Champagne and Bullets belongs on the Mount Rushmore of bad movies
Champagne and Bullets belongs on the Mount Rushmore of bad movies
《香槟与子弹》足以跻身“烂片总统山”
There’s something about a movie like The Room, Troll 2, or Fateful Findings that I find irresistible. These sorts of “so bad they’re good” films are marvelous curiosities where ambition far outstrips resources, ability, and self-awareness to become something much greater than the sum of their parts. Champagne and Bullets (also released as GetEven and Road to Revenge) is a film on par with those classics of outsider cinema.
像《房间》（The Room）、《魔精2》（Troll 2）或《命运的发现》（Fateful Findings）这类电影，总有一种让我无法抗拒的魔力。这些“烂到极致反而好看”的电影是奇妙的怪胎，它们的野心远远超出了资源、能力和自我认知的范畴，最终呈现出一种远超其各部分总和的独特魅力。《香槟与子弹》（Champagne and Bullets，曾用名《GetEven》和《Road to Revenge》）正是这样一部足以与那些邪典电影经典相提并论的作品。
The movie is almost entirely the work of one man, John De Hart. Hart wrote, directed, and stars as Rick Bode in the film. He even performs a musical number early in the proceedings — The bizarre “Shimmy Slide.” During the performance, Hart, who was reportedly pumped full of painkillers after throwing out his back, is stiff and looks around the room as if he’s only performing under threat of violence. And somehow, this lifeless performance of a cringy country rocker isn’t the most awkward scene in the movie.
这部电影几乎完全是一个人的作品：约翰·德·哈特（John De Hart）。哈特身兼编剧、导演，并亲自饰演片中的主角里克·博德（Rick Bode）。他甚至在电影开场不久就表演了一段音乐——那首诡异的“Shimmy Slide”。据报道，哈特当时因为闪了腰，被止痛药灌得满满当当，他在表演时身体僵硬，眼神四处游离，仿佛是在暴力威胁下才被迫登台。然而，这段毫无生气的尴尬乡村摇滚表演，竟然还不是片中最令人尴尬的场景。
The relationships and interactions between characters in Champagne and Bullets are just as inexplicable and unnatural as those in The Room. Bode and his partner Huck Finney are cops who lose their badges five minutes into the movie. This precipitates the alarmingly quick mental decline of Finney, who is also going through a divorce after discovering his wife has been sleeping around. He fires a handgun through his bills, drinks bleach to get out of prison, and seemingly starts a cult.
《香槟与子弹》中角色之间的关系和互动，与《房间》一样令人费解且极不自然。博德和他的搭档哈克·芬尼（Huck Finney）是两名警察，电影开始五分钟后就丢了警徽。这导致了芬尼精神状态的急剧恶化——他当时正因发现妻子出轨而经历离婚。他对着账单开枪，为了出狱喝下漂白剂，甚至还莫名其妙地建立了一个邪教。
Oh, and speaking of cults, a good portion of the plot revolves around the reemergence of Bode’s old girlfriend Cindy, who is fleeing a satanic coven that “sacrificed a human baby.”
哦，说到邪教，剧情的很大一部分围绕着博德的前女友辛迪（Cindy）的回归展开，她正在逃离一个“献祭了人类婴儿”的撒旦教派。
While ostensibly an action film, the fight scenes are few and far between, and staged with all the believability of a theme park stunt show. Hart seemed far more interested in cramming in as much gratuitous nudity as possible. There are three uncomfortably long sex scenes with costar Pamela Bryant, who plays Cindy, all set to songs sung by Hart. In total, they take up 12 minutes of runtime in a movie that is only 90 minutes long. One scene that takes place in a jacuzzi apparently even led Hart’s girlfriend at the time to break up with him. (Warning: One scene not involving Hart and Bryant does depict a sexual assault.)
虽然名义上是一部动作片，但片中的打斗场面少之又少，且表演得像主题公园的特技表演一样毫无说服力。哈特似乎更热衷于塞进尽可能多的无意义裸露镜头。他与饰演辛迪的搭档帕梅拉·布莱恩特（Pamela Bryant）有三场令人不适的长篇性爱戏，背景音乐全都是哈特自己唱的歌。这些戏份总共占据了90分钟片长的12分钟。其中一场在按摩浴缸里的戏，据说甚至导致哈特当时的女友与他分手。（警告：片中有一场不涉及哈特和布莱恩特的戏份描绘了性侵犯。）
If you’re a fan of bad movies, cult classics, or the podcast How Did This Get Made, you owe it to yourself to go watch Champagne and Bullets. It’s available on Hoopla, Amazon Prime, and Tubi.
如果你是烂片、邪典经典或播客《How Did This Get Made》的粉丝，你一定要找机会看看《香槟与子弹》。该片目前可在 Hoopla、Amazon Prime 和 Tubi 上观看。