A movie was recognized by two people in different time and space in the mailbox.

It's "unreachable lover", the title of which is "unreachable lover".

Director/Screenwriter: Alessandro acquisti alejandro agresti/David? Auburn David Auburn

Starring: Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves

Sandra Bullock

Christopher Plummer

Region: USA

Type: love

Duration: 98 minutes

Level: PG

Release date: June 2006 16.

Official website: thelakehousemovie.com.

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Kate (sandra bullock) finally decides to leave the suburbs of Illinois and start a new life after finding a job as a doctor in Chicago. The only thing she couldn't let go of was to open the window, and in front of her was a seaside hut in a quiet lake. Before leaving, she left a letter in the mailbox in front of the cabin where the lease had expired, reminding the next tenant to help her receive the letter, and used the paw print in front of the door as a signal.

Alex (Gino Reeves), a frustrated genius architect, comes to the lake house and the works of his equally talented and more successful father (christopher plummer). He saw Kate's letter, but he didn't see the so-called paw prints. The hut at this time is just an empty room abandoned by time.

Until one day, a dog ran to the newly painted dock and stepped on the door of the hut with its painted paw, leaving a footprint, which seemed to be a code word, just like the letter said. Alex reread Kate's letter and couldn't help replying and asking about the mysterious dog paw prints. Kate thinks this is just Alex's joke. Finally, two people spread out a question in the letter.

What day is it today?

Today is April 14, 2006. He said.

No, today is April 14, 2004.

A magical mailbox runs through the same space that spans two years. Kate and Alex accepted this magical joke from time and space and fate, and began to communicate with each other, telling their feelings of passing by the same scenery at different times. Separated by an insurmountable time and space, their souls show a detailed outline between the lines, and the feelings accumulated by letters make Kate and Alex have to try to meet each other.

Fate's jokes are always casual. Can you control your life at will by insisting on meeting each other?

So is Hollywood-limited creativity and unlimited selling points.

The introduction of the plot seems a bit redundant. As long as all the beautiful women and sven tough guy Seung-Jae Lee co-starred in "Untouchable Lover" before the violent transformation in 2002, fans who moved to tears can tell the story of "Lake House" without prompting.

With such obvious reference color, the Chinese name of Lakeside House is also unabashedly unified with the American version of Far-reaching Lover. Touchless Lover, which shined brilliantly at Busan Film Festival and was selected as one of the top ten Korean films of that year, has long been concerned by Doug Davidson and roy lee, founders of Vertigo Entertainment. They are deeply attracted by ingenious clue design and sad romance that is not quoted. Of course, it goes without saying that Koreans are good at playing exquisite scenes. Subsequently, the two enthusiastically began to buy the right to adapt the film, and then assigned a creative team that could cater to the American market to make a makeover of the original script. Finally, David Auburn, a Pulitzer Prize winner who is good at writing exotic stories, took over the adaptation, and the director was Alessandro acquisti, a new Argentine director.

But in terms of eye-catching standards, the reunion of keanu reeves and sandra bullock is undoubtedly the biggest selling point. This pair of China audiences who have only watched blockbusters for 20 years seems to be a combination of classic screen lovers. They didn't get together again after 1993' s The Speed of Life, until they both entered the age of no doubt, lost the energy of running at high speed, and finally got together and talked about a love that was too far and too slow to be maintained by letters. After the adaptation, the average age of the protagonist has greatly advanced for almost ten years, and the feelings have quietly increased the feeling of middle age, allowing people to see that when people reach middle age, there are pure and beautiful feelings that are as sad as fairy tales. When young people are in vigorous love with adventure and excitement, this gentle and quiet old man is even more touching.

The picturesque scenery is an important element to set off the sadness and romance between Enpeng and Xingxian in the original work. The adaptation of "unreachable lovers" dare not ignore this element. After visiting Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and other areas for seven weeks, they still haven't found a lake house to store their feelings and selves. The crew decided to build the most important symbol in this film by themselves. The director moved the original building almost intact to the United States, but in order to reflect the modern and classical temperament of the house designed by Alex's father, the designer used glass and steel as the basic materials of the hut, so that the tenants could stare at the lake and embrace the warm light at dawn and sunset, and because it was completely transparent and had nowhere to hide, the hut became a symbol of peace of mind.

Two scenic spots that record their mental journey in parallel in time and space are almost all famous American cultural "landmarks", such as Dilay Square, which is famous for Picasso's sculpture. The restaurant where they first met was Park Grill, a popular local restaurant. In the film, it is called IL MARE, which echoes the name of the original hut.

A tangible idea, an intangible idea

It is not difficult to understand why Warner is willing to make great efforts to film a love that spans time and space, oceans, borders and even the box office list of American culture. Seeing that Asian apprentices who once copied by stealth are now catching up with creativity and even hardware, Hollywood also realizes its weakness in delicate plots and flashes. The cost of Asian films is low, and the income from selling a screenplay adaptation right may not be as low as the box office income. Cheap and alternative ideas are naturally very valuable to mainstream Hollywood movies that have experienced a set of models for too long.

But the old saying that oranges in the south and oranges in the north will always come true.

Roy lee's love is boundless, but if he wants to put the routine of a Korean romantic film on a pair of American elites, his taste will be a little out of shape. The emotion of pure Korean romantic movies has been gradual until a certain point breaks out, which is the climax, and there will be no surging development. To accumulate enough strength, you can spend more than half of the movie time making trivial preparations. And these implicatures may become unspeakable in the eyes of American audiences. Beautiful scenery and wonderful plot alone can't change the audience's viewing habits cultivated by special effects and speed, and there are irreplaceable emotional expressions.

The ending of the original is a wonderful surprise, but after the adaptation, this open ending seems to be gone. Koreans who like to play with car accidents, cancer, leukemia and other elements seem to understand how solid their compatriots are psychologically, so they can earn tears no matter how the audience leaves the cinema. However, The Unreachable Lover came to Hollywood, first as a romantic movie, and then as a romantic movie with tragic color. Therefore, in order to conform to the audience's beautiful concept of romance and love, this mainstream film must give an acceptable ending after strangeness and sadness in order to be worthy of PG rating. This change is incomplete for the original works that once touched people's hearts with artistic conception.

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As a doctor, Kate Foster (sandra bullock) recently bought a beautiful lakeside villa and settled down. However, because of her busy work, Kate can't move here for the time being, but she has started to use her new address to receive letters. Soon, she accidentally found a love letter in the mailbox, and the recipient was Alex Burnham Yan (Keanu Reeves). However, to her surprise, it turned out to be a letter two years ago. Kate tried to write a reply and put it in the mailbox, hoping that Alex could give him a new address. Alex is an architect. He wrote this lake house. However, his works have never been appreciated. Alex doesn't have many friends living alone in the cabin, and his life is quiet and lonely. But when he found a letter from the future in his mailbox, he found that everything was not so bad. He and Kate gradually became pen pals, and the two-year timeline seems to be gone. They communicate like ordinary people. ...

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"Foreign monks can recite the scriptures" Hollywood filmmakers also firmly believe this. Warner Company gave the guide tube of "Far Away Lovers" to Argentine director Alejandro Agresti this time. Acquisti, who graduated from the Film Academy, traveled to Europe in his early years and participated in the production of TV dramas and MTV in German and French departments. Returning to Argentina in the early 1980s, he directed a series of films with Buenos Aires as the background and focused on the lives of ordinary people, and gradually became a heavyweight director. In 2002, acquisti created the film Valentin based on his childhood experience, telling an unforgettable love story. It won rave reviews and won seven awards from the Argentine Film Critics Association, including best director and best film.

Warner provided a budget of $70 million for "Far Away Lovers", which is an excellent opportunity for acquisti, who directed an American film for the first time, to test whether he can enter the mainstream Hollywood film circle. Warner gave acquisti a lot of autonomy and fully respected his creativity. "I have the privilege, and the production company has given me great freedom. It's like making a movie in Argentina. This is not a comedy, but a romantic love movie. " Determined to make a romantic movie, Aquistie traveled all over the Great Lakes region, looking for a place to meet her unreachable lover, and finally decided to stay on the lake outside Chicago. Acquisti said: "Chicago is very intuitive and a beautiful city. ...

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Many years ago, the thrilling pace of life made keanu reeves and sandra bullock a classic couple on the screen. After that, one became the savior of the mother, and the other continued to play the role of silly elder sister. There was no intersection between them. 12 years later, this "unreachable lover" contributed to their cooperation again. However, the youth of that year is gone, and now both of them are in their eighties, which is a bit far-fetched. Fortunately, both of them are social elites such as architects and doctors, and their age can always be temporarily ignored.

Reeves and Brock don't play opposite each other in the film, and they are basically one-man shows, which is quite a test of acting skills. For Reeves, this is not difficult. At least you can be cool and solve the lonely problem of the character. Reeves, who claims to have never seen the original work, has no reference in performance, and the pressure is relatively reduced, which may even surprise fans. For Brock, who has always been careless, this gentle role may be a bit difficult. But she didn't intend to play a gentle role, even cut her hair and dressed up as a mature woman, trying to interpret the abnormal relationship of a mature woman. ...

Plot: A beautiful lake house in Illinois.

On a cold morning, Kate Foster (sandra bullock), with short hair and good looks, is about to leave her beautiful lake house in Illinois to work in a busy Chicago hospital. Kate didn't want to leave this spacious and bright place in her room with a view of the lake. When she left, she left a letter in the mailbox outside the door, hoping that the next resident of the hut could contact her. By the way, the letter also explained that the indelible paw prints on the front door existed as early as when she moved in. I hope you don't mind.

Alex Weller (Keanu Reeves), the next tenant of the lake house, is a talented architect who has lost his way. This cabin has a special meaning for Alex. It was designed by the father of a famous architect whom I haven't seen for years. It has long been a converted hut. In Alex's eyes, it was completely ignored: it was covered with dust and weeds, and there was no paw print on the front door that Kate had been talking about.

At the moment when he tidied up and rebuilt the hut, Alex began to enjoy the beautiful and unexpected tranquility by the lake, but he was completely indifferent to Kate's stationery. Until a few days later, a stray dog accidentally stepped on the breakwater he had just painted, leaving the paw prints mentioned by Kate on the front door of the hut. Confused Alex finally decided to write back and ask Kate why she knew there had never been any other guest's lake house and fresh dog paw prints. In the communication, two people talked about trifles, hopes, disappointments and everything, but they also found that in fact, the connection between two people who gradually fell in love was just a mailbox standing next to the lake house. ......

Phase: the time and space interval between the east wind and the west wind.

The wonderful mailbox strings letters, time brings "passing by", and romantic and heartbroken love is bitter. When Xing Xian of 1998 met her kindness in 2000, Gianna Jun, a "savage girlfriend", collided with a tough guy gently, and the gap between time and space that Korean movies were keen on made an unforgettable love. The east wind is spreading westward, and the Asian wind in Hollywood has been blowing quite violently in recent years. As one of the top ten popular movies in Korea that year, the sad "Unreachable Lover" also attracted Warner's interest.

Although I don't know whether the exquisiteness and clarity of the East can satisfy the delicious appetite of French fries hamburgers, the adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter David O 'Bonn is of quality assurance. 65,438+02 years ago, keanu reeves and sandra bullock won the MTV film award for best screen couple and best kiss scene. After many years, holding hands again will always bring some unforgettable romantic feelings. Although the two protagonists who are no longer young are less popular in their youth, the quiet and faint vicissitudes contain more affectionate flavor.

Comments: porridge dishes in the fast food era

Japanese style is horrible and amazing, and gangster action Hong Kong movies can learn from it. When it comes to the love of clear soup and dried noodles, Korean flavor has become popular in Asia in recent years. Hollywood, which is convenient in recent years, naturally makes it easy to remake. Applying the original version to fry a pot of stew for a different taste, whether it will not be acclimatized is not considered.

The faint sadness and heartache in "A Lover Out of Reach" are more like the postcard filled with love words in memory, and female directors's remake also contributed. For frank American, this love doesn't have many earth-shattering moments, strong feelings of where will you go, no attempt to create mystery and loss, and no intention to mix funny plots. More like porridge. Can you evoke strange songs?

12 years later, the cooperation between Action Hero and Close to the People was particularly hot, and the lakeside huts discovered in four American states were really cold and moving. However, in this era of rapid development of telephone messages and emails, can the tossing and turning of letters, the loss of fate or the tragic love that transcends reality through time and space also make people cry?