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发表于2分钟前回复 :一家由黑帮操控的地下扑克赌场,突遇三名悍匪抢劫。赌场老大如临大敌,势要找出幕后黑手。他们找来得力干将杰基·科恩(布拉德·皮特饰)介入调查,让他来找出肇事者重整地下秩序。作为一名老练的赏金猎人,杰基性情孤冷而深藏不露。本来这场由三个毛头小混混设计的抢钱计划,笨拙到一望而知,可赌场管理人马基(雷·利奥塔 Ray Liotta饰)无端被人殴打,老酒鬼米奇(詹姆斯·甘多菲尼 James Gandolfini 饰)无故被杀等事件的意外穿插,又使局面陷入一片混乱。杰基抽丝剥茧,开始了他的深入调查。然而,这正是这场腥风血雨的开始,一场帮派间的温柔杀戮一触即发。本片改编自乔治·V·哈金斯于1974年创作的小说《柯根的交易》。这部影片是布拉德·皮特和导演安德鲁·多米尼克在《神枪手之死》后再度合作的第一部长片,本片入围2012年第65届戛纳电影节主竞赛单元-金棕榈奖。
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发表于3分钟前回复 :Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest-ever architect. However, few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them and the significance of his radical family background.In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture: Fallingwater, the house over the waterfall, has been called the greatest house of the 20th century; the spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York reinvented the art museum; the concrete Unity Temple was the first truly modern building in the world. But the underlying philosophy that links all Wright's buildings is as important as anything he built.Those ideas were rooted in the Unitarian religion of Frank Lloyd Wright's mother. Anna Lloyd Jones was born and raised near Llandysul in west Wales and migrated to America with her family in 1844, most likely to escape religious persecution. Her son, Frank, was raised in a Unitarian community in Wisconsin, a small piece of Wales in America. The values he absorbed there were based on the sanctity of nature, the importance of hard work, and the need to question convention and defy it where necessary. Wright's architecture was shaped by, and expressed, these beliefs.Frank Lloyd Wright set out to create a new American architecture for a new country. He built his own lifelong home in the valley he was raised in, and he named it after an ancient Welsh bard called Taliesin. It was the scene of many adventures - and a horrific crime. In 1914, a servant at Taliesin ran amok and killed seven people including Wright's partner, Mamah Cheney, and her two young children.Wright rebuilt his home and went on to marry a Montenegrin woman, Olgivanna Milanoff, some 30 years younger than him. It was Olgivanna who struck upon the idea that saved Wright's career after the Wall Street Crash and personal scandal laid it low. She decided that her husband should take on apprentices and that the apprentices should pay for the privilege. The Taliesin Fellowship had a hands-on approach, with apprentices often building extensions to Wright's own houses, labouring and cooking for him. Somehow it worked, lasting for decades and nurturing hundreds of young talents.Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 aged 91 while working on his final masterpiece, New York's incomparable Guggenheim Museum. He had been born in the wake of the American civil war, the son of a pioneer, and died a television celebrity, in the space age. He is buried in the shadow of Taliesin, alongside his Welsh ancestors.A 150 years after his birth, Jonathan Adams argues that Frank Lloyd Wright is now a vitally important figure who can teach us how to build for a better world. Wright believed in what he called organic architecture; buildings that grace the landscape, express an idea of how to live and respond to individual needs. This bespoke approach - a philosophy, not a style - puts him at the heart of modern architectural thinking.