肖申克的救赎(The Shawshank Redemption)介绍The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film stars Tim Robbins as Andrew "Andy" Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding.The film portrays Andy spending nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison, a fictional penitentiary in Maine and his friendship with Red, a fellow inmate.In 1947, a banker named Andrew "Andy" Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, based on strong circumstantial evidence. He is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at Shawshank State Penitentiary in Maine, run by Warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). He is quickly befriended by Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), a fellow inmate serving a life sentence who has recently failed to gain parole. Andy finds Red has connections on the outside who can acquire contraband for the inmates, and first asks Red for a rock hammer in order to maintain his rock collection hobby, which he uses to fashion a home-made chess set. He later asks Red for a full-size poster of Rita Hayworth for his wall, replacing them over the years with ones of Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch.During manual labor, Andy overhears Captain of the Guards Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown) complain about having to pay taxes on a forthcoming inheritance. Andy risks punishment by explaining to Hadley how to circumvent the taxes legally; Hadley accepts Andy's advice and rewards his friends with a brief respite and beer. Andy's accountancy expertise is soon sought by other guards at Shawshank and nearby prisons, and Andy is given a space to work on their financial matters under the pretense of maintaining the prison library alongside elderly inmate Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore). Hadley delivers a brutal beating to inmate Bogs (Mark Rolston), leader of "The Sisters", after his gangs' attempt to sexually molest Andy puts Andy in the infirmary; Bogs is paralyzed while the remaining Sisters leave Andy alone. Andy is able to use his good will with the guards to help expand the library; when one donation to the library provides him with the opera The Marriage of Figaro, he plays it for all the inmates to hear, well-aware of the punishment of solitary confinement he will receive for the brief moment of bliss.Brooks is soon freed on parole, but is unable to adjust to the outside, non-regimented world, and hangs himself;Andy dedicates the expanded library to Brooks.Warden Norton creates a scheme to use prison labor for public works, undercutting the cost of skilled labor anddiscretely receiving personal kickbacks for it. Norton has Andy launder the money under a false identity, in exchange for allowing Andy to keep his private cell and to continue maintaining the library. In 1965, Tommy Williams (Gil Bellows) is incarcerated into Shawshank on robbery charges. Tommy is brought into Andy and Red's circle of friends, and Andy assists Tommy into getting his GED. Tommy reveals that one of his old prison-mates, Elmo Blatch (Bill Bolender) had claimed to have committed the murders for which Andy was charged. Norton, fearing that Andy may expose his illegal activities if he were released, puts him into solitary confinement and has Tommy killed by Hadley, claiming he was an escapee. When Andy is finally released from solitary, Norton threatens to burn down the library if Andy does not continue to launder the money for him.Shortly after, Andy informs Red of his dream to live in Zihuatanejo, aMexican-Pacific coastal town, and instructs Red, should he ever be freed, to visit a specific hayfield near Buxton, Maine to find something he had left there. The next day at roll call, Andy's cell is found empty. Norton, in anger, throws one of Andy's rocks at the poster of Welch; the rock tears through the poster, revealing a tunnel that Andy had dug with the rock hammer over the last two decades that allowed him to escape Shawshank, along with a set of civilian clothes, his chess set, and the books he had kept for Norton, having swapped them for fakes the night before. Andy uses his false identity to withdraw all of Norton's money from the bank, at the same time, sending the evidence to a local newspaper. On the day the story runs, the police converge on the prison; Hadley is arrested while Norton commits suicide.When Red finally achieves parole after serving 40 years of his sentence, he finds himself in the same bagging job at a grocery store as Brooks, and living in the same apartment where Brooks committed suicide. Red decides to follow Andy's advice and visits Buxton. In the hayfield where Andy specified, he finds a cache of money and a note left by Andy, reminding him of Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Red violates his parole and travels to Mexico; he eventually comes across Andy on the coast, and they happily reunite.冰河世纪3：I was really impressed by the film. A problem that many sequels run into is that they r ely too heavily on the name of the franchise and hope it will blind the audience into li king a mediocre film. This film didn't have that. It truly stayed true to the characters a nd themes we have grown to love in the Ice Age franchise.In this instalment, Manny and Ellie's child is on the way. Manny has a tough time and is nervous about becoming a father. Ellie, on the other hand, is very excited and feels ready.Diego worries he is going 'soft', and struggles with his desire to be a strong, intimidati ng tiger once again.Upon being around so much 'baby excitement', Sid feels like he wants some kids. His wish is granted when he stumbles upon three eggs, which hatch and are revealed to be dinosaur eggs. Thus, our adventure begins.Needless to say, most of the key characters have inner struggles that they are dealing with. The film also introduces a new character, a crazy cool weasel named Buck. Afte r the film, my boyfriend told me Buck reminded him of Jack Sparrow from the acclai med 'Pirates of the Caribbean' franchise. I see the resemblance, as Buck is a little on t he wild side and has a hunger for adventure.The animation was beautiful. With each film in the series, the animation gets better. T he scenery and colors were great, and the characters were well done as well.A lot of people seem to have an issue with the dinosaurs. They claim it isn't realistic. My only argument against that is, "Do you think the first two were all that realistic?" i f you see this film, you just need to let your imagination stretch a bit. Accept that ther e are dinosaurs in it, and you'll love it. Don't get hung up on the fact that dinosaurs we re long gone before the Ice Age.The film moves at a fast pace and has many laughs along the way. It's a great adventu re and I really think it will be popular when it hits theaters. The script was pretty good , the soundtrack was excellent, and I really can't pin point anything that is extremely wrong with this movie. It stands well on its own, so newcomers will be able to enjoy i t easily, all while keeping the same spirit of the first two, which is sure to please fans f rom day one.哈6：Harry Potter stands on the Ministry of Magic Atrium, facing a wall of reporters photo graphing him and Dumbledore who stands on his side. Dumbledore puts a hand on Ha rry's shoulder and takes him away. Cut to the sky and the words Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince appear. Muggles on an office building at London stare at the dark c louds forming above the City. Suddently, a cloud takes the shape of a skull and three Death Eaters appear, flying surrounded by dark smoke. The Death Eaters fly among L ondon streets, entering Diagon Alley, where they abduct Mr Ollivander, the wandmak er. Among confusion and panic on the wizard street, the Death Eaters fly again surrou nded by smoke. On the Thames, the Millennium Bridge is crowded with unsuspecting Muggles. The Death Eaters appear behind St. Paul's Cathedral, flying towards the Bri dge. They fly around the Bridge making it wobble and shake, making several Muggle s hold to the Bridge's railings. Suddenly, the Death Eaters make the Bridge's cables sn ap. The Bridge swings dangerously, as Muggles run away for dear life. Then the Bridge starts buckling and twisting and breaks in two. As the bridge crashes into the Tham es the Death Eaters fly away电影：重回17岁Mike O'Donnell's wife wants a divorce, his kids are remote, he didn't get the job prom otion he expected, and everything else in his life has gone wrong since that magic yea r when he was 17, a basketball star, in love, and looked like Zac Efron instead of Matt hew Perry. He's obviously a case for treatment by a Body Swap Movie.Revisiting the trophy case at his old high school, Mike encounters a janitor who, from the way he sm iles at the camera, knows things beyond this mortal coil. If only Mike could go back t o 17 and not make all the same mistakes. In "17 Again," he can. He falls into a Twilig ht Zone vortex and emerges as Zac Efron. They say be careful what you wish for, bec ause you might get it. Mike should have been more specific. Instead of wishing to be 17 again, he should have wished to go back 20 years in time.Yes, he becomes himself trapped inside his own 17-year-old body. Same wife, same kids, same problems. As O ld Mike getting divorced, he'd moved in with his best friend, Ned (Thomas Lennon), a nd now he throws himself on Ned's mercy: Will Ned pose as his father, so Young Mik e can be his son and help out his kids by enrolling in the same high school again? Ned , who is a software millionaire and middle-age fanboy, agrees, especially after he falls helplessly in love with the high school principal, Jane (Melora Hardin).Young Mike becomes the new best friend of his insecure son, Alex (Sterling Knight). Then he meets Alex's mom, Scarlet (Leslie Mann), who, of course, before the vortex was his wife, and before that his high school bride (Allison Miller). She thinks it's stra nge that he looks exactly like the boy she married at 17. He explains he is the son of a n uncle, who I guess would have to be Old Mike's brother, so it's curious Old Scarlet n ever met him, but if she doesn't ask that, why should I?In high school, Young Mike ag ain becomes a basketball star, befriends Alex, and attempts to defend his Gothish dau ghter, Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg), against the predations of her jerk boyfriend, who as a hot-rodding jock traveling with a posse is, of course, the last guy in school w ho would date, or be dated by, a moody girl who wears black.I've seen Body Switches before (Tom Hanks in "Big"). The first act of this movie see med all retread. Then it started to dig in. There are twin romances; as Shakespeare de monstrated, one must be serious and the other farcical. Young Mike is still seriously i n love with his wife, Old Scarlet, and she is powerfully attracted to this boy who's a d ouble for her first love. She thinks that's wrong. He knows it isn't but how can he expl ain? Meanwhile, best buddy Ned courts Principal Masterson, who for the first time in his life has Taught Him What Love Means. Before her, ecstasy was owning Darth Va der's costume. I will not describe what happens the first time they go out to dinner, ex cept to say that it's comic genius, perfectly played by Melora Hardin and Thomas Len non.I attended a screening held by a radio station, which attracted mainly teenage girls wh o left their boyfriends behind. When Zac Efron took off his T-shirt, the four in front of me squealed as if there were buzzers in their seats. Now that he's a little older, Efron has a Tom Cruiseish charm, and a lot of confidence. Why Matthew Perry was cast as his adult self is hard to figure; does your head change its shape in 20 years?"17 Again" is pleasant, harmless PG-13 entertainment, with a plot a little more surpris ing and acting a little better than I expected. Mike is dispatched into that vortex by the bearded old janitor with a delighted smile. The janitor (Brian Doyle-Murray) is quite a convenience, supplying vortexes when needed. If his smile reminds you of anyone, he's played by Bill Murray's brother.电影：口是心非When it comes to spy thrillers, Tony Gilroy knows the game. The formula for a crackl ing entry into this genre is simple enough: keep the action moving and the twists comi ng, then engage in one late innings sleight of hand that pulls the rug out from under ev erything. Gilroy, with an adroitness Hitchcock might admire, works admirably in this arena, turning in a screenplay that's more diabolical and pulpy than his convoluted dir ectorial debut, Michael Clayton, but no less fun. He maximizes his assets, and conside ring the wattage of his stars, they are considerable. Although one could not consider t he plot for Duplicity to be air-tight, the holes are small enough for things to remain afl oat until after the proceedings have ended. A post-movie dissection on the way home i n the car will reveal some obvious plotting problems.For Julia Roberts (who seems to be in semi-retirement) and Clive Owen, this is a muc h different sort of movie than their previous on-screen collaboration, Closer. The tone is lighter and the chemistry changes to match. Instead of searing and raw, it's playful a nd romantic. One of the keys to the production working is for audiences to believe the ir characters are evenly matched and, by virtue of actions and words, this is evident. T heir duels are via dialogue, not guns, and their weapons are words. Roberts and Owen provide characters who clearly love one another but do not trust each other. That's the way it is in the spy business, where trust is the quickest way to failure.Duplicity opens five years ago in Rome with the first meeting between CIA operative Claire Stenwick (Roberts) and MI-6 agent Ray Koval (Owen). The liaison doesn't last long and Ray ends up on the short end. Skip ahead to today in New York City, where Claire and Ray are about to meet again. By now, they have graduated to the private s ector. Ray is an industrial espionage expert working for Equikrom. Claire is a director of security for Equikrom's rival, Burkett & Randle. (Think of this corporate battle as akin to the one between Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson.) However, as we soon learn, she's a Equikrom mole and her new "handler" is Ray. All is not as it seems (of course), with the possibility that Ray and Claire may be playing a game beyond the parameters of their jobs - a game that is endangered when Ray takes things a little to o far "in the line of duty."James Bond and Jason Bourne notwithstanding, espionage movies have fallen into dis favor since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which is something of a shame since, wh en well-written, they can provide a superlative source of suspense. Duplicity proves th at, even without the U.S.S.R., there are still ways to develop spy thrillers since compa nies guard trade secrets as jealously as nations protect their national security. With the element of death removed from the equation, the stakes are less intense than they mig ht have been in a traditional Cold War thriller, and there are times when Duplicity feel s more like a heist movie than a spy thriller. Regardless of how one elects to classify it , however, Gilroy knows where to place the pieces on the board and how to move the m to deliver maximum entertainment value from the story and to keep the final twist - the one that happens just after the viewer is sure he has everything figured out - effect ively camouflaged. (The existence of this twist, by the way, should not be considered a spoiler since it's a requirement of the genre - like horny teenagers in sex comedies, g ore in horror movies, and femmes fatale in film noir.) The plot is actually a little more straightforward than it originally seems, but Gilroy uses a non-linear storytelling appr oach to obfuscate various plot elements. Instead of taking us from point A to point B i n a strictly chronological fashion, he keeps things pretty much in the present, unveilin g past incidents via carefully placed flashbacks. Duplicity's storyline isn't as dense or difficult to follow as that of some thrillers, but it will reward those who pay attention.A mid-movie trip to the snack bar could result in a prolonged period of confusion upo n returning.Duplicity is an unpretentious pleasure, combining as it does the deft plotting of Gilroy , the unforced acting of charismatic stars Roberts and Owen (not to mention nice turns by supporting performers Tom Wilkenson and Paul Giamatti as the rival CEOs of Bu rkett & Randle and Equikrom), and the suspense inherent in this sort of motion pictur e. No one is going to rank Duplicity among the great espionage thrillers or heist movi es but, for those who don't put unreasonable demands on the picture, it's a fun way to英文版介绍：In 1947, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a banker in Maine, was convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, a golf pro. He was sentenced to two life sentences, and sent to the notoriously harsh Shawshank Prison. Andy always claimed his innocence, but his cold and measured demeanor led many to doubt his word.During the first night, the chief guard Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown), savagely beat up a newly arrived inmate because of his crying & complaining. Meanwhile Andykept to himself even though during the day Ellis Redding (Morgan Freeman), also known as Red, had bet against others that Andy would have been the one to break down first. That beating led to the new inmate's death.About a month later, Andy approached Red, who was known to run contraband inside the walls of Shawshank. He asked if Red could find him a rock hammer, an instrument he claimed necessary for his hobby in rock collecting. Though other prisoners considered Andy " a really cold fish", Red saw something in Andy, and liked him from the start. Red thought Andy intended to use the hammer to engineer his escape one day but when the tool arrived & seeing how small it was, Red put aside the thought that Andy could ever use it to dig his way out of prison.Over the first two years of doing time, Andy worked in the prison laundry. He ended up attracting attention from "the Sisters", a group of prisoners who sexually assaulted other prisoners, and was raped on a regular basis.Red pulled some strings, and got Andy a break by getting him on a work detail tarring the roof of one of the prison's buildings. During the job one day, Andy overheard Hadley complaining about having to pay taxes for an upcoming inheritance. Andy approached, using his expertise as a banker to let Hadley know how he could shelter his money from the IRS. He said he would assist in exchange for some cold beers for his fellow inmates. Warden Norton heard about the help, and used a prison inspection to size him up.Soon, after asking Red for "Rita Hayworth", he was once more encountered by the Sisters. This time, he resisted, and was brutally beaten, putting him in the infirmary for a month. Boggs, the leader of the Sisters, spent a week in solitary. But when he came out, Hadley and his men were waiting in his cell. They beat him so bad he was left paralyzed, and transferred to a prison hospital upstate, and the Sisters never bothered Andy again. When Andy got out of the infirmary, he found a bunch of rocks and a poster of Rita Hayworth in his cell; presents from Red and his buddies.Andy was sent to work with Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore), an aging inmate in the prison library, where he set up a make-shift desk to provide services to other guards including the warden with income tax returns and other financial advice. His practice became so appreciated that even guards from other prisons, when they came forinter-prison baseball matches, sought Andy's advice as well.After 6 years of writing letters, Andy received $200 from the state for the library, along with a collection of old books and records. He put a record of Mozart on a turntable and channelled the music through a PA system. He turned up the volume and locked the office where the record player was to prevent interference by the warden and guards. That stunt landed Andy in solitary for a week but he seemed unfazed. With the enlarged library and more materials, Andy began to teach those inmates who wanted to receive their high school diplomas.Not long afterward, Brooks threatened to kill another prisoner in order to avoid getting paroled. Andy was able to talk him down. Brooks was paroled. He later sent a letter to his friends at Shawshank about how hard it was for an institutionalized prisoner to get by on the outside. In the flashback, it ends with him hanging himself at the halfway house where he was staying.Warden Samuel Norton profited on Andy's knowledge of bookkeeping and devised a scheme whereby he put prison inmates to work in projects which he won by outbidding other contractors (cheap labor from the prisoners). Occasionally, he let others get some contracts if they bribed him. Andy laundered money for the warden by setting up many accounts in different banks, along with several investments, using a fake identity: "Randall Stephens". He shared the details only with his friend, Red, noting that he had to go to prison to learn how to be a criminal.In 1965, a young prisoner named Tommy (Gil Bellows) came to Shawshank. One day he happened to mention that some years ago, he had a cellmate who boasted about killing a man who was a pro golfer at the country club he worked at, along with his lover. The woman's husband, a banker, had gone to prison for those murders. With this new information, Andy, full of hope, brought the matter to the warden's attention, expecting he could help him get another trial with Tommy as a witness. The reaction from Norton was the contrary of what Andy had hoped for. Fearing the end of the lucrative ill-gotten money that Andy was looking after for him, Norton had Tommy shot dead by Hadley under the guise of an escape attempt. Andy was sent to solitary confinement for 2 months to put him back in his place.Afterwards, Andy returned to the usual daily life at Shawshank, a seemingly broken man. One day he laid his soul to Red, about how although he didn't kill his wife, hispersonality drove her away, which led to her death. He said if he ever got free, he'd like to go to Zihuatanejo, a beach town on the Pacific coast of Mexico. He then told Red how he got engaged. He and his wife (then-girlfriend) went up to a farm in Buxton, Maine, to a large oak tree at the end of a stone wall. The two made love under the tree, after which he proposed to her. He told Red that, if he should ever be paroled, he should look for that field, and that oak tree. There, under a large black volcanic rock that would look out of place, Andy had a box buried that he wanted Red to have. Andy refused to reveal what might be in that box.One day Andy asked for rope, leading Red and his buddies to suspect he was going to commit suicide. At the end of the day, Norton asked Andy to shine his shoes for him and put his suit in for dry-cleaning before retiring for the night.The following morning, Andy was not accounted for as usual from his cell. At the same time, Norton became alarmed when he found out Andy's shoes were in his shoebox instead of his own. He rushed to Andy's cell and demanded an explaination. Hadley brought in Red, but Red knew nothing of Andy's plans either. Getting paranoid, Norton started throwing rocks at everyone. But when he threw it at Andy's poster of Raquel Welch (where it used to hold Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth before), the rock went right through and into the wall. Behind that poster was a tunnel big enough for a man to crawl through.The previous night, it was storming. Andy wore Norton's shoes to his cell, figuring nobody would notice. He packed some papers and Norton's clothes into a plastic bag, tied it to himself with some rope, and escaped through his hole. He got down to a sewer main. Using a rock, he hit it in time with the lightning strikes and eventually burst it. He crawled 500 yards through raw sewage to a nearby river. There, he washed off and changed into the warden's clothes. All the authorities found were his prison uniform, a used bar of soap and one of his rock hammers beaten down to nearly nothing.That morning, Andy walked into the Maine National Bank in Portland, where he had put Warden Norton's money. Using his assumed identity as Randall Stephens, and with all the necessary documentation, he walked out with a cashier's check. Before he left, he asked them to drop a package in the mail. He gathered up over $370,000 from a dozen area banks. As for the package, it was Warden Norton's books...and they went right to the Portland Daily Bugle newspaper.Not long after, the police stormed Shawshank Prison. Hadley was arrested for murder; Red said he was taken away "crying like a little girl". Warden Norton finally opened the safe, which he hadn't touched since Andy escaped, and instead of his books, he found the Bible he had given Andy...which he had used to conceal his rock hammer. Norton barricaded himself in his office, then put his gun under his chin, committing suicide.Shortly after, Red received a postcard from Fort Hancock, Texas, with nothing written on it. Red took it as a sign that Andy made it into Mexico and was totally free. Red and his buddies would spend their time talking about Andy's exploits (with a lot of embellishments), but Red just missed his friend.At Red's next parole hearing in 1967, he talked to the parole board about how "rehabilitated" was a made-up word, and how he regretted his actions of the past. His parole was granted this time. He went to work at a grocery store, and stayed at the same halfway house Brooks had stayed in. He frequently walked by a pawn shop, which had several guns and compasses in the window. At times he would contemplate trying to get back into prison, but he remembered the promise he had made to Andy.One day, with a compass he bought from the pawn shop, he followed Andy's instructions, hitchhiking to Buxton and arriving at the stone wall he described. Just like Andy said, there was a large black stone. Under it was a lunch box containing a large sum of cash and instructions to find him. He said he needed somebody "who could get things" for a "project" of his.Red violated parole and left the halfway house. He took a bus to Fort Hancock, where he crossed into Mexico. The two friends finally reunited on the beach of Zihuatanejo on the Pacific coast.。
