A Challenge for Youth-An Education

In England in 1961, Jenny Mellor, a school girl comes across a charming older Jewish man, David Goldman. They strike up a relationship and David manages to charm Jenny’s parents into allowing him to take her to concerts, clubs, and even Paris. She is attracted by the thrilling life she has never had. She drops out of her school without taking her A-levels. She accepts his proposal. She dreams of a very different life. But when Jenny finds out that David has been married, she realizes that her dream is broken. Her old headmistress refuses to allow her to repeat her final year of school, so Jenny goes to the home of her favorite teacher, who helps her study and pass her A-levels. Finally, she is accepted by Oxford to read English which had always been her destination before she met David. more »

The Painted Veil

In 1925, a young English couple comes to China. At a party in London, Doctor Walter Fane, serious and stuffy, falls in love with beautiful Kitty Garstin at the first sight. Without too much consideration, maybe just try to escape from her parent’s vanity and the fetter they put on her, Kitty accepts his propose of marriage. However, the life in Shanghai soon hits Kitty’s heart. She becomes confused of her current condition. Cannot put up with her husband’s preciseness any longer, she finally cheats him, which causes the gentleman really bent out of shape. To revenge his wife, Fane takes Kitty to a small Chinese town along the Yangzi River where cholera is breaking out. There, the Fane couple begins to torture each other coldly.
 
Fane devotes himself in the prevention and treatment of cholera. Kitty, who is always complaining about Fane’s harshness, soon finds out that her cruel husband is really charming at some respect. Her heart is gradually softened. However, woman will not fall in love a man just because of he is good. Their love begins with an elemental communication. Things come naturally. more »

Fierce Battle at World’s End

 The treacherous Caribbean did not restore calm because the terrible ghost ship “Dutchman” was adopted Beckett into the arm of the Governor. On the contrary, owing the strongest weapons at sea to eliminate the pirates’ power, the East India Trading Company drove the octopus monster David Jones and his pirates to control the oceans. Beckett distributed Kill Bill to the world’s of pirates, a fierce battle appears to be triggered at any moment…                                 

Since the pirates earned a lot of money, Disney’s cannot stop it. The small summer drama to promote the theme park has become a key chip about the summer fate of Hollywood. Jonny Depp has once again been nominated Golden Globe for the best comedy actor. It seems that the golden age of pirates has arrived again. As the sea thieves, exploring the seven oceans was naturally their preferences. This time, Bloom and Knightly will head for the exotic East from the Caribbean coast. Chow Yun fat with shaven head and mustache has become a legendary leader pirate who receives them. The tour of “World’s End” is now set sail…

Is the weird funny “Captain Jack”-Jonny Depp sublimated the pirates, or the Disney’s theme parks have attracted the eyes? Anyway, when the “Black Pearl” appeared in the Caribbean in 2003, then “Dead Man’s Chest” improved 6% of the summer box office in 2006, and fantastic legend of pirates’ adventure becomes an irresistible trend. more »

Pirates’ Super Charm – Dead Man’s Chest

Three years ago, having swept the summer box office, and in the subsequent period of time, accumulating income as much as 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, it was not enough to describe “Pirates of the Caribbean’s” unprecedented momentum as “brilliant record”. As the most successful movie series adapted from the recreational facilities in Disney’s history, the sequel to the story which took place in these sea trouble-makers, carry the world’s hundreds of millions people’s expectations, thus it also became Disney’s biggest hope for 2006. In fact, even the first movie brought such a huge surprise; few companies dare to gamble desperately like Disney – throw huge sums of 200 million dollars to build a grand sequel “Dead Man’s Chest”. It is not uncommon, seeing its feedback of the box office before it was released; they throw 200 million on the third shot “At World’s End”, which is indeed extremely surprising. You know, this move will not only bear the high cost risk, but dragged down the whole crew into a terrible shooting schedule. However, the Disney announced to the world by taking action: What is emboldened!

At the end of the World Cup, this purely intended commercial movie, which fully mobilized all the film elements audience loved, will set off at the box office boom on the screen by a collection of public power of pirates. more »