片名：沉默的守卫
摄影：Jim Freeman & Larry Peterson
音乐：Mariano Moreno
导演：Robert Amram
剪辑：Alex Beaton
年代：1971
色彩：Color
时长：19 mins
出品：Paramount Pictures
获奖：1971年嘎纳影展金棕榈提名；1972年奥斯卡最佳纪录短片及最佳短片奖。
这部经典的墨西哥美国合拍纪录片在当年赢得了奥斯卡两项大奖，也是史上唯一一部同时获得奥斯卡最佳纪录短片和最佳动作短片的作品。它所拍摄的是位于中美洲地区几个著名的玛雅和阿兹台克文化遗址，配上莫雷诺宏大的交响配乐和奥逊-威尔斯的解说，叙述了前哥伦布时代玛雅人在天文及数学上的成就，并试图寻找玛雅社会消失的原因，只留下这些宏伟的建筑成为古老文明永远沉默的守卫者。影片最突出之处在于精彩的空中摄影，堪称航拍的教科书。全片4/5的场景都是高空摄影，一些镜头拍得相当有冲击力，比如一个从石碑的特写然后机位缓慢向后上方旋拉直至高空的长镜头，还有一段直升机在电闪雷鸣的暴风雨中拍摄神庙的场景也非常震撼，即使今天也很难看到一部电影能将玛雅遗址拍得如此神圣而庄严。
Sentinels of Silence provides an 18-minute helicopter-based aerial visit across the archeological sites of Mayan ruins across Mexico and Central America, including Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Mitla, Tulum, Palenque, Chichen Itza and Uxmal. The film's narration details pre-Columbian Mayan culture, focusing on its achievements in mathematics and astronomy, and then questions how and why the Mayan society seemed to disappear, leaving behind its structures as the eponymous silent sentinels.
Robert Amram was born in Budapest, Hungary, educated in London and now lives and works in Los Angeles. He is an award-winning filmmaker whose work includes features, documentaries, commercials and large format Imax films. "Sentinels Of Silence", his celebrated film on the ancient civilizations of Mexico, was shot almost entirely from a helicopter and won 2 Academy Awards, a unique achievement for a documentary short subject. Other award-winning productions were "The Message", a short film based on Chrief Seattle's famous speech about the environment and "Pacific Challenege" a feature documentary about a raft expedition from Ecuador to Australia.
His "The Late Great Planet Earth" was one of the top grossing documentary pictures ever released. Featuring Orson Welles, it was based on the best-selling book by Hal Lindsey. Other credits include "The Great Eclipse" for PBS and his latest TV film "What Makes Jeffrey Tick", which examines the rise and fall of the infamous Lord Jeffrey Archer. His latest production is "Clipperton: Isla de la Pasion", a feature documentary about an island in the Pacific with a turbulent and dramatic history.
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