8. Bedtime for Bonzo
《君子红颜》
As President, he ended the Cold War. But Ronald Regan's greatest cinematic accomplishment saw him dealing with a conflict of a completely different kind: the question of nature versus nurture, as explored through the upbringing of a kooky, pajama-wearing chimpanzee. The 1951 comedy Bedtime for Bonzostarred the then-future leader of the free world as Professor Peter Boyd, who attempts to raise a chimp and teach it human behavior to solve the age-old quandry of whether an individual's innate qualities or life experiences matter most in their personal development. And of course there's a lady-friend that gets mixed up in the shenanigans... Boyd hires a woman (Diana Lynn) to pose as Bonzo's mother, while he plays the father.
作为总统,里根结束了冷战。但在这部奠定他影史地位的影片中,里根却要面对一个完全不同的棘手问题:通过养育猴子来探究“先天”和“后天”对人性的影响。《君子红颜》拍摄于1951年,彼时的里根尚未登上总统宝座。他在片中饰演皮特·伯义德教授,养了一只行为古怪、喜穿睡衣的大猩猩。伯义德试图教这只猩猩从事人类行为,进而探究在人类发展过程中,到底是先天因素占主导,还是后天经历更重要。当然,此类插科打诨的电影少不了一位女主……伯义德雇了一名女助手(戴安娜·琳饰)扮演猩猩的生母,自己则扮演生父。
Banana Bonus: Ronald Regan bottle-feeding a chimp!
看点:罗纳德·里根给猩猩喂奶!(别误会,是用奶瓶喂的。)
原标题:盘点与猴有关的经典电影