赝品1973

如果要用一句话来形容这部影片的重要的话，那就是：

最伟大的天电影天才，在人生后半截完成的几乎唯一一部电影。

他把他的生涯，还有浪子的生活，艺术创作，造假世界，演艺秀，全部结合在一块...

。你甚至不敢说，那一定就是纪录片，他创造了一种新的文体，亦真亦假亦幻，但是假假真真，却能教会我们很多东西。

我至今仍然被那些用粗粒质感表现的赝品画家的陈述。所吸引。

如何来判断真和假，这个问题充满在世界的任何一个角落，因此有宇宙意义。

享受它！

| Roger Ebert October 13, 1977

Orson Welles can make better movies than most directors with one hand tied behind his back. His problem, of course, is that for 35 years the hand has remained tied. His career is a study in lost possibilities: Having made a legendary film debut at the age of 24 with "Citizen Kane" (1941), arguably the best American movie ever made, he was never again left totally free to make a film just the way he wanted to.

He came close, in films like "The Magnificent Ambersons" (with its ending re-shot by the studio) and "The Trial". But a film more typical of Welles' dilemma was "Falstaff - Chimes at Midnight"(1968), a triumph of artistic will over impending bankruptcy."Falstaff" is a great film, but for whole stretches of it Welles is faking it. He shot it without sound and dubbed most of the voices himself. He recruited a great supporting cast but had to shoot them at moments stolen over the years when he was able to raise money to go back into production. He included a great battle scene but had to place his camera in its midst because he had so few warriors.

Now comes Welles' latest work, forthrightly titled "F For Fake." It's a film about fakes and frauds, including the art forger Elmyr de Hory, the biography forger Clifford Irving, the mystery man Howard Hughes and even the young Orson Welles of the famous "War of the Worlds" hoax.

The footage teases and tantalizes us - with Irving, for example, talking about de Hory's fakes while (we now know) planning a spectacular one of his own. But step back from the film, regard it for a moment and it suggests itself on a deeper level as Welles' musings about the connections between fakery and art itself.

"Citizen Kane," for example, is a film so brilliantly packed full of special effects, deceptive shots, double exposures, trick lighting, background animation and back projection that perhaps only a third of the film actually records what we think we're seeing. In "F For Fake", Welles plays with the film more obviously, presiding over a ghostly editing room, running shots back and forth in the movieola as he invites us to take a closer look (pick a look, any look… ).

It's all a bag of tricks, says the master magician Welles. If the result is the same, if the picture looks the same, isn't a de Hory as worthy as a Picasso? Doesn't, we think to ourselves, "Falstaff" hold together just as well as if it had been shot in seven weeks instead of seven years? And what about that magnificent double deception Welles paints for us at the end of this film, in which Picasso seems to be faked out of 24 erotic canvases by the grandfather of the beautiful young model Picasso has faked into his studio?

"F For Fake" is minor Welles, the master idly tuning his instrument while the concert seems never to start again. But it's engaging and fun, and it's astonishing how easily Welles spins a movie out of next to nothing. For many years, he was reported to have "Don Quixote" as a work in progress. Now, according to the program notes, the working title has been changed to "When Are You Finishing Don Quixote?" Does it matter, when "F For Fake" has such a sufficiency of windmills?

引用Kipling诗句那段显然是说，我们进行文艺创作的时候感到愉悦或者感到自己被充分表达，这就够了，这就是文艺的意义所在。不要让现代日益建立起的文艺标准来评估我们的作品，因为没有超出我们每个人自身存在以外的客观价值标准，没有形而上的文艺标准。如果世上真有我们需要认同的评价标准，那只可能基于我们每个个体的作品之上，也就是说先有我们个体的存在和创造，才产生归纳总结了这些创造优点所在的价值标准。也就是说创作者不需要认同他人的标准。

就像Orson Welles那个著名的观点，文艺理论和他人作品对自身创作意义没那么大。

传记作家谈到Elmyr为什么一直有制造赝品的执念，他的解释也是在现当代的创作环境下，创作者被文艺的所谓标准和理念所束缚，坚持自己的创作愿景是一件被压抑而不是被鼓励的事。