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)
这期战斗说，只要说出那个人的名字就得死，到了十二鬼月也说那个人的名字，只是加‘大人’的称呼就不死了？
三视角的处理真的太绝了，男性视角的自我美化和自我投射，实在是真实，真实到，即便不看女性视角，也可以很明显看出哪里不自然，Jacques视角把逃脱挣扎看成欲拒还迎当然是再明显不过，Jean视角听到妻子控诉犯人表现出的冷静和支持简直太假。任性、虚荣、嫉妒这些强加在女性身上的刻板印象，在这两个男人身上显露无疑，而女性自古以来，控诉性暴力却一直在滚钉板、受火刑，末了还被来一句“诬告零成本”。决斗之后的回程，对Jean来说，是胜利的荣光，对Marguerite来说，却是游街示众，她的苦难远远没有结束……几百年后的文明人，审视受到性暴力的女性的样子，和黑暗残忍的中世纪又有多大的区别？好在故事最后，好斗的丈夫战死沙场，谁不叹一句苍天有眼，离开男人才是女人幸福生活的开始
挺好看的。灰蒙蒙的电影色彩。四川话的对白。小成本好电影。
TV版动画6-10集的合辑篇，主要是讲炭治郎偶遇终极大反派，而后遇到鬼医生和她的迷弟，被请回家，双方针对如何变回人进行了探讨，并达成合作，再遇到两个被大反派安排来的鬼袭击，最后在几人通力合作下，解决了两个鬼，基本上没有在TV版上加什么内容，看过原本的话，可以不再看这个特别版，整部片子的亮点就是这次打斗从各个角度展示了一下水之呼吸基本都有什么招数，该燃的地方也十分燃，而且是一次性看完全部，感觉上会比较连贯会更爽，属于重温性质的片子
鬼灭之刃 浅草篇
我常常想，电影的结尾有没有一种除了大梦一场之外的形式，但好像也很难。除了写个隽永的结尾带点梦幻，和现实连上，就是告诉观众，这里结束了，你该醒了。本片在它自身是很完整的，只是我一直在期待着更多！更多！小丑戏本身就不承担那么多别的东西。所以唯一一点遗憾，可能就是椒麻于内于外都太完整了。
一幅横向移动的卷轴 #MoMI screening
前兩段兩星，第三段四星。忍受一大半走過場般沉悶的男角色戲份（casting了Matt Damon和Adam Driver，只是為了讓大家能堅持看完前半部），和每場戲交行貨一般的導演處理，終於在第三段進入了戲眼，連場面處理和表演都細緻了起來。Ridley Scott聰明地知道議題的重點在女性角色，但不代表他對兩個男角色的處理可以如此簡單粗暴。
非常幸运能在大银幕看到这部片子/当中国近代史的洪流穿过邱福的身体 溅出的是一代艺术家的绝唱
三星半，非常振奋人心的风格尝试，导演的画家身份使其实现了一种以几乎反电影的方式出发的调度，不只是很大程度地取消深焦调度，画面中人物和背景的透视关系也无时不被导演操纵着，于是形成了一种扁平化的，散点透视移步换景的，东方式的视觉空间。而演员在这样空间中的立体在场，则创造出了一种诡异的“德国新即物主义”般的扭曲观感。这种人物空间关系在电影前部和叙述主题高度契合，那是皮影戏台般的历史舞台：三维的“人”无法在一个意识形态及政权斗争主导的二维世界中找到存活空间，于是被挤压，被流放，而当戏子进入戏班，他们则通过一种主动扁平化的方式为自己觅得了偏安一隅，电影动人的幻梦体验全部来自于此。但很可惜也很奇怪的是，中国的创作者好似永远无法逃脱集体叙事的宿命，使电影最终令人沮丧而后几近厌恶地，滑入了陈旧迂腐的窠臼。
6-10合集。虽然鬼灭好看，但花头精过多了。每次看到以为是新剧集，白高兴一场。
TV动画《鬼灭之刃》的合集:第01~05集→《兄妹的羁绊》、第06~10集→《浅草篇》、第11~14集→《鼓屋敷篇》、第15~21集→《那田蜘蛛山篇》、第22~26集→《柱众会议●蝶屋敷篇》。
剧本第二部分是不是写的有问题？强奸者在这段叙述里其实已经承认了罪行（假以爱的名义对受害人实施了强奸、并警告其闭嘴），虽然后来他又采纳了旁人的指点，一再否认、坚持否认，但观众已经看到了真相，这导致第三部分（真相还原的部分）戏剧性大大降低。还有一个不令人满足的地方是，女主角坚持要说出真相的动机，这个最能体现故事当代性以及人物魅力的的东西，交代地很不充分。结尾不错，一个虚假的胜利，够冷。
这些个骑士老爷真够好笑的，在他们决斗结束后不到半个世纪，最著名的法国农妇圣女贞德带领法国人击败了英格兰。雷爷还是太英国了，女性主义议题的表达在形式和内容上都有些保守。《罗生门》式多视角叙事形式固然颇有讽刺效果，但过于工整，看第一个视角我就预料到编剧会在哪些地方呈现不同的叙事细节。内容上非常正确，主题表达也非常直白，只能说无功无过，和欧陆导演范霍文的《圣母》相比，缺乏更丰富的阐释和理解维度，思辨深度也远远不及后者。文本层面整体表现放在雷爷强大的电影作品序列里不算突出。但雷爷的影像品质依然顶级，吊打现在绝大多数好莱坞电影。真的太爱看雷爷拍古装片了，视听层面每一帧都是享受，期待老头子拍的拿破仑电影。
去他丫的正义，去他丫的上帝。本来以为看点是马特达蒙的暴躁，抑或亚当德赖弗的潇洒，又或本阿弗莱克的阴邪，没想到，这是“小变态”一个人的精彩！三种视角下，层出不穷的细节变换，嘴脸丑陋的群像，女性的物化，勾勒了足够腐朽荒谬的中世纪，全是心口爆裂而密集的鼓点。女性视角起，拍案叫绝，魔鬼无处不在，但不幸之源始终唯一。终局虽只寥寥数语，却教人心领神会。
婚内的n次合法强暴，女主无法反抗。于是将这满腔怨气一并移情到了被歹人的1次非法强暴中。在一个女性只是财产只是生育工具的时代里，父亲打发你，丈夫使用你，那个说“最爱你”的人不但强暴你，还可以在他垂死之时以灵魂起誓玷污你。女性的悲歌，历史的悲歌
最有意思的应该是那些重复段落，因此这并不是简单的POV转换
主要是讲炭治郎偶遇终极大反派，而后遇到鬼医生和她的迷弟，被请回家，双方针对如何变回人进行了探讨，并达成合作
让我们看看本马达二十多年后会不会再次一起站在最佳改编剧本的领奖台上
看之前除了知道是雷导作品之外一无所知，看完之后真的非常惊喜。雷导再加“本马达”编剧真就是质量保证。好一出借古讽今。一个男人声称爱上了一个和他同样爱好文学的人（且深信对方也爱自己），然而他找到她之后的第一件事却只是脱掉裤子强奸她（而且还秒射…fxxking kidding me？）；甚至他到临死前都还对上帝发誓那是两情相悦而非强奸。然而其他的男人甚至女人甚至整个社会都和他并没有什么本质的不同，虚伪而冷漠。
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