Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
6，剧情一般，细节获胜，但是地理老师/考察队员身份太少以至于女儿到达南极时缺乏共情度，表达的内容是传统的母性光辉符号，黏合家庭，扶养后代“成为想成为的人”，徐帆和许亚军的表演太动人，导演在类型中缺失新颖，两个航拍和父母特写镜头太缺失表现力
女反派的腿真好看。这不是起点晋江里的沙雕爽文文风么，节操可以丟，嘴炮不能停。
奶飞就适合拍这种毫无内涵但制作过硬的纯娱乐片。答应我，不要再碰深度了好吗？你们是一家大数据分析公司，把深度留给艺术院线好吗？
前有阿里ip宇宙剧本，今有网飞大数据剧本，特点鲜明:什么都有，唯独没有灵魂
不要等到来不及了，
总感觉rr演啥都像死侍 2亿美元砸出这么个片 也不知道网飞能不能回本 至少在国内不可能
疫情改变了很多事情。包括好莱坞。原本片商坚持的院线与网络不同步，也终于因为收益撑不住而松开，要么缩短窗口期，要么同时，甚至有的片子直接放弃了院线而只上网络。
哈哈哈哈啥呀，反转还挺多的，也挺靠好笑的，就行吧。
三个主演闹了半天就为了三个蛋，还完好无损地一个都没碎......
之前说网飞相当于在货架最明显的位置放超市牌产品，另一个类比是让我想到90年代辉煌但也泛滥的港片市场，导演演员制作剧本各个方面是东拼西凑，随随便便就是一部电影，毫不留情地榨取最后一点剩余价值。
奈飞特色的家庭爆米花片 要求别太高 这三个人两两完全没有什么火花也是绝了（死侍吹替是加瀬康之大舅子哈哈哈
成都提前点映场，蛮催泪的，虽然价值观还是很传统，中年妈妈照顾好生活中的方方面面，善良有爱到过于圣母天使的地步了……可能怕是被年轻一代现代独立女性批判吧，最后母亲对女儿说你可以过你自己想过的生活……还有好几个道具小bug，比如说过年封的红包也太薄了吧，就是一张纯红包皮啊，一下子就出戏了，还比如说最后女儿说自己离开妈妈400多天以后在南极实现梦想的时候听妈妈的微信语音，结果这个时候微信显示的时间是“星期一某时某刻”，而且还那么大的镜头，太不应该了……
三个A级巨星的阵容无法拯救Red Notice这样的动作场面平平无奇，剧情叙述食之无味，角色毫不入戏且毫无火花的“网大”动作片。
下一次Ed Sheeran被抓：我出演过 《权力的游戏》 和 《红色通缉令》。
标准爆米花片。这么大牌的cast配这么廉价的打光布景还真是少见。
加朵与蝎子王展厅碰面那段，未免太像《BVS：正义黎明》的布鲁斯韦恩与神奇女侠了吧.........加朵真的好美...........
大杂烩，各个桥段应该是Netflix靠大数据算出来的组合收益较优解
元素不要太多，博物馆盗窃，西伯利亚越狱，高科技破译，南美探险，二战神秘藏宝，一会丛林，一会印第安纳琼斯，一会两个男的调情斗嘴。意思不大，但反正还算欢乐。
一盘棋局，两个“主教”，还有很多“卒”，“反转”
温馨提醒：观影请自备纸巾。
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