故事发生在1921年,网视玛格丽特(凯瑟琳·弗洛 饰)是一位热爱音乐却唱歌走音的女人,网视她拥有着这一座邻近巴黎的大城堡,也有着一小群观众在城堡里听她歌唱,可这些伪善的观众却在玛格丽特背后偷偷嘲笑她。一位年轻的记者写了一篇关于她表演的文章,玛格丽特深信自己的音乐才能,想要做一次公共演出。根据美国女高音Florence Foster Jenkins的故事改编而成,她因为糟糕的歌唱技巧而在上世纪30-40年代走红。
故事发生在1921年,网视玛格丽特(凯瑟琳·弗洛 饰)是一位热爱音乐却唱歌走音的女人,网视她拥有着这一座邻近巴黎的大城堡,也有着一小群观众在城堡里听她歌唱,可这些伪善的观众却在玛格丽特背后偷偷嘲笑她。一位年轻的记者写了一篇关于她表演的文章,玛格丽特深信自己的音乐才能,想要做一次公共演出。根据美国女高音Florence Foster Jenkins的故事改编而成,她因为糟糕的歌唱技巧而在上世纪30-40年代走红。
回复 :年轻有为的广告设计师卢家耀(梁家辉 饰)在一次阻止不良分子寻衅滋事中失手伤人,被判服刑三年,在狱中,他因个性憨直得罪了黑帮老大,受尽欺辱,老囚犯钟天正(周润发 饰)看不过仗义相助,两人结为患难之交。钟天正原本有完好家庭,只因嗜赌成性才误杀妻子,身陷囹圄的他追忆往事时后悔不已, 决心走出高墙后重新做人。然而,因为替卢家耀出头,他得罪了狐假虎威心狠手辣的典狱长(张耀扬 饰),自此卷入狱中恶势力的漩涡,走投无路之际,他放弃了“能忍则忍”的处世哲学,决意以暴施暴。
回复 :Min Ji-suk runs a ticket barwhere customers can purchase tickets for certain servicesin the town of Sokcho in Gangwon-do. She hires Miss Yang (Ahn So-young), Miss Hong (Lee Hye-young), and Se-young (Jeon Se-young) through the employment agency. Miss Yang and Miss Hong, who are well experienced in this type of business, are used to accepting propositions from customers. But Se-young, who is dating a college student named Min-su, rejects all requests for sexual favors. When Min-su professes to having problems with his tuition and finances, Se-young reassures him that she will procure the necessary funds for him. When the bar's clientele begins to dwindle because of Se-young, Ji-suk reprimands her severely. Se-young develops a close relationship with a Captain Pak and even allows him to sleep with her. She asks Captain Pak to find Min-su employment on a boat, but when Min-su comes to Sokcho for his new job, he sees how Se-young has been making her living. Shocked, he turns his back on the job and leaves. When he eventually returns to Sokcho, he scathingly denounces Se-young's morality and severs their relationship. Decades ago, Ji-suk had stumbled into the bar business in a desperate effort to support her husband, who was serving time in prison; she later left him voluntarily out of shame and moral degradation. Concerned that Se-young will end up with the same fate, Ji-suk asks Min-su to meet with her. She begs him not to abandon Se-young, but he flatly refuses. Ji-suk reacts by pushing Min-su into the sea, and suffers a mental breakdown that lands her in a psychiatric institution.
回复 :Sixty Glorious Years is an exercise in the creation of iconography, both for Victoria and its star, Anna Neagle (who subsequently became known as 'Regal Neagle'). Just as Elizabeth I commissioned artists to create flattering iconic images for public consumption, so this film performs a similar function, for Neagle is more beautiful than the real life Victoria. Controversial events (such as the 'Irish problem') are omitted and unpleasant aspects of Victoria's character (her petulance, arrogance, favouritism and 'right to privilege') are glossed over as endearing little 'whims'. Albert acts as a moderating influence when she goes too far.The film followed a year after the highly successful Victoria the Great (d. Herbert Wilcox, 1937). Again the screenplay is by Miles Malleson and Robert Vansittart, and many of the supporting cast (the cream of acting talent of period) repeat their roles, this time for the colour cameras. This was the first full length Technicolor film of cinematographer Freddie Young, who captures the spectacle of royal weddings, grand balls and opulent interiors, with scenes actually filmed at royal palaces. Vivid battle scenes, set in Alexander Korda's empire territory (Sevastopol and the Sudan), rival those in The Four Feathers (d. Zoltan Korda 1939).The title music sets the tone: a regal choir sings over a shot of the crown. Elgar's 1901 'Pomp and Circumstance' march is heard during the diamond jubilee celebrations and, as Victoria's coffin lies in state, the film concludes with Anthony Collins' stately music accompanied by the text of Rudyard Kipling's 'Lest we forget'. Combined with the emotional appeal of scenes of Victoria connecting with her 'ordinary folk', this is stirring stuff.The film connects with contemporary events of 1938. The release of two celebratory royal films was intended to boost public affection for the monarchy in the wake of Edward VIII's abdication. Anglo-German relations were another touchy subject. With another war on the horizon, influential voices wanted appeasement, and the film could be seen to fit that agenda. Victoria herself was of mainly German descent, nicknamed 'the grandmother of Europe', while Albert is a 'good German', charmingly played by Anton Walbrook as a cultured, decent man.Sixty Glorious Years now seems unduly formal and reverential. Had movies existed during Victoria's reign (they only emerged at the end) this might have been the kind of film produced. Unlike Mrs Brown (d. John Madden, 1997), it is all so very 'Victorian'.Roger Philip Mellor