格温妮丝再现传奇女星绝代风华

　　气质美女格温妮丝-帕特洛最近与电视结缘颇深，除了要二度客串《欢乐合唱团》以外，她或将在一部上下电影中出演由“蓝天使”之称的传奇女伶——玛琳-黛德丽。据悉，该片由BBC与HBO携手打造，分为上下两部，将集中的展现这位德国女演员、歌手演艺生涯中的闪光时刻。影片由玛琳-黛德丽女儿及密友所写的传记改编而来，详细记录了她从柏林戏剧舞台发迹，到后来在好莱坞扬名立万的历程。但电影会否涉及这位女星万年酗酒和用药上瘾的部分，目前还不得而知。
　　电影将由《故园风雨后》的编剧安德鲁-戴维斯负责撰写剧本，而格温妮丝清新脱俗的外表，与黛德丽的冷艳不谋而合，要再现这位绝世名伶的风范，神似形似均占几分，而最近频繁大秀歌舞技艺的格温妮丝也正好切合了黛德丽歌舞表演艺术家的身份。

　　On the surface at least, Gwyneth Paltrow seems a weak choice to portray legendary sex symbol, exotic actress and husky-voiced singer Marlene Dietrich in an ambitious 180 minute made for t.v. biopic.

　　Paltrow, a solid mid-level actress who is sleight-figured with a squeaky clean image, more likeable than sexy, never portraying a cent of a darker side beyond those eyes like Dietrich (the above left shot of Paltrow in the period film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is her attempt at looking thoughtful), should stay well clear.

　　Eva Green would be a better choice or better yet, and perish to even consider the thought, perhaps a German actress to portray a German icon?

　　Luc Besson’s Europacorp TV, BBC and HBO then are joining forces for the mammoth, 180 minute biopic of the legendary German actress and performer. Titled Marlene, the t.v. film will be told in two 90 minute parts and will chronicle the life of Dietrich as told by her daughter and closest confidante, Maria Riva, whose biography this film will be based.

　　According to a 1993 review of the book in The Independent, the biography runs 800 pages long so there’s plenty of material that writer Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones Diary & almost every period drama ever shown on the BBC!) could have taken from for his biopic which will be shot in the English-language next year.

　　It actually appears that this biopic has been floating around town for a while as a quick google search tells us that the project was actually announced in March of this year with Davies suggesting the biopic would begin with the German movie The Blue Angel, Dietrich’s breakthrough film in 1930 which won her a Hollywood contract and would prove to the beginnings of a decade of dominance where she became the highest paid actress in America.

　　The film will follow Dietrich’s time in the U.S. during WWII and her life in the 50＇s with the role of Dietrich’s one-time lover and major French actor Jean Garbin is said to have already been taken by an internationally famous French actor but no names have leaked yet.

　　The movie is apparently a passion project for Paltrow who has long admired Dietrich and the role will allow the American actress to show off her vocal talents, something she is determined to show us she can do lately with her appearance on Glee, the film Country Strong and her latest attachment to Rock of Ages.

　　The writer of Bridget Jones and Gwyneth Paltrow leading a Dietrich biopic would hardly be my desired pairing but I guess I shouldn’t hold too much of a grudge against Paltrow for having ambitions to play in the bigger leagues than she has been.