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Review of Scent of a Woman
Hearing the movie Scent of a Woman, I thought it is the kind of movie with romantic plots. However the movie called "Scent of a Woman" with no real women? more precisely, it is a movie about men(Frank and Charlie),though there is a scene in the movie in which Frank takes beautiful Gabrielle to the dance floor at the Waldorf Astoria for an impromptu tango performance. I enjoyed watching this movie even more because it reminded me so much of my difficulty in life.
Retired and blind Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade is a man with a very complex and powerful personality. When his daughter hires Charlie Simms, who is a student from a poor family at a prep school in New Hampshire, to take care of him over the Thanksgiving weekend, he is in for a roller-coaster ride. Within moments of the daughter leaving for a family reunion, Frank and Charlie are on a plane to New York City. Frank's plan: stay at the Waldorf Astoria, eat at the Oak Room, dance and make love to a beautiful woman, and then kill himself. Charlie is also facing some of his own challenges at school. He is caught up in the dilemma between a bright future in Harvard and getting expelled from the school, all depending on whether to speak out the pranksters in a disciplinary hearing. They are both at the crossroads of their life.
During their stay in New York, they experienced a lot of adventures ,at the same time they get to know each other and have gradually influenced each other. Charlie persuades Frank to live on and Frank, while Frank’s powerful speech shocked the Students’ Committee in Baird , made Charlie get no punishment. This is a film about struggles in life and finally finding the meaning of it, full of wit and philosophy. Life is full of dilemma, obstacles and mistakes. The film is supposed to tell us the right attitude towards life: to make a right decision, to hold on and to live on.
“If you’re tangled up, just tango on.” It is certainly the most quotable sentence in the whole movie. Frank asks a beautiful lady to tango with him by saying this.
Later, Charlie reminds him of it when he is about to hysterically shoot himself to death.
I remember the poem never give up written by Churchill. Never give up. Never lose hope. Always have faith. It allows you to cope. Trying times will pass, as they always do. Just have patience, your dream will come true. So put on a smile, you'll live through your pain. Know it will pass. Hold every minute in our life, go out to realize our dream in our heart! Nobody’s life can be always problem-free and full of sunshine. What matters is how to face it. If you never give up under any situation, then you can overcome the difficulties, get out of the difficult positions and obtain success.When we say “Never give up”, that means we go ahead in the adverse circumstances. That means we are in the advantageous circumstances, for we still keep on going. We should always keep in mind the three words—never give up.
There are many films you can gain strength from them. The Scent of a Woman is one of them, but unlike them, this one is stronger. Remember the sentence“If you’re tangled up, just tango on.”
jinny
第二篇：闻香识女人 英文
Trask: Mr. Simms, you are a cover-up artist and you are a liar. Frank: But not a snitch!
Trask: Excuse me?
Frank: No, I don't think I will.
Trask: Mr. Slade.
Frank: This is such a crock of *!
Trask: Please watch your language, Mr. Slade; you are in the Baird School, not a barracks. Mr. Simms, I'll give you one final opportunity to speak up.
Frank: Mr. Simms doesn't want it. He doesn't need to be labeled, still worthy of being a Baird man! What the hell is that? What is your motto here? Boys, inform on your classmates, save your hide, anything short of that, we're gonna burn you at the stake? Well, gentleman, when the * hits the fan some guys run and some guys stay, here's Charlie, facin' the fire and there's George hidin' in big daddy's
pocket. And what are you doing? And you are gonna reward George, and destroy Charlie.
Trask: Are you finished, Mr. Slade?
Frank: No, I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryant, William Tell, whoever, their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're buildin' a rat ship here, a vessel for seagoin' snitches. And if you think you're preparin' these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you're killin' the very spirit this institution
proclaims it instills. What a sham! What kind of a show are you guys puttin' on here today? I mean, the only class in this act is sittin' next to me, I'm here to tell you this boy's soul is intact, it's
non-negotiable, you know how I know, someone here, and I'm not gonna say who, offered to buy it, only Charlie here wasn't sellin'.
Trask: Sir, you're out of order.
Frank: I'll show you out of order. You don't know what out of order is, Mr. Trask, I'd show you, but I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too ****in' blind, if I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a
flame thrower to this place! Out of order? Who the hell do you think you're talkin' to? I've been around, you know? There was a time I
could see, and I have seen, boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off, but there is nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that, you think you're merely sendin' this splendid foot solider back home to Oregen with his tail between his legs, but I say you're executin' his
soul! And why? Because he is not a Baird man. Baird men, you hurt this boy, you're gonna be Baird bums, the lot of you. And Harry, Jimmy, and Trent, wherever you are out there, **** you too!
Trask: Stand down, Mr. Slade!
Frank: I'm not finished. As I came in here, I heard those words: cradle of leadership. Well, when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, and it has fallen here, it has fallen. Makers of men, creators of leaders, be careful what kind of leaders you're producin' here. I don't know if Charlie's silence here today is right or wrong, I'm not a judge or jury, but I can tell you this: he won't sell anybody out to buy his future! And that my friends is called integrity, that's called courage. Now, that's the stuff leaders should be made of. Now I have come to crossroads in my life, I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew, but I never took it, you know why, it was too * hard. Now here's Charlie, he's come to the crossroads, he has chosen a path. It's the right path, it's a path made of principle that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey. You hold this boy's future in your hands, committee, it's a valuable future, believe me. Don't destroy it, protect it. Embrace it. It's gonna make you proud one day, I promise you. How's that for cornball?