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Stalag 17 (1953) is
another Billy Wilder movie. Looking at his name on the screen, I knew it was a comedy-style movie.
The film tells the story of a counterintelligence in a prisoner of war barracks during World War II. In the barracks, the soldiers planned to escape from prison. The two escaped from the tunnel, but they were killed by the German soldiers guarding outside. Many people suspect that a spy in the barracks informed the secret, but they don't know who it is. There was a sleek businessman in the barracks. He ran a small racecourse, a rudimentary brewery, and a telescope that could spy on the bathing of female prisoners. This enabled him to make a lot of money in the prisoner-of-war camp and kept him in the prisoner-of-war camp. Not very popular. One day, two new prisoners of war arrived. The German army column was blown up by one of the officers, and he told the story of the blow up. Within a few days, the Germans took away the officer who blew up the army. Everyone suspected that the businessman had informed the secret, he was the German spy. The businessman was beaten badly, he was not reconciled, and decided to find the real spy. Through careful observation, he discovered that the real spy was the security guard in the barracks, and that he was not American but German. In order to prevent the officer who bombed the army from being taken away, the soldiers organized a riot and hid him. At night, the security guard voluntarily escorted the officer to escape, and the businessman exposed his true colors on the spot. Finally, the soldiers used spies as cover, and the merchants escorted the officers out.
At first glance, this film is a film reflecting war, but it is actually a complete entertainment comedy. The director just put the plot in the prisoner of war camp, and the characters were replaced by soldiers locked in the prisoner of war camp. There are too many unreasonable settings in the entire plot setting: the entire prisoner of war camp environment is very relaxed, and the prisoners of war can get together with the German officers; the prisoners of war can slip out of the prisoner of war camp by painting; the Soviet female soldiers are not guarded when they take a bath. ; Prisoners of war have too much time for free activities; the Red Cross inspects too carefully; after the prisoners of war have bribed the German soldiers, they can be transferred to the female prisoner of war camp! In short, the entire prisoner-of-war camp looks like a small city with walls, without strict restrictions, living in it can be said to be a kind of enjoyment. Why run away in this kind of living environment? The film can also be described in another way-it depicts the lives of soldiers in a prisoner-of-war camp with entertainment and teasing.
The style of the movie is relaxed, like what I just said, it has a comedic style. The two teams of live treasures in the film are the main sources of funny, one will be blind, one will fall in love, one will come with a bunch of debt collection letters from the bank, and the other will dream of dancing with female stars and so on. The funniest thing is that the scene where they sneaked into the Soviet prisoner of war camp was simply hilarious. These two funny characters can be said to be the heroes of the funny movie. Of course, the friendly guest appearances of the German army also make the movie more funny. Other small bridge sections set by the movie are also unexpected, such as the racecourse. I couldn't think of using mice to compete. The editors have so much imagination! Billy Wilder is an interesting director. Even if he shoots movies that reflect war, he can also design funny and interesting plots to enrich the plot. I like his movies more and more.
The film used a lot of space to make fun and depict the unrealistic prisoner of war camp, which made the main line of the story seem simpler and more clichéd. Of course, watching this kind of "infernal Affairs" anti-espionage drama is certainly not new, but it was still relatively new in that era. The first half of the film has been foreshadowing the suspense, paving the way for the plot, and let the audience know that there are ghosts in the military camp. However, the suspense of the "who is the spy" set in the film was revealed too early. When the film was halfway through, the mystery was revealed, telling us that the security guard is a spy, making the following plot seem not at all addictive. In this case, the following plot does not need to be watched at all, and you can roughly guess: it is nothing more than a spy that did not end well, the officer finally escaped from the prisoner-of-war camp, and so on. It looks boring, so I should leave the suspense at the last second.
This film is a male drama, there is no female character with dialogue, it looks dry. In addition, this movie is similar to a group drama, with many actors and actresses, even if the leading roles are not many. William Holden, the leading actor in the film, looks average and has a relatively average performance, but he won the Oscar for Best Actor Award by relying on the film. I'm very surprised, were the Oscar judges confused? Or was the level of the nominees not very good at that time, the big one among the 矬子?
In addition, the Chinese translation of the film is really bad. Where is the "soul" in the "soul of the battlefield army"? No one is a positive hero who died and returned to his "soul". It's not a joke! This painful translation is either a Hong Kong or a Taiwanese translation. It really convinced them!
In short, an entertaining film that uses a comedy to describe the counterintelligence story in a prisoner of war camp. Why can it enter IMDB250? The subject is not profound.
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TLF.IMDB.Top206. Battlefield Army Soul. Stalag.17.1953.D9.MiniSD-TLF
2011-08-19
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