《海上鋼琴師》--值得深思的義大利電影
托納托雷經典作品——海上鋼琴師
導演--吉賽貝·托納多雷 (Giuseppe Tornatore)
主演--蒂姆·羅斯Tim Roth 飾1900
普魯特·泰勒·文斯Pruitt Taylor Vince飾 Max Tooney
梅蘭妮·蒂埃里Mélanie Thierry飾 女孩
片長--90分鐘
海上鋼琴師--劇情--
1900年的第一天，往返於歐美兩地的郵輪Virginian號上，負責郵輪上添加煤炭的工人Danny Boodman在頭等艙上欲撿拾有錢人殘留下來的事物時，卻意外的在鋼琴上發現一個被遺棄的新生兒，裝在TD牌檸檬的空紙箱内。由於堅信“TD”正代表了 Thanks Danny的縮寫，於是Danny不顧其他工人的嘲笑，獨立撫育這個嬰兒，並爲了紀念這特别的一天，將他取名爲：1900，丹尼曼頓·TD·萊蒙·1900。
1900開始一天一天的長大，他一直由丹尼所撫養，而客輪自然也成了他出生以來的家。海上出生的1900，在陸地上卻是個從未存在的人，沒有親人、沒有戶籍，也沒有國籍，大海便是他的搖籃，而他也隨着Virginian號往返靠泊各個碼頭，逐漸長大。然而好景不常，一次的海上意外事件，造成撫養1900的Danny意外喪生，幸而奇蹟似的，某天深夜船，船上的乘客意外的被美妙的鋼琴聲所吵醒，原來那正是鋼琴天才1900所彈奏的，也因此，1900才得以留在船上，成為了一名海上鋼琴師。
隨著1900逐漸成熟，1900的演奏技藝已經是名聞遐邇，但是1900卻從來都沒有下過船。
MAX是名很有天分的小號手，在Virginian號的樂團演奏，深深為1900的才華所折服，並與1900成為了知己，多次勸說1900下船去開始全新的人生均以失敗告終，1900的回答是，陸地上的生活我不羨慕....
爵士樂創始人謝利，聽說1900可以把十種爵士樂混合在一起彈奏便決意一較高下，謝利的目的不過是想提高自己聲望罷了，對於這種對手，無慾無求的1900給足了機會和面子，起初並沒有拿出真功夫與之較量，但介於謝利的一再強勢逼迫和MAX的埋怨，1900用自己精湛的琴藝震撼了全場聽眾....
一天下午，1900邂逅了一名美妙的女子，1900一見鍾情但是又無法表達愛慕之意，於是將愛慕之意灌注在琴聲上。1900只想再度見到那名女子，隨著每一次的擦身而過，更使的1900愛慕之意越增強烈，但是女子已經下了船，1900要為了愛情踏入陌生的陸地，但當他站在甲板與陸地之間望向城市時，他的心意再次莫名的轉變了，他轉身固執的回到了甲板上。
1900生命中唯一一次嘗試接近陸地，不是因為其所見而失敗，而是因為他所不見，正如鋼琴鍵盤上有限的88個琴鍵能彈出無限的音樂篇章，而無限的琴鍵則什麼都彈不出來一樣。陸地對於1900來說，是艘太大的船；美得過分的美人；過於濃烈的香水....
1900坦言無法面對陸地上生活的無限抉擇，於是他留了下來，在戰時，沒有人跳舞時，炸彈掉下來時，還是在彈琴.....
戰爭結束了，Virginian號由於年久失修而即將被炸掉，MAX聽說這一消息後急忙趕到碼頭阻止工人繼續向船上搬運炸藥，因為他堅信，有一個人還在裡面。
Max找到了1900，並試圖讓1900跟他一起下船，可是他無法接受陸地的廣大，更難以離開他一直以來唯一的家。最後，船被炸掉了，而1900，這個既沒有出生紀錄，也沒有身份證明的人，沒有留下一點痕蹟就在人間蒸發，就如流逝了的音符一樣，渺無蹤影了。海總是載滿了回憶的，無論它是快樂的，希望或不堪回首……
1900這位誕生於海上的音樂奇才，精采不凡且富爭議的一生。配樂由大師顏尼歐．莫瑞克奈坐鎮執掌。其曆年作品已超過500部，風格跨越爵士、流行、前衛、古典及最著名的Spaghetti Western，顏尼歐．莫瑞克奈以71歲高齡之姿，再度譜寫指揮出“海上鋼琴師”的恢宏氣勢與細膩情感，全然不見老態。
編制中並延攬Amedeo Tommasi、Gilda Butta等鋼琴獨奏家，演繹 Jelly Roll Morton及Scott Joplin等散拍樂名家的代表作品，全輯最具話題性的當屬顏尼歐．莫瑞克奈與前Pink Floyd 平克弗羅伊德大將Rogers Waters，重搖滾樂Van Helen當家吉他手Edward Van Helen三巨頭首度合作的電影主題曲“Lost Boy Calling失去的呼喚”，悠遠飄渺，增添幾許傳奇深度。世紀末回首世紀初葉最動人的海洋傳奇巨作已經誕生。
《海上鋼琴師》 —— 精彩台詞
Why why why why why... I think land people waste a lot of time wondering why. Winter comes they can't wait for summer; summer comes they're living drilled of winter. That's why you're never tired of travelling, with chasing some place far away, where there's always summer. That doesn't sound like a good bet to me.
“All that city. You just couldn't see the end to it. The end? Please? You please just show me where it ends? It was all very fine on that gangway. And I was grand too, in my overcoat. I cut quite a figure. And I was getting off. Guaranteed. There was no problem. It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max. It was what I didn't see. You understand that? What I didn't see. In all that sprawling city there was everything except an end. There was no end. What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end. The end of the world... ”
“Take a piano. The keys begin, the keys end. You know there are eightyeight of them, nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You are infinite. And on these keys the music that you can make is infinite. I like that. That I can live by. ”
“You get me up on that gangway and you're rolling out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end, and that's the truth, Max. That they never end. That keyboard is infinite. And if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play. You're sitting on the wrong bench. That's God's piano. ”
“Christ! Did, did you see the streets? Just the streets… There were thousands of them! And how do you do it down there？How do you choose just one? One woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die... ”
“All that world is weighing down on me, you don't even know where it comes to an end, and aren't you ever just scared of breaking apart at the thought of it? The enormity of living it? ”
“I was born on this ship, and the world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time. And there were wishes here,but never more than fit between prow and stern. You played out your happiness, but on a piano that was not infinite. I learned to live that way. ”
“Land? Land is a ship too big for me. It's a woman too beautiful; it's a voyage too long, a perfume too strong. It's a music I don't know how to make. I could never get off this ship. At best, I can step off my life. After all, I don't exist for anyone. You're an exception, Max, you're the only one who knows I'm here. You're a minority, and you better get used to it. Forgive me, my friend, but I'm not getting off.
1900他是一個音樂天才，當繈褓中的他被丟棄在維吉尼亞號上等艙舞廳的鋼琴上時，就注定了他與之一生的羈絆。對無師自通的他而言，鋼琴是摯友、是語言、是眼睛、是心靈、是畫布、是文字，更是空氣和呼吸。