Ghost（人鬼情未了）1990
Heaven can wait for Patrick Swayze in this supernatural love story starring Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg
An unlikely, though ultimately impressive, attempt to make a supernatural romantic drama in the vein of 1947's The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, Ghost is a genre-bending blockbuster that turns mawkish sentiment into real emotional involvement through the skilled direction of Jerry Zucker, a filmmaker better known for Airplane! and The Naked Gun series.
Swayze plays Sam Wheat, a merchant banker who's murdered in a street robbery and Moore is Molly Jensen, his grieving widow, left alone with her memories of their pottery table romps to the tune of 'Unchained Melody'. Yet there's a twist: Sam may be dead, but he's stayed on earth as a spirit in order to spend a few more moments with his beloved. Throw in a conspiracy plot, plenty of ectoplasmic special effects and an over-the-top Whoopi Goldberg and the result is a crowd-pleasing supernatural romance guaranteed to keep the interest of even the most blithe spirit.
Admittedly, Swayze and Moore's performances are far too wet to actually be considered anything more than barely competent (good looks were obviously more important than talent in casting the lead couple), but with a script and supporting cast this good, it doesn't really matter. High points include Swayze's subway train lesson in manifesting himself in the real world, the scene in which the film's villains are dragged down to hell and every moment of Goldberg's amateur psychic shtick.
Verdict
A perfect balance of laughs and tears, a sparklingly funny script and a clever fantasy about ghostly goings on make this a superior blockbuster romance.
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《人鬼情未了》观后感 《人鬼情未了》观后感 认真看完一部作品以后，一定有很多值得分享的心得吧，这时我们很有必要写一篇观后感了。你想知道观后感怎么写吗？下面是为大家收集的《人鬼情未了》观后感，欢迎大家借鉴与参考，希望对大家有所帮助。 关于爱情的故事我们已经传唱太多了，可是其中的爱情还是让我们有一种耳目一新的感觉。 故事情节其实是很简单的，维森被好友杀害后，他的魂灵在暗中帮助慕丽摆脱了仇人的追杀，并终于使杀人凶手得到了应有的报应。很常见的一个涉及人鬼的故事，只因为添加了爱情这味调味剂，故事就免于落俗了。 老式的留声机，昏暗的暖色调的灯光，缓缓转动的泥坯，《人鬼情未了》的乐声徐徐响起，把一切带入一个美妙的境界里。“闭上眼，感受细泥在指间滑过的那种感觉，”慕丽对森这样说。就好像杰克对露丝说：“闭上眼，让我带你飞翔。”氛围极美，优美的氛围，常常使人也变得优美。古人说：“景乃诗之媒。”而经典的爱情，本身就是一首值得仔细品味的诗。 爱情到底是什么呢？是天空中飘过的云朵？还是涨潮在沙滩上孤苦无依的贝壳？
或许爱情是一种亲身的体验，需要两个人的真切付出和感悟，它是一种任谁都说不出的感觉，100对恋人沐浴在爱情中就说得出100种感觉：有浪漫的，有痴缠的，有绚丽的，有伤感的，有隽永淡雅的，也有人鬼殊途的……世事沧桑，人潮汹涌，相信爱情的人已是越来越少，乏味庸常的现实生活和多姿多彩的银幕爱情使爱情的信仰者常常不得不面对一个悖论：橘红的`温暖和粉色的浪漫只存在于虚幻的光影世界中，越多的美丽色泽和感人画面，越反衬出这种爱的虚拟性质，即便不虚伪，起码也遥不可及；如果身边有爱，那绝不是电影中的样子，在大多数情形下，它呈现的是电影不愿表现的苍白和平庸。 然而，看过电影《人鬼情未了》后，你还是这样认为吗？还记得影片的结尾处吗？当萨姆的灵魂即将升天时，他的原形显现了，“萨姆！“莫莉含泪呼唤着她的爱人，现在她能够如此真切地看见萨姆了。这是上天的、美意，是他们生死不渝的爱情感动了上天。萨姆深情地亲吻着莫莉，现在的他不再怯于表白自己的爱了，他终于说出了“我爱你“，然后他的肉体毁灭，灵魂飞升，升入一片光体之中…… 从自然界的角度来说，刹那的光辉是不能够代表永恒的。然而在寂静的夜晚，在风尘仆仆的望不断的天涯路上，在心灵深处发出的震颤，刹那间便成为了永恒。 人鬼情未了，既然人是有灵魂的，那么生生世世的守候，就成为爱人们誓言的延续，人鬼恋情，灵魂之约，那一刻，即使阴阳相隔，缠绵的爱情依然无法阻断。
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
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Titanic, "not only because it is a successful commercial film and, more importantly, it brought about the end of the century a wave of nostalgia: the Titanic sank in the early 20th century is a tragedy, the film has to The facts add up the true love story, set sail Tai Tanni will be less than 5 days of love, friendship and a disaster at the end of the century before this generation, it told us a truth: that we must cherish life. Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it -- from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie. In each of his previous outings, Cameron has pushed the special effects envelope. In Aliens, he cloned H.R. Giger's creation dozens of times, fashioning an army of nightmarish monsters. In The Abyss, he took us deep under the sea to greet a band of benevolent space travelers. In T2, he introduced the morphing terminator (perfecting an effects process that was pioneered in The Abyss). And in True Lies, he used digital technology to choreograph an in-air battle. Now, in Titanic, Cameron's flawless re-creation of the legendary ship has blurred the line between reality and illusion to such a degree that we can't be sure what's real and what isn't. To make this movie, it's as if Cameron built an all-new Titanic, let it sail, then sunk it. Of course, special effects alone don't make for a successful film, and Titanic would have been nothing more than an expensive piece of eye candy without a gripping story featuring interesting characters. In his previous outings, Cameron has always placed people above the technological marvels that surround them. Unlike film makers such as Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, Cameron has used visual effects to serve his plot, not the other way around. That hasn't changed with Titanic. The picture's spectacle is the ship's sinking, but its core is the affair between a pair of mismatched, star-crossed lovers. Titanic is a romance, an adventure, and a thriller all rolled into one. It contains moments of exuberance, humor, pathos, and tragedy. In their own way, the characters are all larger-than- life, but they're human enough (with all of the attendant frailties) to capture our
《人鬼情未了》观后感 导语：爱情永远是人类热衷谈论的话题，自古以来有多少痴男怨女缔造了多少轰轰烈烈的爱情故事，本文是品才网小编精心编辑的，希望能帮助到你！ 《人鬼情未了》观后感黛米·摩尔，这个女人有一种可以先入为主的霸道和魔力。这样说的原因当然是，影片伊始，女主角的形象就明显地先于任何人，跃然脑海中。我也不知道自己究竟应该怎样描述这样的一个女人，瘦瘦小小的身材，也算得上玲珑有致——尽管，那姣好的身材却被深藏在宽大的灰色男士衬衫里；明明有张天使的脸孔，却将头发剪的仿佛一个逃学书童，俏皮的齐刘海下一双典型西方人的眼睛，深邃又多情。 她就是带着这样一个有些惊人耳目，还有些矛盾的外表，出现在镜头里的。 我想，当她一出场，我就毫无疑问地喜欢上她了。而剧情的发展显然是非常的顺应我意，这样一个特别又迷人的女人是位艺术家，当镜头开始在房间中旋转，莫莉的双手从湿润的陶土上温柔的抚过，身后的唱片机流淌出缱绻缠绵的音乐。我不是男人，却也忍不住为那一刻的莫莉疯狂了，而疯狂过后细细想来，关于这部影片最初的期待就发生了变化，最初以为影片不过是一对恩爱小夫妻人鬼殊途之后再续前
缘的爱情哀歌，而莫莉的出场改变了这一切，试想，一场爱情中有了这样一个女人，她俏皮又不失成熟，随意又不减美丽，她不说话的时候优雅的像天鹅，一笑起来却又如婴孩般纯净无暇，有了这样一个女人，再平凡的爱情也注定了会不平凡，不是吗？ 整个影片中最广为流传和赞颂的片段之一——山姆和莫莉伴随着Unchained Melody的旋律在房间里相拥缠绵，这段旋律随着影片的播出也着实取得了人人都“耳熟能详”的轰动，每当耳边想起Unchained Melody的旋律，眼前总是浮现出莫莉精致的脸庞与山姆深情的让人发狂的眼神。两位演员的演艺生涯其实都是在《人鬼情未了》之后达到了巅峰，我甚至一度觉得，影片即使在这时戛然而止也未尝不可，因为这样的爱情，叫人实在不忍打破。 上帝嫉妒幸福的人，山姆在一次意外中与歹徒搏斗中枪死亡，剧情急转直下，仿佛流畅的钢琴曲中错按了一个键，幸福毫无预兆的骤然停顿，哀伤才缓缓地散溢出来，弥漫了莫莉的整双眼睛。 故事就从这里开始，山姆的灵魂不肯离开莫莉，他整日守在莫莉的身边，却只能徒然地看着莫莉的悲伤，毫无办法。而就在这时候，莫莉却受到了来自杀害自己的凶手威利的死亡威胁，山姆焦急万分，为了保护莫莉和为自己报仇，他找到通阴阳的灵媒——黑人奥德美，恳求她的帮助。在她的努
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
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
Ghost Molly: Oh, this is great! That?s incredible. There?s got to be 7 or 8 feet up there. Carl: And 80 years of dust. M: Look at all this height！We can put our bedroom upstairs and that?ll leave us with all this space. Sam: For what? M: Just for space. Together: 1, 2, 3 and 4? And 5? Watch it, watch it. C: God, this place is huge M: It?s beautiful. C: God. M: You guys, it?s absolutely incredible. C: Incredible. S: A little paint… C: Let?s see, you can then sell this tomorrow and double your money. M: Car l, you?re obsessed. C: a little bit. S: Woo! look. Hey, it?s an Indian head penny. 1898. It?s good omen. M: You are the good omen. Oh, it?s so great. C: I had Rose moved you from 3 o?clock. to 4 o?clock …cause Gary Allen called late yesterday. He has to see you about the final painting bids for the loft. 3:00 is the only time he can make it. Sam? What are you doing? S: I?m sorry. C: Relax, man. This isn?t brain surgery you?re going into. S: Pitching these Japanese guys makes me so nervous. That?s it. C: S am, you?re gonna be great, OK? S: I mean, what am I supposed to say. I mean, I can?t very well tell them my Swedish pompom girl joke you know. C: Those are great. Where …d you get those? S: Nice, huh? Molly. What do you think? Are they me? C: Man, look at that. A Testarossa. S: Pay off your Mustang first. S: How are you feeling? What did the doctor say? C: He said it was contagious that it was really. S: No. C: He said I shouldn?t be coming in today. S: What about the rash? C: The rash? S: Mm-Hmm. C: The rash is also incredible contagious. He said they?ve both been spreading. S: No. On your genitals again? C: Yeah, right on genital. Basically everywhere. He said that I shouldn?t touch anyone. Excuse me. I?m sorry.. S: You?re sick.
观《人鬼情未了》有感 英语142 孙雨乔14133218 在上电影艺术鉴赏课之前，我并没有看过《人鬼情未了》，但里面的歌曲与经典场面却都有很深的印象，这也许就是经典的影响力吧，“先闻其声，后观其影像”。 讲述的故事并不复杂，萨姆和米莉是一对即将结婚的恋人，他们买下一栋旧房子，打算重新装修一番然后入住。萨姆面对爱情也是非常认真。他总是“担心失去”，害怕美好的事物变成泡影。这是因为他太在乎米莉了，对于即将得来的幸福却又有一种不确定的感觉。萨姆和米莉看完莎士比亚的戏剧，走在路上，米莉突然对萨姆说：“我想跟你结婚。”这时一个劫匪突然持枪抢劫，在搏斗中，萨姆中枪身亡。但是他的亡魂却灵魂出窍，成了一个凡人看不到的“鬼”。一束天堂之光洒下，可是萨姆并没有上天堂，他想继续留在凡间。萨姆发现自己可以被任何东西穿透，还能看见凡人看不见的鬼，这让他感到非常惊恐。失去恋人的米莉整天郁郁寡欢，哪里都不想去，变成鬼的萨姆一直都陪在她身边，看着她的生活。在通灵人奥德美的帮助下，萨姆和米莉可以交流。奥德美也是影片的亮点之一，她喜感的表演、连珠炮式的说话都会让人喜欢上这个有点势力、有点爱碎碎念的黑女人。最后萨姆报复了害死自己的朋友卡尔，为自己报了仇。而萨姆也将离开米莉，萨姆俯下身，亲吻着米莉。这是个跨越时空的吻，也是最后的一吻，金光镶嵌着他们的轮廓，最后萨姆的背影消失在了苍茫的空灵世界里。多少观众被这个场景所打动，留下热泪。 一部歌颂伟大爱情的电影，即使看不见彼此，却仍然能感觉到爱人的存在，让人为之感动。 影片最让我印象深刻的是萨姆在生前从未说过“我爱你”。每当米莉对他说我爱你时，他总是说，我也是。而萨姆死后才明白，说出“我也爱你”的重要性，因为米莉想听到更为深情的承诺。这也让我想起，生活中，我们要积极与表达对父母的爱，对朋友的爱，对爱人的爱。 中国人总是比较含蓄的，不懂得表达爱，记得前几天有一家店在母亲节发起的活动，凡是母亲节带妈妈去店里吃饭，并且对妈妈说“我爱你”的，可以免费得到礼物。我很想带我的妈妈去这个活动，并不是因为礼物，而是因为想对妈妈表达爱意，却从来不好意思，想借这个活动来感谢妈妈。只可惜路途遥远没办法。有点遗憾。 如果你心中有爱，那就表达出来，不要等到没有机会了再后悔。若萨姆没有成为ghost而是直接上了天堂，他也会对于自己没有表达出对米莉的深爱而无比遗憾吧。
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