[Václav Vorlícek|Kdo chce zabít Jessii?]是誰要謀殺傑茜？

Title：Kdo chce zabít Jessii?
aka：Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
Director：Václav Vorlícek
Release Date：1966
Genre：Comedy / Sci-Fi
Country：Czechoslovakia
Language：Czech
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簡介。。。。。
Who Wants To Kill Jessie? is something different but enjoyable, a thoroughly deadpan comedy-fantasy. I'd happily buy it on video if it were available, but, alas, special screenings in series like "Czech Horror & Fantasy On Film" seem to be the only way to see it

The story is a simple high-concept: Ruzenka Beránková (Dana Medrická) has created a formula that can remove elements from dreams (you can tell they've been removed, because there's a nifty television screen capable of showing a subject's dreams). What she doesn't realize is that these elements manifest themselves in the real world. Bad enough when it's the gadflys of a cow's nightmare, but when she uses it on her husband (Jirí Sovák), whose dreams include the characters from the comic strip "Who Wants To Kill Jessie?"... Well, it's bad enough that Jessie is a beautiful, blond, voluptuous girl (who is also a scientific genius), but the two men chasing her, a musclebound superhero and a gun-toting cowboy, cause serious damage to the apartment building and later city of Prague. And when the courts decide the husband should be liable - they are, after all, his dreams - more chaos ensues.

Jessie is quite short - IMDB lists it at 80 minutes - but doesn't waste any of its running time. Nearly every minute has something funny happening, whether it be a cow's dreams or the comic strip characters' penchant for speaking with word balloons. The film is shot in anamorphic black-and-white, and I'm not sure color would have helped it; it could have easily come out looking like the Batman live-action TV series or Austin Powers. The look of this 1966 movie suggests bright colors, but keeps it from looking garish or dated. It's also played perfectly straight - that Mrs. Beránková has a dream monitor in her bedroom isn't remarked upon, and the reactions to these comic-book characters running around Prague is stoic as can be.

"Jessie" is a nifty little fantasy which deserves a little more exposure in the west. If you get a chance, see it.

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：8.0/10

捷克新浪潮中一部很科幻的喜劇片，在電影中夢境和現實混爲一談，原因是一個測夢的實驗，一個觀夢的機器。Ruzenka Beránková教授和Jindrich Beránek教授是一對夫妻，但是作爲妻子的Ruzenka Beránková是一個非常奇怪的人，她只在每週的週四才允許丈夫與之同房共寢。而且她還研究一個關於夢的實驗，讓睡着的人或動物帶上儀器可以在另一邊的顯示設備上看到他們的夢境，然後為其注入一支針劑可以向相反的方向改變他們的夢境。誰要謀殺Jessie最初其實只是一個連載漫畫，漫畫中一個肌肉發呆的貌似超人的男人和一個瘦骨嶙峋的中年牛仔，為了尋找一副神秘充滿力量的手套追逐一位非常漂亮而且性感的金髮女郎。Jindrich Beránek教授正在研究這個類似的課題，所以看到這個漫畫時非常感興趣，把這些雜誌帶回家裏。那天正巧是週四的晚上，他和妻子睡在一起，卻做了一個關於漫畫的夢，漫畫中的驚心動魄使Jindrich Beránek教授喊起夢話。妻子用她那個儀器看見了丈夫在夢中和金髮女郎在一起，非常生氣，給他打了一針。沒想到第二天夢中的人都變爲現實，出現在夫妻二人的生活裏。Ruzenka Beránková漸漸發現，她的那個針劑在使夢境相反的同時，還可以使原本的夢變成現實，實驗室裏出現牛夢中的許多蒼蠅，勤雜工夢中的許多啤酒也出現在了實驗室裏。但是實驗進行到這裡，已經出現嚴重的問題，就是從Jindrich Beránek教授的夢中出來的三個人。這三個人在現實社會中仍然像漫畫中一樣，爲了那個手套秘密兩個男人四處追蹤要抓住Jessii，攪得社會一團遭，警察也開始抓捕他們，Jindrich Beránek教授也因此進了監獄。Ruzenka Beránková認爲他們不是人類，想要像銷毀東西一樣把Jessii殺掉。卻被被從監獄逃出來的Jindrich Beránek教授用他的新發明反重力手套救下。最後可惡的妻子愛上了那個肌肉發達的超人，隨著他一同進入了她的狗的夢中，得到了應有報應。Jindrich Beránek教授終于和Jessii在一起了，但是當她開口説話卻和妻子一個口氣...

影片幽默戲謔，用這種荒誕的、詼諧的、超現實的表達方式，上演了一出善與惡之間較量的鬧劇，以很輕鬆愉快的基調諷刺了一些人和一些社會現象。導演Václav Vorlícek非常有創意，不僅是虛構了這樣一個荒誕有趣的故事，在許多表現手法上也是讓人爲其連連喝彩，比如他結合了電影和漫畫，取消了Jessii他們三個夢境中的人物的臺詞，而是用漫畫中的文字手法將他們的臺詞部分畫出來，而且這個紙片式的臺詞是立體的，最讓人印象深刻的就是在法庭上工作人員將Jessii說的“我愛你”轉了一個方向，後來Jindrich Beránek教授又把它撕了。實在是太有創意了。影片不長，只有80分鐘，但是在這短短的80分鐘裏，笑料包袱不斷，情節非常緊湊，所以時間很快就過去了，意猶未盡。