Beca use I could not stop fo r Death, h e kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson If De ath took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on ou r nation’s highw ays would cease, and the new s media would be compelled to cover positive even ts in the hu manitie s, arts , and sciences. Unfortunately, De ath h as not ha d a vacation in recor ded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fa ntasy, Death Takes a Holid ay, allows u s to consider t he possibility. Co-written by Max well Ander son and Gladys Lehman and based on the play La Morte i n Vacanza by Al berto Casella , Death Takes a Holiday star s Fre deric Marc h as the Grim Reaper who t akes on human for m in an at tempt to discover why men f ear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curi osity is not explained. [Spoi ler] After a brief tryout as a shadow y figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale part y at an Italian villa, posing as t he myst eriou s Prince Sirki. Only one person knows wh o he rea lly is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing) , and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proce eds to fascinate th e guests. Given t o bu rsts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickl y turn sull en and t hreatening, and some soon f ind out that it is b etter not to look too deeply in to his eyes. Durin g the three days in which th e Prince is at the vill a, how ever, pe ople all ove r the world m iraculous ly e scape deat h and po tential sui cides are doomed to f rust ration. To see what’s behind all th e conversation abou t love, the suave but naïve Pr ince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Ev elyn Venable), the da ughter of one of Duke’s friends . Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, mu ch to the chagrin o f her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has develop ed a stro ng dis dain for Pr ince Charming. More si nister than Brad P itt in the 1998 remake M eet Joe Black, Marc h turns in a very convincing p erformance as the creepy yet st range ly appealing gu est. Although the endi ng is melod ramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion t hat Death m ay in reality b e a fri end disguised as a foe is quite t ouching. (Howard Sch umann, talkingpi x.co.uk) In this wea risome and predicta ble plot line, Death f alls in love and bores us to death t alking about it. (Dennis Schwar tz, home pages.sover.net) I've heard DRACULA was ad vertised with the tag line The Weirdest Love Story ever told! (this i s probably a paraphrase), but at h eart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that m ovie a love story. The tag line would be much mo re appropriate for this one, sinc e it ultimat ely boil s down to what amo unts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particula rly if you consider that it is built aro und a concept that c ould have easily been han dled in a cut e or facile m anner . Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible , with some real thought put into how death w ould try to co me to terms with a life and an outlo ok that wa s to that point totally unf amiliar to him; much of the cre dit does g o to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite s cary when it needs t o be, par ticularly during the f irst twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with it s them es with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadn ess, and an everpresent tension on how Death migh t rea ct if cros sed. It's not perfect; some of t he dialogue is s elf-conscious and a rtificial, as if the writers knew they were deal ing with we ighty issues a nd w ere trying to be pro foun d. But I am certainly gl ad they di dn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts. ( Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org ) S ee als o the re make Death Takes A Holiday (19 71) 星辰影院为您提供《死神假期》完整未删减版免费在线观看。
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“多意不去，多意那里都不去，就 在家里待着。当初你们宁家让我养着她，也没要接回去的。 我养了那么大的女儿，好 不容易她能过上好日子了，你们竟然让她去长宁候府送死，我 柳氏不同意，你就是要了我柳氏的命，我柳氏也不愿意！”
“后来苏老太爷又想要买完我们的冰， 我一合计，也不是不可以。我还有那么 多的冰，反正也是要卖的，况且自己再卖，还有风险呢，我瞧着今年气情况不怎么好，可能会 下雨了，下雨了我再怎么样也卖不掉。苏家既然想要全买走，那岂不是正好，我没有风险，稳赚的？”
“母亲走的早， 母亲走了之后 ，府邸里便只有父亲 和顾夫人还有顾青了。父亲是个 男人，即便是有父爱，到底是忙碌的，整日在 外。顾青有自己的母亲，而 我没有，我便想着，我若是比顾青还好，我也会有母亲。所以我整 日跟着在顾夫饶身后， 以为自己只要乖， 就会有自 己的母亲。”
“我还有个儿子，阿意还有一个弟弟，你一并买了吧，他如今在城 里做长工，那么一个人，要做那么多的事情，挣来的银子全给家里了，那么的孩子，这样做事，我心疼， 若是可以不在顾家， 他也就不必那么苦了，最起码可 以做轻省点的事情。”
