Notting Hill
诺丁山/新娘百分百/摘星奇缘:
这部浪漫喜剧是好莱坞红透半边天的茱莉亚-罗伯茨和休-格兰特当年的春风得意之作。这部99年就已上映的影片，虽然多年之后才去观赏，但却仍然觉得是那么经典。 电影在英国伦敦西郊附近的诺丁山地区真实取景，影片一开始就将诺丁山的街道、市场、商铺用镜头展示给观众。最喜欢这种生活气息浓重的电影，有的时候，无需炫丽的灯光，无需华丽的服饰，就是街道的平静亦或熙攘，就是路边一间摆满五颜六色鲜花的商店，就是那水果摊上忙碌着的伙计和咖啡店里飘着热气的一杯咖啡，就让我们仿佛身临其境，而故事也就在这种轻快活泼但又不失优雅的气氛中展开。 影片讲述的是当红明星与平凡男子的爱情之旅。其实是很琼瑶式的剧情，但情节虽然有起伏，却始终充满温馨。著名影星安娜斯各特（茱莉亚罗伯茨饰）的演艺事业如日中天。一天她来到了诺丁山的一间书店，邂逅了事业爱情两失意的老板威廉萨克（休格朗特饰）。威廉认出了安娜是红极一时的明星，十分惊讶，也没想到自己会爱上这位明星，假扮记者借故约会安娜。很快两人坠入爱河，本来甜蜜的生活却一下子被发现了的记者破坏了。安娜承受着媒体的压力，需要做出决定，两人也吵了起来…… 影片非常经典的一个段落就是，失意的威廉走过四季的场景。此时无需更多的语言，配上那恰到好处的音乐，愿所有的感伤都随时间而逝吧。 两位巨星茱莉亚·罗伯茨和休·格兰特在片中幽默睿智的语言是影片的闪光点，而结局处，安娜带着淡淡的忧伤对威廉说：―我只是一个女孩儿，站在一个男孩儿的面前，请求他爱我。‖瞬间，虽然那个星光闪耀的明星不再，但这一句柔情的话语却又令人心潮澎湃。 其实除了男女主人公的爱情主线外，片中的那些配角们也功不可没。当威廉把安娜带回家参加妹妹的生日会时，家人和朋友的各色反应，会让观众会心一笑的同时也将自己融入其中，想想看，如果某一天你的家里出现了一个这样的超级大明星，你是会冷静得好似什么也没发生，还是连在卫生间里看到他脱下一粒扣子都会激动得跳了起来？这些配角的演出个人觉得非常出色，制造了很多的笑料，也极好的烘托了影片愉快的气氛。而当在大家围坐在餐桌前，各自讲述着自己的失败史时，又顺其而然地将藏在大明星光环背后的痛楚牵带出来，让大家思索其中的滋味。 《诺丁山》是根据巨星麦当娜的真实遭遇改编的，她在19xx年―路过‖英国的诺丁山小镇时，遇见一位名叫安迪-伯德的无名小卒，安迪-伯德很向往导演和制片的工作发展，但一直不得志。不过真实生活里的麦当娜和安迪最后还是分手了，因为两人的身分地位悬殊实在太大，根本不可能成功。编剧理查的朋友认识安迪-伯德，他辗转得知了许多有关麦当娜和安迪-伯德相恋的事，于是写出这部世界卖座的电影。
男主角是休·格兰特 Hugh Grant .....William Thacker
女主角是朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts .....Anna Scott
超现实的浪漫爱情降临诺丁山:
男人面对美丽性感的女人一般都发呆。
假如面对的还是美丽性感的电影女明星的香唇，估计没几个生还。
此时我说的不是梦话，此时我看到发生在伦敦西街区诺丁山的爱情故事，获此艳福的是街边生意凋零的小旅游书店主人威廉。
当好莱坞电影明星安娜的性感红唇烙在威廉的嘴上时，这家伙不但没有心肌梗死，居然还说出了一句经典的台词：―超现实，但很精彩‖。
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除了有一套黄金地段的住房，一小间黄金地段的书店外，影片《诺丁山》开始的画外音介绍，威廉是一个被妻子抛弃，生意惨淡，没名没钱的小老百姓。可就是这厮，在一个普通的星期三，邂逅了电影明星安娜，只怪威廉开的小书店地处闹市区，安娜闲着没事硬要往那儿进，更邪的是端着橙汁的威廉和拐角前行的安娜又撞了个满怀，橙汁飞溅，道歉真挚，只能尽快换衣服，巧的是不远处就是威廉的住宅，设施齐备，盛情又难却，女明星洗换一新，美若天仙，望着威廉真诚深情的眼睛，安娜给了一吻。真快啊！导演也不给咱交待一下女明星为啥单身直闯小书店？为何对黎民百姓一见钟情？难道周围的帅哥富豪都不入眼？好在影片中更多的精彩冲淡了少许的遗憾。
影片中的浪漫音乐穿插于男女主人公的爱情之路，为营造爱意，烘托氛围增色不少。平日爱咖啡，爱幻想，多情善感的文艺青年确有必要下载或购买，特别是那首词曲俱佳的《she》。
片中的威廉已经是小人物，为突出平凡，导演在其周围又安插了一干小人物，让威廉的身份有扎实的生活土壤。最可乐的是威廉的室友，我看的碟片将其翻译为―雪碧‖，我认为很恰当。―雪碧‖就像正剧中插科打诨的小丑，活跃严肃的剧场，点燃观众的兴趣。―雪碧‖将自认有浪漫意义的―想上床吗‖的广告衫穿去见女友，将威廉的潜水服当生活装穿并认为有气质，再次闯进浴室只为证实眼前的沐浴明星，身着灰色内裤在众记者面前频频poss只有表演的快感，为成全追赶爱情的威廉冒充交警疏通堵塞的道路，为迁就女友的身高抱着女友跳舞，其诙谐、可爱确实有―雪碧‖痛快清爽的味道，这样的饮料在影片中俯首皆是，让浪漫之爱不但甜蜜而且轻松。
凡人与明星谈情说爱有两大障碍，一大障碍是门不当户不对。可安娜生就平易近人，第一次约会就能屈尊参加威廉妹妹的生日party并乐在其中。能真诚面对威廉说出：――I‘m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.‖我只是一个普通女孩，站在一个她所爱的男孩面前求他爱她‖。如此美女明星天上有，人间不常有。第二大阻碍是花边新闻和狗仔队。众媒体的闪光灯曾经包围幽会中的主人公，并为此误会是威廉借此出名。好在误会很快消除，好在爱情勇敢直面狗仔追逐。安娜没有戴安娜的悲惨结局，只有导演赠送的香甜善果。 俯视的镜头下，诺丁山绿色花园的座椅上，怀孕的安娜躺在威廉的怀里，周围是嬉戏的玩童，动听的音乐，美丽的画面，除了嫉妒，真他妈羡慕！
不嫉妒上场的演员：美丽性感的朱莉亚·罗伯茨，风度翩翩的休·格兰特。
不仅仅是一段浪漫的邂逅
看完《诺丁山》之后的第一感觉是，真浪漫呀！只有童话中才会有的邂逅，竟然发生了。不是灰姑娘的童话，却似灰姑娘的童话。只是故事中的灰姑娘变成了影片中的威廉，那个眼神中略带忧郁的英国男子。
威廉只是一个普通的中年男子，离婚，经营的旅游书店生意惨淡，在伦敦的诺丁山中心一个有着蓝色门脸的房子里居住、生活，日复一日，却有着一个行为怪诞的室友。安娜是光芒四射的国际影星，高高在上，一举一动都备受关注，有着1500万美元一部电影的片酬。―Fabulous！‖我们都会像威廉一样为着他的经历而感到不可置信吧，在属于他的极其平凡的一天，遇见她，还有她深深的一吻。
而这不仅仅只是一段浪漫的邂逅。
其实，一开始，他是局促不安的，在这段相遇中，他卑微的连幻想都不敢出现。她到来、离去，再到来、再离去，半点由不得他。对他而言，一切似乎都是上帝的恩惠，哪还敢有半点的贪心与奢望。
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随着故事的发展，她逐渐褪去光环，走进平凡的生活。在威廉表妹的生日聚会上，她看着这群普通的人欢笑，她也随着他们欢笑。这笑容，绝不是在扮演任何一个角色，真正的属于她---安娜·斯科特。在他们带着游戏般的姿态讲述自己悲惨的人生后，安娜也坦露自己看似辉煌背后的辛酸。这看似不经意的一段情节，却是影片最打动我的地方。不论你现在一无所有还是声名显赫，每个人都得面对生活出的难题，坦然接受、善意处之，就会得到生活给予的馈赠。我想，也许就是在这个时候，威廉开始走近安娜。
当安娜穿着一身朴素的蓝色衣裙再次出现在他的书店，腼腆却又大胆的问他是否会再喜欢他。这个时候，她是局促不安的，等待他的裁决。威廉理智的意识到自己与她并不属于同一个世界，拒绝了她。安娜再次笑了，隐忍而心酸。―你知道，名气并不实际，别忘了，我只是个女孩，站在一个男孩的面前，要他去爱她。‖这是她的回答。被炫目却虚幻的名气包裹的太久，安娜已经懂得为真实的自己而活。
当然，故事的结局是完美的，也给观众一个美好的想象空间。这就是《诺丁山》的经典之处。
哪天，当你走上诺丁山的街头，是否会试着寻觅《诺丁山》所呈现的浪漫，是否也会期待有段浪漫的邂逅呢？
Notting Hill is a romantic comedy about an ordinary man who is in love with the most famous woman in the world. Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) is the world most famous movie star. Her picture has been plastered on the cover of every magazine, and every time she makes a move, the entire world knows about it.
William Thacker (Hugh Grant) owns a travel bookstore. His business is stagnant, he has the roommate from hell, and since his divorce, his love life is completely non-existent.
For both, something or someone seems to be missing. And when Anna and William paths unexpectedly cross in the eclectic neighborhood of Notting Hill, romance is the last thing on their minds. The Couple comes to face the ultimate question: can two people fall in love with the whole world watching?
Notting Hill is a 1999 British romantic comedy film set in Notting Hill, London, released on May 21, 1999.
William "Will" Thacker (Hugh Grant) owns an independent bookshop in Notting Hill that specialises in travel writing. He has been coping with divorce after his wife left him for a man who looked exactly like Harrison Ford. He shares his house with an uninhibited Welsh eccentric named Spike (Rhys Ifans).
Thacker encounters Hollywood actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) when she enters his shop to buy a book. Minutes later, the pair collide in the street, causing Will to spill his orange juice on both of them. He offers his house across the road for Anna to change. She accepts and, having changed, surprises Will with a kiss and starts their mutual attraction.
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Days later, Will asks Spike if he has any messages. Spike has trouble writing or remembering messages but does recall "some American girl called Anna" who mentioned a "completely different name". Anna is at the Ritz, under the name "Flintstone", and has asked Will to visit. Will is allowed in, but her room has now become the centre for a press day and he is mistaken for a journalist. (In panic he claims he works for Horse & Hound.) He has to interview all the cast of Anna's film, Helix, even though he has not seen the film. Will's sister Honey (Emma Chambers) is about to have a birthday party, and when Will has a moment alone with Anna, he invites her to it.
There, at Max (Tim McInnerny) and Bella's (Gina McKee) house, Anna feels at home with Will's friends, putting up a good case for the "last brownie" to be awarded to the most pathetic of them. Afterwards they trespass in a private London square. They go on more dates, to the cinema and to a restaurant. Anna invites Will to her room, only to find her American boyfriend, Jeff King (an uncredited cameo by Alec Baldwin), already there. She pretends to be pleased to see him, and Will pretends to be a room-service waiter. When King steps out of the room, Anna apologizes; she thought King had broken up with her. Will realizes he must leave.
Later, after actually breaking up with King, Anna goes to Will's house hoping to stay. Images of her that look like a porn film have been leaked to the press and she needs to hide. The pair sleep together for the first time. In the morning, Will is stunned to see reporters at the doorstep, alerted by careless talk by Spike at the pub. Angry at what she views as Will's betrayal, she leaves, and he decides to forget her... unsuccessfully. One year later, Anna returns to London to make a Henry James film, which Will had suggested. Will approaches the set of the film, and Anna invites him in to watch. He listens via the sound system while Anna is between scenes and overhears her telling her co-star that Will is "just some guy". Disappointed, Will leaves. The next day, Anna comes to the bookshop again, explaining that she was just being discreet and hoping to repair their relationship, but Will, still hurt, turns her down. Having brought him a present, she leaves it behind, still wrapped; it turns out to be an original Marc Chagall painting, La Mariée, that she had seen a print of in Will's home.
Will meets his friends, who are supportive of his decision to reject Anna until Spike arrives and promptly calls him a "daft prick". He quickly realizes he has made the biggest mistake of his life by letting her go. They group searches for Anna, racing across London in Max's car. They reach Anna's press conference and Will persuades her to stay in England with him. Anna and Will marry, the film concluding with a shot of Will and a pregnant Anna on a park bench in Notting Hill.
Cast and characters
? Julia Roberts as Anna Scott: A Hollywood film star. She meets Will when she comes into his book shop in Notting Hill. Roberts was the "one and only"
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故事主角Troy Bolton是个篮球天才，自小以篮球为目标，他的父亲兼教练，指引着他。Gabriella Montez 则是难得的理科奇才，又有―爱因斯坦‖的称号，而且她取得了不少惊人的成绩而且心地善良。他们两人本是两个不同世界的人，在除夕假期的一个卡拉OK比赛中，将重唱发挥的淋漓尽致。假期结束后，他们更发觉由于Gabriella的妈妈调换了工作环境,Gabriella和Troy就读於同一学校！学校音乐剧角色的选拔也即将开始，于是 Troy 及 Gabriella 打算参加试音，希望成为学校最新音乐剧的男女主角。由于篮球比赛和学术比赛渐渐逼近，这都关系到学校的荣誉。为了能让Troy一心投入篮球比赛，让Gabriella认真准备学术全能比赛，篮球队成员和学术社成员联合起来劝阻他们退出音乐剧的选拔。Gabriella 新认识的朋友 Taylor McKessie 及 Troy 的好友兼支持者 Chad Danforth 知道消息后均表示不赞成，Chad 不希望见到自己的篮球偶像登上舞台，而 Taylor 则担心自己带领的学术比赛队伍将失去一个重要的队员。一向都是学校音乐剧主角的 Sharpay Evans 及 Ryan Evans 亦担心自己在学校的地位将受动摇千方百计地策划计谋阻止他们参加角色选拔。虽然如此，但 Troy 及 Gabriella 并没有因此而放弃，反而更积极追寻自己的梦想，亦影响到其他同学 5
向别人展示一些他们一直隐藏起来的才华！后来，队友们体会到了扼杀朋友的梦想是残忍的，于是重新给予他们鼓励和帮助，Troy的父亲也清楚地了解到儿子的倔强和梦想，于是对他说：―只要你快乐就好！‖这给了Troy很大的动力，Gabriella也开始有了信心。
Sharpay 和 Ryan 将音乐剧选拔赛时间恶意更改，使篮球赛、学术全能比赛和音乐剧选拔赛同时举行。出乎意料的是，队友们信誓旦旦地向他们保证一定会让他们参加比赛，并设计了策略使篮球赛的计分器发生故障，学术比赛中化学物品产生毒气从而让两项比赛暂停。当 Troy 和 Gabriella 赶到剧场，音乐剧选拔已经结束，在两人和钢琴家的恳求下，他们终于获准参赛，所有的队友都到场为他们鼓励。
Gabriella 和 Troy 唱出了令人惊叹的水平，最终获得了冠军。在篮球赛和学术比赛中他们因为勇气再次获胜。 Sharpay 和 Ryan 认识到自己的错误并真诚祝贺他们， Gabriella 和 Troy 原谅了他们并和他们成为朋友，对未来充满了信心和期待。
观后感：
I watched the film called High School Musical. After watching it, I felt very happy and it touched me very much. It is an American film. It tells American high school students' life. American students are very different from our Chinese students. They are in high spirits when facing their lives and their out-of-class games are quite colorful.
Main actress is a very beautiful girl called Gabriella. She was unconfident to sing at first. But a boy told her that she sang very well. Then they sang together happily.
I think as long as you try your best, whether you fail or not, you will never regret. We must believe in ourselves forever.
经典对白：
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"Sixteen, 16, 16 minutes left. Better get it done! Sixteen, 16, 16 more minutes. 16, 16 more minutes till we're number one! W-I-L-D Wildcats!"
Character:
Troy Bolton
He is leader of the wildcat basketball team of high school, and likes to play basketball. But in a singing contest, he and glamorous Gabriella in chorus, Troy found there are basketball as well as things. When the Trojan players found him in school, they will sing musical react? He and Gabriella two different people, there may be together? And as he was a basketball coach's dad between him and what will happen again? Gabriella Montez
She is the top science, but when she and Trojan in chorus, Gabriella broke original plan for future planning and start over different life. Gabriella dazzling charm can play music in school? The school's comedy queen Sharpay react?
Sharpay Evans
From the kindergarten she started stage performance, so she is confident this year, also can become musical heroine, and her brother sang and danced on the stage. But now, Gabriella, and sports star Troy, probably beat her brother and combination of gold as actor. Sharpay began to play all to solidify his status.
Ryan Evans
He can be beautiful, but his performance many musical luxuriant annually in love. However, if someone wants to compete with Ryan, actor, he will do everything to defeat the opponent.
Taylor McKinsey
The captain of the team high academic omnipotent, she needs to help them Gabriella super science talent to win. In this study Gabriella so if you want to sing, she must not be ignored.
Chad Danforth
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He is Troy's best friend. When his brother Troy wants to sing at the stage, Chad thinks he's just kidding! He tried to make the Trojan back; because of the position of basketball game will start the grand!
Miss Darbus
The teacher teaching in school, she thinks plays in the lofty status of Shakespeare. Miss Darbus hates cell phones, and human activities, such as the original movement. Miss Darbus will ascend some promising singer, and help them to surpass ourselves, but her coach hostility to Bolton, she would not help Troy.
Bolton manager
For many years, the Bolton manager has trained his son and wanted him to become a Trojan, and the brightest star player won the basketball contest between colleges. But in musical show, Troy, these things will only hinder so Bolton manager without thinking of what is the suitable way of Troy. However, perhaps some things are as dad he doesn't know...
Plot
This movie is about the life in the high school. The wonderful songs in it are really amazing. Gabriella is a girl who is a very good student and Troy is a boy who is good at basketball. They met over winter break after they were forced to sing together at a party. They had a really good time and became friends. Both of them wanted to find their music dream. And then after the winter break, they decided to run for a part in their school‘s musical. But Sharpay and Ryan Evans, the two actors who've been in every school musical, tried their best to stop them. But Troy and Gabriella's call back was amazing, so they got the leading parts in the musical, and Ryan and Sharpay were the understudies.
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The Day After Tomorrow
后天/明天过后：风云莫测/末日世界(大片断的灾难描写)
本片描绘了温室效应造成气候异变，地球陷入第二次冰河世纪的故事。丹尼斯·奎德扮演研究气候变化的科学家霍尔教授，他根据观察和研究史前气候的规律，提出严重的温室效应将造成气温剧降，地球将再次进入冰河时候的假设。结果，这个预言变成了现实，龙卷风、海啸和暴风雪接踵而至，人类陷入了一场空前的末日浩劫。哈尔教授告诉美国总统向全球宣布北纬30度以南的居民从赤道附近撤离，以北的居民要做好保暖。与此同时，哈尔得知他的儿子山姆不顾危险居然一个人前往天灾侵袭中的纽约营救女友，他也奋不顾身地前往冰雪覆盖下的北方地区进行救援，在救援与被救的过程中，电影细腻地交织了父子之间的动人情感和大灾难下人们所表达出来的真挚感情。
"我们只有一个地球!"科学家们不止一遍地提醒着破坏环境的人们，所以《后天》的灾难假设也并非空穴来风。要知道，温室效应并不仅仅等于气候暖化，事实上，造成温室效应的气体，比如二氧化碳、水蒸气和CH4等，这些气体会吸收热辐射，造成气温下降。近年来，厄尔尼诺现象和拉尼娜现象发生得特别频繁，造成冰川融化，一方面减低了海水盐分浓度，使暖流携带热量不足；另一方面使海平面上升，地表洪水肆虐，这都是生态系统崩溃的反应。而我们这颗气候持续在冰期与暖期间循环的地球，已经运转到了暖期尾声，即将迎接冰期的到来。本片导演罗兰德·埃米里克希望人们在欣赏电影的同时能够看到镜头虚拟下的现实。他呼吁："温室效应造成的全球气候变化已经是一个大问题，全世界的国家应该一起合作起来，拯救我们惟一的地球。"
简介:
气象学家杰克?霍尔（丹尼斯?奎德饰演）博士观察史前气候研究指出，温室效应带来的全球暖化将会引发地球空前灾难。杰克博士曾警告政府官员采取预防行动，但警告显然已经太晚。当罗得岛大小的冰山撞上南极洲冰棚后，全球气候引发连锁效应：冰雹重袭东京，空前飓风袭卷夏威夷，印度罕见飘雪，洛杉矶更刮起史无前例的龙卷风。杰克研究中的灾变症候逐一显现：南北极冰山的融解将大量淡水注入海洋。在一场全球性超级暴风雨来临后，地球将步入一万年前的冰河世纪。 正当杰克警告白宫紧急应变的同时，他17岁的儿子山姆（杰克?葛伦饰演）被困在纽约，面临曼哈顿严重水患及不断下降的温度。山姆到曼哈顿公共图书馆避难，尝试由电话联络父亲，分秒必争的杰克命令山姆，无论如何一定要守在室内，并尽量保暖。此刻美国正式宣布民众大规模向赤道方向撤离，杰克只身北上前往纽约救山姆，但杰克完全无法想象即将发生在他、他的儿子及地球上的一切…… 幕后: 美国国防部2月份发布机密报告，提及全球气候将在未来廿年内引发人类浩劫，本片描述严重温室效应下大自然的全面反扑。全片除了大量尖端特效场面，呈现扑天盖地的自然威胁外，也细密交织父子及男女之间刻骨铭心的动人情感。在《后天》片中，人类将面对的敌人是最具压倒性、最无可抵抗的大自然本身：龙卷风袭击美国洛杉矶、狂雪掩覆印度新德里、葡萄柚大小的冰雹重创日本东京，而纽约将在短短一天之内从炎热急速降为酷寒！在这部各界期待、充满特效的电影中，突如其来的气候改变将对全地球全人类造成难以想象的灾害！
THE STORY:
The Day After Tomorrow shows a disastrous and abrupt climate change.
After watching the great film The Day After Tomorrow, I was convulsed. ?How nice 9
to see the warm sunshine!‘ after watching the film, I said to my friend. Although man conquer the nature, who can pledge that we will win if this comes true? If we still haven‘t wake up to protect our environment, maybe there will not be a day for our humans to regret when this day comes true. Man may die away like dinosaur from this planet. The film gives me the feeling of death, simply more devilish than death.
We human beings have no reasons to cruelly kill other creatures and destroy our environment. Think of it, if animals and plants all have feelings just like we human beings, when we catch and kill animals, when we trample on the flowers, when we wantonly snatch resource from our mother earth, do we ever consider repaying our mother, or do we ever consider how these small things will feel. Put us to their position, if we were treated like this, could we feel well? Does it only because they are small, so they have to suffer what man do on them? Then why could we be so ease and never think of resipiscence?
Our environment was changed by many reasons, zoology is in a delicate balance, and we cannot control this balance for the moment, but we have the power to break it. Then the nature comes down to us, to take back what belongs to nature originally. But the nature cannot ask itself, so it cautions us until we gradually come to realize.
We Chinese can solve starvation; we should also have the confidence to handle the environmental issue. Just like an environmentalist said: ?Everyone is important, everyone can exert his function, and everyone can bring some changes.‘
All over the world, the weather is warmer and warmer, the number of propagation is less and less, but the pollution is more and more severity. This is where we are living in. When we can‘t see our mother river runs mountains high, and can‘t hear the song it makes, can we turn to a blind eye, or can we sit still waiting for death? Of cause not. We are the master of the future, the future of the world can‘t be worse in our hands, but to be better by our efforts.
We should do what we can from our daily life; only in this way will we never have that kind of terrible tomorrow.
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction film that depicts the catastrophic effects of both global warming and global cooling in a series of extreme weather events that usher in a new ice age.
Plot Summary
Jack Hall is (Dennis Quaid) in Antarctica with two colleagues, Frank and Jason (Jay O. Sanders and Dash Mihok), drilling for ice core samples on the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA when the ice shelf breaks off from the rest of the continent. Jack presents his findings on global warming at a United Nations conference where diplomats, including the Vice-President of the United States, (Kenneth Welsh) are unconvinced by Jack's theory.
Jack's concerns resonate with Professor Terry Rapson (Ian Holm) of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in Scotland. Two buoys in the North Atlantic 10
simultaneously show a massive drop in water temperature, and Rapson concludes that melting of the polar ice has begun disrupting the North Atlantic current. He calls Jack, whose paleoclimatological weather model holds reconstructional data of the palaeoclimate change that caused the first Ice Age, to predict what will happen. Jack believed that the events would not happen for many years, but he, Frank, Jason, and NASA's meteorologist Janet Tokada (Tamlyn Tomita) build a forecast model with his, Rapson's, and Tokada's data.
Across the world, violent weather causes mass destruction. The U.S. President (Perry King), authorizes the FAA to suspend air traffic over the United States due to severe turbulence. As three RAF helicopters fly to evacuate the British Royal Family, they enter the eye of a massive hurricane-like superstorm, that causes a temperature drop below ?150 °F (?101.1 °C) that freezes their fuel lines and rotors, causing them to crash.
Jack's son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) is in New York City for an academic competition with his friends Brian and Laura (Arjay Smith and Emmy Rossum). During the competition, the weather becomes increasingly violent with strong winds and torrential rains. Sam calls his father, promising to be on the next train home. However, the storm worsens, forcing subways and Grand Central Station to close. A tidal wave half the height of the Statue of Liberty hits Manhattan, putting the island under several feet of water. Sam and his friends seek refuge in the New York Public Library.
Survivors in the Northern United States are forced to flee south, with some Americans illegally crossing the border into Mexico. After advising the Executive Office of the President of the United States to evacuate half the country, Jack sets off for Manhattan to find his son, accompanied by Frank and Jason. Their truck crashes into a snow-covered tractor-trailer just past Philadelphia, so the group continues on snowshoes. During the journey, Frank falls through the glass roof of a snowbound shopping mall. As Jason and Jack try to pull Frank up, the glass under them continues to crack; Frank sacrifices himself by cutting the rope.
Inside the library, Sam advises everyone of his father's instruction to stay indoors. Few listen, and the small group that remains burns books to keep warm and breaks the library's vending machine for food. Laura is afflicted with blood poisoning, so Sam, Brian, and J.D. search for penicillin in a Russian cargo ship that drifted inland. The eye of the superstorm begins to pass over the city with its ?150 °F (?101.1 °C) temperatures, and the entire New York skyline begins to freeze. The three return to the library with medicine, food and supplies, barely making it to safety.
During the deep freeze, Jack and Jason take shelter in an abandoned Wendy's, then resume their journey after the storm dissipates, finally arriving in New York City. They find the library buried in snow, but find Sam's group alive and are rescued by helicopters. The new President orders search and rescue teams to look for other survivors, having been given hope by the survival of Sam's group. The movie ends 11
with two astronauts looking down at the view of the Earth from the International Space Station, showing a majority of the northern hemisphere covered in ice, and a drastic reduction in the pollution content.
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film that depicts the catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in a new ice age. It did well at the box office, grossing $542,771,772 internationally. Domestically, it is the sixth highest grossing movie not to be #1 in the US box office (behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Alvin and the Chipmunks and its sequel, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), but worldwide, it is third behind only Ice Age 3 and Casino Royale. The movie was filmed in Montreal, and is the highest grossing Hollywood film in history to be filmed in Canada (if adjusted for inflation). Cast
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King Kong《金刚》
导演率领拍摄组来到神秘的骷髅岛开始了一部电影的拍摄，女主角是漂亮娇小的安(娜奥米?沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰)，她在纽约的演艺事业陷入了低谷，这是她时来运转的大好机会。他们乘坐轮船来到岛上，却不知在岛上即将要险象横生。 正当导演要开始开机拍摄时，他们遭到了当地土著的袭击，几个随行人员遇难身亡。摄制组慌忙逃离，幸好起航离去，却发现不见了女主角安。
原来安土著野人抓走，被当作祭品。安尖声惊叫，引来了传说中骷髅岛的猩猩——金刚的关注。金刚在岛上很有霸气，连恐龙都要忌它几分。然而，野兽爱上了美人，金刚搭救安脱离困境，不料却让自己陷入了一场悲剧。
观后感：
The story is about a gorilla, King Kong as those guys who arrested him and took him to New York. Personally I prefer to use him than it! He lived on a mountain alone until one day he saw a girl Annie, then life changed, he changed. I don't know whether ''love'' is a fit word to describe the relationship between him and Annie .Maybe he just needed someone to keep his company and play some little tricks to make him happy. And Annie did so. He wanted her to be with him, stayed at his side always. He fought with three dinosaurs to protect her, he chased after her in spite of those dangerous traps waiting for him. Just for her, everything...
when he saved her, she looked at him with her grateful eye. He turned head to the other side. Yet, he was angry, maybe he was complaining why she left him, just like a boy in love. He also needed to be coaxed. He spread his palm, expecting her. She sat on his palm, and they enjoyed the beautiful sunset together. Their back and the view then were so moving, so touching.
In New York, he was searching for her and she sensed his call. She ran towards him again. She showed before him, they walked towards each other .he had her, and for the first time she liked to be with him of her own will. He glided on the ice to make her happy.
In the end of the movie, a reporter wondered why he climbed to the top, which meant a suicide. Another journalist answered that ''just animal nature''. Maybe the journalist thought he (as an animal) was stupid, but my understanding about his behaving like that was only his desire to watch another sunset with her, like what he did, put his hand on his chest, let her know he understood the word she told him ''beautiful''......
【Plot Summary】
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant 13
gorilla and this beast now has Ann is its grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts. But Carl has another plan in mind.
Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a group of explorers and documentary filmmakers who travel to the mysterious Skull Island (near Sumatra) to investigate legends of a giant gorilla named Kong. Once there, they discover that King Kong is a real creature, living in a massive jungle where creatures from prehistoric times have been protected and hidden for millions of years. As the explorers search for the great ape, their quest puts them up against both Kong and his dinosaur enemies. Ultimately, it is the attention of a beautiful human woman that soothes Kong long enough for him to be subdued by the explorers and shipped back to New York, where his bleak future involves being put on display in front of humans... but how long can even the mightiest shackles of man hold back an ape 25 feet tall?
A film director and his crew go to a mysterious island to shoot their picture, when they find out the legendary beast on the island does exist, and troubles come when the natives capture the crew's leading lady as a sacrifice to the monster, King Kong. Thus, the crew ventures into the jungle of the island to find the creature, and capture it.
【精彩对白】
Carl Denham: And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And beauty stayed his hand. And from that day on, he was as one dead.
卡尔·丹汉姆：看，野兽注视着美女的脸庞，美女坐到野兽的手心里，从那一天开始，野兽就已经迈进了死亡的深渊。
Plot
The film opens in New York City, 1933, during the Great Depression. Having lost her job as a vaudeville actress, Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) is hired by troubled filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) to star in his new movie with popular actor Bruce Baxter (Kyle Chandler). Darrow agrees when she learns her favorite playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody) is the screenwriter. As the SS Venture sails to mysterious Skull Island, Darrow and Driscoll fall in love. A warrant is out for Denham's arrest and Captain Englehorn (Thomas Kretschmann) begins having second 14
thoughts about the trip. Despite his attempt to turn around, the ship is lost in fog and crashes into rocks encircling the island.
Denham and the crew explore the island and are attacked by its natives, who kidnap Darrow to sacrifice her to their god "Kong". Kong, a giant ape, takes Darrow to his lair in the island's interior. As the filmmakers and the ship's crew search the island for Darrow, they battle numerous dinosaurs, giant invertebrates, and other deadly and exotic dangers. Although the rescuers suffer many casualties, Denham wants to both rescue Darrow and capture Kong as a way to save his job.
In Kong's lair, Darrow is frightened of the ape at first but realizes that he is gentle and curious about her. She entertains Kong with juggling and dancing from the theater; they watch the sunset together; and she attempts to communicate with him using sign language. Driscoll interrupts Darrow's befriending of the ape and the ship's crew traps Kong as he chases them. Although Darrow opposes Denham's plan, the ape is subdued with chloroform for the trip to New York, and Denham promises the crew that Kong will make them all rich.
Denham presents Kong — the Eighth Wonder of the World on Broadway, starring Baxter and an imprisoned Kong. Darrow refuses to participate in the show, which sensationally recreates Kong's capture. Kong becomes enraged when he sees that the lead actress is not Darrow, then breaks his chains after camera flashes anger him further. As the audience flees, Kong destroys the theater and wreaks havoc in Times Square before Driscoll lures Kong away. The ape and Darrow reunite in Central Park, which calms him down, but they are interrupted by the military.
Kong climbs the Empire State Building with Darrow in his grasp. Observing the dawn, Kong repeats the sign for "beautiful" that she used in his lair, causing Darrow to realize his intelligence. Before she can attempt further communication, they are attacked. Kong battles the Army's Curtiss Helldivers on the summit of the observation spire. He is hit by several bursts of gunfire, and gazes at a distraught Darrow before falling to his death. As Driscoll comforts Darrow, hundreds of people run to Kong's body. A man tells Denham that the airplanes killed him, but he replies, "It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
Cast
Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow: A struggling vaudeville actress who is desperate for work. Carl Denham discovers her attempting to steal an apple from a fruit stand. She is a big fan of Jack Driscoll, but knows nothing about acting in a movie. During the course of the voyage, she falls in love with Driscoll. She also forms a special relationship with Kong.
? Jack Black as Carl Denham: A film director who obtained the map to Skull Island. Due to his desperate situation — involving debts and theft — Carl is obsessive, slowly losing his moral compass. ?
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Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll: A scriptwriter who falls for Ann. He is on the voyage mistakenly, when he delivers 15 pages of script to Denham, who delays him as the Venture begins its voyage.
? Andy Serkis as Kong (motion capture and voice): A 7.5-metre (25 ft) gorilla who is around 120–150 years old.[4]He is the last of his species, . ?
17 Again
如果有机会重回17岁，亲爱的报友们还会选择今天的生活吗？喜剧电影《重回17岁》就为我们做了这样一种假设。《六人行》 (Friends) 中的―钱德勒‖马修·派瑞 (Mattew Perry) 与《歌舞青春》 (High School Musical) 中的万人迷扎克·埃夫隆 (Zac Efron) 分别饰演了中年与青少年时期的迈克(Mike O' Donnell)，米歇尔·崔切伯格 (Michelle Trachtenberg) 则扮演迈克的女儿麦琪(Maggie O'Donnell)，和大帅哥扎克·埃夫隆 (Zac Efron) 有不少对手戏哦~
迈克是学校里的风云人物，身为篮球运动员的他原本得到奖学金，可以直接保送大学的，但是为了和女友斯嘉丽 (莱斯利·曼恩 (Leslie Mann)饰 ) 在一起，他放弃了这一机会。
20 年过后，已经成为一名中年男子的迈克一事无成。他和妻子斯嘉丽分了手，与孩子们之间也很少共同语言，至于自己在药物公司的工作更是无聊透顶。沮丧的迈克重新回到高中学校，追忆自己曾经的辉煌。在那里他遇到了一个清洁工，两人聊天时，迈克向其倾诉了自己想重回17岁的渴望，如果一切重来，他不再放弃奖学金和进修的机会，那么人生将会非常不同。
从学校回来的路上，迈克无意中发现那个神秘的清洁工正准备跳河。吃惊的迈克赶紧跳下车去救他，没想到看门人突然消失不见，倒是的迈克冲进了河里，并就此奇迹般的变成了17岁时的样子……
此后的迈克在朋友的帮助下重回高中上学，他有许多困难需要解决。比如跟自己不知情的儿女做校友。而就是在学校里的一系列遭遇，让迈克懂得了其实自己当初选择的就是最完美的生活，只不过自己一点都不知道珍惜。如今悔过了的他最要紧的就是恢复原本的模样，重新去赢回妻子和孩子……
1.在操场上的时候Mike见到他女儿Maggie哭的稀里哗啦的时候安慰她到：
When you're young, everything feels like the end of the world. It‘s not, it‘s just the beginning. I mean you might have to meet a few more jerks. One day, you're gonna meet a boy who treats you the way you deserve to be treated. Like the sun rises and sets with you.
当你年轻的时候,每件事都像世界末日, 其实不是的,只是开端而已, 你也许会遇见更多的坏蛋, 当有一天你会遇见一个男孩, 会如珍宝般待你,就像日升日落,都陪着你。
看完电影后我就上床准备睡觉了，但我却一直睡不着。有句歌词里说道―人们总是在失去之后才知道错的是自己。‖同理，人们总是在抱怨着现在的生活的困惑、烦恼是因为以前的一次选择，总是唠唠叨叨的希望能再得到一次重新选择的机会发现现状。但当真的给了他们重新选择的机会时，才猛然发现过去的选择是正确的。
人生不能回头，生活不能重走。
But I will still choice you if give me a chance again. Have a nice day I tell myself again. In 1989, 17 year-old Mike O'Donnell learns from his girlfriend Scarlett that she is pregnant during the start of his high school championship basketball game. Moments after the game begins, he abandons the game and goes after Scarlett.
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Twenty years later, Mike finds his life stalled. Scarlett has separated from him due to his regrets about abandoning college, forcing him to move in with his geeky and wealthy best friend since high school, Ned Gold; At his job we see another reason for his frustration as he is significantly older than most of his co workers and he passed over a promotion he deserves in favor of a much younger female worker, he quits his job and his high school-age children Maggie and Alex want nothing to do with him. Later, while visiting his high school to reminisce, an encounter with a mysterious janitor transforms Mike into his 17 year-old self.
Given the chance to re-live his youth, Mike enrolls in high school posing as Mark Gold, Ned's son, and plans to go to college with a basketball scholarship. As he befriends his children, however, Mike comes to believe that his mission is to help them. Mike comforts Maggie when her boyfriend Stan, the captain of the basketball team, dumps her. With his help, Alex overcomes Stan's bullying to obtain a place with Mike on the basketball team and the girlfriend he desires.
Through their children Mike spends time with Scarlett, who is attracted to his remarkable resemblance to her husband in high school. Mike has difficulty resisting his desire for her despite the relationship's apparent inappropriateness. At the same time, he must fend off Maggie's amorous advances(completely unaware that he is her father). Meanwhile, Ned courts Jane Masterson, the high school principal who shares a mutual interest in The Lord of the Rings.
Mike soon realizes that Scarlett is the "best decision" he had ever made and finally realizes that his own selfishness has driven his family away tries to re-unite with her and unsuccessfully explains to her that he is actually Mike, her husband. On the day of the court hearing to finalize Scarlett and Mike's divorce, Mike makes one last attempt to win her back (as Mark) by reading a supposed letter from Mike. He states that although he couldn't set things right in the beginning of his life, it doesn't extinguish the fact that he still loves her since that day. After he exits, Scarlett notices that the "letter" is actually the directions to the courtroom and she begins to grow curious. During a high school basketball game, Mike reveals himself to Scarlett. As Scarlett once again runs away down the hall, Mike decides to chase her down once more, but not before handing the ball off to his son so he can have the scholarship. Mike is then transformed back into his 37 year-old self and is reunited with Scarlett. Meanwhile, Ned and Jane begin dating and Mike is hired as the high school's new basketball coach.
The Pursuit of Happiness
美国电影《当幸福来敲门/追求快乐/追求幸福/幸福追击》（The Pursuit of Happiness）取材真实故事。故事的主角就是当今美国黑人投资专家Chris Gardner。成功诠释出一位濒临破产、老婆离家的落魄业务员，如何刻苦耐劳的善尽单亲责 17
任，奋发向上成为股市交易员，最后成为知名的金融投资家的励志故事。
已近而立之年的克里斯·加德纳(威尔·史密斯)，在28岁的时候才第一次见到自己的父亲，所以当时他下定决心在有了孩子之后，要给孩子做一个好爸爸。但事业不顺，生活潦倒，只能每天奔波于各大医院，卖骨密度扫描仪，偶然间认识到做证券经纪人并不是需要大学生文凭，只要懂数字和人际关系就可以做到后，就主动去找维特证券的经理Jay twistle，凭借自己的执着、非凡的妙语，并在一个小小的魔方的帮助下，得到了一个实习的机会。
但是实习生有20人，他们必须无薪工作六个月，最后只能有一个人录用，这对克里斯·加德纳来说实在是难上加难。这时，妻子因为不忍穷苦的生活，独自去了纽约，克里斯·加德纳和儿子亦因为极度的贫穷而失去了自己的住所，过着东奔西跑的生活，他一边卖骨密度扫描仪，一边作实习生，后来还必须去教堂排队，争取得到教堂救济的住房。但是克里斯·加德纳一直很乐观，并且教育儿子，不要灰心。因为极度的贫穷，克里斯·加德纳甚至去卖血。功夫不负有心人，克里斯·加德纳最终凭借自己的努力，脱颖而出，获得了股票经纪人的工作，后来创办了自己的公司。
读后感：The story is based on a true story about a man named Christopher Gardner. Gardner has invested heavily in a device known as a "Bone Density scanner". He feels like he has made these devices. However, they do not sell as they are marginally better than the current technology at a much higher price. On top of that, one of these does not work. As Gardner tries to figure out on how to fix the faulty one and sell the others, his wife leaves him; he loses his house, his bank account, and credit cards. Forced to live out in the streets with his son, Gardner is now desperate to find a steady job; he takes on a job as a stockbroker, but before he can receive pay, he needs to go through 6 months of training, and to sell his devices.
"The Pursuit of Happyness" -- the title comes from a misspelled schoolhouse mural -- has a lot on its mind but mostly this: If America is about the promise of bettering oneself, why does it have to be so freaking hard? In the movie, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence words about happiness kept recurring to Chris Gardner. Every day, Christ had to work hard from morning till night, but still could hardly make a living. Chris saw a bunch of suits, mostly male, pouring out of the Dean Witter Reynolds 18
brokerage firm in downtown San Francisco. They all looked ―happy,‖ ―Why not me? ― Christ wondered. He did have an adorable boy, Christopher, but wife Linda was becoming a scarecrow of overworked anxiety. Finally, his wife left Christ because of life pressure, leaving him and her five-year-old son, Christopher. And naturally, Christ became a single father.
With the failure of his business, Christ had no money to pay for the rent, so they were driven away from the flat. They became homeless. They slept in asylum, subway station public bathroom or anywhere as a temporary shelter. The destitution of life was absolutely depressing, but for his son‘s future, for his own belief, Christ never gave up and he still strongly believed that happiness would come one day if he worked hard enough today.
With his great efforts, Christ won a six-month internship at Dean Witter, but there was no pay at all. So on one hand, Christ had to work hard to make a living; on the other hand, he had to fight for his intern work, since only one of the twenty interns would succeed finally. Besides, he had to take good care of his son after day care. However, Christ made it with his amazing willpower.
Christ was unfortunate, for he got a wife who was not understandable at all (though she has her own difficulties) and was in bad luck with his business. But he was very fortunate also, for he got a son who was very thoughtful and, I think, tough life experiences always make a great person.
It is said that this movie is inspired by a true story, and I want to say, this movie does inspire me a lot. What impressed me most are: Christ‘s wife left him because of life pressure; Christ‘s love to his son and Christ‘s strong belief towards life. Through these, I know that it is not easy to be a good husband and a good Papa, since in reality, only love cannot only make everything. And I also learn that one has to strongly believe in himself, no matter how difficult the situation is, but of course, hard-working is indispensable.
With a title like The Pursuit of Happyness, you expect the characters to get to the promised land. They do, but if the journey matters more than the destination, this is a 19
movie to skip. The Pursuit of Happyness is long, dull, and depressing. It expands into two hours a story that could have been told more effectively in one. This is not the feel-good movie of the season unless you believe that a few moments of good cheer can redeem 110 minutes of gloom. Sitting through The Pursuit of Happyness is a chore. Downbeat movies aren't inherently bad (in fact, many are powerful), but this one provides artificial characters in contrived circumstances. How is it that movies "inspired by a real story" often feel more fake than those fully embedded in the realm of fiction?
The film's most compelling scenes are those that show Chris struggling to enter the rat race. Granted, this is no Glengarry Glen Ross, but it shows the pressure these salesmen are under and how important the contact lists are. In the overall scheme of things, however, these sequences are background noise. They are neither plentiful nor lengthy. The movie spends more time following Chris on his futile sales rounds for the bone density scanner than it does accompanying him during his broker training. 经典对白：
Christopher: I know what it means! It means we're not going to the game.
Christopher Gardner: And it was at that time that I thought about Thomas Jefferson writing that Declaration of Independence. Him saying that we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I thought about how he knew to put the 'pursuit' in there, like no one can actually have happiness. We can only pursue it. The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical drama film directed by Gabriele Muccino and based on the life of Chris Gardner. The film stars Will Smith as Gardner, an on-and-off-homeless salesman-turned stockbroker.
Plot
In 1981, in San Francisco, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his family's savings in Osteo National bone-density scanners, a portable medical imaging device more expensive, but with a higher resolution than a traditional x-ray. The investment proves 20
to be a white elephant which financially breaks the family and as a result, his wife Linda (Thandie Newton) leaves him and their son Christopher (Jaden Smith). While downtown he meets a manager for Dean Witter and impresses him by solving a Rubiks Cube. This new relationship earns him the chance to become a stockbroker , but nearly turns down when the position turns out to be unpaid. Chris is setback when his bank account is garnished by the IRS for back taxes. And as a result of unpaid taxes he becomes homeless; he is forced at one point to stay in a bathroom at a BART station. Motivation drives him to find the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, which is dominantly a women homeless shelter for single moms and their children, but due to demand for the limited room Chris must race from work in order to land a place in line. Disadvantaged by his limited work hours, and knowing that maximizing his client contacts and profits is the only way to earn the one position that he and his 19 competitors are fighting for, Chris develops a number of ways to work more efficiently and reaches out to potential high value customers, defying protocol. Regardless of his challenges, he never reveals his circumstances to his co-workers even going so far as to loan one of his bosses five dollars for a cab. Concluding his internship, Chris is called into a meet with the big guys of the company. His struggle has paid off and he is offered the position. Fighting back tears he rushes to his son's daycare, hugging him. They walk down the street, joking with each other and are passed by a man in a business suit (the real Chris Gardner in a cameo). The epilogue reveals that Chris went on to form his own multi-million dollar brokerage firm. Up
《飞屋环游记/飞天总动员/天外奇迹》影片挑选了老人、儿童和狗狗这三种无论放在任何文化背景下都象征着平和与纯洁的元素，再给他们设计了一场与大城市、现代化无关的、接近童话的冒险；影片主题其实并没有太多突破，城市人的孤独感、对梦想需要执着、对大自然需要爱护，。
卡尔是个有着怪脾气老头，胖得像球一样小孩小罗看着又傻乎乎。《飞屋》主线并不复杂，但起承转合有自己独到的地方，比如，影片开头用了近20分钟 21
来记述卡尔和爱丽是如何相识、相爱、相守到老的过程，除了表现爱丽和卡尔个性的童年时期，几乎全无对白，就是那样接近完美的―陪着你慢慢变老的过程‖，不需要言语煽动，情绪就无声无息地上来了。而创作者没有打一枪换一个地方，这段看似与冒险过程无关的回忆，成为了卡尔制造飞屋、甚至重塑自我的最大动力，也在几个关键节点反复用力推进情节转折。主角的设计也有小惊喜，卡尔不是慈眉善目的老爷爷，他多少有些怪脾气，为了保护爱妻遗物还会有暴力倾向，小孩小罗胖得像球一样，看着傻乎乎，废话还很多，这些与保守的审美观有矛盾的细节一再爆发出喜剧火花，另外，皮克斯招牌的抢眼配角继续爆发搞笑功力，会说话的狗这个族群的设计最能体现皮克斯的小机灵。
卡尔小时候曾答应小女友艾利将来一定会带她去冒险。但是虽然两人怀抱着冒险梦想从相识到结婚，可直到艾利离开人间，卡尔都没能实现他对艾莉的承诺。 如今，寡居的78岁卡尔老先生，为了信守对爱妻的承诺，决心带着他与艾利打造的房屋一飞冲天，往他与艾利小时候设下的终极目标─―仙境瀑布‖前进！原本就在动物园里卖气球的卡尔先生在屋外绑上数以万计的气球，就这样把屋子连根拔起向南美洲天外的世界飞去。谁知道，一名乐于助人但笨手笨脚的8岁小童子军小罗居然出现在高空中、卡尔先生屋子的前廊！卡尔先生虽然百般不愿意，还是开门让小罗进门来。
经历几番暴雨狂风，两人终于抵达南美洲，看到―仙境瀑布‖的踪迹，可偏偏降落的地点需要花点脚程才到得了。卡尔先生为了带着屋子继续前进，只能将屋子绑在自己跟小罗的身上，两人必须三天内抵达仙境瀑布，否则气球的气就会泄光了！
在旅程中，精力过盛、顽皮捣蛋小罗却让孤僻顽固的卡尔先生很头痛，先是引来了一只传说中的珍禽异雀，又收留了一只会说人话的小狗。
Up is a 2009 computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and presented in Disney Digital 3-D. The film premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and opened the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first animated and 3D film to do so.
The film centers on an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen and an earnest young Wilderness Explorer named Russell who fly to South America in a house suspended by helium balloons.
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Plot explorer Charles F. Muntz He learns, however, that Muntz has been accused of fabricating the skeleton of a giant bird he had discovered in Muntz fan. Detailing her ambitions in her personal scrapbook, she tells Carl her desire to move her "clubhouse"—an abandoned house in the neighborhood—to a cliff overlooking Paradise Falls, making him promise to help her. Carl and Ellie eventually get married and grow old together in the restored house, working as a their savings for a trip to Paradise Falls, but end up spending it on other obligations. An elderly Carl finally arranges for the trip, but Ellie suddenly becomes ill and dies, leaving him a lonely and bitter widower.
Years later, Carl still lives in the house, now surrounded by urban development, but he refuses to sell it. He then ends up in a tussle with a construction worker over his broken mailbox, and is forced by a court order to move into a it off its foundations. A young named Russell becomes an accidental passenger, having pestered Carl earlier in an attempt to earn After surviving a thunderstorm, the house lands near a large ravine facing Paradise Falls. Carl and Russell harness themselves to the still-buoyant house and begin to walk it around the ravine, hoping to reach the falls before the balloons deflate. They reach her chicks, and then a dog named Dug who wears a special collar that allows him to speak. They are then ambushed by a pack of similar dogs led by Alpha (also Bob Peterson), and taken to Dug's master, who turns out to be an explains that he has spent the years since his disgrace searching Paradise Falls for the giant bird. When Russell innocently reveals his friendship with Kevin, Muntz becomes disturbingly hostile, prompting the pair, Kevin, and Dug to flee, chased by Muntz's army of dogs; Kevin is injured during the escape. Muntz eventually catches up with them and starts a fire beneath Carl's house, forcing Carl to choose between saving it or Kevin. Carl rushes to put out the fire, allowing Muntz to take the bird. Carl and Russell eventually reach the falls, but Russell is angry with Carl over his selfishness.
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a new one. Reinvigorated, he goes to find Russell, only to see him sailing off alone on some balloons to save Kevin. Carl lightens his house by dumping all his possessions, and gives chase. Russell is captured by Muntz, but Carl manages to board the dirigible in flight and free both Russell and Kevin. Muntz pursues them around the airship, with Dug and Russell clinging to her back, just as Muntz is about to close in. Muntz leaps after them, only to snag his foot on some balloon lines and fall to his death. Freed from its tether, the house descends below the clouds and out of sight.
Carl reunites Kevin with her chicks, then flies the dirigible back to the city. When Russell's father misses his son's Senior Explorer promotion ceremony, Carl takes over and proudly presents Russell with his final badge: the grape soda cap badge that Ellie gave to Carl when they first met. The two then enjoy some ice cream together, sitting on the curb outside the shop as Russell and his father used to do, with the dirigible parked nearby. Meanwhile, Carl's house is shown to have landed on the cliff beside Paradise Falls.
Cast and characters
fly his house to Paradise Falls.
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of talking dogs owned by Muntz.
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? as Charles F. Muntz, a famous explorer who lost his credibility after rumors spread that a bird skeleton he brought back from South America was fake. Vowing to return and find a living specimen, Muntz was driven insane and paranoid by his obsession and years of isolation, prompting him to kill anyone who comes to the area, believing they are out to steal the bird from him, including Carl and Russell. His airship Spirit of Adventure serves as his home in South America. ? Gulliver's Travels
由《大战外星人》导演罗伯·莱特曼执导、杰克·布莱克、艾米莉·布朗特、杰森·席格尔等主演的喜剧电影《格列佛游记》，英国作家乔纳森·斯威夫特的名著被搬入现代，愣头愣脑、窝窝囊囊的杰克·布莱克在百慕大三角州穿越进了小人国，随后发现自己在全新的国度中变成了大英雄。
杰克·布莱克饰演的格列佛是个邮政室小职员，岁数也不小了，却事业爱情一无所成。一次阴差阳错的公派任务，把他带到了百慕大群岛，不想，出海即遭遇到大风暴。风平浪静之后，格列佛发现自己来到了一个地图上没有的神秘小岛Lilliput，这里住着成百上千“小人”，他们把格列佛“钉”在了海滩上。不过随着故事的发展，格列佛从最开始的俘虏，变成了这里的英雄人物——在小人国的经历让他明白了人类的内心的强大与否无关外表。
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本片叫《格列佛游记》不免名不副实，原著中除了小人国，还有巨人国、飞岛国等等神奇的所在。但或许是由于技术与资金的原因，电影中只保留了小人国Lilliput的段落。
With the arrival of this "adaptation" of Gulliver's Travels, author Jonathan Swift must be spinning in his grave fast enough to make a top dizzy. If Swift was alive, no doubt he'd demand that his name be removed from the credits. Little of his satirical classic beyond a few names, locations, and general ideas have survived the transition from the written page to the dumbed-down family adventure foisted upon the public by director Rob Letterman and screenwriters Joe Stillman and Nicholas Stoller. Still, the chief sin committed by Gulliver's Travels is not that it's a poor adaptation but that its entertainment value is almost nonexistent.
Only the movie's "high concept" remains the same as the one in the book, and the narrative ransacks no more than Book One of Swift's Gulliver's Travels (with a brief nod to Book Two). So Gulliver's Travels is about the voyage of Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) to the mysterious Island of the Lilliputians, a race of six-inch high "little people," where he becomes a figure of great curiosity and becomes embroiled in local politics. There ends any common ground the movie has with the book. In this version, Gulliver is a mail clerk at a newspaper office in Manhattan rather than a surgeon in England. To court favor with Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet), the travel editor, he agrees to fly to Bermuda to investigate "new findings" about the Bermuda Triangle. Once there, he heads out to sea in a one-man craft, becomes lost, and winds up in the country of Lilliput. After an initial period as a prisoner in which his lone friend is fellow dungeon denizen Horatio (Jason Segel), he finds favor with the royal family - King Theodore (Billy Connolly), Queen Isabelle (Catherine Tate), and Princess Mary (Emily Blunt) - and becomes Lilliput's protector, displaying disgruntled General Edward (Chris O'Dowd). After singlehandedly defeating the would-be invading fleet of the rival country Blefuscu, Gulliver's status in Lilliput soars, but this encourages Edward to commit an act of treason in an attempt to bring down his big rival.
To make Gulliver's Travels more "modern," the filmmakers have injected pop references to Star Wars, Titanic, and KISS, while having Gulliver build a replica of Times Square in Lilliput. The climactic battle pits the local giant against a Transformer - something not even Jules Verne would have conceived. Gulliver's visit to Brobdingnag is limited to a five minute sequence in which he finds himself captive in a doll house. None of Swift's themes about government, religion, and human nature make their way into the cluttered mess of a screenplay, and any satirical elements have been blunted beyond recognition to leave room for the fatuous, unfunny humor of the leading man. In short, for fans of Swift and good cinema, Gulliver's Travels is a disaster.
Once again, Jack Black proves himself incapable of playing someone other than Jack Black. He's like the drunk, annoying cousin who shows up at a family reunion and engages in a series of outrageous antics to display how cool and funny he is when, in reality, he's merely irritating. The problem isn't simply that Black is miscast, but he believes he's hilarious and, by foisting this faux amusing personality on us, he transforms Gulliver's Travels into an almost unendurable 85 minutes. The filmmakers succeed in making Chris O'Dowd's Edward more dislikable than Gulliver - an approach that succeeds only in ensuring that viewers have no rooting interest in the final smack down between man and Transformer. Emily Blunt reportedly turned down the Scarlett Johansson role in Iron Man 2 to make this film, which indicates she needs to fire her agent.
The only arena in which Gulliver's Travels plays an adequate game is in visual effects. The interaction of big Gulliver with the tiny Lilliputians is handled without major gaffes. It looks like Jack Black is approximately twelve times the size of his co-stars. My requisite comment about the 25
box office-inflating 3-D is that it's largely inconsequential but non-intrusive. One of my first thoughts on leaving the theater was to wonder why anyone would pay a surcharge for the meager benefits provided here for 3-D viewing. Upon further consideration, I amended that: Why would anyone pay anything to see this movie, regardless of how many dimensions it's being shown in?
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
看了《魔法师的学徒》，一部典型的西方魔幻片。故事比较传统：天意选择了一个年轻人拯救世界，这恐怕是每一个平凡的小人物都有的梦想，只不过深藏于内心深处而已。这样的故事听得太多，使得影片悬念不足。 一个俄罗斯套娃成为片中的主要道具和线索，一层层的娃娃中藏着一个个不同的精灵，有善有恶，可以说是升级版的《一千零一夜》故事，颇具创意！影片的特技制作精良，效果逼真，这对魔幻片至关重要，这一点做得很到位，值得一看！ Magic is everywhere in Disney's THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE -- the fun family adventure from the creators of NATIONAL TREASURE. Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) is a modern-day sorcerer with his hands full defending Manhattan against dark forces. When a seemingly average kid shows hidden potential, Balthazar takes his reluctant recruit on a crash course in the art and science of magic to become the ultimate sorcerer's apprentice. Experience more extraordinary thrills, heart-stopping action and spectacular special effects than you can imagine as these unlikely partners show us that the real world is far more magical than we ever knew!
Sorcerer‘s Apprentice, mostly just mentioning things that are clear from the trailer. People that would prefer not to know anything about the plot before seeing the movie should skip the next paragraph.
Minor Plot Discussion
Sorcerer Balthazar Blake has been using his skill in magic to battle evil sorcerers for years. He discovers that Dave has potential to be a powerful sorcerer and makes him his apprentice. Horvath is one of the evil sorcerers and he is back after having been magically imprisoned by Balthazar for a very long time. Balthazar starts training Dave so they can face off against Horvath.
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I think the plot of The Sorcerer‘s Apprentice works well to make an interesting and entertaining movie. There is more going on throughout the movie than I had expected. A few things that happen are somewhat surprising, though there are also some predictable things that happen as well. I don‘t mind the predictable parts because the movie is so entertaining and fun. The movie is loosely based on the Sorcerer‘s Apprentice segment of the animated movie Fantasia. One scene in the movie, which is somewhat cute and entertaining, is definitely influenced by that segment. Some people may not like that the movie is influenced by Fantasia, but I think the story is good enough to make this movie stand on its own.
Magic plays a very important part in The Sorcerer‘s Apprentice since the main characters, as well as a few more minor characters, have varying degrees of magical abilities. Some explanations about the way the magic works in the movie are shared during the first few minutes. Those explanations make sense with what is going on. Balthazar is shown to be a powerful sorcerer fairly early in the movie and he does all sorts of spells throughout the movie. A few of the spells are different from ones I‘ve seen in other movies. Some of the training Dave goes through is 26
shown. I really enjoyed all the magic stuff in the movie. People who don‘t like movies dealing with magic will probably want to pick something else to see.
The fights between various characters add a bit of action to what is going on. There is only a little bit of violence, none of which is extreme or that graphic. Since the movie is rated PG, it is mostly family friendly. One or two things that happen could be scary or upsetting to younger children, so parents may want to check the movie out first. The movie isn‘t really funny overall, but there is humor in several scenes. Some of the humor, like how Dave‘s attempts at spells, is a little silly, but it works. The funny things that pop up do help to lighten the mode a bit. Special effects are used throughout the movie, mostly in relation to the spells being done. Dave does show off an experiment he has been doing at one point. I have no idea if what he did is possible or realistic, but it does look really cool. The special effects are done well and I think they enhance what is going on. Several things just wouldn‘t have worked well without the effects.
A tiny bit of romance is added to The Sorcerer‘s Apprentice through Dave‘s interest in Becky. He isn‘t that confident, so it does take him a while to be able to say much of anything to her. The developing relationship is a more minor plot element that doesn‘t receive a lot of attention. It does add a bit of complication since it does distract Dave. The relationship is rather sweet. Some references are made to the feelings that Balthazar has for Veronica, another sorcerer who fought evil with him.
There really isn‘t a lot of character development for any of the characters. Balthazar is a very skilled, intelligent sorcerer who has been focused on one thing for a very long time. The character is interesting and more complex than he seems at first. I really like Nicolas Cage in the part even with the shaggy hair - it ends up working for the character. Cage makes Balthazar likable and believable, though it would have been nice if there had been more development for him. Veronica is another powerful sorcerer who has been fighting evil. She is rather important even though she isn‘t in as much of the movie. Monica Bellucci does good with the part.
Dave is an intelligent though somewhat nerdy college student. He does really well with physics and has trouble talking to the girl he likes. He has doubts about his abilities as a sorcerer and seems to look at it as just something cool to do for a while even though he has already encountered Horvath. Jay Baruchel is fine in the part, though there is something that seems a little off about her performance in some scenes. Becky is the girl that Dave is interested in. She is very pretty and popular, so she does seem out of his league. She isn‘t stuck up and she doesn‘t look down on him. Teresa Palmer is fine in the part. Dave‘s friend Bennett turns up in a few short scenes and ultimately ends up not doing much. Bennett really doesn‘t add anything, so I‘m not sure why he‘s around at all.
Horvath is the main evil sorcerer that Balthazar and Dave have to deal with. Horvath has a somewhat complicated history, which helps to make him a more interesting character. He is a bit over the top every so often, but that works for this character. He makes a good villain for the movie and Alfred Molina is really good in the part. Drake Stone is a sorcerer who has been working as a magician that Horvath recruits for help. Drake is very showy and doesn‘t seem to take what he is doing seriously. He does kind of remind me of Criss Angel. Toby Kebbell is good in the part.
Main Cast
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Jay Baruchel - Dave
Monica Bellucci - Veronica
Nicolas Cage - Balthazar
Toby Kebbell - Drake Stone
Alfred Molina - Horvath
Teresa Palmer - Becky
Jon Turteltaub – DirectThe
Sorcerer‘s Apprentice is a fun, entertaining family friendly adventure movie that kids and adults both can enjoy. A few things are predictable and Baruchel could be a bit better in his part, but the movie is worth watching. Fans of movies dealing with magic or fans of Nicolas Cage may find something to like about this one.
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