求毛姆的《A Friend In Need 患难之交》的评析，最好是英语的，短一点。

发布网友发布时间：2022-10-11 22:00

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热心网友时间：2023-10-15 08:50

There's something to be said for A FRIEND IN NEED, which is the best episode of the CONAN THE ADVENTURER series that I've seen so far. It's not better shot than the others, and the script is still filled with bad writing, something that plagued the series for its entire run. A FRIEND IN NEED, one of the better episodes, is obviously not immune to the problems caused by the untalented people who worked on the rest of the series. My criticism of the series overall, that the nature of Conan has been changed to little more than happy go lucky nice guy in a loincloth stands, as does my distaste for his cohorts who are too lame to be in anything based off of the work of R. E. Howard, much less his best known creation. In spite of these things, this episode does capture a smidgen of what makes the Conan stories fun to read. At this point, R. E. Howard buffs have hit the "not helpful" button at the bottom of the review, but before the rest of you (those who read my comments, although I'm not sure how many actually do...) do the same, bear with me as I explain.

The story of this episode sees an old friend of Conan meet up with him, a character played by Bodybuilder/martial-artist/B-list actor Matthias Hues, and immediately takes a notice of his impressive "Atlantean" sword. It turns out that he's actually in league with a cult and plans to take Conan's sword making himself the most powerful swordsman around, which is a lot of blah that doesn't mean much at all since the cult is made up of scrawny extras in blue paint wielding some crappy looking prop swords. What makes this episode a bit more interesting than most is the fact that Ralf Moeller finally has a physical match in German muscle man Matthias Hues. Neither of these guys are great actors, and they don't add much to the episode, but for once, Conan seems to be the character he should be. He's loud, obnoxious and drunk, pugnacious to a fault, while still being charismatic enough not to be boring. Hues' character also has the added benefit of bringing out the past history of Conan, although this is unfortunately told instead of shown. This is undercut by his friends, who nag him constantly about the trustworthiness of his friend, and even though they're correct, they drain a lot of the fun from this episode.

The stunt work is pretty much par the course, but with the final fight scene being a standout. It's rushed, and poorly shot too: either the camera jiggles about trying to capture the action or it's stuck at a bland mid-length angle that's obviously easy to set up, but boring for the audience to watch. The choreography, really is pretty lame, just actors clinking their weapons against each other, with little done to make them appear as masterful fighters trying to kill each other, or stylizing the combat to make it artful and engrossingly unreal. However, the opposing brutes make for a good el, even as they spout pointless, made up, and obviously unresearched platitudes about swordsmanship. For once, Moeller's opponent looks like he's capable of actually doing some damage, lending, for a short time, some danger to the proceedings, which the rest of the series really could've used. So A FRIEND IN NEED manages to be a relatively entertaining forty odd minutes, even if it can easily be made fun of and criticized. It's faults are merely those that are inherent in the series as a whole (faults which are also seen in most of the TV versions of the heroic fantasy genre). This is still a decent way to waste some time, and one of the better episodes of CONAN THE ADVENTURER

热心网友时间：2023-10-15 08:51

患难见真情