2008年1月31日 星期四

Debonair


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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    【古】和藹親切的

          2.    無憂無慮的

          3.    溫文爾雅的





A wickedly debonair blend of Cary Grant and Joan Crawford, British actor Rupert Everett almost single-handedly conquered Hollywood with his turn as the man who dances off into the sunset with Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding. 





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Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005)
























































































Strumin' my pain with his fingers...




























2008年1月30日 星期三

Spinster


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n. (名詞 noun)[C]



          1.    【美】從事紡織的女子

          2.    未婚女子

          3.    老處女

                      a fifty-year-old spinster

                      五十歲的老處女





see nubile harridan

















Leaven


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          1.    酵母,酵素[U]

          2.    潛移默化的力量,促使漸變的因素[C][U]

                      The leaven of reform was working.

                      改革的影響力在起作用。



vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    (加酵母)使發酵;使發鬆

          2.    使漸變,逐漸影響

                      a life leavened by hypocrisy

                      受虛偽影響的生活





In this surrealist satire reminiscent of his earlier L'Age d'Or (1930) and The Exterminating Angel (1962), Luis Buñuel leavens his attack on class privilege with light comedy.





see heathen


















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          1.    "獎章人"(穿緊身襯衫,露出毛絨絨胸膛,掛金鏈子獎章以表現自己是個男子漢的人)

















Lout (續:笨蛋 單字大集合)


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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    笨拙的人



vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    【廢】輕視,嘲弄





。爛人

。爛臉

Churl



。笨蛋

schmuck 

imbecile 

git

Now listen carefully, you hairy-faced git!

goon 

a hired hoodlum or thug

Though he tries to keep a low profile at prison, he soon attracts unsavory attention of various sex-[starved] goons. 

a stupid person, roughneck

loony

lout 

Ms. Skye, fails miserably at drowning her sorrows with the town's loutish teen-age boys.

Biegler accepts the case of one Lt. Manion, an [unlovable] lout who has murdered a local bar owner.

oaf

It's a deadly nightshade, you oaf.

Thelma's husband, Darryl, is an overbearing oaf, and Louise's boyfriend, Jimmy, simply will not commit.


gawk

An awkward, loutish person

To stare or gape stupidly

Thompson not only makes an appealingly [gawky] protag but, crucially, nails the trademark stutter that, no less than the movie itself, is one-of-a-kind. 

whose clothes are wrong, and who is as [gawky] and [geeky] as it is humanly possible tobe. 

Noé [purportedly] [relished] the severe reactions provoked by screenings of Irreversible -- walk-outs, cat calls, and the like -- which would only make sense for a person whose ultimate goal is to create the cinematic equivalent of [car]-wreck gawking. 

Green does try to [leaven] the proceedings with a love story between two gawky teenagers (Michael Angarano and Olivia Thirlby), but it's not a clear thematic complement to the main story, and is lacking what the rest of the film has in spades: conflict.

If you don't stop gawking [at] me and get the hell out of here, I'll kick your ass.

What are you gawking [at]? Well, I ain't gawking.

dunce

dolt

Fernando Ray makes the uncle a poignant [dolt] and Francisco Rabal is aggressive and realistic as the illegitimate son.

ignoramus 

You legacy? Yeah, father, grandfather, all the way back to great, great grandfather. Yeah, for any ignoramuses who don't know, his grandfather Prescott is our esteemed senator from Connecticut.

fatuous

in an unconscious, complacent manner

illusory 

Making the family fatuously Jewish allows Solondz to [mock] their sense of victimhood

Ritter very amusingly conveys Dad's [professorial] fatuousness,

most cunningly in the scene where she meets with the [fatuous] young editors who are interested in acquiring "her" novel.

Are you all set to deploy the fatuous sarcasm?

spaz

I look like a spaz with them tucked in.

berk

A cockney berk by the sound of it! You Liverpool ponce.

booby

She's the only daughter of a country booby squire.

bozo

So we'll all go, like I said. I'm not going. Now we look like bozos.

chump

Skip it, Bruno. It's painfuI for a man to discover he's been a chump.【口】木頭人,傻瓜



twerp

an insignificant or despicable fellow

Since we like Gerald, the guy who answered the personal ad, and think [Etienne] is a twerp

and Christensen plays Glass as a manipulative [twerp]—there's no excitement to his subterfuge,

All in all, this twerpy [little] movie is one of the most entertaining pictures to be released so far this year.

You would, you grungy little twerp.

The word indie is so [self]-consciously quirky, twerpy, and wimpy.

nebbish 

a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.

not the least because it involves a [nebbishy] documentary filmmaker with a passing resemblance to Solondz.

Stacy takes a liking to [nebbish] Mark Ratner, but he is too afraid to make a move even after Stacy all but throws herself at him.

Adam is a [chubby], bespectacled [nebbish] of a college student who makes money in his spare time as a security guard at the university's art museum. 

Soon, monstrous beetles are whispering conspiracy theories in Bill's ears and his nebbish writer friends Hank and Martin are sleeping with Joan under his nose.

dweeb

nerd, wimp.

A disheveled dweeb with [horn]-rimmed glasses, Toby (Paul Giamatti) is first seen cold-calling a girl he jilted in high school 20 years before because he's heard she has become a producer.

noxiously vain Joey (Andrew Keegan) and [dweeb]ish nice guy Cameron (Joseph-Gordon Levitt) each [plot] to fix up the stand[off]ish sis with whoever's willing.



obtuse

not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellec, not sensitive or observant, dull 資質駑鈍是也

While the film's outcome is obvious to all but the most [obtuse] viewer an hour into the work, the conclusion takes a while to wind its way to the end. 

I don't have any new information [about "The Master"]. I really mean that, I'm not being obtuse. 

Where their contemporaries were often direct and to the point, Tindersticks were obtuse and leisurely, crafting dense, difficult songs layered with literary lyrics, intertwining melodies, mumbling vocals, and gently melancholy [orchestrations].

Some critics found the film obtuse on its release, but the Academy thought enough of it to nominate Duras for Best Original Screenplay.


benighted

overtaken by darkness or night

intellectually or morally ignorant, unenlightened 

benighted ages of [barbarism] and [superstition].

Bonjour Tristesse was codirected by Otto Preminger, who'd previously discovered Jean Seberg for his [benighted] 1957 [filmization] of Saint Joan. 

hebephrenia

"by bland, paranoid chess players... servers of fragmentary warrants taken down... in hebephrenic shorthand... charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit... officials of unconstituted

police states, broke"【醫】青春期癡呆,破瓜期癡呆 (精神分裂症的一種)



dippy

Slang .

somewhat
mad or foolish

I hear you've gone dippy over some dame down at the New Congress Club. What'd you say her name was? Lorene.



















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          1.    英勇,勇氣,勇猛[U]

                      The troops showed great valor.

                      軍隊表現出極大的英勇。





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          1.    可怕的,恐怖的

                      The scene after the battle was ghastly.

                      戰爭過後景象十分恐怖。

          2.    死人般的;鬼一樣的;蒼白的

                      She looked ghastly.

                      她臉色蒼白。

          3.    【口】極壞的,糟透的;令人不快的

                      They had a ghastly time at the party.

                      聚會時他們玩得極不開心。

          4.    極大的,驚人的

                      Tony made a ghastly mistake.

                      湯尼犯了一個極大的錯誤。

          5.    【口】身體極不舒服的,有病的[F]



ad. (副詞 adverb)



          1.    可怕地,恐怖地

          2.    死人般地

          3.    不健康地,病態地

                      She looked ghastly pale.

                      她看上去病態的蒼白。





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          1.    可怕的;悲慘的

                      dire warnings

                      可怖的預兆

          2.    極度的;緊迫的

                      We are in dire need of help.

                      我們迫切需要幫助。





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Chivalrous (續:勇者鬥惡龍 單字大集合)


chivalrous



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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    騎士時代的,騎士的道德準則的

          2.    有騎士風範的,俠義的,殷勤的,正直的





。屈服

。後代

。傾向

Tenacity



。勇敢

tenacity 

fortitude 

intestinal fortitude

mettle 

courage and fortitude

disposition
or temperament

Ibsen heroines and Virgin Queens will [put] her on her mettle, but there is the danger she will lapse into mannerism and [give] more of those eccentric, overblown performances in parts she does not regard as a challenge.

valor 

In its hypnotic ritual, Beau Travail suggests a John Ford [cavalry] western interpreted by Marguerite Duras—Galoup always has time to [scribble] his obsessions in a diary. As in Billy Budd, the sergeant suckers the enlisted man into the fatal mistake of [slugging] him. 

Although the film is dated by its [valorization] of the once-fashionable ideology of Maoism, its cathartic chaos and experimental style still make Weekend a wicked [romp] for the cinematically adventurous.

prowess

exceptional valor or ability

His boxing [prowess] was every bit as lethal as his vocal cords; many of his most hilarious tales revolve around Jay beating the hell out of a musical rival! 

spot-on physical and vocal [mannerisms] [broadcast] DiCaprio's technical prowess, but his performance here has the sort of emotional undertow and sly, if childlike, intelligence that has [eluded] other actors as accomplished as Dustin Hoffman in similar roles. 

valiant

implies a [correspondence] between an 

[inner] courageousness 

and [external] deed, particularly of [physical] strength or endurance.

"I think from a career and commercial point of view, it's probably a mistake to make Daisy Miller, 

but from an artistic point of view,

I think it was [valiant], and I'm very, very proud of it, and I'm glas we made it."

The troops showed great [valor]

courageous

implies a [higher] or [noble] kind of bravery, from an [inborn] quality with [enthusiasm].

gallant

implies a [chivalrous], [impetuous], or dashing bravery.

chivalrous 

But he's also really soft. But he can be really romantic and chivalrous.

paladin

Remove the paladin body from Utopia Three. 查理大帝的十二勇士之一

quixotic 

extravagantly chivalrous or romantic, visionary, impractical, or impracticable

destroying himself and everything around him out of frustration with the hollowness of existence, a [quixotic] rebel without a cause who possessed a certain doomed romanticism and junkie glamour.



spunky

spunk

Jody. You had spunk once. Remember, you used to throw brown paper bags full of water on his head from this very window.

plucky

feisty

full of animation., energy, or courage, spirited, spunky, plucky

That young woman is feisty, 

full of [spirit] 

and ready to [challenge] anyone.

She plays the daughter of Blackbeard. She's the daughter of the bad guy. She brings a lot of humor to it. And the fact that she's so [feisty].   

The director, Cary Fukunaga, is of course male, but the writer, Cheshire-[born] Moira Buffini, has celebrated women's [assertiveness] in the past with less obviously suitable material. Her play Silence turned forced marriage in the middle ages into a feisty female romp.

Feisty director Robert Aldrich paired up two of Hollywood's greatest ice queens, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a campy, gothic exercise in psychological terror.




bravura

His horsemanship was [brilliant], a [bravura] demonstration.

The "Carnival of Venice" is a bravura [showpiece] for the cornetist. 

Jeremy Irons [delivers] a bravura performance as both Beverly and Elliot Mantle, Toronto-based surgeons who operate an exclusive gynecological clinic and share a reputation as brilliant innovators.

bravery

The [bravery] of their uniforms made the troop [sparkle].

bravado 

blustery pretended courage

His bravado didn’t really [mask] his terror. 

At first, the two seem to be playing a flirtatious [game], as he cheerfully but confidently [advances] toward her, and she seems at once attracted and put off by his bravado.

ardor 

Beleaguer

aria 

Threnody



trepidation

tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation, perturbation

Funded by Universal after School Daze's success in 1988, Do the Right Thing premiered to acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival that was matched in the U.S. despite unfounded [trepidation] that it would [provoke] violence.

So it goes without saying that his next film, Frances Ha, might inspire some trepidation amongst audiences, considering the [sour] taste that lingers on years later.

intrepid

He was [intrepid] in his business, but in his personal affairs, absolutely [audacious]

and with admiration for Smith's [reckless] and [intrepid] courage.

tepid

fetid

this [fetid] mood piece [embraces] split-psyche trauma (Fight Club)

that Trevor's [cackling], Lynchian arc-[welder] friend (John Sharian) is imaginary, and much of what [transpires] has a [tepid] hallucinatory [aura].

















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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    (流動的)銲鍋匠[C]

          2.    能做各種小修小補的人;什麼事情都會幹一手的人[C]

          3.    笨拙的工人,不熟練的工人[C]

          4.    【美】小鯖魚[C]

          5.    粗劣的修補[S][(+with)]



vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)



          1.    做銲鍋匠;銲補

          2.    拙劣地修補;笨手笨腳地做事[(+with/at)]

                      He's been tinkering with that engine for hours, but it still won't go.

                      他花了幾個小時擺弄那個引擎,想修好它,但它還是不轉。

          3.    徒勞無益地空忙[Q]



vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    粗修,修補[(+up)]





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tinker (v.) 

   

when combined with a preposition, usually takes with, as in I was tinkering with the alarm clock, or sometimes at, as in He tinkered at all sorts of odd inventions. 

















2008年1月29日 星期二

The 51st State (2001)












Elmo: So, let me get this straight. "Bollocks" is bad, whereas "the dogs bollocks" is good, huh?

Felix: Yeah.

[Felix sees Kane's car]

Felix: Oh, Bollocks!





據說是英國暢銷漫畫所改編



菲利克斯和達可塔終於一起安定下來,等到比賽結束之後。沒有人知道麥可洛伊怎樣了

,或是他為什麼要穿蘇格蘭短裙。



五十一州在美國上映時被改為處方簽五十一。艾蜜莉殺手片還真不是普通難看,難怪被

百事達撤架。好演員浪費在爛電影,可惜可惜。 









毒家交易 The 51st State

93 min. 2001



Samuel L. Jackson ...  Elmo McElroy 

Emily Mortimer ...  Dakota Parker 

Robert Carlyle ...  Felix DeSouza 

Rhys Ifans ...  Iki

















Excruciate


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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    施酷刑於

          2.    使苦惱





The title change is the last of many colossal mistakes -- far more than 51 -- that make Formula 51 one of the most excruciating post-Tarantino films out there.





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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    巨大的;龐大的

                      This is indeed a colossal success.

                      這確實是個巨大的成功。

          2.    巨像的;巨像似的

          3.    少有的,異常的

                      a colossal fool

          4.    大傻瓜

          5.    【口】驚人的,可觀的

          6.    【口】絕妙的





The title change is the last of many colossal mistakes -- far more than 51 -- that make Formula 51 one of the most excruciating post-Tarantino films out there. 





see mogul magnate

















2008年1月28日 星期一

I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan (2007)












I'm Not There Teaser 



呣呣,令人興奮的事物。本片有大三呣呣:凱特,茱莉安,夏綠蒂。



扣除凱特本身,凱特段落仍是我的最愛段落。許多向費里尼致敬的場景,例如人車擁擠的窒礙空間,凱特被記者包圍的露天咖啡座,以及最明顯的風箏,口香糖廣告也在學。連凱特去森林找蜜雪兒的音樂都好像在哪聽過,該不會是鬼迷茱麗葉吧!



茱莉安短髮造型第一次看到。夏綠蒂真是個好正的呣呣!黑人小朋友表現搶眼。蜜雪兒角色是影射 Edie,明天晚上準時收看工廠女孩。旁白 Kris Kristofferson 是刀鋒戰士老爹,也是位搖滾歌手。



最後,我不在拿了獨立精神製片獎的勞勃阿特曼獎,頒給導演和選角導演 (casting director) 以及演員的整體獎項,紀念擅長處理大堆頭的勞勃阿特曼。































I'll Be There!!!






kitekitekitekitekite  





一月份公館影癡俱樂部片單 



1/29 (二) 巴布狄倫的七段旅程 I'm Not There 

1/30 (三) 工廠女孩 Factory Girl 

















That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) 二十歲的卡洛波桂呣呣












卡洛波桂的香奈兒廣告呣呣

 

[電影] 慾望的朦朧對象 (1977)

[電影] 慾望的朦朧對象 (1977) 補充一



對啦!我不解風情啦!不懂大師幽默啦!還好卡洛波桂夠正,觀影過程無法停止呼喊

西班牙女趕快變回卡洛波桂。



布紐爾的第三十部也是最後一部電影,根據同本小說改編的電影還有一九三五年瑪琳

黛德麗版本,導演是老搭檔 Josef von Sternberg;一九五九年碧姬芭杜版本。































 ← based on the novel by Pierre Louÿs 











布紐爾的最後三部電影海報都是紫色器官系列。

自由的幻影雖然有 Vitti 客串還是很難看。

















Penultimate


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          1.    倒數第二音節的;倒數第二的



n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    倒數第二音節;倒數第二





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penultimate, ultimate (adjs.)   

 

Penultimate is not more ultimate than ultimate: 

ultimate means "last," 

and penultimate means "next-to-last." 



Rhyme the first syllable of penultimate with either den or dean, and stress the second syllable.  





Like his penultimate film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire is not as dense or confusing as Buñuel's earlier works, and is more accessible to general audiences.

















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          1.    墮落的;頹廢的;衰落的

          2.    (文學、藝術)頹廢期的;頹廢派的



n. (名詞 noun)[C]



          1.    墮落者;頹廢者

          2.    (常大寫)頹廢派藝術家(或作家)





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decadence (n.), decadent (adj.)   

 

Each has two standard pronunciations: DEK-uh-dens or di-KAI-dens and DEK-uh-dent or di-KAI-dent. The first in each pair is the more frequent. 





Brimming [with] the subversive wit which 



characterizes all of Buñuel's finest work, That Obscure Object of Desire takes satiric aim at a decadent, decaying society riddled by political unrest and moral bankruptcy. 

















2008年1月27日 星期日

片名強迫症 III:伊凡‧小孩‧奧爾菲














詩人之血 The Blood of a Poet

55 min. 1930



奧爾菲 Orpheus

95 min. 1950



奧菲爾的遺囑 The Testament of Orpheus

80 min. 1960



尚考克多的奧爾菲三部曲 (Orphic Trilogy),奧爾菲是 Jean Marais,死神是 Maria Casarés。









黑人奧爾菲 Black Orpheus

120 min. 1959



導演是馬塞卡謬 (Marcel Camus),坎城金棕櫚,奧斯卡最佳外語片。









天堂的孩子 The Children of Paradise

189 min. 1945



導演是馬塞卡內 (Marcel Carné),也有 Maria Casarés 參與演出。













恐怖的伊凡 Ivan the Terrible, Part 1

96 min. 1944



恐怖的伊凡 Ivan the Terrible, Part 2

84 min. 1946



俄國導演艾森斯坦。









可怕的父母 Les Parents Terrible

105 min. 1949



法國導演尚考克多,男主角是 Jean Marais。









可怕的孩子 Les Enfants Terribles

105 min. 1950



法國導演梅爾維爾的處女作,編劇和原著是尚考克多。尚考克多也和布列松合作布龍尼森林的貴婦,女主角是美麗的 Maria Casarés。









伊凡的少年時代 Ivan's Childhood 

97 min. 1962



俄國導演塔可夫斯基,威尼斯金獅。

















<font color="#ff0000">Re: Incest</font>


incest







incestuous



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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    血親相姦的,亂倫的





The fairy godmother (Delphine Seyrig) tries to save the girl from this incestuous fate by telling her to make impossible demands for her wedding gifts.

















Donkey Skin (1970)
















[電影] 驢頭公主 Donkey Skin (1970)





我想不到有誰比賈克德米更適合拍這麼可愛的故事了。驢頭公主改編賈克德米兒時看過的童話書,出自灰姑娘睡美人原著。法文片名直譯是 skin of ass,ass 除了當屁股,也有驢子的意思。國王 Jean Marais 是尚考克多 (美女與) 野獸和奧爾菲。



國王有頭驢子,這頭驢子相當於國庫,因為牠會生金銀珠寶。皇后很漂亮 (丹妮芙扮演),女兒也很漂亮 (因為是同個人),國王夫復何求。有天皇后死了,國王答應要續絃以培養接班人,前提是新皇后要比皇后更漂亮。不知道是哪個佞臣把丹妮芙照片給國王看,國王開始對女兒意淫。



國王詢問參謀對女兒意淫是否正當,參謀很賤他說:「問任何一個小女孩長大要嫁給誰,答案必定是親愛的爸爸。」



丹妮芙很慌張,跑到森林找教母紫丁香精靈黛芬賽麗格商討對策。黛芬賽麗格提議要國王製作不可能實現的衣服當結婚禮物,主題如好天氣太陽和月亮,好讓國王知難而退。沒想到國王都付諸實行,丹妮芙覺得衣服很漂亮,也開始認為被老爸意淫沒那麼糟糕。最後國王連國庫之驢都殺來製作衣服,丹妮芙真的慌了。



黛芬賽麗格只好使出絕招,叫丹妮芙夜間逃出皇宮,日後食衣住行已安排妥當。丹妮芙和畜牲朝夕相處,只能在農莊小木屋內穿父親製作的衣服,出門得戴上驢頭以免引人注目。王子從屋外窺見身著太陽之衣的丹妮芙,一見鍾情,但他知道階級差距是障礙,只好先回家裝病指定吃丹妮芙蛋糕才會好。



丹妮芙很三八,做蛋糕還特地換上太陽之衣,唱起主題曲愛的雞蛋糕,故事結局同灰姑娘。直昇機出現時,我想起 德米吾愛 提過,賈克德米總是笑瞇瞇地聆聽不同意見,但賈克德米也很執著,聽完仍然堅持原本的想法,笑瞇瞇地拒絕你。













黛芬賽麗格和國王有閒隙,所以百般阻撓國王意淫女兒。







丹妮芙只要一套上驢頭,大家就會覺得她是醜八怪。







柳媚花嬌 金髮小帥哥 Jacques Perrin 變成豬哥亮。





 ← based on the novel by Charles Perrault















左邊是丹妮芙平常穿的衣服,顏色類似好天氣,中間是太陽,右邊是月亮。