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)
太好看了！我和我女儿都看得非常开心！如果说哈利波特系列是魔法混搭青春成长类型，那么第三集的神奇动物就正式进入了魔法混搭全球谍战类型。纽特小分队就是邓布利多麾下的MI6特工，大破恐怖分子头目格林德沃统治世界的阴谋。世界屋脊之上的选举、真假麒麟，都具有相当明显的政治隐喻。如果说麻瓜世界是阳，那么巫师世界就是阴。而阴性世界精神溯源那是神秘的东方。在HP系列中最东也就到东到了罗马尼亚，而全球叙事的神奇动物，则东到了不丹。其实我们都知道真正的东到底是哪。默默然那条个人叙事的线，在这一类型中，当然就得靠边站了。我很好奇罗琳的剧本到底写的更倾向哪种。
我看这个格林德沃挺讲礼貌的，没有当场就吟诗一首，也没有当场改constitution
2.人物刻画单薄，过多的角色汇聚在一起，配角着墨少，且脸谱化严重。
除去情怀 这部剧剧与其说是神奇动物在哪里不如说是哈利波特前传 大多的剧情都依附在已有剧情基础上 好像拍了很多场景很多剧情但又好像一团乱麻风一吹就没了
谢谢你，神奇动物！
烂到不想看结果，一些电影烂，但还有可能好奇结局有多烂，而这个，无聊到不想知道到底有多烂。
这到底是在干嘛，满头问号。GGAD也嗑不起来，但光明顶对战老麦的一眼深情有被打动到，我勉强可以当拔杯代餐。
虽然不能说它是烂片，但它没有什么地方是做得好的。老套、干瘪而毫无悬念的剧情，故弄玄虚的台词，毫无亮点的特效，连情怀都不剩了
彻头彻尾的灾难。故作深沉，但其实毫无剧作张力。
挺好看的啊，比上一部好多了，至少我没睡着，还觉得挺想看下去的。很多类似的电影连让人看下去的耐心都没有。
韩版。2:22:32。拔叔的格林德沃相当可以。亲世代拍成这样就杰克苏了，反而不如一些不错的亲世代同人，痛苦，阴郁，致郁。让麒麟选人以为串台到十二国记。不丹的造景针不戳，魔法世界走地鸡不错。后面二人对望摸胸简直了，魔法世界之离婚，就像他俩这样。喜欢那个神经纤细的女巫师，不是拉文克劳就是赫奇帕奇。对华纳有意见，不仅抢钱，还准备接着抢，还抛开原作者辱骂原作者拉高他们自身抢钱，吃相难看
zzzq毁了一个好演员和一部好系列电影。真的完全没有神奇动物的感觉。还我德普！！！
神奇动物都是爱情故事，但……华生和汉尼拔坐在一起是没有爱的感觉的。麒麟和拔叔都更有CP感，那种怜爱又抽刀，简直是对待茶杯。无法歌颂GGAD美好爱情，为格林德沃换角惋惜。
这是一个充斥着仇恨与偏执的世界，被不安与邪恶笼罩，凡人的声量被淹没；渴望恢复正轨的生活，过往的平淡显得可贵。看中它之于“魔法世界”本身所提供的疗愈作用，依然能通过其中角色间的默契与火花达成某种满足，也可以只是因为看着Callum Turner小可爱笨拙地与弟弟起舞扭动就会心一笑，当然还有贯穿整个宇宙想要传达的各种意义上的“接受”讯息…不过后半段妄图融入各种大而无当的历史背景，以及完全可以预料的叙事进程也同样影响它可以继续为未来铺路的趣味；这种寡然无味甚至盖过了换角的口角纷争、到底有无Katherine Waterston以及Ezra Miller又双叒叕的抓马所带来的种种“谜团”。
家人们，我是磕不动了。还没上一部看见血盟的时候来得激动。
看下来神奇动物三部，明显不如哈利波特系列，虽然对魔法元素依然有浓厚兴趣，但剧情确实有点白开水，格林德沃结尾的画面剪辑得有些生硬不连贯，感觉怪怪的。
好多地方看不懂，莫名其妙，故作悬疑，价值观也不敢恭维，特别是有政治倾向，宣扬着如同儿戏的选举，把桑托斯映射印，刘X映射中，格林德沃映射俄，德国魔法部映射纳粹，暗示俄勾结纳粹破坏和平，暗示像印一样亲西方才会得到支持。。。总之就是恶心
各路角色都是纸片般单薄，这系列能在故事信息量越来越少的基础上做得越来越闷也是奇葩
3)最后还是哭了 能去影院的请务必坐到最后 片尾曲不要错过阿！！！！
这系列跑题真得很严重，一会儿格林德沃，一会儿邓布利多，还要强行组俩人cp，把小雀斑和神奇动物到底放哪里？靠麒麟选大当家比分院帽看着还不靠谱，格林德沃基本影射纳粹党，不过搞假民主这事儿说明魔法界还是挺天真的。
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