Face the Music 1993 Directed by Carol Wiseman

Item: 弹唱姻缘 Face the Music
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2024-04-11 02:32:44 已编辑山西

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1993 年，80 年代的大牌青少年明星莫莉·林沃德 (Molly Ringwald) 和帕特里克·登普西 (Patrick Dempsey) 现在已经成年，正在好莱坞寻找自己的新位置。林沃德因放弃出演《风月俏佳人》和《人鬼情未了》而广为人知，因此在过去的三年里，除了电视电影之外，他没有出演任何其他作品。邓普西在《黑帮大佬》中尝试了与斯莱特和格里科合作的新型“小混混”，但没有成功，动作惊悚片也没有成功（有人看过凯利·普雷斯顿主演的《奔跑吧》吗？）。在绝望之际，某人的经纪人一定建议回到井里看一部老式的浪漫喜剧，一段充满激情的怪异爱情故事，为他们日渐衰弱的名人带来一些新的成熟，这是一个由《粉红俏佳人》中的女孩主演的安全赌注”还有《买不到我的爱》中的那个人。观众会很高兴看到他们再次完成这一切，并且最终在一起！

这部电影甚至没有维基百科页面。自从维基百科出现并成为一个更方便、不那么混乱的 IMDB 以来，在过去的许多年里，我看过的数千部电影中，我只遇到过一两次这种默默无闻的最低点。但不知道为什么没有。不再难找到（在 Amazon Prime 上观看）。这并不是一个每个人都希望埋葬的可怕的火车残骸（这是一个足够的，但并不令人印象深刻的类型商品，它与真正的智慧和激情调情，但从未在任何一个航班上完全起飞，其最大的罪行可能是它在某种程度上拼凑在一起剪辑室里杂乱无章；对于他们两人来说，这部电影是林沃德在陷入色情惊悚片和怀旧客串之前获得的最后一个受人尊敬的主演角色，而邓普西随后在《与在 90 年代末触底之前，他曾出演过《荣誉》和《爆发》，但他至少在 2000 年卷土重来，在热门话题中突然涌入了更突出的角色，最终导致他在《实习医生格蕾》中担任驻场演员。

这是一部“寻回彼此”的爱情喜剧，开场5分钟我们就看到了一场旋风式的恋情，最后以人为的离婚告终，而后等待他们重逢的90分钟的剧情却是拼尽全力。迫使他们重新聚在一起。他们是法国的前歌曲创作二人组，受雇为一部新电影创作一首热门歌曲，因此他们不情愿地在邓普西的新未婚夫（丽赛特·安东尼饰）的乡村庄园在婚礼周末重聚，一起创作这首歌曲。疯狂的三角恋随之而来。基本上（更好，被低估）休·格兰特/德鲁·巴里摩尔的电影《音乐与歌词》与邓普西自己的《阿拉巴马甜蜜之家》交叉（只是这回是在他仍然被认为足够酷而不是《错误的人》担任主角的时候））。

就像我说的，它有它的时刻。这并不完全平均。他们俩在某种程度上仍然很迷人，他带着狡猾的笑容，她有着瓷质的脸；只是天真已经消失了一点，让她看起来比以前更加严格和爱发牢骚（或者也许她在80年代就是这样，但写作弥补了这一点？），让他看起来更像一个自私的混蛋莉赛特·安东尼应该是站在他们之间的对手，但我一直为她感到难过，邓普西和林沃德对待她的态度如此冷酷无情，他们对再次勾搭几乎没有抵抗力。

但归根结底，这都是可预见的陈词滥调，加上一点天赋的重新包装，不足以重新加热他们当时的职业生涯，也不足以要求在 2019 年在这里被大规模重新发现。如果你喜欢这两部中的任何一部，或者喜欢看这两部的主流电影，那就看看吧无论出于何种原因，它们已经从地球表面消失了。

哦和林沃德是这对歌曲创作组合中的歌手，并在电影中表演了几首她自己的歌曲。她在这方面做得相当不错。他们最终写出的歌曲（剧透，他们完成了任务）是一首甜蜜的情歌，但我可以想象如果这部电影没有被放逐到幻影区的话，它会在那些日子里在软摇滚电台上经常播放。

【原文】

It's 1993 and big-time '80s teen stars Molly Ringwald and Patrick Dempsey are now adults looking for their new niche in Hollywood. Ringwald famously passed on starring in "Pretty Woman" and "Ghost", and perhaps as a result hasn't starred in anything but a TV movie for the past 3 years. Dempsey tried his hand at a new sort of Brat Pack with Slater and Grieco in "Mobsters" but it didn't take, nor did doing action thrillers (anyone ever seen "Run" with Kelly Preston?). In a fit of desperation, someone's agent must have suggested going back to the well for an old-fashioned rom-com, a zesty screwball love affair with some newfound maturity for their languishing celebrity, a safe bet starring the girl from "Pretty in Pink" and the guy from "Can't Buy Me Love". Audiences will love to see them doing all that again, and together at last!

This movie doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. I've only encountered that nadir of obscurity maybe once or twice in the thousands of movies I've seen over the past many years since Wikipedia arrived and became a more convenient, less chaotic IMDB. Not sure why it doesn't, though. It's not hard to find anymore (watched it on Amazon Prime). It's not a ghastly train wreck that everyone wishes they could bury (it's an adequate if unimpressive slice of genre goods that flirts with actual wit and passion but never quite takes off on flights of either, whose biggest crime is probably that it was patched together somewhat messily in the editing bay; regarding the two of them, this movie stands as the last respectable starring role that Ringwald ever got before sinking into erotic thrillers and nostalgic has-been cameos, while Dempsey was subsequently demoted to 5th banana in ensembles like "With Honors" and "Outbreak" before bottoming out in the late '90s, but he at least had a comeback in 2000 with a sudden influx of more prominent parts in talked-about stuff that eventually lead to his residency on "Grey's Anatomy").

This is a "finding their way back to each other" romantic comedy, in which we glimpse a whirlwind romance that ends in contrived divorce during the opening 5 minutes, and then wait for them to reunite through 90 minutes of a plot bending over backwards to force them back together. They're a former songwriting duo in France hired to come up with a hit tune for a new movie, so they reluctantly reunite to work on it at the rustic estate of Dempsey's new fiance (Lysette Anthony) on the weekend of their wedding. Love triangle madness ensues. It's basically that (way better, underrated) Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore movie "Music & Lyrics" crossed with Dempsey's own "Sweet Home Alabama" (only this was back when he was still considered cool enough to be the lead instead of the Wrong Man).

Like I said, it has its moments. It's not completely average. They're both still pretty charming in a way, him with his sly grin, her with that porcelain face; it's just that the innocence has wore off a bit, making her seem more stringent and whiny than she used to be (or maybe she was exactly that way in the '80s but the writing made up for it?) and making him seem more like a selfish douche bag. Lysette Anthony is supposed to be the antagonist standing between them, but I just felt bad for her the whole time, the way Dempsey and Ringwald treat her so callously on their path of very little resistance to hooking up again.

But ultimately it's all predictable cliches, re-packaged with a dash of flair, not enough to re-heat their careers at the time or demand mass rediscovery here in 2019. See it if you like either of these two or enjoy watching mainstream movies that for whatever reason have fallen off the face of the earth.

Oh and Ringwald's the singer in this songwriting pair, and performs a few songs of her own during the movie. She's pretty decent at it. The song they finally end up writing (spoilers, they complete the task) is a syrupy love ballad, but I can imagine it playing often on soft rock radio back in those days, if the movie hadn't been banished to the Phantom Zone.