Published a year before Saint-Exupery disappeared somewhere over Corsica in his Lockheed P-38 fighter plane, “The Little Prince” took its inspiration from an earlier air disaster, in which the author, trying to break the record time in a Paris-Saigon race, crashed in the Sahara desert, near the Nile delta. From that, Saint-Exupery spun a fanciful, faintly ethereal fable about a downed airman who finds himself face-to-face with a curious, blond-haired young boy who claims to be the sole inhabitant of a distant asteroid (#B-612), and who regales the pilot with tales of the interplanetary travels that eventually brought him to earth.
Those adventures consist largely of meetings with puffed-up, self-important adults who imagine themselves to be powerful despots but are, in fact, just orbiting the universe alone on their own similarly uninhabited rocks. But there are also touches of melancholy romance and a darkly poetic ending that can be interpreted as either a salvation or a suicide. Seventy years later, the book’s influence can be seen in everything from “The English Patient”to “The Lego Movie.”
The book was scarcely enough material for a feature film, which didn’t stop Hollywood from trying one in 1974 — an ill-advised live-action version. For the new film, Osborne (“Kung Fu Panda”) and screenwriters Irena Brignull (“The Boxtrolls”) and Bob Persichetti have taken the generally more effective tack of nesting Saint-Exupery’s story within an elaborate framing device set in the kind of modular modern metropolis prophesied by Jacques Tati’s “Playtime,” full of technology and free of wonder.
Ridley Scott goes back to the future, a familiar destination for him, and returns in fine shape in The Martian. Although technically science fiction by virtue of its being largely set on a neighboring planet, this smartly made adaptation of Andy Weir’s best-selling novel is more realistic in its attention to detail than many films set in the present, giving the story the feel of an adventure that could happen the day after tomorrow.
Scott has famously been up in space before, thrillingly in Alien, far less so in Prometheus (a sequel to which he is currently preparing). This time, he’s telling a survival story, pure and simple, of an American astronaut named Mark Watney, thought to be dead, who’s left behind on Mars when an enormous storm compels his five fellow crew members to hastily cut short their extra-planetary visit. It’s Robinson Crusoe on Mars, but without the monkey and aliens.
When Mark Watney (Matt Damon) regains consciousness, he quickly assesses the situation: He’s millions of miles from home and, based on the food supply, concludes that he’s got a month to live.
Ultimately it comes down to the willingness of Mark’s astronaut colleagues to place themselves at great risk by attempting a rescue attempt, a decision that raises the provocative moral dilemma of whether it’s correct to put five lives at great risk for saving one life. The director and screenwriter downplay the conventional melodrama inherent in the situation in favor of emphasizing how practical problems should be addressed with rational responses.
There is also a insinuation that the meticulous sense of resourcefulness. In significant measure due to his character’s mordant humor, Damon provides comfortable company during the long stretches when he’s onscreen alone, and the actor’s physicality makes Mark’s capability entirely credible.
"The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there." - Viola Davis, Best actress in a drama series
“唯一让黑人女性被拒之门外的是角色带来的机会本身。因为没有机会，所以你不能靠演绎的角色赢得一座艾美奖。”维奥拉·戴维斯，剧情类最佳女主
"We don't have a trans tipping point yet. We have a trans civil rights problem." - Jill Soloway, Best directing for a comedy series ("Transparent")
“我们至今还没有一个对关于变性人的确切观点——但是我们有一个关于变性人民权的问题。”——吉尔·索洛韦，喜剧类最佳导演（《透明人生》）
"We're all here because of the power of a story well told. Sometimes, that's enough." - Frances McDormand, Best lead actress in a limited series or movie
“我们在这里都是因为故事本身的力量被大众所知。有时候，那就足够了。”——弗朗西斯·麦克杜蒙德，迷你剧/电影最佳女主。
"This year we also said goodbye to "True Detective." even though it's still on the air." - Andy Samberg, Emmy Awards host
“尽管还在放送中，但今年我们也同样跟《真探》告别了。”——安迪·萨姆伯格，67届艾美奖主持人
The Titanic‘s last lunch menu， saved by a first-class passenger who climbed aboard a lifeboat whose crew was said to have been bribed to row away instead of rescue more people， sold at auction for $88，000 on Wednesday.
Abraham Lincoln Salomon was among a handful of first-class passengers who boarded the lifeboat， dubbed the Money Boat or Millionaire‘s Boat by the press because of unfounded rumors one of them bribed seven crew members to quickly row the boat away from the sinking ocean liner.
The menu， which lists corned beef， dumplings and other savory items， is signed on the back in pencil by another first-class passenger， Isaac Gerald Frauenthal， who escaped on another lifeboat。 It‘s believed the two men lunched together that fateful day in 1912.
Salomon also took away a printed ticket from the Titanic‘s opulent Turkish baths， which recorded a person’s weight when seated in a specially designed upholstered lounge chair. The ticket bears the names of three of the five other first-class passengers with him on Lifeboat 1.One of four weighing chair tickets known to exist， it sold for $11，000.
A letter written by Mabel Francatelli to Salomon on New York‘s Plaza Hotel stationery six months after the disaster fetched $7，500. Francatelli had climbed into Lifeboat 1 with her employer， aristocratic fashion designer Lucy Duff-Gordon and her Scottish husband， Lord Cosmo Duff-Gordon， who was rumored to have bribed the crew to row them to safety in the boat， which had a capacity of 40.
The Duff-Gordons， the only passengers to testify about the disaster， were cleared by the British Wreck Commissioner‘s inquiry， which determined that they did not deter the crew from attempting to rescue other people but that others might have been saved if the boat had turned around.
“We do hope you have now quite recovered from the terrible experience，” Francatelli wrote to Salomon. “I am afraid our nerves are still bad， as we had such trouble & anxiety added to our already awful experience by the very unjust inquiry when we arrived in London.”
Lion Heart Autographs said the seller was the son of a man who was given the items by a descendent of one of the survivors of the lifeboat. It did not identify the buyers.
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