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"When the Jews return to Zion, and a comet fills the sky and the Holy Roman Empire rises, then you and I must die. From the eternal sea he rises, creating armies on either shore turning man against his brother till man exists no more."



天魔 The Omen

111 min. 1976



Original Music by

Jerry Goldsmith    



Gregory Peck  ...  Robert Thorn 

Lee Remick  ...  Katherine Thorn 

David Warner  ...  Keith Jennings 

Billie Whitelaw  ...  Mrs. Baylock 

Harvey Stephens  ...  Damien Thorn 

Patrick Troughton  ...  Father Brennan 

Martin Benson  ...  Father Spiletto 

Robert Rietty  ...  Monk 

Tommy Duggan  ...  Priest 

John Stride  ...  The Psychiatrist 

Anthony Nicholls  ...  Dr. Becker 

Holly Palance  ...  Nanny 

Harvey Bernhard ...  Man walking across street (uncredited) 



1.

According to at least one biography of Gregory Peck, he took this role at a huge cut in salary (a mere $250,000) but was also guaranteed 10% of the film's box office gross. When it went on to gross more than $60 million in the U.S. alone, The Omen (1976) became the highest-paid performance of Peck's career.

2.

Mike Hodges was offered the chance to direct the movie. He refused, but actually went on to direct three weeks of Damien: Omen II (1978) before he was fired over creative differences.

3.

Rottweilers experienced a surge in popularity in the US after the release of this film.

4.

More than twice the film's original $2.8 million budget was spent on the film's advertising and promotion.

5.

Father Brennan's quotation about the "eternal sea" is completely non-Biblical, and was written for the movie.

6.

Harvey Stephens, as Damien, was largely chosen for this role from the way he attacked Richard Donner during auditions. Donner asked all the little boys to "come at him" as if they were attacking Katherine Thorn during the church wedding scene. Stephens screamed and clawed at Donner's face, and kicked him in the groin during his act. Donner whipped the kid off him, ordered the kid's blond hair dyed black and cast him as Damien.

6.

Because Harvey Stephens was so young, Richard Donner found that the best way to direct him was to provoke genuine reactions before the camera. For example, when Damien is angry at being taken to church, Donner got his peeved facial expression by shouting to Stephens off camera "What are you looking at you little bugger? I'll clobber you."

6.

SPOILER: In the closing scene, Richard Donner used reverse psychology on young Harvey Stephens telling him, "Don't you dare laugh. If you laugh, I won't be your friend." Naturally, Stephens wanted to laugh, and he instead smiled directly into the camera.









"It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly... so very easy and so very degrading."



相見恨晚 Brief Encounter

86 min. 1945

1946 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize of the Festival  



Directed by

David Lean   

Writing credits

Noel Coward (play "Still Life") (uncredited)

Anthony Havelock-Allan (uncredited)

David Lean (uncredited)

Ronald Neame (uncredited) 



Celia Johnson  ...  Laura Jesson 

Trevor Howard  ...  Dr. Alec Harvey 

Stanley Holloway  ...  Albert Godby 

Joyce Carey  ...  Myrtle Bagot 

Cyril Raymond  ...  Fred Jesson 

Everley Gregg  ...  Dolly Messiter 

Marjorie Mars  ...  Mary Norton 

Margaret Barton ...  Beryl Walters, Tea Room Assistant

Wilfred Babbage ...  Policeman at War Memorial (uncredited)

Nuna Davey ...  Herminie Rolandson, Mary's Cousin (uncredited)

Valentine Dyall ...  Stephen Lynn, Alec's "Friend" (uncredited)

Jack May ...  Boat Rental Man (uncredited)

George V. Sheldon ...  Clergyman, Train Passenger (uncredited)

Richard Thomas ...  Bobbie Jesson (uncredited)

Henrietta Vincent ...  Margaret Jesson (uncredited) 



1.

Carnforth station was chosen partly because it was so far from the South East of England that it would receive sufficient warning of an air-raid attack that there would be time to turn out the filming lights to comply with wartime blackout restrictions.

2.

On initial release, the film was banned by the strict censorship board in Ireland on the grounds that it portrayed an adulterer in a sympathetic light. 



[brief encounter]

3.

The first choice for the Doctor Alec Harvey had been Roger Livesey, but when David Lean and Anthony Havelock-Allan saw Trevor Howard, in a rough cut of The Way to the Stars (1945) they decided to offer the part to Trevor Howard, who at that time was an unknown actor, who had been invalided out of the army.

4.

David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame and Noel Coward all wanted Celia Johnson to play the part of Laura Jesson. Johnson hated making films, but after Coward read the part to her in October 1944, she knew that she had to play that part. 



[play]

5.

The screenplay was adapted and based on Noel Coward's 1935 short one-act (half-hour) stage play "Still Life". It was expanded from five short scenes in a train station (the refreshment tea room of Milford Junction Station) to include action in other settings (Laura's house, the apartment of the Dr.Harvey's friend, restaurants, parks, train compartments, shops, a car, a boating lake and at the cinema).

6.

The original Broadway production was presented as the one act play "Still Life" as part of the repertory presentation "Tonight at 8:30" that opened at the National Theatre on November 24, 1936 and ran for 118 performances with a cast that included Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. 



7.

According to several Billy Wilder biographies, the scene in this film where Alec tries to use a friend's apartment in order to be alone with Laura inspired Wilder to write The Apartment (1960). 



[literature]

8.

Laura borrows books from the Boots Lending Library. Such Lending Libraries were an offshoot of Boots Pharmacies. Boots is a major pharmacy chain in the UK. It was founded in 1849 and still exists, although in a much different, more diversified form. The Lending Libraries were started in 1898.

9.

Laura borrows books by Kate O'Brien. Kate O'Brien (1897 - 1974), was an Irish novelist and playwright. 

11.

The poem that Fred asks Laura's assistance with is by John Keats, "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be", the actual quote being "When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high Romance....".



[film]

11.

The two films that Laura and Alec choose between, "The Loves of Cardinal Richelieu" and "Love in the Mist", are fictional.

12.

The film trailer they see is for "Flames of Passion", a fictional film, supposedly based on a novel, "Gentle Summer" by Alice Porter Stoughey, both fictional.  









梅崗城故事 To Kill a Mockingbird

129 min. 1962



"... but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird."



Directed by

Robert Mulligan     

Writing credits

Harper Lee (novel "To Kill a Mockingbird")

Horton Foote (screenplay)

Produced by

Alan J. Pakula ....  producer 

Cinematography by

Russell Harlan (director of photography) 

Art Direction by

Henry Bumstead   

Alexander Golitzen (uncredited)

Set Decoration by

Oliver Emert 



Gregory Peck ...  Atticus Finch

John Megna ...  Charles Baker "Dill" Harris

Frank Overton ...  Sheriff Heck Tate

Rosemary Murphy ...  Maudie Atkinson

Ruth White ...  Mrs. Dubose

Brock Peters ...  Tom Robinson

Estelle Evans ...  Calpurnia

Paul Fix ...  Judge Taylor

Collin Wilcox Paxton ...  Mayella Violet Ewell (as Collin Wilcox)

James Anderson ...  Robert E. Lee "Bob" Ewell

Alice Ghostley ...  Aunt Stephanie Crawford

Robert Duvall ...  Arthur "Boo" Radley

William Windom ...  Mr. Gilmer, Prosecutor

Crahan Denton ...  Walter Cunningham Sr.

Richard Hale ...  Nathan Radley

Mary Badham ...  Scout

Phillip Alford ...  Jem

Steve Condit ...  Walter Cunningham Jr. (uncredited)

Kim Hamilton ...  Helen Robinson - Tom's Wife (uncredited)

Kim Hector ...  Cecil Jacobs (uncredited)

Kim Stanley ...  Scout as an Adult - Narrator (voice) (uncredited) 



[Atticus Finch]

1.

Finch was writer Harper Lee's mother's maiden name. 

2.

Although Gregory Peck's inspirational performance as Atticus Finch turned out to be a perfect highlight to his long career, Rock Hudson was actually the studio's first choice for the role.

2.5

James Stewart was also offered the part, but told the producers he believed the script was "too liberal", and feared the film would be controversial. 

3.

It has been reported that this film was Gregory Peck's favorite work. 

4.

Atticus Finch was voted as the top screen hero of the last 100 years by the American Film Institute.

5.

When he attended the Academy Awards, Gregory Peck was completely convinced that his friend Jack Lemmon would beat him to the Best Actor Oscar for his searing portrayal of an alcoholic in Days of Wine and Roses (1962). 



[Amasa Lee & the watch]

6.

The first scene that Gregory Peck shot showed him returning home from his character's law office while his children ran to greet him. Harper Lee was a guest on the set that day, and Peck noticed her crying after the scene was filmed.

6.5

"Why are you crying?" Peck asked. Peck had looked just like her late father, the model for Atticus, Lee explained; Peck even had a little round pot belly like her father's. "That's not a pot belly, Harper," Peck told her, "That's great acting."

7.

The watch used in the film was a prop, but Harper Lee gave Gregory Peck her father's watch after the film was completed because he reminded her so much of him. 

8.

Atticus Finch is modeled on Harper Lee's own father, Amasa Lee, an attorney whose 1923 defense of a black client inspired the novel's trial. Gregory Peck met with Amasa Lee - then 82 years old - and formed a strong bond with him. 

8.5

Unfortunately Lee died during filming, so his daughter Harper gave Peck his watch and chain. Peck was wearing that same watch and chain at the Academy Awards the following year when he won the Oscar for Best Actor. 



[kids]

9.

Phillip Alford told his mother that he did not want to go to the auditions for the part of Jem Finch but when his mother told him he would miss half a day of school, he immediately decided to go to them.

10

Mary Badham messed up nearly every take in which the family was eating at the table. Phillip Alford didn't like eating the same meal dozens of times, so in one of the takes of the scene in which he rolls Badham in the tire, he aimed it at an equipment truck in an attempt to hurt her. 

11.

Mary Badham (Scout) and Gregory Peck (Atticus) became close during filming and kept in contact for the rest of his life. He always called her Scout. 

12.

Mary Badham became the youngest girl to receive an Oscar nomination, ironically losing the award to another child actress, Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker (1962). 

13.

Robert Mulligan's way of handling his child actors was to let them play together while keeping the cameras as unobtrusive as possible.

14.

Director Robert Mulligan learned quickly not to rely on excessive takes as he found that the more takes that were required, the less spontaneous and natural his child actors became. 



[Truman Capote]

15.

The character of Dill is purportedly based upon Truman Capote, who had been a childhood friend of Harper Lee when he was sent to live with relatives in Lee's hometown each summer. Truman Capote, in turn, based one of his characters in his literary work "Other Voices, Other Rooms" upon his recollection of Harper Lee. 

16.

Truman Capote, who grew up with Harper Lee, also knew the inspiration for "Boo" Radley, and had planned to base a character on him in one of his short stories. After seeing how well the character was realized in Lee's novel, however, he decided against it. 



[the nuts & the negro]

17.

Robert Duvall stayed out of the sun for six weeks and dyed his hair blond for the role of Boo Radley who, according to the story, spent much of his life as a recluse. The character of Arthur "Boo" Radley is based in part on Harper Lee's recollection of Alfred "Son" Bouleware, who lived with his parents in a dilapidated, mostly boarded-up house just a few doors away from the Lee home.

17.5

He was kept secluded in the house by his father, following a vandalism incident in which young Alfred was involved. Described in the book and in the movie as leaving the house only at night because the sun hurt his eyes, this would indicate that Boo Radley was a person of Albinism (lack of pigment in the skin, in the hair, and in the irises of the eyes.)

18.

Brock Peters delivered Gregory Peck's eulogy on the day of his funeral and burial, June 16, 2003. Peck defended Peters in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).



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"Yet, for all the belly laughs (including a brilliant joke that gets set up in the first ten minutes but doesn't pay off until nearly the end of the movie), this is at heart a Kafka-esque nightmare." -- AllMovie



正經好人 A Serious Man

105 min. 2009



Michael Stuhlbarg  ...  Prof. Lawrence "Larry" Gopnik 

Richard Kind  ...  Uncle Arthur 

Fred Melamed  ...  Sy Ableman 

Sari Lennick  ...  Judith Gopnik 

Aaron Wolff  ...  Danny Gopnik 

Jessica McManus  ...  Sarah Gopnik 

Peter Breitmayer  ...  Mr. Brandt 

Brent Braunschweig  ...  Mitch Brandt 

David Kang  ...  Clive Park 

Benjy Portnoe ...  Danny's Reefer Buddy

Jack Swiler ...  Boy on Bus

Andrew S. Lentz ...  Cursing Boy on Bus

Jon Kaminski Jr. ...  Mike Fagle

Ari Hoptman ...  Arlen Finkle

Alan Mandell ...  Rabbi Marshak

Amy Landecker ...  Mrs. Samsky

George Wyner ...  Rabbi Nachtner

Michael Tezla ...  Dr. Sussman

Simon Helberg ...  Rabbi Scott 



1.

The names of the characters who ride the school bus with Danny Gopnik are the names of children that the Coen brothers grew up with.

2.

In his argument with the Columbia House records employee over the phone, Larry Gopnik repeatedly rejects the album Abraxas by Santana.

2.5

Abraxas is a Gnostic term for God, particularly a God who is encompasses all things from Creator of the Universe to the Devil, and an etymological root for "abracadabra". It is thus implied that Larry Gopnik is vehemently rejecting God and magic.

3.

It is unclear what year the film is set in; Rabbi Scott has a 1967 calendar in his office, but the Columbia House selections mentioned (Santana's "Abraxas" and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Cosmo's Factory") were released in 1970.

4.

Sy Ableman says mathematics is "the art of the possible". The quote is from Otto Von Bismarck, who called "politics", not mathematics, the "art of the possible".

5.

Director Trademark: [Joel & Ethan Coen] [Circles] A record turning on a player, watch-face, etc.

6.

Most of the doorposts throughout the movie (including the Gopniks' and Mrs. Samsky's) have a small box attached to them. This is a mezuzah, a case containing passages from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21), which Jews traditionally affix to the door frames of their houses as a constant reminder of God's presence.

6.5

A mezuzah also functions as a sign that a Jewish person occupies the house or works in the building onto which it is affixed, so in this movie, the frequent sight of mezuzahs on doorframes is one of many indications that most of the characters are Jewish.

7.

The Coen Brothers stated that the opening scene was nothing more than a little short that they made up to get the audience in the proper mood, and that there is no meaning behind it.

8.

When Larry has his fling, it is with Ms. Samsky, a neighbor, who bears a strong resemblance to Grace Slick, the singer in the Jefferson Airplane who is heard several times in the movie performing "Somebody to Love".

9.

SPOILER: As with all Coen brothers movies, there are many allusions in the film. In A Serious Man many of the allusions are Biblical. Larry is a Job-like figure, a good man to whom many bad things happen with no explanation.

9.5

When he is on his roof, he sees over his neighbor's fence and looks at his neighbor's beautiful wife naked in her yard, just as King David saw Bathsheba. His son Danny's looking at the oncoming tornado recalls God speaking to Job from out of the whirlwind, saying He will not explain why these bad things have happened to him.

10.

SPOILER: The tornado in the ending scene could have represented The 1965 Twin Cities tornado outbreak was the outbreak of six strong tornadoes that occurred around Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, USA on May 6, 1965.

10.5

It has been nicknamed "The Longest Night" and is most often remembered for the two F4 tornadoes that hit Fridley, Minnesota. Thirteen people were killed in the six tornadoes that touched down in the Twin Cities area that day. Four tornadoes were rated F4, one was rated F3, and other was rated F2.

10.6

This event caused more dollar damage than any single weather event in Minnesota history at that time. It was voted a tie for the "fifth most significant Minnesota Weather Event of the 20th Century" with the 1965 Mississippi & Minnesota River Flooding by the Minnesota Climatology Office.