Casino (1995)

This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

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*Tagline: Luck has nothing to do with the games they play.
*酷哦,這部片fuck了422次,平均一分鐘2.4次;Scarface的218次,相形失色~
*由Ace和Nicky兩個人的旁白貫穿全劇哩,蠻少見的哦~
*Ginger提名最佳女主角耶;本來瑪丹娜也想爭取這個角色,可是莎朗史東更厲害,把導演給說服了~
*黑幫電影還有什麼呢???

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War Two, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is the story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. After being exiled from her hometown of Laurel, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche explains her unexpected appearance on Stanley and Stella's (Blanche's sister) doorstep as nervous exhaustion. This, she claims, is the result of a series of financial calamities which have recently claimed the family plantation, Belle Reve. Suspicious, Stanley points out that "under Louisiana's napoleonic code what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband." Stanley, a sinewy and brutish man, is as territorial as a panther. He tells Blanche he doesn't like to be swindled and demands to see the bill of sale. This encounter defines Stanley and Blanche's relationship. They are opposing camps and Stella is caught in no-man's-land. But Stanley and Stella are deeply in love. Blanche's efforts to impose herself between them only enrages the animal inside Stanley. When Mitch -- a card-playing buddy of Stanley's -- arrives on the scene, Blanche begins to see a way out of her predicament. Mitch, himself alone in the world, reveres Blanche as a beautiful and refined woman. Yet, as rumors of Blanche's past in Laurel begin to catch up to her, her circumstances become unbearable.

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＃45 - Stella! Hey, Stella!
＃75 - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
*百大肆伍~
*Marlon Brando很火爆,超MAN~
*Stanley Kowalski: I never met a dame yet that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and there's some of them that give themselves credit for more than they've got.
*Stanley Kowalski: What do you think you are? A pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said - that every man's a king - and I'm the King around here, and don't you forget it.
*提名12項Oscar,贏得四項~ (女主角 / 男女配角 / 黑白片美術指導)
*導演Elia Kazan是兩屆的Best Director of Academy,想看On the Waterfront (1954),只是...去哪裡生這部片啊~

Snatch (2000)

When a dizzying robbery takes place in the Orthodox Jewish diamond district, a flawless 86-carat gem, the size of an infant's fist, is lifted in the snatch. Taking it to London, the diamond's thief and courier, Franky Four Fingers arrives in the city as a stopover en route to New York to deliver the huge diamond to his bigwig crime boss, Avi. But because Franky can't resist temptation and London is a town with its share of illegal trade, a small crowd of miscreants and malefactors eventually ends up chasing each other and the whereabouts of the diamond. These include: Doug the Head, a jeweler who pretends he's Jewish because it's good for business; Boris the Blade, a Russian gangster with a deserved reputation for being impossible to kill; Bullet Tooth Tony, a legendary hard guy and Brick Top, perhaps the scariest of the lot.

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*倒敘法...連續三部囉~
*Tagline: Stealin' Stones and Breakin' Bones.
*看不太懂,好笨,再看一次!
*導演Guy Ritchie為了維持片場的秩序,採用了一套System of Fines;手機響,遲到,"肚姑",把場子搞冷,碎碎唸,發牢騷都會被罰錢...甚至有一位工作人員因為桌上的咖啡杯用完,沒有補上而受罰~
*Brad Pitt超愛導演的Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998),所以自動請纓,想在本片軋上一角;不過因為Pitt沒能講出一口漂亮的英腔英調,Ritchie就安排他演出Mickey the Gypsy~
*confer with: 商討 / extra: 臨時演員 / crotch: 褲襠 /

Crash (2004)

Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama from director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. Graham (Don Cheadle) is a police detective whose brother is a street criminal, and it hurts him to know his mother cares more about his ne'er-do-well brother than him. Graham's partner is Ria (Jennifer Esposito), who is also his girlfriend, though she has begun to bristle at his emotional distance, as well as his occasional insensitivity over the fact he's African-American and she's Hispanic. Rick (Brendan Fraser) is an L.A. district attorney whose wife, Jean (Sandra Bullock), makes little secret of her fear and hatred of people unlike herself. Jean's worst imaginings about people of color are confirmed when her SUV is carjacked by two African-American men -- Anthony (Chris Bridges, aka Ludacris), who dislikes white people as much as Jean hates blacks, and Peter (Larenz Tate), who is more open minded. Cameron (Terrence Howard) is a well-to-do African-American television producer with a beautiful wife, Christine (Thandie Newton). While coming home from a party, Cameron and Christine are pulled over by Officer Ryan (Matt Dillon), who subjects them to a humiliating interrogation (and her to an inappropriate search) while his new partner, Officer Hansen (Ryan Phillippe), looks on. Daniel (Michael Pena) is a hard-working locksmith and dedicated father who discovers that his looks don't lead many of his customers to trust him. And Farhad (Shaun Toub) is a Middle Eastern shopkeeper who is so constantly threatened in the wake of the 9/11 attacks that he decided he needs a gun to defend his family. Crash was the first directorial project for award-winning television and film writer Haggis.

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*Tagline: Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other.
*強勢問鼎2005奧斯卡?等著瞧...

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.

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*Tagline: As boys, they made a pact to share their fortunes, their loves, their lives. As men, they shared a dream to rise from poverty to power. Forging an empire built on greed, violence and betrayal, their dream would end as a mystery that refuse to die.
*一部"舒服"的黑幫電影,配上Ennio Morricone的音樂,絕對是最受人囑"耳"的電影之一;為何沒有被Oscar提名呢?因為作業上的疏失,文件出了問題,讓Morricone最優的作品之一,無緣逐鹿中原~
*超超長的時間,共229 min...,中間還出現"中場休息",看了3天~
*導演Sergio Leone(義大利人)的最後一部作品~

Marathon Man (1976)

Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the US government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. He has Doc killed, then kidnaps Doc's in-the-dark brother Babe (Dustin Hoffman). Repeating the phrase "Is it safe?" over and over, Szell, a onetime concentration camp dentist, tries to extract information from Babe by performing sadistic "oral surgery" upon him. Babe, who still doesn't know about the gems, escapes, breaking his own self-imposed rule of nonviolence to defend himself against his pursuers. The fox becomes the hound when Babe overpowers Szell and forces the old man to swallow his valuable diamonds. Marathon Man traces Babe Levy's progression from pacifistic naif to cynical street-smart scrapper.

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＃70 - Is it safe?
*Dr. Szell在50惡人中,排名34;＃1 - Dr. Hannibal Lecter (the silence...); ＃2 - Norman Bates (psycho); ＃5 - Nurse Ratched (one flew...)~
*無聊無聊的...

The Deer Hunter (1978)

One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use of Russian roulette in the Vietnam sequences. Structured in five sections contrasting home and war, the film opens in Clairton, PA, as Mike (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken), and Stan (John Cazale, in his last film) celebrate the wedding of their friend Steve (John Savage) and go on a final deer hunt before the men leave for Vietnam. Mike treats hunting as a test of skill, lecturing Stan about the value of "one shot" deer slaying and brushing off Nick's urgings to appreciate nature's beauty. As Mike ruminates post-hunt, the film cuts to the horror of Vietnam, where the men are captured by Vietcong soldiers who force Mike and Nick to play Russian roulette for the V.C.'s amusement. Mike turns the game to his advantage so they can escape captivity, but the men are permanently scarred by the episode. Steve loses his legs; Nick vanishes in the Saigon Russian roulette parlors. Mike returns alone to Clairton a changed man, as he rejects the killing of the deer hunt and finds solace with Nick's old girlfriend Linda (Meryl Streep). Disgusted by the antics of his male cohorts at home, Mike decides to bring Steve back from a veterans' hospital, and he returns to Saigon to find Nick. As Saigon falls, Mike discovers how far gone Nick is; the survivors gather in Clairton for a funeral breakfast, singing an impromptu rendition of "God Bless America."

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*百大之柒拾玖~
*多學一個字: Russian roulette~
*道出了戰爭對人的影響,沒有生長在當時的背景,很難感同身受;不過,很多電影都拍出了戰爭,的確對打仗的阿兵哥,有非常巨大的衝擊...像Rocky就是啦~
*Robert De Niro在劇中的造型好帥~
*片頭和插曲的超級好聽的音樂,曲名是Cavatina,由Stanley Myers作曲(John Williams也有參與)~
*Christopher Walken當年是最佳男配角哦;2002年的Catch Me If You Can再度提名~

The Piano (1993)

Writer/director Jane Campion's third feature unearthed emotional undercurrents and churning intensity in the story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times. Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute who has willed herself not to speak, and her strong-willed young daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) find themselves in the New Zealand wilderness, with Ada the imported bride of dullard land-grabber Stewart (Sam Neill). Ada immediately takes a dislike to Stewart when he refuses to carry her beloved piano home with them. But Stewart makes a deal with his overseer George Baines (Harvey Keitel) to take the piano off his hands. Attracted to Ada, Baines agrees to return the piano in exchange for a series of piano lessons that become a series of increasingly charged sexual encounters. As pent-up emotions of rage and desire swirl around all three characters, the savage wilderness begins to consume the tiny European enclave. Campion imbues her tale with an over-ripe tactility and a murky, poetic undertow that betray the characters' confined yet overpowering emotions: Ada's buried sensuality, Baines' hidden tenderness, and Stewart's suppressed anger and violence. The story unfolds like a Greek tragedy of the Outback, complete with a Greek chorus of Maori tribesmen and a blithely uncaring natural environment that envelops the characters like an additional player. Campion directs with discreet detachment, observing one character through the glances and squints of another as they peer through wooden slats, airy curtains, and the spaces between a character's fingers. She makes the film immediate and urgent by implicating the audience in characters' gazes. And she guides Hunter to a revelatory performance of silent film majesty. Relying on expressive glances and using body language to convey her soulful depths, Hunter became a modern Lillian Gish and won an Oscar for her performance, as did Paquin and Campion for her screenplay. Campion achieved something rare in contemporary cinema: a poetry of expression told in the form of an off-center melodrama.

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*最佳女主角: Holly Hunter和最佳原著劇本: Jane Campion~
*整部片都是灰暗,常常還只有黑白的背景,原以為是在鋼琴的周圍才有彩色呢~
*本片的OST是Michael Nyman的作品,排名在原聲帶中也是蠻前面的,但是...沒啥感覺;Hunter在片中可是彈奏全部的曲子呢,沒有假於"他人"之手哦~
*Harvey Keitel難得在片中擔任比較像主角的角色~
*Holly Hunter當年也以The Firm入圍最佳女配角~
*當時11歲的小女生Anna Paquin是Academy第二年輕的得主(女配角);至於最年輕的...則是Paper Moon (1973)中的Tatum O'neal,當年是10歲148天,不過是跟Madeline Kahn一起合得的~

Scarface (1983)

After years of diplomatic silence between the United States and Cuba, Castro opens the port of Mariel Harbor, Cuba, to thousands emmigrating to the United States in search of the American dream. Shrewdly, Castro also unlocks the overpacked prisons, allowing hordes of criminals to join the refugees. Tony Montana, a small time hood, is one of them. In Florida, Montana connects with gangster Frank Lopez, and guns his way through the sun washed streets of Miami where he finds power, wealth and passion. He kills Lopez and marries his mistress, Elvira. Montana, better known as "Scarface," soon becomes the leader of a bloody cocaine-smuggling empire but at a terrible cost to his sister, Gina and his loyal friend, Manny. However, like that of others before him, Montana's reign is brief and a violent end is guaranteed as rival gangster compete to become the next drug lord.

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＃61 - Say "hello" to my little friend!
*好暴力的一部片子,很長...超過兩個半小時,快撐不住,想打瞌睡~
*全片共"fuck"了218次~
*本片編劇為Oliver Stone,寫這部片時,他正好試著戒毒~
*片中的F. Murray Abraham演出的Amadeus (1984)為他贏得了三個影帝頭銜,包括小金人~

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

A new and rebellious patient is brought to a small mental institution where his antics endear the other patients to him and incur the wrath of the stern and repressive nurse who runs their ward.

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*百大餓拾哦~
*剛看完時,不知道動手術有啥影響;在小智提供的資料中,總算有蠻深入的了解~
*http://www.nsc.gov.tw/_newfiles/popular_science.asp?add_year=2003&popsc_aid=290
*此片於當年也是超級大贏家~
*原作者是Ken Kesey,他對於電影中沒有依照小說中裡,從Chief Bromden的角度來切入,十分地不滿;誓言絕不觀看此片,甚至還控告製片人~
*在Jack Nicholson之前,James Caan, Marlon Brando和Gene Hackman都曾獲邀演出McMurphy這個角色哦;結果論啦,如果這部沒消沒息的,誰管這些東東丫~
*此片是少數三部電影在Academy中,豪奪強取五項大獎(最佳影片,導演,男主角,女主角,改編劇本)的其中一部哦~
*是哪三部呢...It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lamb (1991)~

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[瑣事] Madagascar燒好了...討論區上全都是民怨...admin聽到大家的聲音,趕緊推出升級版本,果然有效...原來又是一個新的防摳技術,可惜魔高一丈啊,哈哈,以後可要多注意升級版本哩,不然買正版的要幹嘛~

The Graduate (1967)

"Just one word: plastic." "Are you here for an affair?" These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth rebellion seeped into the California upper middle-class in Mike Nichols' landmark hit. Mentally adrift the summer after graduating from college, suburbanite Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) would rather float in his parents' pool than follow adult advice about his future. But the exhortation of family friend Mr. Robinson (Murray Hamilton) to seize every possible opportunity inspires Ben to accept an offer of sex from icily feline Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft). The affair and the pool are all well and good until Ben is pushed to go out with the Robinsons' daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross) and he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson sabotages the relationship and an understandably disgusted Elaine runs back to college. Determined not to let Elaine get away, Ben follows her to school and then disrupts her family-sanctioned wedding. None too happy about her pre-determined destiny, Elaine flees with Ben -- but to what? Directing his second feature film after Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Nichols matched the story's satire of suffocating middle-class shallowness with an anti-Hollywood style influenced by the then-voguish French New Wave. Using odd angles, jittery editing, and evocative widescreen photography, Nichols welded a hip New Wave style and a generation-gap theme to a fairly traditional screwball comedy script by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham from Charles Webb's novel. Adding to the European art film sensibility, the movie offers an unsettling and ambiguous ending with no firm closure. And rather than Robert Redford, Nichols opted for a less glamorous unknown for the pivotal role of Ben, turning Hoffman into a star and opening the door for unconventional leading men throughout the 1970s. With a pop-song score written by Paul Simon and performed by Simon & Garfunkel bolstering its contemporary appeal, The Graduate opened to rave reviews in December 1967 and surpassed all commercial expectations. It became the top-grossing film of 1968 and was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Actor, and Actress, with Nichols winning Best Director. Together with Bonnie and Clyde, it stands as one of the most influential films of the late '60s, as its mordant dissection of the generation gap helped lead the way to the youth-oriented Hollywood artistic "renaissance" of the early '70s.

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＃42 - Plastics.
＃63 - Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?
*百大之柒唷~
*披頭四所演唱的Mr.s Robinson高居100 Moive Songs中的第六唷~
*導演Mike Nichols有許多讚的作品哦~只看過96年的The Birdcage...幽默的同志片,也有Dustin Hoffman;對了,年輕的Hoffman真的是帥帥帥,有點兒鷹勾鼻,跟我們的不老華仔有點神似;另外跟HBO合作的Angels in America (2003)網羅了Al Pacino和Meryl Streep是詮釋Tony Kushner的普立茲得獎文學作品,嘛細我超想看的影集之一,在2003年,此作品幾乎囊括了所有的影集類大獎哦~ (Best Actor - TV / Best Actress - TV / Best Miniseries or TV Movie / Best Supporting Actress TV)

Moonstruck (1987)

When there's a full moon over Brooklyn, anything can happen, and everything happens in the neighborhood where widowed bookkeeper Loretta Castorini (Cher) lives. First, Loretta agrees to marry a man she does not love, Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), simply because he knows how to propose properly. Before the wedding can take place, Cammareri must visit his dying mother in Sicily. In his absence, Loretta is supposed to try to patch up the differences between Johnny and his brother, bakery operator Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage). Having never forgiven Johnny for indirectly causing the accident that crippled him, Ronny flies into a rage whenever his brother's name is mentioned. He does, however, fall for Loretta like a ton of bricks. After a torrid affair, Loretta tries to avoid Ronny out of respect to Johnny, but he's just too fascinating to resist. Meanwhile, Loretta's father (Vincent Gardenia) is fooling around with his mistress Mona (Anita Gillette), while Loretta's mother (Olympia Dukakis) is wooed by a college professor (John Mahoney). These brief flings are forgiven and forgotten, but there's still the delicate situation of Loretta being in love with her future brother-in-law. A now-classic romantic comedy, Moonstruck won Oscars for Cher, Olympia Dukakis, and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley.

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＃96 - Snap out of it!
*一直以為"單名"的女星只有Madonna,原來還有個Cher呢!感覺她沒有演很多部電影,不過唯一提名一次,就拿獎...蠻幸運的吧~
*連續看了兩部扯扯的電影,該換換口味了~
*導演Norman Jewison作品包括: Fiddler on the Roof (1971), The Hurricane (1999)...其它不太熟~

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[瑣事] 吼!買錯空白片啦!有幾片DVD 9的片子不讓我分成兩片DVD 5,只好去買...忘記我的笨Q只支援DVD+R DL...空白片買成-R的,靠!一片239塊耶!(Mitsubishi)在網路上隨便瞄了一下,錸德代工的一片也是要170塊左右...再看看囉~

買啦!Ritek,一片200塊...加一加好像不如去買正版的?但,正版的一片可能要500左右,搞不好更多耶~

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Al Pacino plays a ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Balancing suspense, violence, and humor, the film's depiction of a grand-scale media event craftily dives from the political to the personal, evoking a piercing portrait of a man and his devastating downward tumble as seen through the media circus that Lumet made a career of chronicling. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart yet self-destructive Brooklyn tough whose plan to rob the local bank to fund his male lover's (Chris Sarandon) sex change goes absurdly wrong. Accompanied only by his doltish accomplice, Sal (John Cazale), Sonny realizes that all the money had been removed before his arrival, and decides to kidnap a handful of bank employees instead. As the lengthy August day drags on, Sonny and hordes of local police, led by Sergeant Moretti (Charles Durning), make little progress, and eventually Sonny's wife and lover are brought to the scene. The crowd's sympathy is immediately captured by the charismatic Sonny, whose antagonism with the police is played out before an audience of millions, leading to an inevitably tragic finish.

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＃86 - Attica! Attica!
*這種搶劫太扯啦~
*被當做人質的行員,在電影後半段產生了"斯德哥爾摩症候群"...如John Q (2002)亦觸及這個話題,奇怪,印象中還有其它,John Travolta也演過類似的,下次再查一下~
*何謂斯德哥爾摩症候群? 當你被一個力量長時間壓迫的時候，久而久之你會不小心，或者不自覺地認同壓迫你的力量~
*當年入圍六項大獎哦,包括Best Actor / Best Director / Best Editing / Best Original Screenplay / Best Picture / Best Supporting Actor
*也算是沾上同志的邊哦!

The Sixth Sense (1999)

In this chilling psychological thriller, eight-year-old Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: He is visited by ghosts. A helpless and reluctant channel, Cole is terrified by threatening visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. Confused by his paranormal powers, Cole is too young to understand his purpose and too terrified to tell anyone about his torment, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe. As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the ominous truth about Cole's supernatural abilities, the consequence for client and therapist is a jolt that awakens them both to something harrowing -- and unexplainable.

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＃44 - I see dead people.
*HBO曾播出導演奈特的專訪,他很神祕,跟影迷合照時,背後會產生光暈...像宋七力一樣~
*他拍戲時,也不准演員洩露任何關於片子的消息,還寫了一套官版式的答案,要求演員背下來,好應付記者的問題~
*有人說他是祭司轉世...嗯...寧可信其有吧!
*小朋友是Haley Joel Osment,在以下片子中出現過: Forrest Gump (1994), Pay It Forward (2000), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)~
*一直在想這片的破綻...小朋友在片中有看到醫師的背啊...應該知道他是鬼吧...可能是相信他,所以才願意跟他做那麼多的溝通吧~

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Sweeping epic about a Russian doctor pursuing the woman he loves during Russia's turbulent political changes of World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and Communism's rise to power.






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*咦...百大中才參拾玖耶,以為排名會很前面~
*不過100 Passions就排第7位囉~
*沒有特別喜歡,只是...屬於名片之一,不看不行~

Bugsy (1991)

Directed by Barry Levinson, BUGSY tells the true story of legendary New York mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Visiting Hollywood "on business," the reckless and volatile Bugsy is drawn to Tinseltown and the glamour of the movies. Leaving his wife and kids in Scarsdale indefinitely, the womanizing Bugsy spends his time on movie lots and at Hollywood extravaganzas, contemplating his own potential stardom. But soon he falls hard for strong-willed actress Virginia Hill (Annette Bening), who isn content with mistress status. A road trip to a down-trodden joint in the Nevada desert in a town called Las Vegas leads Bugsy to dream of building a world-class casino and turning the town into a moneymaker. Together Bugsy and Virginia--with backing from the mob--start building The Flamingo hotel and casino, hoping that legal gambling and five-star entertainment will entice the masses and rake in big bucks.

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*Twenty dwarfs took turns doing handstands on the carpet. (瘋狂西格殺人後的口頭襌)
*Everybody needs a fresh start once in a while. (蠻寬宏大量的哦)
*配樂又是誰呢? Ennio Morricone!!!
*那麼,現在的Flamingo Hotel還在嗎? 當然囉! http://www.caesars.com/flamingo/lasvegas
*Wikipedia也詳細介紹了這間賭場的歷史...Flamingo是Virginia Hill的暱稱...為什麼呢?因為她是Deep Throat Oral Sex的專家~

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Robin Williams toned down his usually manic comic approach in this successful period drama. In 1959, the Welton Academy is a staid but well-respected prep school where education is a pragmatic and rather dull affair. Several of the students, however, have their thoughts on the learning process (and life itself) changed when a new teacher comes to the school. John Keating (Williams) is an unconventional educator who tears chapters of his textbooks and asks his students to stand on their desks to see the world from a new angle. Keating introduces his students to poetry, and his free-thinking attitude and the liberating philosophies of the authors he introduces to his class have a profound effect on his students, especially Todd (Ethan Hawke), who would like to be a writer; Neil ( Robert Sean Leonard), who dreams of being an actor, despite the objections of his father; Knox (Josh Charles), a hopeless romantic; Steven (Allelon Ruggiero), an intellectual who learns to use his heart as well as his head; Charlie (Gale Hansen), who begins to lose his blasé attitude; unconventional Gerard (James Waterston); and practical Richard (Dylan Kussman). Keating urges his students to seize the day and live their lives boldly; but when this philosophy leads to an unexpected tragedy, headmaster Mr. Nolan (Norman Lloyd) fires Keating, and his students leap to his defense. Dead Poets Society was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Williams; it won one, for Tom Schulman's original screenplay.

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＃95 - CARPE DIEM. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
*School Ties (1992)和這部片真像,都是高中生活,Honor Code,退學...只是被趕出學校的,一部是學生,另一部是老師...
*Road Less Traveled
*......
*Two roads diverged in a wood
*And I took the one less traveled by
*And that has made all the difference (Robert Frost)

Goodfellas (1990)

Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book WISEGUY, Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners. As a poor Irish-Italian growing up in 1950s New York City, Hill (Ray Liotta) rises through the ranks of his Brooklyn neighborhood's organized crime branch, and with money from the mob he begins living the good life, complete with a beautiful bride, Karen (Lorraine Brocco), a fancy home, and the best seats at the most exclusive restaurants. A botched robbery lands Henry in prison for a brief period of time, and when he gets released, his reckless infidelities and drug abuse damage his associations with his adopted family.

Scorsese's film is a visual and sonic onslaught, featuring a brilliant pop-music soundtrack and stunning camera work--including the infamous Steadicam one-take that introduces the audience to the Copacabana's patrons. He uses the songs to infuse a rhythm into every scene that is at once breathtaking and invigorating. As the psychopathic Tommy DeVito, Joe Pesci delivers an unforgettable performance that is alarming in its cold-blooded callousness, helping to cement GOODFELLAS' place as a classic portrait of life in the mob.

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*百大之玖拾肆唷~
*Martin Scorsese跟Robert De Niro合作了好多部電影哦,Taxi Driver (1978)~
*想看: Mean Street (1973); Raging Bull (1980)~

Double Indemnity (1944)

Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple's passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other's motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation. Told in flashbacks from Neff's perspective, the film moves with ruthless determinism as each character meets what seems to be a preordained fate. Movie veterans Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson give some of their best performances, and Wilder's cynical sensibility finds a perfect match in the story's unsentimental perspective, heightened by John Seitz's hard-edged cinematography. Double Indemnity ranks with the classics of mainstream Hollywood movie-making.

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*百大中的三八唷~
*劇本是導演Billy Wilder和Raymond Chandler一起寫的,什麼冷硬派的碗糕嗎?
*貪便宜買49塊的DVD,有些翻的怪怪的,英文字幕又切不太出來,林老師ㄌㄟ~

The African Queen (1951)

The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut, saves prim and proper Rose Sayer after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship. Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester, the wonderful combination of Hepburn and Bogie (who won an Oscar) makes this a thoroughly enjoyable blend of comedy and adventure. Later came the book (and Clint Eastwood film) White Hunter, Black Heart, which chronicled Peter Viertel's experiences observing Huston throughout the making of the picture.

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*百大中的拾柒唷~
*Humphrey Bogart以此片贏得最佳男主角;呃...還是Casablanca更棒~
*湍流的特效弄成蠻好笑的,不太寫實~
*女主角Katharine Hepburn,天啊,入圍了12次[只看了這一部 =.=];全是最佳女主角哩(得4次)~

Boys Don't Cry (1999)

Based on a true story, this drama was adapted from the life of Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, a woman who chose to live her life as a man and suffered tragic consequences as a result. In 1993, 20-year-old Brandon (Hilary Swank) leaves Lincoln, Nebraska for the nearby community of Falls City, where she sports a crew cut, favors jeans and boots, and is regarded as a man by most of the people in town. While Brandon's friend Lonny (Matt McGrath) warns her that sexual outsiders aren't looked upon kindly in Falls City, she develops a reputation for being something of a ladies' man, and is soon living with a single mother named Candace (Alicia Goranson). But when Brandon meets teenage Lana (Chloe Sevigny), the two become romantically involved almost immediately. Brandon makes friends with Lana's mother (Jeanetta Arnette) and a burly ex-con named John (Peter Sarsgaard). John and his buddy Tom (Brendan Sexton) run with a rough group of men who like to drink and carouse, and they accept Brandon as one of their own. However, when Brandon ends up in jail on a traffic violation, her secret comes out, and, while Lana stands by Brandon's side, John and Tom feel betrayed -- and their anger soon boils over into violence. A distinguished feature debut for director Kimberly Peirce, Boys Don't Cry was enthusiastically received in its showings at 1999 film festivals in Venice, Toronto, and New York.

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*感人的一部電影~
*可是...不過10餘年前,同志的觀念有這麼保守嗎?
*Hilary Swank的第一座小金人,她入圍兩次,得獎兩次...命中率百分百,不知羨煞多少女星~
*"最佳女主角"的英文,在2000年和2005年也略有不同~
*2000: Best Actress in a Leading Role
*2005: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Ironweed (1987)

Hector Babenco's bittersweet film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by William Kennedy, stars Jack Nicholson as Francis Phelan, a drunken former baseball player running away from life and the painful, guilty memories that haunt him. Set in the winter of 1938, IRONWEED features Francis wandering the streets of Albany, New York, with his pal Rudy (musician Tom Waits) looking for odd jobs, cheap drinks, and flophouses. Meryl Streep costars as Helen Archer, Francis's longtime girlfriend and partner in drink. Together they lament the misery of life and ponder their tragic pasts, hoping to find a way to free themselves from their troubled lives--but never believing it's possible. Told in a series of drunken flashbacks, this dark portrait of depression-era hopelessness is a searing character-driven drama. Nicholson and Streep deliver painfully honest Oscar-nominated portrayals of two down-on-their-luck vagabonds moodily stewing in an alcoholic daze. The film, South American director Babenco's American debut, also features an excellent performance by Waits.

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*呃...這種文學作品改編的電影...最可怕了,不是平易近人,就是艱澀難懂...這部就是後者啦~
*不過,男女主角同時獲得提名,很厲害啦~
*整部戲,一直繞著"死亡"打轉;而且...幾乎所有Jack Nicholson的朋友,都趕在The End前屬蹺蹺~

Bonnie & Clyde (1967)

Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's second-highest grosser. It also caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic anti-heroes. Based loosely on the true exploits of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker during the 30s, the film begins as Clyde (Beatty) tries to steal the car of Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway)'s mother. Bonnie is excited by Clyde's outlaw demeanor, and he further stimulates her by robbing a store in her presence. Clyde steals a car, with Bonnie in tow, and their legendary crime spree begins. The two move from town to town, pulling off small heists, until they join up with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), his shrill wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), and a slow-witted gas station attendant named C.W. Moss (Michael J. Pollard). The new gang robs a bank and Clyde is soon painted in the press as a Depression-era Robin Hood when he allows one bank customer to hold onto his money. Soon the police are on the gang's trail and they are constantly on the run, even kidnapping a Texas Ranger (Denver Pyle) and setting him adrift on a raft, handcuffed, after he spits in Bonnie's face when she kisses him. That same ranger leads a later raid on the gang that leaves Buck dying, Blanche captured, and both Clyde and Bonnie injured. The ever-loyal C.W. takes them to his father's house. C.W.'s father disaproves his son's affiliation with gangsters and enters a plea bargain with the Texas Rangers. A trap is set that ends in one of the bloodiest death scenes in cinematic history. The film made stars out of Beatty and Dunaway, and it also featured the screen debut of Gene Wilder as a mortician briefly captured by the gang. Its portrayal of Bonnie and Clyde as rebels who empathized with the poor working folks of the 1930s struck a chord with the counterculture of the 1960s and helped generate a new, young audience for American movies that carried over into Hollywood's renewal of the 1970s. Its combination of sex and violence with dynamic stars, social relevance, a traditional Hollywood genre, and an appeal to hip young audiences set the pace for many American movies to come.

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＃41 - We rob banks.
*排名27的電影唷~
*此片的五位主要演員全部被提名...男主角(1);女主角(1);男配角(2);女配角(1)~
*女主角跟Chinatown是同一人哦~
*第一次看華倫比提演的戲...他可是位才子哦...演/導/寫&編劇樣樣精通呢~

The Incredibles (2004)

'The Incredibles' follows the adventures of a family of former superheroes rediscovering the true source of their powers - in one another. Once one of the world's top masked crimefighters, Bob Parr (AKA Mr. Incredible) fought evil and saved lives on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, he and his wife Helen (a famous former superhero in her own right) have been forced to take on civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs. Today they live as mere mortals and lead all-too-ordinary lives with their children... who go out of their way to appear "normal." As a clock-punching insurance man, the only thing Bob fights these days is boredom and a bulging waistline. Itching for action, the sidelined superhero gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a topsecret assignment. Now, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the family must come together and once again find the fantastic in their family life.

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*嗯嗯嗯...
*Holly Hunter和三秒傑克森參與配音唷~

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Director Bruce Beresford's affinity for the subtleties of southern life is apparent in this adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Starring Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan and Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn, the film opens in late-1940s Atlanta. Since Miss Daisy is becoming a menace behind the wheel, her son, Boolie (Dan Aykroyd), ignores her protests and hires Hoke, a black chauffeur. When the feisty matron decides to resist necessity and walk to the store, the equally stubborn chauffeur follows her in her car. As he says to Boolie, "I used to rassle hogs down to the ground...ain't nary a hog got away from me yet." But Hoke's methods are gentleness and patience, and as the years elapse in his ongoing tug-of-war with the temperamental Daisy, she begins to tacitly acknowledge his wisdom. When she expresses annoyance over the demands of the nascent civil rights movement, Hoke points out to the Jewish woman the similarity between the attack on her synagogue and Klan attacks on black churches. But it is only after many years together that they can finally admit to the depth of the friendship they have shared. The two stars give unforgettable performances, and Beresford's direction is a model of restraint.

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*終於看了這部哈很久的片子囉,整部給人的感覺,很舒服,越看心情越好~
*片中還可以複習金恩博士的演講哦~
*1989年的最佳影片;男女主角分別獲得提名;總共9項入圍呢~
*Morgan Freeman在片中,老態龍鐘的模樣,甚至講話的語氣和腔調,都和其它作品不太一樣耶,真的厲害~

Thelma & Louise (1991)

Fed up with her boyfriend (Michael Madsen), live-wire Arkansas waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) persuades her friend Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), a naive housewife burdened with a negligent, sexist husband (Christopher McDonald), to hit the road with her for a weekend of freedom. One of their first stops is a bar where the women relax, dance, and flirt with some of the locals. But the situation turns ugly when one man (Timothy Carhart) follows Thelma to the parking lot and attempts to rape her, causing Louise to shoot and accidentally kill him. Convinced that the police will never believe their version of the incident, the women take off, now fugitives from the law. Emboldened by recent events, Thelma picks up studly young cowboy J.D. (Brad Pitt) in Oklahoma and enjoys a one-night stand that leads to even more trouble. Director Ridley Scott's infamous feminist road movie ranks among the best films of the 1990s. Along with BLADE RUNNER and ALIEN, the film is one of Scott's finest works, largely because of Callie Khourie's vivid, brilliantly idiosyncratic script, wonderful performances from the two leads, and Adrian's Biddle's crisp photography of the American Southwest.

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*哇,天啊!Ridley Scott正是Hannibal (2001)的導演耶...原來掀頭皮這幕正是出自於他的鏡頭...
*看來人的潛力無限,特別在走投無路時,更能激發出巨大的能量~
*兩位狂花演得太好了,該年可是最佳女主角的候選人呢~

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this version, Ichabod (Johnny Depp) is a New York City detective whose unorthodox techniques and penchant for gadgets make him unpopular with is colleagues. He is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of bizarre murders, in which a number of people have been found dead in the woods, with their heads cut off. Local legend has it that a Hessian ghost rides through the woods on horseback, lopping off the heads of the unsuspecting and unbelieving. Ichabod refuses to believe in this legend, convinced that there must be a logical explanation for the murders. In time, Ichabod becomes smitten with a local lass, Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci), who is the sweetheart of the burly Brom Bones (Casper Van Dien), and he becomes determined to capture the murderer to prove his bravery and win her heart. Christopher Walken, Jeffrey Jones, and Christopher Lee highlight the supporting cast; Lee's appearance is particularly apt, since Burton has cited the Hammer films of the 1960s as a major influence in making this film. Andrew Kevin Walker and Tom Stoppard contributed to the screenplay.

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*Johnny Depp在本片,以及From Hell (2001)和今年的巧克力中,都用了許多的"回憶"和"夢境"來貫穿劇情;From Hell中,他也是化身為警察,在倫敦街頭尋找開瞠手傑克的蹤跡~
*導演Tim Burton與Johnny Depp合作愉快,從Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), 1999的此部,2005的Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,和Tim Burton's Corpse Bride,兩位的交情匪淺吧;Depp在03和04年連續被提名最佳男主角,可惜都未能抱回小金人,看來還有得煮啦~
*Tim Burton不能不提的作品,便是Big Fish (2003)囉...這是一部從故事中,闡述人生哲理的電影;當年獲得最佳導演的提名~

School Ties (1992)

An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan Fraser stars as David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is offered a senior year scholarship to a prestigious New England academy. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his Rust Belt hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence about his faith as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship with his roommate Chris Reece (Chris O'Donnell) and a possible romance with Sally Wheeler (Amy Locane), a student at a nearby girls' school. When jealous classmate Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon) learns David's secret at an alumni party, he exposes the school's new gridiron hero, and David faces the full force of religious intolerance from the prejudiced WASP institution. Also featuring early performances from Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, and Cole Hauser, School Ties was loosely based on the real-life experiences of producer Dick Wolf, creator of TV's popular series Law & Order.

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*90年代初期,四位年輕耀眼新星的作品~
*Brendan Fraser: 果然是猛男起家~
*Matt Damon: 這應該是少數,他演壞壞的角色吧~
*Chris O'Donnell: 嗯,少年家就是要演學生;當年以"女人香"獲得最佳男配角的提名~
*Ben Affleck: 這部沒啥戲份耶~

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... tracks a star-crossed pair as they repeatedly drift apart and meet again over a span of 13 years and gradually fall madly, deeply, passionately into friendship, a friendship ever teetering on the edge of love. Harry meets Sally when they share a car ride to New York City upon graduation from the University of Chicago. A few minutes into the trip, the conversation between womanizing, neurotic Harry (Billy Crystal) and driven, equally neurotic Sally (Meg Ryan) becomes heatedly contentious. The question arises: Can a man and a woman be just friends? Harry contends this proposition is impossible, that sex will always come along to screw up the friendship. Sally is aghast and disagrees, proclaiming the idea a distinct possibility. The two part ways rather acrimoniously in New York but before long meet again and eventually decide to indeed be friends. As life mysterious coincidences pull Harry and Sally closer together, they share mystical, tender moments, confess secrets to each other, console each other, attend major holidays together, and do all the other things couples traditionally do. The question then reemerges: Can Harry and Sally remain mere friends, or will they--must they--fall in love? And can anyone forget Ryan's classic faking-it scene in Katz's Deli?

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*AFI百大愛情片中,＃25的電影~
*其中男女主角討論到Casablanca的劇情,也有播出一些片段呢~
*好聽的主題曲: It Had to Be You~
＃33 - I'll have what she's having. 哈哈...這句真的好笑;在戲中,講這句話的太太是導演的媽來客串~