天生一对英文影评
Love will never change
This is an inviting film. The plots of the film are ups and downs, which attract my attention from beginning to the end, and the film full of warm scene.
Hallie Parker and Annie James meet each other for the first time on the summer camp. At the beginning they hate each other, but later they find they are twins. When the summer camp is over, Hallie Parker and
Annie James exchange their identities. Hallie meet her mother and Annie also gets her wish. Their father, Nick, prepare to marry a lady Meredith, but the twins hope their parents remarried. The twins tell their parents their real identities arranging for their parents to meet. Then the climax of the story is appeared. The whole family members come together including Nick’s girl friend Meredith. The twins destroy the relationship between their father and his girl friend successfully, but their mother does not want remarry. She takes Annie back to London. We think the film is over and the will never meet each other any more, but we are worry. When Elizabeth and Annie step into the house they see Nick and Hallie. What an amazing time it is! Nick does not want lose Elizabeth again so he takes Hallie come to London. So the family members get together again and the story has a perfect ending.
The film tells us that it is love that brings them back together. The love between family members will never change, and love can make anything
into reality.
罗马假日 影评及影评指导
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怦然心动经典台词中英文
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经典英文电影台词100句
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5篇英文电影观后感(用英语写的)
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英文电影经典台词大全
英文电影经典台词大全 导读：本文是关于英文电影经典台词大全的文章，如果觉得很不错，欢迎点评和分享！ 1、You can’t handle the truth！你不能操纵事实！《义海雄风》 2、All right，Mr。DeMille，I’m ready for my close-up。好了，德米勒先生，我已经准备好拍摄我的特写镜头了。《日落大道》 3、I am big！It’s the pictures that got small。我是巨大的！是这些照片让我变得渺小了。《日落大道》 4、Death is just a part of life，something we're all destined to do。死亡是生命的一部分，是我们注定要做的一件事。《阿甘正传》 5、A man can be destroyed but not defeated。一个人可以被毁灭，却不能被打败。《老人与海》 6、I have always depended on the kindness of strangers。我总是非常依赖陌生人的仁慈。《欲望号街车》 7、Love means never having to say you’re sorry。爱就是永远不必说对不起。《爱情故事》 8、You had me at hello。你一开口就征服了我！《加菲猫》 9、After all，tomorrow is another day！毕竟，明天又是新的一天！《乱世佳人》 10、There’s no crying in baseball！在棒球运动中没有哭泣！
《红粉联盟》 11、Oh，Jerry，don’t let’s ask for the moon。We have the stars。噢，杰瑞，不要再乞求能得到月亮了，我们已经拥有星星了。《扬帆》 12、I think it's hard winning a war with words。我认为纸上谈兵没什么作用。《乱世佳人》 13、Wait a minute，wait a minute。You ain’t heard nothin’yet！等一会儿，等一会儿。你肯定听到了什么！《爵士歌手》 14、Shed no tears for me，my glory lives forever！不要为我流泪，我的荣誉将永远流传。《星球大战2》 15、A boy’s best friend is his mother。一个男孩最好的朋友是他的母亲。《惊魂记》 16、Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates。You never know what you’re gonna get。妈妈说生活就像一盒巧克力，你永远都不知道你会得到什么。《阿甘正传》 17、Greed，for lack of a better word，is good。没有比“贪婪”更好的词语了。《华尔街》 18、I feel the need-the need for speed！我感到一种需要，一种加速的需要！《壮志凌云》 19、You talking to me？你是在和我说话吗？《出租车司机》 20、Show me the money！让我看到钱！《甜心先生》 21、I’ll have what she’s having。我会拥有她所拥有的。《当
英文影评《费城故事》
Film Review on Philadelphia Philadelphia, directed by Jonathan Demme, featured by Tom Hanks and Danzel Washington, tells a story about a AIDS patients who has fired because suffering from AIDS fight for his right with legal. As the groundbreaking achievement in Hollywood's first look at AIDS discrimination, the movie is mainly about two sensitive topics: homosexuality and AIDS. To analyze the contradictions in the story from the theory of Structuralism, there are two sets of conflicts: the endless case with Andrew’s former employer, and Andrew’s good fight against sickness. The gay character, Andrew, a social outcast that facing to the death, is still fighting against the serious illness and the discrimination from the society all the way; The black lawyer, Miller, someone doesn't like homosexuals, agrees to take the case for sympathy. In the name of justice and humanity, in the spirit of compassion, Andrew and Miller tried to fight for legal right in a common action. They gradually become friends and come to understand one another during the quarrel. From Miller’s eyes, we can feel And rew’s love to life and live. There is a impressiveness scene in the movie: Listening to the inspiring music, Andrew put on a drip, described to Miller his hunger for affection, and his desire for life. Life is not what you see in the films, it’s much harder. “Philadelphia” was made in 1993, In that time, people’s attitude to AIDS and homosexual are stern, rigid and unreasonable. Most people still feel a hearty dislike about homosexuality, much more a gay with AIDS. "Philadelphia" leads the trend of innovation to the AIDS discrimination. It gave hope to the many others who face this dilemma at some point or another in their lives. On the other hand, it also tries to turn our view to the AIDS. For viewers of the movie, the meaningful question is not whether they sympathize with Tom Hanks' AIDS-afflicted, but whether that sympathy opens up a different perspective on the victims of the disease in the real world. We should ask several questions to our selves: Should the social outcast have the unfair treatment? What the Public opinions to AIDS? Will any sex orientation of the people be accepted by society? No matter what he is, he has the right to live on happily. That’s what I learn from “Philadelphia”. when I see the light. I know I'll be all right. Philadelphia.
Tess(苔丝)1979经典电影英文影评
Tess(苔丝)1979 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which Roman Polanski has turned into a lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate movie, might at first seem to be the wrong project for Mr. Polanski in every way. As a new biography of the director reports, when Tess was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the press pointed nastily and repeatedly to the coincidence of Mr. Polanski's having made a film about a young girl's seduction by an older man, while he himself faced criminal charges for a similar offense. This would certainly seem to cast a pall over the project. So would the fact that Hardy's novel is so very deeply rooted in English landscapes, geographical and sociological, while Mr. Polanski was brought up in Poland. Finally, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is so quintessentially Victorian a story that a believable version might seem well out of any contemporary director's reach. But if an elegant, plausible, affecting Tess sounds like more than might have been expected of Mr. Polanski, let's just say he has achieved the impossible. In fact, in the process of adapting his style to suit such a sweeping and vivid novel, he has achieved something very unlike his other work. Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean. In a preface to the later editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Mr. Hardy described the work as "an impression, not an argument." Mr. Polanski has taken a similar approach, removing the sting from both the story's morality and its melodrama. Tess Durbeyfield, the hearty country lass whose downfall begins when her father learns he had noble forebears, is sent to charm her rich D'Urberville relations. She learns that they aren't D'Urbervilles after all; instead, they have used their new money to purchase an old name. Tess charms them anyhow, so much that Alec D'Urberville, her imposter cousin, seduces and impregnates her. The seduction, like many of the film's key scenes, is presented in a manner both earthy and discreet. In this case, the action is set in a forest, where a gentle mist arises from the ground and envelops Tess just around the time when she is enveloped by Alec. Alec, as played by Leigh Lawson, is a slightly wooden character, unlike Angel Clare, Tess's later and truer lover, played with supreme radiance by Peter Firth. Long after Tess has borne and buried her illegitimate child, she finds and falls in love with this spirited soul mate. But when she marries Angel Clare and is at last ready to reveal the secret of her past, the story begins hurtling toward its final tragedy. When Tess becomes a murderer, the film offers its one distinctly Polanski-like moment—but even that scene has its fidelity to the novel. A housemaid listening at a door hears a "drip, drip, drip" sound, according to Hardy. Mr. Polanski has simply interpreted this with a typically mischievous flourish. Of all the unlikely strong points of Tess, which opens today for a weeklong engagement at the Baronet and which will reopen next year, the unlikeliest is Nastassja Kinski, who plays the title role. Miss Kinski powerfully resembles the young Ingrid Bergman, and she is altogether ravishing. But she's an odd choice for Tess: not quite vigorous enough, and maybe even too beautiful. She's an actress who can lose her magnetism and mystery if she's given a great deal to do (that was the case in an earlier film called Stay As You Are). But here, Mr. Polanski makes perfect use of her. Instead of a driving force, she becomes an echo of the land and the society around her, more passive than Hardy's Tess but linked just as unmistakably with natural forces. Miss Kinski's Tess has no inner life to speak of. But Mr. Polanski makes her surroundings so expressive that her placidity and reserve work very beautifully. Even at its nearly three-hour running time, Mr. Polanski's Tess cannot hope for anything approaching the range of the novel. But the deletions have been made wisely, and though the story loses some of its resonance it maintains its momentum. There are episodes—like one involving Tess's shabby boots and Mercy Chant, the more respectable girl who expects to marry Angel—that don't make the sense they should, and the action is fragmented at times. That's a small price to pay for the movie's essential rightness, for its congruence with the mood and manner of the novel. Mr. Polanski had to go to Normandy and rebuild Stonehenge to stage his last scene, according to this same biography. As is the case throughout his Tess, the results were worth the trouble. 1