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Abigayle 2022-09-21 08:17:44
To borrow a line from the film to Paul Auster, "To make up a story, you have to know what a chain is. You're a master, I'd...
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Alphonso 2022-09-14 22:35:04
The script is...
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Vaughn 2022-09-09 04:34:05
Didn't watch a good movie. ....
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Kamron 2022-09-07 09:49:42
Standard four and a half star movie. This is probably (almost certainly) my favorite of Wang Ying's works. A bit of a Jarmusch and Ang Lee hybrid, holding just the right line between alienation and warmth. To put it bluntly, it is the story of an ordinary New Yorker, but his shooting method is too delicate, so the charm is long, and you can't help but think that every passerby who may pass by has his own story that is not told to others. BTW remember this golden sentence: Bullshit is a real...
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Armando 2022-09-03 08:09:07
It turns out that this is Paul Oster's "Christmas Story". God will naturally arrange for every middle-aged man who is kind to others to be his father. . In this movie, Harvey Keitel is really an angel and beautiful. The story of soothing the black orphan is obviously a special Christmas story, but it is very right to tell him in the end, and the last black and white shot is superfluous (although It was Tom Waits who came to sing the Christmas song) ps Jared Harris played the role of a small...
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Abagail 2022-09-03 01:02:36
Wang Ying’s fragmented narrative records the entire story from the perspective of a lonely writer. The original author’s skill is fiction (he often throws out some memorable short stories), so the whole story is more like savoring a warm and moving novel , Especially the black and white narrative at the end, the finishing touch. The comparison between black and white youths, plus the details that the grandmother actually knows that Auggie is not a grandson||The screenwriter is Paul Auster, no...
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Nikolas 2022-08-08 21:46:09
The story that William Hurt's character tells about the son who found his dead father's body frozen on a mountain is the same story that Paul Auster uses in his novel, "The New York...
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Gabe 2022-08-08 21:39:57
Each short story is very simple, but you will see yourself in a certain short...
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Leonard 2022-08-08 21:35:18
One flaw: How could Auggie put such important things that require a dry environment under the water bucket? Showing traces of...
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Lysanne 2022-08-08 18:47:55
Warm christmas...
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Retta 2022-08-08 21:41:57
Life story
My Spanish film literature teacher recommended us to watch and suggested that we eat it with the original text. The original text is a short story, which is the little Christmas story Auggie told the writer at the end of the film. The original text is narrated in the first person of the writer. In...
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Hosea 2022-08-08 23:02:13
One of the best American movies
Speaking of an American film, the director is actually Chinese filmmaker Wang Ying. This film, which was filmed in 1995, seems to have won many awards, but in terms of its popularity among the audience, it is obviously not a successful film.
Augie is a small shopkeeper of a tobacco shop, and the...
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[last lines]
Paul Benjamin: Bullshit is a real talent Auggie. To make up a good story you have to know how to push all the right buttons. I'd say you were up there with all the masters.
Auggie Wren: What do you mean?
Paul Benjamin: I mean um,
[chuckles]
Paul Benjamin: it's a good story.
Auggie Wren: Shit, if you can't share your secrets with your friends, then what kind of friend are ya?
Paul Benjamin: Exactly. Life just wouldn't be worth living, would it?
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Auggie Wren: The boys and me were just having a philosophical discussion about women and cigars.
Paul Benjamin: Well I suppose that all goes back to Queen Elizabeth.
Auggie Wren: The Queen of England?
Paul Benjamin: Not Elizabeth the Second, Elizabeth the First. Did you ever hear of Sir Walter Raleigh?
OTB Man #1, Tommy: Sure. He's the guy who threw his cloak down over the puddle.
OTB Man #2, Jerry: I used to smoke Raleigh cigarettes. They came with a free gift coupon in every pack.
Paul Benjamin: That's the man. Well, Raleigh was the person who introduced tobacco in England, and since he was a favorite of the Queen's - Queen Bess, he used to call her - smoking caught on as a fashion at court. I'm sure Old Bess must have shared a stogie or two with Sir Walter. Once, he made a bet with her that he could measure the weight of smoke.
OTB Man #3, Dennis: You mean, weigh smoke?
Paul Benjamin: Exactly. Weigh smoke.
OTB Man #1, Tommy: You can't do that. It's like weighing air.
Paul Benjamin: I admit it's strange. Almost like weighing someone's soul. But Sir Walter was a clever guy. First, he took an unsmoked cigar and put it on a balance and weighed it. Then he lit up and smoked the cigar, carefully tapping the ashes into the balance pan. When he was finished, he put the butt into the pan along with the ashes and weighed what was there. Then he subtracted that number from the original weight of the unsmoked cigar. The difference was the weight of the smoke.
OTB Man #1, Tommy: Not bad. That's the kind of guy we need to take over the Mets.
Paul Benjamin: Oh, he was smart, all right. But not so smart that he didn't wind up having his head chopped off twenty years later. But that's another story.
