By Jeph Duarte | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-08-21 19:00:00
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《快攻》 (Fast Break) 这部电影由因主演*《欢迎归来，科特先生》*(Welcome Back, Kotter) 而闻名的加布·卡普兰 (Gabe Kaplan) 担纲，他饰演的角色名叫大卫·格林 (David Greene)。电影开场时，格林正在布鲁克林打野球，随后与一群年轻球员走进了酒吧。在交谈中，他为这些年轻人分析了他们的比赛，并向他们讲解了鲍勃·库西 (Bob Cousy) 的传奇故事。
一次偶然的机会，大卫·格林获得了一份在卡德瓦拉德大学 (Cadwallader University) 执教一支新成立的男子篮球队的工作。这所学校与其说是一所大学，不如说是个空壳子。他们给格林的条件是每赢一场比赛奖励50美元，如果能击败全美十强之一的内华达州立大学，他将获得一份为期三年、年薪3万美元的合同。
格林首先招募了一群来自纽约的街球手，组成了一支杂牌军。这些球员将获得所谓的“奖学金”进入卡德瓦拉德大学就读。球队成员包括：由名人堂成员伯纳德·金 (Bernard King) 饰演的“Hustler”，由两届NCAA冠军得主迈克尔·沃伦 (Michael Warren) 扮演的“Preacher”，由杜兰大学历史上第一位获得篮球奖学金的非裔美国人哈罗德·西尔维斯特 (Harold Sylvester) 饰演的“D.C.”，以及由篮球兼排球教练梅维斯·华盛顿 (Mavis Washington) 出演的“Swish”——这也是她唯一一部职业电影作品。
格林和他的球员们开着一辆旅行车穿越全国。途中，一辆警车鸣着警笛、闪着警灯疾驰而来，吓得他们不得不吞掉一磅重的大麻，结果却发现警车只是路过而已。
抵达校园后，他们发现眼前的建筑破败不堪，体育馆也摇摇欲坠。格林和这群纽约客见到了球队名单上现有的球员——简直是些歪瓜裂枣。
理所当然地，一部由加布·卡普兰主演的电影，其剧本和表演都充满了喜剧色彩。影片的笑点源自球员们所处的窘境、他们格格不入的处境以及各种俏皮的单句台词。
在影片的高潮部分，格林终于迎来了与内华达州立大学对决的机会。然而，球队声名鹊起也惊动了纽约市警察局（NYPD），他们来到比赛现场，准备逮捕D.C.。
即便在上映的那个年代，*《快攻》*也被认为是一部情节老套但娱乐性十足的电影。影片充斥着迪斯科风格的热门金曲和70年代的老式笑料，结局虽在意料之中，却同样令人心满意足。这绝对是一部适合在周六下午观看的怀旧佳片。
值得一提的是，劳伦斯·菲什伯恩 (Laurence Fishburne) 也在片中出演了他早期的角色之一。
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Basketball movie of the week: Fast Break
Fast Break starts with Gabe Kaplan, of Welcome Back, Kotter fame, as David Greene. When the film starts, Greene is playing pick up ball in Brooklyn before hitting the bar with a bunch of young players. In the midst of their conversation, he breaks down their game and explains Bob Cousy to them.
On a lark, David is offered a coaching job of a newly formed men’s basketball team at Cadwallader University. The school, more of a sham than anything, offers Greene $50 per win and the promise of a $30,000 a year contract for three years if he is able to beat Nevada State, a top ten school.
Greene begins by gathering a ragtag group of New York street ballers who will get “scholarships” to attend Cadwallader. The team includes Hustler, played by Hall of Fame Bernard King, Preacher, played by two-time NCAA Champion Michael Warren, D.C., played by Harold Sylvester, the first African American to receive a basketball scholarship from Tulane, and “Swish” performed by Mavis Washington, a basketball and volleyball coach in her only professional film role.
Greene and his players drive across country in a station wagon. At one point, a police car comes racing with sirens and lights, forcing them to eat a pound of marijuana before discovering the cruiser was just passing by.
Upon arriving to the campus, they find a run down buildings with a broken down gym. Greene and the New Yorkers meet the current players on the roster, slim pickings
As it stands to reason, a film with Gabe Kaplan is written and performed as a comedy, the humor coming from the circumstances of the players, the fish out of water aspect, and one-liners.
In the film’s climax, Greene gets his shot against Nevada State, but the team’s rise in popularity has alerted NYPD, who come to the game to arrest D.C.
Even in its day, Fast Break was considered passé yet entertaining. Complete with disco-based hits and 70s gags, the ending is predictable but satisfying all the same. Definitely a good Saturday afternoon throwback flick.
The film also features Laurence Fishburne in one of his earliest roles.
By Jeph Duarte, via Pounding The Rock