70年代的经典，非常非常有意思的Hockey电影, 绝对不是简单的Comedy。昨天晚上刚看的，很不错。 以下是一些影评： Slap Shot, the third movie (after Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and The Sting) pairing director George Roy Hill and actor Paul Newman is widely considered the best hockey movie ever made. Pro hockey players on every level swear this is what playing minor league hockey is like. Very funny, hilariously crude (though the players point out that this, too, is appropriate), and occasionally touching. The film starts very slowly, but picks up steam quickly when the hapless Charlestown Chiefs acquires the infamously nerdy goons, the Hanson brothers, whose no-holds-barred craziness and love of the old fashioned hockey brawl quickly "goons up the game" , taking the team from basement-dwelling losers to fan-favorite thugs. Meanwhile, player-coach Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) struggles in balancing his lack of responsibility with his role as aging coach and player of a game he truly loves. Though the movie is most certainly a comedy (and you will laugh a lot), the movie manages to pack an emotional wallop, particularly in its potrayal of the relationships of the emotionally immature men that make up the Chiefs and their wives, who are forced to deal with the loneliness of their husbands' travel schedules(and not handling it well at all). The movie hasn't aged very well, especially compared to Butch or Sting, in large part because it embraces the mid 70's culture so completely (wood paneling is EVERYWHERE, and Paul Newman wears a leather suit in one scene that's funnier than some of the jokes) but the newly remastered print looks great, bringing out the tacky paneling and bloody Hanson noses in all their glory. You'll remember scenes of this one for weeks to come. As a Minnesotan who loved hockey growing up in the 1970s, of course "Slap Shot" is an icon to any guy of my generation who either played or watched the sport. Nancy Dowd, the screenwriter, thinly disguised herself as the character played by Lindsay Crouse, and she was writing about her experiences with the Johnstown Jets, thinly disguised as the Charlestown Chiefs, the farm team of my beloved St. Paul Saints of the World Hockey Association. It has always thrilled me that my backyard, hometown hockey club and its players could have so inspired one of the best movies of the 1970s, and maybe the best sports movie ever. But the thing that really raises "Slap Shot" to greatness is that it says so much about the disillusionment of America as a whole in the post-Watergate years, especially in the northern states. The main point of the story is that hockey fans (the American public) are angry at their institutions which have let them down (old-time hockey, the government, the economy) and in their despair have embraced goon tactics (TV and movie violence) as an outlet. A cynical team owner (Hollywood establishment) is exploiting the fans' pain. Not only is this movie an extremely funny and cynical comedy and anti-establishment screed (perhaps matched only by "Network"), it's an incredibly perceptive analysis of the economic and social crises that turned hockey country into the "Rust Belt" in the 1970s. This movie is one of the best sports films ever made. Paul Newman is outstanding in his role as Reggie Dunlop. What makes it even more special is that a lot of the on ice scenes actually happened to the authors, Steve & Jeff Carlson, and David Hanson of the book the movie is based on. The authors of the screen play are the Hanson brothers in the movie. If you want to get a laugh from a movie this is the one to see!
