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对<时尚女魔头>的英文影评,谢谢
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作者： yuyu67341872
01-01 08:00
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就电影中对女主角的选择做评价,讨论该片的价值点.. |
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回复：对<时尚女魔头>的英文影评,谢谢
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作者： vanlicia
01-01 08:00
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The Devil Wears Prada struck me much like the industry that provides its backdrop – pure surface, well promoted and unabashedly convinced of its own importance. If this was in fact the point of the piece, it is an absolute success. Otherwise, this highly-publicized film is painfully predictable and merely another incarnation of a plug-in script whose story arc has been traversed over and over . . . and over.
Let's see, it goes something like this; basically decent, idealistic, young (man/woman) goes to (New York/Chicago/Los Angeles/D.C.) to make his/her mark in (writing/business/music/acting/government) only to be temporarily seduced by the very environment/person they are the antithesis of, alienating his/her(boyfriend/girlfriend/family/friends/all of the above) in the process until he/she stumbles on to the revelation, "To thine own self be true." Devil is all of this. . . again. Only the trendy names being dropped have been updated for those who find that sort of thing significant enough to make them believe this is somehow a different story.
The characters, as written, are equally as plugged-in and predictable. The film is only watchable because of the efforts of three actors. Streep is superb -- as always -- as Miranda Priestly, the self-absorbed, career-obsessed and patently unpleasant publishing mogul. Every incredulous look and pursed lip is right on the mark. She is not however, showing us anything we haven't been shown before – either about her acting or about women at the top. Even Miranda's obligatory "vulnerability scene" is thin and comes too late in the film to matter. By the time we witness what angst she is capable of, we really don't care. We are left with less a feeling of empathy than a sense of justice. (If you want to see her be truly chilling and ruthless, check out the remake of Mancherian Candidate.)
Likewise, Emily Blunt, as Miranda's first assistant, does a wonderful job as an insecure, over compensating slave to someone else's expectation. Her portrayal is cattily on target and provides the requisite foil to our heroine's wide-eyed innocence. Performance-wise this is commendable, but it leaves the audience with next to nothing to like about her character. The dilemma here is that the film presents her (as well as the character of Miranda) in such a way that we have this nagging feeling maybe we are supposed to like her in some way – and yet, we don't. This creates even more of a dilemma later on when Andrea – our supposedly intelligent, perceptive and grounded protagonist, played forgettably by Anne Hathaway-- makes attempts to befriend these two soulless women. Many are left to perceive her gestures as a weak and irritating need to be liked rather than any real nobility of character.
The one true bright spot of the film is Stanley Tucci, as Nigel, who once again seems to infuse a refreshing dimension and humanity to a character that was probably not written that way. He continues to amaze.
Cinematically, The Devil was a small-screen script seemingly shot for the small screen. It no doubt will look stunning when it reaches HBO to be embraced by all those starving fans of Sex in the City and many others who believe that haute couture must surely be the apex of man's cultural accomplishments and that watching insensitive, catty women snipe at each other is actually entertaining.
Billed as a "comedy/drama," the film was never very touching and only mildly amusing. There were no new insights or honest laughs -- the kind you share with friends about the mutually-experienced absurdities of life. No. The audience responses were more like those sophisticated, obligatory snickers that you exchange over lattes with people you don't really know that well -- and are reasonably certain you wouldn't want to spend time with again. |
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回复：对<时尚女魔头>的英文影评,谢谢
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作者： vanlicia
07-01 10:16
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Everyone knows that Meryl Streep is the high priestess of drama, but she never gets enough credit for her comedy skills. That should change with The Devil Wears Prada, a sinfully funny, deliciously glossy take on the 2003 best seller by Lauren Weisberger, who denies writing it as a poison-pen letter to her former boss, Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The names have been changed, of course, to ward off lawsuits. Stepping up to the plate as imperious fashion editor Miranda Priestly, Streep knocks every laugh out of the park. More remarkably, she humanizes a character who was little more than a bitch in Manolos on the page.
Streep teams up hilariously with Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, the "smart fat girl" (she's a mere size 6) who applies for the job as Miranda's junior assistant at Runway magazine. Andy, a journalism major at Northwestern, had her eye on The New Yorker, but is told that if she can run the gantlet of Miranda for a year, there is no publishing Everest she can't climb. Before you can say "makeover,"Andy is transformed from a gawky giraffe into a swan who can trade up in lovers -- from sweet chef (Adrian Grenier) to literary stud (Simon Baker) -- and from cotton blends to chicest of Valentino, Chanel, Donna Karan, Bill Blass, Galliano and Prada. Guys who know squat about labels can take pleasure in the uberbabes wearing the threads.
Director David Frankel makes expert use of the light touch he brought to HBO's Entourage and Sex and the City. And screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna leeches out the book's malice in favor of wicked sass. Does the movie bite the fashion hand that feeds it? You bet. But it also pays due respect to the artful details turning the wheels of an industry that only seems frivolous. There's no doubt Andy learns much from watching Miranda at work, even with all the insults and fool's errands. The script tries to paint Miranda into a corner -- the lonely careerist who can't keep a husband or find personal happiness -- but Streep won't wallow in the cliches of victimhood. In a party of a movie, her performance is a comic and dramatic tour de force. comic and dramatic tour de force. |
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回复：对<时尚女魔头>的英文影评,谢谢
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作者： liu1di2jie
07-01 10:16
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我也不知道啊
不过我会帮你查查看的 |
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回复：对<时尚女魔头>的英文影评,谢谢
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作者： 亡魂索命
07-01 10:16
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刚刚离开校园即将投身社会及工作的乡下姑娘安德丽娅·桑切丝(安妮·海瑟薇)幸运地得到了世上似乎所有女孩都梦寐以求的机会--在大城市纽约最出名时尚杂志《Runway》的主编米兰达·普雷斯丽(梅利尔·斯特里普)手下担任助理工作。如果助理工作做得好，安德丽娅将能留在这本整天与“Prada、Armani、Versace” 等世界著名服装设计师打交道的高贵杂志中担任羡煞旁人的编辑工作。当然，最重要的前提是她该如何能服侍好挑剔的主编米兰达，并获得她的最终肯定。身为著名时尚杂志的高级管理人，米兰达自身就有着高贵时尚、举止优雅的特点。这些无不令她手下的众人艳羡并敬畏不已。然而她这一看上去美好的一面却只对外人展示。在杂志社内部，米兰达绝对称得上是个不折不扣的“女魔头”。安德丽娅落在她手里堪称饱受折磨：首先，这位不时尚的姑娘每天早晨要应对米兰达的各种只说一遍的指令，并在每天第一时间给米兰达冲泡一杯香浓的咖啡，迟一秒钟都会被骂得狗血淋头；每天下班后还要接到工作狂米拉达打来的电话，应付她各种突如其来的工作和生活上的问题。当时，一心想得到米兰达肯定的安德丽娅虽有怨言但也任劳任怨。但是，在形式渐渐有所好转的情况下，她却突然发现，自己一直梦寐以求的工作原来并不如想象中的那么美好。倘若自己真的留在这家如地狱般的杂志社，有一天很可能会精神崩溃。这一刻，安德丽娅要作出如何的选择？
影片《时尚女魔头》(The Devil Wears Prada)改编自同名畅销小说，原著作者劳伦·魏丝很大程度上在这部小说里在讲述自己曾经的亲身经历。她当年同样在大学毕业之后，便进入了美国著名的时尚杂志《Vogue》编辑部中担任主编助理，经过一年的工作“磨砺”之后辞职。随即便写出了这部关于自己工作经历的小说。在书中，她毫不隐讳了描写了自己所受到的种种不公正待遇，而书中写道的那个号称来自地狱的老板的形象，亦是直指现实生活中的前《Vogue》主编安娜·薇托尔。其实，普通人对于名人富豪的奢华生活总是存有猎奇心理，因此，这本书一经上市就引起不小的轰动，取得了空前热卖的成绩。在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上一连持续了15个星期高居不下。如今，在曾经炮制过热播剧集《欲望城市》与《兄弟连》的导演大卫·弗兰克之手，此书成了被搬上好莱坞大银幕的绝好题材之一。相信，如此有美国风味的“现实主义 ”故事一定会成为这个夏天很多人喜欢关注的焦点。该片也将再次点燃人们希望窥探时尚女编辑私人生活的欲望 |
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