發白日夢



年晚時節﹑生意淡薄﹑如果唔賭博﹑遂在公司發白日夢!


特首提名

競選連任的行政長官曾蔭權﹐今日向選舉辦事處提交了641名選委的提名表，報名參選。


曾蔭權獲得641選委提名﹐而梁家傑只得到132選委提名﹐表面上曾是遙遙領先﹐即還有剩下的27選委沒有提名﹐但留下來做甚麼呢??? 為甚麼中央不多留一著﹐有多一個後備候選人呢? 中央應預留100個選委﹐多提名一個中方候選人當買保險。


需知若提名期完畢﹐只得曾和梁兩個﹐曾蔭權一個唔覺意﹐例如心臟病發﹐突然死亡﹐而沒有後備﹐到時選委唯有投票比梁家傑﹐還是親中央的全部投空白票呢??? 為安全計﹐中央應該利用剩下的選委買個保險。現在中央唯有確保﹐曾蔭權健康﹐G4特工確保曾蔭權安全﹐起碼到就職典禮完畢。




教院風波

特首曾蔭權宣布，成立獨立調查委員會徹查教育學院風波，小組由胡國興法官領導，希望四個月內提交報告。


自從彭定康就嘉利大廈大火﹐成立獨立委員會調查﹐委任胡大法官領導委員會﹐胡官由生手變為熟手。


香港成立獨立委員會調查﹐乜乜物物﹐ 無日無了﹐大大小小﹐的所謂獨立委員會﹐連工商界都興埋。 英國人那一套﹐假人假義﹐懶公正﹐懶公義﹐變成風土病﹐在香港生根落戶。


其實英國佬﹐最識得CONDESCENDING﹐或者 CONDESCENSION , 字典解曰: Discrimination in a positive way , 是一種歧視﹐其實是看不起你﹐但還舒尊降貴的﹐去應酬你﹐問候你﹐照顧你。令你舒舒服服的﹐以為很受重視﹐得到尊重。


現在的民主派﹐教院﹐變成無聲出﹐因為﹐特首高度重視﹐還委出獨立委員會﹐可想而知﹐曾蔭權在玩甚麼把戲。三月廿五日投票日就投票﹐ 四個月後﹐即六月或者七月﹐到時乜野環境。據報導要洗納稅人三千幾萬 o播!!!!



CLONING 生物基因工程

既然世界人口膨漲﹐空氣污染﹐資源漸減﹐CLONING 和基因工程﹐理應開發研究﹐將人類和各生物利用基因改變﹐縮小十份一﹐再然後變成百份一﹐到時有限的資源﹐可以延長使用﹐那可不是很好??? 為甚麼不朝著著方向研究呢?


如果我變成百分一 大小﹐一粒米就有成個菠蘿飽咁大﹐豈不是好? 我呼吸的氧氣是百份一﹐我排出的廢氣廢物也是百分一。過度期點去安排呢? 值得去霖霖佢。

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2007

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2007


British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Sunday 11 February 2007 at the Royal Opera House in London.




"The Queen" Earns Best Film Honors
The Queen continues its reign over award season as the 2007 Orange British Academy Film Awards voters chose the royal pic as the Best Film of 2006. While The Queen collected best film honors, the members of BAFTA spread the love around with The Last King of Scotland, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth and United 93 amongst the winners.



Nominees and Winners
FILM

BABEL - Alejandro González Iñárritu/Jon Kilik/Steve Golin

THE DEPARTED - Brad Pitt/Brad Grey/Graham King

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Andrea Calderwood/Lisa Bryer/Charles Steel

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Albert Berger/David T Friendly/Ron Yerxa

THE QUEEN - Andy Harries/Christine Langan/Tracey Seaward (Winner)




THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the Year

CASINO ROYALE - Michael G Wilson/Barbara Broccoli/Martin Campbell/Neal Purvis/Robert Wade/Paul Haggis

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Andrea Calderwood/Lisa Bryer/Charles Steel/Kevin Macdonald/Peter Morgan/Jeremy Brock (Winner)

NOTES ON A SCANDAL - Scott Rudin/Robert Fox/Richard Eyre/Patrick Marber

THE QUEEN - Andy Harries/Christine Langan/Tracey Seaward/Stephen Frears/Peter Morgan

UNITED 93 - Tim Bevan/Lloyd Levin/Paul Greengrass

THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film

ANDREA ARNOLD (Director) - Red Road (Winner)

JULIAN GILBEY (Director) - Rollin' with the Nines

CHRISTINE LANGAN (Producer) - Pierrepoint

GARY TARN (Director) - Black Sun

PAUL ANDREW WILLIAMS (Director) - London to Brighton

THE DAVID LEAN AWARD for Achievement in Direction

BABEL - Alejandro González Iñárritu

THE DEPARTED - Martin Scorsese

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris

THE QUEEN - Stephen Frears

UNITED 93 - Paul Greengrass (Winner)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BABEL - Guillermo Arriaga

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Michael Arndt (Winner)

PAN'S LABYRINTH - Guillermo del Toro

THE QUEEN - Peter Morgan

UNITED 93 - Paul Greengrass

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

CASINO ROYALE - Neal Purvis/Robert Wade/Paul Haggis

THE DEPARTED - William Monahan

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Aline Brosh McKenna

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Peter Morgan/Jeremy Brock (Winner)

NOTES ON A SCANDAL - Patrick Marber

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

APOCALYPTO - Mel Gibson/Bruce Davey

BLACK BOOK (ZWARTBOEK) - Teun Hilte/San Fu Maltha/Jens Meurer/Paul Verhoeven

PAN'S LABYRINTH - Alfonso Cuarón/Alvaro Augustin/Guillermo del Toro (Winner)

RANG DE BASANTI (PAINT IT YELLOW) - Ronnie Screwvala/Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

VOLVER - Agustín Almodóvar/Pedro Almodóvar

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

CARS - John Lasseter

FLUSHED AWAY - David Bowers/Sam Fell

HAPPY FEET - George Miller (Winner)

ACTOR in a LEADING ROLE

DANIEL CRAIG - Casino Royale

LEONARDO DICAPRIO - The Departed

RICHARD GRIFFITHS - The History Boys

PETER O'TOOLE - Venus

FOREST WHITAKER - The Last King of Scotland (Winner)

ACTRESS in a LEADING ROLE

PENÉLOPE CRUZ - Volver

JUDI DENCH - Notes on a Scandal

HELEN MIRREN - The Queen (Winner)

MERYL STREEP - The Devil Wears Prada

KATE WINSLET - Little Children

ACTOR in a SUPPORTING ROLE

ALAN ARKIN - Little Miss Sunshine (Winner)

JAMES MCAVOY - The Last King of Scotland

JACK NICHOLSON - The Departed

LESLIE PHILLIPS - Venus

MICHAEL SHEEN - The Queen

ACTRESS in a SUPPORTING ROLE

EMILY BLUNT - The Devil Wears Prada

ABIGAIL BRESLIN - Little Miss Sunshine

TONI COLLETTE - Little Miss Sunshine

FRANCES DE LA TOUR - The History Boys

JENNIFER HUDSON - Dreamgirls (Winner)

THE ANTHONY ASQUITH AWARD for Achievement in Film Music

BABEL - Gustavo Santaolalla (Winner)

CASINO ROYALE - David Arnold

DREAMGIRLS - Henry Krieger

HAPPY FEET - John Powell

THE QUEEN - Alexandre Desplat

CINEMATOGRAPHY

BABEL - Rodrigo Prieto

CASINO ROYALE - Phil Meheux

CHILDREN OF MEN - Emmanuel Lubezki (Winner)

PAN'S LABYRINTH - Guillermo Navarro

UNITED 93 - Barry Ackroyd

EDITING

BABEL - Stephen Mirrione/Douglas Crise

CASINO ROYALE - Stuart Baird

THE DEPARTED - Thelma Schoonmaker

THE QUEEN - Lucia Zucchetti

UNITED 93 - Clare Douglas/Christopher Rouse/Richard Pearson (Winner)

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD

EMILY BLUNT

EVA GREEN (Winner)

NAOMIE HARRIS

CILLIAN MURPHY

BEN WHISHAW

An Affair to Remember 金玉盟 (寫在情人節終結時)

An Affair to Remember 金玉盟 (1957)
(寫在情人節終結時)

Directed by Leo McCarey Starring: Cary Grant as Nickie Ferrante, Deborah Kerr as Terry McKay

男女主角邂逅熱戀於在返回紐約市的客輪上，在各自還有感情牽絆必須處理的情況下，他們彼此約定好半年後於帝國大廈頂樓再度會面。半年到了，事情能如願圓滿嗎？

and the story goes 故事:

Nickie Ferrante (Grant), a well known playboy and painter, meets Terry McKay (Kerr) on an ocean liner. Nickie invited Terry to viist his grandma on the Riveria when the ocean liner breifly stopped at one the ports of call , while there Terry discovered the other side of Nickie.


Soon, they fall in love with each other despite the fact they are both engaged to other people.They agree to reunite on top of the Empire State Building in six months time if they still feel the same.

On the day of their rendezvous, Terry is struck by a car and crippled. Nickie waits all the day long, even in the rain. Terry wakes up in the hospital and asks to be taken into the Empire State Building.

She realizes that she is crippled, and becomes a teacher. Nickie returns to his old job and to his fiance. Later, he and his fiance go to an opera which Terry is also attending. Nickie sees Terry and can only bring himself to say hello to her. He is too proud to ask her why she didn't show up, and she is too proud to tell him that she is crippled.

Not wanting to burden him, Terry doesn't contact him, leading him to believe she has changed her mind about their love. The couple remains separated until fate again intervenes.

Nickie decides to visit Terry to tell her he wanted to apologize for not keeping their appointment at the Empire State Building, even though he had been there. Their conversation eventually comes about to why Terry wasn't there and she asks that there be no more questions. He gives her the shawl that his grandmother had promised to give her when they had visited on the Riveria.

Before leaving he told her that he had painted a picture of her wearing the shawl. All that he knows is that a crippled woman had picked it up but he did not know her identity. After he tells her that a crippled woman picked up his painting of her, he goes into her bedroom and spots the picture. He realizes at last her true reason for not meeting him on that fateful day.

Sourced from An Affair To Remember wikipedia

(07-09-09 剛剛在 YOUTUBE 找到我最喜歡的一幕 Terry 在祖母家 唱出像是意大利文版的主題曲) 我見: "Too proud to be the first one to initiate the talk"﹐幾多大好姻緣白白浪費了﹐祇因雙方不願首先行出頭一步﹐其實雙方只是欠一個下臺階。

後記: 寫好之後上網找相片時原來 巔巔兄曾有以下評語: "有些電影，如1957年由加利格蘭 (Cary Grant) 與狄寶拉嘉 (Deborah Kerr) 主演的金玉盟 (An Affair To Remember)，電影商後來重新再拍，但拍出來的那部所謂「金玉盟」，不單完全不及之前原來的好，整部片 。。。。。。。 " (幸好我談的是1957年那原裝版本)

後後記: Nora Ephron's 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, was inspired by An Affair to Remember, and clips from the earlier film and its theme song are used throughout. This publicity sparked a new love of the film for many movie fans of younger generations.

後後後記： 因為喜歡金玉盟這電影，最後飛埋去紐約 朝”勝“ 上到 Empire State Building 頂樓瞭望臺，從下午等到黃昏，再等到整個曼克頓亮起了燈，看埋夜景，才下樓吃晚餐。祇可惜冇銀，還未去埋 『金玉盟』 隻船去過的地方， 正在積極儲蓄中！

向 狄波拉 嘉兒 致敬 還有 theme song of her greatest movie An Affair to Remember 在背景襯托。

申延閱覽： 由 Nat King Cole 主唱的 An Affair to Remember youtube 片段，但是是沒有embedded 連結科抄過來的，麻煩點擊一下。

Casablanca 北非諜影 (寫在情人節的前夕夜)

Casablanca 北非諜影 (1942)
(寫在情人節的前夕夜)

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Directed by: Michael Crutiz
Starring:
Humphrey Bogart, as Rick Blaine
Ingrid Bergman, as Ilsa Lund

第一次看 北非諜影 是在電視欣賞這部黑白的舊電影﹐驚為天人的當然是 英格烈﹑褒嫚 Ingrid Bergman 的美貌﹐但細心的去看其實最感人的是 勘富利﹑保加 Humphrey Bogart 飾演那情深的男人。
還有首次聽了雄壯的法國 國歌
<馬賽曲>﹐ 同時學識了這一句“This is the beginning of our beautiful friendship". 和 一曲難忘的
”As time goes by".



故事:
二戰之初的巴黎, 德軍很快已經兵臨城下﹐法國首都巴黎危在旦夕﹐
褒嫚 答應了情人 保加﹐一起乘火車離開巴黎﹐但在火車站 保加 等了又等﹐都不見 褒嫚 的出現﹐他被追隨他多年的黑人僕人Sam﹐強行拉了上火車﹐離開了巴黎。


鏡頭一轉﹐保加在北非 Casablanca 開了間酒吧“RICKS”﹐客似雲來非常熱鬧。 Casablanca是個三不管的地方﹐法國偽政府名義上管理﹐德國也有影響力﹐但是還有班機飛到還是自主的西班牙﹐很多富有的歐洲人﹐傾家蕩產來到Casablanca﹐想辦法逃到西班牙再到美國去﹐他們滯留在Casablanca﹐過著今天不知明天事的日子﹐利用聲色犬馬﹐麻醉自己。


一天納粹德軍的兩個士兵被殺﹐並失去了兩張離開Casablanca的通行證﹐流落在 保加 開的那間酒吧裡。同時反納粹志士和他的女人也逃到北非Casablanca﹐等待機會逃往美國。但納粹德軍已經聞訊﹐派人到了Casablanca﹐ 捉拿反納粹志士和他的女人。


那反納粹志士的女人當然就是 保加 朝思暮想的 褒嫚 喇﹐在 愛與恨﹑情與義 之間 保加 怎樣決擇呢? 在他聽了一曲追隨他多年的黑人僕人Sam 唱的”As time goes by" 後﹐ 決定用他無意中發現的兩個通行證﹐幫助那志士和他的女人逃出德軍勢力。


最後保加聯同法籍的Casablanca警察局長﹐擺脫了納粹德軍的特工﹐讓反納粹志士和他的女人搭飛機飛離Casablanca。 而且開始了他倆的“This is the beginning of our beautiful friendship".


男人最深情的愛﹐就是自我犧牲﹐成全了他心愛深愛的女人﹐
這豈不感人? 他是愚蠢還是偉大呢? 送上一曲﹕As Time Goes By~~

我現在擁有錄自電視的黑白VIDEO版﹐和加了彩色的VCD版。 後記: 英格烈﹑褒嫚的美貌不用多談﹐但勘富利﹑保加 卻是十足十的醜男人﹐還而且十分矮小﹐而那個飾演反納粹志士也是個高大威猛的男星﹐CASTING 是要讓小男人﹐變成有情有義的大丈夫﹐and 令 褒嫚 情願跟那高大威猛的反納粹志士﹐令觀眾較能接受﹐那是正確的選擇留個注腳。 跟朋友閒談﹐再重拍的話﹐ 矮小的 Tom Cruise 必是第一人選﹐但要找誰飾演 褒嫚 那出塵氣質的美女呢? 各位可有好提議? 後後記： 電影『Sleepless in Seattle 緣分的天空』一開時，就是唱出 『Casablanca 北非諜影』的主題曲："As Time Goes By！" 肯定也是對這一部經典愛情片致敬。