[unfinished] The Illusionist (2006)

In the turn of the Twentieth Century, in Vienna, the teenager Eduard Abramovich is the son of a cabinetmaker that becomes fascinated with magic. While practicing some tricks on the streets, he meets the upper-class Sophie, they become friends and later they fall in love for each other. When they are separated by Sophie's family, the broken-hearted Eduard travels to the Far East and fifteen years later he returns to Vienna as a famous illusionist with a different name, Eisenheim. While performing a show in the presence of the ambitious and ruthless Crown Prince Leopold and the corrupt Inspector Uhl, Sophie volunteers for a trick on the stage and they immediately recognize each other. The flame of their passion bursts, but Sophie is engaged of Leopold, as part of his political game to be crowned king with the support of Hungary in a coup d'état against his father. Sophie and Eisenheim plan to runaway together, but when the drunken Leopold discloses their intention, he apparently kills Sophie. The grieving Eisenheim brings his Chinese acquaintances and performs an amazing show, where nothing is what it seems.

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*Tagline: Nothing is what it seems.
*身為Edward Norton的超級大影迷,早就引頸企盼這部電影許久啦!當然他之後仍有幾部電影: The Painted Veil,由同名小說"愛在遙遠的附近"所翻拍,一樣是賺......

[unfinished] The Guardian (2006)

The US Coast Guard version of "Top Gun" with a little "An Officer and A Gentleman" thrown in: an aging USCG rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Immediately prior to this terrible event, his wife also announced that she cannot take anymore. His first love is always the rescue mission. This leaves him an obviously emotional wreck. His commender gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position. Moving into the school, he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum that routinely fails half of the people that attend. Here he meets a young man with unlimited potential, but with some secret that seems to hold him back as a team player. Delving into his past, links are found that make him a psychic twin to the older man. Thrown into the midst of the story is a romance with a local girl. Rescue missions punctuate the beginning and end of the story with the training sessions the center of the film.

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*Tagline: When lives are on the line, sacrifice everything.

[unfinished] Unknown (2006)

Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.






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*Tagline: Trust No One. Fear Everyone.

Crank (2006)

Chev Chelios is a professional assassin working for the West Coast crime syndicate. Chev's girlfriend Eve doesn't know what Chev does and Chev is planning to quit the crime syndicate so he can spend more time with her. But for Chev, things about to get very bad, when he learns he has been injected with a poison called "The Beijing Cocktail" by his rival Verona, which will kill him if his heart rate drops. Trying to stay alive and seeking help from friend, Kaylo and Doc Miles, to keep his heart pumping. Chev sets out to find answers as well as protecting Eve, and get his revenge on those who have betrayed him before the poison kills him.

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*Tagline: Poison in his veins. Vengeance in his heart.
*看著男主角從頭跑到尾,又要打架,開車,還要跟女朋友嘿咻,實在很累~
*但是,還是得說,真的沒啥內容~

[unfinished] Pulp Fiction (1994)

Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are two hitmen on the hunt for a briefcase whose contents were stolen from their boss, Marsellus Wallace. They run into a few unexpected detours along the road. Marsellus is out of town, and he's gotten Vincent to take care of his wife, Mia. That is, take her out for a night on the town. Things go smoothly until one of them makes a huge error. Butch Coolidge is a boxer who's been approached by Marsellus and been told to throw his latest fight. When Butch ends up killing the other boxer, he must escape Marsellus. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (not their real names) are two lovebirds/thieves who have decided to rob the restaurant they're currently eating at. But the restaurant doesn't turn out to be as easy as the other places they've robbed.

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*Tagline: You won't know the facts until you've seen the fiction.
*等了許久才看的電影...

Annapolis (2006)

After insisting thirty-four times with his congressman, the shipyard welder and amateurish boxer Jake Huard joins the U.S. Naval Academy. Having difficulties in the classes and suffering prejudice in his relationship with his superior Cole, he has the support of his roommate and his superiors Ali and Lt. Commander Burton. Jake studies hard and trains for an internal box competition, in an unfair environment.




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*Tagline: 50,000 Apply. 1,200 Are Accepted. Only The Best Survive.
*1978年次的James Franco,已經參與過39部電影或影集的演出,曝光機會最大的,莫過於Spider-Man了;當初James是參加主角的試鏡,結果得到Harry這個反派角色...
*另外一部較為有名的,則是和Robert DeNiro合作的City by the Sea (2002),飾演一個叛逆的兒子,廣告當初打很凶,但是看完好像覺得普普而已~
*Jake在Pub搭訕的橋段,女主角的回答挺妙的~

佐賀的超級阿嬤 (2006)

電影根據暢銷原著改編，溫馨動人的情節，日台擄獲千萬人的心，更引發象徵純樸樂天的新生活運動 －「阿嬤精神」。

第二次大戰後的日本，昭廣在母親百般無奈的情況下，交給佐賀鄉下的阿嬤獨立照顧，結果想不到阿嬤家比誰都窮！雖然日子窮到不行，但樂天知命的阿嬤總有神奇而層出不窮的生活妙招，居然還能帶動流行風潮！在物質匱乏的歲月裡，超級阿嬤豐富昭廣的心靈，讓家裡也隨時洋溢著笑聲與溫暖......

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*Tagline: 阿嬤精神，照耀千萬人~
*嗚嗚,好感人的電影~
*阿嬤的妙語真是太多,思想新奇,創意無限~
*昭廣跑步怎麼有點像阿甘啊~

Hostage (2005)

Haunted by his failure to save a child from a suicidal madman, hostage negotiator Jeff Tally leaves Los Angeles to become police chief of upscale suburb Bristo Camino. But the ghosts of Tally's previous field come back to haunt him when two brothers and their mysterious traveling companion Mars Krupchek take a suburbanite family hostage after a failed robbery. Unbenknownst to the gunmen, their hostage is actually a numbers runner for West Coast kingpin Sonny Benza, and the house contains evidence that put him away. Facing heat from associates in New York, Benza kidnaps Tally's wife and daughter and blackmails him into procuring the incriminating evidence. But the situation escalates even further when Tally discovers that Mars is a serial killer who is eyeing the hostages, and possibly his accomplices, to be his next victims.

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*Tagline: Would you sacrifice another family to save your own?
*老布搬到郊區後,女兒極度不爽,跟他大吵一架;Rumer Willis,飾演片中女兒的人,正是老布的女兒...Rumer當初想要這個角色,但是老爸要她一切按照規矩來,跟其它人一起參加試鏡,到最後入選~
*老布被綁匪鎖在車上這段,綁匪秀出中質,不急不徐地將訴求告訴老布,最是精彩,可惜沒有"露臉",少了讓觀眾認識的機會~
*片中有兩組綁匪,專業這組智勇俱備;業餘這組殺氣十足,只是完全沒有智慧可言~
*結局利用"禮尚往來"為出發,兩人合作將專業綁匪幹掉,可惜幕後黑手的身份仍然不得而知,不免遺憾;難道是為第二集預留伏筆?

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's best-selling 1985 novel. Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) toiled his childhood away in a rank tannery run by the thuggish Grimal (Sam Douglas). Subsequently obsessed by smell, Grenouille's keen olfactory sense becomes so finely tuned that it eventually overpowers such human qualities as love and compassion. Though he has indeed discovered the unmistakable scent of a woman, Grenouille finds it impossible to connect with the fairer sex on any sort of meaningful level. Roaming the streets of Paris late one night, Grenouille catches the scent of a young girl selling plums and impulsively strangles her, later sniffing her nude corpse in a twisted attempt to preserve the distinctive scent in his memory. After persuading legendary perfumer Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman) to take him on as an apprentice, Grenouille travels to the town of Grasse in Southern France in order to learn the art of enfleurage at a firm run by the highly respected Mme. Arnulfi (Corinna Harfouch). It is there that Grenouille becomes dangerously drawn to the vestal aroma of the young and beautiful Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), the daughter of widower merchant Antione Richis (Alan Rickman). Soon driven to madness by such a pure scent, the spellbound Grenouille continues to claim the lives of the numerous young girls in a tragic attempt to bottle the impossibly elusive smell of virginal womanhood.

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*Tagline: He lived to find beauty. He killed to possess it.
*若說德國的通俗小說,就屬香水最為有名了~(哈,也只知道這本啦)
*要將嗅覺為主的劇情,利用視覺影像來呈現,實在是一大挑戰,導演利用鏡頭的轉移,讓觀眾想像現在葛乙奴聞到什麼味道,可能就是唯一的方法囉~
*在Singin' in the Rain (1952)中,有介紹當年默劇轉型至有聲電影時,曾有電影工作者,突發奇想推出嗅覺電影,簡單地說,便是當電影中的主角去餐廳吃牛排時,觀眾就能聞到牛排的味道;上洗手間時,可以聞到......當然,最後因為電影院殘留了太多味道,難以消散;甚至不小心在電影播出時,冒出大量的白煙而無疾而終~
*雖然已經有點忘記小說的內容,但是有一點可以確定,小說中的葛乙奴,不是為了收集12種香水而存在~

Taxi Driver (1976)

Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: "Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator's campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a 'lone crazed gunman'...

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*Tagline: On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.
*上一次看這部電影是4~5年前了吧,劇情幾乎都忘了,只記得計程車跟很年輕的Jodie Foster;到底是多年輕呢?14歲而已耶!童星出身的她,從2歲就開始接拍廣告,6歲參與連續劇的演出;在Taxi Driver中傑出的表現,獲得奧斯卡最佳女配角的提名肯定;之後在耶魯大學主修英國文學...30歲前,在未接受任何表演訓練之下,抱走了兩座最佳女主角的小金人(The Accused & The Silence of the Lamb)...提名了四次,命中兩次,只能說是一位天才演員吧~
*對於電影的內容,實在是沒有太大的共鳴,Robert DeNiro買槍的動機,是想懲治壞人,當他跑到總統候選人的政見發表會場地時,我覺得,他應該不會暗殺才對~
*1981暗殺雷根總統的John Hinckley被捕後,表示他很喜歡這部電影和Jodie Foster,所以才會想模仿片中的Travis Bickle...問題是...Travis Bickle又沒有暗殺別人~
*百大肆拾柒哦~
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