The Harder They Come1972
With a Piece in His Hand He Takes on the Man!
Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.
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The reggae soundtrack throbs and crunches and shudders in concert with the raw energy of Henzell’s storytelling and Cliff’s performance, but this doesn’t preclude a shrewdly self-aware debate about representation.
第一次看牙买加电影，形式上既有未被工业化流程所抹杀的野味，也有受新好莱坞犯罪电影影响的痕迹，娱乐性很强。主题歌有意思。我估计山顶洞人学英语的口音会类似牙买加英语，这口音太蒙昧了，听说本片是美国上映第一部加英语字幕的英语电影，想起《妈咪》全程大舌头魁北克法语，迫使戛纳放映加法语字幕。
The Harder They Come‘s two defining traits – violence and style – inform almost all of Ivan’s behaviour as he adopts the fashions and nihilism of the heroes of American and European cinema. Yet the world around him remains dully ambivalent and cruel in ways more complex and unpredictable than the characters he replicates.
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