crawl电影英语影评
‘壹’ 卧虎藏龙的影评，英语的，50词左右，谢了，9点前给我吧，急用
A 19-year-old newcomer and a middle-aged veteran
steal the show from two legends of Hong Kong cinema
BY GARY MORRIS
Director Ang Lee would not be an obvious first choice to direct a Hong Kong martial arts film, even at a time when the genre is practically dead and thus ripe for resurrection by a highly regarded craftsman like Lee. His previous films — Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm are two — are careful, thoughtful works but also slow and stately to the point of torpor, traits that seem inimical to the whole HK aesthetic as seen in the work of megastars like Jackie Chan and Jet Li; procers and directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo; and films that cover a vast range of styles from the genderbending histrionics of the Swordsman series (starring the queen of HK androgyny, Brigitte Lin) to the homoerotic bloodbaths of Woo (Hard-Boiled, The Killer) to the sweet everyman epics of Jackie Chan.
Lee’s new film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is being marketed as both a loving homage and a redemption of the alleged excesses of the HK martial arts movie, a questionable approach since excess — in the larger-than-life characters, stylized violence, and dazzling shifts of tone — is a primary lure of these films. In Lee’s words, "People tend to look down on the genre. Some may have thought it strange that I could just drop what I normally do and make something like a B-movie. And as I was doing it, there was no escape. I had to bring in drama, I had to bring in women, I had to bring in beauty and whatever I feel added quality to it. It became an Ang Lee movie."
The good news is that the attitude behind such patronizing statements — drama, women, and beauty are hardly rare in HK films — is only partly in evidence in this "Ang Lee movie," in the film’s tedious, cliché romantic sequences. When Lee (or was it a gifted second-unit director?) focuses on the martial-arts sequences, the effect is breathtaking indeed and deserving of all the accolades the film is receiving.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is based on a pre-World War II novel about characters who (in spite of Lee’s protests of originality) will be quite familiar to fans of HK’s golden age films. Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) is a legendary martial artist whose attempts to find enlightenment have left him disillusioned. He gives away his famous sword, the Green Destiny, to signal a move into a new, nonviolent life. His courier is Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), another well-known fighter who’s been pining away for him for years. Shu Lien becomes friendly with the aristocratic young Jen (Zhang Ziyi), who is secretly a superior swordswoman, the lover of the desert bandit Lo (Chang Chen), and a disciple of the vicious middle-aged female criminal Jade Fox (Cheng Pei Pei). From this setup, the film details the theft of the Green Destiny, the romantic and political intrigues that ensue, and the major characters’ life quests: Jen for love and power, Li Mui Bai for peace, Shu Lien for Li Mui Bai, Jade Fox for revenge against all men, and Lo for Jen.
The film has a muted, elegant look that works in its favor to transport the viewer to its setting of ancient China, meticulously recreated. But this rich pictorialism has a down side: Lee seems to be so in love with his compositions and conceits that the film slows to a crawl in some sequences. A particular offender in this regard is a seemingly endless diversion in the desert, where the love affair between Lo the bandit and Jen the captured lady begins. Lee exploits the bleak beauty of this setting (shot in the Gobi desert and the Taklamakan Plateau north of Tibet) but eventually loses the viewer in the interminable love scenes.
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‘贰’ 如何用英语讲述电影（面对巨人）
太简单了，在wikipedia中输入Facing the Giants，在plot那里你就能找到答案，一般人我不会告诉的哦。那一块我都给你复制过来了~~
Grant Taylor (Alex Kendrick) is the head coach for the Shiloh Eagles football team at Shiloh
Christian Academy, and has yet to post a winning record in his six-year
tenure. After his seventh season begins, he learns that his Running
Back, tired of losing, has transferred to a rival school as he moved in
with his dad in that school district. Grant is frustrated as this is the
third time he has spent developing key players but having them transfer
schools in their senior year. Consequently the team is discouraged and
write the season off since he was the one who scored a third of their
points last year. Not surprisingly, the discouraged Eagles get shutout
23-0 in their first game.
Larry Childers, who is confined to a wheelchair, and his son David
have recently moved from Athens, GA where David is entering his junior
year at Shiloh. David is a soccer player but Shiloh does not have a
soccer program so Larry encourages him to try out for the football team
as a kicker despite David's reservations. David is nervous e to his
small stature and lack of experience in football, but his dad tells him
not to be afraid of failure. After try-outs, the coaching staff see
promise in him and he makes the team.
In the next game against Dewey County (a game which the Eagles are
favored to win), the team totally falls apart and loses 21-7 frustrating
the coach to the point where he holds a closed door team meeting and
berates the team for giving the game away e to their poor offense as
well as certain players for missing practice as they had detention for
slacking off in class. Later that night when David discusses the game
with his dad, he agreed with the coach and was glad to not have played
that game and get berated, but his dad again brings up the point that he
still has fear in him e to excuses.
With another losing streak, the players' fathers start making noises
about replacing Grant with defensive coordinator Brady Owens (Tracy
Goode) and hold a late night meeting at the school (with Grant secretly
listening). This is not the only problem Grant is facing. Outside of
football, his car is breaking down and he cannot afford to get another
one, some things in his home are not working properly, and he discovers
that he is the reason that his wife Brooke (Shannen Fields) cannot
become pregnant. With all these issues (giants) that Grant is facing, he
begins asking God for help and God begins to change his perspective on
life and his approach to the team.
During the next team meeting, Grant offers anyone $10 if they could
guess the team who won the sports championship 10 years ago or 5 years
ago. When nobody could come up with the correct answer, he tells the
players that trophies and other material awards as well as personal
recognitions, only last for a short while. He then challenges the
players when it comes to their future in life and their true purpose for
playing football as well as creating a new coaching philosophy to focus
on praising God, no matter what the result.
During practice in preparation for their next game against Westview,
Grant calls out one of his influential players, Brock, to do the death
crawl (crawling across the football field with the knees and elbows off
the ground and with another lighter player on top) after hearing him
write off their next game as a loss. Grant tells Brock to crawl to the
50 yard line but makes him do it blindfolded for the purpose of
maximizing his potential. As Brock is struggling, Grant continually
encourages him not to quit along the way and Brock ends up crawling all
the way to the end zone. Grant sees Brock as an emerging leader and
tells him that the team will sink or swim with his attitude. Inspired by
this, the Eagles come together as a team and defeat their opponent.
Under God's guidance and provision, things begin to take a turn for
the better as the players take their studies in school seriously after
earlier boasting about their low grades. There is a revival at the
school as students start openly praying and sharing their burdens with
each other and Grant personally rebukes a player on his team to respect
his father. As a result, the Eagles begin a winning streak resulting in a
post season appearance and a pay raise for Grant, the player who was
earlier rebuked by Grant reconciles with his dad and they secretly buy
Grant a brand new pickup.
During the post season game against Princeton Heights, the Eagles put
up a valiant effort but come up short. Learning from Grant's previous
lessons, they praise God despite the loss. As the team begins packing up
their gear and calling it a season, coach Grant receives a phone call.
Later, he calls an impromptu meeting with the team and informs them that
Princeton Heights has been disqualified for cheating when they played
two ineligible 19 year olds ring the game. As a result, the Eagles
have advanced to the quarterfinals against Tucker whom they defeat
soundly and then advance to the state championship game against the
three-time defending champion Richland Giants.
Even though the Eagles have only a third as many players as the
Giants, the Eagles hold their own and ultimately win the game on a
51-yard field goal from David, the backup kicker who had never kicked
more than a 39-yarder before.
At home, Grant's prayers for children are also answered as Brooke
conceives after four years and the ending shows Grant playing with his
new child with Brooke watching and pregnant again.
‘叁’ 卧虎藏龙影评 英语
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A 19-year-old newcomer and a middle-aged veteran
steal the show from two legends of Hong Kong cinema
BY GARY MORRIS
Director Ang Lee would not be an obvious first choice to direct a Hong Kong martial arts film, even at a time when the genre is practically dead and thus ripe for resurrection by a highly regarded craftsman like Lee. His previous films — Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm are two — are careful, thoughtful works but also slow and stately to the point of torpor, traits that seem inimical to the whole HK aesthetic as seen in the work of megastars like Jackie Chan and Jet Li; procers and directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo; and films that cover a vast range of styles from the genderbending histrionics of the Swordsman series (starring the queen of HK androgyny, Brigitte Lin) to the homoerotic bloodbaths of Woo (Hard-Boiled, The Killer) to the sweet everyman epics of Jackie Chan.
Lee’s new film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is being marketed as both a loving homage and a redemption of the alleged excesses of the HK martial arts movie, a questionable approach since excess — in the larger-than-life characters, stylized violence, and dazzling shifts of tone — is a primary lure of these films. In Lee’s words, "People tend to look down on the genre. Some may have thought it strange that I could just drop what I normally do and make something like a B-movie. And as I was doing it, there was no escape. I had to bring in drama, I had to bring in women, I had to bring in beauty and whatever I feel added quality to it. It became an Ang Lee movie."
The good news is that the attitude behind such patronizing statements — drama, women, and beauty are hardly rare in HK films — is only partly in evidence in this "Ang Lee movie," in the film’s tedious, cliché romantic sequences. When Lee (or was it a gifted second-unit director?) focuses on the martial-arts sequences, the effect is breathtaking indeed and deserving of all the accolades the film is receiving.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is based on a pre-World War II novel about characters who (in spite of Lee’s protests of originality) will be quite familiar to fans of HK’s golden age films. Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) is a legendary martial artist whose attempts to find enlightenment have left him disillusioned. He gives away his famous sword, the Green Destiny, to signal a move into a new, nonviolent life. His courier is Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), another well-known fighter who’s been pining away for him for years. Shu Lien becomes friendly with the aristocratic young Jen (Zhang Ziyi), who is secretly a superior swordswoman, the lover of the desert bandit Lo (Chang Chen), and a disciple of the vicious middle-aged female criminal Jade Fox (Cheng Pei Pei). From this setup, the film details the theft of the Green Destiny, the romantic and political intrigues that ensue, and the major characters’ life quests: Jen for love and power, Li Mui Bai for peace, Shu Lien for Li Mui Bai, Jade Fox for revenge against all men, and Lo for Jen.
The film has a muted, elegant look that works in its favor to transport the viewer to its setting of ancient China, meticulously recreated. But this rich pictorialism has a down side: Lee seems to be so in love with his compositions and conceits that the film slows to a crawl in some sequences. A particular offender in this regard is a seemingly endless diversion in the desert, where the love affair between Lo the bandit and Jen the captured lady begins. Lee exploits the bleak beauty of this setting (shot in the Gobi desert and the Taklamakan Plateau north of Tibet) but eventually loses the viewer in the interminable love scenes.
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‘肆’ 冰河世纪2 英文影评
这里找到几篇，仅供参考
·The original Ice Age, released in 2002, was an undemanding kid's film: fast, fun and imaginative, it combined old-fashioned cartoon slapstick with a gently bantering script strong on family values. The sequel plays in similar fashion, warm-hearted and creative in an erratic Looney-Tunes style.
This time around, Manny the Mammoth (Ray Romano) and his pals Sid and Diego must journey to escape the imminent flooding of their valley by a cracking glacier. They're joined in their travels by a family of possums, one of whom is in fact a confused she-Mammoth (charmingly voiced by Queen Latifah). Convinced they are the last two of the species remaining, Manny finds his heart begin to melt - but not as fast as the ice underfoot...
Without a driving plot the film is a series of episodes that become increasingly disjointed and bizarre, often reminiscent of the shorts shown before Pixar movies. One minute the herd is teetering on precarious rock-formations, the next a wake of vultures are doing a dance routine. The most fun comes courtesy of the Wile E. Coyote-esque squirrel, who returns still no closer to catching his beloved acorn. There is a lot of the kind of fast-paced action that computer animation, with its infinite capacity for fine-tuning, lends itself very well to.
The dialogue is spirited if rarely laugh-out-loud funny. With the focus on Manny's attempts to ensure the survival of his species there is less for the other two leads to do and Denis Leary, wonderfully droll as Diego the sabre-toothed tiger, is particularly underused. A strong theme of friendship and loyalty runs throughout but thanks to Romano's curmudgeonly Manny it remains refreshingly unsentimental.
References are made to evolution and the food chain, but this is not as intelligent a script as Toy Story 2 or The Incredibles, and few jokes will pass kids by. Surprisingly, for a film about extinction and flooding caused by global warming, there's no ecological message standing out.
In short, it's less a sequel and more a remake of the first Ice Age, with less plot and more clowning around. The only change is the quality of visuals: the animals now have thick, deep fur that even becomes glossy when wet, and the final flood of photorealistic water boasts glorious refraction effects. Director Carlos Saldanha takes full advantage of current technology to render this lush, wintery world as busily as possible, full of plants and strange creatures.
At a time with little in the cinema for kids, especially for those tired of superhero violence, Ice Age 2 will come as a welcome relief. Children will enjoy the pace and lively characters, and parents can rest assured that the film's heart is in the right place, despite Diego's frequent threats to eat his friend Sid. Lightweight fun.
- Jon Ingold
·Rewind time to 20,000 years ago and the earth would look like a very different place…it’s a time when it would almost look like present day earth, but there would be several creatures running around that are now either extinct or evolved into an animal we are familiar with present-day. This film Ice Age is set in at the beginning of our last ice age; at the moment of when the glaciers were beginning to crawl south into North America, when the ice bridge was formed between Siberia and Alaska allowing many different species of mammals to migrate on this side of the world. It was also ring the time when Neanderthal (pronounced Nee-ander-taal) and man coexisted before the Neanderthals became extinct.
In this story, a bitter woolly mammoth named Manfred has the unfortunate run-in with a clumsy and defenceless Sloth named Sid. Sid needs a friend and Manfred wants him to get lost. All of the animals are migrating south, but Manfred is taking the lone trip north to the glaciers for some reasons unknown to us at this time.
Bad-luck has it that the two of them are given a baby Neanderthal from a wounded mother and she hopes they will protect it from the sabre-toothed tiger named Diego. Diego wanted the baby for his “boss” as revenge because these Neanderthals killed half of his pack for clothes. Diego, frustrated that Manfred and Sid have this baby agrees to help the two of them find the father of the baby, but of course, Diego has his own agenda too.
Sarcasm is what makes this movie funny, especially because of Ray Romano as the voice behind Manfred. I can’t say his voice is warm and fuzzy like the creature but that’s why John Leguizamo is there for the voice (and comic relief ) of Sid. The movie has its slow and exciting moments, but one thing I am thankful for is that it’s not very “busy” for an animation. The backdrops are very simple and there isn’t a lot going on in each scene unlike what we see in Robots or The Incredibles. Simple movies like Ice Age are relieving sometimes. They cause fewer headaches.
·Ice Age: The Meltdown showed plenty of promise based on the previews: More of what we got last time, with new characters for us to laugh at. It certainly delivers that in spades, although not a whole lot more. All of our favorite characters return, including Sid the sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo), Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano), Diego the tiger (Denis Leary), and of course dear little Scrat the… something (Chris Wedge), who never quite manages to keep his acorn.
Once again the plot revolves around a journey, this one to safety from a massive flood that is soon going to wipe out anyone who stays in the area. Sid, Manny, and Diego set off with many other animals, but always seem to be separate from the rest, the pack usually is a minor part of the action. And the adventures begin, all with danger, funny situations, and humor that could have been a lot cleaner. The largest of these is meeting up with two possums and another mammoth (Queen Latifah) who believes that she is also a possum. These identity issues make for quite the situation as Manny believes that they may be the last two mammoths left alive. And it turns out that Diego is afraid of water, not a good thing when a flood is headed your way. So they all travel together and try to keep from getting killed; you have to wonder how a few animals can get into so much trouble.
The physical comedy is the strongest point, of course. You can’t help but laugh at the scrapes they get in and out of, and it almost makes you forget the dialogue which borders on pathetic. sadly, much of the humor in the dialogue is insults and word plays (a beaver says “Dam!” and the theater erupts in laughter). There is a bit of shaky ground as the mammoths discuss their relationship, but they kept it to a decent level. And like the original, Scrat overshadows everything in his quest to get the acorn. It’s safe to say that he’s the favorite; the kids always made happy noises as soon as he appeared.
So the worst part is the dialogue, of course; I think the scary situations are comic enough to not cause too much trouble for the younger audience. Hungry sea animals may be a little tougher, but the rest will simply evoke laughter. Evolution is, of course, assumed to be true, although it takes a back burner in light of all the adventures. Included is a spoof of Noah’s Ark; the destination of safety is a large boat, so it can at least open a discussion about what really happened. Since the target audience is the children who will absorb all of this stuff, I suggest you give them the parental guidance that the rating advises.
I do feel positive overall about the movie, despite its shortcomings. I certainly did laugh, and while the plot isn’t wonderful, following it made me feel like I had the adventure right along with them. It is what it is; the kids will love it, and parents probably won’t feel like they’ve wasted their money to see it.
－－Will