艾蜜莉莫特美。古典二字就是這樣寫啦！
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隔離島
西伯利亞大逃亡
2008年9月30日 星期二
溫der 斯的焦慮
政大電影社
10/02 1815 慾望之翼 Wings of Desire
10/03 1815 咫尺天涯 Faraway, So Close! Nastassja Kinski!!! (32)
10/07 1815 愛麗絲漫遊記 Alice in the Cities (1974)
10/09 1815 歧路 The Wrong Move Nastassja Kinski!!! (13)
10/10 1815 公路之王 Kings of the Road
10/14 1815 巴黎德州 Paris, Texas Nastassja Kinski!!! (22)
10/16 1815 雲上的日子 Beyond the Clouds
10/17 1815 里斯本故事 Lisbon Story
10/21 1815 尋找小津 Tokyo-Ga
10/23 1815 都市時裝速記 Notebook on Cities and Clothes
海邊der 卡夫卡
10/08 2000 守門員的焦慮 The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
10/15 2000 歧路 The Wrong Move (1975) Nastassja Kinski!!! (13)
10/22 2000 道路之王 Kings of the Road (1976)
10/29 2000 美國朋友 The American Friend (1977)
11/05 2000 巴黎德州 Paris, Texas (1984) Nastassja Kinski!!! (22)
11/12 2000 慾望之翼 Wings of Desire (1987)
11/19 2000 里斯本的故事 Lisbon Story (1994)
11/26 2000 漫步在雲端 Beyond the Clouds (1995)
從溫德斯的處女作《守門員的焦慮》，到德國時期公路電影三部曲《歧路》、《道路之王》、《美國朋友》，好萊塢時期經典鉅作《巴黎‧德州》，以及《慾望之翼》、《里斯本的故事》、《漫步在雲端》共八部溫德斯必看經典 ，一次看足。
兩邊都缺威尼斯金獅事物的狀態。(請見政大總圖破爛視聽室)
卡夫卡以放片順序依年份，以及處女作守門員的焦慮和完整公路三部曲勝出，不過全電影說法是 747576 歧路道路之王愛麗絲漫遊記，廢話！當然是以全電影為圭臬；
政大有慾望之翼續集咫尺天涯，公路三部曲第三部曲愛麗絲漫遊記，加上放映較多娜塔莎金斯基，無條件反敗為勝！娜塔莎金斯基好美喔！
2008年9月28日 星期日
Hellboy II: Can't Smile Without SELMA BLAIR!!! <font color="#ff0000"> 莎瑪布萊兒之紅色情深</font>
Selma Blair 最正！
Selma Blair 最高！
Selma Blair FTW！！！
Selma Blair for Oscar！！！
「什麼？你要去看那個頭上有兩個干貝很噁心的那個喔！」家母如此問起。
看完地獄怪客二，紅燒干貝頭火速榮登我所認識的美國英雄一哥，因為 Selma Blair。
還沒看第一集長髮造型，續集 短髮 俏麗可人！
死亡天使要莎瑪 between 世界末日紅燒干貝頭二選一，莎瑪選擇干貝；干貝頭拿到王冠，莎瑪馬上燒掉。別忘了點 這裡 品味莎瑪與小克的精彩對談。
羊男 之前，蜜拉索維諾秘密客，刀鋒戰士，回想 Guillermo Del Toro 拍過哪些牛鬼蛇神電影實在有趣。第一集就有爛番茄百分之八十，莎瑪布萊兒之紅色情深更上一層樓：88%。
安蒂麥道威爾妳是我今生的新娘中，休葛蘭 & Co. 齊聲歌唱 Can't Smile Without You 讓我體認到原來開車在聽的西洋老歌也可以如此動人，而光是看紅燒干貝頭為情所困，獨自灌啤酒沖澡的心碎模樣就知道，
這種有血有淚真性情是那位狗嘴吐不出象牙的 內褲頭 永遠做不到的！
莎瑪布萊兒之紅色情深 Hellboy II: The Golden Army
110 min. 2008
Ron Perlman ... Hellboy
Selma Blair ... Liz Sherman
Doug Jones ... Abe Sapien / The Chamberlain / The Angel of Death
James Dodd ... Johann Krauss
Jeffrey Tambor ... Tom Manning
Seth MacFarlane ... Johann Krauss (voice)
John Hurt ... Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm 不要再把約翰赫特和威廉赫特搞混了！
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[情報] 葛雷摩戴托羅電影劇本初探
2008年9月25日 星期四
Meager *** (缺乏 消瘦 顏色 貧窮 動物 單字大集合)
meager
Y
D
–adjective
1. deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate:
a meager [salary]
meager [fare]
a meager [harvest]
2. having little flesh; lean; thin: a body meager with [hunger].
3. maigre. (無肉的,素食的)
–adjective
containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.【宗】禁食
Also, especially British, meagre.
—Synonyms
1. See scanty. 2. gaunt (憔悴的,荒涼的), spare, skinny.
Scanty, meager, sparse refer to insufficiency or deficiency in quantity, number, etc.
Scanty denotes smallness or insufficiency of quantity, number, supply, etc.: a scanty supply of [food].
Meager indicates that something is poor, stinted, or inadequate: meager [fare]; a meager [income].
Sparse applies particularly to that which grows thinly or is thinly strewn or sown, often over a wide area:
sparse [vegetation]
a sparse [population].
Far separated from the sparse, [atmospheric] creation
that makes up much of Mignola's comics, Hellboy II dares to cram as much creativity into every frame as possible, leaving no doubt that this big-screen incarnation is its own valid animal -- and one that's well worth the price of [admission].
From the exquisite production design to the top-notch creature effects,
the film is eye candy of the highest order.
Boasting the largest set of in-camera monster effects this side of Nightbreed, and featuring some of the most striking character conceptions of its time, Del Toro has crafted a uniquely beautiful creation that
[dazzles]
the [eye] as well as the [heart].
Add in its sharp comic instincts and wham-bam action and one gets a comic-book film that strives to deliver a rousing experience for audiences of all ages -- and really,
who could ask for more than that?
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. 
It was miserable timing given the credit crunch and the big squeeze on lenders and financiers, whose flood of liquidity had enabled [the rush of product] in the first place.
Looking at the meager [return] on investment,
a lot of backers have thrown in the towel or altered their strategies.
crunch
艱難局面;財政困難;短缺
【口】關鍵時刻;危機
Beleaguer
Deluge
1. 缺乏
dearth
a dearth of [food]
sparse
grows thinly or is thinly strewn or sown, over a wide area:
sparse [vegetation], a sparse [population]
scrimmage
Football. a gathering of the offensive team in a close circle or line behind the [line] of scrimmage for instructions, signals
Are your parents coming down for your scrimmage on Saturday?
The few high-energy set pieces are credible and pointed, including two scrimmages on the b-ball [court], and one exhilarating, then tense ensemble [slamdance] to a track by angst-ridden rap-metalheads Korn.
scrimp
He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps [on] food.
skimp
a movie that looks like it was skimping [on] electricity.
skim
She skimmed the soup to remove most of the [fat].
The movie's plot is as [lighthearted] as a Scott Fitzgerald short story, all about young people skimming the [surface] of the pond of life, [flitting] here and there, making small talk and flirting.
scamp
If you don't [like] the assignments, just don't do them, but don't scamp them.
2. 消瘦
liposuction
svelte
slinky
lanky
The movie seems unwilling to look at his face very clearly; it is concealed by lanky [hair] and a hooded coat
Hiding behind lank long [hair], seeming even younger than his slim years
Lanky, [open]-faced Vincent Kartheiser (star of Larry Clark's "Another Day in Paradise") is Mason Mullich, a [sullen], small-town teen whose suicidal fantasies play out to the moody strains of Sparklehorse's "It's a Wonderful Life."
gangling
tall & lanky
cf. gangrene
gangly
Because Thompson is an endearingly [gangly], gallant [presence]—he has the wistful look of a hungry pup just inches shy of a steak— his mortification is ours.
And this kind of gangly youth|over there is my nephew Lon.
scrawny
Scrawny old men, little girls with sunken eyes, naked boys covered in bruises.
Kid stuff. She was 12, brunette, scrawny, homely.
gaunt
a gaunt, windswept [landscape]
He is so [gaunt], his face so [hollow], he looks nothing like the actor we're familiar with.
The [gaunt] yet elegant Jeremy Irons is adept at portraying Dr. Stephen Fleming,
Jeremy Irons, [gaunt] and aesthetic, brings no fleshy pleasure to the role.
Though no one should hazard a guess on his acting future from this outing alone his [gauntly] transsexual appearance is so right for the role that is will be difficult to disassociate him from it in the future.
emaciate [i-mey-shee-eyt]
vacillate [vas-uh-leyt]
oscillate [os-uh-leyt]
wan
pallor lurid sanguine
anemic
Creaks along like an anemic [snail]
but it's mortally anaemic in the story, character and thematic departments.
haggard
the haggard [faces] of the [tired] troops.
haggard [eyes]
haggle
bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner
mangle in cutting
Convulsion
monger
huckster
Sham
。肥胖
。財富
。貧窮 Opulent
4. 動植物
Walrus
2.5 顏色
Pallor
Meager
Sheath & Hilt
sheath
Y
1. (刀、劍等的)鞘; (工具等的)護套
5.【植】葉鞘
6. 女子緊身服裝
D
–noun
1. a case or covering for the blade of a sword, dagger, or the like.
2. any similar close-fitting covering or case.
3. a condom.
4. Biology. a closely enveloping part or structure, as in an animal or plant.
5. Botany. the leaf base when it forms a vertical coating surrounding the stem.
6. a close-fitting dress, skirt, or coat, esp. an unbelted dress with a straight drape.
7. Electricity. the metal covering of a cable.
8. Electronics.
a. the metal wall of a wave guide.
b. a space charge formed by ions (離子) near an electrode (電極) in a tube containing low-pressure gas.
c. the region of a space charge in a cathode (陰極) -ray tube. cf. anode (陽極)
–verb (used with object)
9. to sheathe.
C
sheath (n., v.), sheathe (v.)
The noun plural is either sheathes (with a voiced -thz sound for the final consonant cluster, to rhyme with breathes), or sheaths (with the final cluster a voiceless -ths, to rhyme with Keith’s).
The third person singular present tense of the verb has the same two pronunciations and spellings as the noun plural. The past tense and past participle of the verb are both spelled sheathed but pronounced with either a voiced (-thd) or voiceless (-tht).
Above King Street downtown, the $200 million film and cultural center known as Bell Lightbox is rising, a much more visible structure than it was in September 2007. Seating about 1,350 people
in five theaters sheathed [in] gallery and dining space,
the Lightbox will open in 2010, altering the way films unspool at one of the world’s key festivals.
sling
slinging [burgers] and [onion rings] to the rare customer
to sling a [rifle] over one's shoulder.
to sling a hammock between two [trees].
cf. sheath
swoop
The [hawk] swooped [down] and seized the rabbit.
catapult
He was catapulted to [fame].
The [boy] catapulted [out] of the house.
ricochet
the movie [takes on] Slacker's free-form [approach],
ricocheting [from] one conversation [to] the next with just a [hint] of a narrative.
Convulsion
Pallet
hilt
Y
(刀、劍、工具等的) 柄
D
–noun
1. the handle of a sword or dagger.
2. the handle of any weapon or tool.
–verb (used with object)
3. to furnish with a hilt.
—Idiom
4. to the hilt,
to the maximum extent or degree; completely; fully:
to play the role to the hilt. Also, [up] to the hilt.
tether
[at] the end of one's [tether]
This is [beyond] my tether
trawl
Kenzie goes [trawling] [for] the little girl through an underworld of
troll
cf. droll
Fray
If one thing is for certain, it's that Ron Perlman was born to play this cat-loving demon with a heart of gold.
His [nuance][s] under the makeup are effortless,
as is his interaction with the movie's biggest surprise, that of (鰓) gill-man and best bud, Abe Sapien.
Performer Doug Jones dons the suit once more, but this time, is given the humble task of supplying the voice for the creature (taking the reins from Frasier's David Hyde Pierce) -- the result being a homerun straight out of one of the Hollywood's most unexpected playbooks.
Abe and Hellboy are an endearing duo to be reckoned with, and with their dual romantic subplots, are given the chance to play off each other in wonderfully silly ways. And if there weren't enough laughs already with returning cast member Jeffrey Tambor, here comes the newest -- and most delightfully bizarre -- BPRD member, Johan Strauss,
infectiously voiced to a Germanic hilt by Family Guy-guru,
Seth MacFarlane. On the flipside, Luke Goss provides another intriguing villain that's not unlike his sorrowful portrayal of the tragic Shakespearean baddie in Del Toro's highly underrated Blade II.
Menagerie (續：珍奇異獸 十二生肖 單字大集合)
EDITORIAL: Fur Is Dead
MAGAZINE: Vogue
MODEL: Raquel Zimmermann
PHOTOGRAPHER: Mario Testino
menagerie
Y
D
–noun
1. a collection of wild or unusual animals, esp. for exhibition.
2. a place where they are kept or exhibited.
3. an unusual and varied group of people.
Guillermo del Toro and Co. have pulled off a fantastical feat of high entertainment in Hellboy II, a follow-up that bounds off its predecessor into new comedic and action-packed heights, giving this unlikely big screen hero a gleeful second installment that works its devilish tail off to [satisfy] and [astound].
Having already been through the rather transparent -- "This is who the big-horned fella is and yes, he's the leading man" schtick the first time around, round two finds its own groove as Mike Mignola's characters trounce through Del Toro's menagerie of fetishes,
namely misunderstood monsters, clockwork gears, undying love, and a magical array of monsters that leaves the audience [spellbound] throughout its near-two-hour running time.
4.1 獸性
4.2 動物叫聲
Surfeit
4. 動物
。鳥
。洞穴
。狐
。貓科
。海底動物
。人猿
。昆蟲 Walrus
terrarium
As it is, Lonesome Jim soon [evolves] into a comedy, or at least it can be one in the proper frame of mind, a toast-dry farce about depression seen, necessarily, from [outside] the terrarium. 陸地動物飼養所
pachyderm
What about the old diminishing pachyderm formation there? No, that's all Sandra's collection. She's in Zimbabwe at the moment.【動】厚皮類
。鼠
rodent
animated movies about indignant handheld devices and [chatty] rodents, 齧齒目動物
hamster
My close friend was Joe. His bedroom was filled with aquariums, [terrariums], snakes, [hamsters], spiders, and butterfly and beetle collections. 倉鼠
chipmunk
with his chipmunk-like [physiognomy], that the film was thought of and sold as a kid's movie.
gerbil
This is a PhD candidate in neurobiology. She's studying aggression and sexual behaviour in Mongolian gerbils.
Yeah, I just play with gerbil dick all day. 沙鼠
。牛
stolid
Wendy Hiller is [brusque], but warm, as More's [stolid] wife,
I think there is something in the Italian landscape, which inclines even the most stolid to romance.
bovine
I regret to say, is borderline [bovine] throughout—merely lowers his [muzzle] and pants a bit
heifer
You fucking heifer.
We come up with a dead heifer in the night. (未生過牛犢的) 小母牛
nowt
he never leaves that television set, so you've got nowt on him.
cud
They have one point in common. A [bovine] quality. Though I liked these [cud]-chewers... They chew things over.
regurgitate
As the body doth regurgitate spoilt meats...
rumination
rumen
maw
but backward into the [maw] of time.
paunch
haunch
loin
"My Own Private Idaho," with two young hustlers wandering the West and [noodling] among the [tenderloin] drifters in downtown Portland. (豬、牛等的) 腰肉
goulash
We're making goulash. 菜燉牛肉
cowhide
I always wanted that Corbusier chaise but I'm allergic to cowhide. (帶毛的) 母牛皮, (鞣製的) 母牛皮革
veal
One woman ordered pork and veal mince and I thought: She'll make meatloaf. I had that yesterday, with applesauce. (食用的) 小牛肉
。牛乳
mastectomy
The Oscar-nommed star of "Georgy Girl" and "Gods and Monsters" was diagnosed with [breast] cancer in December 2002, [had] a mastectomy in January 2003 and [underwent] chemotherapy.【醫】乳房切除 (術)
lactation
Poor Ruby. She hates me. I breastfed her baby. Wouldn't take the bottle. So I fed him, and he took to me right away. But, you know, I think my mistake was... I shouldn't have told her. She's got lactation problems, and she couldn't appreciate it. 分泌乳汁
mammilla
pap
teat
the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge nipple or mammilla
areola
aureola
halo
He trusts that we don't need the filmmaker to [vilify] or even mock Dubya from the third person, and despite the aforementioned halo, he also doesn't paint devil horns on the members of the administration like Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.
udder
wean
accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk
He isn't weaned yet.
Your father has taken a lot of morphine. Too much. If he increases his doses now, it will kill him. We need to wean him off it. We'll stop the morphine for a couple of days until he "kicks the habit" a little.
brisket
During bondage shoots, the Klaws offer [brisket] and good advice. 胸部,胸肉
Irving offers his models "some beautiful sliced [brisket]",
stalactite
You can't see it, because of the stalactites, due to water seepage.【地】鐘乳石
。溫馴動物
。狗
Bovine
。爬蟲類
。豬怪
Serpent
Menagerie
Trounce
trounce
Y
【口】打敗,使潰不成軍
D
–verb (used with object)
1. to beat severely; thrash. (用鞭,棍)打, 摔打(穀物),使脫粒
2. to punish.
3. to defeat decisively.
—Related forms
trouncer, noun
Guillermo del Toro and Co. have pulled off a fantastical feat of high entertainment in Hellboy II, a follow-up that
[bounds off] its predecessor
[into]
[new] comedic and action-packed [heights],
giving this unlikely big screen hero a gleeful second installment that works its devilish tail off to [satisfy] and [astound].
Having already been through the rather transparent -- "This is who the big-horned fella is and yes, he's the leading man" schtick the first time around, round two finds its own groove as
Mike Mignola's characters trounce
through
Del Toro's menagerie of fetishe[s],
namely misunderstood monsters, clockwork gears, undying love, and a magical array of monsters that leaves the audience [spellbound] throughout its near-two-hour running time.
fetish [fet-ish, fee-tish]
relinguish (compelled)
cf. renounce (formally, voluntary)
abandon (further)
rebuke
reproach (faultfinding, shaming)
cf. mortify (humiliate or shame)
rebuke (formally, officially)
cf. berate
scold (at length, irritation)
reprove (milder)
Castigate
Despot
despot
Y
D
–noun
1. a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat.
2. any tyrant or oppressor.
3. History/Historical. an honorary title applied to a Byzantine (拜占庭式) emperor, afterward to members of his family, and later to Byzantine vassal (諸侯) rulers and governors.
For centuries, an ancient truce has kept the naïve citizens of the human race safe from the horrors of the invisible realm — but that's all about to change, and fast. A ruthless leader has emerged in the invisible realm, a tyrant just as comfortable walking the surface realm as he is living in the land of fantasy. When this power-mad ruler defies his bloodline to assemble an unstoppable army of fantastical creatures that he will use to [wage] a supernatural war on [humanity],
it begins to [appear] that
humankind's days are [numbered].
But Hellboy (Perlman) isn't about to stand idly [by]
as the planet is [purged] by a demonic despot,
and with a little help from his team at the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, he may just be able to send our otherworldly overlords (封建君主) packing. Of course, Hellboy's pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz (Selma Blair), is always willing to conjure up an inferno or two when things get desperate, aquatic Abe (Doug Jones) is prepared to dive headlong into any battle, and proto plasmic (原生質) mystic Johann (voice of Thomas Kretschmann) proves an invaluable companion in times of inter-dimensional conflict.
shabby
stubby sappy serum plasma
Dingy
extol
to extol the [beauty] of Naples.
films extolled from the [likes] of Tom Hanks, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, to name just a few. cf. droll
paean
is [at] some level
a [paean] of [praise] [to] the fortitude and moral courage that
[paeon] a prosodic foot in verse - ---
[peon] social have-nots
Threnody
droll (amusing in an odd way, sly or waggish)
euphoric
despondent
hedonistic cf. sardonic
Tony
Trot
trot
Y
D
–verb (used without object)
1. (of a horse) to go at a gait (步伐) between a walk and a run,
in which the legs move in diagonal (對角線) pairs, but not quite simultaneously,
so that when the movement is slow one foot at least is always on the ground,
and when fast all four feet are momentarily off the ground at once.
2. to go at a quick, steady pace; move briskly; bustle (鬧哄哄地忙亂;奔忙); hurry.
–verb (used with object)
3. to cause to trot.
4. to ride (a horse) at a trot.
5. to lead at a trot.
6. to travel over by trotting: to spend the day trotting the country byways.
7. to execute by trotting.
–noun
8. the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped (四足獸), when trotting.
9. the sound made by an animal when trotting.
10. the jogging gait of a human being, between a walk and a run.
11. Harness Racing. a race for trotters.
12. brisk, continuous movement or activity: I've been [on] the trot all afternoon.
13. Disparaging. an old woman.
14. Slang. a literal translation used illicitly in doing schoolwork; crib; pony.
15. the trots, Informal. diarrhea.
16. Informal. a toddling child.
—Verb phrase
17. trot out, Informal.
a. to bring forward for inspection.
b. to bring to the attention of; introduce; submit:
He trots [out] his [old jokes] at [every] party.
–noun
1. a trotline.
2. a short line with hooks, attached to the trotline.
Adrienne (Juliette Binoche) has flown in from New York City, where she lives with her boyfriend James (Kyle Eastwood). Jeremie (Jeremie Renier) has taken a rare break from his
[globe]-trotting business interests
to stop by with his wife (Valerie Bonneton). And Frederic (Charles Berling), the only one who lives close enough to visit regularly, has also come with his spouse Lisa (Dominique Reymond).
harness
she's appalled by his plans to harness the [Hulk formula] and create a race of super-soldiers.
to harness [water power]
to harness the [energy] of the sun.
Dingy
Luis Buñuel's Tristana is a surreal criticism of Catholicism and the modern world, told through the story of the title character, who is portrayed by Catherine Deneuve. Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), the protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and
[champions] the causes
of the [dis]possessed and down[trod]den of society.
tread, trod, trodden/ trod
He [takes advantage of] the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio (Franco Nero). Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her [hand] in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg [to] cancer.
She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject [to] the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos, the film — wherein director Buñuel takes his usual jabs [at] religion and politics — is a tribute to the author on the 50th anniversary of his death.
2008年9月24日 星期三
Raunchy
raunchy
Y
[rawn-chee]
a. (形容詞 adjective)【美】【俚】
1. 不整潔的;不修邊幅的
The boys looked pretty raunchy after a night of drinking.
男孩們在喝了一夜的酒之後看起來很邋遢。
2. 淫蕩的;猥褻的;粗野的
3. 身體不適的;喝醉的
see slob
Despite sticking to his guns and churning (攪乳器,顧客不忠) out fare with a pricetag lower than the average cost of a studio classic title ($49 million), Smith hasn't considered himself an indie filmmaker since he shelled out $27,000 to make "Clerks" in 1994, specifically since he's mostly
had the Weinstein brothers picking up the [tab].
Smith contends that the recent move toward R-rated comedies made it possible for him to make "Porno." However, it can be argued that the helmer paved the way for bawdy filmmakers like Judd Apatow.
Even Apatow regular and "Porno" star [Seth Rogen] credits [Smith's] buddy banter as an inspiration for "Superbad" in "Porno's" press notes.
"I guess I was [ahead] of the [curve] when mixing
raunchy [wit]
with [sentimentality].
However, I didn't do it to blaze a trail," Smith says. "It just made sense to write stories that sounded like the ones my friends and I would tell."
licentious lewd
depraved
dissolute (licentious)
desultory (random)
raunchy slob unkempt
randy
and Randal (Jeff Anderson), that [spiky], even less evolved specimen of dedicated...uh, [randiness]
Debauchery
banter
Her frequent sarcastic [banter] evokes Juno's peculiar resilience,
but never [whitewashes] the character -- or the film
-- into [glib] superficiality.
Yet if "Clerks II" doesn't have quite the [scabrous] kick of its predecessor, the chance to revisit a classic [premise] must have renewed the writer in Smith,
whose [banter] here often [achieves] a sharpness and quality that haven't been [in evidence] since 1999's "Dogma."
taunt
[Being Black], he had to endure the taunt[s] of his classmates.
They [taunted] him [into] taking the dare.
sardonic
There was a [sardonic] [expression] on her face.
By the time he was 26 he had already directed "Kicking and Screaming" (1995), about [sardonic] and [literate] college graduates whose only ambition was to remain [on] campus.
cf. hedonistic
Castigate
Tome
tome
Y
D
–noun
1. a book,
esp.
a very heavy, large, or learned book.
2. a volume forming a part of a larger work.
C
tome (n.)
in its most common use today, is "a large, heavy book,"
and its ponderous (笨重的,沈悶的) overtones (弦外之音) usually refer as much to the contents as to the physical size of the thing itself.
The word is sometimes pretentious and often hyperbolic too.
The Weinstein Co. and MGM have cut short their distribution deal by three months, with TWC taking back seven films to release on its own between now and the end of the year.
They include Kevin Smith's "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," which opens Oct. 31, and the [big]screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy['s] haunting tome ["The Road]," which unspools Nov. 14.
Per the terms of the early exit, MGM will still release two titles from TWC's Dimension Films -- Bernie Mac-Samuel L. Jackson comedy "Soul Men," opening Nov. 7, and Christmas Day sports drama "Hurricane Season," toplining Forest Whitaker.
The three-year distribution deal between MGM and Harvey and Bob Weinstein's TWC was set to expire Dec. 31. The decision to [exit] the agreement early came after TWC signed its own pay TV output deal with Showtime, instead of relying on MGM's Showtime deal, a main impetus (衝力) for the pairing with MGM.
"This transition was always anticipated and now it has been ami[c]ably [executed]," the Weinstein Co. said in a statement.
see amiable
libretto histrionic
episodic
annotate bildungsroman
Threnody
see amiable
libretto histrionic
episodic
annotate bildungsroman
Threnody
Vermilion
vermil(l)ion
D
硃砂
Y
–noun
1. a brilliant scarlet
red.
2. a bright-red, water-insoluble pigment (顏料) consisting of mercuric sulfide (硫化物), once obtained from cinnabar (朱砂), now usually produced by the reaction of mercury and sulfur. (硫磺)
see sulphur
–adjective
3. of the color vermilion.
–verb (used with object)
4. to color with
or
as if with vermilion.
wan
[Radha Mitchell] is rather wan as her chief love interest
pallor
pallid lurid sanguine
anemic
Creaks along like an anemic [snail]
florid
I only read the first chapter, but the author's style struck me as [excessively elaborate] and [almost florid].
tangerine
celadon
livid
swarthy
dun 暗褐色,討債者
tawny 黃褐色
Meager
Slate
slate
Y
石板瓦
D
–noun
1. a fine-grained rock formed by the meta morphosis of clay, shale (頁岩), etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage (開裂) planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
2. a thin piece or plate of this rock or a similar material, used esp. for roofing or as a writing surface.
3. a dull, dark bluish gray.
4. a list of candidates, officers, etc., to be considered for nomination, appointment, election, or the like.
–verb (used with object)
5. to cover with or as with slate.
6. to write or set down for nomination or appointment: the district leader slated [for] city judge.
7. to plan or designate (something) for a particular place and time; schedule: The premiere was slated [for] January.
8. to censure or criticize harshly or violently; scold.
9. to punish severely.
—Idiom
10. clean slate, an unsullied record; a record marked by creditable conduct: to start [over] with a clean slate.
Asia Argento was originaly slated to be the twins and for reasons untold left the project. Anyone know why?
Where is Asia Argento. I thought she was originally slated to play the twin. Later I heard she'd been replaced. Does anyone know why she's been dropped. I want her back. Chloe and Asia in the same film would've been awesome. ANd Brian Depalma's film was so Hitchcock it ruled.
Depp’s casting deals closed a full day Wednesday at the Kodak Theater, where Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook touted the Mouse’s upcoming slate of pics during a showcase event for exhibitors, media and other industry insiders.
see shingle
Depp’s casting deals closed a full day Wednesday at the Kodak Theater, where Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook touted the Mouse’s upcoming slate of pics during a showcase event for exhibitors, media and other industry insiders.
see shingle
Alimony & Palimony ***
alimony
Y
n. (名詞 noun)
1. 【律】贍養費, 生活費, 扶養費
[p]alimony
Y
停止同居關係時應該付給之生活, 贍養費
D
–noun
a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners
in
a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
C
palimony (n.)
is a relatively recent coinage, a blend of the Conversational
[p]al (for a very close friend)
and
[alimony].
Palimony refers to the financial settlement claimed by or made to one of two people who
although unmarried have been living together
as though married and have now separated
as though divorced.
The word is frequent in the media but probably should be labeled Informal
until it achieves [full] status as a legal term,
if inde[ed] it [ever] [does].
STEVEN SODERBERGH, recently announced that he is in talks to cast Michael Douglas, as well as Matt Damon, in a film about the one and only Liberace. Michael would play the man who did his flamboyant piano-best surrounded by candelabras.
candelabras
candelabrum 之複數, 分枝燭臺
Matt would play Scott Thorson, the lover who later sued Liberace for palimony back in 1982--even in the face of that scandal the entertainer denied he was gay. (Liberace died of AIDS in 1987.)
因為 Liberace 是玻璃，所以要用 palimony！(筆記) 麥特呆蒙再次飾演玻璃小情人。
felony felon venue injunction
loitering
larceny kleptomania purloin filch (small value)
mayhem sabotage
Sham
Sapphic
booth bunny cattle market
celibate
which includes the kind of [graphic] descriptions of improbable sex acts
that [guys] sometimes [indulge in] while killing vast amounts of [celibate time].
Nubile
Spurn ***
spurn
Y
輕蔑地拒絕
一腳踢開
D
–verb (used with object)
1. to reject with disdain;
scorn.
2. to treat with contempt; despise.
3. to kick or trample with the foot.
–verb (used without object)
4. to show disdain or contempt; scorn something.
–noun
5. disdainful rejection.
6. contemptuous treatment.
7. a kick.
—Synonyms
1. See refuse1. 6. contumely. (n.) (無禮;傲慢;侮辱;謾罵)
rebuff (斷然拒絕). Refuse, decline, reject, spurn all imply nonacceptance of something. 
coming apart [at] the seams when she rebuffs her [ready]-for-marriage boyfriend. Tapestry Films ("Wedding Crashers") is producing.
To decline is milder and more courteous than to
refuse, which is direct and often emphatic in expressing determination not to accept what is offered or proposed: to refuse a [bribe]; to decline an [invitation].
To reject is even more positive and definite than refuse: to reject a [suitor].
To spurn is to reject with scorn: to spurn a [bribe].
Spurn > Reject > Refuse > Decline
—Antonyms
1. accept.
You want to give him credit for trying, for going back home and pushing his friends out into the real world. It's such a nice thought— especially the way Smith handles Randal, who's the star here in the same way Dante was in Clerks.
[Randal] is still a pustule of lewd [ruminations],
but he can't bear the thought of Dante [abandoning him],
so he acts like a spurned [girlfriend], unconsciously scheming to sabotage his pal's [impending] departure.
Twelve years on, the cutout cutup has depth and dimension.
mayhem sabotage
Sham
Ab[hor]
expresses a deep-rooted [hor]ror. [Nature] abhors [a] vacuum.
[D]etest
implies a sense of [d]isdain
despicable
Detest
cavort
does anyone remember when Brolin
was still cavorting [around] in films like Hollow Man?
Convulsion
Matinee Idol
matine
Yahoo!奇摩字典
ph. (片語 phrase)
1. 受女戲迷崇拜的男演員
Dustin Hoffman > Biography
[Diminutive],
[wiry]
and [un]assuming, he was anything but the usual matinee idol,
yet he quickly distinguished [himself] among the most popular and celebrated screen performers of his generation.
A few great directors have the ability to draw us into their dream world, into their personalities and obsessions and fascinate us with them for a short time.
This is the highest [level] of escapism the movies can provide for us -- just as our elementary identification with a hero or a heroine was the lowest.
As children,
we went to [Saturday] matinees
and for an afternoon
we were [cowboys] and [Indians].
matinee
[mat-n-ey; Brit. mat-n-ey]
午後的演出;日戲;日場
As adults, there are more intellectual routes to escapism. A powerful director like Buñuel (or Bergman, Fellini, Hitchcock or Satyajit Ray) can open [up] his mind to us, the way an actress can open up her eyes.
It is an experience worth [having].
Shrubbery
shrubbery
Y
D
–noun
1. a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet (槌球戲) ball [into] the shrubbery.
cf. see lacrosse
2. shrubs collectively.
Again, Buñuel introduces a mute young servant into the household,
and Tristana tantalizes him [mercilessly].
He desire[s h]er;
she [repels] him coldly,
only to reveal herself to him when she is on her balcony and he in the garden.
He draws back quickly [into] the shrubbery.
Buñuel's Freudianism is so explicit as to be almost embarrassing,
but you never laugh,
because he takes it so seriously.
That's why his films work;
because they're himself, they're personal.
Buñuel is in control of every shot and every scene, and he is having at our subconscious like a surgeon.
artichoke hemlock
camisole
c(h)amomile
Meager
Ravish
ravish
Y
D
–verb (used with object)
1. to fill with
strong emotion,
esp. joy.
2. to seize and carry off
by force.
3. to carry off (a woman) by force.
4. to rape (a woman).
—Synonyms 1. enrapture (使著迷), transport (使心醉), enthrall (吸引住), delight, captivate.
C
ravage, ravish (vv.), ravishing (adj.)
Ravage means "to ruin, destroy, plunder, or devastate": The marauders (掠奪者) ravaged the [village].
Ravish has three related meanings:
1. "to rape (literally or figuratively)"
The [soldiers] killed the few men there and brutally ravished the [women].
2. "to capture and carry off violently"
The [storehouse] door had been [broken], and all the supplies had been ravished [away].
3. and, by extension, "to overcome emotionally, to enrapture, to transport [with] delight”
Their playing of the double concerto simply ravished the [audience].
This use of the verb, like most uses of the adjective ravishing, is figurative and hyperbolic: She looked [stunning], absolutely [ravishing], when she made her entrance.
Only in the sense "to seize or rob and carry off" are ravage and ravish synonymous, even though they both come from the Old French verb ravir, meaning "to carry away," and ultimately from the Latin rapere, from which we get English rape as well.
Best advice to avoid confusion: limit ravage to destroying and devastating, and separately specify when things are carried off as well. Or use ravish to cover both ideas.
Consider. Don Lope,
a feisty middle-aged intellectual and atheist,
sees his chance when the beautiful young Tristana (Catherine Deneuve) is orphaned. As the girl's guardian, he takes her into his household and (in what seems like no time at all) into his bed.
While ravishing [her],
he excuses himself by rationalizing that she'd [fare] worse on the streets.
heist rifle pillage caper
arson
cf. arsenal
felony felon venue injunction
loitering
larceny kleptomania purloin filch (small value)
mayhem sabotage
plunder
to plunder a [town].
to plunder the [public treasury].
Sham
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