Carol Reed와 그의 영화

 
Sir Catol Reed(1906.12.30~1976.4.25)

젊어서 무대에 섰다가 영화계로 전향하여 조감독을 거쳐, 1936년 감독이 되었다.
《은행 휴일》(1938) 《별은 내려다본다》(1939) 등으로 인정받고, 1942∼1945년에는 육군 영화반에
속해, 미국의 케닌과 공동으로 대전 기록 《진정한 영광》을 제작했고 전후(戰後) 《방해자는 없애라 Odd Man Out》(1947)로 세계적 명성을 얻었으며, 영국 영화의 특기인 스릴러에 리드 자신 특유의 예술성을 가미하였다. 뒤이어 나온 《떨어진 우상 The Fallen Idol》(1948)은 어른들에 대한 미성년자들의 환멸을 주제로 한 심리적 스릴러, 《제3의 사나이 The Third Man》(1949)는 전후 빈을 배경으로 한 정치적 스릴러로서 그의 이름을 한층 더 높여 주었다. 1952년 영화감독으로서 처음으로 기사작위를 받았다. 이 밖에 《문화가 끝나는 곳》(1951) 《가난한 골목 사람들》(1955) 《열쇠》(1958) 《올리버! Oliver!》(1968, 아카데미 감독상 수상) 등의 작품이 있다.

Carol Reed is one of the finest directors of his generation, whose best work was between the mid to late forties. Reed was a very intuitive director whose own life inform many of his characters. Arguably, Reed's films are deeply personal and often deal with loss and separation that ultimately lead to isolation and death. This somewhat dark viewpoint led critic Raymond Durgnat to classify Reed as "the most imposing pessimist of the British Cinema" (1971). Reed's characters frequently occupy a twilight zone, a world of uncertainty and doubt, characters like Johnny McQueen in Odd Man Out 1947 or Holly Martins in The Third Man 1949 are at odds with themselves or their surroundings. The appropriately titled 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstasy explores the relationship between the artist Michelangelo and patron Pope Julius II of Rome in a struggle for creative freedom.

The staging of a number of his films in foreign or crime settings such as The Third Man enable Reed to occupy a world of disillusionment and pathos, whose characters often fall into a trap or become misguided by folly as we see with Willems in Outcast of the Islands 1952. Harry Lime in The Third Man occupies an underworld of sewers and vice and exploits post war shortages in Vienna to the point of misleading friends and dishonoring himself, which are close to Reed's own heart to reveal a complex nature and a brilliant mind at work.

< 1930年代의 영화 포스터, 스틸 >



It Happened in Paris campaign book, UK 1935

Laburnum Grove campaign book, UK 1936

Midshipman Easy campaign book, UK 1936

Penny Paradise campaign book, UK 1938


< 전쟁시기의 영화 1939~1945 >

Stars Look Down (UK, 1939)


Night Train to Munich (UK, 1940)

The Way Ahead (UK, 1944)


True Glory (1945)


< Odd Man Out (1947 ) >


UK poster 1947


James Mason, Kathleen Ryan


Kathleen Ryan


Kathleen Ryan, James Mason

The Fallen Idol (1948)


Poster


Bobby Henrey


Jack Hawkins, Ralph Richardson


Michele Morgan, Bobby Henrey


The Third Man (1949)

The Third Man (1949) is undisputedly Carol Reed's unrivalled masterpiece. With his extraordinary feel for atmosphere, his great talent as a story-teller and an unmistakable grasp of the subtlety of human relationships,
Reed succeeds wonderfully in translating Graham Greene's 'entertainment' about friendship and betrayal onto
celluloid without losing any of its multi-layered complexity nor its psychological undercurrents. With the help of
Robert Krasker's masterly expressionistic camera, quick-paced editing, brilliant casting and a unique musical score
he creates a black-and-white classic full of thrilling mystery, big emotion, subtle humour, delicate poetry, unforgettable images and the most atmospheric pictures of Vienna ever to be produced in film. His spectacular night photography with great shadows moving over rain-glistening streets, tilted camera angles and bizarre spatial compositions are an integral part of his visual conception and conjure an inimitably dense atmosphere of darkness, human depravity and loss, adding to the city's nightmarish quality. He does not need elaborate action, the drama lies in the poetry of the pictures.


Drahtgasse, Vienna


The elusive Harry Lime


The cat

 
Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles


Outcast of the Islands (1951)


 
Poster art work 1952

 
Kerima and Trevor Howard


 Trevor Howard

 
John Hawkesworth design sketch


Trapeze (1956)

 
Poster

 
Burt Lancaster, Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Curtis

 
Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Curtis


 Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster


Our Man in Havana (1959)

 
UK poster 1959

 
Carol Reed and Alec Guinness on the set in Havana

 
Alec Guinness

 
Noel Coward