Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
期待多年，一定要在电影院看到的电影，竟然是波兰语的。盲看并不影响理解，原来图像和音乐真的不需要语言。前半部分很棒，特别是Buzz选择梦想看着朋友老去的那一段，真的很触动，后半段的探险则有些俗套。因为知道《玩具总动员》，才更加觉得，难怪他变成玩具后会是那样。真的悲剧就是把美好的撕裂了，把伟大的变平庸了。最后，人生无论怎么选择都会留下遗憾，撕裂了两个Buzz，或许在另外一个时空里，也有那些个我们过着我们没有选择的那些人生吧。唯一的遗憾是没有美队的原声。
皮克斯已死 再见巴斯👋
#光年正传# 不好看，也不难看。。。
太平庸了，故事和水一般淡，毫无精彩刺激可言。玩具总动员元老出走之后，皮克斯就没有能打的了么？看了这片只想买猫，谁会想买巴斯光年。
情节和设定确实简单了，但这是好久不见的太空梦！
有皮克斯那味儿，但并没有很出彩，看皮克斯再也不会有小时候看《超人总动员》的那感觉了。本来觉得大概是3.2星的程度，但因为迪士尼狠狠收买了我，于是给4。总体节奏不差但也不是特别有吸引力，可以说平平无奇，后半段更是差那味儿。个人认为其他两个队员真的挺让人讨厌的，反正是我在小组作业里遇上会头很大的程度。只想说虽然很多时候犯错能够被原谅，但不代表就该被原谅。最有泪点的地方是Hawthorne变老那儿，真的想哭
PIXAR自从回归到Disney旗下，渐渐就变得平庸保守，棱角全无。只比那个动不动就唱唱跳跳的“米老鼠”，强出了这么一丢丢。（混体制的都这样?）这部95年《玩具》之后的外传，同样的技术一流无比工整，却形同嚼蜡毫无新意可言。与皮克斯巅峰时期的《UP》、《WALL·E》在创意与情感传递上相差甚远。
对于关键的科幻设定的随意处理还是比较容易被吐槽的，亲亲风波 没人提醒我还真没注意。如果是皮克斯的老观众，从玩具1的光滑平面，但现在宇宙星球和飞船复杂的材质表面，动画技术常看常新。跟toy内核已经完全脱离，最后，我们不过都还是猫的奴隶🐱
咪咪可爱！
很老套的英雄主义叙事。科幻设定讲得不清不楚，导致核心矛盾让人不明就里——老巴斯光年怎么就和新巴斯光年打起来了？
三观不正，我毫无保留地认同于老巴斯的观念，人类不能固步自封守着一亩三分地，这不是坐吃山空吗？我们可以核算成本，但是不能只认政治正确，不顾伟大的愿景。前半段的星际飞行非常有六十年代美国科幻的感觉，殖民殖民！星辰大海！
好喜欢！除去本身18382910个好看的点之外很打动我的是它跳出了传统的英雄叙事，把落脚点放在了爱和生活琐碎当中。尤其是指挥官的角色代表着的powerful anspiring women和女性力量的代际传承，to infinity and beyond这句话分别由两个女性角色和Buzz共同说出意义非凡，因为它代表着故事里拯救世界的英雄人物不再只是顺直白男，小女孩的玩具不会再只是粉色的娃娃和牧羊女（虽然牧羊女在之后的故事里有很大的突破）而也可以是宇航员和太空指挥官，成为英雄也不再是主人公唯一的选择。这样的皮克斯在保留了爱和创造力的内核之外又更进了一步。看完一直在感叹现在的小孩子们会有很多这样的故事陪伴着长大好幸福
从票房看起来巴斯solo能力不太行吧，玩具团人气top还是胡迪吧哈哈
2022.06.23 with Faye to infinity and beyond
i rly thought this was going to be an inspirational film. 贪得无厌的我
笑点满满！虽然很伟光正可这就是巴斯啊！扣一分因为我不喜欢两个side kick老太太和总是什么都搞砸的瘦脸brown男
电影告诉我们傻逼永远是傻逼。电影里面的那个逃兵就是大傻逼。
挺无聊的 CE的声音我也听不大出来 不知道我是不是耳盲
反正我觉得挺好的，对于玩总粉来说或许会更好，故事其实挺简单的，不过元素较完整，该有的都有，就是穿越这个事吧，感觉多少有点小漏洞，结尾的有点急
Buzz穿制服真的有点帅哈哈哈哈，情怀情怀~
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