{"id":11589,"date":"2014-01-10T03:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=11589"},"modified":"2014-01-11T19:20:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T18:20:26","slug":"le-demon-des-armes-de-joseph-h-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2014\/01\/10\/le-demon-des-armes-de-joseph-h-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Le D\u00e9mon des armes de Joseph H. Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Action Cin\u00e9ma \/ Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Temple a ressorti mercredi <i>Le D\u00e9mon des armes<\/i> (<i>Gun Crazy<\/i>, 1949) de Joseph H. Lewis dans les salles en copie restaur\u00e9e. Le film est \u00e9galement disponible \u00e0 la vente en DVD et Blu-ray dans un luxueux coffret collector \u00e9dit\u00e9 par Wild Side. Vu et revu ce classique de la s\u00e9rie B n\u2019a pas usurp\u00e9 sa r\u00e9putation de film de chevet aupr\u00e8s de nombreux cin\u00e9philes et cin\u00e9astes qui lui vouent un v\u00e9ritable culte. Il est vrai que le film de Lewis \u2013 de loin son meilleur \u2013 se distingue de la production des films noir hollywoodiens par sa fr\u00e9n\u00e9sie, ses id\u00e9es de mises en sc\u00e8ne et son sujet m\u00eame\u00a0: l\u2019amour fou d\u2019un couple de sociopathes qui se rencontrent gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une passion commune, les armes \u00e0 feu. Lewis n\u2019insiste pas tant sur les connotations phalliques et f\u00e9tichistes des pistolets \u2013 m\u00eame si dans une sc\u00e8ne Bart (John Dall) astique ses armes de collection devant Anne (Peggy Cumming) sortant de la salle de bain nue sous son peignoir blanc et enfilant des collants noirs \u2013 que sur la jouissance \u00e9prouv\u00e9e par les deux amants maudits \u00e0 vivre vite, voler beaucoup d\u2019argent, mourir jeunes et laisser de beaux cadavres\u00a0: un vrai manifeste punk avant l\u2019heure. Plus sexy que <i>Bonnie &amp; Clyde<\/i> version Arthur Penn, violent et d\u00e9cha\u00een\u00e9 (le film contourne avec intelligence les r\u00e8gles strictes de la censure de l\u2019\u00e9poque) <i>Gun Crazy<\/i> est un petit chef-d\u2019\u0153uvre fr\u00e9n\u00e9tique qui transcende les canons de la s\u00e9rie B pour s\u2019\u00e9lever au panth\u00e9on des plus beaux films du cin\u00e9ma am\u00e9ricain.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/fr\/olivierpere\/files\/2014\/01\/demon-des-armes-1949-05-g.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11591\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/fr\/olivierpere\/files\/2014\/01\/demon-des-armes-1949-05-g.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2014\/01\/demon-des-armes-1949-05-g.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2014\/01\/demon-des-armes-1949-05-g-386x280.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2014\/01\/demon-des-armes-1949-05-g-1024x741.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2014\/01\/demon-des-armes-1949-05-g-580x420.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>La r\u00e9ussite de <i>Gun Crazy<\/i>, comme le rel\u00e8ve avec justesse l\u2019essai d\u2019Eddie Muller \u00e9dit\u00e9 par Wild Side avec le film, ne doit pas \u00eatre attribu\u00e9 \u00e0 Lewis seul, petite entorse \u00e0 la politique des auteurs, malgr\u00e9 l\u2019inventivit\u00e9 de sa mise en sc\u00e8ne. Le film \u00e9tait produit par les trois fr\u00e8res King, personnages hauts en couleur devenus producteurs de polars \u00ab\u00a0hard boiled\u00a0\u00bb apr\u00e8s avoir fait fortune de mani\u00e8re douteuse (leur p\u00e8re \u00e9tait \u00ab\u00a0bootlegger\u00a0\u00bb durant la Prohibition.) Le sc\u00e9nario, d\u2019abord \u00e9crit par MacKinlay Kantor d\u2019apr\u00e8s son propre roman fut jug\u00e9 \u2013 \u00e0 raison \u2013 imparfait, trop long et gu\u00e8re cin\u00e9matographique par les trois fr\u00e8res qui en confi\u00e8rent la r\u00e9\u00e9criture \u00e0 Dalton Trumbo, talentueux sc\u00e9nariste dont la carri\u00e8re venait d\u2019\u00eatre bris\u00e9e par le Maccarthysme et dont le nom ne put appara\u00eetre au g\u00e9n\u00e9rique. Trumbo apporte au r\u00e9cit sa rigueur et sa vitesse, indiquant d\u00e8s le sc\u00e9nario certaines sc\u00e8nes qui vaudront au film sa c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9, comme ce fabuleux plan s\u00e9quence de plus de trois minutes o\u00f9 la cam\u00e9ra ne quitte pas la banquette arri\u00e8re de la voiture du couple qui arrive dans une ville pour y commettre un hold-up. Ce plan extraordinaire marquera les esprits au point d\u2019\u00eatre repris en forme d\u2019hommage par plusieurs cin\u00e9astes \u2013 y compris Joseph H. Lewis dans son film suivant, <i>A Lady Without Passport<\/i>. Citons par exemple Jean-Claude Brisseau dans <i>Les Savates du bon dieu<\/i> et Harmony Korine dans <i>Spring Breakers<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Quand au couple vedette et amoral, il d\u00e9tonne encore aujourd\u2019hui par son anticonformisme. Loin des personnages de gangsters virils John Dall interpr\u00e8te un Bart fragile, incapable de tirer pour tuer malgr\u00e9 sa dext\u00e9rit\u00e9 dans le maniement des armes, antih\u00e9ros dont la virginit\u00e9 est subtilement sous-entendue, tandis que Peggy Cumming compose un personnage de garce animale et sans foi ni loi, obs\u00e9d\u00e9e par l\u2019argent et le plaisir enfantin de la transgression jusqu\u2019au meurtre, aux antipodes des femmes fatales sophistiqu\u00e9es du film noir hollywoodien.<br \/>\nVictime de la concurrence d\u00e9loyale d\u2019autres films, du scepticisme de la presse et d\u2019un retitrage idiot (\u00ab\u00a0Deadly Is the Female\u00a0\u00bb) <i>Gun Crazy<\/i> fut paradoxalement le seul \u00e9chec commercial des fr\u00e8res King, entrepreneurs avis\u00e9s, malins en affaires et en publicit\u00e9. Mais <i>Gun Crazy<\/i> demeure leur grand titre de gloire (posthume) et leur permet de briller \u00e0 tout jamais, ainsi que tout ceux qui particip\u00e8rent au film, au firmament \u00e9toil\u00e9 de la cin\u00e9philie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action Cin\u00e9ma \/ Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Temple a ressorti mercredi Le D\u00e9mon des armes (Gun Crazy, 1949) de Joseph H. Lewis\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":11590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Le D\u00e9mon des armes de Joseph H. 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