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君子协定 Gentleman's Agreement (1947)—第20届奥斯卡最佳影片
 
        宗教、种族歧视一直存在于时代中，还有我们更加熟悉的性别歧视。平等与包容也是很多作品中永恒的主题。追求没有歧视，相对平等的文明是一条漫漫长路。
        影片剧情比较枯燥，没有太大的高低起伏，会让观众处于昏昏欲睡的状态。字幕翻译得惨不忍睹，中间有好几段没有翻译，非常影响观影感受。这类题材的电影，这部只能说一般。

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剧透警告
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现在人们没看过片子就可以写影评或者简介，没看过书就可以写书评。
而且豆瓣这故事梗概是彻底的胡扯，什么跟秘书乔装改扮，彻底的瞎说。

杂志要写的是反犹太问题的连载，杂志社是一个开明并且标榜自由主义的杂志，它自己内部可能也有一些反犹倾向，总体来说不严重，主编甚至要求人力资源总监刊登招聘广告中说明不论宗教都可以应聘。

主编支持主角假扮犹太人去了解情况，写出不同视角而且犀利的文章。最终写出来了。中间有很多争论，但是片子的基调从开始就是反对“反犹主义” 的，片子层层展开的是Phil是如何越来越深刻的理解到反犹太问题，并且最终写出重磅文章，并且女友如何从一个隐含的反犹倾向最终自己认识到问题所在，最终他们团员的故事。

豆瓣信息里的简介全部是瞎扯

菲利普（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）是一名记者，带着儿子汤米（迪恩·斯托克维尔 Dean Stockwell 饰）和母亲（安妮·里维尔 Anne Revere 饰）来到大都市纽约，踌躇满志的他准备要在此干一番大事业。
上司交给了菲利普一个任务，撰写一系列关于美国存在的反犹主义的文章，为了能够更好地完成任务，菲利普决定假扮犹太人，切身体会一下身为一名犹太人的滋味与境遇。让菲利普没有想到的是，他的这一举动令他同女友凯西（多萝西·麦克吉尔 Dorothy McGuire 饰）之间的感情产生了裂缝，儿子亦因为父亲这一虚假的身份而遭到了同龄人的排挤与欺侮。在经历了种种挫折与困难之后，菲利普出色的完成了任务，然而，他的内心里却并不轻松。

http://blog.trivialfilm.com/2012/06/gentleman-agreement20.html

Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

本片获得第20届奥斯卡金像奖最佳影片。

电影讲述一个作家的故事。在反犹太主义盛行的年代，身为知名作家的男主角受邀于一个杂志社，主编希望写一篇反击反犹太主义的报道。于是，男主角带着母亲和儿子搬到纽约去住，并结识了一见钟情的女主角。男主角与女主角发展很快，母亲也很喜欢她，因此两人很快谈婚论嫁。此时，男主角写作遇到瓶颈，一个星期后他打算放弃。但在就要放弃时，男主角想出一个绝妙的好主意——假扮犹太人，让自己亲身体验一下犹太人的感觉。男主角告诉主编后，他很赞同，并马上实施起来。当男主角将这个点子告诉女主角时，两人却发生了不愉快。虽然女主角并不介意，因此两人很快和好。随后，男主角就以犹太人的身份在杂志社上班。同时，女主角希望男主角与家人见面，但不要以犹太人的身份，男主角听后很生气的离开了。几天后，女主角妥协了，男主角就以犹太人的身份来到女主角乡下的家中。在聚会上，有很多人没有到来。之后，两个很快订下婚期，而男主角最好的朋友也来到纽约，这些都让男主角很高兴。但当男主角听到他们订下的酒店不接受犹太人、好朋友要离开纽约时，他就怒气冲冲的跑到酒店一探究竟。男主角在酒店遭到冷漠的对待，生气的回到家里，却发现儿子因为犹太人的身份被人欺负。这时，男主角才发现女主角虽然不反对与犹太人相处，但是她和她的亲戚们都有着自己的优越感，为自己身为不是犹太人而庆幸。两人又是一番大吵。之后，男主角根据自身体验写出一篇非常完美的文章，这使得杂志社的人们大吃一惊。男主角打算离开纽约前，与杂志社的好朋友闲聊，知道了其他人对女主角的印象。最后，女主角在男主角好朋友的帮助下明白了一切，男主角也重新来找女主角，两人又和好了。

本片看得过程非常坎坷。最开始下载的是TLF内嵌字幕版，可是发现电影播放五分钟后，字幕的时间轴与翻译就变得很不准确。这个字幕的某一部分不是时间轴对不上，就是字幕翻译驴唇不对马嘴。这不仅让我看得很累，而且也让我看不明白剧情！于是，就去射手上找其他字幕。可是找来找去，发现网上的字幕都与TLF的一样！原来这部电影就一个版本的中文字幕，这让人怎么看？而且如此糟糕的字幕还美其名曰“R3DVD”字幕，有没有搞错？！在没有办法的情况下，只好去找在线的版本。在线版本有两个，一个是英文对白的，使用的还是这条糟糕的字幕；一个是中文对白的，但英文原音没有消清楚！最后，我只好用这个中文对白的音轨，搭配上这条时间轴错乱的字幕，将就着把这部电影看完了！因此，这部电影很可能我没有理解完全，但现阶段这种情况下，我也只能做到如此了。

影片主题很直白，就是电影情节中反反复复强调的“反犹太主义”的展现以及对它的抨击。细分话可以将这个主题分成三部分，一部分是直接表现出反犹太主义的行为，一部分是“沉默大多数”对反犹太主义的沉默，一部分是反犹太主义对人们的伤害。影片通过这三部分细致的描写，给观众们勾勒出一副反犹太主义在美国社会的真实景象，让观众们在观看影片之后有自己的思考。当然，本片是有时效性的，现在的反犹太主义在美国已经不是最极端的矛盾了。所以现在看本片，对观众们来说大概只是对历史的一种回顾吧。

影片主题分为三部分，电影本身也可以分成三部分，与要反映的主题相一致。不过，片中对于“沉默大多数”的定义，我并不赞同。沉默就是反对吗？当别人歧视犹太人时，自己庆幸自己不是犹太人，难道是错的？不表示反对就是赞同？本片的论调也太奇怪了！说的这里，让我想起现在流行的一个问题“同性恋”。如果大家都反对同性恋，有一个人默不作声，且暗自庆幸自己不是同性恋，这个人就是反对同性恋？这太不合逻辑了！因此，本片虽然主题是好的，让观众们了解到反犹太主义在社会上存在以及它对人们的伤害，可是编导的观点太扯蛋！根本就是混淆是非。

电影拍摄方面比较平庸，没有太突出之处。除了片中纽约的城市外景之外，都没有给我留下太深刻的印象。此外，影片剧情还有些拖沓，比如与男主角母亲有关的情节根本是多余的，即与男主角的爱情无关，更无关他写的文章，搞不清楚弄这么一个角色的用意何在。难道是为了表现男主角的孝心？可是这更无关剧情了！总之，电影拍摄上优秀之处不多，而且电影节奏还比较缓慢，看起来有点累。

本片演员同样普通。男主角Gregory Peck高大、帅气、英俊，让他来扮演男主角最适合不过了，这种正人君子的形象对他来说属于本色演出。女主角扮演者是Dorothy McGuire，一个长相普通的好莱坞大众化美女，无论是她的相貌还是演技，都不会给人留下印象。片中另一个女演员是Celeste Holm，知道她在《彗星美人》中出演过，但就是想不起来她扮演的是谁了，可见她也是一个大众美女。

总结一下。本片看得过程坎坷，糟糕的配音和字幕使我不能对电影彻底理解。不过通过现在所熟悉的剧情，知道本片不过是一个主题正确，但观点偏激，且其他方面平庸的影片。本片之所以获得奥斯卡最佳影片，全得益于它富有勇气的主题吧。

Dorothy McGuire

Dorothy McGuire

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Gentlemans.Agreement.1947.D9.MiniSD-TLF

2012-06-26

Gentleman’s Agreement is a movie that tells a story about a journalist’s experience of pretending to be a Jew to write an article about anti-Semitism.

What is problematic?
Anti-Semitism was thriving at that time. Jewish people could not even have a job because of their racial identity. Dominant white Christian culture did not tolerant Jewish culture. Therefore, Jewish people were suffering from discrimination in every aspect of their lives. For instance, Jewish people had to conceal their Jewish identity in order to get a job. In the movie, the Jewish secretary Wales had to change her name in order to get the job. And when Tommy’s classmates knew that Tommy was a Jew, they teased him and isolated him because of his Jewish identity. The dominant White Christian culture took control of the society at that time. The social environment at that time was full of discrimination and attacks to Jewish people. The ignorance to other culture made there was no room for other cultures. The dominant position of white Christian culture over Jewish culture resulted in the misunderstanding and lacking of knowledge about minor culture in the society. The Jewish people could not speak out their voices because they were suppressed by the dominant white culture, which led to the miscommunication between Christian people and Jewish people even though they had no intention to do so. For instance, Kathy as a typical “nice” Christian, thought that being silent and feeling guilty when someone told a joke depreciating Jews was an action to against anti-Semitism. She did not know that this was not enough, actions to against those anti-Semitism in her group was the most effective way to alleviate the situation of Jews.
Also, the journalist Philip also experienced ups and downs in his relationship with his fiancée Kathy because of Philip’s experiment of pretending to be a Jew. Philip tried to act and think like a Jew and experienced what a Jew might suffer at that time in person. While Kathy’s acts did not meet his criteria for a soul mate who can take the right side towards anti-Semitism. However, Kathy thought that she was against anti-Semitism and was on the same side as Philip. The way they perceive anti-Semitism is different because they have different personalities. Therefore, this miscommunication caused conflicts between them.

What are the power relations?
Dominant white culture was absolutely over the Jewish culture at that time. Dave is a real Jew and he grew up with Philip. Although Philip is not a Jew, he has strong empathy to what Jewish people feel because his relationship with Dave. However, Philip still had social power identity over Dave. However, Philip’s acts to call for rights for Jews were embedded in his dominant cultural identity. White Christians have totally right of speech at that time. They determined the social realities. No one would like to listen to a Jew’s opinion. Dominant culture would not treat them seriously. However, white Christian guy Philip’s experience and opinions about anti-Semitism became a hot topic at that time because it made people started to rethink the Jewish culture.
What I also noticed was that the masculinity was also over feminity . In their relationship, Philip’s masculinity is obvious. Kathy did not express what she really felt straightforwardly. She haven’t spoken her heart until when Philip criticized her that she has an inherent superiority feeling towards Jewish people and their relationship almost broke down. At that very moment, Kathy cried and argued to Philip that, “You are what you are for the on life you have”. She explained that she has no choice to choose born as a Christian. For Kathy, she thought she was no wrong because she born with her Christian identity. She insisted that she was in the “nice people” group. However, for Philip, Kathy’s inactive action towards anti-Semitism also supported anti-Semitism in some way. Besides, people have different expectation towards Kathy and Philip. In the ending part of the movie, Anne invited Philip for dinner and persuaded Philip that it was not Kathy’s duty to fight for the Jewish people. Kathy was not supposed to do that because of her gender.

How do you see people negotiating?
We can tell the difference between how women and men faces conflicts in a relationship in this movie. When facing conflict, different gender has different negotiation method towards it. When Philip and Kathy had conflict, Philip told Kathy directly how he felt and argued with Kathy angrily. While for Kathy, she tended to hide her feelings and find the third party for help. We can tell that Philip was using low context to deal with the conflict, while Kathy responded to it in relatively high context. In the ending of the movie, when Philip was angry about Kathy because he thought she has superiority over Jews and she did nothing about it. Kathy found the third party, Philip and Kathy’s common friend Dave, to help analyzing the relationship. Therefore, Kathy has very interdependent personality while Philip is very independent. Philip told Kathy how he feels directly while Kathy hadn’t spoken out her idea until she thought they were going to break up. And then, Kathy turned to the third party for help to mend this relationship. That is very interdependent characteristic. In the society, women usually are expected to be submissive and supportive to their partner, even though they may not agree to them. However, a man is encouraged to act direct and controlling in a relationship, especially in a romantic relationship. Especially, Kathy is a divorced woman, so she acted even more careful and doubtful in the relationship.
Also, in the movie, the real Jew Dave and Ms. Wales seemed to be inactive in the anti-Semitism cause. They got used to hide their identity to blend in the society that controlled by the dominant culture. They tended to be silent. They had to rely on their dominant friends to speak out their needs for equality and rights. In contrast, Philip as a white Christian man who was educated and encouraged to speak, acted agitatedly when he was treated unfairly in the hotel and the post office because of his fake Jewish identity. Philip was sensitive and expressed all of his feelings of being sick of anti-Semitism when he pretended to be a Jew. This interesting contrast indicates that how social environment can affect people’s way to negotiate when facing with conflicts.

P.S. Kathy argued with Phil: "You are what you are for the one life you have, you can't help being born Christian instead of Jewish, it doesn't mean you glad you were, but I am glad, There, I said it, I'd be terrible, I'm glad I'm not. I could never make you understand that, You could never understand that it is a fact like being glad you are good-looking instead of ugly, rich instead of poor, young instead of old, healthy instead of sick. You could never understand that. It's just a practical fact,not judgement that I'm superior, but I could never make you see that. You twisted something into horrible, a conniving, an aiding and abetting a thing that I loathe as much as you do. "

When Kathy told Dave that a man said a joke about disgrace on Jewish, Kathy said that she hated it and wanted to tell everyone that this was not good, however, what she actually did was just sat there and felt ashamed.
"If you don't stop that joke, where do you stop?"