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1、13400 字)Yes I saw this movie. ExcuUuse me for having a mom.Yes my mommy is the period piece fanatic. We have all the Jane AustinBBC series on tape. Boxed.So in this one, Gwynnie is Emma, the town matchmaker. And although she s perfectly well intentioned, she s not terribly good at it and at the same
2、 time she is trying to figure out the man for herself.As a mommmy ovie, it s quite well done. I actually didn t fall asleep. Haha. No, it was quite engaging once I set myself up to be so incredibly enthralled by the young woman s spirit! and the quest for true love -what could be nobler? Gwynnie can
3、 do English quite well, and considering she s such a socialiteit s no wonder. She s also convincing both as the womanstruggling to dosomething she thinks is both noble and neccesary and asthe confused womanworried about her ownmatch. And as the object of desire. Cause I gotta admit, if both Ben and
4、Brad want her, she must be doing SOMETHING right.I m giving it 4 sporks under th e context of mommy movie. This is certainly not for the T2 crowd2222.While it may not have quite the sheen or emotional weight of lastyear s Sense and Sensibility, Douglas McGrath s new adaptation of Jane Austen s Emmah
5、as certainly captured its elegantly ic possibilities.And muchof the credit must go to McGrath s casting of the eminently luminous Gwyneth Paltrow as the title character.Paltrow is natural and charming,and she also perfectly embodies the screwball sensibilities at work here.(Think Carole Lombard, or
6、perhaps the young Katharine Hepburn.)Emma Woodhouse is, of course, the queen bee of busybodies, forever meddling in everyone else s love life, yet quite unable to figure out her own.Wealthy, patrician, witty and more than a little self-absorbed, Emma decides to develop her inherent gift for matchmak
7、ing. And as her primary subject, she takes Harriet Smith (Toni Collette) under her wing. SoHarriet, a country bumpkin who feels flattered at Emma s attentions,breaks off her engagement to the local farmer she loves and bees fixated instead on a local vicar (Alan Cumming) though he seems to be more i
8、nterested in Emma.Emma also interferes with Frank Churchill (Ewan McGregor, in a role that is a far cry from the one he plays in Trainspotting), eligible gadabout son of a prominent neighbor but he has some romantic notions of his own.Meanwhile, Emma s brother -in-law, Mr. Knightley (Jeremy Northam)
9、, seems to be the only person in town who sees right through her, and he gently chides her for her foolishness.There are quite a few more characters who touch or are touched by Emma, and while she is bound to get her euppance, most everyone knows that her heart is in the right place.There s not a lo
10、t here that will surpr ise you, no characters who are a great deal more than they seemto be, and certainly no plot revelations designed to shock. But there is great satisfaction in the telling, in the richcharacterizations and delightful humor, as well as the lavish attention to detail and a number
11、of sunny set-pieces.The performances are all excellent, providing rich dimension for what could have been simple, and even silly, supporting roles. Greta Scacchi is surprisingly effective in an unexpected character part as Emm a s best friend, Juliet Stevenson is hilarious as a snob who marries one
12、of the menEmmais trying to fix up with a friend, Sophie Thompsonis both funny and poignant as a nonstop chatterbox and Northam has genuine romantic chemistry with Paltrow.Texas-born writer-director McGrath, whose previous credits whichinclude a stint at Saturday Night Live, co- writing WoodyAllen s
13、Bullets Over Broadway and scripting the doomed remake of Born Yesterday seem unlikely at best to give way to the assured period piece he has e up with here, nonetheless pulls if off as if he were himself a cultured Englishman.But the film s success definitely rises and sets on Paltrow, who is requir
14、ed to carry the film on her shoulders all the way. Fortunately,sheis more than up to the task.Paltrow has managedto stand out amongheavy petition in such earlier films as Hook, Flesh and Bone, Jefferson in Paris, Moonlight and Valentino and Seven but this is unquestionably a starmaking performance i
15、n a starmaking role.Forget Clueless, in which Alicia Silverstone played the samecharacter, albeit in updated,let s -cruise-the-mall form. This is the Emma of choice from now on.And it s easily the best romantic edy so far this year.33.The British read the novels of Trollope during the London blitz b
16、ecause his stories of Victorian life distracted them from the V-2 rockets. Maybe that helps explain the current popularity of movies based on the novels of Jane Austen: In an impolite age, we escape to the movies to see good manners.Emma is the fourth recent version of an Austen novel, after Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility and the TV adaptation of Pride and Prejud
