Set to broadcast in two one-hour films, this family treat is inspired by the classic books of Barbara Euphan Todd and is pegged to be the TV event of the season. Mackenzie Crook has taken Scatterbrook farm and the infamous characters of this well-loved tale and injected them with a tender and authentic charm. This is the perfect family adventure, packed with a fun, mischievous spirit and delivered with an environmental message.
Mackenzie Crook, (Pirates Of The Caribbean, Detectorists) who has written, directed and stars as Worzel Gummidge, has gathered a host of both accomplished and brilliant actors who are set to appear in this eagerly anticipated adaptation.
Playing The Green Man, creator of the scarecrows, who arrives to Scatterbrook in episode two, is comedy legend Sir Michael Palin. He says: “It’s a lovely part for me, but the whole script is very memorable and touching, and very funny too. It quite skillfully weaves in something for everybody all the time.”
Zoë Wanamaker (My Family, Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone) will play the eccentric local aristocrat, Lady Bloomsbury Barton in episode two. She says: “The whole thing is so charming and inventive. It’s the sort of thing I’d watch. I’m sure it will be a huge success. I know it will - it’s divine.”
Vicki Pepperdine (Getting On, The Windsors) takes on the role of the formidable Aunt Sally in episode one. She says: “There’s something for everybody. It’s got this heart to it, and you’d be hard pushed as an adult not to engage with it.”
Steve Pemberton (League Of Gentleman, Benidorm) will play Mr Braithwaite, the farmer. He says: “This is the kind of show the whole family can enjoy together. It has a lot of humour, a lot of visual humour too, and I think kids will enjoy watching the children being central to the story.”
Rosie Cavaliero (Gentleman Jack, Cleaning Up) will play Mrs Braithwaite, she added: “It’s a story about the imagination, and children escaping into this different world. Mackenzie’s version is totally contemporary.”
Ones to watch India Brown (Hetty Feather) and Thierry Wickens (making his TV debut) will play Susan and John, two city children spending their summer at Scatterbrook farm who quickly befriend Worzel and begin a summer of adventures.
The first episode, The Scarecrow Of Scatterbrook, sees two young strangers arrive in the village of Scatterbrook. It’s not long before Susan and John encounter Worzel Gummidge, the Scarecrow of Ten Acre Field. Their world is sent spinning into confusion when they realise Gummidge comes to life. The only person more shocked is Worzel, when he discovers that the children are not in fact fellow scarecrows but humans.
Their worlds should never commune but fate has conspired to create an extraordinary union. The seasons have stopped and the harvest hasn’t arrived. The rhythm of the natural world is out of kilter and this unlikely trio must try to put it right. Magic, mystery and mayhem unfurl.
The second episode, The Green Man, welcomes another mysterious arrival to Scatterbrook. The Green Man is the creator of scarecrows and keeper of scarecrow lore. He isn’t at all happy that Worzel is consorting with humans. Elsewhere, local aristocrat Lady Bloomsbury Barton is holding a fete, with a Scarecrow competition that Worzel is determined to win. What will The Green Man and Worzel's most competitive rival, Soggy Bogart make of it all?
Worzel Gummidge is written and directed by Mackenzie Crook and is a Leopard Pictures, Treasure Trove Productions and Lola Entertainment production for BBC One. It is Executive Produced by Kristian Smith for Leopard Pictures, Lisa Thomas for Lola Entertainment, Mackenzie Crook for Treasure Trove Productions, with rights holders Patrick D. Pidgeon and Eric S. Rollman executive producers for Pidgeon Entertainment, Inc. It is produced by Georgie Fallon and Alex Moody is the Commissioning Editor for the BBC.
Further casting:
Francesca Mills - Earthy Mangold
Tim Plester - Clarty
Colin Michael Carmichael - Soggy Bogart
Andrew James Spooner - Flat Alistair
Phil Hulford - Hannah Harrow
Tom Meeten - HMS Odney
Christopher-Robert Barlow - Rag Bag
Kiran Shah - Chopper and Root Bound
Charlie Mayhew - Rustle Sprouter
Lucy Montgomery - Jackie Pudding
Gus Brown - Oswald Pollypop
Malik Ibheis - Trike
Ben Langley - Driver
Mariam Haque - Receptionist
作为维伦纽瓦的粉丝，本片再次证明了他是个牛*的导演。一部没剧情的大型MV, 演员情绪到位，即使是慢镜头都无可挑剔地扛住了，说明他真的很会讲戏也很会导戏。就是明明不说人话，但要演得像个人……绝不是反讽的意思，他的边境杀手我看了无数遍啊，无数遍！我太爱他了！
略遗憾的是，男主本来不至于这么“瘦弱”的，或许是要为续集留下余地吧。
IMAX2D。三星全给兰普林，一场戏一颗星，⭐⭐⭐
维伦纽瓦和汉斯季默的合作使得这部电影从视听角度上讲，可以称得上是享受，但另一方面，原著本身就比较晦涩难懂且故事时间跨度大，同时借助了很多非正常的叙事方式来构建世界观，而电影想在两个半小时内既搭建好一个世界观又讲好一个比较完整的故事，是很困难的，也就导致几个人物的形象都难称丰满，而仅仅作为宏大故事开头的本片的剧情也较为单薄，实际上维伦纽瓦拍大制作之后的这几部电影都可以说是视听一流而剧情简单
好莱坞电影的本质就是要制造奇观，这一点完完全全的做到了，很多画面真的让人感到惊艳，且延续了作者性，并不突兀。剧本改编的切入点做的也非常棒，聚焦于新皇的个人成长，在预知能力和个人反抗上下足了文章，且节奏不乱，降低观影门槛，做到了雅俗共赏，真的让人惊叹。再过几年沉淀真的可以拿奥斯卡了。
失望大于期待系列，叙事真就流水账，按小说前半段几乎原封不动地改编，可是人物塑造太草率了，丝毫感觉不到和主角的联系，视觉在叙事上甚至起到反作用，整个卡拉丹和厄拉克丝星球感觉长的都差不多，甚至看着看着有点串戏到银翼杀手2049和降临。这部片子如果作为圣战的背景介绍片，没有高潮我能理解，但是整体没有亮点地平淡。听着全程紧绷的音乐，脑袋嗡嗡地疼……
原本以为至少能拍到第一本的2/3，没想到2/3都没到。节奏掌控真的很失败。原著第一本看得我热血沸腾，电影把整个基调都变了。缺失很多细节，没有哈瓦特怀疑西卡的部分，灭族部分精彩程度大打折扣。我怀疑门泰特整个设定都被削了。配乐大失败，我都想说，可不可以不要那么吵。优点：雷托和西卡非常符合想象，丽贝卡和奥斯卡太棒了。茶也还可以，至少前期保罗的形象尚能hold住。/可能要写长评吐槽了T_T
画面是不错，故事老套、思想腐朽，充满宿命论和神棍气质，这边星战都开打了，这边敞着怀古惑仔少年激斗篇呢，任务设定无敌玛丽苏，毫无波澜，如果想拍连续剧不在基地遇袭或者duke死亡之吸的时候结束，偏要弄带着妈妈去冒险这样的情节，弄的收尾毫无吸引力。详略不当、功力不足老想拍史诗、沉迷冷兵器不找点好的武术指导或者动作导演，在那神穿、迷魂、精神控制，太low了
我觉得这个名字我一辈子记不住的导演什么都好，就是太爱装逼了。明明是个男频爽文级别的原著非要当成什么浩瀚史诗来拍，结果就是一群演员苦大仇深地念一些二逼名字和设定。
说句不好听的，不好改编就别改编了，何必呢。。
看之前：什么商业片竟然要156分钟是要杀了我吗？？看完后：沙漠好美甜茶好美两个半小时根本不够我看呜呜呜😭算是近几年茶被拍的最好看的一部片子了，沙漠王子归来，那句中文说的真不错。IMAX正中间观影体验绝赞，甚至有沉浸式游戏的感觉。只是个开始，期待成史诗系列。
有着一种告诉你我格局很大但我不能一下子完全展现出来会吓死你等着看下一部吧的感觉。
与诺兰相反，DV一直用“慢”手法拍电影。配以演员脸部特写，其实对演员要求更高，因为细微表情需要调动极多情绪去表现。慢镜头为主节奏，密集的特写，空景，假“回闪”，配以声效引导。特效其实并不密集，宏大/巨大物体与人对比的拍法某种程度算是给制片省钱了。视觉性和娱乐性用情感戏/演员面部表情进行了很好的平衡，在好莱坞大片中并不是主流。回归戏剧本源，抒情原来也可以撑起2021的电影时间……过关的导演的电影还是充满了无数可能性，没想到看到这样一部私人情感浓郁的沙丘，现在过去未来都是重叠这个话题在降临中已经上演过，这次也以十分抒情的方式再来一遍，虽然不讨厌，但也希望千万别再来一遍，到这次就可以了！
影片不论是故事结构还是美术概念都有很多参考的影子：星战7的FirstOrder，塞尔达传说的沙虫，疯狂的麦克斯的沙暴。室内场景也惯常的采用了一些东方元素，有奇异博士既视感，张震很出戏，甚至还用中文大声密谋。。。
看完之后感觉很复杂……虽然音乐和画面格调极高，台词和氛围调节得极好，然而故事内核和走向则就有点简陋和荒唐了。动作戏充满槽点，逼格满满的战士感觉像是原始部落，杀人基本靠近战，而且武术指导明显不行。不说用专门的武器，就单那个用来开门的激光钻，拿着这种大杀器只用来穿墙就有点离谱——后来知道其实原作设定可以解释，虽然电影里没有。
一些西方流行文化的经典元素的简单组合，全程我都在想“我到底在看啥”。特别是那个配乐每次一突兀响起来的时候我就特别想笑，然后看完电影之后阿爽说看电影的时候我一笑她就想打我(…)。妈妈这个角色好性感啊呜呜呜X﹏X。感觉不像是电影像是带图像讲故事。比较喜欢的话有姐妹会飞船升空的时候如同圣歌般的声音，还有巨大的建筑飞船(我也不知道是啥)从水里升出来，一些镜头切的搭配很好(从太空到雨水啊酱紫)。真是坑了这里面很多花心思的设计了(虽然也没有我很喜欢的)。阿虫起身的时候沙子滚的场景好看
视效和原声是做的真好，杜比全景深震耳欲聋，高亮厅3D还是有点嫌暗，暗调场景很多，也很美。故事线相对简单，拍得虽慢，也能被踏实按在座位上。视觉系统和佐杜洛夫斯基那版没啥关系，和2049有点像。维伦纽瓦挺能招钱，花得也不错，期待一打续集。
很棒的影像氛围，达到了诗意的高度，这是导演一向的优点，无需赘述（但也没有更多的突破，如果这是我看的第一部，会毫不犹豫给四星），然而比起《银翼杀手》和《降临》的高概念，这个故事似乎太具象地在follow表层的情节了，拖了“诗意”的后腿，人物的演绎依然是2021年的地球普通人，与全片力图营造的未来高级感格格不入，这种反差让我始终很难入戏………
《沙丘》，一部反类型化的类型片。原著文本无论故事还是设定在我看来都非常平庸，但维伦纽瓦的影像着实厉害，把一个让我讨厌的三流文本拍得摄人心魄。有些人说《沙丘》的故事没意思，没必要去电影院看，但我觉得这恰恰是去电影院看《沙丘》的理由：这一版《沙丘》起码9成价值在摄影，剪辑、调度这些视听元素上。另外，《沙丘》的编剧也没有躺平，第三幕用“反高潮”的决斗结束并不是败笔，因为这场“决斗”最后的选择其实才是保罗全片最惊心动魄的生命体验。原著里杀人在保罗部落以后发生，算是确定他天命的证据。而电影中这一段与保罗对未来的”预见“构成互文（他杀了在他”预见“中的朋友），简言之保罗杀人的抉择是对自身主体性的确认，未来仍然是开放的，而非决定论、宿命论式的
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