2008年10月30日 星期四

沒有沒有梅爾維爾 & 楊波貝貝!!!










楊波貝貝 & 小賤人拉修乃 (幹你這個不珍惜丹妮姊的小賤人!!!)



楊波貝貝加梅爾維爾是票房毒藥

筆者懷疑

台北市有多少人像筆者把楊波貝貝當關鍵字看待



新增:工讀生之死





2008/11/08

1950 我和我的小鬼們 François Bégaudeau ...  François Marin



2008/11/09 

2000 沉默之海

2220 曼哈頓二人行



2008/11/10 

1400 線人 Jean-Paul Belmondo ...  Silien 

2300 罪惡之城娥摩拉



2008/11/13

1530 當你閱讀此信

2030 家傳秘方



2008/11/16

1610 跟蹤安娜【水中刀】編劇 Jerzy Skolimowski



2008/11/17

1850 代號:梅爾維爾 (期中考提早交卷)

replaced 

by 

1830 我一直深愛著你 Kristin Scott Thomas ...  Juliette Fontaine (幹不要考期中考了)



2008/11/18

1030 黎明前與妳相遇



2008/11/19

1600 大黎明 Yves Saint-Laurent ....  costume designer: Catherine Deneuve's black dress (英文課提早離開)

1830 紅圈

2200 神父里昂莫罕 Jean-Paul Belmondo ...  Leon Morin & Emmanuelle Riva ...  Barny!!!





48 除以 16 等於 3 

換取

一張血色入侵加映場幹也要班表配合才行文藝少女頭號性幻想對象路易卡瑞就不行沉默的蘿娜也不行連陌生女子的獨白也不行甚至喋血雙雄還是不行該不會要淪落到林區女兒吧克勞德勒路許完全被忽略



結果班表不配合啦幹你娘!

















Scalp (續:疾病 難過憂鬱 器官 單字大集合)






scalpprep4a 









scalp



Y

D



–noun 

1. the integument (覆蓋物) of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous (皮下的) structures.  



integument

–noun 

1. a natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind. 剝去...的皮

2. any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.





2. a part of this integument with the accompanying hair, severed from the head of an enemy as a sign of victory, as by some North American Indians and others during the colonial and frontier periods in the U.S.  



3. any token of victory.  



4. the integument on the top of the head of an animal. 

5. Informal. a small profit made in quick buying and selling.  



–verb (used with object) 

6. to cut or tear the scalp from. 

7. Informal. 

a. to resell (tickets, merchandise, etc.) at higher than the official rates. 

b. to buy and sell (stocks) so as to make small quick profits.  

8. to plane (刨) down the surfaces of an ingot (錠,鑄塊), billet [bil-it] (作燃料用的小木條), or slab (厚板).  



170365_1  

Howard Vernon plays Von Ebrennae, a cultured Nazi [officer] who is billeted in this [household]. As the residents stare at him in mute contempt, Von Ebrennae eloquently articulates his philosophy of life, which turns out to be pretty odious at times.



–verb (used without object) 

9. Informal. to scalp tickets, stocks, or the like.  





quentin 

Empire Magazine brings us a first look at Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (yes, correct misspelling). In the film, Pitt plays Lt. Aldo Rain (aka Aldo The Apache), a leader of a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "the basterds" (hence the title). 



Accompanied by German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), the squad is [on] a mission to [track] down, [scalp], and viciously [kill] Nazis in an attempt to [spread] fear among the Third Reich. Rain is a Tennessee mountain hillbilly, and has a large scar on his neck (seen in the photo), 



rumored to be the result of a
lynching. (私刑) The film is currently in production in Germany.









3. 

緊張精神疾病

Fray



3.5 

疾病醫學名詞

Pneumonia



3.7 

難過憂鬱 

3.8 

苦惱煩躁 

Insouciant



3.6 

身體器官

Areola

















Scalp

















































2008年10月29日 星期三

Petulant


petulant







Y

D



–adjective 

moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, 

esp. 

over some trifling annoyance: a petulant [toss] of the [head].  



—Synonyms
 

irritable, peevish (乖戾的), fretful, pettish, touchy.





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As Jack's waning heart beats out the last faint pulses of a lost cause, writer-director Miller delivers a frankly unnecessary critical autopsy of failed nature-child ideals (I know environmentalism is dead, I heard it on NPR a few weeks ago). 



Rose's petulant theatrics don't bespeak the [perils] of boundary-free parenting so much as a mental disorder, 

or 

a coarse [screenplay].
 



One of Kathleen's sons explains all: "Innocent people are just, uh, dangerous, I guess." But not too dangerous: This Ballad [strikes] a final note of prosaic humility, even if Miller all along has been promising The Wreck of the Hesperus with a Dylan score. 



bespeak

–verb (used with object)

1. to ask for in advance: to bespeak the reader's [patience].  

2. to reserve beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for: to bespeak a [seat] in a theater. 

3. Literary. to speak to; address.

4. to show; indicate: This bespeaks a [kindly heart]. 

5. Obsolete. to foretell; forebode.





pert  

brash insolent indolent 

curt laconic

terse

terse (polish, brusqueness

succinct (originally)

shoddy

intentionally rude or inconsiderate

a shoddy [bookcases] [behavior]

petulant

showing sudden, impatient irritation, over some trifling annoyance

a petulant [toss] of the [head].  

Rose's petulant [theatrics] don't [bespeak] the perils of boundary-free parenting so much as a mental disorder, or a coarse screenplay. 

Tony



ulterior (consealed, future) 

prescient 

augur prognosticate harbinger /jer/

Threnody

















Scour
















scour



Y

擦淨,擦亮,洗滌

沖刷成 [(+out)]



D



–verb (used with object) 

1. to remove dirt, grease, etc., from or to cleanse or polish by hard rubbing, as with a rough or abrasive material: 



to scour [pots] and [pans].  



2. to remove (dirt, grease, etc.) from something by hard rubbing: to scour [grease] from pots and pans. 


3. to clear or dig out (a channel, drain, etc.) as by the force of water, by removing debris, etc. 


4. to purge thoroughly, as an animal. 

5. to clear or rid of what is undesirable: to scour the nation of [spies]. 

6. to remove by or as if by cleansing; get rid of

7. to clean or rid of debris, impurities, etc., by or as if by washing, as cotton or wool. 

8. Metallurgy. (of the contents of a blast furnace) to rub against and corrode (the refractory (耐火的) lining).  



–verb (used without object) 

9. to rub a surface in order to cleanse or polish it. 

10. to remove dirt, grease, etc. 

11. to become clean and shiny. 

12. to be capable of being cleaned by rubbing: 



The roasting pan scours [easily].  



13. (of a plow 犁,(大寫) 北斗七星, cultivator, etc.) to pass through the ground without soil clinging to the blade. 

14. (of a plow, shovel, etc.) to become polished from use.  



–noun

15. the act of scouring. 

16. the place scoured. 

17. an apparatus or material used in scouring; scourer: [Sand] is a good scour

18. the erosive force of moving water, as in a river or sea. 

19. Usually, scours. (used with a singular or plural verb) Veterinary Pathology. diarrh(o)ea【醫】腹瀉 in horses and cattle caused by intestinal infection.  



—Synonyms 

1. burnish, buff, shine, rub.





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He and his 16-year-old daughter, Rose (Camilla Belle), play Adam and Eve on an unidentified "island off the East Coast" of North America (lovingly captured in the redoubtable Ellen Kuras's agile, sun-burnished cinematography). 



Cuddling in bed
and gazing into each other's eyes, the adoring father and daughter produce a discomfiting sexual frisson. His days numbered by a coronary ailment, Jack hastens the Fall by paying his semi-girlfriend, Kathleen (Catherine Keener), to move into his earth-covered, energy-efficient house with her pair of reluctant teenage sons. 



Rudely displaced as crypto-wife and caretaker, [and] profoundly unsocialized to boot, Rose [effects] her confused revenge: She launches twin seduction attacks on Kathleen's boys and even fires a rifle in the newly domesticated couple's bedroom. She gets it from her father: Jack uses a gun to [scatter] construction workers building new model homes on nearby de-protected wetlands.



redoubtable

–adjective 

1. that is to be feared; formidable.

2. commanding 

or 

evoking respect, reverence, or the like.

to boot 

in addition; besides: We received an [extra] week's pay to boot. 





–verb (used with object) 

1. to range over, as in a search: 



They scoured the [countryside] for the lost child.  



2. to run or pass quickly over or along.  



–verb (used without object) 

3. to range about, as in search of something. 

4. to move rapidly or energetically.  



—Synonyms 

1. comb, rake, scan.





PDVD_000  

When Helene’s daughter is kidnapped, they scour [Dorchester] watering holes, hassle the drug dealers, and get heavily embroiled with some angry Boston police officers who are obsessed with protecting children. The movie turns into a complicated and emotional thriller, but Casey Affleck doesn’t overplay his hand. He’s lean, with a pale, unmarked face that suggests meagre [experience] of the world, and at first he looks too young for the part. 





scour shingle

brash 

bristle & brittle (vulnerable)

ruffle



scour

ransack rummage

fumble bumble bungle botch 

grope

I had to grope [around] in [the darkness] before I found the light switch.  

from the [earnest] strivings of the musical score to the [beery] gropings of the Germans

Fray


















Amble




 











amble



Y

D



–verb (used without object) 

1. to go at 



slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter: He ambled [around] the town.  



2. (of a horse) to go at a slow pace with the legs moving in lateral pairs and usually having a four-beat rhythm. 



–noun 

3. an ambling gait.

4. a slow, easy walk or gentle pace.

5. a stroll



—Synonyms 

1. ramble (隨筆), meander.





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What does it mean to give a wholly [convincing] performance 

from 

an [un]tenable script?
 



Does the [feat] confirm the supremacy of the living word over the frozen text? 



Or is the acting merely earnest 
salesmanship 

of 

shoddy merchandise?
 





It's an inquiry that might especially interest Daniel Day-Lewis, whose famously immersive process surpasses the artistic and enters the realm of the metabolic. As the dying hippie farmer in wife Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack & Rose, Day-Lewis—



an ambling scarecrow under boater and musty cloth coat



—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu, yet easefully [dis]engaged from the film's pensive histrionics. His turn as lifestyle extremist Jack carries an authentic scent of [tobacco] and [peat] while much of the movie smells of the lamp. 



musty

–adjective

1. having an odor or flavor suggestive 

of 

mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food



2. obsolete; outdated; antiquated: musty [laws]. 

3. dull; apathetic. 

peat

泥煤,泥炭





harness

trot

horse, go at a gait between walk and run

amble

Day-Lewis—an [ambling] scarecrow under [boater] and [musty] cloth coat

—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu

thresh

thrash 

He got his comeuppance when the bully [thrashed] him.

flail

The film finishes by exploring hetero motifs: Encolpio discovers that he is impotent while [flailing] around on the alter of the whore-priestess, 

and then [recovers] his virility while pleasuring Oneothea, a corpulent [sorceress] sex therapist. 

Convulsion



amble

He ambled [around] the town.

dawdle

dilatorily saunter, fritter away time working in a halfhearted way

to dawdle [over] a [task]. 

He dawdled [away] the whole [morning]. 

[Stop] dawdling and [help] me with these packages!  

loiter

linger aimlessly

to loiter outside a [building].


dally

loiter indecisively, delay as if free from responsibilities

to dally on the way [home]. (indecisively)

How can you dally [with] such a [serious] problem?

The acceptance of the role as artistic directors of the company is not a [dalliance]

Languid





insipidness unsavory

bathetic 

musty

having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold

an ambling scarecrow under [boater] and musty cloth [coat]



commonplace (dull, ordinary, platitudinous)

banal (inane, pointless)

hackneyed (stale and worn out through overuse)

trite 

[true] but trite

I always like to go into things I'm scared of, so I eventually found it -- "liberating" is kind of a [trite] word -- but it was fun. It was scary but fun.

George Sluizer's original Dutch-French version of The Vanishing (1988) reveals the [capacity] for evil [lurking] beneath the most [banal] surfaces and the dangers of wanting to know too much.

Tenuous


















Shoddy


shoddy







Y

D



–adjective 

1. of poor quality 

or 

inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.  



2. intentionally rude 

or 

inconsiderate; shabby: shoddy [behavior].

 

–noun
 

3. a fibrous material obtained by shredding (碎片) unfelted rags or waste. Compare mungo.

4. anything inferior, 

esp. 

a handmade item or manufactured product.





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What does it mean to give a wholly [convincing] performance 

from 

an [un]tenable script?
 



Does the [feat] confirm the supremacy of the living word over the frozen text? 



Or is the acting merely earnest 
salesmanship 

of 

shoddy merchandise?
 





It's an inquiry that might especially interest Daniel Day-Lewis, whose famously immersive process surpasses the artistic and enters the realm of the metabolic. As the dying hippie farmer in wife Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack & Rose, Day-Lewis—



an ambling scarecrow under boater and musty cloth coat



—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu, yet easefully [dis]engaged from the film's pensive histrionics. His turn as lifestyle extremist Jack carries an authentic scent of [tobacco] and [peat] while much of the movie smells of the lamp. 





filch

huckster monger hock bauble shoddy

Sham



pert  

brash insolent indolent 

shoddy

curt laconic

terse

terse (polish, brusqueness

succinct (originally)

Tony

















2008年10月28日 星期二

Venal


venal







Y



a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    能收買的;貪贓枉法的;腐敗的



社會是個縝密而 venal 的騙局必須被摧毀致使無從記憶其存在





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[Toward] the end of the film, events pile up a little too quickly; there are poisonous snakes and sudden injuries, confrontations with the builder and medical concerns, and Jack resembles a lot of dying characters in the movies: His health closely mirrors the requirements of the story. By the [end] I had too much of a sense of story strands that had [strayed] too far to be neatly concluded, 



and there is an epilogue that could have been done without. 





Despite these complaints, "The Ballad of Jack & Rose" is an absorbing experience. Consider the care with which Miller handles a confrontation between Jack and the home-builder. Countless cliches are sidestepped when Jack finally sees their conflict for what it is, not right against wrong, but "a matter of taste." Is it idealistic to want a whole island to yourself, 



and venal to believe that other people might enjoy having homes there?
 



The movie has a sly scene where Jack and Rose visit one of the model homes, which to Jack is an abomination and to Rose a dream. 





licentious lewd

depraved

(character) [reprobate], [profligate], [dissipated]

and takes a brave leap of faith into the depraved [real world]. Aren't we lucky.



dissolute (licentious) = disspate

desultory (random)

Detest

















Demur ***


demur







Y

dem/er/

1. 猶豫,有顧慮,反對

2. 【律】抗辯,表示異議



D



–verb (used without object) 

1. to make objection, esp. on the grounds of scruples (n. v.); take exception; object: They wanted to make him the [treasurer], but he demurred.  



2. Law. to interpose a demurrer.

3. Archaic. to linger; hesitate. 



–noun 

4. the act of making objection.

5. an objection raised.

6. hesitation

7. Law. Obsolete. a demurrer



—Synonyms 

5. scruple, qualm (內疚,疑慮,噁心暈眩), misgiving.

—Antonyms 

1. agree, accede.





C



demur (n., v.), demurral, demurrer, demurrage (nn.) 

   

To demur (pronounced di-MUHR; to pronounce the second syllable -MYOOR is Substandard) means "to delay, to hesitate because of doubts" as in Tom’s [concerns] over finances caused him to demur. 



What he registered is called a demur or a demurral, each of which is an objection, or—if it’s a matter of law—a demurrer, which he may file when he believes that whether the evidence is true or not, it will not support the allegations before the court. 



Confusingly, a demurrer can also be "one who demurs," [tacking] the agentive ending onto the verb demur. 



Demurrage is another sort of delay, a technical term from the shipping business, meaning "the amount charged the shipper for delay of the ship beyond the agreed-upon time for loading and unloading the cargo"; it can be expressed in money or time.





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Having possibly fantasized herself as her father's lover, Rose reacts with anger to the newcomers and determines in revenge to lose her virginity as soon as possible. She asks Rodney to sleep with her, but he demurs ("I am sure my brother will be happy to oblige") and suggests a haircut instead. The short-haired Rose seems to have grown up overnight, and in reaction to her father's "experiment" offers him evidence of an experiment of her own.





demure decorum prim pent-up

demur

Tom’s [concerns] over finances caused him to demur. 

She asks Rodney to sleep with her, but he [demurs] ("I am sure my brother will be happy to oblige").

sedate

vial 

pour out vials of [wrath]

travail

Tony





Many viewers who felt let down by The Dreamers' treatment of the events of '68 may feel [vindicated] by this work. 

to vindicate someone's [honor]

forensic

vindicate exonerate



felony felon 

venue affidavit cf. davit

injunction

demurrer

alimony & [p]alimony 



loitering 

larceny kleptomania purloin filch (small value) 

mayhem sabotage



filch

huckster monger hock bauble

Sham





dinghy

keel 

hull davit



rakish

(of a vessel) having an appearance suggesting speed.  

a hat worn at a rakish [angle]. (jaunty)

the goofy but rakishly [charming] Chad Faust. (dissolute)



demurrage

Beleaguer





vacillate 

As Eli, Paul Dano's voice [vacillates] between 

[a soft-spoken gentleness in his serene moments] and 

[a thin, reedy growl during his Biblical orations].

It is Conchita's emotional ambivalence towards the tenaciously persistent suitor that is reflected through the physical [vacillation] between the two actresses playing the role of Conchita, 

[Carole Bouquet (cold and demure)] and 

[Angela Molina (sensual and aggressive).]

oscillate

(figuratively, to vacillate)

Like [a flower in the wind], he [oscillated] between 

[one view] and 

[another], unable to make up his mind.

osculate 

(to kiss, to touch)

His chief political skill was in [osculating] the infants of eligible voters. 

Tenuous

















Crag (續:鋸齒狀 毛茸茸 單字大集合)


crag



Y

D

–noun 

a steep, rugged rock; rough, broken, projecting part of a rock. 





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"The Ballad of Jack & Rose" is the last sad song of 1960s flower power. 



On an island off the East Coast a craggy middle-age hippie
and his teenage daughter live alone in the remains of a commune. A generator is powered by wind. There is no television. Seaweed fertilizes the garden. They read. He home-schools her. They divide up the tasks. 



When Rose looks at Jack, her eyes glow with worship, and there is something wrong about that. When they lie side by side on the turf roof of their cottage, finding cloud patterns in the sky, they could be lovers. She is at an age when her [hormones] vibrate around men, and there is only one in her life. 





。隨機

。不整潔

Slob



。鋸齒狀

precipitate 

precipice

rug

Alice is an American Web designer living in Illinois who falls for a ruggedly handsome mountain climber named Adam. 

crag

On an island off the East Coast a [craggy] middle-age hippie

a craggy loner who came to Istanbul years ago and has managed to reinvent himself as a successful photographer.

garrote

scrag


a lean or scrawny person or animal

Slang. to wring the neck of, hang, garrote

scraggly

has a [face] like a rusty [hatchet] (needle nose, scraggly [beard])

serration

See the serration near the tip? 鋸齒狀

indent

Your equipment requisitions, expense allowance indent

frumpy 

jolt 

Koichi is a private secretary to a government official, and in the opening scene, at Koichi's wedding to the official's disabled daughter, a special cake is brought in which [jolts] those present -- it reminds them of the suicide that paved the way for their current positions of power.

bumpy 

plump 

plumb

plummet

a literal "flying nun" who miraculously manages to survive her unplanned [earthly] plummet.

Here he visits childhood friend Serge, and is appalled to find how far Serge has plummeted [into] alcoholism and self-pity. 



nick

With the name change, Pop became a man possessed on-stage, going into the crowd nightly to confront [members] of the audience and working himself into such a frenzy that he would be bleeding by the end of the night from various nicks and scratches.



。毛茸茸

thatched

Jesus Christ! This huge, thatched head...

brittle

having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength, breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass

Although this would be the cause of much controversy later on -- many Stooges [purists] blamed Bowie for the brittle mix -- its razor-thin sound helped kick-start the punk revolution.

bristle 

and the moral caution bristles [with] rank and smellable detail under the painter’s touch

No doubt the movie wowed them at Sundance because of its [unnerving] combination of willful sacrilege and religious desire wrapped in the [bristling] package of Mr. Gosling's muscular performance,

Don't bristle. Did i mention cary? I'm beginning to think you have an evil mind.

ruffle

Some of the more controversial elements of Williams' melodrama were downplayed in the film version so as not to [ruffle] the censors of the era.

The scenes don’t lose their pace or their shape; they sustain a [ruffled], [poignant] mood.

Life is not whatnot, and it's none of your business. [Pages ruffling]

rumple 

irregular, uneven, jagged

Jerry's assistant Watson (rumple-faced Irv Gooch)

Why else would Mr. Solondz ape Mr. Allen's black-[rimmed] glasses, [rumpled] plaid shirts and stammering delivery?

James Stewart brings a natural integrity to his [flawed] character, while George C. Scott's gravelly voice and rumpled energy [enliven] his cinematic debut.

crumple

There it was, the yellow envelope likee a crumpled leaf on the tray.

corrugate

corrugated [cardboard]

The picture is unthinkable [without] her presence—swaying between the [jubilant] and the [fretful], all wide [eyes] and corrugated [brow]. 

furrow

In spring, [farmers] are busy furrowing the fields.

His [brow] furrowed.

[Brows] were certainly furrowed thinking about why Aronofsky would want to follow [up] a film which was populated [by] a ton of random characters and featured several departures from the canon Wolverine story. 

as if [shopworking] with folklore that doesn't exist, Erice insists through his visuals that everything, even the vast, [furrowed] Castilian plains themselves, [signifies] emotional intangibles.

crease

Perfect creases are part of this elegance.

Really, Henry, you amaze me. One of His Majesty's most respected civil servants. I imagined that your mind was as neatly creased as your trousers.

pucker

draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds, as material or a part of the face, constrict 

Worry puckered his [brow].

Stiller makes the fragile dramatic structure work. In the past, lowering his head, puckering his [mouth], and [vamping] for the camera with his dark, [sunken] eyes, he seemed (to me, at least) too obvious to be truly funny,



frazzle

but by her extravagant turn as a [frazzled] performance artist

floating notions about loneliness and urban beauty, frazzled [adults] and buffeted [kids] 

Meanwhile, [frazzled] shoe salesman Richard is splitting with his wife. 

Directors were young and vain enough to think that promiscuity carried few risks and that the drugs wouldn't [frazzle] their brains.

frizzle

no accent, frizzed [hair] or darkened complexion, and no attempt to consciously rein in emotion.

fizzle

make a hissing or sputtering sound, esp. one that dies out weakly

Informal. to fail ignominiously after a good start (often fol. by out

The reform movement fizzled [out] because of poor leadership.

That the climax [fizzles] must be laid on doorstep of Halsted Welles, who adapts Elmore Leonard's story quite well until that point.

When you die, make sure that your brain is the last organ to fizzle.

"Trance" Review: Danny Boyle's Latest Dazzles Then Fizzles.

frill

All these frills and fancies are going out. It's all old.

I could think of you as a girl all the time, by your [frocks], dresses, and frilly hats and scarves.

In a trash bag? That's awful. No frills. He's dead and done for.

fizzwater

fizz

The cap's fizzed out and fused the fucking chamber.



tousle

disorder or dishevel

a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair

Gerwig, a slightly dorky girl with soft features, a gummy smile, and tousled hair—worlds apart from the trim and tanned Hollywood princesses who populate most big-budget fare.

















Crag

















































Rote


rote







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n. (名詞 noun)[U]



          1.    死記硬背

                      Learning by rote is discouraged in this school.

                      這所學校不鼓勵死記硬背的學習方式。

          2.    機械的作法;生搬硬套

                      She imitated her teacher by rote.

                      她機械地模仿她的老師。





Dictionary.com



–noun 

1. routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure: the rote of daily living.  



—Idiom

2. by rote, from memory, without thought of the meaning; 

in 

a mechanical way: to learn a language by rote.  





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



by heart, by rote 

   

These idioms are synonyms. 



To know something by rote 

is to have memorized it as if to sing 

or 

chant it to the accompaniment of a sort of harp (rote). 



To know something by heart 

is also to have it—words or tune—memorized perfectly.    

  



 REEVES' COP FLICK ROTE STILL PRETTY GOOD





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There's nothing voluntary about this activism; it's [rote], [robotic], and trancelike. That stance would seem a little more meaningful if contrasted with some real hippie love, 



maybe a flashback to the days when the commune was a living and relevant entity. Instead, the house has a funereal feel throughout, making the film one long dirge for days gone by.





paren(the)tic 

rote

mnemonic semantic

corroborate (confirm)

He corroborated [my account] of the accident. 

[evidence] to corroborate his testimony

opine

to be used jocularly

She opined that he would [lose] the contest. 

trope

any literary or rhetorical device as metaphor, metonymy , synecdoche, and irony

the movie is a veritable scrapbook of [tropes] from the heyday of art film. 

The brief return to Israel at pic's end [contains] one rapid [visual] trope that may pass many auds by.

Castigate

















Tack & Tact


tack



Y



n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    平頭釘,大頭釘;圖釘[C]

                      Joe hammered a tack into the wall to hang a picture.

                      喬用錘子把一只大頭釘敲進牆中用來掛一幅畫。



          2.    粗縫針腳;假縫[C]

          3.    【船】(帆的)上下腳;上下角索[C]

          4.    【海】(帆船的)航向[C]



          5.    行動步驟,方針[U][C]

                      If you can't persuade him, try a new tack.

                      如果你不能勸服他,那就試試新的方法吧。



          6.    黏性,黏著力[U]



vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    用平頭釘釘[(+down)]

                      We tacked some posters on the wall.

                      我們把一些海報釘在牆上。



          2.    暫時用粗針腳縫



          3.    附加,增補[(+to/on/onto)]

                      They've tacked a couple of new clauses on to the end of the 

                      contract.

                      他們在合同的末尾加了兩條新的條款。



          4.    使(船)搶風轉變航向



vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)



          1.    搶風轉變航向

                      The sailing ship was tacking.

                      帆船一路換搶航行。



          2.    改弦易轍,改變方針





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Rose first attempts to seduce sweet but stocky Rodneywho [opts] (instead) to cut her long hair; she then takes up with moody Thaddius, who [takes] her virginity. 



Before long, emotional war breaks out in the household with Rose battling Jack on all fronts; Jack, meanwhile, is taking a more [direct] tack on dealing with a developer putting up buildings on nearby wetlands, attempting to chase him off with a shotgun.



stocky

–adjective

1. of solid and sturdy form or build; thick-set and, usually, short.

2. having a strong, stout stem, as a plant. 





shabby stubby 

Dingy









tact



Y



n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    老練;機智;得體;圓滑[U]

                      A diplomat must have tact.

                      外交官要有機智。

















2008年10月27日 星期一

秋天的故事 Conte d'automne (1998) 瑪莉希維耶 Marie Rivière (39) = the power of L.E.G.G.Y
















"Eric Rohmer is definitely an acquired taste, and his films have driven many viewers to distraction with their long and meandering dialogue sequences, 

their general air of unpredictable improvisation, and their resolutely stately pace of execution."  -- allmovie



「侯麥電影值得好好品嚐,觀眾被那些迂迴蜿蜒的對話鏡頭所吸引,那些無法預期,隨性的日常氣息,那些毅然決然,莊嚴的執行節奏。」





侯麥劇本有多真實偉大的樸實無華,筆者就不多加贅述了。



這位新浪潮最歷久彌新 (enduring) 的大師,總是不溫不火地塑造每個角色的個性,那些平凡卻又深刻的角色,那些可以在你生活圈找到對應的角色,再把他們一一擺進偶然與巧合的大染缸,不留痕跡。片尾歌舞昇平場景,每個角色都找到最舒服的位置,請允許我說句:C'est la vie!!!





以綠光和秋天的故事為例,侯麥機歪女有以下共通點:



1. 極度被動,每天期待有白馬王子來主動。

2. 自視甚高承認自己難搞,被搞就會抓狂。

3. 我的人生早就 fucked up,白馬王子不會出現了,妳們幫我介紹的男人不是白癡就是變態。









Claire's Knee (1970)

Jean-Claude Brialy ...  Jerome (R.I.P.)

Béatrice Romand ...  Laura 





綠光的機歪女是愛哭女 Marie Rivière,聚會時被好朋友 Béatrice Romand 機歪到當場崩潰,堪稱全片最張力十足也最令人發噱的場景;秋天的故事角色互換,機歪女變成 Béatrice Romand,當好朋友 (前愛哭女) Marie Rivière 安慰好朋友不要哭時,他馬的我快笑翻了!



令人心碎的是,



克萊兒的膝蓋 (Le Genou de Claire, 1970) 驚為天人阿爾及利亞小勞拉 Béatrice Romand (18),二十五年後居然成了膚色暗成的老黑喬 (46);對照綠光成為機歪女典範的 Marie Rivière (30),年輕四歲綠光愛哭女 (42) 是如此風韻猶存!





Marie Rivière 在綠光可能鎮日以淚洗面,看起來憔悴,秋天的故事染了棕髮,裝扮低調時尚,成了一舉一動皆性感的都會書商,看到過去歷經風霜的 heroine,終於散發成熟與醇美,幹筆者也感動到要哭泣了!



以下 Marie Rivière 的 leggy 風情大放送,侯麥長鏡頭萬歲!

 



延伸閱讀:

Summer (1986)

Claire's Knee (1970)









秋天的故事 Conte d'automne

112 min. 1998



Marie Rivière ...  Isabelle

Béatrice Romand ...  Magali

Alain Libolt ...  Gérald

Didier Sandre ...  Étienne

Alexia Portal ...  Rosine



























老勞拉的兒子女朋友 Alexia Portal 頗有珍妮佛康娜莉味道!與前男朋友高中哲學教師藕斷絲連,兩人連到一半,哲學教師就去找前女朋友紅色妹研究生敘舊。



這段截圖是倒著截的,電影裡兩人站在鏡頭前說話,老師看到紅色妹,馬上轉頭上前打招呼,小珍妮也轉頭,向左離開鏡頭,留下哲學教師紅色妹兩人站在畫面中央,誰說侯麥只會寫劇本,導演功力不如的!



以上截圖倒著看,再照電影劇情看,格外有趣!

















 Marie Rivière 跳舞的樣子好美呀!





 綠光愛哭女刊登徵婚廣告認識的 Alain Libolt 頗有中產階級拘謹的魅力,馬斯楚安尼的神韻。 





 哲學老師最後和紅色妹研究生跳舞。