這電影真是有夠無聊的，但誰叫我是阿姐忠實影迷。
阿姐終日埋首工作惹老公不爽，就放永恆的愛跳舞。
Alan Devine 是都鐸王朝山姆尼爾小秘書
柯林法洛和喬舒馬赫也合作了電話亭和猛虎島
應該是收錄在八零年代精選才對
小傑米版本比較好聽啦！Everlasting Love~
2008年2月4日 星期一
Veronica Guerin (2003)
這電影真是有夠無聊的，但誰叫我是阿姐忠實影迷。
阿姐終日埋首工作惹老公不爽，就放永恆的愛跳舞。
Alan Devine 是都鐸王朝山姆尼爾小秘書
柯林法洛和喬舒馬赫也合作了電話亭和猛虎島
應該是收錄在八零年代精選才對
小傑米版本比較好聽啦！Everlasting Love~
Exotica (1994)
[訪談] Sarah Polley - 殭屍是女孩的好朋友
Sarah Polley 拍攝色情酒店時十五歲，意外的秋天十七歲，曾被比為聰明版的烏瑪舒曼妹妹。雖然我覺得她的表現沒那麼突出，Mia Kirshner 以本片受到注目，可惜日後未在好萊塢打響名號，近期能見度高電影是黑色大理花。一九九四年坎城影展競賽片，該屆金棕櫚得主是被奇士勞斯基影迷破口大罵的昆汀塔倫諾電影。艾騰伊格言初體驗仍待努力。劇情討論串。
色情酒店 Exotica
104 min. 1994
Mia Kirshner ... Christina
Elias Koteas ... Eric
Bruce Greenwood ... Francis Brown ← 不斷質詢凱特狄倫的神祕傢伙
Don McKellar ... Thomas Pinto
Arsinée Khanjian ... Zoe ← 艾騰伊格言老婆
Sarah Polley ... Tracey Brown
2008年2月3日 星期日
Fidget
fidget
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vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)
1. 坐立不安;煩躁
Stop fidgeting, children; just sit still and listen to the music.
不要坐立不安,孩子們;坐正了聽音樂。
2. 玩弄[(+with)]
The boy was fidgeting with his gloves.
那孩子不停地玩弄他的手套。
vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)
1. 使坐立不安;使煩躁
The dripping faucet is fidgeting me.
那滴水的龍頭令我煩躁。
n. (名詞 noun)
1. 坐立不安;煩躁[P1]
The long speech gave us the fidgets.
冗長的演說使我們厭煩得坐不住了。
2. 煩躁不安的人[C]
see fret fluster
Hedonistic
hedonistic
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a. (形容詞 adjective)
1. 快樂主義者的
She continues to appear in both lead and supporting roles in such independent and/or small features as Saturn (1999), a drama that cast her as the hedonistic girlfriend of a young man (Scott Caan) caring for his Alzheimer's-stricken father.
The Last Kiss (2006)
重拍同名義大利電影，後四分之一說教甚是無聊，什麼？我居然能夠忍受 Paul Haggis
四分之三的時間！繼花園之州好評後，Zach Braff 再度陷入「我是誰我在哪裡我到底
在幹麻？」狀態，只是這回柴克看起來好像原始的鳥嘴賽魯。凱西在刺殺傑西的沙啞智
缺聲線不是故意的，本來就這樣。
終情之吻 The Last Kiss
103 min. 2006
Zach Braff ... Michael
Jacinda Barrett ... Jenna
Casey Affleck ... Chris
Rachel Bilson ... Kim
Marley Shelton ... Arianna
Blythe Danner ... Anna ← 葛妮絲派特蘿之母，六十歲以上女人保養典範。
Tom Wilkinson ... Stephen
Insipidness
insipidness
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n. (名詞 noun)
1. 沒有味道;清淡
2. 枯燥
You might think that the impeccable screen presence of these vets would provide some relief from the ensemble's insipidness, but it just ends up being embarrassing to watch them enact over-the-top clichés that are leagues below their abilities.
see bland ho-hum
Falter
falter
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vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)
1. 蹣跚,踉蹌;搖晃
She faltered toward the door in the dark.
她在黑暗中向門口搖搖晃晃地走去。
2. (聲音)顫抖;結巴地說話
Her voice faltered, and then she lost consciousness.
她嗓音顫抖,接著她便失去了知覺。
3. 動搖,猶豫;畏縮
Our hopes will not falter in adversity.
我們的信心在逆境中也不會動搖。
4. 衰退;衰落
vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)
1. 結巴地講出[(+out)]
She faltered out an excuse for being late.
她結結巴巴地說出遲到的藉口。
n. (名詞 noun)
1. 動搖,猶豫;畏縮
2. 顫抖;顫抖的聲音
I detected a falter in her voice.
我察覺她的嗓音發顫。
see tumble stumble
Joely Richardson <font color="#ff0000">♥♥♥</font> is Lady Chatterley (1993)
長腿姊姊 Joely 真的好美好美喔！好喜歡她的尖鼻子，我要暈了~ 西恩賓冒死。還是美美
的查泰萊夫人合我胃口，肯羅素先生飾演畫家老爸。馬賽克真的很掃興，要不整段減掉，
要不就留給觀眾一個沒有干擾的視覺饗宴，該死的沙鷗文學館。Lady Chatterley (2006)
肯羅素版本男女主角互動欠缺說服力，然而法國版本最重要的亞當夏娃，以及獵場看守人
趁查泰萊夫人喜極而泣趁機摸奶，電動輪椅無力等場景都是比較過才了解其傑出的地方。
2008年2月2日 星期六
Kiss of Death (1995)
I have an acronym for myself. Know what it is? B.A.D.
B.A.D... Balls, Attitude, Direction. You should give yourself an acronym... 'cause it helps you visualize your goals.
How about F.A.B.? Fucked At Birth.
No good. Too negative.
我的縮寫是 BAD：勇氣‧態度‧方向。你也該為自己取個縮寫，這樣人生才有目標。
FAB 如何？天生倒楣。
不好，太負面了。
以上是大流氓凱吉哥和男主角的對話，翻拍自一九四七年同名電影，維多麥秋主演。眾多 (成名前) 明星客串，好萊塢電影台男主角。片頭最大牌的就是我們的男主角 David Caruso，其他明星只以字母順序出現。David Caruso 何許人也？成名作影集 NYPD Blue 拿下金球獎最佳男主角。死亡之吻是大衛離開電視圈的第一部電影，提名金酸莓最佳新人。拜託！這麼優異的演出居然沒得獎？
這位就是我們的好萊塢電影台男主角，下面海報很像羅南基頓。
凱吉哥平時勤做重訓，生氣時得拿出氣喘人工呼吸器冷靜冷靜。
山繆由於臉部曾受到槍擊，左眼會不自主流眼淚，手帕隨身攜帶。
史丹利突奇九五年後面頭髮還很多。Stanley Tucci
最後是本片大美女 Hope Davis，片頭沒有掛名，也沒有名字的凱吉哥馬子。
兩場不超過六十秒的戲：假裝向安全人員問路，好讓凱吉哥手下把男主角女兒抱走，在額頭上用紅筆寫 BAD，也就是上頭凱吉哥提到的 acronym；凱吉哥風光出獄，馬子前往親吻，亂沒氣質的。凱吉哥和 Hope Davis 十年後於天氣人二度合作。就是不口交。莎莎醬。
為什麼凱吉哥身材如此壯碩？因為他每天挺舉 Hope Davis 四十下。
是的，凱吉哥壯得連吊嘎都爆開。原本以為 Hope Davis 角色是脫衣舞孃。
Kiss of Death 死亡之吻
101 min. 1995
David Caruso ... Jimmy Kilmartin
Samuel L. Jackson ... Calvin Hart
Nicolas Cage ... Little Junior Brown
Helen Hunt ... Bev Kilmartin
Stanley Tucci ... Frank Zioli
Ving Rhames ... Omar
Philip Baker Hall ... Big Junior Brown
Hope Davis ... Junior's Girlfriend
Blather
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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)
1. 滔滔不絕地講
vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)
1. 喋喋不休地講話
n. (名詞 noun)
1. 廢話;胡說
see prattle prate
救護車司機 (1999)
先撇開影評的兩極化反應：全電影兩顆星半，爛番茄百分之七十一，Roger Ebert 滿分推薦順便哭爸鬥陣俱樂部；穿梭鬼門關是馬丁史柯西斯繼計程車司機，蠻牛，威廉達佛之基督最後的誘惑 (壞人臉=耶穌!?) 第四次和編劇 Paul Schrader 合作。Paul Schrader 的導演作品有美國舞男，三島由紀夫傳，苦難，不是 Jim Sheridan。
馬丁史柯西斯稱讚保羅許瑞德是描寫午夜紐約 (New York in the middle of the night) 的高手。保羅許瑞德原本希望諾頓出任本片男主角 (可惡!)。即使有凱吉當男主角，穿梭鬼門關似乎被歸類在馬丁史柯西斯較少被討論的電影，例如很好看的瘋狗馬子。
是的，凱吉和阿奎特曾經是夫妻。(1995~2001)
Cliff Curtis，伊卡魯斯號席爾醫師。
← based on the novel by Joe Connelly 
穿梭鬼門關 Bringing Out the Dead
120 min. 1999
Nicolas Cage ... Frank Pierce
Patricia Arquette ... Mary Burke
John Goodman ... Larry
Ving Rhames ... Marcus
Marc Anthony ... Noel
Cliff Curtis ... Cy Coates
Stygian (續：地獄輪迴 鞭笞 懺悔 單字大集合)
Stygian
Y
a. (形容詞 adjective)
1. 冥河的,地獄的
2. 陰沈的
3. 不可侵犯的
The manholes still belch Stygian steam and the protagonist still exists on the edge of sanity, but this time Nicolas Cage's ambulance driver makes a rocky ascent toward a tentative salvation rather than repeating Taxi Driver's (1976) descent into an ultra-violent inferno.
。死亡
。先知
Necrophilia
。地獄輪迴
metempsychosis
tarnation
damnation, hell (used as a euphemism)
When in tarnation is this boy gonna get out of his own way?
limo
sedan
bimbo
limbo
the project fell into [limbo] and later found [light] as an HBO television series helmed by Mark Steven Johnson.
and that freed him to get on with things, to end his [limbo] in San Clemente, Calif.
When Justin at last finds an escape hatch from tree-lined [limbo], the optimistic viewer might [read] it as an allegory of the American Filmmaker's dearest wish.
With characters' pasts and sometimes [questionable] motivations slowly revealed as the viewer is taken deeper into the [troubled] minds of those who dwell in the isolated kingdom in limbo, Del Toro has crafted a finely [tuned] and quietly intense fable of the influence of ghosts on the fate of man.
Stygian
nether
pandemonium
perdition
Meanwhile, an Indian girl is lured down the road to [perdition] by a sensuous general (Sabu).
abaddon
Abaddon: The place of the lost in Sheol.
pandemonium
hell
bedlam
an insane asylum or madhouse
Christine is [brow]beaten by the police, bulli[ed] by the press, and finally committed to a local bedlam seemingly filled with people whose mental illness consisted [in] pissing off the cops.
。鞭笞
trounce
thresh
thrash
He got his comeuppance when the bully [thrashed] him.
What it is, while David Goyer and myself were putting together the story for another Batman film a few years ago, you know thrashing [out] where we might move on from the Dark Knight, we got stuck.
He's beginning to thrash around now. He's in a panic.
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.
He is a tall, gentle man with a warm smile, and lets her [flail] away before embracing her in his big arms.
drum'n'bass-backed suspense surrounding possible escapes and the requisite bathroom showdown are balanced by the fresh [kinesis] of a group Soulfly [flail] and a great summary [snap] from Chad to Lyle,
Flagellant
The procession of [flagellants] chant the Dies Irae, a famous thirteenth century Latin [hymn] thought to be written by Thomas of Celano.
A group of flagellants [files] past, some carrying heavy crosses, others whipping themselves, doing [penance].
a flagellant [attack] on the opposition party.
chastise
The [hangman] holds our society together. He is the symbol of the great chastiser. He built this world on punishment and fear.
chasten
to inflict suffering upon for moral improvement
to make chaste in style
[Age] has chastened his violent temper.
we don’t feel nearly as [chastened] or [ashamed] as Haneke would like.
Dawn is a proud virgin and the most active member of her local [chastity] group.
scourge
[Disease] and [famine] are scourges of humanity.
You could call them cardboard characters, pierced and flattened for the delight of the crowd, but Aronofsky cast the minor roles with real wrestlers, and you believe in every scourging of the [flesh].
He remains as committed as ever to his twin duties of [scourge] and [hedonist],
But are we sure we don't deserve this scourge? Are we sure we've lived in the way of God?
gauntlet
Scarlotti used a necro-[lash] which could be electrically charged by his gauntlets
birch
This is a birch branch, it symbolize eternal life.【植】樺,白樺
swish
Terence Stamp is [fun] as her very-[cockney] sidekick, but Dirk Bogarde is the one who really makes an impact, playing an outrageously [swishy] villain who provides all the best moments in the film. He can't make Blaise a good film, but he and the visuals are far and away the high points.
She took off her shoes and went barefooted. When she played pinball, she'd swish around to give the machine English.
dervish
Noé's technical [gymnastics] keep it [un]deniably compelling: Shot in fluid, color-saturated, whirling-[dervish] long takes, edited in reverse, and given a [throbbing], hypnotic sound design from Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter, Irreversible's [deft] moves don't allow the viewer a second to ponder some of the script's more implausible, trumped-[up] conceits. (回教的) 托缽僧,苦行僧
transfix
impale
l'm gonna impale the son of a bitch with a sharp stick through the heart.
。贖罪懺悔
Purgatory
excruciate
Mean Girls loses a certain amount of punch in its ham-fisted later half, which involves an [excruciatingly] out-of-place trust fall and a clichéd speech (at the Spring Fling, no less) in front of the entire student body.
expiate
atone for, make amends or reparation for
expiation
Robert Rossen was dying when he made this film and many regard it as an act of expiation for his behavior during the McCarthy witch hunts in the 50s when he was a leading friendly witness.
reparation
penance
Four years later, with the other Earth now [hovering] on the horizon like a [bloated] harvest moon, the judicial system is done punishing Rhoda, but she has just begun her own penance.
penitent
penitence
the state of being penitent, contrition, repentance
Blur's penitence for Brit-pop continues with the [aptly] named 13, which deals with star-crossed situations like personal and professional breakups with Damon Albarn's longtime girlfriend, Justine Frischmann of Elastica, and the group's longtime producer, Stephen Street.
shrift
the imposition of penance by a priest on [a] penitent after confession
a more valid complaint is that he does give short [shrift] to many of film's female characters.
contrition
Now the alternative. We can go together and make private calls on all the places you've robbed. You'll express deep sorrow and [repentance], sincere and vocal [contrition].
peccant
sinning, guilty of a moral offense
Here we are going through the obligatory middle-of-act-two... "scorned wife throws peccant husband out" scene.
punitive
serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment
What followed, however, "Margot at the Wedding" (2007), was a dead end. The quarrelling sisters and their [hapless] men were so [inept] that they couldn’t run across a lawn without some calamity befalling them. Baumbach seemed to be [revelling] in futility; the film was [grating], almost punitive.
。罪與罰
elide
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation
Law. to annul or quash.
Postscript noting the fates of certain characters conveniently [elides] the sad and/or ironic destinies awaitin[g s]ome of them.
vindicate
exonerate
You realize, with this case, I'm looking for evidence to exonerate you. But, at the same time, I'm also wondering... what really happened.
execrate
extenuate
to represent a fault as less serious
to extenuate a [crime].
Do not extenuate the [difficulties] we are in.
I know, but I got my editor in town, I gotta finish my book... and there's some extenuating circumstances...
remittance
His remittance [reached] us on Thursday.
remission
the act of remitting
pardon as of sins or offenses
The patient's [leukemia] was [in] remission.
Life was a disease, and smoking held it temporarily in [remission].
He has cancer, but a doctor has deliberately and falsely declared it in remission.
remiss
I would be remiss in my duty if I did not tell you that the idea of intercourse the fact of your firm young body commingling with the withered flesh sagging... breasts... and... flabby.. bu... buttocks.. makes me want to vomit.
absolve
to free from guilt or blame or their consequences
Following their confessions, the priest absolved the sinners of their [sins].
The bank officers absolved him from [having] to make further [restitution].
Only the test of combat can absolve all the screwing around and self-pity [of] its inherent infantilism.
amnesty
With a new president, people talk of amnesty. But that's wrong.
impunity
exemption from punishment
immunity from detrimental effects, as of an action
Basically, you have absolute impunity to do whatever you want
Living each day twice, Abe and Aaron exploit their [prescience] for stock market gains, but the prospect of absolute [impunity] soon brings to mind more [grandiose] abuses.
condone
disregard or overlook (something illegal, objectionable, or the like)
There's no justification for senseless brutality. And you were not raised to stand by and condone it.
Call it the feminist flip side to Zéro de Conduite, where revolt is not a condoned option.
peccadillo
a petty sin or trifling fault
Co-directed with Roman Coppola and heavily influenced by his peccadillo for 60s retro-futurism,
Stygian
2008年2月1日 星期五
Hope Springs (2003)
Felicity Shagwell
在發現海瑟葛蘭和海蓮娜寶南卡特有姐妹臉的同時，也發現蜜妮卓芙角色原本是給海蓮娜寶南卡特，馬的醜女多作怪。改編自【畢業生】作者小說，然後電影乏味到深淵極致。英國佬柯林被未婚妻蜜妮重婚，對象是瑜珈宗師，只好逃到美國一個叫希望小鎮的地方療傷。
療傷人員海瑟首次約會就裸裎相見，是的，英式幽默英國佬就是這麼有魅力。後來蜜妮想阻止英國佬和美國妞相好，原來重婚只是逼婚的詭計，瑜珈宗師查無此人。蜜妮施展深奧英式魅力慾挽回柯林，天真無邪美國妞海瑟很受傷，永遠都不想再見到柯林。
最後我們的柯林為觀眾示範英式幽默的最高境界：佯稱自己是柯林住在奧亥俄州的表弟，把美國妞約出來見面，並且掏出結婚戒指，或者說那正好是一個結婚戒者，一個正好刻著柯林海瑟的結婚戒指。天真無邪的美國妞就這樣被騙回旅館，是的，英式幽默英國佬就是這麼有魅力。
真愛開玩笑 Hope Springs
92 min. 2003
Colin Firth ... Colin Ware
Heather Graham ... Mandy
是的，切掉蜜妮卓芙讓這世界更美好。
Marion Cotillard in Michael Mann project!!!
Public Enemies (2009)
Christian Bale ... Melvin Purvis (in negotiations)
Johnny Depp ... John Dillinger
Marion Cotillard ... Billie Frechette
下面討論串有人在妄想諾頓加入劇組。
不要懷疑！Marion Cotillard 紅了，她要演麥可曼恩的電影，男主角叫強尼戴普，蝙蝠俠洽談中。其實我只是想找機會貼貼圖而已。趁金球加身趕快幹掉奧黛莉朵杜成為首席外銷法國妞吧！一眠大一吋
Ludivine Sagnier 目前還沒有被好萊塢看上，相信只是遲早問題。
聖塔芭芭拉影展：藝術行家表揚典禮
神奇的是，凱西越看越像老哥，卻是越看越帥。雖然我還沒看過 Juno，但幻影貓 (Kitty Pryde) 真是個很遜砲的正義小隊友。特異功能組的最大敗筆在於，扣掉兩位酷炫老頭，好人除了金鋼狼和琴葛雷酷炫以外，其他都很遜；更慘的是，壞人更遜。不酷炫就無法產生角色認同。
An Ideal Husband (1999)
好可愛的凱特！蜜妮卓芙也沒有破壞畫面。
珍奧斯汀受害者傑瑞米留鬍子不太好看，濃點比較適合。剛看到很奇怪的比喻：Rupert Everett 是卡萊葛倫加瓊克勞馥 (!) 的優雅綜合體。九九年是茱莉安相當多產的一年，包括情人搭錯線共有四部作品：勞勃阿特曼藏錯屍體殺錯人；PTA 心靈角落；愛情的盡頭提名奧斯卡佳女。
這電影學問不少：郭大少佩帶的綠色康乃馨是王德爾和友人表明性向的識別證。
茱莉安偷走凱特信件下面是黃書 (The Yellow Book)，插畫家 Aubrey Beardsley 繪製的封面，王德爾一八九五年以雞姦罪名被逮捕時手裡攜帶的書籍。
插畫家比爾斯雷生平簡介
← based on the play by Oscar Wilde
情人搭錯線 An Ideal Husband
96 min. 1999
Cate Blanchett ... Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Minnie Driver ... Miss Mabel Chiltern
Rupert Everett ... Lord Arthur Goring
Julianne Moore ... Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Jeremy Northam ... Sir Robert Chiltern 被邊緣化
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