Still from film When Harry Met Sally. Credit: Castle Rock Entertainment
If you want to fall in love
让你体会恋爱滋味的电影
A film so comforting that it has an item of soft furnishing in its title, Pillow Talk (1959) stars Doris Day as a career woman who can’t stand her playboy neighbour (Rock Hudson) who hogs their shared phone line. Why is it such a pleasure? One reason is that the most tense dramatic question is whether its devastatingly attractive heroine and hero will get together (of course they will), while the characters boast such aspirational lifestyles in the meantime. The best romantic comedies let you imagine that you, too, could wear those clothes, lounge around in those apartments, and have that flirtatious badinage in those metropolitan nightclubs and restaurants, so snuggle up with Doris and Rock – or, if you prefer, Hugh and Andie in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) or Billy and Meg in When Harry Met Sally (1989).
1959年电影《枕边细语》是一部连名字都软绵绵的暖心电影,多丽丝·黛在片中饰演一名职业女性,她无法忍受隔壁的花花公子 hog[hɔːɡ]: v. 独占
badinage[ˈbædɪnɑːʒ]: n. 开玩笑
Still from film The World Is Not Enough. Credit: MGM
If you want someone to save the world
拯救世界的英雄电影
Bond movies are intrinsically comforting to Brits of a certain age because they bring back memories of flopping in front of the television on Christmas day. But you don’t have to be British to feel soothed by a supremely competent and confident champion trouncing evil and cracking one-liners while he’s at it. Not a Bond fan? Choose your favourite action hero, whether it’s John McClane in Die Hard (1988), Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), or Superman in Superman: The Movie (1978), a paragon who can literally turn back time to happier days.
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