Example 1: Schindler’s List
The best Holocaust movie ever made is Life is Beautiful. However, since Life is Beautiful came out in 1997, there has to have been another film that held the title before Benigni‘s comic masterpiece came along and snatched it aw ay. That film is Schindler’s List.
Schindler’s List is the true story of Oscar Schindler, a Nazi party member, a war profiteer, and a man responsible for saving the lives of over 2000 Jews in the Holocaust. As would be expected from the majority of Holocaust movies, Schindler’s List is a film that you cannot say you love without feeling like a total schmuck. However Schindler’s List is what you would call an endearing film.
Schindler’s List utilizes a stark score by John Williams and a black & white photography by Janusz Kaminski in order to provide the full effect of the Holocaust: utter depression and hopelessness. The film is about as depressing to watch as Leaving Las Vegas. However, despite the desire to use a Smith & Wesson on yourself while watching this movie, the film manages to compel your interest.
Zaillian‘s script is right on target: pulling us in at the beginning with the story of Oscar‘s brilliant (although narcissistic) formation of a business out of nothing. The business exploits the Jew so much that you begin to wonder if you are watching the wrong movie. However, after Schindler witnesses the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto (still the most touching bunch of celluloid I have ever watched), he begins to work subversively against the Germans and for the Jews.
The one thing that weakens the film is the presence of humor. If a movie is going for the absolute drab, as Schindler’s List did, it would be a good idea to not try to lighten a moment by adding a joke that you would find in a second-rat e comedy. Humor has never been Zaillian‘s strongtpoint, and he shouldn‘t have tried to start.
Regardless, Schindler’s List is still the best movie that Spielberg ever made, and the second-best film about the Holocaust, Schindler’s List is a true dramatic classic, capable of making anyone cry.
Example 2: Brave Heart 1
Intoxicated by the melodious and plaintive tune on bagpipe, which is the characteristic musical instrument of Scotland, my heart cannot help floating up and down with the extremely tragic destiny and intense emotion of the valiant hero---William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson).
Brave Heart is an outstanding epic movie in which lots of various complex emotions, including the permanent pursuit of freedom and the brutal oppression, the persistent patriotism and the despicable surrender to power and status, the gallant self-sacrifice and the mean act of betrayal, the most unforgettable and moving love and the most irreconcilable hatred and all the severe conflicts between them are displayed incisively, thoroughly and excellently.
It is the innocent and romantic memory of first love full of fragrance of purple thistle that invokes William Wallace in returning homeland. The purple thistle that Murron gives William Wallace at his father‘s burial symboli zes the immortal love. Under the horrible shade of cruel oppression of England they struggle for their perfect love courageously. Unfortunately, Murron is seized and killed ruthlessly by an English official so that William Wallace‘s heart is stricken by great grief and pain. The moment he kills the wicked official to take his revenge he realizes the essential responsibility placed on his shoulders. He changes his individual anguish into enormous power of national spirit so as to devote himself to the innumerable and arduous combats for the great freedom of Scotland.
During war, maybe the most fatal threat is not the formidable weapons but the confused and evil hearts. The Scottish aristocrats yield to England and betray William Wallace twice. It is in the second time William Wallace is arrested and killed inhumanly.
The most touching and affecting scene is that at the last moment of his life, enduring inconceivable torture, William Wallace exhausts himself to shout out: ―Freedom!‖ to the boundless sky and the people. At the gate of paradise, his beloved wife---Murron is waiting for his coming. His brave heart wins the most na?ve heart of Murron, the most elegant heart of Princess of England (played by Sophie Marceau) and the countless people‘s hearts. Through the dignified ablution of blood, all the burden and hardship are released from his respectable and noble soul.
Supported and encouraged by William Wallace‘s eternal spirit, at the great expense of countless precious lives, Scotland wins her freedom.
When W illiam Wallace‘s strong voice ―Freedom!‖ echoes in my mind, the crying sky of Scotland emerges in my eyes. Brave Heart is really a wonderful movie that can hit people‘s hearts.
Example 3: Brave Heart 2
What is there that can be said about Brave Heart that hasn‘t been said before? It‘s an epic movie that ought to be in the conversation about the best films of the past thirty years. And actually, ―epic‖ might be too small of a word.
Brave Heart is as much about the inner drama of William Wallace as it is about the life-and-death drama of the war for Scotland‘s independence in the late 13th, early 14th centuries. It‘s a story told on a grand scale with a great deal craf t –and flair (and humor). This is a movie that offers both style and substance. It‘s a dir ect precursor to the success of The Lord of the Rings movies – indeed, one can argue that the success of Brave Heart set the stage for those films. True, Brave Heart may not have universal appeal in terms of genre, story, or its brutal portrayal of war. But there can be little doubt of the value of a film that is, simply, one of the best I have ever seen.
The success of the film rests on the balance with which the story unfolds. Put simply, there‘s something here for everyone: romance, action, character, philosophy, conflict, cinematography, great lines, music, and so on, and they all fit together almost flawlessly. I‘m sure if you looked hard enough you could find fault with some parts of the movie, but considering its nearly three-hour run time it manages to avoid pitfalls remarkably well.
This is William Wallace‘s story. And through him, the audience is allowed a mirror with which to view itself. This is the true measure of a great story: its ability to not only provide commentary, but also to provoke introspection. And that happens here quite often. One of the film‘s most quoted lines is ―Every man dies, not every man really lives.‖ Within just those seven words there is a great deal of thought and sentiment. It encapsulates a philosophy, a raison d‘être, that anyone can immediately identify with. And it‘s a beautiful philosophy – like carpe diem. And it encourages us to find the purpose and meaning within our lives on a daily basis.
This is also a love story, between William Wallace and Murron – a childhood friend. Theirs is a story that flows effortlessly from childhood tragedy and bonding, to adulthood romance and marriage. Indeed, it is Murron‘s murder that proves to be Wallace‘s motivation to launch his personal war against England whose king, Edward ?the Longshanks‘ is portrayed with a powerfully brutality in the film, making him a very compelling villain.
Wallace‘s quest is joined by a cast that is quite adept in their roles. There are hardly any weak links in the acting of this movie, which means that the underlying themes and conflicts are portrayed to maximum effect from start to finish. Mel Gibson‘s directing certainly has to be credited for some of that success.
This is, without question, Gibson‘s film. And it‘s not without a certain part of vanity from the lead actor and director. If you were looking for a critique, this would be the most fertile ground for it. But for the most part, whatever vanity Gibson may have been displaying is overshadowed by the craft of everything else. The action is riveting, the dialogue is crisp (and profound) and the music is deeply, deeply moving.
James Horner‘s score successfully taps into the heritage of Scotland while displaying a full orchestral presentation. The instrumentation and arrangements are all very well done, from wavering flute to the bagpipes to the thunderous percussion during battle sequences.
Example 4: Brave Heart 3
Set in the late 13th century, Brave Heart is the story of one of Scotland‘s greatest national heroes, Sir William Wallace. Crucially charismatic in the title role, Gibson plays the heroic figure and emerges as a remarkable hero with wit and romantic soul, determined to rid his country off its English oppressors.
Wallace‘s revolution is set in motion, with great obstacles from his countrymen. Many Scottish nobles lend him only grudging support as most of them are more concerned with wealth and titles than the freedom of the country.
Wallace, by comparison, is a man of honor, incorruptible and righteous. But as much as he rails against the Scottish nobles, submits to Edward Ⅰ, King of England, he is astonished to discover the treachery of the leading Scot contender for the throne—Robert, the Earl of Bruce—to whom he confides.
Sophie Marceau is exquisite as the distressed princess Isabella of France who ends up falling in love with Wallace, warning him out of several traps. Catherine McCormack is a stunning beauty who ignites Wallace‘s revolution. Patrick
McGoohan is chilling, brutal, and vicious as the ruthless Edward Ⅰ, known by the nickname ―Long Shanks‖. While Angus McFadyen moves as a nobleman torn between his conscience and political aspiration, and Brendan Gleeson brings strength and humor to his role as the robust Hamish, David O‘Hara is very effective as the crazy Irishman who provides much of the film‘s comic relief fr om even the most tensed moments.
Mel Gibson has reason to be proud of Brave Heart. It is a motion picture that dares to be excessive. Gibson presents passionately the most spaciously impressive battles, and it is his passion and excess that make the motion picture great. The horror and futility of massed hand-to-hand combats are exciting rather repulsive. It is epic film-making at its glorious best.
Gibson‘s Brave Heart focuses on the human side of Wallace, a character so immense, so intelligent, and so passionate, exploring the definitions of honor and nobility, pushing us to follow the hero into his struggle against injustice and oppression.
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The Blind Side Have you ever seen the famous film ‘The Blind Side’ which moved and so many people? I love this film so much that whenever I feel down I will watch it again and again to encourage myself.I really have learned a lot from this film. Firstly, I'd like to introduce you about the film. The film tells the story of a homeless African American boy Michael Oher is a young children, again to escape from the adoptive family, finally met a kind-hearted Touchy wife, by her help, Michael Oher gradually find themselves in their own physical condition and hard work, he finally became the first American National Football League player. Secondly, As far as I am concerned, Michael Oher is unfortunately, because he is a child that he has been abandoned many times, but he is lucky. Because he met the Leigh Anne Touchy. She was very cared about him, taught him how to shop, and told him said what he want. Sean Touchy was the first person in the family to pay attention to the Michael. He supported his wife and cared about that boy. Even though he didn't say anything, we could see it from his behavior. Although S.J is a child, but he is intelligent, mischief and he is a little football fan, he helped Michael training, encouraging the Michael , in his mind, Michael is a big brother. Collins, although Michael's arrival at the beginning of her caused some problems, but in the end, she was accepted this brother, regardless of her students in the eyes of surprise self-study with him and hide behind the wall and listen to the mother to Michael and tells the story of S.J. Then, He asked Touchy wife for a driver's license, in his view, this is a proof of identity, and he wants to live a normal life. When he entered the black town he refusing to let Touchy lady get off, blocking the S.J with his arm in an accident when, in his mind, that’s his family, and when his family is in danger, he must go to protect them. Last but not least, I think we will be moved by the Anne family behavior; Michael will also be responsible and keep moved, he insisted, gradually overcome those difficulty to become a successful football superstar. This is a film about sports Michael in the care of the family of Anne, Step by step effort and success. Then we
Journey to the Center of the Earth（地心游记）2008 There is a part of me that will always have affection for a movie like "Journey to the Center of the Earth." It is a small part and steadily shrinking, but once I put on the 3-D glasses and settled in my seat, it started perking up. This is a fairly bad movie, and yet at the same time maybe about as good as it could be. There may not be an 8-year-old alive who would not love it. If I had seen it when I was 8, I would have remembered it with deep affection for all these years, until I saw it again and realized how little I really knew at that age. You are already familiar with the premise, that there is another land inside of our globe. You are familiar because the Jules Verne novel has inspired more than a dozen movies and countless TV productions, including a series, and has been ripped off by such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, who called it Pellucidar, and imagined that the Earth was hollow and there was another world on the inside surface. (You didn't ask, but yes, I own a copy of Tarzan at the Earth's Core with the original dust jacket.) In this version, Brendan Fraser stars as a geologist named Trevor, who defends the memory of his late brother, Max, who believed the center of the Earth could be reached through "volcanic tubes." Max disappeared on a mysterious expedition, which, if it involved volcanic tubes, should have been no surprise to him. Now Trevor has been asked to spend some time with his nephew, Max's son, who is named Sean (Josh Hutcherson). What with one thing and another, wouldn't you know they find themselves in Iceland, and peering down a volcanic tube. They are joined in this enterprise by Hannah (Anita Briem), who they find living in Max's former research headquarters near the volcano he was investigating. Now begins a series of adventures, in which the operative principle is: No matter how frequently or how far they fall, they will land without injury. They fall very frequently, and very far. The first drop lands them at the bottom of a deep cave, from which they cannot possibly climb, but they remain remarkably optimistic: "There must be a way out of here!" Sure enough, they find an abandoned mine shaft and climb aboard three cars of its miniature railway for a scene that will make you swear the filmmakers must have seen "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." Just like in that movie, they hurtle down the tracks at breakneck speeds; they're in three cars, on three more or less parallel tracks, leading you to wonder why three parallel tracks were constructed at great expense and bother, but just when such questions are forming, they have to (1) leap a chasm, (2) jump from one car to another, and (3) crash. It's a funny thing about that little railway: After all these years, it still has lamps hanging over the rails, and the electricity is still on. The problem of lighting an unlit world is solved in the next cave they enter, which is inhabited by cute little birds that glow in the dark. One of them makes friends with Sean, and leads them on to the big attraction -- a world bounded by a great interior sea. This world must be a terrible place to inhabit; it has man-eating and man-strangling plants, its waters harbor giant-fanged fish and fearsome sea snakes that eat them, and on the further shore is a Tyrannosaurus rex. So do the characters despair? Would you despair, if you were trapped miles below the surface in a cave and being chased by its hungry inhabitants? Of course not. There isn't a moment in the movie when anyone seems frightened, not even during a fall straight down for thousands of feet, during which they link hands like sky-divers and carry on a conversation. Trevor gets the ball rolling: "We're still falling!" I mentioned 3-D glasses earlier in the review. Yes, the movie is available in 3-D in "selected theaters." Select those theaters to avoid. With a few exceptions (such as the authentic IMAX process), 3-D remains underwhelming to me -- a distraction, a disappointment and more often than not offering a dingy picture. I guess setting your story inside the Earth is one way to explain why it always seems to need more lighting. The movie is being shown in 2-D in most theaters, and that's how I wish I had seen it. Since there's that part of me with a certain weakness for movies like this, it's possible I would have liked it more. It would have looked brighter and clearer, and the photography wouldn't have been cluttered up with all the leaping and gnashing of teeth. Then I could have appreciated the work of the plucky actors, who do a lot of things right in this movie, of which the most heroic is keeping a straight face. 1
小王子电影观后感英文版 本文为小王子电影观后感英文版范文，让我们通过以下的文章来了解。 Recently, I read a fairy story book, Little Prince. This book tells the adventurous experiences of little prince from his planet to the earth. Little prince comes from the outer space and he is hurt by a rose. So he leaves there and travels into space. He comes to the earth and be the friend of a fox. The fox tells his secret to little prince and he helps a pilot in the desert. In the end, he dies under the help of a snake and his soul goes back to his planet. This book is very interesting and teaches me a lot. I like little price adventures. He teaches me to be honest and love others. All of us should never loss the pureness of childhood. This is a fairytale whose distribution volume is only second to The Bible. It’s been translated to versions of many other languages. And I gather there must be something special, something really great about it. It’s this conviction that drove me to read it at the first beginning. Well, with due respect to the author, I failed to see how this fairytale be worthy
Seven(七宗罪)1995 David Fincher's classic tale of inventive serial killing and urban degredation, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman on excellent form Who'd have thought? An absurd-sounding tale of a serial killer basing his crimes around the seven deadly sins, directed by the man behind the mess that was Alien3, turning out to be one of the most chilling and original thrillers of the 1990s. From the outset, through the film's brilliantly designed deliberate under-lighting - we see very little blood and guts - and muffled sound, the audience is encouraged to lean towards the screen, immerse itself in the film's unbearably grim world. Pitt is in career-making form as Mills, a simple cop moving with his sweet young wife (Paltrow) to a grim, anonymous city, determined to make a difference, to do some good. He is assigned to track down a vengeful killer, and works alongside Somerset (Freeman), a jaded, wise policeman on the verge of retirement. The two are that modern movie cliché -the mismatched pair thrown together by circumstance, who gradually learn mutual respect. But Fincher and Walker take these hackneyed ingredients, play with them in the context of a brilliantly cohesive plot, and present something consistently fresh - the police finding themselves with too much evidence, the premature unmasking of the killer - and very, very dark. 1
英语电影英文观后感 《功夫熊猫》(《Kung Fu Panda》)的: Funny! I see this movie lastweek, So terrfic,this film make me loving Kung Fu! My liitle sister love the panda very much ,She ask me which kind annimal of Panda? I told her its one of the cutiest animal in the world ,it only lives in China. In this movie, Panda learns how to improve his level of Kung fu，many scence show that this cartoon is so funny, You can see how things goes on with laugh, I remend this film to you.! The film stars a panda named Po (voice of Jack Black), who is so fat he can barely get out of bed. He works for his father, Mr. Ping (James Hong) in a noodle shop, which features Ping's legendary Secret Ingredient. How Ping, apparently a stork or other billed member of the avian family, fathered a panda is a mystery, not least to Po, but then the movie is filled with
看英语电影观后感英文版 电影大家看过许多了，观后感大家也写过许多，那么偶尔看一 看写一写英语的观后感也是不错的。下面是的关于英语电影观后感， 希望对您有所帮助 ! Avatar is directed by James Cameron.The two main characters are Jake Sully,played by Sam Worthington,and Neytiri,played by Zoe Saldana. Clones named Avatars are sent to Pandora Pla to persuade people there to leave the pla so that human beings can exploit a rare mineral.Jake is sent there to control his Avatar.However,he es across Neytiri and they fall in love with each other.Jake begins to see that nature and the pla should be protected.At last he and the people there work together to defeat human beings and send them back to the earth. 3D technology and the beautiful natural scenery are the two highlights of the film.The message of the film is simple — human beings should protect nature and live in harmony with it. am honored today watched the United States ， 3D cartoon animated film The story is the old manCarl and his wife Eliza has always been thought of children in South America
外国电影观后感英文版3篇电影罗马假日英语观后感 he story is about a young princess （公主）（Hepburn）named Ann，making a goodwill （善意的）tour of Europe's capitals。She is tired of the responsibility （职责）and demands of the role she has been born in to and longs to experience the every day pleasures of an ordinary person。In Rome she finally rebels。Waiting until after everyone in the embassy （大使馆）where her party is staying has gone to sleep，she slips out a window and finds herself alone on the streets of Rome。 She is found by Joe Bradley （Peck），a hardened （坚毅的）and somewhat cynical （愤世嫉俗的）reporter，on his way home from a late night card game。Not knowing who she is but seeing that she has no place to stay he takes pity on her and invites her to his apartment for the night。In a ical （滑稽的）scene，he offers her a pair of his pajamas （睡衣）and points to the couch where she can sleep。Innocent （天真的）aristocrat （贵族）that she is，she asks for a nightgown and help undressing。Bradley helps her take off her tie and then leaves the room。When he returns a few minutes later he discovers her sound asleep on the bed，leaving him the couch （沙发）。 Leaving her sleeping the next morning，Bradley shows up late for work and tries to cover himself by saying that he had an interview （采访）with the princess。But his editor shows him a newspaper with her picture and headline stating that she was taken ill the night before and canceled all appointments （安排）for the day。Bradley immediately realizes who he has in his apartment and gets the editor to agree to pay $5，000 if he can get a real interview with the princess。On the way out Bradley contacts a photographer （摄影师）friend，Irving Radovich （Albert）and arranges for him to met him later with his camera for a big scoop。 Returning to his apartment，Bradley picks up the princess for their planned tour of the city。Bradley's real aim is to get the pictures and story he promised （答应）his editor。
Tess(苔丝)1979 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which Roman Polanski has turned into a lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate movie, might at first seem to be the wrong project for Mr. Polanski in every way. As a new biography of the director reports, when Tess was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the press pointed nastily and repeatedly to the coincidence of Mr. Polanski's having made a film about a young girl's seduction by an older man, while he himself faced criminal charges for a similar offense. This would certainly seem to cast a pall over the project. So would the fact that Hardy's novel is so very deeply rooted in English landscapes, geographical and sociological, while Mr. Polanski was brought up in Poland. Finally, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is so quintessentially Victorian a story that a believable version might seem well out of any contemporary director's reach. But if an elegant, plausible, affecting Tess sounds like more than might have been expected of Mr. Polanski, let's just say he has achieved the impossible. In fact, in the process of adapting his style to suit such a sweeping and vivid novel, he has achieved something very unlike his other work. Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean. In a preface to the later editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Mr. Hardy described the work as "an impression, not an argument." Mr. Polanski has taken a similar approach, removing the sting from both the story's morality and its melodrama. Tess Durbeyfield, the hearty country lass whose downfall begins when her father learns he had noble forebears, is sent to charm her rich D'Urberville relations. She learns that they aren't D'Urbervilles after all; instead, they have used their new money to purchase an old name. Tess charms them anyhow, so much that Alec D'Urberville, her imposter cousin, seduces and impregnates her. The seduction, like many of the film's key scenes, is presented in a manner both earthy and discreet. In this case, the action is set in a forest, where a gentle mist arises from the ground and envelops Tess just around the time when she is enveloped by Alec. Alec, as played by Leigh Lawson, is a slightly wooden character, unlike Angel Clare, Tess's later and truer lover, played with supreme radiance by Peter Firth. Long after Tess has borne and buried her illegitimate child, she finds and falls in love with this spirited soul mate. But when she marries Angel Clare and is at last ready to reveal the secret of her past, the story begins hurtling toward its final tragedy. When Tess becomes a murderer, the film offers its one distinctly Polanski-like moment—but even that scene has its fidelity to the novel. A housemaid listening at a door hears a "drip, drip, drip" sound, according to Hardy. Mr. Polanski has simply interpreted this with a typically mischievous flourish. Of all the unlikely strong points of Tess, which opens today for a weeklong engagement at the Baronet and which will reopen next year, the unlikeliest is Nastassja Kinski, who plays the title role. Miss Kinski powerfully resembles the young Ingrid Bergman, and she is altogether ravishing. But she's an odd choice for Tess: not quite vigorous enough, and maybe even too beautiful. She's an actress who can lose her magnetism and mystery if she's given a great deal to do (that was the case in an earlier film called Stay As You Are). But here, Mr. Polanski makes perfect use of her. Instead of a driving force, she becomes an echo of the land and the society around her, more passive than Hardy's Tess but linked just as unmistakably with natural forces. Miss Kinski's Tess has no inner life to speak of. But Mr. Polanski makes her surroundings so expressive that her placidity and reserve work very beautifully. Even at its nearly three-hour running time, Mr. Polanski's Tess cannot hope for anything approaching the range of the novel. But the deletions have been made wisely, and though the story loses some of its resonance it maintains its momentum. There are episodes—like one involving Tess's shabby boots and Mercy Chant, the more respectable girl who expects to marry Angel—that don't make the sense they should, and the action is fragmented at times. That's a small price to pay for the movie's essential rightness, for its congruence with the mood and manner of the novel. Mr. Polanski had to go to Normandy and rebuild Stonehenge to stage his last scene, according to this same biography. As is the case throughout his Tess, the results were worth the trouble. 1