence, William Rathburn, the head of security for the Olympics, had been at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 when a fake bomb was found on a bus—left by a policeman who sought attention.On the surface, the story had an irresistible newsroom logic: Jewell was clearly looking for recognition. Bert Roughton, the city editor, had answered the telephone when a representative from AT&T called to ask if the paper would like a Jewell interview. According to Walter, Roughton himself typed a sentence in the Scruggs-and-Martz piece: "He [Jewell] also has approached newspapers, including The Atlanta JournalConstitution, seeking publicity for his actions." But he hadn't. Walter explained, "There was nothing wrong with that sentence. That's journalistically proper. It is not common practice, to my knowledge, to ask someone you are interviewing . . . 'Are you here of your own free will?'" Jewell had not contacted the paper—a fact which would have been easy enough to check. Walter became snappish when I described the sentence as "a mistake." "It was not a mistake," he said angrily. Scruggs and Martz quoted Piedmont College president Ray Cleere as backup. According to Cleere, Jewell had been "a little erratic" and "almost too excitable."There was no doubt raised by The A.J.C. about the value of Cleere's information or the fragility of the F.B.I.'s potential case. On Tuesday morning, July 30, Christina Headrick, a young intern on the paper, was sent to Buford Highway to stake out Richard Jewell's apartment. She phoned in that there were men doing surveillance. By deadline, John Walter had made a decision: he would tear up the afternoon Olympics edition and lead with Jewell.Several states away, Colonel Robert Ressler was watching CNN when the A.J.C. extra edition was shown. Ressler, who was retired from the behavioral-science unit of the F.B.I., had, along with John Douglas, developed the concept of criminal-personality profiling. He was the co-author of the Crime Classification Manual, which is used by the F.B.I. He had interviewed Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy, and as he watched the TV report, he was mystified. "They were talking about an F.B.I. profile of a hero bomber, and I thought, What F.B.I. profile? It rather surprised me." According to Ressler, the definition of "hero homicide"—a person looking for recognition without an intent to kill— perhaps emerged as "hero bomber." "There is no such classification as the hero bomber," he told me recently. "This was a myth." Later he said, "It occurred to me that there was no database of any bomber who lived with his mother, was a security guard and unmarried. How many hero bombers had we ever encountered? Only one that I know of, in Los Angeles, and his bomb did not go off." Ressler knew that something was off; profiles are developed from a complex set of evidence and facts derived only in part from a crime scene. The bomb had been deadly, which was not consistent with the "hero complex." Furthermore, he wondered, where did they get the information to put the profile together that fast? He asked himself, What came first here, the chicken or the egg? Was the so-called profile actually developed from the circumstances, or was it invented for Richard Jewell?When Jewell returned home from F.B.I. headquarters just before eight P.M., NBC was showing special Olympic coverage. He sat on the sofa and watched Tom Brokaw say, "They probably have enough to arrest him right now, probably enough to prosecute him, but you always want to have enough to convict him as well. There are still holes in this case."Jewell knew that Brokaw was his mother's favorite newsman; he looked at her and noticed "the color and the blood flow out of her face when she heard that." Bobi turned to him and asked, "What is he talking about?" Jewell later recalled, "Brokaw was talking about her son as a murderer. . . . She started crying, and what am I going to say to her? 'Mom, Watson is going to fix this'? What do you say? She doesn't hear anything anyway—she was in hysterics." At that point, Jewell said, he broke down as well.The day Watson Bryant inadvertently became the lead lawyer for Richard Jewell, he was an attorney whom almost no one in the Atlanta legal establishment had ever heard of. "Who the hell is Watson Bryant?" a caption in the daily legal sheet, the Fulton County Daily Report, would read after he had appeared on the Today show. Bryant understood Jewell's vulnerability and decided on a strategy: he would treat him as a member of his own family. In Atlanta, the Bryants were a clan: Watson's father, Goble Bryant, had been a West Point tackle, on the 1949 college all-star team; his grandfather had invented a process for putting handles on paper bags. Watson had partied through Vanderbilt University and had barely gotten accepted to law school at the University of South Carolina. He had a close relationship with his brother, Bruce, and their sister, Barbara Ann, and if he lacked staff at his office, he knew he could count on his family to pick up the slack. Bruce enlisted Jewell to help coach his junior football team; Watson had a picnic for Richard and Bobi at his parents' house at the Atlanta Country Club.When Bryant arrived at the Jewells' apartment that night, he pushed his way through the crowd standing outside in the spongy Atlanta humidity. Microphones were shoved in his face. "What is happening, Watson?" Bobi asked him. Bryant asked Jewell to speak to him alone. "I want to know if you can tell me, without any hesitation at all, if you had anything to do with the bombing," he said. "I didn't," Jewell told him. "I said, 'I am going to ask you again.' He would not look me in the eye. I said, 'Don't give me this "sir" shit.' I said, 'Richard, these people want to kill you. I cannot help you unless you tell me the absolute, unequivocal truth.' I was in his face. He said he did not have anything to do with it." Jewell was bewildered and numb, said Bryant, who left at 10:30 P.M. At midnight, Jewell called him to say, "They are massing outside the apartment, Watson."The next morning, Bryant went from talk show to talk show, starting with NBC. With the notable exception of The New York Times, virtually every newspaper in the country had picked up the A.J.C. story and run it as front-page news. There were 10,000 reporters in Atlanta; the Los Angeles Times would later call the squad bearing down on the Jewells "a massive strike force . . . Tora! Tora! Tora!" Bryant was in a daze, but he held his own. "Is it true that Jewell was at some time ordered to seek psychological counseling?" Bryant Gumbel asked him. "I know a lot of people that ought to have psychological counseling," Watson Bryant replied.By 10 A.M. he was back at the Jewells' apartment, studying a search warrant that had been delivered that day. The F.B.I., Jewell recalled, said that he could not be inside the apartment during the search. Bryant called F.B.I. headquarters: "What the hell is this? Why can't he be there?" Within an hour, at least 40 members of the F.B.I. had arrived, with dogs. "There was a physical-evidence team. There was a scientific team. There was a team for the bomb-squad people, and then the A.T.F. . . . They all had different-color shirts. Light blue for bombs, dark blue for evidence protection, red and yellow." Bryant could not believe what he was seeing. "This is like damn Six Flags over Georgia," he told them."I kept saying to Watson, 'I didn't do this.' And he said, 'Hey, kid, I believe you—we are doing what we can.'" Jewell was a gun collector. Bryant was sharp with him: "You get all those guns out of your closets and put them on your bed. We don't want any trouble."For seven hours, Jewell sat outside on the staircase in what has become one of the most famous images of last summer. Bryant had to take his daughter, Meredith, to the Olympic equestrian competition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her. As he left, he said, "Don't do anything stupid. Just shut up and let them do what they have to do." Hours passed as Jewell sat in the heat. "Finally I decided I would ask them if I could go in and use the rest room. They said, 'We got the order a couple of hours ago you could come in; you just can't get in our way.'" Jewell was told he had to wear rubber socks and gloves in order not to contaminate the site. The Jewell apartment is small—two bedrooms with a bathroom in between, a living room, an alcove dining room that has been turned into a den. As Jewell sat on the sofa, he thought he heard a crash in his bedroom. "I thought my CD player was on the floor, and I said, 'What are you-all tearing up?' and they said, 'You can't go in there right now; we are searching.' I said, 'I want to know what you-all just broke.'" One search warrant listed some 200 items the F.B.I. could confiscate, including "magazines, books . . . and photographs which would include descriptive information such as telephone numbers, addresses, affiliations and contact points of individuals involved in a conspiracy to manufacture, transport and . . . detonate . . . the explosive device used in the bombing at the Olympic Centennial Park on July 27, 1996.""They had all my pictures, all the stuff that was in the drawers. My personal things. How would you like to know that 12 different guys had been in your underwear, laid it out on the floor, probably walked on it and then folded it back up like nothing ever happened and put it in your drawer? So then Mom got to go and watch it on TV: 'Live from the Jewell house, the search continues. . . . We are expecting an arrest any minute.'"When Bobi Jewell returned home, the apartment appeared neat, until she walked into her kitchen. She looked down at her counters, where all her condiments, dog biscuits, spices, and crackers had been taken out of their Tupperware containers and placed in Ziploc bags. She began to cry. And then she went into the bedroom and "immediately started washing clothes," Jewell said.Driving home from the equestrian events, Bryant heard the live coverage of the search on the radio. "Why are you helping this guy if he's guilty?" Meredith asked.The next morning, Bryant received a copy of the F.B.I. inventory of articles confiscated in the apartment. On the list he was stunned to see "one hollowed-out hand grenade, ball-shaped" and "one hollowed-out hand grenade, pinecone-shaped." "What the hell is this?" he asked Jewell. "They were paperweights," Jewell said. "I bought them at a military store." "Oh, shit," Bryant said.For the first few days, the Jewells lived on ham omelettes; a neighbor had brought them half a ham from the Honey Baked Ham Company on Buford Highway. Bobi Jewell had a vacation scheduled, so she remained at home, lying on the bed and "listening to the ball game if it was on." For two weeks, she cleaned out her bureau drawers. Richard would spend the day watching CNN or movies such as Backdraft and Midnight Run. "I would look out the window and see about 150 to 200 press people. Then it would drop to five or six on the hill. They had one person sitting up there at all times with their binoculars." Richard believed they were being monitored. "They heard everything that was going on. They were over there with high-intensity zoom lenses. They had people over there who could read lips. They had a sound dish. They could hear everything that we said. They had a person writing down everything we said. I saw them."When Bobi walked out the door, Jewell said, they would holler obscenities and yell, 'You should both die'Once, Bobi's cat jumped on the window ledge under the curtain and the photographers began frenetically shooting pictures, believing that one of the Jewells was in the window. Sound trucks and boom microphones prevented the neighbors from getting near the apartment. Three F.B.I. agents were usually sitting near the tiny swimming pool; each time Jewell or his mother left the house, a cavalcade of unmarked cars would follow. Richard soon began to write a speech describing the horror he felt at being falsely accused. He ate grilled-cheese sandwiches, huge pans of lasagna, and can after can of Campbell's tomato soup."If my mom and I had something we wanted to talk about that we didn't want anyone to hear, we wrote it on pieces of paper. When she left to go to work the next day, she would take it with her, tear it up, and put it in the trash! That is how I kept my mother informed about what was going on with the case." The notes were specific: "What the Justice Department was saying, what my attorneys were hearing through the grapevine that I could tell my mom that was not privileged. It was mainly stuff like 'Keep the faith' and 'Can I borrow $10 for gas in the truck?' "Jewell described how, when his mother would walk out the door, "they would holler obscenities at her. They would yell, 'Did he do it? Did he blow those people up?' They would yell, 'You should both die.'" According to Jewell, "The cameramen were just trying to get us aggravated so they could get it on camera. You don't know how hard it is when they are saying stuff about my mother and me. . . . All she was trying to do was walk her dog. And she cannot do that without hearing that yelling. When someone did that to my mother, I would want to be up on the hill calling the police, because I would want them arrested. I was going to say, 'Mom, tell me which one said that!' And I was going to walk up to that person and introduce myself and say, 'Hi, my name is Richard Jewell. What is yours? Who do you work for? Who is your supervisor?' And I was going to go home and call 911 to get a warrant."By disposition, Jewell is a night person, but he would get up early when his mother went back to work and make her breakfast. By 11 A.M. he would be playing Mortal Kombat II and listening to 96 Rock on the radio, where one of his friends is a disc jockey. Four days into his period of captivity, he called the DeKalb County police. He recalled telling a Mr. Brown, "'This is Richard Jewell. I am sure you are aware of my situation over on Buford Highway.' He said, 'Yes, Richard, I know.' I said, 'I just want to tell you my situation. Number one: I did not do this. Number two: I am here and I am not leaving the apartment for any reason at all.' I said that all the press was doing right now was aggravating my mother and disturbing my neighbors, and I would really appreciate it if the neighbors could return to a normal life."On Saturday, August 3, as Bryant stared at the F.B.I. agent plucking Jewell's hair, he had already made a decision. "It was, like, screw it. I had had it." The next day was the closing ceremony of the Olympics; Bryant imagined that that would be the day the government might choose to arrest Jewell. "Who is the best criminal lawyer in Georgia?" he asked a state lawyers' association. Within a day, he had brought in Jack Martin, an expert on the federal death penalty and a Harvard law school graduate with close ties to the local U.S. attorney, Kent Alexander. "Let me tell you something about myself," Jewell told him in their first meeting. "I hate criminal lawyers." "Well, Richard," Martin said, "I don't much like cops, but sometimes I need one, and this is a time you sure need a criminal lawyer."That weekend, watching the Olympic basketball finals, Bryant had an idea: he wanted to be prepared with his own polygraph test of Jewell if the F.B.I. arrested him. From the game, Bryant called a close friend who was a former federal prosecutor. "Try Richard Rackleff," he said. "We worked together on the Walter Moody bombing case." Rackleff had recently set up a private practice, and he agreed to test Jewell the next day. On Sunday morning, Bryant was up early, unable to sleep. He drove around town, making calls from his cell phone. He dialed 679-9000—the F.B.I. "This is Watson Bryant. I am going to pick up Richard Jewell. I just want you to know that. I don't have a white Bronco. I don't have a wig, and I don't have cash in my car. We are just going to my office."Watson had coordinated an elaborate plan with his brother to dodge reporters; he would use a decoy and snake through a parking garage. Rackleff had been instructed to park blocks from Bryant's office, because his car could be identified easily, since he was well known in Atlanta law enforcement.When Rackleff sat down with Richard Jewell in the conference room, he later told me, he sensed almost immediately that Jewell was innocent. Rackleff had tested many bombers before, including Walter Moody, who was convicted of killing a federal judge. "They are strange ducks—they leave their attorneys cold," Rackleff said. Although no one knew Rackleff was in the building, more than 100 reporters gathered outside to get a look at Jewell. Inside, Jack Martin, Bryant, Nadya Light, and Jewell spent 12 hours in Bryant's office. Rackleff asked Jewell a series of questions, but the test was inconclusive. "Richard is tormented. He is exploding on the inside," Rackleff said. While he was testing him, CNN's Art Harris was visible through the window of Bryant's office, but he could not see inside. Bryant was thoroughly deflated, close to despair. "You have got to try to buck Richard up," Rackleff told him. "Who is going to buck me up?" Bryant asked.'We are not in missile range of arresting Richard Jewell, but we want him to take our own polygraph," Kent Alexander told Bryant and Jack Martin in their first meeting on the case. In the meantime, Rackleff had tested Jewell again, and he had passed with "no deception," the highest rating. By this time, it was clear that there was no damning evidence against Jewell discovered at the apartment or in his old house in Habersham County.Alexander was only 38, but he had been groomed for politics in a fancy local family. His father was a senior partner in a good Atlanta law firm, and he had worked as an intern for Senator Sam Nunn. Bryant worried about Alexander's lack of experience, but Alexander told colleagues that he was disturbed by the lack of substantial evidence against Jewell. He was trying to operate with decency, but he was cautious and had to check every detail with Washington.Bryant, however, didn't trust Alexander; he had had a bad experience with Alexander's predecessor. In 1990, Bryant had almost been put out of business in a tussle with the then U.S. attorney. The local Small Business Administration accused a bank Bryant represented of improper use of funds; the bank blamed Bryant, who was brought before a grand jury and over the next two years almost lost his practice. He spent $50,000 defending himself, and Nadya Light had to take another job, but eventually the case was settled with Bryant's agreeing not to do business with the S.B.A. for 18 months. Bryant had always felt that he had been manhandled by the office. "I learned everything I needed to know about dealing with this office in 1990," Bryant recalled telling Alexander. "No polygraph for Richard."At the meeting, Alexander told Bryant and Martin, "This is all off-the-record. This is a request that is strictly confidential." Weeks later, Louis Freeh came to town to address a breakfast of former F.B.I. agents. Almost immediately, the polygraph request was reported on CNN. "Kent, I thought we had an agreement," Bryant told him. "I cannot control Washington," Alexander said.When two of the bomb-blast victims sued Richard Jewell, Bryant brought in Wood and Grant to handle the civil litigation. Martin opposed the move. He believed in the cone of silence: "Circle the wagons and don't speak." He said that Wood and Grant had a different perspective: Attack, attack, and if you give any quarter, it is a sign of weakness. Martin had been reassured in private by Kent Alexander that Jewell was not in any immediate danger of being arrested, but the team disagreed about press tactics. Martin worked through the Atlanta-establishment back channels; Lin Wood was a rhetoric man. He favored "one big newsbreak a week." "You know who wrote the book Masters of Deceit? J. Edgar Hoover! And that was about the Communist Party in America. So now they have gone from masters of investigation to masters of deceit!" he would routinely tell reporters who called.Three days after Wood and Grant surfaced as the two new civil lawyers, a Ford van with a tinted bubble-shaped window appeared on the top level of the Macy's parking garage which faced the conference-room windows of their offices. According to Wood, the van did not move for 10 days. "We used to sit there and wave at it." Then the lawyers placed a camera in the window, and the next day the vehicle was gone. "For sure that van had laser sound-detecting equipment," Wood said.Jewell was annoyed that press descriptions of him always emphasized his "overzealousness"; he considers himself a man of details. Often, when he's watching movies at home, he freeze-frames in order to study props in scenes. The second weekend he was considered a suspect, he told me, "I walked in and I noticed white powder all over the telephone table in the conference room." It was a Saturday morning, and Jewell had been with his lawyers until late the night before. He told me he was convinced that the F.B.I. "had lifted a ceiling tile," and that the white powder was "dust that came down." Bryant and Jewell made light of it and did not sweep their phones, believing that any tap the F.B.I. would use would be of a laser or satellite variety and impossible to trace. "In the beginning of every conversation, Watson would curse for about a minute and tell them what lowlives they were. And then he would say, 'By the way, this is Richard's lawyer. Y'all can cut your tape players off,"' Jewell said. "I would call them dirty scumbags," said Bryant. But the local U.S. attorney, Kent Alexander, insisted that their phones were not tapped. "There are no wiretap warrants," he said.The F.B.I. did turn up one bit of potentially troublesome evidence in the Jewells' apartment—fragments of a fence that had been blown up in the explosion. After a telephone conversation with Watson Bryant, Kathy Scruggs quoted him saying, "Yes, he did have a sample of the blown-up bomb." Bryant accused her of egregiously misquoting him. He remembered saying to her, "Yes, Richard had souvenirs of the bombing." Scruggs had not taped their conversation. "She cut the 'ing' off of 'bomb,'" Bryant later told me, but Scruggs strongly denies this. The day the story broke, Bryant criticized Scruggs on local radio. That afternoon she appeared at his office to attempt to clear up the misunderstanding. "I don't like your reporting," Bryant recalled telling her. "I'm human, too," she said. The next day, Ron Martz inserted a quote from Bryant in an unrelated news story: "Oh, man, it's not even a scrap of the bomb—it's a piece of damned fence, for God's sake." But the quote would have little impact. Scruggs's version had been picked up; gathering force, it was eventually related by Bill Press on Crossfire on the evening of October 28: "The guy was seen with a homemade bomb at his home a few days before." (The next day CNN would be forced to apologize for the mistake.)By this time Bryant had grown enraged by the media coverage. The New York Post had called Jewell "a Village Rambo" and "a fat, failed former sheriff's deputy." Jay Leno had said that Jewell "had a scary resemblance to the guy who whacked Nancy Kerrigan," and asked, "What is it about the Olympic Games that brings out big fat stupid guys?" The A.J. C. s star columnist, Dave Kindred, had compared Jewell to serial murderer Wayne Williams: "Like this one, that suspect was drawn to the blue lights and sirens of police work. Like this one, he became famous in the aftermath of murder."Television journalism was also a revelation to Bryant; he felt he had "landed on Mars," and spent hours channel-surfing. On CNN, one criminologist said "it was possible" that Jewell had a hero complex. Bryant told his brother, Bruce, "I know I am going to sue someone. I just don't know who." Bruce Bryant searched for Jewell's name on the Internet three weeks into his ordeal and found 10,000 stories. The tone many of the journalists took was accusatory and pre-determined, with a few rare exceptions, such as that of CBS correspondent Jim Stewart. "Don't jump to any conclusion yet," he said sharply in a broadcast at the height of the frenzy.In his first week as Jewell's lawyer, Bryant went to the CNN studio to be interviewed by Larry King. After the broadcast, he was asked to stop in at the office of CNN president Tom Johnson. "They wanted to know what I thought of their reporting so far." Art Harris was in the room. "I turned around and I said to Art Harris, 'Who the hell are you and the rest of the media to make fun of how Richard Jewell and his mother live? Who are you to make fun of working people who live in a $470-a-month apartment? Is there something wrong with that? Who are you to say that he is a weirdo because he lives with his mother?' "According to Jack Martin, the F.B.I. spent weeks on one erroneous early theory—that Richard Jewell was an enraged homosexual cop-hater who had been aided in the bombing by his lover. Jewell had purportedly planted the bomb; the lover then made the 911 phone call warning that it would go off in Centennial Park. The rationale behind this idea was that Jewell was "mad at the cops and wanted to kill other cops," Martin told me.The rumor began at Piedmont College, perhaps invented by several of the students Jewell had turned in for smoking pot, but it had a chilling consequence. In mid-August, three agents appeared at the Curtis Mathes video store in Cornelia, where Chris Simmons, a senior at Piedmont, worked part-time. Simmons, a friend of Jewell's, who was engaged to be married, was a B student, but he displayed the same porcine blankness as Jewell and spoke in a slow drawl. He had a deep distrust of the government and carried a card in his pocket that read: CHRISTOPHER DWAYNE SIMMONS-CAMPAIGN SUPPORT FOR CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES.The agents questioned Simmons in the store for one and a half hours. "They asked me if I was a homosexual. They asked me if I had accessed the Internet. . . . They later wanted to wire me. They said, 'If he is really a hero, we will find out, and if not, he has killed someone and injured a lot of people.' " Simmons was short with the agents and denied everything. They accused him of lying and said they could take him to Atlanta. The agents told someone Simmons had once worked with that Simmons might be involved in the bombing. "They kept wording questions differently. They kept saying: Do you think Richard Jewell could have done this if he believed that he could get people out in time and nobody would get hurt?" Simmons later called one of the F.B.I. agents and said, "I hear you don't believe my story." He recalled their conversation: " 'I think you are sugarcoating your answers,' he said. I said, 'Next time I talk with you, it will be with a lawyer.' And he asked me if I was threatening him. Then he hung up on me." Ultimately, Simmons volunteered to take a polygraph, which he says he passed. "I was a nervous wreck," he said. "I had only seen this on TV."What was not known outside a small circle of investigators was how deadly the Centennial Park bomb really was. It was well constructed, with a piece of metal shaped like a V, and inside, it had canisters filled with nails and screws. Jack Martin, who had spent time in Vietnam, compared its construction to that of a claymore mine, a sophisticated and lethal device. The bomb weighed more than 40 pounds. It was "a shaped charge," F.B.I. deputy director Weldon Kennedy would announce in December. It could blast out fragments from three separate canisters, but only one of the canisters exploded on July 27. Someone had moved the Alice pack slightly before the bomb detonated, causing most of the shrapnel to shoot into the sky. The composition of the bomb did not suggest the work of an amateur, Kathy Scruggs would ironically later report, after interviewing an A.T.F. chemist.As the weeks went by, Richard Jewell withdrew into a state of psychological limbo; he began to try to analyze what the agents might think of his behavior within the small apartment. "I would be watching a spy show on TV or something like a John Wayne movie. Someone would be talking about blowing something up, and I would think to myself, My God, that is going to sound really bad if they think I am listening to that." He worried that "they would think I was some kind of a nut," and often, when he could not sleep, he would find himself consciously switching to exercise videos and soap operas.Over Labor Day weekend, he drove up to Habersham County for a picnic with his ex-girlfriend's family, the Chastains. As usual, three F.B.I. cars followed him, but he had gotten adept at picking out the unmarked vehicles. As Jewell drove into town, he noticed that white ribbons hung from hundreds of trees; the Chastains had organized a campaign in his behalf. On the way home, Jewell drove with his friend Dave Dutchess. For the first time, he did not see an F.B.I. car following him, but he noticed an airplane flying low overhead. He drove another 20 miles, and the plane was still on him. "I said, 'Dave, do you think the F.B.I. would be following us in an airplane? It wouldn't be that hard to do, if they put some kind of beeper on the car.'" The plane followed them through Gainesville all the way to Atlanta—an hour's drive. "Just to make sure, we got off on an exit ramp and went about five miles back north. And I got out and took a picture. They followed us all the way back to the apartment! And they circled the apartment for about 15 minutes, until the F.B.I. car showed back up. I got very emotional. My cheeks got beet red. And Mom came home and said, 'What is going on? What is the matter?' It just destroyed the whole day."On September 2, Dave Dutchess and his fiancee, Beatty, were driving to their house in Tennessee. It was raining hard, and they noticed they were being followed by several F.B.I. cars. The storm grew worse, and they stopped at a hotel for the night. The next day, while getting coffee at a McDonald's, they were surrounded by F.B.I. agents. "We just want to talk to you. We are trying to be discreet." One agent, Dutchess recalled, spoke into his radio: "We have the suspect in hand." As they walked back toward their car, Dutchess said to Beatty, "They think I am his accomplice. I heard on the news they were looking for his accomplice!"After the interview, which lasted several hours, Dutchess spoke to Watson Bryant. "What did they ask you that concerns you?" Bryant asked him. "Well, I decided that I had to tell them the truth. Me and one of my friends used to set off pipe bombs for fun," Dutchess told him. "What?" Bryant exclaimed, incredulous. "Yeah, I told them we liked to throw pipe bombs down gopher holes when we lived out in West Virginia.""Did Richard know this friend?" Bryant asked apprehensively. "Hell, no. He never met him," Dutchess said, but Bryant knew that this could prolong the F.B.I.'s investigation perhaps by months. "I hung up and I was thinking, I cannot believe that I even know anyone who throws pipe bombs into gopher holes."As part of their strategy, Wood and Grant decided to mount a strong counterattack against the government. Wayne Grant had come up with the idea: Bobi Jewell should hold a press conference during the Democratic convention and make a direct plea to Bill Clinton. The day before she was to appear, Grant rehearsed her. It was difficult to work with Bobi; she was exhausted and could not stop crying. Confined under siege for almost a month, she could not see an end to it, since every day brought a new humiliation. The resident manager had threatened to take away their lease, and the manager's son was out selling pictures he took of them. A close friend from church was dying, Bobi said, and Richard could not go to see him, because of the swarm of F.B.I. agents and reporters who followed him everywhere. All of it came out in a rush in the conference room with Wayne Grant: Bobi had even had to give Bryant and Nadya Light the Olympic-basketball tickets she had won as colleague of the year, and every night she and her son were stuck together, staring at each other across the kitchen table. They were often irritable, and Richard sometimes lost his temper. "Mother, just shut up," he would tell her when she nagged him about the case. Then, Bobi later recalled, she would go into her bedroom and lie on the four-poster bed hoping that the photographers who rented an apartment across the way for $1,000 a day had no way of knowing what was going on.Grant kept careful notes on the session. Bobi was terrified about appearing in front of cameras. She sobbed and told him, "If I go on TV Monday, I'll be embarrassed. It will be, like, whenever I go anywhere, people will be looking at me: 'Did he do it or didn't he do it?' ""If you talked to the person who is in charge of the investigation, what would you say?" Grant asked her calmly. Bobi's voice was halting, but she was firm: "He is innocent. Clear his name and let us get back to a life that is normal."A few weeks later, Wayne Grant went to a party for a Bar Mitzvah, and a guest cornered him. She asked him if he had told Bobi Jewell to cry at the end of her press conference, and then added coldly, "Nice touch."The lawyers' strategy worked: after Bobi's press conference, the Jewells were deluged with interview requests. Bryant often received 100 phone calls a day. Bobi soon developed a system: letters from Oprah Winfrey, Sally Jessy Raphael, and TV producers were stacked on the console in the living room; flowers and baskets of Godiva chocolates and cheese and crackers from the networks were sent to the offices of Wood & Grant and then on to a children's hospital.At the U.S. Attorney's Office, it had become increasingly clear to Kent Alexander that something had to be done about Richard Jewell. Janet Reno had seen Bobi Jewell on TV and was moved by her sincerity. Privately, Reno and Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick were said to be concerned about the heavy-handed tactics of the F.B.I. "The case had become a total embarrassment," a Justice Department official told me, but Alexander was in a complicated situation. He was working closely with the F.B.I., and there was no sign that the bureau was ready to let go, despite growing consternation among the local agents that the Washington command center had mishandled the case. And there was another problem: Alexander did not trust Lin Wood.By late September, there was a tremendous strain within the team Bryant had hastily assembled. The other lawyers accused Jack Martin of cutting private deals with his friend Kent Alexander, pulling focus, and not being tough enough. For his part, Alexander, according to Martin, admired Bryant even though he believed he was a loose cannon, but he was fed up with Lin Wood."Alexander would say something fairly candid to me, and I would report it to the attorneys, and the next day he would see it on TV," said Jack Martin. "Alexander had checked out Lin, and he knew that he was a take-no-prisoners guy." The lawyers often argued among themselves. Wood insisted on a full-blowout press-attack strategy. Bryant had mastered his sound bite: "The F.B.I. is a 500-pound gorilla who will kick the shit out of anyone." Martin wanted the lawyers to ease up on the hyperbole: "I would say, 'We do not need to do this.' And Lin would say, 'Let's go public with this.' He was manic about it." In one argument, Wood told him, "Goddamn it, Martin, you're like my ex-wives. There isn't anything you can say I won't object to."There was an atmosphere of extreme apprehension between Bryant and Jewell as they drove to F.B.I. headquarters on the afternoon of October 6. They were on their way to what would seemingly be a session with conclusional overtones, but Jewell was worried: What if this meeting was a trick? It was difficult to believe that the bureau was really ending its two-month-long investigation into his life. For weeks, Jack Martin and Bryant had been going back and forth with Kent Alexander. Finally, Jewell had agreed to an unusual suggestion: if he submitted to a lengthy voluntary interview with the bureau, and if Division 5 was satisfied, then perhaps the Justice Department could issue a letter publicly stating that he was no longer a suspect. Jewell tried to imagine the questions he would be asked. "I wanted to look at everything from their angle," he told me, "trying to assess it and reassess it in my head."On the day of Jewell's exoneration, Jay Leno apologized for having called him a Unadoofus.Kent Alexander had set a firm ground rule: Only one lawyer representing Jewell could be in the room. It had been agreed that Jack Martin, the criminal specialist, would be the man, which enraged Lin Wood. "You could really see how these guys did not like each other," Jewell said."I am not comfortable with the one-lawyer agreement," Wood told John Davis, Kent Alexander's second-in-command, when they were assembled. "We have an agreement. If you attempt to renegotiate it, I will have egg on my face," Davis said, adding, "You are not a man of your word." With that, Wood recalled, he rose from his chair and started screaming, "You are not going to say that to me, you son of a bitch!" Kent Alexander interrupted, saying, "This is deteriorating. We aim to stop this. Let's just regroup."When Jewell, Davis, and Martin finally sat down for the interview, Larry Landers, a special agent with the G.B.I., and F.B.I. special agent Bill Lewis had lists of questions with blank space for answers in front of them. On the wall of the windowless room, there were extensive aerial photographs of the park and, as a prop, an actual park bench was later brought in. Martin believed that the agents intended to resolve areas in the affidavits and other questions: Had Richard ever accessed Candyman's Candyland for information on the Anarchists' Cookbook? Had Richard picked up any pieces of pipe when the park was under construction? Had he told anyone, "Take my picture now, because I am going to be famous"? None of this had happened, Jewell said. All he could remember telling someone was that he was off to Atlanta and "going to be in that mess down there," meaning the traffic jams. They pressed him about seemingly inconsistent statements he had made on the morning of the bombing: Why had he told Agent Poor everything was normal when he checked the perimeter of the fence? Jewell explained that he had been walking the "inside of the fence." He once again explained that he had wanted to work the sound-and-light tower so that he could watch the entertainment; he had arranged for his mother to hear Kenny Rogers four days before the explosion.The area, he told Landers, was "a sweet site" and a great place to look at girls. During a break, Martin asked about all his references to women. Jewell said he wanted them to know he wasn't gay. On several occasions, Landers became annoyed: Why couldn't Jewell pin down the times? Had he seen the drunks on the bench between 10:30 and 11 or between 11 and 11:30? Why hadn't he looked at his watch? Jewell later recalled, "I said, 'I don't go through my life looking at my watch. I don't care about time. When the bomb went off, I did not look at my watch.' They were wanting to know what time I went to the bathroom and stuff like that. When you have the runs, you are not really concerned about what time it is. You are concerned with getting to the bathroom."On the day after the F.B.I. meeting, Jack Martin dictated a 27-page account of everything that had been said during the six-hour interview. In the last moments, Davis said, "he wanted to give Richard the opportunity once and for all to say that he didn't do it." Jewell, Martin wrote, "unequivocally and fortunately said that he had nothing to do with the bomb and didn't know anything about the bomb and if he did he would be the first to deliver the bastard to their door." When Martin walked out, he thought to himself, This really was a formality. They had nothing.In November a rumor swept through the newsroom of The A.J.C. that Cox newspaper executives were rethinking their news policies. According to one reporter, "The sloppiness of the Jewell reporting and the lack of sources was the last straw." A reporter named Carrie Teegardin was assigned to write a piece examining how the media spotlight was turned on Richard Jewell. In large part, her article wound up being an examination of the role of The A.J.C. After Wood and Grant threatened to sue, the article was killed. "We didn't get through the editing of it," John Walter said. "The Jewells' attorney began saying, 'We're thinking lawsuit' . . . and that made us more cautious." Meanwhile, Lin Wood and Wayne Grant were busy holding meetings with lawyers from NBC and Piedmont College. At NBC, Tom Brokaw's carelessness reportedly cost the network more than $500,000 to settle Jewell's claims, although Jewell's lawyers would not confirm a figure, BROKAW GOOFED AND NBC PAID, the New York Daily News would later headline. In talks with Ray Cleere, the figure of $450,000 by way of settlement was first suggested, then withdrawn when Piedmont College learned that it had insurance. "This will cost them millions now," Lin Wood believes.On one occasion I asked Richard Jewell if he had any theories about who might have placed the bomb. Jewell said he had popped "two or three theories off the top of my head" on the night he was interviewed by the F.B.I. "I have gone over that night hundreds of times in my head. You try to think, What type of person would do that? I know it is someone who wanted to hurt people. It is someone who is sick. I hope they find him so he can get the help he needs. Because I am totally torn up about what happened. Every day I think about it, and I will think about it for the rest of my life."Jewell often speaks with Bryant three times a day. As Jewell searches for a new job, he hangs around Bryant's office, and he recently studied handwriting analysis at the police academy. He has been offered several security jobs with Georgia companies, but he is hoping he will be hired as a Cobb County deputy. In the meantime, Bryant, Wood, and Grant have become sought-after speakers on the First Amendment.At F.B.I. headquarters in late October, Bobi Jewell broke down and cried as she identified their possessions—the Disney tapes, the Tupperware, Richard's AT&T uniforms, address books. It was a tableau of ordinary middle-class life, laid out on brown paper on a long conference-room table. "I just don't fucking believe this," Watson Bryant said angrily as he packed Bobi's videos into packing crates. "The agents tried to shake my hand," Bobi told me. "I wouldn't touch them." It took 10 hours to remove their possessions, Bobi recalled, and four minutes to return them.The F.B.I. is working on a new and elaborate theory of who did place the bomb in Centennial Park. There is an informed opinion that the backpack discovered a week earlier had in fact been a test run to check F.B.I. procedures, and that the bomber—perhaps a member of a militia group—was quite experienced and had struck before. After a torrent of criticism in the press, Louis Freeh announced that the F.B.I. had arrested Harold Nicholson, an alleged spy for Russia, and he used the opportunity to appear on the Today show and Good Morning America, hyping his role in what was a minor arrest, according to one former F.B.I. agent.In Australia in November, Bill Clinton was asked about his campaign contributions from Indonesia. "One of the things I would urge you to do, remembering what happened to Mr. Jewell in Atlanta, remembering what has happened to so many of the accusations . . . that have been made against me that turned out to be totally baseless, I just think that we ought to . . . get the facts out." When Jewell learned of his comment, he pulled up the transcript from the Internet and became angry: "The president is just using me, like everyone else."What rights does a private citizen have against the government? The legal precedent for suing the F.B.I., Bivens v. Six Unknown Agents, focuses on the behavior of individual agents. Wood believes that Jewell has a strong case against Johnson and Rosario. When Wood learned of Colonel Ressler, he hired him as a possible trial expert. In December, the F.B.I. announced that it would pay up to $500,000 to anyone who could lead it to the Olympic Park bomber.As Jewell and I drove back from Habersham County in November, he went over the early-morning hours of July 27: "I remember all of the people who were my responsibility. I remember the guys' faces who were flying through the air. I remember people screaming. The sirens going off. I don't think I will ever forget any of that. You just kind of wish sometimes. You think, Could I have done something else? . . . What if we only had five more minutes? Then maybe nobody would have been hurt. But you are what-if-ing. I have been over it a thousand times. I think we could not have done it any better. I think that is something I will always be wondering."He said he was not sure if he would ever get a job in law enforcement again, particularly since he had been held up as a cartoon figure. On the day of Jewell's exoneration, Jay Leno apologized for having called him a Unadoofus, and said, "If Jewell wins his lawsuit with NBC, he will be my new boss." He later said that this was "the greatest week in trailer-park history." The Atlanta radio station 96 Rock had put billboards of Jewell all over town; "Freebird," they said, a reference to the Lynyrd Skynyrd song. Jewell would later file suit against the station, but the billboard's message was clear. Jewell knows that for many people in America there will perhaps always be a subtle doubt: What if, after all, Richard Jewell really did do it? What if the government let him go simply because it could not make its case? Then he becomes not the innocent Richard Jewell, but the Richard Jewell who may be innocent. "You don't get back what you were originally," he told me. "I don't think I will ever get that back. The first three days, I was supposedly their hero—the person who saves lives. They don't refer to me that way anymore. Now I am the Olympic Park bombing suspect. That's the guy they thought did it. "February 1997 | Vanity Fair

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  • 暴躁小??儿
    2021/5/3 12:00:58
    「EL INOCENTE」无罪之最 | 上帝视角全时间线主要剧情梳理

    8.7-9.0/10.0

    写在最开始:

    1. 本剧可在人人视频App免费观看,其他渠道也有,请自行提高信息收集能力不要再来问我了。

    2. 此为剧情梳理文,恶意挑起性别对立的人不要在我这里找存在感,我会行使楼主的至高

    8.7-9.0/10.0

    写在最开始:

    1. 本剧可在人人视频App免费观看,其他渠道也有,请自行提高信息收集能力不要再来问我了。

    2. 此为剧情梳理文,恶意挑起性别对立的人不要在我这里找存在感,我会行使楼主的至高权力删除过激言论。

    3. 想找茬的麻烦自行开贴打分骂街,我就爱打五星你管得着我吗?随手写篇文,某些高贵人士说话那么冲是有什么疾病?见人说人话,见鬼说鬼话,抬杠者将终生失去与我平等交流的机会。

    ------------------- Let's begin ------------------

    文笔不佳请多包涵。

    《无罪之最》采用的是多线并进的叙述方式,从不同的人物视角逐渐揭露真相,剧本设计环环相扣,令人在观看过程中直呼精彩。

    虽然这样的叙述悬疑效果拉满,但是前期不免让人看得有些云里雾里。剧终,看到有人因前几集弃剧让我感到十分惋惜,这部剧非常优秀,不要因为看不懂就放弃!怀揣着这样的心情,我打算对时间线进行一个梳理,一方面自己复盘一下逻辑,另一方面有疑惑的朋友或许可以从中找到答案。

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  • sonomo
    2021/10/14 17:58:48
    记住,外表很容易骗人,你可以在黑暗的地方找到爱和光明
    两部有关美国流行歌星“小甜甜”布兰妮失去自由和争取自由的纪录片《陷害布兰妮·斯皮尔斯》和《父女之战:解放布兰妮》,反映了渴望自由的布兰妮,如何被父亲监管13年,一步步从辉煌走向深渊,再如何在歌迷粉丝的支持帮助下通过诉讼争取获得自由的故事。2007年,和布兰妮关系...  (展开)
    两部有关美国流行歌星“小甜甜”布兰妮失去自由和争取自由的纪录片《陷害布兰妮·斯皮尔斯》和《父女之战:解放布兰妮》,反映了渴望自由的布兰妮,如何被父亲监管13年,一步步从辉煌走向深渊,再如何在歌迷粉丝的支持帮助下通过诉讼争取获得自由的故事。2007年,和布兰妮关系...  (展开)
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  • 是馬也
    2022/10/2 20:10:29
    《绿色星球》观看笔记

    第一集:

    1.片头从地面的树林慢慢升起,直到看见地球的嶙峋一角,呈现出绿色星球的直观画面,同时符合植物对这个星球的重要意义。这个片头既贴切片名也符合主旨。

    2.从一颗老树的倒下切入来表现森林中植物生长的竞争,还没有人类痕迹的情况下,达到了展现雨林植物竞争的目的。同时表现了“死亡-新生”这样一种生命循环,诠释了雨林是一个有机的系统。

    3.轻木不受羁绊地生长,

    第一集:

    1.片头从地面的树林慢慢升起,直到看见地球的嶙峋一角,呈现出绿色星球的直观画面,同时符合植物对这个星球的重要意义。这个片头既贴切片名也符合主旨。

    2.从一颗老树的倒下切入来表现森林中植物生长的竞争,还没有人类痕迹的情况下,达到了展现雨林植物竞争的目的。同时表现了“死亡-新生”这样一种生命循环,诠释了雨林是一个有机的系统。

    3.轻木不受羁绊地生长,却只有短暂的生命:从“绝云气,负青天”般挺身到最高处的光亮到留下繁花散的陨落(还把花蜜留给蜜熊,一夜七次),它流星般的一生闪耀出绚烂的生命弧光。

    4.大王花是世界上最大的花却依靠腐臭来吸引丽蝇来传粉,甚至能通过猴子捂鼻子来展现;五年开一次花,却要在一天内完成授粉,甚至雌雄异株;最大的花却无根无叶只是寄生植物(20:17通过变焦点来体现寄生)。确是奇葩。

    5.真菌的荧光又被非洲人称作猩猩之火(chipanzee fire),莫名搞笑。

    6.真菌的孢子在雨林环境中充当了雨滴的凝结核,并以此切入来表现雨林的雨,构思绝妙。

    7.美妙的画面结束后却是道路和汽车以及单一的农田。伴随着汽车的轰鸣声,观众心里不禁咯噔一下。然后通过灯蝠花和蝙蝠的关系说明了森林规模的重要性。这种宣传保护环境的方式很深入人心。

    第二集

    1.最令人震撼的就是虹河苔了。红河台的英文是Red Macarenia,将red翻译成虹,真的是翻译的很好。最喜欢的镜头是5:08的画面,搭配上圣歌的配乐,真的能让人感受到涌动的生命,浮跃的梦幻,让人想永远沉浸在这粉红色的梦中。我宣布卡诺克里斯塔莱斯河就是世界上最美的河!

    2.大薸的根系不是固定在土壤中的,而是悬浮在水中的,这是它能够在水面上旅行。同样能履行的还有在日本河底的湖球藻,为了躲避大天鹅的捕食而到了湖水的深处。到了深处后越长越大,还能通过“跳舞”的摩擦还擦掉覆盖自己的沉积物防止阻隔阳光。

    3.亚马逊河的王莲挥动刺棒可以占领水面,见血封喉却被自己的毒药毒死:可以努力开辟征途,但不能使用毒计诡诈的手段,王前本无路,唯自辟征途。

    4.在奥克拉罗河中,水底甚至能形成由植物长成的微型山脉和峡谷,英文形容其河水像水晶一般清澈。乍看之下这一幅很美的画面是只有水滴与水面的参与,但背后仍然是植物的美妙:因为这是水生生物产生氧气的气泡,是从另一个水的侧面表现植物之美。(22:58)

    5.26:28用剪影的刻画突出狸藻这种寄生植物“悄然杀手”的形象,很好的营造了惊悚感。

    6.捕蝇草通过连续触碰的记忆来识别是否是可消化的食物,同时使花高出叶片以免误伤传粉昆虫。

    7.38:30苍老的手指和香蒲蓬勃的新生不仅是生命传递的体现,也是人与自然相统一的体现。

    8.45:41用organism形容绵延10km的海底草甸,而不是life,避免引起生物学上的歧义错谬。汉语翻译成了生命,是在没有那么有个体感的汉语词汇中的一种权衡选择,但也远不及原文。而弹幕中确实有人在争论这样的海底草甸算不算生物的问题,如果他们看的是英文原句,就不会产生这样的争论了。

    第三集

    1.菟丝子虽然是寄生植物,但当它缠住一个一个种群后又能充当互相传递情报的联络线,整个河岸形成了巨大的防御网络。曾经的对手一起迎来了美好未来。

    2.雏菊通过让花絮一直朝向太阳来提高自己的温度,从而提高对传粉昆虫的吸引力。

    3.垂筒花也叫fire lily,只在森林山火后生长,通常十几年才能够开花一次,可以说是浴火重生了。这一种在大火之后给断枝残叶增添第一抹生机的花朵真的很奇妙。在山火之后,它是附近唯一的花蜜来源,等他的竞争者都长成之后,fire lily又悄然凋谢了。它的英文名不仅反映了他火红的颜色和它生长的方式,反映了它这种在火之中生长的精神。

    4.喷瓜和喜马拉雅凤仙花沟通过射的方式来种子传播的更远。

    5.银白灯草镊镊被灯草通过让自己的果实来像羚羊的粪球来吸引蜣螂帮助它传播种子,甚至连蜣螂埋果实的深度都很适合这种植物种子的生长。

    6.真菌的菌丝连接了森林中许多树的树根,形成了所谓的树维网。今年可以通过数树维网来传播电子和化学信号,从而来互帮互助。在一棵树遇到虫害时,会通知其他树来让它们有时间分泌防御性化学物质。母树也可以通过树维网来识别它的子树,来向子树输送营养物质,从而让它们赢在起跑线上。其实真菌也属于寄生生物,它的作用与菟丝子在某种程度上很相似。

    7.最后以北美的巨杉结尾,他们高大强壮,但是却需要很多的水。全球变暖导致季节性冰雪融水不稳定,有10%的巨衫因此死亡。所以要保护环境啊。

    第四集

    1.沙漠中随便一把土就有很多种植物的种子。只要一下雨,它们就会burst into life.这种植物在下雨的时候生长并传播种子,干燥的时候死亡。

    2.采取另一种策略的是沙漠中的巨人柱,他们通过缓慢的生长,保存水分来一直生存。牧豆树可以帮助生长缓慢的巨人柱遮挡酷热的阳光,它发达的根系也可以给巨人柱提供便利,在下雪时他也能帮助巨人柱隔绝冷气,所以牧豆树又被称为保姆树。当巨人住超过把武术的高度时,他们已经强壮到可以独挡一面了。人们如果砍伐了保姆树,就会导致巨人柱的数量减少。

    3.巨人柱能通过改变自己褶皱的紧密程度来更好地储存水。这么多水在沙漠中会引来偷窃者。吉拉啄木鸟会在巨人柱的身上筑巢,这种鸟也会帮助巨人柱传播种子

    3.泰迪熊圆柱掌的刺密集地像绒毛一样所以被叫做泰迪熊,它的果实掉落之后会通过白喉林鼠的搬运来传播。白喉林鼠不仅吃他的果实还使用它的果实来防御巢穴。

    4.仙钗寄生的种子会通过小嘲鸫来传播,小嘲鸫通过排泄把种子移动到仙人掌的刺上,这样仙钗寄生就能吸取到仙人掌的水分了。

    5.三齿团香木在40年间内只长了3cm。他们不依靠种子繁殖,而是从基部长出新的枝条。

    6.圣佩德罗马蒂尔岛屿上的鲣鸟以武伦柱为巢窝。鲣鸟粪中的磷含量很高,会使其他植物和死亡,但是武伦柱进化从而能够吸收其中的营养物质。

    7.大象在迁徙途(为寻找水源)中会以猴面包树为,而猴面包树有惊人的自愈能力,很快恢复被啃食掉的部分,从而形成了微妙的平衡。但是全球变暖导致旱季时间变长,猴面包树难以自愈,很多猴面包树已经倒下了。这种中心植物的死亡又会导致荒漠中其他生物受到影响。

    第五集

    1.卡西族会通过印度榕来形成阶梯。当雨季来临时,卡西族会通过在河流上架竹筒来引导印度榕的根系在里面生长,根系不断长大之后就会形成有生命的桥。这些根系联通卡西族人的生活,是卡西族的生命线,也是他们互帮互助的感情纽带的象征。

    2.以色列的野燕麦有两根很长的芒,这两根芒在白天干燥的时候会收缩,在晚上湿润的时候会伸直。这种收缩伸直的运动会使它的种子向前移动或者钻进缝隙里面生长,从而达到传播的目的。人们希望种子不要走那么远,从而选育出了没有芒的个体。

    3.绢木在夏威夷是很严重的入侵物种。在人类达不到的山地,有一支队伍会驾驶直升机来向绢木射除草剂从而杀死它们,从而避免误伤。

    4.刺毛樱莲在野外只剩下57株完全成熟的个体。他们进化出了独特的花型来适应一种夏威夷独有的鸟类镰嘴管舌鸟的喙。这种鸟现在很稀少了,所以这对动植物搭档很难相遇,刺毛樱莲传粉的机会也微乎其微。汉克每年都会来到夏威夷岛上为它们传粉,他走之前也会播放连嘴管蛇鸟的叫声来使仅存的这种鸟过来为刺毛樱莲传粉。

    5.在肯尼亚,人们会用木炭粉包裹住本土树木的种子散播到野外来防止他们被动物吃掉,使它们能够等到雨季到来。当地的学校会组织学生以游戏的方式将这种木炭包裹的种子散播到野外,木炭中的有机质也会为种子生长提供养分。

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  • 法罗岛电影节
    2019/7/27 22:15:11
    FIFF6丨DAY2《战争天堂》一曲极简而从容的挽歌
    第6届#法罗岛电影节#主竞赛单元第2个放映日为大家带来《战争天堂》,下面为大家带来前线审判者冷静残忍的矛盾评价了!
    第6届#法罗岛电影节#主竞赛单元第2个放映日为大家带来《战争天堂》,下面为大家带来前线审判者冷静残忍的矛盾评价了!
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    2017/9/19 13:14:06
    历史不应该被自己人遗忘

    《军舰岛》:中午看完这段二战历史电影、没错、是棒子拍的、聚焦了二战中被强征的600多名朝鲜劳工在军舰岛及其恶劣的环境和严苛的刑罚中创造了“日本明治时代的现代工业革命文化遗产”(2015年)、看完真的整个人都不好了、因为历史上不光是朝鲜、还有来自中国的1000多位劳工、然而历史上并没有发生影片最后的“起义”、日本战败后最后活着回去的寥寥可数、二战不应该被遗忘、尤其不应该被自己人遗忘……突然想到

    《军舰岛》:中午看完这段二战历史电影、没错、是棒子拍的、聚焦了二战中被强征的600多名朝鲜劳工在军舰岛及其恶劣的环境和严苛的刑罚中创造了“日本明治时代的现代工业革命文化遗产”(2015年)、看完真的整个人都不好了、因为历史上不光是朝鲜、还有来自中国的1000多位劳工、然而历史上并没有发生影片最后的“起义”、日本战败后最后活着回去的寥寥可数、二战不应该被遗忘、尤其不应该被自己人遗忘……突然想到前些日子公映的《二十二》:她们在等日本人一个道歉、日本政府在等她们死去……不轻言开战、珍惜和平、铭记历史

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    所有生物一进圈子就死,这个超能力看来是上帝给的!
    在电影的开头,看到男主角那种杀人于无形的超能力,我就在想如何结束这一场悲剧呢? 当时闪过脑海的念头,很容易啊,让警察一枪崩掉他不就好了。果不其然,在后面的剧情里是出现警察举着枪对着他的场面,只是可惜,他们都不知道这原来是一个怪胎,还想着把他捉拿归案,结果大家...  (展开)
    在电影的开头,看到男主角那种杀人于无形的超能力,我就在想如何结束这一场悲剧呢? 当时闪过脑海的念头,很容易啊,让警察一枪崩掉他不就好了。果不其然,在后面的剧情里是出现警察举着枪对着他的场面,只是可惜,他们都不知道这原来是一个怪胎,还想着把他捉拿归案,结果大家...  (展开)
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  • 不是思露璐
    2018/12/5 10:38:59
    《风味人间》的文案

    尝遍天下风味 有家才是人间

    1.《山海之间》

    环球同此凉热 边界逐渐模糊 然而地球上多元的风土依旧定时守信孕育出多彩的食物 以古老的方式 静默的力量 帮助我们在日趋雷同的日常生活里辨认对方 看清自己 山川依旧 风味不改

    2.《落地生根》

    南米北面

    物种的交换和族群的聚散 既不动声色又充满艰辛 风味寻根的旅程永远伴随着偶然和惊喜

    尝遍天下风味 有家才是人间

    1.《山海之间》

    环球同此凉热 边界逐渐模糊 然而地球上多元的风土依旧定时守信孕育出多彩的食物 以古老的方式 静默的力量 帮助我们在日趋雷同的日常生活里辨认对方 看清自己 山川依旧 风味不改

    2.《落地生根》

    南米北面

    物种的交换和族群的聚散 既不动声色又充满艰辛 风味寻根的旅程永远伴随着偶然和惊喜

    3.《滚滚红尘》

    洪荒岁月的炉火明灭 时代巨变的波澜不惊最终都不着痕迹地投射在食物上 化作我们平凡的一日三餐 每个仔细品味的人都会心怀感念 余味无穷

    4.《肴变万千》

    厨师是 菜 和 肴 之间的摆渡人 他们让静默的食物有了生命 厨艺心手相通 能洞察厨师的技法和心路 菜肴穿越人间 看见祖先的足迹和身影 听见幽怨过往的回响

    5.《江湖夜雨》

    是了拂衣去 深藏功与名

    相濡以滋味 相忘于江湖 每一个制造和享用美食的人 无不历经江湖夜雨 期待桃李春风

    6.《香料歧路》

    南吃虾,北吃蟹,广东吃遍自然界

    香料是一种若即若离的存在 它赋予食物鲜明的标签 又坚守自己的秉性 人们不停追寻着香料的气息 陌路相逢 又殊途同归

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  • 射手座恶魔
    2020/11/10 21:41:40
    既是白富美又是心理医生,曾指点众多婚姻迷局,却被丈夫PUA多年而不自知

    诸多地婚姻当中,真正和谐、平等和均衡地关系几乎是不存在的,总有一种微妙的奴役存在着,甚至有一种食物链存在着,总有一方处于被奴役、被压榨和被啃食的地位。

    在《大小谎言》爆火之后,妮可 基德曼又一次出任制片人和主演,和HBO合作,启用苏珊娜比尔和大

    诸多地婚姻当中,真正和谐、平等和均衡地关系几乎是不存在的,总有一种微妙的奴役存在着,甚至有一种食物链存在着,总有一方处于被奴役、被压榨和被啃食的地位。

    在《大小谎言》爆火之后,妮可 基德曼又一次出任制片人和主演,和HBO合作,启用苏珊娜比尔和大卫凯利担任导演,推出迷你剧《无所作为》,并且妮可还亲自演唱了片头曲。

    在第一集的前十五分钟,我以为这就是个《我是个妈妈,我需要铂金包》之类的剧情,上东区富有家庭的婚姻、子女教育、事业的冲突和矛盾而已。可没想到,进度条到第18分钟,突如其来的美女祼体吓我一跳,好吧,HBO,不愧是你。

    《无所作为》目前更新到第三集,从第一集开始,节奏和叙事就非常抓眼球,那段小提琴的BGM也是太带感了。

    说说这剧吸引我的点吧,在《大小谎言》中,妮可扮演的是一位高知女性,却深陷在丈夫的家暴中无法脱身,一次次被家暴,一次次又被丈夫的祈求、温柔、爱抚所打动,一次次想离开,一次次又觉得自己没有选择和力量。这种变态和扭曲的爱,蒙蔽了曾经是律师的她的心智,让她觉得可能没有谁的婚姻是完美的,为了孩子选择将就,最终是通过四次心理咨询,心理医生让她逐步地看清了真相,接受了现实,放下面子和虚荣心,开始一步步进行自救。

    而在《无所作为》中妮可扮演的是一位心理医生格蕾丝,她曾经挽救过许多人的婚姻,她能够在谈话中直中靶心,一针见血的指出当事人情感模式中所存在的问题和背后的行为逻辑,从而让她的客户能够更好地了解自己的内心和情感误区,将一团乱麻的感情生活逐步理顺。

    多复杂、多难搞的婚姻迷宫,其实都有着相对应的情感模式。

    一对同性恋人来找她,解决的是其中一方总是出轨的问题,格蕾丝在与双方交谈之后,指出,一方总是出轨,并且还总是容易被伴侣抓包的原因是:出轨方享受被伴侣发现的感觉,因为这是一种较量,为的是向对方证明,你并不能掌控我。此话一出,一方拂袖而去,出轨方乖觉的坐在沙发上表示,医生你真厉害,直切要害,我们的情况就是这样的,现在我要出去安慰一下他了。

    而另一个女客户则歇斯底里的抱怨着自己的丈夫昨天晚上冲自己发了多大的脾气,而她怀疑丈夫有躁郁症。

    格蕾丝斟酌许久,才缓缓地说出:这是你的第三段婚姻,你平时是我认识的人中最有判断力的人了,你会至少试20双鞋子,才会选择一双,你选择染发师甚至会做背景调查,你选择我,肯定也对我做过背景调查,但唯独对于恋爱这件事,你一旦遇到让你动心的男人,你的那些判断力就消失了。记得你上一次来我这里,我们本来是要谈谈你的第二段婚姻,但那天我清楚记得,你是飘着进来的,一直在兴奋地跟我谈起你刚刚认识的这个男人,也就是你现在的丈夫。也许并不是你的丈夫一定会有躁郁症,也许是你的情感模式出了问题。

    真相往往残酷到让人难以接受,所以人们付高价请心理医生来告诉他们实话,但往往听到真相后又气愤到不愿相信,不愿接受。宁肯指责是心理医生不够专业,比起承认自己的无能、失败,还是指责他人更容易一点。

    看上去多复杂、多难搞的婚姻迷宫,其实都有着相对应的情感模式,很显然格蕾丝是非常擅长找到那把钥匙的人。

    这里必须得赞扬下女神的演技,在《大小谎言》中,她是湾区慵懒迷人的全职太太,她是需要心理医生指点迷津的那个人,在心理医生指出她和丈夫之间是否存在家暴时,她仍然逞强的不愿承认,认为她不是弱者,她也还手,只是之后粗暴的性爱让她难以接受。在真相面前,妮可扮演的瑟莱丝特紧张、抗拒、痛苦,不愿承认自己是受害者。但最终,在咨询师的包容下,她回顾了他们的婚姻历程,意识到这就是家暴。 然后,泪流满面,几近崩溃。 哭着说不止一次强烈地想要离开佩里,但当真的想到分开时,心里却是撕心裂肺的痛。以前我不觉得妮可的演技有多好,但正是这段表演征服了我。

    而在《无所作为》里,她又化身为纽约客,她是心理医生,是观察别人,给出别人建议的那个人。妮可扮演的心理医生的感觉仍然非常到位。可能因为妮可基德曼的父亲本身就是一位精神科医生,也是一位大学教授,她的父亲曾经为很多人做过心理辅导。所以妮可这几年参演的美剧都有着心理学的背景和元素。

    什么是纽约客?正如剧中一个精英律师妈妈的说法:这可是纽约,在纽约却不忙得要死是种罪恶。

    我们以为多大的罪恶,不过是一个底层的年轻妈妈在送完儿子上学后,坐在学校对面的长椅上发了一会儿呆而已。而这被纽约上东区的精英妈妈认为,你看她既没有拿本书,也没有忙得团团转,而只是干坐在那里,真是罪恶。

    纽约上东区的家庭,每个人都忙碌有序,见缝插针,多线程处理各种事务,但还保持着光鲜体面,每个人的压力都很大。

    我们是否都生活在自带滤镜的泡泡里,而有些真实的事却被我们自动忽略了

    上东区的富人家庭,自然夫妻双方的工作都很体面,格蕾丝应该是从小过着小公主般生活的那类幸运女孩,自己是小有名气的心理医生,丈夫乔纳森是一位儿童肿瘤专家,儿子上的是需要考量和筛选父母收入、家世、职业和教育经历的私立名校。

    一个是心理医生,一个是儿童肿瘤专家,这意味着两人的工作都是压力极大,对身心和情绪稳定都有极大考验的工作。

    乔纳森每天面对的都是身患癌症的孩子和他们的父母,对于他们来说,医生是像神一样的拯救者。而每个医生都想尽全力去救治自己的病人,但最终的结果也往往是无力回天。乔纳森会参加自己每个病人的葬礼,参加自己病人的葬礼,会是种什么样的心情,可想而知。

    在外界眼中,乔纳森是位极有爱心的医生,他富有同情心又幽默,不是那种冷冰冰告诉孩子父母,你的孩子会死的那种医生,也曾登上过著名杂志。专业、敬业、富有爱心,这也是格蕾丝对丈夫的印象。

    所以,当丈夫回到家中,情绪稍有波动时,格蕾丝是很体谅和照顾丈夫的。

    但在同事的眼中,乔纳森却是另一种模样。他喜欢并且非常享受被小病人的父母当成神一样的存在,他享受着这些人对他的迷恋、崇拜和瞩目,这在某程程度上助长了一种极其不健康的自恋和膨胀,于是,当一个七岁小男孩的年轻、美貌又脆弱的母亲出现在他面前时,他出轨了。无论是职业规范、道德还是婚姻,他都破了忌,犯了错。

    格蕾斯作为一个心理医生,所具备的职业素养就是能够倾听、观察她的客户,并且无论对方是怎样的人,她都要接纳对方并与之共情。这样长年的职业生涯使得她看上去非常的善解人意,无论对方多么不合群,她都能够找到一个合适的理由去理解对方的行为,使对方放松下来。

    所以,当一个格格不入的闯入者埃莲娜到来的时候,即使其他的妈妈们都表现出了疏离和不可理解,格蕾丝仍然释放了最大的理解和善意,甚至当埃莲娜在健身房的浴室故意一丝不挂的祼体出现在她面前时,她仍然保持着克制和礼貌。

    我并不是说格蕾丝有什么不对,而是一个人的心理能量是有限的,有时候过于善解人意和体谅对方,反而会给自己带来很多的麻烦和痛苦。

    比如,格蕾丝对于丈夫的理解是:他和原生家庭不睦,小时候养狗造成了创伤,每天的工作压力极大,病人的死亡也是一种创伤和濒临崩溃的体验,这些都使得她对丈夫充满了怜惜和爱的光环,而忽视了很多本应引起警觉的真相。

    而乔纳森却对妻子的软肋了解得更加精确,他知道说哪些话会逗她开心,说哪些话能够马上让她对自己怜惜,甚至在当他被作为杀人嫌疑犯抓起来之后,他仍然能够牢牢抓住如果儿子有一个杀人犯父亲,这对孩子将有多不利的影响,而让明明已经知道他出轨,并且还在外面有一个私生女的妻子心甘情愿的拿钱出来为他请最好的律师,搜集各种证据来辩护。

    并且,丈夫还能够利用格蕾丝和父亲之间的隔阂,顺利向老丈人借出巨款,既能瞒住老婆,还让老丈人感激涕零,感谢女婿给了他一次帮助女儿的机会。这可真是扮猪吃老虎啊。

    即使曾经的朋友 、自己的父亲,乔纳森的前同事都在提醒格蕾丝,不要相信他,远离他,保护好自己和孩子,而格蕾丝仍然执意地相信丈夫,是那个女人在纠缠他,或许是那个女人有强迫症,她疯狂的爱上了能够拯救自己孩子的神,所以干出了很多疯狂的事。

    心理学上认为,当遭遇伴侣背叛之后,会产生几个阶段:悲伤、愤怒、否认、恐惧、适应、孤独、友谊。

    在最初的悲伤和愤怒过后,因为被背叛的情绪实在过于痛苦,而人的心理机制又非常的巧妙,它只让我们感受到自己能够承受的痛苦,这样我们就不会崩溃,难以承受的痛苦就被放在了“否认的袋子”中,要等到我们足够坚强,能够承受这份痛苦时才会被释放出来。

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  • 丽羊羊
    2020/12/2 22:23:16
    喜羊羊粉丝平怒

    骂我喜羊羊干嘛?喜羊羊惹你了?那是大家的童年,容不得你一个明星在这里痴人说梦。别人是国漫巅峰,闻名于世 而你怼那些键盘侠,无所谓,但是为什么cue我喜羊羊?为此我特意下了个豆瓣,你先道歉,再来要评分吧!喜羊羊是我童年回忆,多少人的青春,别人带给你一个小时候的回忆,而你这种人,却嫌弃别人。真的是恶心

    骂我喜羊羊干嘛?喜羊羊惹你了?那是大家的童年,容不得你一个明星在这里痴人说梦。别人是国漫巅峰,闻名于世 而你怼那些键盘侠,无所谓,但是为什么cue我喜羊羊?为此我特意下了个豆瓣,你先道歉,再来要评分吧!喜羊羊是我童年回忆,多少人的青春,别人带给你一个小时候的回忆,而你这种人,却嫌弃别人。真的是恶心

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  • 爱打酱油的呜喵
    2013/11/15 11:32:34
    四平八稳的商业爱情片
    我为相亲狂是在魔都拍摄的,几乎就是魔都一日游的感觉,各种知名景点都入镜了。
    影片说的3对男女相亲的故事,浪荡公子高富帅配女强人白富美(韩雪演的) 宅男配腐女(宅男是IT宅,月入过狗,工作桌子上全是高达。脱掉眼镜比高富帅还帅。腐女是写网文的大神(文章收藏过万是什么概念?起点家可以卖VIP了吧)
    还有杜海涛演的抠门男和HOLD住姐演的搞怪女大学生。(海涛演的是个极品抠门男,相亲问妹子吃
    我为相亲狂是在魔都拍摄的,几乎就是魔都一日游的感觉,各种知名景点都入镜了。
    影片说的3对男女相亲的故事,浪荡公子高富帅配女强人白富美(韩雪演的) 宅男配腐女(宅男是IT宅,月入过狗,工作桌子上全是高达。脱掉眼镜比高富帅还帅。腐女是写网文的大神(文章收藏过万是什么概念?起点家可以卖VIP了吧)
    还有杜海涛演的抠门男和HOLD住姐演的搞怪女大学生。(海涛演的是个极品抠门男,相亲问妹子吃中餐西餐还是日式,中餐就是俩包子,西餐就是热狗,日式就是他自己做的紫菜包饭团。和妹子逛街只乘超市免费班车。真的黑的一手好上海男人)

    总之是个四平八稳的商业爱情片,听说导演是拍纪录片出身的,所以剧情什么的=——=。。。。。
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  • 青衿
    2008/10/10 15:40:01
    The samasara:满足一千种欲望,或克服仅仅一种?

                最开始的时候有一只鹰,它着地掠过,捡起了一块石头,高飞后又将石头扔下,立地砸死了一只绵羊,正好死在赶路的喇嘛们跟前。喇嘛们此去,是要接回在高山人迹罕至处静坐修行了三年三个月零三天的塔西,一个潜心修行,人人称赞的好喇嘛。
      

                最开始的时候有一只鹰,它着地掠过,捡起了一块石头,高飞后又将石头扔下,立地砸死了一只绵羊,正好死在赶路的喇嘛们跟前。喇嘛们此去,是要接回在高山人迹罕至处静坐修行了三年三个月零三天的塔西,一个潜心修行,人人称赞的好喇嘛。
                最后的一个镜头也有一只鹰,在塔西度尽尘劫,哭倒在尘埃地上的时候,他泪痕未干中,下意识地抬头看见一只鹰,它鹰爪空空,在蓝天中自由飞翔。影片至此结束。

                 影片里鹰只出现了两次,却是在起始与最末处,又是平实地未加渲染,一个不留神的观者多半会一瞥而过。尽管其中有着不容忽视的深沉寓意。而同样被人忽视的又何止是鹰? 在"色,戒"的译名,"情色片"的归类下,影片在中文世界被长久地,可笑地误读了。在"情色"的解读下,一部难得的探索佛教经义的作品,吸引的却多半只是去看钟丽缇脱衣的好事之徒。不禁让我想到西游记里如来佛的评论:"但那南瞻部洲者,贪淫乐祸,多杀多争,正所谓口舌凶场,是非恶海。"罪过,罪过。
                其实,Samsara是古印度语,我在字典里查到的释义是: "the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth",即指人世生老病死的循环不休。正所谓'有身皆苦,谁得而安?',在佛经里早就有了答案,"经曰:有求皆苦,无求即乐。"答案简单,参悟却难,要身体力行地去实践则更是难上加难。就是影片中静坐了三年的好喇嘛塔西,竟然在返回庙中后凡心大炽,而且是那最难绕过的人之大欲:情欲。

                 喇嘛会不会有情欲,或者有动过情欲的念头? 也许,许多人都像我一样有过这样的疑惑,在佛教早就在中土庸俗化产业化的今天,在和尚尼姑偷情或者结婚早已不是新鲜事的今天,喇嘛这一群体却还保有的纯洁简直是让人难以置信的。虽然以这一问题切入,影片着眼的却是"欲"与"道"的探究,而不是"色"或者"戒",这个谁给译的名字真是神经搭错。

                 有许多细节可以界定Samsara跟'色诱'这样香艳的名堂全然无干,纯然是对人性深处的探究。一些细节可以作证,比如塔西刚回到喇嘛庙的晚上,便在梦里开始遗精,其中没有经过女性的挑逗,刺激的镜头,只是人性的自然萌发。而塔西遇到钟丽缇饰演的藏女达玛后执意还俗,老僧向他展示的红粉骷髅图对他也没有点醒效果。在跟老僧阿波的争论中,他说的一席话细嚼大有深意,(遗憾的是我记不得原话了,大意是):你常教导我佛的伟大,如何能抛却妻儿,抛却王位,终于得道。可是在他参悟之前,便已经拥有了一切,财富,地位,妻儿,人们的爱戴样样都不缺。正是因为曾经拥有过着这些,他才可以放弃一切,终证菩提。我从小便做喇嘛修道,没有体会过一丝人世的滋味。我如何真正明白我学到的一切,如果我没有亲身经历过它们?
               
                塔西终于下山,追到了喜欢的藏女,蓄起了长发,有了一个孩子,过上了人世浓黏温软的日子,有了小生计,小冲突,甚至还有了些心猿意马的诱惑。时光流转,有一年,他们的田地被奸诈的粮食收购者所烧,他前去讨公道,却被暴打,只得在家养伤,妻子不得不进城卖货,此时,一直让塔西心神不安的印度女子上门来要工钱,她年轻美貌,在丰收季节替人收割粮食为生。鬼使神差下,欲望一触即发,他们做爱了(以一个特别香艳的姿势)。衣衫还未整时,便听到妻子马匹的铃声,塔西惊惶失措,推着女子出门。偷情的耻辱让他心神不安。当他失魂落魄地在玛尼堆上忏悔时,旧日一起修行的喇嘛单骑前来,带来了阿波逝世的消息,他展读阿波的信笺,上面道是(大意):
               "......等到我们在未来的时空再次相遇的时候,我想听你告诉我你的答案:哪一个更好?是满足一千种欲望?还是克服其中仅仅的一种?"

                是满足一千种欲望?还是克服其中仅仅的一种?
                我猜(剧中没有明写),见此语后塔西即刻大悟。因此他次日清晨便背着妻子悄悄上路回归寺院,妻子却在路上截下了他,一番酣畅淋漓的抒发后,放了他去,塔西经过他上次结束静坐修行时经过的玛尼堆,上面那块石头,写的是同样的一个问题:
                       如何让一滴水免于干涸?
                不过,这一次塔西却走了上去,把那石头翻了过来,他看到了答案:
                       将它投入大海。

                 这是什么意思呢?
                 塔西如果足够聪明,他一定会想到从前妻子与孩子们做的一个游戏,她们把一根小树枝放入水中,妻子逗他们,什么会发生在这根小树枝身上?
                会沉,孩子们说。妻子说,如果不呢?
                会被石头给挡住!
                如果不呢?
                会被树枝给缠住!
                如果不呢?
                孩子们哑口无言了。最后,妻子说道:
                那样的话,这根小树枝就会抵达大海呀。

                就是在那时候,塔西看见了那鹰,只不过这一次,它无拘无束,自由翱翔,再没有无缘无故抓住一块石头的欲望,于是,被牺牲的羊羔,也终于可以幸免了。

                 文章本来可以到此结束,可是,我还想说得明白一点。

                 什么是一滴水,什么是小树枝?
                 ------- 一个个体。也可以指我们每一个人。每一个生命,在广阔无边的尘世中,都是孤弱如一滴水,无助,随波逐流像一根小树枝的。不是吗?

                 什么是大海?
                  ----- 广阔的智慧,能量。一切的元初。非物质的conscious的积聚。我们每个人所来的地方,和轮回不止后终将回归的地方。
               
                 什么是干涸? 什么是除了回归大海之外种种小树枝可能的命运?
                 ------ 干涸指生命的白白凋零。那是没有参透大智慧,没能发现自己生命的意义的生命的结局。
                          小树枝可能的命运预示着寻找大智慧之路的坎坷与不易。有种种陷阱可以让你举步不前,只有一一克服它们才能到达终点。

                什么是鹰? 石头? 与被砸死的羊?
                 ---鹰是我们自由翱翔的灵魂本色,石头是我们沉重的肉身,羊是一个祭奠品。

    -----------------
    这是我的解读,你大可也有你的。

    难得评论一部片子,因为这部片子被人"情色"了,所以在国内我一直没有打起兴趣看。现在遇到,真是为这部片子的遭遇鸣屈。
    据说还因为沾了李安"色戒"的光,突然被许多不明真相的人争相下载,然后破口大骂上当,诶。
    其实这部片子在IMDB上的评分很高,与李安的色戒不相上下,(一个7.6,一个7.7),比贝托鲁奇的许多情色和被人情色了的片子包括"the dreamer","巴黎最后的探戈"都要高。

     
     
                
                
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