天才接班人 Wonder Boys
107 min. 2000
Writing credits
Michael Chabon (novel)
Steve Kloves (screenplay)
Michael Douglas ... Prof. Grady Tripp
Tobey Maguire ... James Leer
Frances McDormand ... Dean Sara Gaskell
Robert Downey Jr. ... Terry Crabtree
Katie Holmes ... Hannah Green
Rip Torn ... Quentin 'Q' Morewood
Richard Knox ... Vernon Hardapple
Jane Adams ... Oola
Michael Cavadias ... Miss Antonia 'Tony' Sloviak
Richard Thomas ... Walter Gaskell
Alan Tudyk ... Sam Traxler
Elisabeth Granli ... Emily (photo)
James Ellroy ... Wordfest Party Guest
1.
Books on James Leer's desk include Albert Camus's "The Plague", Truman Capote's "Answered Prayers", and Kenneth Anger's infamous "Hollywood Babylon".
2.
The list of famous suicides is taken name-for-name from a list in Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon II", including the notorious Alan Ladd reference.
3.
In the theatrical version James Leer included Alan Ladd's death in his list of celebrity suicides. After complaints from Ladd's family, Paramount removed the offending line in all future releases of the film, including home video. Because of this, VHS and DVD releases carry a disclaimer, shown before the feature, warning that the film has been edited for content.
4.
Tobey Maguire and Robert Downey Jr play lovers in this film; both of them would later play lead Marvel superheros in Spider-Man (2002) and Iron Man (2008), respectively.
露西亞與慾樂園 Lucía y el sexo
128 min. 2001
Paz Vega ... Lucía
Tristán Ulloa ... Lorenzo
Najwa Nimri ... Elena
Daniel Freire ... Carlos / Antonio
Elena Anaya ... Belén
Silvia Llanos ... Luna
Diana Suárez ... Madre de Belén
Javier Cámara ... Pepe
"Un Rayo de Sol"
(Daniel Vangarde (as Vangarde) / Carrere / Jaén)
(c) Bleu Blanc Rouge Editions Soc - Editions Productions Zagora
Ediciones Musicales Clipper's, S.L.
Writing credits
Jim Thompson (novel)
Donald E. Westlake (screenplay)
致命賭局 The Grifters
110 min. 1990
1991 Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature & Best Female Lead
Anjelica Huston ... Lilly Dillon
John Cusack ... Roy Dillon
Annette Bening ... Myra Langtry
Stephen Tobolowsky ... Jeweler
Gailard Sartain ... Joe
Noelle Harling ... Nurse Carol Flynn
Pat Hingle ... Bobo Justus
Paul Adelstein ... Sailor - Young Paul
Jeremy Piven ... Sailor - Freshman
Gregory Sporleder ... Sailor - Spooney
David Sinaiko ... Sailor - Stinky
Martin Scorsese ... Opening Voice-over (voice) (uncredited)
1.
The stock con Myra describes to Roy when they first meet is a variation on the "Wire" con used in The Sting (1973).
2.
The Arizona motel sequence, from Lilly's approach through her dialogue with the clerk, mirrors that in Psycho (1960)
3.
Character names "Lilly Dillon" and "Myra Langtry" allude to 1800s actress Lilly Langtry.
4.
Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer were considered for the role of Lilly Dillon.
5.
Sissy Spacek auditioned for the role of Lilly.
6.
Melanie Griffith was originally slated to play Lily, but she became pregnant and had to pass on the part.
7.
John Cusack was a big fan of the book and tried to option the rights when he was still in high school.
8.
Annette Bening's performance is directly inspired by the iconic noir actress Gloria Grahame, particularly her role in The Big Heat (1953).
"Orson Welles! Ugh! The most hideous man alive!"
Brimming with both feral energy and surprising humanity, Heavenly Creatures was best defined by its director Peter Jackson, who called it "a murder story about love, a murder story with no villains."
This idea is reflected in the film's treatment of its "heavenly creatures," two schoolgirls whose consuming fantasy world is much more fulfilling than what the real world offers them: reality, in the end, is the film's true villain, as its intrusion on the girls' fantasy world ultimately brings everything crashing down.
-- AllMovie
夢幻天堂 Heavenly Creatures
99 min. 1994
1995 Nominated Academy Awards Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
1994 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion
Melanie Lynskey ... Pauline Parker
Kate Winslet ... Juliet Hulme
Sarah Peirse ... Honora Parker Rieper
Diana Kent ... Hilda Hulme
Clive Merrison ... Dr. Henry Hulme
Simon O'Connor ... Herbert Rieper
Jed Brophy ... John / Nicholas
Jean Guérin ... Orson Welles
Stephen Reilly ... Mario Lanza
Peter Jackson ... Bum Outside Theater (uncredited)
1.
Almost all locations used for filming were the genuine locations where the events occurred. The tea shop where Honora Parker ate her last meal was knocked down a few days after the shoot ended. According to director Peter Jackson, when they got to the location of the murder on the dirt path, it was eerily quiet; the birds stopped singing, and it didn't seem right. So they moved along a couple of hundred yards.
2.
Juliet Hulme was revealed to be mystery writer Anne Perry who came forward and revealed her real identity in 1994 during the making of the film, but all attempts to find Pauline Parker failed. In 1997, Pauline Parker was finally traced to a rundown cottage on a farm near Strood, Kent, England, where she currently runs a children's riding school. Since assuming the name of Hilary Nathan, she has become a devout Catholic and devoted her life to handicapped children.
3.
Orson Welles' photograph in the stream is a reference to a similar shot in The Third Man (1949).
4.
The feature film debut for stars Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet.
5.
Since the Parker-Hulme murder had been an infamous crime that was strongly sensationalized in New Zealand history Jackson decided rather than do a film that would be a historical look back at the crime to instead create a drama about Parker and Hulme's intense friendship. In addition to reading Pauline Parker's diary Jackson and company undertook a nation wide search for anyone who had known the girls and interviewed them to get a closer look at their life.
6.
Both Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet went on to find fame and popularity in roles with the character name of Rose: Lynskey in "Two and a Half Men" (2003) and Winslet in Titanic (1997).
"We're taking you to Contention, putting you on the 3:10 to Yuma, day after tomorrow."
A train and a horse, moving out of frame together, shot with such understated affection that Mangold captures the iconography of old Westerns while still finding some new poetry in them.
It's the most lyrical moment in the film, capping a very solid straightforward narrative with a moment that reminds everybody that a human being who genuinely loves movies made this one.
Mangold has no interest in transcending or subverting genres, because he still finds so much pleasure in them.
-- AllMovie
決戰３：１０ 3:10 to Yuma
122 min. 2007
Writing credits
Halsted Welles (screenplay)
Michael Brandt (screenplay)
Derek Haas (screenplay)
Elmore Leonard (short story)
Russell Crowe ... Ben Wade
Christian Bale ... Dan Evans
Logan Lerman ... William Evans
Dallas Roberts ... Grayson Butterfield
Ben Foster ... Charlie Prince
Peter Fonda ... Byron McElroy
Vinessa Shaw ... Emma Nelson
Alan Tudyk ... Doc Potter
Luce Rains ... Marshal Weathers
Gretchen Mol ... Alice Evans
Lennie Loftin ... Glen Hollander
Johnny Whitworth ... Darden
Kevin Durand ... Tucker
1.
Russell Crowe was director James Mangold's very first choice for the role of Ben Wade. After Tom Cruise dropped out of talks for the film, putting it into turnaround, it was the casting of Crowe that got the production back up and running.
2.
Russell Crowe, director James Mangold, and producer Cathy Konrad unanimously preferred Christian Bale as the co-lead.
3.
At one point, Tom Cruise and Eric Bana were pursuing the starring roles in this film. But when Columbia Pictures put this film in turnaround, the actors left to pursue other projects.
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Something my granddad used to tell us. You know Macumba? Voodoo.
My granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us,
"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."
生人勿近 Dawn of the Dead
126 min. 1978
David Emge ... Stephen
Ken Foree ... Peter
Scott H. Reiniger ... Roger
Gaylen Ross ... Francine
1.
Filmed in Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, PA.
2.
The two zombie children who attack Peter in the airport chart house are played by Donna Savini and Mike Savini, the real-life niece and nephew of Tom Savini. Incidently, these are the only zombies in all of Romero's "Dead" films that spontaneously run and never do the trademark "Zombie shuffle".
3.
Filming at the Monroeville Mall took place during the winter of 1976-77, with a three week reprieve during the Christmas shopping season (during which other footage, e.g. the TV studio, was shot). Filming at the mall began around 10 p.m., shortly after the mall closed, and finished at 6 a.m. The mall didn't open until 9, but at 6 the Muzak came on and no one knew how to turn it off.
4.
Tom Savini, head of makeup effects, was unhappy with how the blood mix (produced by 3M) photographed; it looked fluorescent. Director George A. Romero felt it was perfect for the film's comic book style.
5.
Extras who appeared in this film were reportedly given $20 in cash, a box lunch, and a Dawn of the Dead T-shirt.
6.
Dario Argento was an admirer of George A. Romero's work, and vice-versa. When Argento heard that Romero was contemplating a sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1968) he insisted that Romero come out to Argento's native Rome to write the script without distractions. Romero knocked out the script in 3 weeks and, though Argento read the script as it came out, he left all the writing to Romero. Argento also provided most of the film's soundtrack and, in return for the rights to edit the European version of the film, assisted in raising the necessary funds.
7.
Tom Savini choose the gray color for the zombies' skin, since Night of the Living Dead (1968) was in B&W and the zombie skin-tone was not depicted. He later said it was a mistake, because many of them ended up looking quite blue on film.
8.
Peter is the first person in the franchise to refer to the undead as "zombies". The term is never used in Night of the Living Dead (1968).
9.
The most profitable film in the "Dead" series.
10.
It took up to three hours in makeup to transform someone into a zombie.
To have someone in your control...
To have them know that they are alive...
only because you have not decided to the contrary.
是誰在跟我玩遊戲
111 min. 1998
Writing credits
Stephen King (novella "Apt Pupil")
Brandon Boyce (screenplay)
Brad Renfro ... Todd Bowden
Ian McKellen ... Kurt Dussander
Mickey Cottrell ... Sociology Teacher
Ann Dowd ... Monica Bowden
Bruce Davison ... Richard Bowden
James Karen ... Victor Bowden
Marjorie Lovett ... Agnes Bowden
Heather McComb ... Becky Trask
David Schwimmer ... Edward French
Jan Triska ... Isaac Weiskopf
Joe Morton ... Dan Richler
1.
There had been talk of a film version in 1984. James Mason agreed to play Kurt, but died from a heart attack before filming could begin. Richard Burton was considered as his replacement, but died from a cerebral hemorrhage before he could accept the part. The first attempt to film this story, in 1987, ran over budget and was stopped after six weeks of shooting while it remains only ten days of filming. According to Stephen King, who saw a rough cut of 3/4 of the movie, "it was really good". It starred Rick Schroder and Nicol Williamson, and was directed by Alan Bridges.
2.
The movie is based on a novella (a long short story) by Stephen King from a book of short stories called "Different Seasons" which also includes "The Body" which became Stand by Me (1986) and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" which became The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
3.
When Stephen King learned that Bryan Singer was to direct, he sold the film rights for just $1.
4.
At the start of the film, the voice of the off-screen teacher is actually writer Christopher McQuarrie, a childhood friend of director Bryan Singer and writer Brandon Boyce.
5.
Ian McKellen admitted he was surprised to be asked to play 75-year-old Kurt Dussander, since he was only 57 at the time of filming.
6.
Anthony Hopkins turned the main part down.
7.
Ian McKellen said that one of the things that convinced Bryan Singer to cast him as Dussander despite him being British, and considerably younger than the character, was when Singer raved to McKellen about about a performance by an actor he had recently seen in Cold Comfort Farm (1995) (TV), and McKellen informed him that he was the same actor he was talking about.
8.
The movie ending and the novella ending are drastically different. In the novella's ending, after Dussander's death, Todd murders Mr. French and then goes up on an overpass and begins to snipe people in cars going by, until the police kill him. In the movie he essentially gets away with everything, without having to kill Mr. French.
Do you ever wish you would die?
No.
It's foolish to ask for luxuries in times like these.
"The scenes in which the father wrestles with making an unthinkable sacrifice raise some fascinating questions about the evolution of relationships in the post-apocalyptic world, and the true nature of unconditional love in extreme circumstances."
"Those scenes will undoubtedly haunt the soul of any parent for days after viewing the film, and spark some interesting thoughts on just how different our world could be in the blink of an eye."
-- AllMovie
末路浩劫 The Road
111 min. 2009
Writing credits
Cormac McCarthy (novel)
Joe Penhall (screenplay)
Viggo Mortensen ... Man
Kodi Smit-McPhee ... Boy
Robert Duvall ... Old Man
Guy Pearce ... Veteran
Molly Parker ... Motherly Woman
Michael Kenneth Williams ... Thief
1.
The U.S. release date was postponed from November 26, 2008, to October 16, 2009, to allow for additional post-production work. The 2009 release date was further delayed to November 25, 2009, to position the picture for Academy Awards competition.
2.
Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee reported bonding by eating crickets to help them get into character.
3.
Kodi Smit-McPhee won his part over hundreds of boys due to a strong audition and his resemblance to Charlize Theron, who had been cast as Woman.
4.
Viggo Mortensen nearly turned down the role of Man because he had planned a break from film work. After completing his work as the Man, Mortensen took a long break from acting.
5.
An apparent CGI aerial shot, which also appears in the trailer, is a digital recreation of actual destruction by Hurricane Katrina to Empire, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The shot shows large, twin boats on a highway in front of a bridge over the Empire Lock on Louisiana state highway 23. In the movie rendering, a large city skyline appears on the horizon, where in actuality there would be only the rural peninsula of Plaquemines Parish.
6.
John Hillcoat filmed the soft-drink vending-machine scene with Man and Boy several times, each with a different brand beverage, out of concern that Coca-Cola executives would not want their product to appear in the motion picture. A telephone call from Viggo Mortensen to the president of Coca-Cola secured permission for a can of Coca-Cola to appear, consistent with the source novel.
7.
During a preview Q&A screening in London, director John Hillcoat revealed that Kodi Smit-McPhee won the role of 'The Boy' partly due to an audition tape sent in by Kodi's father that showed them re-enacting the scene where the father shows the boy how to kill himself by placing a pistol in his mouth.
8.
To live the role, Viggo Mortensen would sleep in his clothes and deliberately starve himself.
9.
Nobody in the film is credited with a name. The only person who introduces themselves is the Old Man. However, his name is taken as fake by the main character.
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