电影和演员都是好的.
但是确实由于时代关系,我们看的东西太多,
对此很难引起大的共鸣,所以,我们只能觉得是个中上的片.

咖啡店的早晨，落魄的艾迪和美丽神秘的女子莎拉相遇了，两个人很快住在了一起，两个人的背后都有着一些故事。两个人住在廉价的房间里 一段时间整天就是喝酒做爱，不谈任何感情，也不谈各自的故事，彼此像陌生人一样住在一起。终有一天，莎拉表达了自己对艾迪的爱意，并希望能够激励艾迪。但艾迪始终没有说出那三个字。关于最后面女人的死我的看法是女人希望通过自己的死来让男人看清楚一些事情，然后真正成熟起来。。

In a nutshell, The Hustler, and its sequel – The Color of Money – twenty-odd years later, are films about the relationships among a talented but immature young man, his love interest, and the seasoned veteran who exploits / trains the young man’s talent.

Of course, this is a serious over-generalization; still, it would be interesting to compare the two films, a quarter of a century apart, not the least because of Paul Newman, who stars in the same role in both films.

What to me was most impressive about The Hustler was the opening. The charismatic Mr. Newman – and boy does he appear so young! – captures the audience effortlessly, with that big and almost childish (but nonetheless potently charming) smile. If I were female I would probably have fallen for Mr. Newman at that instant – and by saying so I am probably already revealing too much of my fondness for this actor.

But of course, the film would not be a classic if it were simply a stage for Mr. Newman’s sex appeal. And the light humor of the film’s opening is deceptive, in that the rest of this 135 minute film is decidedly somber.

Mr. Newman, who plays “Fast” Eddie Felson, is a talented young pool hustler – that is, he makes money by playing and gambling at the pool table. When he losses an opportunity to beat Minnesota Fats, who is “the best player” in the country, he is determined to stick around until he has enough money to challenge Fats again. In the process, he hooks up with a mysterious young girl named Sarah (Piper Laurie, in an Oscar-nominated role), and seeks out a sly gambler / bookmaker (Bert, played by George C. Scott) to help him raise money.

Eddie’s relationship with Sarah is a fragile one – both do not talk about their respective histories, and at face value their relationship seems to be blank besides the physical pleasures. However underneath the silence is their obvious and straightforward affection for each other, and you get the sense that, despite their past pains, and the uncertainties ahead, this young couple is willing to risk their hearts for love.

The film is clever in setting up this fragile relationship first, and then insert Bert the semi-antagonist into the picture, thus changing the dynamics. Sarah appears to see through Bert, and vice versa; Eddie, on the other hand, is desperate enough to be willingly exploited. The film’s climax is presented when Eddie is forced to make a choice.

As someone else commented, the brilliance of The Hustler is how it directs the audience. For almost two whole hours, the audience eagerly awaits the rematch between Eddie and Fats, and all the while we have probably already developed various scenarios of how it would look like in our heads – but by the time it does happen, the film has already turned in another direction, and while the rematch is as we had expected, we have been taught a bigger lesson – that there are more things to life than winning and losing.

8/10

http://www.dani19.com/2009/03/16/the-hustler-1961/

很多人在纠结于女主角的死，这样的水平不适合写影评。
片中的重点是mask也就是面具，以及胜负的概念究竟是什么，女主角的死是在探讨生的意义和目标。
此时这个问题进一步复杂了，因为【如果】撕掉面具，人们能不能坦然面对自己？女主角很虎比地、自以为勇敢地撕掉了面具来面对自己时，就是觉得twisted，（这个单词就不翻译了，解释也不好解释），原始，无内容。这是说自己也是说那个有钱小伙也是在说男主角。在她的角度看所有人都是这样，坦诚面对世界，结果就是死。
然而死是为了探讨生的意义，女主角眼里所有人都是苟活者，都没有真正的目标，都是戴面具的小猥琐。
到这里更进一步的问题出现了，带着面具苟活着 还是坦诚的去死（当然坦诚不一定只有死这一个结果，电影需要气氛所以将这一问题极端化），究竟该怎么办？
女主角的死，就是这么个情况。
男主角对于胜负的概念，希望胜，但究竟什么是胜这个男主角不是为了钱这比较显然。他倾向于战胜那个胖子（堂堂正正的将球打赢），但他付出的代价不小，出卖他的my girl给人玩，总体来说是不择手段的想他的【目标】前进，最后他的目标达成了。
最后一个问题出现了，这个目标是不是一个正确的目标？也就是生的目地究竟是什么？
影片总体来说是一次思考。当然这样的问题目前是没有人能给出答案的。
但是，到这里女主角为什么就死了，这里已经有了答案。
请发表不同意见。

我看完影片一直惊叹1961年的影片现在看起来还是这么“Diao”！

影片讲述一个有着台球天份的青年如何用着自己的方式沉浮于世态炎凉中，中间有着精彩的台球表演、有着刻骨铭心的爱情，当然还有着“The Hustler”所代表着的那些“精明的算计者们”的虚伪与真实。影片虽然两个多小时，但是基本没有多余的情节和废话，台词更是扣人心弦，均来源于精彩的改编。

因为角色的饱满，出场的每一个主要演员都出色无比，保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman的银幕魅力完全控制了影片，乔治 C·斯科特 George C. Scott、Jackie Gleason、派珀·劳瑞 Piper Laurie表现了不一般的掌控角色能力。

当然影片的经典还来源于Robert Rossen完美的调度和Eugen Schüfftan伟大的摄影以及场景的真实布景。

2007-12-12

艾迪是遊走於撞球界玩世不恭的撞球高手兼老千，自視甚高的艾迪最大目標是在撞球界稱王，首先他要挑戰的便是傳奇人物明尼蘇達胖子，太急於求勝而心浮氣躁的艾迪，終究失敗了。頹喪落魄的他在此時遇見了患有小兒麻痺的奇女子莎拉，兩人在低潮中陷入熱戀，但艾迪一直被撞球界的名利所蒙蔽，仍欲東山再起，殊不知這卻是他即將身陷的另一個危機。