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Unit One E.T. the Extraterrestrial
Part II Movie Reviews
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The movie "E.T the Extra-Terrestrial" made my heart glad. It is filled with innocence, hope, and good cheer. It is also wickedly funny and exciting as well. "E.T the Extra-Terrestrial" is a movie that you can grow up with and grow old with, and it won't let you down. It tells a story about friendship and love. Some people are a little baffled when they hear what it described: It's about a relationship between a little boy and a creature from outer space that becomes his best friend. It works as science fiction, it's sometimes as scary as a monster movie, and at the end, when the lights go up, there's not a dry eye in the house.
The movie's hero is one particular little boy named Elliott. He's natural, defiant, easily touched, conniving(纵容的), brave and childlike. A lot of those achievements rest on(依靠) the very peculiar (特殊的)shoulders of the E.T. itself. With its odd little walk, its high-pitched squeals（尖叫声）of surprise, its tentative imitations（模仿）of human speech, and its catlike but definitely alien purring, E.T. becomes one of the most intriguing fictional creatures I've ever seen on a screen. And one of the ways E.T. communicates is to share its emotions with Elliott. That's how Elliott knows that the E.T. wants to go home
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" is a reminder of what movies are for. Most movies are not for any one thing, of course. Some are to make us think, some to make us feel, some to take us away from our problems, some to help us examine them. What is enchanting about "E.T." is that, in some measure, it does all of those things.
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Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief. For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of people. It is a mystery that only science can solve, and yet the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting on this subject by the mainstream media holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to ridicule. On Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" takes a fresh look at the UFO phenomenon. "As a journalist," says Jennings, "I began this project with a healthy dose of skepticism and as open a mind as possible. After almost 150 interviews with scientists, investigators and with many of those who claim to have witnessed unidentified flying objects, there are important questions that have not been
completely answered — and a great deal not fully explained." "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs —Seeing Is Believing" airs Thursday, Feb. 24 from 8-10 p.m. ET on ABC. The program will be broadcast in High Definition. This two-hour primetime special reports on the entire scope of the UFO experience —from the first famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 to the present day. The program draws on interviews with police officers, pilots, military personnel, scientists and ordinary citizens who give extraordinary accounts of encounters with the unexplained. Also included are the voices of professional skeptics about UFOs, including scientists who are leading the search for life forms beyond Earth elsewhere in the universe.
Unit Two Scent of a woman
Part II Movie Reviews
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One of the most overall pleasing movies I've seen, Scent of a Woman wins on all levels--emotional and intellectual. Of course the primary reason it succeeds is Al Pacino, whose Oscar was well-deserved, needless to say. Chris O'Donnell doesn't overplay his part, and in doing so it is realistic and natural. The tango scene, the Ferrari scene, the pseudo-courtroom scene are excellent. Pacino is wholly believable, and although at first he seems overly(过度的)gruff and nasty, we grow to sympathize with him--especially when that twerp Randy insults him cutthroat-style at Thanksgiving. It's obvious that while Slade acts like he doesn't care, his repetitious "hoo-ha" response makes it obvious he does. My favorite line comes during the Ferrari scene (I was laughing so hard when the cop（警察）left, failing to realize Slade is blind.) As Slade careens down the street at 70 mph, Charlie yells, "You're going to get us killed!" Slade answers, "Can you blame me? I'm blind!" On that note, Pacino succeeds marvellously（不可思议的）in portraying（扮演）a blind man. We never doubt for a second that he does, in fact, live in total darkness. Yet others, like the cop, probably the spectators （观众）in the restaurant in the tango scene, don't realize it. Ironically（讽刺的）enough, Slade acts as though he doesn't want to be treated as the proverbial blind man who needs a cane and a guiding arm. However, in the final scene before his charismatic speech, he emerges with a never-before-seen pair of dark glasses, I wonder, was this to throw them off guard?
This movie is a modern classic. Some find it too long, but I enjoyed it every minute and didn't actually notice the two and a half hours has gone by. It‘s a wonderful film that I will recommend to all.
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Scent Of A Woman is an extremely different film from those we have ever seen in cinema before. It tells the story of a "town drunk" who is blind and also had a great service in the United States. Al Pacino plays the blind man and Chris O'Donnell plays the part of Charlie, who is hired to take care of Pacino for a weekend. I found this film humorous in some areas because of the way Pacino's character acts. Al Pacino has never played a character like this before and he executed the part very well! Pacino's eyes are always pointed in the opposite direction he would be looking as if he weren't blind, which is brilliant. Scent Of A Woman's mood and setting made this film enchanting in a sense. It took place in a white and gray sky Autumn mood during a Thanksgiving weekend. O'Donnell attends an Ivy League school and may or may not have witnessed a scheme that involved humiliating a teacher in front of many students. Pacino constructs a list of things he wants to do and at the bottom of the list is killing himself. Scent Of A Woman did well at the Academy Awards, FINALLY giving Al Pacino an Oscar. I was very thankful for the "Academy" awarding Pacino an Oscar, but he should have received one a long time ago for The Godfather, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Scarface, or Glengarry Glen Ross. Hopefully he will receive another one later on in his career. However, it did not recognize Chris O'Donnell for his fantastic acting in this film, which disappointed me very much. This movie is somewhat emotional as well. I would recommend that you rent this film during Thanksgiving or in the fall. Scent Of A Woman is a very unique, entertaining, wonderful film.
Unit Three Forrest Gump: A Movie of Humanity
Part II Movie Reviews
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The film Forrest Gump represents the ultimate American dream in a land of opportunity. It is a history lesson that takes the viewer from Alabama, where Forrest Gump, an improbable modern hero and idiot savant, was born, across America, and back again to the fishing village of Bayou La Batre on the Gulf coast. Governor George Wallace is once again seen standing in the schoolhouse door as he vows "segregation now, segregation forever"; Coach Paul "Bear"Bryant, the legendary University of Alabama football coach, recognizing how Forrest can run, makes him a Crimson Tide gridiron star. Eventually Forrest comes home again to his sweet home Alabama (represented also in song) and makes a fortune in a shrimping business. He had promised his "best good friend," Bubba, that he would go into business with him when the two boys returned from the war. But Bubba was killed and didn't return, so Gump gives half of the million dollars he makes to his friend's family in the small fishing village of Bayou La Batre.
Based upon the novel by Winston Groom, Eric Roth transformed the book into a screenplay that
grossed over $636 million dollars and also won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1994. The film affirms possibility and hope: no matter how grim things may seem, it is possible, as Gump says, "to put the past behind you and move on." He shows that a gimpy kid in leg braces can become a football hero, win a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in Vietnam, become a Ping Pong champion, crisscross America from sea to shining sea, and marry his childhood sweetheart, who bears him a son to carry on the father's good name.
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In addition to the Oscar for Best Film, Forrest Gump earned five more Academy Awards. Tom Hanks was voted Best Actor for his masterful portrayal of Gump, and Robert Zemeckis was awarded the Oscar for Best Director. The film also won awards for Film Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, and for Visual Effects. It is the masterful visual effects that enabled Forrest to shake the hand of President John F. Kennedy, have Lyndon B. Johnson place a Congressional Medal around his neck, meet Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, not to mention John Lennon, Dick Cavett, Bob Hope, Captain Kangaroo, and Chairman Mao. Elvis Presley, the King, even learns to swivel his hips by watching little crippled Forrest dance.
Although some critics are not enchanted with the fantastic Gump, the movie affirms the values that Americans hold dear. Forrest's mother exemplifies the ideals associated with motherhood. Over and over, Forrest repeats: "As my Mama always said," and his words reverberate almost as a refrain throughout the movie. "Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you," she tells her boy, even though he has an IQ of 75. Life, after all, is a box of chocolates. Even if "you never know what you're going to get," Forrest Gump gives people hope.
Unit Four Legally Blonde: A Movie of Inspiration
Part II Movie Reviews
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The comedy "Legally Blonde", starring an irrepressibl e Reese Witherspoon, is a new twist on the old adage, "Looks aren't everything".
Elle Woods is a super-blonde, super-rich, super-sorority girl from California. When she's dumped by her Harvard Law School-bound boyfriend Warner—because she's too blonde to be considered seriously as wife material: "If I'm going to be a Senator, I need to marry a Jackie, not a Marilyn." —she fights back, after a long cry, nail by manicured nail, first by following Warner to Harvard Law School, abandoning her major in fashion merchandising for something more substantial, then by
proving that just because you're blonde doesn't mean you're a joke.
Of course, we know that Elle will meet every challenge that she faces and wind up with both a legal career and Mr. Right — even if he's not the original one. But we still root for her all the way because she proves to be a decent and generous person under all the ridiculous surface frippery. Indeed, Ms. Witherspoon won me over right from the start, during Elle's last dinner date with Warner. As he indirectly leads up to his bombshell rejection, her face becomes a symphony of fast-changing expressions denoting agreement and obedience until she breaks down from the shock of Warner's bad news. It's an expertly acted piece of self-parody that never diminishe s her attractiveness.
The movie, however, is full of good humor. Based on the novel of the same name by Amanda Brown, "Legally Blonde" is a sassy satire that retains a message: believe in yourself and follow your dreams. Besides being funny, it's an ode to self-empowerment—especially girl power —and its target audience of young women everywhere will gobble it up like the latest glossy edition of Cosmopolitan magazine. (Based on the review by Paul Clinton, CNN Reviewer; Andrew Sarris, New York Observer)
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Elle isn't such an unlikely candidate for Harvard Law; she did, however, have a 4.0 average as an undergraduate majoring in fashion merchandising at the fictional CULA. Moreover, she also has a very impressive background as homecoming queen and sorority president, her signature color is pink, and she's appeared in a Ricky Martin music video. Who could ask for anything more? She's an emblem of diversity!
Naturally, she's accepted. Nothing will stop her now as she campaigns all over Harvard to win back her man. Call it blonde ambition.
"Legally Blonde" becomes a "blonde-out-of-water" story as her snobby fellow law students begin taking bets on how long she'll last. Meanwhile, she discovers that Warner isn't worth all the effort. Succeeding in law school becomes a personal goal, and not merely a means to win back her shallow boy toy. She's a bubbly blonde with brains. Her points of reference may not be Plato and Socrates, but she proves that knowledge about Clinique, Porsches and lip gloss also can come in handy in a classroom or a courtroom.
The supporting cast is a winning bunch. Selma Blair is excellent as Vivian Kensington, who has snagged Warner and is wearing his grandmother's six-carat Harry Winston diamond engagement ring on her "bony" finger.
Luke Wilson plays Emmett Richmond, a somewhat thankless role as a third-year law student who falls in love with the inner woman beneath Elle's golden locks.
First-time feature film director Robert Luketic is an Australian native who has been dedicated to becoming a film director since the age of 15. This debut project sees him well on his way.
Full of clichés and pop culture references, and peppered with trendy slang, "Legally Blonde" has
its roots deeply planted in the style of another hit teen comedy — basically, it's "Clueless" (1995) goes to college. Whatever. It's a formula that's well done with plenty of laughs. (Based on the review by Paul Clinton, CNN Reviewer)
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Unit Five A Beautiful Mind: A Movie of Courage
Part II Movie Reviews
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A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical film about John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Laureate (Economics) mathematician. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. Director Howard delivers his finest effort with this extraordinary movie, as his deftness in suggesting the subjective experience of the genius, who's later diagnosed with schizophrenia, makes for an inspirational narrative. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman cannily condenses Nash's story, and the movie manages to dramatize both Nash's mathematical brilliance and his severe psychotic disorder in a compellingly visual manner. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and Paul Bettany. The movie is a compelling look at one man's genius, his debilitating mental illness, and the fine line between the two.
Russell Crowe gets the chance to act his heart out in the movie. Not only does he portray the math genius who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he portrays such a math genius crippled by schizophrenia. And he ages 47 years!
The story begins in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton University, where he struggles to think of an original idea, and where in one of the movie's most gimmicky—and elegant—scenes he develops a theory that will revolutionize economics and mathematics. Nash is eccentric,socially awkward, and extremely competitive. Eventually, he finds the inspiration for his innovative and influential work on game theory. He‘s chosen for a post at MIT, which includes crucial code-breaking work for the US government. There, he meets a beautiful and brilliant student, Alicia (played by Jennifer Connelly). They marry but their happiness is threatened, as Nash descends into madness when he‘s diagnosed as schizophrenic, enduring paranoid and delusional episode s while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends. Crowe delivers a strong performance, and has real chemistry with Connelly. The two make the story about the power of love believable and moving.
The film opened in US cinemas on December 21, 2001. It was well received by critics, and went on to win four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. It was also nominated for Best Leading Actor, Best Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Score. The film has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of some aspects of Nash's life.
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Director Ron Howard has created a moving masterpiece, elegantly guiding the audience through John Forbes Nash Junior‘s life starting with Nash as an intense, introverted youth striving for that perfect original idea and ending with Nash as a passionate, patient elderly man battling against his inner demons.
Through Howard's skilled hand and via Russell Crowe's amazingly understated yet incredibly touching performance, Nash's achievements and flaws are exposed without portraying mental illness in a clichéd cinematic form. Crowe's Nash is an honest, disturbing look at the price paid by people who suffer from schizophrenia and the toll it takes on families and friends.
"A Beautiful Mind" lays out the story of mathematical genius John Nash as he enters Princeton, a bright student with a limitless future ahead of him. Obsessed with finding a way to prove he truly matters, he competes with the other students in Princeton's brutally competitive math department, all of whom are searching for one truly original idea. Inspiration strikes him while he's studying in a local bar surrounded by his classmates. As they vie for the attention of a stunning blonde, Nash observes their rivalry and, from that, develops his ―game theory‖. Nash's theory contradicts 150 years of accepted theory and earns him a coveted position at MIT where part of his duty is to teach a course to eager young minds.
Jennifer Connelly enters the film as one of those eager young minds, Alicia Larde. Alicia falls for the nervous, socially inept Nash, inviting him to dinner and starting a romance that breathes life into Nash's carefully ordered world. As Nash's mental condition unveils itself, worsening with time, Alicia is the one true thing in his world that remains steadfast and dependable.
Russell Crowe exquisitely captures Nash's passion for his wife, his work, and his unending hunger for excellence. Jennifer Connelly again proves she's a talented actress capable of conquering characters with depth and emotion. The brilliant supporting cast, including Ed Harris and Paul Bettany, perfectly create the fuzzy environment where Nash roams. Over the course of little more than two hours, director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman succeed in unfolding a beautiful story of love, despair, perseverance, compassion and pride the likes of which hasn't been seen on screen in many years.
"A Beautiful Mind" is easily one of the finest films of the year and deserves the Oscar buzz that surrounds it. The only real Oscar question is whether Crowe's winning last year will negate a nod this year or will the Academy reward what is clearly the best performance of the year with the golden statue it truly deserves. (By Rebecca Murray)
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Unit Six School of Rock
Part II Movie Reviews
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A quick glance at the story or trailer tells you that School of Rock is probably the cheesiest excuse for a movie in ages, but if you thought that was a good reason to avoid it you'd be wrong. Jack Black plays the slightly past-it rocker, stuck in a groove of 70s heavy metal rock and roll and refusing to move on – until his (more up to date) band fire him. Struggling to pay the rent, he takes a phone call intended for his schoolteacher flatmate and accepts a job as supply teacher at a top school. Soon he has the kids not only studying the history of rock and roll, soundproofing the room and playing rock instruments, but actu ally competing in a major ?Battle of the Bands' competition.
Unbelievable? Yes. What's more unbelievable is that somehow the whole thing works – Jack Black's over-the-top enthusiasm for his subject is contagious, the edge-of-disaster suspense is continued throughout the length of the movie, and by the end the audience is so desperate to see how the kids (who all play their own instruments by the way) perform in the concert in which seat wetting would probably go unnoticed. Joan Cusack, as the gobsmacked headmistress, delivers a performance that is worth the price of your cinema ticket in itself. Achieving such tears-down-the cheeks laughter and excitement for air guitar music is nothing short of miraculous.
School of Rock is a movie that promises entertainment and it delivers. Everything is as it says on the packet. For sheer feel-good factor, this movie is unbeatable– and you can even take the kids!
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What can I say? I'm a rockaholic. I eat, breath, and dream of classic rock and it's glory days. I listen to only rock radios, and every other morning I go on an AC/DC Binge. Rock is pure, and beautiful. Unfortunately, it's not the only music out there. Pop culture today sucks, putting it nicely. All that stuff out there is ruining the minds of people of today. For a little while it seems rock has disappeared, hiding underneath everything else, being disregarded by fans today.
Then 'School of Rock' came along. Dewey Finn (played by Jack Black) is a bum who gets himself kicked out of his own band because of his unruly antics. To top this off, his substitute teacher roommate Ned and Ned's girlfriend Patti begin to nag Dewey for rent money. Dewey can't pay it off. After spending some time trying to sell his personal belongings, a phone call from a prestigious prep
school looking for a substitute teacher catches Dewey's attention and he parades around as Ned, hoping to just walk in, let the kids do what they want, get some money, and be gone like nothing ever happened. Until he finds out that the class of fifth graders he has been assigned to teach are musically and vocally talented. This sparks an idea off in Dewey's mind, thinking that he can turn his group of fifth graders into a rock group so that he can win 20,000 dollars in a contest called 'The Battle of the Bands'. This is a wonderful, classic-rock fueled movie. Jack Black is hysterical as Dewey Finn. The children are all talented, particularly the ones on instruments and vocals.
If you want to love rock music, go watch this movie. If not, then you'll have missed out on something great.
Unit Seven Matchstick men
Part II Movie Reviews
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The little problem that 'Matchstick Men' has is that there is not a real highpoint in the movie if the ending wasn't there. I think the movie starts as a very good movie. Roy Waller and Frank Mercer are con artists and the movie opens with showing how they collect some money. It is not as great as how George Clooney does it in 'Out of Sight' but it's a lot of fun. After this the movie shows who Roy is, a guy with all kind of weird things. Spasms, panic attacks, compulsive behavior. He wants things clean, he wants things a certain way, or he becomes a little crazy. He has pills for these things but he loses them and this is how he meets Dr. Klein, a psychiatrist.
Because of him Roy learns he has a 14-year old daughter Angela, who was actually 24. He wants to care for her, spend time with her, and even reveals what he really is. In a great scene she shows her father and us how she would be if she had the same job as Roy. Roy and Frank have a big job planned where they would collect 80,000 dollars from a guy named Frechette. In a way they are taking money but Roy looks at it differently. He thinks, and he is actually right, that they just give it to him. Because it is all illegal they can't complain after they are cheated.
How these three big stories fit in one you have to see for yourself. The middle part is a little slow, but the ending makes up for that. All characters are played very well and Nicolas Cage is great. Ridley Scott has made another fine movie.
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I just rent this movie from video store, watched it couple weeks ago, and I would have to say this is
one of my favorite movies. It has its own atmosphere, pace and nice background music. I enjoyed it very much and would like to recommend you check it out!!! Both Cage and Lohman's acting are great, especially it was quit amazing when I found out Lohman was actually 22 when this movie was filming. She really looks like 14! Cage created a really strange, weird but still cool con man.
One of my favorite scenes in this movie is the one where Roy teaches Angela how to con. He is a con man(well, he more would like to call himself 'a con artist'), but is also a 14 years daughter's father now. He teaches her con and is also trying to teach her 'moral' at the same time. This is kind of contradiction and strange, but is interesting way of showing the relationship between them, too. I like that very much.
The point of this movie I think is who is 'the vest con artist'. Some are saying this movie is predictable and the ending was not so good, but it was completely unpredictable to me and I really enjoyed it from start to end. I was completely deceived by the movie itself. well, I shouldn't give you them all. Please check it for your self and enjoy it!
Unit Eight Mona Lisa Smile
Part II Movie Reviews
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MONA LISA SMILE is a painting of the American society after war. More than that, it shows in a quite brilliant way, though not to heavy, what women's lives were supposed to become after their college graduation. The movie begins with Katherine Ann Watson, a young Art History Instructor, who arrives at Wellesley College for the new Academic Year of 1953/1954. As is said in the movie, she is not coming to "fit in" but rather to make a difference with the brightest women of America. Wellesley College is a very conservative school where Katherine will have to face disappointment toward the school itself, the law of Massachusset, and also her own students. Through this movie, we lightly follow the stories of Betty Warren, Joan Brandwyn, Gisele Levy and Connie Baker. At Wellesley, these young women are learning how to become good housewives, and how to give up on their dreams.
When Katherine arrives, she is seeking for open minded women, who through Art History should be able to start thinking by themselves outside the conventional way. Unfortunately, Katherine is dealing with a wall. So Katherine will get reactions from her students. Some will be bad reactions, especially when Betty publishes her editorial about Katherine and her way of thinking. Some will be good and will guide the characters to hope and sometimes to happy endings.
This movie opens a lot of interesting discussions, you just have to be open minded to see beyond it ... I really like Mona Lisa Smile in its simplicity and this is the reason why I will see it many other times.
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I admit the primary reason I saw this movie was because of the talents involved. Director Mike Newell's next project is to be Harry Potter; Kirsten Dunst's profile just keeps rising these days as one Spiderman movie follows another; and Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal are always great. Oh yeah, and Julia Roberts is there too.
What surprised me was how much I enjoyed it. A lot of it probably comes from the period setting, where even if you get bored with the story, at least the art department can always throw in a few antique cars, TVs, outfits, etc. to keep your interest. But there's also a very genuine appeal that comes from the characters. The screenplay treats them all well, and the performances the actresses give are uniformly excellent.
Some criticisms directed against this film are that in the whole class there only appear to be three or four students of any consequences, and the rest are just scenery. Or that Julia Roberts's performance is too withdrawn for what the script tries to make her out to be. As to the first of these: I'm in first-year university right now, and I can say from personal experience that in any class there's always a small number of students that are the vocal, proactive ones, and the rest just take notes and occasionally say something. And as to Julia Roberts, if I'd had more teachers like her character throughout high school, I'd have much fonder memories of it. Her performance is spot-on, enlightened without being obvious. And I've heard the end called saccharine. I'll allow that it's sweet, as sweet as possible, even, but not saccharine. It tries to be touching and thought-provoking, and it succeeds. After this school drama, I'm eager to see what Newell can do with Hogwarts.
Unit Nine Big Fish: A Movie of Fairy-tales
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Big Fish is based on the Daniel Wallace novel "Big Fish, A Story of Mythic Proportions" and was adapted for the big screen by John August. The fish of the title refers not only to all of those tales about "the fish that got away," but also Edward's desire for adventure and his determination to explore the world, not to be a big fish in a small pond. His stories are also extremely "fishy" -- and, like a fish, Edward can be very slippery when he wants to be. On the surface, this is a wonderful tale beautifully caught on film by director of photography Philippe Rousselot, who won an Oscar for his work on 1993's A River Runs Through I t. His cinematography, combined with Burton's exquisite imagination, helps this film sweep you -- visually and emotionally -- into an alternate universe. But dig deeper and "Big Fish" is also a compelling look at the relationships between fathers and sons, and the child coming to terms with the parent's mortality.
Some will likely compare this film to Forrest Gump, and it's easy to see why. Both Gump and Fish are about young southern boys who have extraordinary lives, full of strange coincidences, surreal situations, and uniquely bizarre characters. However, Big Fi sh covers entirely different thematic ground than Forrest Gump, lending a more cynical eye to the tale, questioning whether a man could truly have a fairy tale life, or if fantastic stories are merely invented to make life seem more meaningful.
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Big Fish, a surreal story about tall tales, hooked moviegoers this weekend to become the new king of the box office, toppling the three-week reign of Oscar favorite The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.With the thinnest of margins, Fish grossed $14.5 million for the weekend and brought its five-week total to $24.1 million, according to early estimates by Nielsen EDI. Runner-up Rings pulled in $14.1 million for a four-week total of $312.2 million. The weekend figures are so close that the two films could swap spots when final figures are released today. Toppling the King surprised Jeff Blake, vice chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which released Fish. The studio had expected the Tim Burton-directed Fish to catch $10 million to $12 million. Fish expanded from 125 to 2,406 screens on Friday, averaging a strong $6,026 per screen. Rings, on 3,532 screens, averaged $3,999 per screen. "It really amazes us that people have connected with Fish in an emotional way," Blake says. "It's not an easy film to sell," says Gitesh Pandya, editor of https://www.doczj.com/doc/357062521.html,. "Sony did the right thing by playing in limited markets first, generating good reviews and good word of mouth, so by the time it went national this weekend, people had heard of the film. Four Golden Globe nominations helped, too."
Unit Ten The Year of the Yao: A Movie of Sportsmanship
Part II Movie Reviews
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"The Year of the Yao," a film about the first NBA season of 76?-foot-tall Chinese center Yao Ming, has a story that seems almost ideal for a big Hollywood blockbuster: A mountainously tall, movie-star handsome, highly personable Chinese guy, drafted by the NBA, comes to Texas to play for a major pro team (the Houston Rockets), bonds with his coach and teammates and especially with his voluble American interpreter, survives early difficulties to become a star and carries his team to the playoffs. Then, with a last-second basket, he wins them the championship.
Corny as it may sound though, it's all true, except, of course, for that mythical movie last-second championship bit. It has been fashioned by directors James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo into a documentary that should be a natural for NBA fans and please non-enthusiasts as well. The reason: Yao's unusually attractive personality. In a league taking a lot of hits for some players' dour, ego-drenched attitudes, Yao has a natural charm and camera magnetism we might call "down home" if he wasn't born in Shanghai. He's also the trimmest-looking 310-pounder around, and, in the movie, he has a natural foil in his fast-talking, nervous interpreter Colin Pine, a Baltimore native who lived several years in Taiwan.
The inside look at the Houston Rockets, including coach Rudy Tomjanovich and star players Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley (all since departed) is interesting too-as are Yao's court duels with the equally personable Shaquille O'Neal, who's perhaps a little miffed that his likable-big-guy franchise is being invaded. If the movie did become a Hollywood pipe dream, Paul Giamatti would be perfect as Colin. But no one else should, or could, play Shaq and Yao. (By Michael Wilmington)
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You don't see modern sports documentaries in theaters very often -- ESPN is more the realm for that sort of thing -- but the fact that "The Year of the Yao" was picked up by Fine Line Features and distributed is a testament to the unique personality that is Yao Ming, who stands 7 feet 6 and is the most popular person in China (a recent poll ranked him ahead of actress Zhang Ziyi, the No. 2 vote-getter).
Because it is produced by NBA Entertainment, it is obviously a positive look at Yao's challenges as he tries to adjust to American life -- cities, food and attitudes -- as well as his teammates and the NBA style of play. But directors James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo avoid the puff-piece pitfall and do create a surprisingly layered portrait of a rookie with the hopes of a nation -- a big nation -- riding on his shoulders, and the frustrations and small victories that entails.
The unexpected pleasure of this movie is the friendship that develops between Yao and his translator, Colin Pine, who bond through an endless travel, media blitzes, personal appearances and game-time pressure. Pine had lived in Taiwan for three years but was headed to law school for lack of anything better do when the job opportunity arose.
There are some priceless scenes, such as Yao walking down a street in Beijing, towering above the masses; Yao shopping for video games in a Best Buy; and Yao developing a rapport with his mostly black teammates, who had different upbringings from Yao but share the sense of being on the outside of mainstream American culture.
It's true that "Year of the Yao" would seem better suited to a television screen than a movie screen, but it's a fun ride that slickly packs a season's worth of emotions into 89 minutes. It's so much more than a highlight reel. (by G. Allen Johnson)
Unit Eleven The Devil wears Prada
Part II Movie Reviews
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In New York, Andrea Sachs, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism, is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behavior and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices.
"The Devil Wears Prada" is a sort of dramatic comedy, with magnificent performances and a great final message. Meryl Streep is fabulous as usual in the role of a cruel bitch; Anne Hathaway is excellent and doing very well in performing the naive and sweet Andrea, a girl who sells her soul to the devil, but returns to her origins and principle; and Emily Blunt is also great, in the role of the caustic and jealous colleague of Andrea. The elegant and sophisticated locations in Paris and New York are nice, and the music score presents many hits. The story is never corny and that‘s probably the most important reason I liked this movie.
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I had been told that Merryl Streep is great in this movie but the movie isn't really very good, so I went in with very low expectations. Maybe that was good: It turned out that I really liked "The Devil Wears Prada" a lot.
Probably I liked it because of two things I had in common with Andy: first, I have had the experience of starting a new job with only the vaguest idea of what I was supposed to do and how to do it and finding that everyone expected me to perform competently, without any training or help, right away. Second, I have had a female boss who was so difficult to please and so willing to tell her underlings how stupid they were that several had to quit without even waiting until they could find other jobs. In other words, I could really understand Andy's situation. Things like that actually do happen in the real world. Perhaps, that is the reason that I was possibly the only person in the theater who was hoping Andy would not make the choice she made.
It would have been very easy to create Miranda as a monster, but, wisely and skillfully, Merryl Streep allowed her to have a dignity and intelligence that made her seem to be demanding but not sadistic.
"The Devil Wears Prada" is a very funny movie that is not as far divorced from the real world as, I believe, the producers of this movie may have thought.
Unit Twelve Little Miss Sunshine: A Movie of Dreams
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The family that pops Prozac together stays together, perhaps, but the family that piles into an old V olkswagen bus the color of a banana surely has more entertainment value. That at least seems true of the happily unhappy relations at the center of the bittersweet comedy of dysfunction ―Little Miss Sunshine,‖ a tale about genuine faith and manufactured glory that unwinds in the American Southwest, but more rightly takes place at the terminus of the American dream, where families are one bad break away from bankruptcy. It dabbles in such sensitive subjects as homosexuality, suicide, child beauty pageants, drug abuse among the elderly, and Proust scholarship. It looks at the all-American obsession with winning and chortles darkly, but you still come out of the movie wanting to give your family a hug.
Written by the newcomer Michael Arndt, and directed by the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, ―Little Miss Sunshine‖ relates the story of the Hoovers, who have erroneous views corrected by experience the hard way. Over the course of three harrowing days on a road trip, reluctantly embarked on so that their daughter may compete in a children‘s beauty pageant, the Hoovers come face to face with the cruel limits of their dreams, opportunities and possibilities. One by one they fail, despite their best efforts, their sincere desire to succeed and their many merits as people. In this way, the rambunctiously modest and unassuming comedy, which was acquired by Fox Searchlight at Sundance for a record $10.5 million, is as ambitious, honest and subversive as any American movie since ―Election.‖
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The off-kilter comedy is the staple of American independent film, and in recent years they've been more popular than ever before. The best match their weird laughs with genuine humanity, finding sense in chaos and serving up something to make us think as well as something to make us chuckle. Little Miss Sunshine is one of those films. Always funny - sometimes uncomfortably so - but with such optimism and love that it'll raise the spirits of all who take the journey with its characters.
The movie has other attractive aspects. For one thing, it's a hit: made for just $8 million, the film has earned nearly $60 million at the domestic box office and another $31.6 million abroad. For another, Sunshine boasts a strong mix of American actors. Two of the Sunshiners — Alan Arkin, 72, and Abigail Breslin, 10 —were nominated for Supporting Oscars. Character comedy is an actors' domain and Little Miss Sunshine's offbeat script is nothing without an ensemble who give themselves
over in its service. Its biggest names, Kinnear, Collette, Arkin and Carell, succeed by ditching the baggage they bring to the screen and working in service of the family unit at the film's heart. Kinnear is the distracted dad, Collette is the caring mum, Arkin the foul-mouthed grandfather and Carell is the suicidal Proust scholar. So completely do they understand and connect with their characters that nothing else intrudes, and the same is true of young actors Paul Dano and Abigail Breslin. Quite simply, we've not seen an ensemble this committed and perfect in years. Little Miss Sunshine is a gem of a film, both uplifting and funny. Look for it in cinemas and atop Best of 2006 lists from critics the world over.
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D re am in th e fo rm er,gr owt h in t he po st -Z oo to pia PART1：This is a great family film that everyone needs to watch because of all the teaching moments within the film. Let me phrase that: the entire movie is a teaching moment. Zootopia is a film that is all about inclusion, about putting away the stereotypes and prejudices aside to live in a better society and how negative they are, how much they blind someone to see something but hatred and anger. Dickens said it was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.In "zootopia", animals are also experiencing the best and worst of times.Their city has been modernized. They have been separated from the savage state, there is no carnivores and herbivores of chasing and killing.Courts, police, shops and all kinds of advertisements make up the the world.But the world is not perfect,and there is a variety of injustice and discrimination,while full of civilization and order.Fortunately,there are still dare to challenge the courage of the unfair. A modern urban animals, each animal in here have their own homes, Plaza Sahara desert climate, year-round cold glacier town and so on, it is like a big melting pot, the animals here Peaceful Coexistence -- whether it was an elephant or a little mouse, as long as you work hard can break some tricks. Rabbit Judy grew up on the dream can become animal city police, despite all the people around feel rabbit impossible when the police, but she still through their own efforts, among the to the whole is bigger animal town police station, became the first officer for rabbits. In order to prove himself, she decided to solve a mystery case. Follow the truth on the road, Judy forced in animal town to swindling fox Nick to help himself, but found behind the pile cases hidden an intended to subvert the huge conspiracy Town animal, and Judy and Nick is in jeopardy of investigative process become a good partner. PART2：The story is just amazing as it follows Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) a small town bunny who wants to be a part of the big leagues as an officer with all the other large big animals that work together to solve crime in the big city. But she's a bunny, what the heck can a bunny do as a crime? It's a stereotype the resonates so strongly with the audience, with anyone who was thought of as being too weak to do what the "big boys" do. Judy is breaking those
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
曾经和ing《经典英文电影赏析》由10个章节组成。每一章节包括电影背景、故事简介、主要演员阵容及导演介绍、精彩部分节选、对影片的评论及注释五大部分。相信许多读者会在观赏优美电影或阅读《经典英文电影赏析》的过程中重温自己过去的电影体验，获得新的感悟和理解。 英汉对照是《经典英文电影赏析》的一大特点。《经典英文电影赏析》既有英文原文，也提供了中文翻译，有助于英语爱好者能更好地理解书中的内容。同时，《经典英文电影赏析》还提供了注释，为读者的自学提供了参考。 ·查看全部>> 前言 在“信息爆炸”的今天，随着国际文化交流的不断深入和推进，英语作为世界通行语的优势越来越显示出她的“英语帝国”风貌。一方面中国正逐步地同世界接轨，日益频繁的国际交往，使国家和社会对大学生的英语综合应用能力尤其是听说技能提出了更高的要求。另一方面，目前全国大学英语教学改革正在各高校尝试并推广，基于计算机／网络+课堂教学的教学模式日渐普遍。 教育部2007年颁布了《大学英语课程教学要求》。为贯彻其原则和方针，遵循其提出的“加强听说能力，提倡自主型的个性化学习”要求，大学英语教学课时数在一定程度上进行了缩减，包括听力课课时。而全国大学英语四、六级考试在这一改革的背景下进行了很大程度的调整，加强了应用能力的考查，听力所占的比例也由原来的20％提高到了35％。大学英语教学也面临着新的挑战。 因此，如何在学时减少、对听说能力要求提高的情况下，加强对学生学习能力的训练，培养学生自主学习的新模式，也是大学教师应该探讨的新问题。 电影一直以来就是人类漫漫旅途中的精神伴侣。在电影中，人们可以获得心灵的安慰，得到情感的滋润，寻求生活的力量，体验人生的快乐。而英语电影不仅能把学习者带入到一个非常好的语境中培养语感，而且有利于学生熟悉国外的社会、文化、生活方式以及异国风情，为他们了解西方提供了一种影像解读的窗口。中国著名英语语言学教育专家刘润清曾说过，“电影是社会文化的浓缩，看一部电影胜似在国外生活一天”。 借此我们编写了《经典英文电影赏析》这部书。在对近几年英美国家上演的大片精挑细选的基础上，我们选择了既适合英语学习，又集知识性、趣味性、观赏性、时尚性、体验性为一体的10部电影。目的是通过提供真实的英语语言环境，让英语学习者和爱好者能直接了解英美人的思维方式、文化和生活习俗，锻炼和提高英语视、听、说、读、写、译的综合应用能力。这10部电影涉及不同的类型：爱情片、励志片、喜剧片、动作片、友情片、动画片等。
第一篇：100部英文电影 100 部超级好看的英文电影 1,魔法灰姑娘〔超级推荐〕（安妮海瑟薇主演） 2,贱女孩〔超级推荐〕（林赛罗汉主演） 3,灰姑娘的玻璃手机〔超级推荐〕 4,美人鱼〔超级推荐〕（里面音乐也很好听） 5,舞出我人生〔超级推荐〕（励志的！刚出了第二部） 6,录取通知书 7,水瓶座女孩 8,倒霉爱神（林赛罗汉主演） 9,儿女一箩筐 10,冰雪公主〔超级推荐〕 11,我的朋友是明星〔超级推荐〕 12,辣妈辣妹〔超级推荐〕（林赛罗汉主演） 13,物质女孩〔超级推荐〕 14,疯狂金龟车（林赛罗汉主演） 15,平民天后〔超级推荐〕 16,公主日记(不用说勒)〔超级推荐〕（还有第二部哟！） 17,歌舞青春〔超级推荐〕[很热的电影！（ⅰ和ⅱ都喜欢） 18,律政俏佳人 19,麻辣宝贝〔超级推荐〕 20,恋爱刺客 21,美少女啦啦队〔超级推荐〕 22,12月男孩〔超级推荐〕（哈利波特演的哟）
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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
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
功夫熊猫 Or the dream factory has always been the high standard, the screen exquisite detail, vivid characters vivid, touching story twists and turns, the most important thing is it in the most simple and easy to understand that the way of a token, that is - there is no shortcut to the world and Cheats, the only winning Famen is believe in themselves.? 这个杀手不太冷 This film was absolutely amazing. I have spent hours re-watching various scenes and noticing all the perfection with which they are acted and directed. It's not the violence or action sequences that make this movie so great (although they are well done...), but rather moments like where Mathilda knocks on Leon's door. It would be so easy to just film the door opening, but instead we see light illuminating Natalie Portman's face, symbolizing something angelic. And the moment has so much more meaning.? I know a lot of people who have seen this film because they are action fans. I'm not. But I'm glad I finally found it, because it's a wonderful film in so many other ways. 哈利波特 Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter, together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his best friends. The central story arc concerns Harry's struggle against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents in his quest to conquer the wizarding world, after which he seeks to subjugate the Muggle (non-magical) world to his rule. 动画喜剧海底总动员 Somewhere, under the sea, weak-finned clown fish Nemo (Alexander Gould) lives with his fretful father, Marlin (Albert Brooks). Smothered by pop's paranoia, he ventures away from the reef, but his dad's dread is justified when a passing diver whisks him away.? Taken to a tank in a Sydney dentists, Nemo meets Gill (Willem Dafoe) and co - friendly fish who dream of escaping to the ocean. Meanwhile, Marlin bumps into a blue tang named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), and sets out to save his son...? The splendour of natural history hit The Blue Planet is matched by the wit of the script and stars. Barry Humphries has a terrific cameo as a great white shark who's sworn off killing (Remember, fish are friends, not food!), while DeGeneres provides perfect timing and tone as Dory, whose short-term memory loss is a gag that never stops running? 世界末日 There are so many amazing things in the world.这个世界上有太多不可思议的事情.If tomorrow is the end of the world,what can we do?如果明天是世界末日,我们可以做什么?So now,i think we should keep smile everyday.所以现在,我觉得我们应该每天都微笑.After i finish the movie of "2012The end of the world",I feel very upset about that.我看完“2012世界末日”这电影之后,我感到很悲伤.When I saw the people die in the movie,I thought about if this event will happen to us,will we die very helpless?当我看到人类在这个电影里死了,我想到了如果这件事情发生在我们身上,我们会死得很无助吗?If we have to die,I'll choose the one happy ending,like we
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
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