Sherlock Holmes (2009)

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Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr. / Jude Law / Rachel McAdams/ Mark Strong / Kelly Reilly
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery

Isn’t it adopted from the well-known stories by Conan Doyle? Isn’t it a detective film? Right, but also wrong! With Guy Ritchie, everything is totally different from what you have expected.

As a typical gentleman in the original work, Sherlock Holmes portrayed by Robert Downey is a big surprise to the audience. Messy, dizzy, freaky, Holmes is a disaster to Dr. Watson in daily life. He played violin when Watson was sleeping; he experimented on Watson’s dog; he stole Watson’s clothes etc.
But his odd behaviors were just the disguise of his extraordinary wisdom. Holmes is actually studying every possible clue to reach the truth. Violin inspired him; the experiment on the dog provided essential clue; Watson’ clothes disguised him.
Besides his detective skills, the director put emphasis on Holmes’s versatility. His major is consulting detective, while he is also good at boxing, fencing and chemical experiments.
Altogether, this Holmes is no longer a flat character. A mixture of Captain Jack and Iron Man. Just let your imagination take flight!?

Tom Hanks Vol.2

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Film: Sleepless in Seattle

Director: Nora Ephron

Actors:Tom Hanks …..Sam Baldwin
Meg Ryan …..Annie Reed
Bill Pullman …..Walter
Ross Malinger …..Jonah Baldwin
Rosie O’Donnell …..Becky

Nora Ephron’s “Sleepless in Seattle” is a feather-light romantic comedy about two lovers who meet for the first time in the last reel. It’s a stunt, but it’s a stunt that works far more effectively than anybody in his right mind has reason to expect. Not since “Love Story” has there been a movie that so shrewdly and predictably manipulated the emotions for such entertaining effect. Be warned, though: “Sleepless in Seattle” is a movie you may hate yourself in the morning for having loved the night before.

The situation is this: the recently widowed Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks), a successful architect, has moved to Seattle from Chicago to try to assuage his sorrow. One night, his 8-year-old son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), calls a late-night radio talk-show psychiatrist. It is Christmas, and the boy is worried about his dad. The furious, embarrassed Sam then gets on the phone. Before he realizes it, he’s talking about his perfect marriage before a large portion of the United States population…?

Tom Hanks Vol.1

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Film:  Forrest Gump
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Tom Hanks …. Forrest Gump
Sally Field …. Mrs. Gump
Robin Wright Penn …. Jenny Curran
Gary Sinise …. Lt. Dan Taylor

In the contention of the best picture of the 67th Oscar

Award in 1995, Forrest Gump has got six Grand Prixes, such as the best picture, the best actor, the best achievement in directing, adapting drama, the best achievement in film editing and the best visual effect bestly and so on.
The film begins with a feather. And the main actor Forrest tells his hole-life story to different people on the bench waiting for the bus. Forrest Gump who is unfortunately to be born with a lower IQ and the muscle problem, usually, people always think this kind of person can not be successful in doing anything. But, instead, this unlucky man has achieved lots of incredible success, he is a football star, a war hero, and later a millionaire! Stupid as he is, he gains his brilliant life indeed.
When he starts to go to school, the other children always tease him. So his sole friend Jenny teaches him to run to eacape from these sufferings.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Ben Whishaw/Dustin Hoffman/Alan Rickman/Rachel Hurd-Wood/Jessica Schwarz

The film tells an unbelievable story about an olfactory genius making perfume from females.

As one of the most gifted and notorious men of 18th-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille’s life was full of turns and twists. When he was born, he was nearly abandoned to death by his mother. Luckily, his loud cry saved him, but also sent his mother to gallows. Then, he was raised in an orphanage and gradually became a detached boy with an extreme sense of smell. Then, he spent his apprentice’s life in a tannery, a perfume shop where he acquired the basic methods of creating fragrances. The strange thing is that everyone had direct relationship with him died accidentally after his left.