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8月4日放送予定の「刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者」は若い頃に観た映画だ。1985年公開なのでもう40年前ということになる。
NHKのHPには以下のように内容が紹介されている。
父親を亡くしたアーミッシュの少年サミュエルは、母親レイチェルとともに伯母の住むボルティモアへと向かう途中、フィラデルフィア駅で殺人事件を目撃する。担当刑事ジョン・ブックは、サミュエルの証言から、警察組織の不正を直感する。犯人たちに命を狙われ傷ついたブックは、母子が住むアーミッシュの村に身を隠すが…。ハリソン・フォード主演、名匠ピーター・ウィアー監督の傑作サスペンス。アカデミー脚本、編集賞受賞。
これを映画館で観たのかレンタルビデオで観たのかも記憶が定かでない。アーミッシュの生活というのをこの映画で初めて知ったことは確かだと思うが映画のストーリはほぼ忘れている。
映画の内容を確認したいと思いWikipediaを探した。Wikipediaでの説明はこちら。これはこれで今でも便利だ。しかしふと「AIに聞いたら教えてくれるのかな」と思った。
gemma-4-26B-A4B（400億パラメタ）
最近お気に入りのローカルAIgemma-4-26B-A4Bを立ち上げ、Pi-Coding-Agentから質問してみた。
１回目
USER: 映画「刑事ジョンブック」のあらすじを４００字程度でまとめて
ASSISTANT: 映画『刑事ジョン・ブック』（原題: John Wick）のあらすじを約400字でまとめます。
かつて伝説的な殺し屋として恐れられたジョン・ウィックは、愛する妻を亡くした後、静かな隠遁生活を送っていた。そんな彼のもとに、ある日、元同僚の息子が強奪した愛車と共に、亡き妻が遺した最後の手がかりである子犬が現れる。
しかし、その強盗の一団がジョンに踏み込み、愛犬を殺害するという取り返しのつかない事件を引き起こしてしまう。妻との唯一の絆であった愛犬を失ったジョンは、怒りに突き動かされ、再び復讐の道へと身を投じる。
かつての仲間や、裏社会のルールに縛られた冷酷な殺し屋たちを次々と葬っていくジョン。圧倒的な戦闘技術と、執念とも言える凄まじい執着心で、彼は仇敵を追い詰めていく。愛する者を奪われた男の、容赦のない報復劇が幕を開ける。
全然別の映画を紹介してきた。確かに「ジョン・ウイック」（原題: John Wick）という映画はあるようだけど。
私が映画のタイトルを正確に伝えていなかったからかな〜と思ってもう一度聞いてみた。
２回目
USER: 映画「刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者」のあらすじを４００字程度でまとめて
ASSISTANT: 大変失礼いたしました。先ほどは『ジョン・ウィック』と混同してしまいました。
映画『刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者』（原題: Witness for the Prosecution）のあらすじを、改めて約400字でまとめます。
物語の舞台は第二次世界大戦直後のイギリス。敏腕弁護士サー・ウィリアム・アーロンソンは、有力者の妻を殺害した罪に問われた、一見誠実そうな男レナード・ヴォールを弁護することになる。
レナードは無実を主張し、有力な証言者として、彼に恋心を抱く女性ミラを立てる。彼女の証言により、レナードは無罪を勝ち取るかと思われたが、事件は思わぬ方向へと転がり始める。実は、ミラには彼を陥れるための巧妙な計画があり、裁判の裏には誰もが予想しなかった衝撃的な真実が隠されていたのだ。
アガサ・クリスティの傑作を映画化した本作は、法廷劇としての緊張感と、人間の狡猾さ、そして人間の心理の深淵を描き出している。観客は、緻密に張り巡らされた罠と、最後に明かされる鮮やかな大どんでん返しに、息を呑むことになる。
また別の映画を紹介してきた。邦題「情婦」で原題 Witness for the Prosecutionという映画)も確かにあるようだが😞。。
邦題と原題を正確に与えてもう一度試してみた。
３回目
USER: 1985年公開のアメリカ映画「刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者」原題：Witnessのあらすじを４００字程度でまとめて
ASSISTANT: 大変失礼いたしました。度重なる間違い、深くお詫び申し上げます。
1985年公開、クリントン・グリーン監督、ジェーン・フォンダ主演の映画『刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者』（原題: Witness）のあらすじを、改めて約400字でまとめます。
舞台は1960年代のニューヨーク。刑事が犯罪組織の巨大な利権を暴こうとした際、その捜査の過程で、目撃者となった一人の少年が組織の暗殺者に命を狙われる。
凄惨な事件の目撃者となった少年を保護するため、刑事が選んだ方法は、彼を日常から切り離し、ある牧師の家庭へと預けることだった。牧師とその家族は、規律と信仰を重んじる穏やかな生活を送っていたが、少年の存在は、静かなコミュニティに予期せぬ緊張と変化をもたらしていく。
少年は、家族の温かさや信仰の在り方に触れる中で、次第に心を閉ざした状態から変化していく。一方、組織の追跡は着実に彼らに迫り、平穏な生活は崩壊の危機に直面する。
犯罪の闇と、牧師一家が守り続ける純粋な信念。対照的な二つの世界が交錯する中、少年を守り抜くための緊迫した戦いと、人間としての成長を描いたドラマチックな物語である。
ストーリーはほぼ正しいのだが監督名と主演俳優をしっかり間違えている。ハルシネーションというやつか。
gemma-4-26B-A4Bは軽量で応答が早く私のお気に入りであるのだがこの種のタスクには向いていないことが分かった。
これで終わろうかと思ったが試しにgemma-4-31Bにも聞いてみた。
gemma-4-31B（3100億パラメタ）
あらすじ
USER: 1985年公開のアメリカ映画「刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者」原題：Witnessのあらすじを４００字程度でまとめて
ASSISTANT: 1985年公開の映画『刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者』は、都会的な刑事と伝統を重んじるアーミッシュのコミュニティとの交流を描いた人間ドラマであり、サスペンスです。
フィラデルフィアで起きた殺害事件の唯一の目撃者は、アーミッシュの少年でした。警官のジョン・ブックは少年を保護するため、彼が住むペンシルベニア州の静かな集落へと向かいます。近代文明を拒絶し、信仰と伝統を守り抜くアーミッシュの世界に戸惑いながらも、ブックは少年の親族である女性レイチェルに惹かれていきます。
しかし、事件の真相は警察内部の腐敗に繋がっており、口封じを狙う追っ手が集落を襲います。異なる価値観を持つ者たちが、少年の命を守るために共闘し、正義を貫こうとする姿が描かれます。静寂の中にある精神的な豊かさと、激しいアクションが対比的に表現された名作です。
まともなあらすじが返ってきた。しかしgemma-4-31Bは応答が遅い。プロンプトの評価とThinking中の時間が約3分、回答出力速度が2.9トークン/秒であった。
俳優と監督
このレベルの回答をもう少し早く出力してくれればWikipedia代わりに使ってもよさそうな気がするのだがどうだろう。あらすじ以外の情報も聞いてみた。
USER: 映画の主演俳優と監督を教えて
ASSISTANT: 映画『刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者』の主演俳優と監督は以下の通りです。
- 主演俳優：ハリソン・フォード（ジョン・ブック役）
- 監督：ピーター・ウィアー
USER: その他の主な出演者は誰？
ASSISTANT: 主な出演者は以下の通りです。
- ケリー・マクギリス（レイチェル・センダック役）：少年の親族であり、ジョン・ブックと心を通わせていく女性。
- エドワード・ファーロング（サミュエル・センダック役）：事件の唯一の目撃者となった少年。
- ダニー・グローヴァー（マクフィー刑事役）：ジョン・ブックと共に捜査にあたる同僚の刑事。
特に、ヒロインのケリー・マクギリスと、当時子役だったエドワード・ファーロングの存在感が物語に重要な彩りを添えています。
監督と主演俳優までは正しいのだがその他の情報については間違いが含まれている。3100億パラメタクラスでも記憶の正確性は保証できないようだ。
gemma-4-31B（3100億パラメタ）＋ wikipedia-mcp
記憶が曖昧な場合にはWikipediaを検索して確認してくれればなんとかなるのではないかと思った。AIエージェントにもこの作業を行わせるためにwikipedia-mcpを導入した。
wikipedia-mcp-serverとwikipedia-mcpの２種類がある。とりあえず両方インストールしてgemma-4-31Bとwikipedia-mcpの組み合わせで実行した結果が以下である。
USER: 1985年公開のアメリカ映画「刑事ジョン・ブック目撃者」原題：Witnessのあらすじ、監督と主な登場人物・キャスト、各賞の受賞歴をを５００字程度でまとめて。なお記憶が曖昧な場合はWikipediaなどで内容に間違いがないか確認して。
wikipedia_mcp_search_wikipediaの内容を開く
wikipedia_mcp_search_wikipedia
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wikipedia_mcp_get_articleの内容を開く
wikipedia_mcp_get_article
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Peter Weir. Starring Harrison Ford, its plot focuses on a police detective protecting an Amish woman and her son, who
becomes a target after he witnesses a brutal murder in a Philadelphia railroad station.\nFilmed in 1984, Witness was
released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on February 8, 1985. The film received positive reviews upon release and became
a sleeper hit, grossing over $117.1 million worldwide. At the 58th Academy Awards, it earned eight nominations, including
Best Picture and Best Actor for Ford, winning Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. It was also nominated for
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directed by Peter Weir. Starring Harrison Ford, its plot focuses on a police detective protecting an Amish woman and her
son, who becomes a target after he witnesses a brutal murder in a Philadelphia railroad station.\nFilmed in 1984, Witness
was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on February 8, 1985. The film received positive reviews upon release and
became a sleeper hit, grossing over $117.1 million worldwide. At the 58th Academy Awards, it earned eight nominations,
including Best Picture and Best Actor for Ford, winning Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. It was also
nominated for seven BAFTA Awards, winning one for Maurice Jarre's score, and six Golden Globe Awards. William Kelley and
Earl W. Wallace won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the 1986 Edgar Award for Best Motion
Picture Screenplay presented by the Mystery Writers of America.\n\nPlot\nIn a quiet Amish community outside Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, friends and family attend the funeral of Jacob Lapp, leaving behind his wife, Rachel, and eight-year-old son,
Samuel. Rachel and Samuel travel by train to visit Rachel's sister, which takes them into Philadelphia. While at the 30th
Street Station waiting for a connecting train, Samuel goes into the men's room and witnesses the murder of undercover police
officer Detective Ian Zenovich.\nDetective Captain John Book and his partner, Sergeant Elton Carter, are assigned to the
case. They question Samuel, who is unable to identify the perpetrator from mugshots or a lineup. Samuel then sees a
newspaper clipping in a trophy case of narcotics officer Lieutenant James McFee and points him out to Book as the
murderer.\nBook investigates McFee and discovers that he was previously responsible for a seizure of expensive chemicals
used to make black-market amphetamine, after which the chemicals disappeared. Book surmises that McFee sold the chemicals
back to drug dealers, and Zenovich was investigating. Book expresses his suspicions to Chief of Police Paul Schaeffer, who
advises Book to keep the case secret so that they can determine how to proceed. Book is later ambushed in his apartment
parking garage by McFee, who shoots and wounds him before fleeing. Since only Schaeffer knew of Book's suspicions, Book
realizes that Schaeffer is corrupt and tipped off McFee.\nKnowing that Samuel and Rachel are now in danger, Book orders
Carter to hide their police files. He then drives them back to their farm. While beginning his drive back to Philadelphia,
he passes out from his wounds and crashes into their birdhouse. Rachel insists that he be taken to a hospital, but Book
refuses and states that going there would allow him and, by extension, them to be found. Rachel's father-in-law, Eli,
reluctantly agrees to shelter Book.\nBook slowly recovers in their care and begins to blend into the Amish community and
lifestyle. He and Rachel develop feelings for each other, which becomes a source of friction for Daniel Hochleitner (a
neighbor who had hoped to court Rachel after her husband's death). Book's relationship with the Amish community deepens as
they learn that he is skilled at carpentry and seems like a decent, hard-working man. He is invited to participate in a barn
raising for a newly-married couple, gaining Hochleitner's respect. However, the attraction between Book and Rachel is
evident and causes gossip in the tight-knit community.\nMeanwhile, Schaeffer searches for Book by contacting authorities in
the Amish area. However, since Amish communities have no modern means of communication and little contact with the outside
world, he hits repeated dead ends.\nWhen Book goes into town with Eli to use a payphone to call his precinct, he learns that
Carter was killed in the line of duty. Realizing that Schaeffer was behind it, Book calls him at his home (where the call
cannot be traced), chastises him for being corrupt and threatens to kill him. As they leave town, a group of locals harass
the Amish. Book retaliates, breaking with the Amish tradition of non-violence. The assault is reported to the local police,
and word eventually gets back to Schaeffer.\nUpset with Book over the assault, Eli orders him to leave. Rachel approaches
Book in a field, where they passionately embrace, finally acting on their feelings. Soon after this, Schaeffer, McFee and
another corrupt cop, Sergeant Leon \"Fergie\" Ferguson, arrive at the Lapp farm and take Rachel and Eli hostage. Eli manages
to alert Book, and Book tells Samuel to hide at Hochleitner's farm. Book tricks Fergie into the corn silo and suffocates him
under tons of corn, then uses Fergie's shotgun to kill McFee. Schaeffer holds Rachel and Eli at gunpoint, but Samuel
secretly comes back to ring the Lapp farm's bell. Book confronts Schaeffer, who threatens to kill Rachel, but the bell has
alerted and summoned all of the neighbors. With so many witnesses present, Schaeffer surrenders and is later arrested.\nWith
Rachel and Samuel no longer in danger, Book departs for Philadelphia, bidding farewell. Before he drives off, Eli wishes
Book well by saying, \"You be careful out there among them English.”\n\nCast\nPer the film's end credits:\n\nThemes\nIn his
book The Amish in the American Imagination (2001), scholar David Weaver-Zercher notes that Witness is primarily concerned
with the intersection of contrasting cultures, a recurring theme in several of Weir's films, including The Last Wave (1977)
and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Weaver-Zercher notes that the conflict between Amish and non-Amish as depicted in
Witness \"reflect[s] well on the Amish ways\" and also serves as a redemption story for Captain Book, who regains a new
sense of humanity during his displacement in the Amish community.\n\nProduction\nDevelopment\nProducer Edward S. Feldman,
who was in a \"first-look\" development deal with 20th Century Fox at the time, first received the screenplay for Witness in
1983. Originally titled Called Home, which is the Amish term for death, it ran for 182 pages, the equivalent of three hours
of screen time. The script, which had been circulating in Hollywood for several years, began with an idea by novelist Pamela
Wallace for a novel about an Amish woman who witnesses a murder in Los Angeles. Earl W. Wallace, who wrote for the
television Western How the West Was Won recalled an episode with a similar plot and contacted its writer, William Kelley.
Kelley had reworked the plot for the show from a script he had written for a 1972 episode of Gunsmoke. Earl Wallace and
Kelley wrote the original screenplay together.\nFeldman liked the concept, but felt too much of the script was devoted to
Amish traditions, diluting the thriller aspects of the story. He offered Kelley and Wallace $25,000 for a one-year option
and one rewrite, and an additional $225,000 if the film actually were made. They submitted the revised screenplay in less
than six weeks, and Feldman delivered it to Fox. Joe Wizan, the studio's head of production, rejected it with the statement
that Fox did not make \"rural movies\".\nFeldman sent the screenplay to Harrison Ford's agent Phil Gersh, who contacted the
producer four days later and advised him his client was willing to commit to the film. Certain the attachment of a major
star would change Wizan's mind, Feldman approached him once again, but Wizan insisted that as much as the studio liked Ford,
they still were not interested in making a \"rural movie\".\nFeldman sent the screenplay to numerous studios, and was
rejected by all of them, until Paramount Pictures finally expressed interest. Feldman's first choice of director was Peter
Weir, but he was involved in preproduction work for The Mosquito Coast and passed on the project. John Badham dismissed it
as \"just another cop movie\", and others Feldman approached either were committed to other projects or had no interest.
Then, as financial backing for The Mosquito Coast fell through, Weir became free to direct Witness, which was his first
American film. Starting the film immediately was imperative, because a Directors Guild of America (DGA) strike was looming.
David Cronenberg was offered the role of director, but declined as he \"could never be a fan of the
Amish\".\n\nCasting\nLynne Littman had originally been in talks to direct the film, and though she ultimately did not, she
recommended Lukas Haas for the part of Samuel, because she had recently worked with him on her film Testament. The role of
Rachel was the most difficult to cast, and after Weir grew frustrated with the auditions he had seen, he asked the casting
director to look for actors in Italy, because he thought they would be more \"womanly\". As they were reviewing audition
tapes from Italy, Kelly McGillis came to audition, and the moment she put on the bonnet and spoke a few lines, Weir knew she
was the one. The casting director recommended her old friend Alexander Godunov, who had never acted before, but she thought
his personality would be right, and Weir agreed.\nViggo Mortensen was cast because Weir thought he had the right face for
the part of an Amish man. Mortensen had just started his acting career, so this was his first film acting role, and he had
to turn down another role as a soldier in Shakespeare in the Park's production of Henry V. He credited that decision and the
very positive experience on the film as the start of his film career.\n\nPre-production\nDuring the weeks before filming,
Ford spent time with the homicide department of the Philadelphia Police Department, researching the important details of
working as a homicide detective. McGillis did research by moving in with an Amish widow and her seven children, learning how
to milk cows and practicing their Pennsylvania German dialect.\nWeir and cinematographer John Seale went on a trip to the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, which was running an exhibition of 17th-century Dutch Masters. Weir drew attention to the
paintings of Johannes Vermeer, which were used as inspiration for the lighting and composition of the film, especially in
the scenes where John Book is recovering from a gunshot wound in Rachel's house.\n\nFilming\nPrincipal photography took
place between April 27, 1984 and June 29, 1984. The film was shot on location in Philadelphia and the city and towns of
Intercourse, Lancaster, Strasburg, and Parkesburg. Local Amish were willing to work as carpenters and electricians, but
declined to appear on film, so many of the extras were actually Mennonites. Halfway through filming, the title was changed
from Called Home to Witness at the behest of Paramount's marketing department, which felt the original title posed too much
of a promotional challenge. Principal photography was completed three days before the scheduled DGA strike, which ultimately
failed to materialize.\nDuring the set-up and rehearsal of each scene, as well as during dailies, Weir would play music to
set the mood, with the idea that it prevented the actors from thinking too much and let them listen to their other
instincts. The barn-raising scene was only a short paragraph in the script, but Weir thought it was important to highlight
that aspect of Amish community life. They shot the scene in a day and did, in fact, build a barn, albeit with the aid of
cranes off-camera. To film the scene in the corn silo, corn was actually dropped onto the actor, while a scuba diving
regulator with a compressed air tank was hidden on the floor so the actor would be able to breathe.\nOriginally, the script
ended with a scene of Book and Rachel each explaining their feelings for each other to the audience, but Weir felt the scene
was unnecessary and decided not to shoot it. The studio executives were concerned that the audience would not understand the
conclusion, and tried to convince him otherwise, but Weir insisted that the characters' emotions could be expressed only
with visuals.\n\nRelease\nWitness had its world premiere at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in on February
7, 1985. The film was screened out of competition at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.\n\nBox office\nThe film opened
theatrically in 876 theaters in the United States on February 8, 1985, and grossed $4,539,990 in its opening weekend,
ranking number two behind Beverly Hills Cop. The film went on to become a sleeper hit, topping the charts in its fifth week
of release. It eventually earned a total of $68,706,993 in North America. Internationally, it grossed $47.4 million for a
worldwide total of $116.1 million.\n\nHome media\nParamount Home Entertainment released Witness on VHS, with a DVD in
initially in 1999 and then in 2005, along with a Blu-ray Disc in 2015.\nBritish boutique label Arrow Films released the film
in the United States on 4K Ultra HD disc and remastered Blu-ray on October 31, 2023.\n\nReception\nWitness received critical
acclaim, with particular praise towards Ford's performance. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of
four stars, calling it: [F]irst of all, an electrifying and poignant love story. Then it is a movie about the choices we
make in life and the choices that other people make for us. Only then is it a thriller—one that Alfred Hitchcock would have
been proud to make... We have lately been getting so many pallid, bloodless little movies—mostly recycled teenage
exploitation films made by ambitious young stylists without a thought in their heads—that Witness arrives like a fresh new
day. It is a movie about adults whose lives have dignity and whose choices matter to them. And it is also one hell of a
thriller. Ebert also praised Ford's work and believed he had \"never given a better performance in a movie.\"\nVincent Canby
of The New York Times was much more negative, saying of the film:\n\nIt's not really awful, but it's not much fun. It's
pretty to look at and it contains a number of good performances, but there is something exhausting about its neat balancing
of opposing manners and values... One might be made to care about all this if the direction by the talented Australian film
maker, Peter Weir... were less perfunctory and if the screenplay... did not seem so strangely familiar. One follows Witness
as if touring one's old hometown, guided by an outsider who refuses to believe that one knows the territory better than he
does. There's not a character, an event, or a plot twist that one hasn't anticipated long before its arrival, which gives
one the feeling of waiting around for people who are always late.\nVariety said the film was \"at times a gentle, affecting
story of star-crossed lovers limited within the fascinating Amish community. Too often, however, this fragile romance is
crushed by a thoroughly absurd shoot-'em-up, like ketchup poured over a delicate Pennsylvania Dutch dinner.\"\nTime Out New
York observed, \"Powerful, assured, full of beautiful imagery and thankfully devoid of easy moralizing, it also offers a
performance of surprising skill and sensitivity from Ford.\"\nHalliwell's Film Guide chose Witness as one of only two films
from 1985 to receive a four-star review, describing it as \"one of those lucky movies which works out well on all counts and
shows that there are still craftsmen lurking in Hollywood.\"\nRadio Times called the film \"partly a love story and partly a
thriller, but mainly a study of cultural collision – it's as if the world of Dirty Harry had suddenly stumbled into a canvas
by Brueghel.\" It added, \"[I]t's Weir's delicacy of touch that impresses the most. He ably juggles the various elements of
the story and makes the violence seem even more shocking when it's played out on the fields of Amish denial.\"\nOn Rotten
Tomatoes the film scores 92% based on 49 reviews. Its Metacritic score is 76 out of 100 based on 14 critics.\nIn 2006,
Writers Guild of America West ranked its screenplay 80th in WGA’s list of 101 Greatest
Screenplays.\n\nAccolades\nControversy\nLeading up to and following its release, Witness was met with controversy from the
Amish communities where it was filmed, and was subject to debate from editors, scholars, and other parties regarding its
depiction of the Amish. Some accused the film of exploiting the Amish community for commercial purposes, while others felt
that the depiction of Amish characters in an R-rated film was insensitive to the Amish's beliefs.\nA statement released by a
law firm associated with the Amish claimed that their portrayal in the movie was not accurate. The National Committee for
Amish Religious Freedom called for a boycott of the movie soon after its release, citing fears that these communities were
being \"overrun by tourists\" as a result of the popularity of the movie, and worried that \"the crowding, souvenir-hunting,
photographing and trespassing on Amish farmsteads will increase.\" After the movie was completed, Pennsylvania governor Dick
Thornburgh agreed not to promote Amish communities as future film sites. A similar concern was voiced within the movie
itself, where Rachel tells a recovering Book that tourists often consider her fellow Amish something to stare at, with some
even being so rude as to trespass on their private property.\n\nLegacy\nNegotiation expert William Ury summarised the film's
climactic scene in a chapter titled \"The Witness\" in his 1999 book Getting to Peace (later republished with the
alternative title The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can Stop) and used the scene as a symbol of the power of ordinary
citizens to resolve conflicts and stop violence.\n\nThis scene from the popular movie Witness captures the power of ordinary
community members to contain violence. The Amish farmers were present as the third side in perhaps its most elemental form,
seemingly doing nothing, but in fact playing the critical role of Witness. Like the Amish, we are all potential
Witnesses.\nJapanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited Witness as one of his favorite films of all
time.\n\nNotes\nReferences\nSources\nFurther reading\nWahlbrinck, Bernd. WITNESS Revisited: An Appreciation of Peter Weir's
Famous Film, Tumbleweed 2020, ISBN 978-3-9821463-5-5\nKelley, William and Earl W. Wallace (based on the screenplay by Earl
W. Wallace and William Kelley). Witness, Pocket Books; Media Tie In, 1985 ISBN 978-0671545956\n\nExternal links\n\nWitness
at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films\nWitness at IMDb\nWitness at the TCM Movie Database (archived)\nWitness at Box Office
Mojo\nWitness at Rotten
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Amish community outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania, friends and family attend the funeral of Jacob Lapp, leaving behind his
wife, Rachel, and eight-year-old son, Samuel. Rachel and Samuel travel by train to visit Rachel's sister, which takes them
into Philadelphia. While at the 30th Street Station waiting for a connecting train, Samuel goes into the men's room and
witnesses the murder of undercover police officer Detective Ian Zenovich.\nDetective Captain John Book and his partner,
Sergeant Elton Carter, are assigned to the case. They question Samuel, who is unable to identify the perpetrator from
mugshots or a lineup. Samuel then sees a newspaper clipping in a trophy case of narcotics officer Lieutenant James McFee and
points him out to Book as the murderer.\nBook investigates McFee and discovers that he was previously responsible for a
seizure of expensive chemicals used to make black-market amphetamine, after which the chemicals disappeared. Book surmises
that McFee sold the chemicals back to drug dealers, and Zenovich was investigating. Book expresses his suspicions to Chief
of Police Paul Schaeffer, who advises Book to keep the case secret so that they can determine how to proceed. Book is later
ambushed in his apartment parking garage by McFee, who shoots and wounds him before fleeing. Since only Schaeffer knew of
Book's suspicions, Book realizes that Schaeffer is corrupt and tipped off McFee.\nKnowing that Samuel and Rachel are now in
danger, Book orders Carter to hide their police files. He then drives them back to their farm. While beginning his drive
back to Philadelphia, he passes out from his wounds and crashes into their birdhouse. Rachel insists that he be taken to a
hospital, but Book refuses and states that going there would allow him and, by extension, them to be found. Rachel's
father-in-law, Eli, reluctantly agrees to shelter Book.\nBook slowly recovers in their care and begins to blend into the
Amish community and lifestyle. He and Rachel develop feelings for each other, which becomes a source of friction for Daniel
Hochleitner (a neighbor who had hoped to court Rachel after her husband's death). Book's relationship with the Amish
community deepens as they learn that he is skilled at carpentry and seems like a decent, hard-working man. He is invited to
participate in a barn raising for a newly-married couple, gaining Hochleitner's respect. However, the attraction between
Book and Rachel is evident and causes gossip in the tight-knit community.\nMeanwhile, Schaeffer searches for Book by
contacting authorities in the Amish area. However, since Amish communities have no modern means of communication and little
contact with the outside world, he hits repeated dead ends.\nWhen Book goes into town with Eli to use a payphone to call his
precinct, he learns that Carter was killed in the line of duty. Realizing that Schaeffer was behind it, Book calls him at
his home (where the call cannot be traced), chastises him for being corrupt and threatens to kill him. As they leave town, a
group of locals harass the Amish. Book retaliates, breaking with the Amish tradition of non-violence. The assault is
reported to the local police, and word eventually gets back to Schaeffer.\nUpset with Book over the assault, Eli orders him
to leave. Rachel approaches Book in a field, where they passionately embrace, finally acting on their feelings. Soon after
this, Schaeffer, McFee and another corrupt cop, Sergeant Leon \"Fergie\" Ferguson, arrive at the Lapp farm and take Rachel
and Eli hostage. Eli manages to alert Book, and Book tells Samuel to hide at Hochleitner's farm. Book tricks Fergie into the
corn silo and suffocates him under tons of corn, then uses Fergie's shotgun to kill McFee. Schaeffer holds Rachel and Eli at
gunpoint, but Samuel secretly comes back to ring the Lapp farm's bell. Book confronts Schaeffer, who threatens to kill
Rachel, but the bell has alerted and summoned all of the neighbors. With so many witnesses present, Schaeffer surrenders and
is later arrested.\nWith Rachel and Samuel no longer in danger, Book departs for Philadelphia, bidding farewell. Before he
drives off, Eli wishes Book well by saying, \"You be careful out there among them
English.”","sections":[]},{"title":"Cast","level":0,"text":"Per the film's end
credits:","sections":[]},{"title":"Themes","level":0,"text":"In his book The Amish in the American Imagination (2001),
scholar David Weaver-Zercher notes that Witness is primarily concerned with the intersection of contrasting cultures, a
recurring theme in several of Weir's films, including The Last Wave (1977) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).
Weaver-Zercher notes that the conflict between Amish and non-Amish as depicted in Witness \"reflect[s] well on the Amish
ways\" and also serves as a redemption story for Captain Book, who regains a new sense of humanity during his displacement
in the Amish
community.","sections":[]},{"title":"Production","level":0,"text":"","sections":[{"title":"Development","level":1,"text":"Pr
oducer Edward S. Feldman, who was in a \"first-look\" development deal with 20th Century Fox at the time, first received the
screenplay for Witness in 1983. Originally titled Called Home, which is the Amish term for death, it ran for 182 pages, the
equivalent of three hours of screen time. The script, which had been circulating in Hollywood for several years, began with
an idea by novelist Pamela Wallace for a novel about an Amish woman who witnesses a murder in Los Angeles. Earl W. Wallace,
who wrote for the television Western How the West Was Won recalled an episode with a similar plot and contacted its writer,
William Kelley. Kelley had reworked the plot for the show from a script he had written for a 1972 episode of Gunsmoke. Earl
Wallace and Kelley wrote the original screenplay together.\nFeldman liked the concept, but felt too much of the script was
devoted to Amish traditions, diluting the thriller aspects of the story. He offered Kelley and Wallace $25,000 for a
one-year option and one rewrite, and an additional $225,000 if the film actually were made. They submitted the revised
screenplay in less than six weeks, and Feldman delivered it to Fox. Joe Wizan, the studio's head of production, rejected it
with the statement that Fox did not make \"rural movies\".\nFeldman sent the screenplay to Harrison Ford's agent Phil Gersh,
who contacted the producer four days later and advised him his client was willing to commit to the film. Certain the
attachment of a major star would change Wizan's mind, Feldman approached him once again, but Wizan insisted that as much as
the studio liked Ford, they still were not interested in making a \"rural movie\".\nFeldman sent the screenplay to numerous
studios, and was rejected by all of them, until Paramount Pictures finally expressed interest. Feldman's first choice of
director was Peter Weir, but he was involved in preproduction work for The Mosquito Coast and passed on the project. John
Badham dismissed it as \"just another cop movie\", and others Feldman approached either were committed to other projects or
had no interest. Then, as financial backing for The Mosquito Coast fell through, Weir became free to direct Witness, which
was his first American film. Starting the film immediately was imperative, because a Directors Guild of America (DGA) strike
was looming. David Cronenberg was offered the role of director, but declined as he \"could never be a fan of the
Amish\".","sections":[]},{"title":"Casting","level":1,"text":"Lynne Littman had originally been in talks to direct the film,
and though she ultimately did not, she recommended Lukas Haas for the part of Samuel, because she had recently worked with
him on her film Testament. The role of Rachel was the most difficult to cast, and after Weir grew frustrated with the
auditions he had seen, he asked the casting director to look for actors in Italy, because he thought they would be more
\"womanly\". As they were reviewing audition tapes from Italy, Kelly McGillis came to audition, and the moment she put on
the bonnet and spoke a few lines, Weir knew she was the one. The casting director recommended her old friend Alexander
Godunov, who had never acted before, but she thought his personality would be right, and Weir agreed.\nViggo Mortensen was
cast because Weir thought he had the right face for the part of an Amish man. Mortensen had just started his acting career,
so this was his first film acting role, and he had to turn down another role as a soldier in Shakespeare in the Park's
production of Henry V. He credited that decision and the very positive experience on the film as the start of his film
career.","sections":[]},{"title":"Pre-production","level":1,"text":"During the weeks before filming, Ford spent time with
the homicide department of the Philadelphia Police Department, researching the important details of working as a homicide
detective. McGillis did research by moving in with an Amish widow and her seven children, learning how to milk cows and
practicing their Pennsylvania German dialect.\nWeir and cinematographer John Seale went on a trip to the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, which was running an exhibition of 17th-century Dutch Masters. Weir drew attention to the paintings of Johannes
Vermeer, which were used as inspiration for the lighting and composition of the film, especially in the scenes where John
Book is recovering from a gunshot wound in Rachel's house.","sections":[]},{"title":"Filming","level":1,"text":"Principal
photography took place between April 27, 1984 and June 29, 1984. The film was shot on location in Philadelphia and the city
and towns of Intercourse, Lancaster, Strasburg, and Parkesburg. Local Amish were willing to work as carpenters and
electricians, but declined to appear on film, so many of the extras were actually Mennonites. Halfway through filming, the
title was changed from Called Home to Witness at the behest of Paramount's marketing department, which felt the original
title posed too much of a promotional challenge. Principal photography was completed three days before the scheduled DGA
strike, which ultimately failed to materialize.\nDuring the set-up and rehearsal of each scene, as well as during dailies,
Weir would play music to set the mood, with the idea that it prevented the actors from thinking too much and let them listen
to their other instincts. The barn-raising scene was only a short paragraph in the script, but Weir thought it was important
to highlight that aspect of Amish community life. They shot the scene in a day and did, in fact, build a barn, albeit with
the aid of cranes off-camera. To film the scene in the corn silo, corn was actually dropped onto the actor, while a scuba
diving regulator with a compressed air tank was hidden on the floor so the actor would be able to breathe.\nOriginally, the
script ended with a scene of Book and Rachel each explaining their feelings for each other to the audience, but Weir felt
the scene was unnecessary and decided not to shoot it. The studio executives were concerned that the audience would not
understand the conclusion, and tried to convince him otherwise, but Weir insisted that the characters' emotions could be
expressed only with visuals.","sections":[]}]},{"title":"Release","level":0,"text":"Witness had its world premiere at the
Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in on February 7, 1985. The film was screened out of competition at the 1985
Cannes Film Festival.","sections":[{"title":"Box office","level":1,"text":"The film opened theatrically in 876 theaters in
the United States on February 8, 1985, and grossed $4,539,990 in its opening weekend, ranking number two behind Beverly
Hills Cop. The film went on to become a sleeper hit, topping the charts in its fifth week of release. It eventually earned a
total of $68,706,993 in North America. Internationally, it grossed $47.4 million for a worldwide total of $116.1
million.","sections":[]},{"title":"Home media","level":1,"text":"Paramount Home Entertainment released Witness on VHS, with
a DVD in initially in 1999 and then in 2005, along with a Blu-ray Disc in 2015.\nBritish boutique label Arrow Films released
the film in the United States on 4K Ultra HD disc and remastered Blu-ray on October 31,
2023.","sections":[]}]},{"title":"Reception","level":0,"text":"Witness received critical acclaim, with particular praise
towards Ford's performance. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars, calling it: [F]irst
of all, an electrifying and poignant love story. Then it is a movie about the choices we make in life and the choices that
other people make for us. Only then is it a thriller—one that Alfred Hitchcock would have been proud to make... We have
lately been getting so many pallid, bloodless little movies—mostly recycled teenage exploitation films made by ambitious
young stylists without a thought in their heads—that Witness arrives like a fresh new day. It is a movie about adults whose
lives have dignity and whose choices matter to them. And it is also one hell of a thriller. Ebert also praised Ford's work
and believed he had \"never given a better performance in a movie.\"\nVincent Canby of The New York Times was much more
negative, saying of the film:\n\nIt's not really awful, but it's not much fun. It's pretty to look at and it contains a
number of good performances, but there is something exhausting about its neat balancing of opposing manners and values...
One might be made to care about all this if the direction by the talented Australian film maker, Peter Weir... were less
perfunctory and if the screenplay... did not seem so strangely familiar. One follows Witness as if touring one's old
hometown, guided by an outsider who refuses to believe that one knows the territory better than he does. There's not a
character, an event, or a plot twist that one hasn't anticipated long before its arrival, which gives one the feeling of
waiting around for people who are always late.\nVariety said the film was \"at times a gentle, affecting story of
star-crossed lovers limited within the fascinating Amish community. Too often, however, this fragile romance is crushed by a
thoroughly absurd shoot-'em-up, like ketchup poured over a delicate Pennsylvania Dutch dinner.\"\nTime Out New York
observed, \"Powerful, assured, full of beautiful imagery and thankfully devoid of easy moralizing, it also offers a
performance of surprising skill and sensitivity from Ford.\"\nHalliwell's Film Guide chose Witness as one of only two films
from 1985 to receive a four-star review, describing it as \"one of those lucky movies which works out well on all counts and
shows that there are still craftsmen lurking in Hollywood.\"\nRadio Times called the film \"partly a love story and partly a
thriller, but mainly a study of cultural collision – it's as if the world of Dirty Harry had suddenly stumbled into a canvas
by Brueghel.\" It added, \"[I]t's Weir's delicacy of touch that impresses the most. He ably juggles the various elements of
the story and makes the violence seem even more shocking when it's played out on the fields of Amish denial.\"\nOn Rotten
Tomatoes the film scores 92% based on 49 reviews. Its Metacritic score is 76 out of 100 based on 14 critics.\nIn 2006,
Writers Guild of America West ranked its screenplay 80th in WGA’s list of 101 Greatest
Screenplays.","sections":[{"title":"Accolades","level":1,"text":"","sections":[]},{"title":"Controversy","level":1,"text":"L
eading up to and following its release, Witness was met with controversy from the Amish communities where it was filmed, and
was subject to debate from editors, scholars, and other parties regarding its depiction of the Amish. Some accused the film
of exploiting the Amish community for commercial purposes, while others felt that the depiction of Amish characters in an
R-rated film was insensitive to the Amish's beliefs.\nA statement released by a law firm associated with the Amish claimed
that their portrayal in the movie was not accurate. The National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom called for a boycott
of the movie soon after its release, citing fears that these communities were being \"overrun by tourists\" as a result of
the popularity of the movie, and worried that \"the crowding, souvenir-hunting, photographing and trespassing on Amish
farmsteads will increase.\" After the movie was completed, Pennsylvania governor Dick Thornburgh agreed not to promote Amish
communities as future film sites. A similar concern was voiced within the movie itself, where Rachel tells a recovering Book
that tourists often consider her fellow Amish something to stare at, with some even being so rude as to trespass on their
private property.","sections":[]}]},{"title":"Legacy","level":0,"text":"Negotiation expert William Ury summarised the film's
climactic scene in a chapter titled \"The Witness\" in his 1999 book Getting to Peace (later republished with the
alternative title The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can Stop) and used the scene as a symbol of the power of ordinary
citizens to resolve conflicts and stop violence.\n\nThis scene from the popular movie Witness captures the power of ordinary
community members to contain violence. The Amish farmers were present as the third side in perhaps its most elemental form,
seemingly doing nothing, but in fact playing the critical role of Witness. Like the Amish, we are all potential
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ASSISTANT: 1985年公開のアメリカ映画『刑事ジョン・ブック目撃者』（原題: Witness）についてまとめます。
【あらすじ】
フィラデルフィアの駅で、ある殺人事件を偶然目撃したアーミッシュの少年サミュエル。彼を保護することになった刑事ジョン・ブックは、警察内部に犯人と繋がる腐敗した権力があることを突き止めます。身の危険を感じたブックは、サミュエルと母レイチェルを連れて、外部との接触を断ったアーミッシュのコミュニティへ逃げ込みます。静謐な村での生活を通じて、ブックは彼らの価値観に触れ、レイチェルとの間に愛が芽生えますが、執拗に追う腐敗警官たちの手が及ぼうとしていました。
【監督・主なキャスト】
- 監督： ピーター・ウィアー
- 主な登場人物・キャスト：
- ジョン・ブック刑事：ハリソン・フォード
- レイチェル（サミュエルの母）：ケリー・マクギリス
- サミュエル：ルーカス・ハース
【受賞歴】
第58回アカデミー賞で8部門にノミネートされ、「脚本賞」と「編集賞」を受賞しました。また、BAFTA賞ではモーリス・ジャールによる音楽が評価され、「最優秀音楽賞」を受賞しています。
ツールとしてwikipedia_mcp_search_wikipedia とwikipedia_mcp_get_articleを実行後に上記の出力が得られた。かなり時間はかかるが内容的には完璧である👍✨
wikipedia-mcp-serverとwikipedia-mcpのインストール方法は別の記事としてまとめる予定。
感想
AIエージェントにこのレベルの調べごとをさせるならもう少し早いマシンが欲しくなる。MINISFORUM MS-S1 MAXでgemma-4-31B-it-Q4_K_Mで11トークン/秒くらい出るらしい。これはLM-790Proの約4倍の速度だ。AMD Ryzen AI Haloもアメリカでは販売開始した。これもRyzen AI MAX +395という同じSoC（System on a Chip）だから同じくらいの速度だろう。
日本で販売開始されるのは秋頃といううわさがある。米国価格4,000ドルは為替レート163円/ドルとしても652,000円である。高いよな〜。でも今から40年前に発表された初代マッキントッシュ（Macintosh 128K）は698,000円だった。メモリサイズが10の6乗倍（10万倍）、演算性能はおそらく10の8乗倍（1000万倍）でも同じ価格と思えば妥当な価格なのかな〜。
