剧情介绍
《死神假期》影片介绍:Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained. [Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration. To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming. More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching. (Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk) In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it. (Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net) I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line The Weirdest Love Story ever told! (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts. (Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org) See also the remake Death Takes A Holiday (1971)...
详情
猜你喜欢
影片评论
-
听涛公子:刚刚23怪女孩出位(Pretty Persuasion)……贝弗里山庄的两个女孩不惜一切代价要自己成名 -
水蓝樱桃:6分钟前附近更多的是卖古玩的，新修建了一座古玩大楼，还在装修中，继续往前走，一个类似回收站的地方散乱着摆着几摊书，瞧了瞧，也没甚好的，几本武汉地方志还不错，但是不全 -
逍遥与你同在:2分钟前） 4．博士毕业研究生自费出国做博士后研究不收取高等教育培养费。
-
-
一个懒人2点0:3分钟前汤米非常热爱他的姐姐，因为姐姐是他生活中唯一不认为他是混蛋的人。 -
岚菜菜:2小时前而且刘亦菲也能把自己身上那股纯净的魅力发挥得淋漓尽致，刘亦菲身着墨绿长裙，看起来名媛风十足！但是这件裙子的腰部有点显粗！ -
糖玥:7小时前问及觉得最难的一场戏，李思澄眉头紧锁，苦恼道“和冰卿的每一次戏都很难”单恋少年的烦恼引得大家开怀大笑。 -
庄生dream:8小时前很少男人会亲吻女人鼻子(鼻子明明就是脸上最突出的部分，男人怎么都忘记呢?)，也有很多女人不爱被亲吻鼻子，认为过于戏耍。 -
乱迷眼:8小时前㈣ 有一部电影,国外的,有个坏蛋叫曼能,想称霸世界,他俘虏一个女巫师,谁能告诉我这个电影叫什么名字吗 -
侠客孤:1天前影片讲述的是美国禁酒时期政权要人和黑帮的纠葛，仍旧沿袭科恩兄弟前两部作品逐渐成熟起来的超现实主义和黑色幽默的情节模式和视觉风格。
扫码用手机观看
分享到朋友圈
热播榜
-
儿子与情人
类型：动画 地区：英国
主演：/特瑞沃·霍华德/迪恩·斯托克维尔/温蒂·希勒/玛丽·乌尔/海瑟·西尔斯/威廉·卢卡斯/康拉德·菲利普斯/欧内斯特·塞西杰/唐纳德·普利森斯/罗莎莉·克拉切利/西恩·布瑞特/Elizabeth Begley/Edna Morris/Ruth Kettlewell/Anne Sheppard/苏珊·特拉维斯/Dorothy Gordon/格温德琳·沃茨/菲利普·雷/Sheila Bernette/
推荐影片