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ＰＩＸＡＲ又有新作囉！這回又是上映第一天就去看了，哈哈哈（得意）而且還是看3D的版本唷。
個人覺得是PIXAR最棒的作品。很喜歡。

PIXAR History

The Science of Sleep (戀愛夢遊中)

I saw this movie on DVD today. It was awesome; I liked it very much. The director Michel Gondry was the same director as "Eternal sunshine on a spotless mind". I like the magical world and the romantic affairs happened between two creative young minds illustrated in the movie.

The Prestige

以魔術師為題材的電影很少, 今年竟然就出現了兩部, 兩部都推薦!
The illusionist (台灣還未上?)
The Prestige 頂尖對決

The illusionist 比較浪漫，片中有角色那種自以為很聰明的觀眾，讓人看了會心一笑, 個人很欣賞愛德華諾頓演的魔術師角色的氣質。

The Prestige的感覺佈局更為機巧，加入科學和魔術的reflection，講故事有記憶拼圖的味道(Christopher Nolan) 讓人看了還想重看一次，但是把魔術師講的太壞啦.希望不要有人看了之後而討厭魔術.

兩片的時代背景都不是現代，共同點是看完之後都會覺得魔術師心機很重. ;-) 兩部片裡面都穿插了一些魔術歷史裡的經典，像是橘子樹 口接子彈 等. 推薦一本書，對魔術的歷史有興趣的人可以參考: Hiding the Elephant. 作者Jim Steinmeyer就是設計自由女神消失的那位仁兄

<原載於ptt2個人板>
後記：後來發現除了這兩片外還有伍迪艾倫的SCOOP，也很讚!

Howl's Moving Castle

5/6/2006 Sat. We watched "Howl's Moving Castle". Very different from the popular CG style Animations created by American Studios, Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle presents a magical story in a fairytale style. I love many of Hayao Miyazaki's works a lot, for example, the classics: My friend Totoro, Kiki's delivery service. His works is not that straighforward thus evokes some thinking. As already presented in the previous work, Hayao pictured a world without war and pollution. It is a little weird to see the scenario of the movie in a late 1800s european city. But it feels fitted to the fairytale very well. As a strong contrast to the debut of modern technology showed by the steam vehicles and other machines or craft used in the war, "magic" is the power beneath the steel components, for example the moving castle was powered by fire demon Calcifer. And all the other magical thing that machine can do. However, more important is still the heart of human, who should be the lord of all these magic. Sophie was turned into a old lady by magic, but because of her heart, the way she face it shows the heart has power over magic. Another very important feature of Hayao Miyazaki's movies is the music, the music of Howl's Moving Castle was made by 久石讓, who is also the author of the Kikujiro no natsu.

Last, Ying found some funny thing about Howl's Moving Castle: the ten things Howl's Moving Castle teaches us.

Good night and Good luck

Friday night, Ying and I rent a DVD - Good night and Good luck directed by George Cloney. There were too many vocabulary we didn't understand, which made us not able to appreciate the movie very much. I rent this one because I read a piece news on UDN introducing this moive. It was reported that George collateralize his house (for 7.5 million USD) to start the movie. He said otherwise he won't have a good thing to left for human beings when he is 70. I admire such personality.

Ice Age 2

Blue Sky's animated film - ICE AGE came to the theater today. Together with Ying and Weichun, we see it at Atlanta Station. The movie is excellent, period. You definitely must go to the theather to see it and laugh to tears with all the other audience. I give it five stars.

DVFX期末Project

Geico 是美國一家汽車保險公司，在電視上的廣告很多，廣告的內容很無厘頭大多是在開別的廣告或是電視節目的玩笑，廣告一開頭都會讓人以為是別的商品廣告或是電視節目，例如像是購物頻道的超強力黏膠，男女配對遊戲節目..等等，到結尾才會冒出一句 "這個雖然XXX，但並不會幫您節省汽車保險"，我們模仿了Geico廣告，改編的對象是HP的 "Picture Book" 電視廣告.

相關連結：
Make-of (幕後製作)
其他同學的作品
七年來的課堂作品:

Ang Lee 新春賀歲片~~~

導演/編劇/發行: Ang Lee (XD)
DVFX Homework#1


這是我的作業 No.1
做的很粗糙 大家隨便看看吧:)
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