英文影评资料之闻香识女人Scent of a Woman
年轻的学生查理(克里斯奥唐纳饰)无意间目睹了几个学生准备戏弄校长的过程，校长让他说出恶作剧的主谋，否则将予以处罚。查理带着烦恼来到退伍军人史法兰中校(埃尔·帕西诺饰）家中做周末兼职。中校曾经是林登·贝恩斯·约翰逊总统的幕僚，经历过战争和许多挫折，在一次意外事故中双眼被炸瞎。他整天在家里无所事事，失去了生活下去的勇气和信心。他准备用尽最后的精力享受一次美好的生活。他带着查理出游、吃佳肴、开飞车、跳探戈、住豪华酒店……然后想就此结束自己的生命。 查理竭力阻止了中校的自杀行为，从此他们之间萌生如父子般的感情。史法兰也找回了生活下去的勇气和力量。影片最后史法兰在学校礼堂激昂演说，挽救了查理的前途，讽刺了学校的伪善。二人在互相鼓舞中得到重生。 长期的失明生活使得史法兰中校对听觉和嗅觉异常敏感，甚至能靠闻对方的香水味道识别其身高、发色乃至眼睛的颜色。其实这都源于他对生活的深刻理解和感悟。[编辑本段]精彩看点
精彩剧照一次意外的邂逅、一场“性感”的探戈、一出恣意的飙车和一段酣畅淋漓的演讲为我们完整地勾勒出生命从“毁灭”到“重生”的全部过程。该片是一部1975年意大利影片的重拍版，原版改编自小说。 本片取名为《闻香识女人》精妙之极，演员阵容也是典型的新老结合搭档。老牌明星艾尔·帕西诺曾经主演过《教父》等名片，他这部影片中的表演丝丝入扣打动人心，准确地揭示了失明退伍军人的内心世界。其精湛的演技使他第6次获奥斯卡金像奖提名，这一次终于如愿以偿,获得1993年第六十五届奥斯卡最佳男主角奖，同时获得金球奖最佳男演员奖。克里斯·奥唐纳大家现在对他不会陌生，可当年他还只是一个刚刚毕业的学生，凭本片的表现在好莱坞站稳脚跟，后来在《蝙蝠侠与罗宾》等片中都有上佳表现，《垂直极限》中也有他的身影。大家如果留意的话，在本片中饰演校长一角的演员也不陌生，他就是《天煞——地球反击战》中那个被解职的国防部长。[编辑本段]精彩对白
Frank:But you must give me a reason to live on. 弗兰克：但你必须给我一个继续生存下去的理由。 Frank: I'll show you out of order. You don't know what out of order is, Mr. Trask, I'd show you, but I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too fuck in' blind, if I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a flame thrower to this place! Out of order? Who the hell do you think you're talkin' to? I've been around, you know? There was a time I could see, and I have seen, boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off, but there is nothin' like t
he sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that, you think you're merely sendin' this splendid foot solider back home to Oregen with his tail between his legs, but I say you're executin' his soul! And why? Because he is not a Baird man. Baird men, you hurt this boy, you're gonna be Baird bums, the lot of you. And Harry, Jimmy, and Trent, wherever you are out there, fuck you too! 斯莱德中校：我告诉你什么叫过份! 你根本不知道什么叫过份!我想示范，但我太老太累又他妈的瞎了 如果是在五年前，我会带喷火枪来这儿！过份？你以为你在跟谁说话？我是见过世面的，明白吗？有一度，我还看得见… 我见过很多很多更年轻的男孩 臂膀被扭，腿被炸断，但那些都不及丑陋的灵魂可怕！灵魂不可能有义肢！你以为你只是把这好青年，像落荒狗似的送回家？我说你是处死了他的灵魂！为什么？因为他不是博德人！博德人！ 伤了这男孩你就是博德孬种！你们全是！而哈瑞、吉米、特伦特，不管你们坐在哪里。。。去你妈的！ Trask: Stand down, Mr. Slade! 校长：请你肃静，斯莱德中校。 Frank: I'm not finished. As I came in here, I heard those words: cradle of leadership. Well, when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, and it has fallen here, it has fallen. Makers of men, creators of leaders, be careful what kind of leaders you're producin' here. I don't know if Charlie's silence here today is right or wrong, I'm not a judge or jury, but I can tell you this: he won't sell anybody out to buy his future! And that my friends is called integrity, that's called courage. Now, that's the stuff leaders should be made of. Now I have come to crossroads in my life, I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew, but I never took it, you know why, it was too damn hard. Now here's Charlie, he's come to the crossroads, he has chosen a path. It's the right path, it's a path made of principle that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey. You hold this boy's future in your hands, committee, it's a valuable future, believe me. Don't destroy it, protect it. Embrace it. It's gonna make you proud one day, I promise you. 斯莱德中校：我还没讲完！来这儿的时候，我听到类似“领袖摇篮”的字眼 嗯，支干断掉时，摇篮就垮了，它已经在这里垮掉了，已经垮了 人类制造者，领袖创造家 当心你创造的是哪种领袖 我不知道，查理今天的缄默是对是错 我不是法官或者陪审团 但我可以告诉你 他绝不会出卖别人以求前程！ 而这，朋友们，就叫正直！ 这就叫勇气！ 那才是领袖的要件 如今我走到人生十字路口 我知道哪条路是对的 毫无例外，我就知道 但我从不走，为什么？ 因为妈的太苦了 而现在查理，他也走到了十字路口 他选择了一条路 这是一条正确的
路 充满原则，通往个性之道 让他继续他的行程吧 他的前途掌握在您手中，诸公 绝对是有价值的前途 相信我 别毁了它，保护它 拥抱它 有一天您会自傲，我保证 Donna：Michael thinks the tango's hysterical. 唐娜：迈克尔认为探戈很疯狂。 Frank: Well, I think Michael's hysterical 弗兰克：我认为迈克尔很疯狂。 Frank: What a beautiful laugh. 弗兰克：多么美的笑容。 Donna：Thank you, Frank. 唐娜：谢谢你，弗兰克。 Frank: Would you like to learn to tango, Donna ? 弗兰克：你想学探戈么，唐娜？ Donna：Right now ? 唐娜：现在？ Frank:I'm offering you my services...free of charge. 弗兰克：我愿为您效劳，免费的。 Frank: If you make a mistake,get all tangled up, just tango on. 弗兰克：如果你跳错了也没关系，接着跳下去。
Frank is a retired Lt Col in the US army. He's blind and impossible to get along with. Charlie is at school and is looking forward to going to university; to help pay for a trip home for Christmas, he agrees to look after Frank over thanksgiving. Frank's niece says this will be easy money, but she didn't reckon on Frank spending his thanksgiving in New York. Written by Rob Hartill
Charlie Simms is a boy from Oregon who attends Baird School a Boys boarding school. Not unlike most of the other boys who come from affluent backgrounds Simms is there on a scholarship. He hangs around with George Willis, who's a daddy's boy, and his friends. Now George's friends decides to pull a little prank on the pompous headmaster. The headmaster learns that Charlie and George know who pulled the prank and they refuse to say who. He gives the Thanksgiving Holiday to think about it. He also tells Charlie that he's recommending him to an Ivy League College. Charlie then goes off to a Thanksgiving job--taking care of retired Colonel Frank Slade who's blind when his family goes to visit some family for Thanksgiving. After they leave Slade tells Charlie that he's taking him to New York for his own Thanksgiving celebration. Written by rcs0411@https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2114594771.html,
In New Hampshire, Charlie Simms attends the Baird School, an all boys boarding school with rigorous classes and expensive enrollment. Yearning for cash from a part-time job so he can return to his family in Oregon for upcoming Christmas Break, the innocent Simms accepts a job for "babysitting" at a nearby household. The job is not what he expects, for he is commissioned to watch over an unlikeable, blunt behaved blind ex-colonel named Slade who has a keen ability at selecting his aides. Because of his sympathetic and integral nature, Charlie agrees to the job. Before he can even locate his level of comfort in the job, Simms is unexpectedly taken to New York City with the colonel, where the ex-military man has several agendas of his own. Writt
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Essay Title : Movie Analysis: Scent Of A Woman
Date: February 01, 2002
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"HoooHaaa!" A few days ago, I chose to view and analyze the popular movie Scent of a Woman. I had never seen the movie before but had only heard good things about it. I can now say good things about this movie from personal experience. This film was extraordinary. The movie Scent of a Woman is about Oscar winning actor Al Pacino who plays a retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, an embittered Army veteran who is now blind, not to mention alcoholic, angry and foul-mouthed. Of course, he's also witty and bright to say the least. Slade is looking to have the last of his kicks before he "blows his brains out." However, Slade is not alone is this journey. He ends up ...
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The film revolves around Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), a student at a private preparatory school, who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade (Al Pacino), a cantankerous middle-aged man who is now blind and impossible to get along with. Slade decides to visit New York City and enlists the help of Charlie Simms to lead him on the trip. Whilst Charlie is leading Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade through New York, he is facing a very big problem at school. Fellow students have played a prank on the school principal, and only Charlie and George Willis, Jr. (Philip Seymour Hoffman) know the identity of the culprits. After threatening both students with expulsion, Headmaster Trask asks Willis to exit the office. At this moment, he tries to bribe Charlie by assuring him admission to Harvard, if he names those who committed the prank. Charlie tells him nothing, and Trask warns him that he must be honest or suffer the consequences. Slade takes Charlie around New York. They stay at the Waldorf-Astoria. After eating at a fancy restaurant with $24.00 hamburgers (the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel), Colonel Slade reveals the real reason for his trip to New York City: to eat at an expensive restaurant, stay at an amazing hotel, dance and sleep with a beautiful woman, and then commit suicide with his gun. They then visit the Colonel's family, and Charlie learns how Slade lost his sight - by foolishly juggling hand grenades. Later, the sly Colonel tangos with a girl whose perfume captivates him (hence the title of the movie), and drives a Ferrari, with a very nervous and worried Charlie tagging along. Charlie is a good person at heart, refusing to ra
t out his classmates over a prank, taking pity on Colonel Slade, and sticking by his side no matter what. Charlie's loyalty is not lost on the Colonel. When Slade tricks Charlie into leaving the room to get a cigar, his sly plan fails when Charlie remembers that Slade was earlier armed with a military Colt .45 pistol (M1911). He comes back to the room to find Slade ready to commit suicide with his gun. After a few emotional minutes of talking, yelling, and action, Charlie convinces Slade not to kill himself. It is here that Slade realizes that Charlie is a very brave and tough person at heart, and he would not even let a worthless, bitter man, like himself, take his own life. Charlie returns to school, knowing that George Willis, Jr. is betraying him to get off the hook. The Headmaster holds a courtroom-like meeting, where he questions George Willis, who complains of his poor vision and resorts to his powerful father to help him weasel out of this jam. Unfortunately, it is discovered that Charlie's vision is fine and he received no help from his parents. The Headmaster is on the verge of expelling him, when Colonel Slade, who enters the court during the Headmaster's opening speech on "a Baird man," delivers a provocative and compelling speech of how "the great ship" of education and obedience is no more than a rat barge teaching rats to betray friends. When Slade says that "If I were the man I was five years ago I'd take a flame thrower to this place," he wins over the students, and the jury. Willis's statement that he saw three people set up the prank, and that they might have been "Havemeyer, Potter, and Jameson," is enough to tell the jury who the culprits were. The three young men are placed on disciplinary probation for the prank, but Willis is given no recognition. The story ends with Charlie being excused from any penalties and expulsions, and Slade going back home. However, no longer bitter, he acts very kindly to his relatives and seems to have a new "look" at life - as does Charlie.