大家一定还记得2002年斯导给大家带来的《兄弟连》(Band of brothers),国内的美剧迷也因此而迅速扩充。时隔三年,斯导带领麾下的梦工场与TNT电视网合作,再度推出西部史诗巨作《Into the west》(《西部风云》)
不同于以往传统的西部片只从白人殖民者的视角来刻画西部的开拓史,从《辛德勒名单》开始一直追求客观公正再现历史的斯导在这部《Into the west》中,从白人移民和北美本土印第安人两个不同家庭的视角来书写这段宏伟的史诗。两种截然不同的文化冲突和交流、融合,移民者建设新家园的艰辛,淘金者的暴富欲望都是此剧要表现的主题。一个是从弗吉尼亚州驾着牛车迁徙而来的车匠一家,一个是来自lakota部落的印第安人家庭,他们将一起见证美国西部史上风情诗画与血雨腥风。当然,爱情、亲情、友情绝对是任何佳作中永远也不会缺少的主题
和《兄弟连》一样,《Into the west》也是一部短剧(Mini Series),只有6集,共12小时
After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for. Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.
Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnap. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka. With the international renown of the kidnap and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant, the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.