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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.

影片根据迪士尼乐园游玩项目“丛林巡航”改编，故事发生在野心家与探险家并起的上世纪初，勇敢无畏的女科学家莉莉·霍顿博士（艾米莉·布朗特 饰） 来到亚马逊寻找有治愈魔力的神树，并雇佣了玩世不恭的弗兰克船长（道恩·强森 饰）开启探险。在这史诗般的冒险途中，看似不对盘的两人在茂密雨林中遭遇了无数的危险和超自然力量。但随着这棵神奇古树的秘密逐渐揭开，莉莉和弗兰克的命运，乃至整个人类的命运都岌岌可危。

乡间恶霸杜天道（陈观泰）因其儿子杜常（鹿峰）被天南三虎斩去双臂性格变得更加暴戾，村民稍有令他不满的举动，就会立刻出手伤人。 陈顺（郭追）、胡阿贵（孙建）、韦打铁（罗莽）均因不足一提的小事无意间得罪杜天道，被其先后挖盲双目、斩断双腿、毒哑打聋。立志为他们出气的王翼（江生）被杜天道重创头脑成为疯癫失常之人。四个身体残缺的人潜入深山找到王翼师父求其传授了武功，一场发生在立志报仇的四人与两大狠毒高手之间的生死战展开。

近未来，武器研发集团MARS的创始人詹姆斯?麦库伦（Christopher Eccleston 饰）发明了名为“纳罗脉”的微型机器人，该机器人可以在很短时间内吞噬掉挡路的敌人，威力巨大。北大西洋公约组织（NATO）武器研究所对此颇感兴趣，向MARS集团购买了四颗纳罗脉弹头。运送途中，护卫队遭到一伙高科技武装分子的袭击。在弹头即将被抢去之际，另一组神秘人马阻止了武装分子的计划，并解救了护卫队仅剩的两名成员公爵（钱宁?塔图姆Channing Tatum 饰）和开伞索（Marlon Wayans 饰）。解救公爵的正是霍克将军（丹尼斯?奎德Dennis Quaid 饰）所统率的特种部队，公爵和开伞索请求加入该部队，以血前耻。另一方面，阴谋夺取弹头的幕后黑手正是麦库伦，他企图从NATO榨取巨额资金以支持他的研究，继而实现称霸世界的野心。一场正邪较量就此展开……