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)
着实挺震撼的，震撼与几十年的定格动画与电影视效经验所成就出来的一种多技术媒介结合下来的疯狂想象，里面对于每一个环节所运用的技术和方法都有着非常巧妙地设计，所以成就出一种非常癫狂的多维世界。感觉随便一个场景或者是形象都可以拿出来延展成一套设定和故事，但实际上整个电影却仍然根植着非常深的宗教思想，从开篇的巴别塔到，到所有片子中展示出的被惩戒的生灵与肉体，到后面的人类战争与混沌直到最后一切回归到一种宇宙的永恒秩序中，每一个部分都有着非常值得玩味地解读空间，确实很疯
张伯伦对英国肯定是贡献巨大，看看皇家空军在38年秋季的战备细节，就会知道如果战争提前一年在38年秋季就爆发的话，英国真的很难扛下来，道丁的防御体系根本来不及建成，即便拖到39年秋季开战，若没有战争之初一直到第二年敦刻尔克战前那大半年的phony war的继续拖延，英国要应付BOB仍然很艰难，40年下半年的BOB都扛得那么难，试想想提早两年？德国空军经过了西班牙内战的演练，皇家空军有什么（喷火38年8月才刚入役，更别提对C&R体系至关重要的CH和CHL雷达站建设进度）？这种为国家利益牺牲个人名誉的人是很难做的。再加上一战的惨痛阴影笼罩着他们这一辈人的记忆，对再一次大战争爆发重蹈覆辙的恐惧是完全可以理解的。一国首相首要关切的自然是本国利益和存亡。
莫名其妙不是探索 丑陋恶心不是荒诞 拼贴杂糅更不是艺术
可怕的梦魇，可怕的想象力
爱情就是和你分享一支烟，再屏息一起吐出（。
没完全看懂不敢乱讲。单从画面和技术角度看是真的“封神”了！实拍和定格结合流畅，场景、人物、怪物的设计十分出彩，视效推到顶点，脑洞大的惊人，看完有种说不出的诡异和怪诞，好像看懂了一些又好像完全没明白。
电影结尾写着Munich Agreement为英国及联盟换来时间备战，就像高赞说的—导演脑中的片名其实是<张伯伦: 被误解的英雄>。讽刺的是，1938年英法德意搞定了Settlement of the Czechoslovak ，把Sudetenland拱手相让给德国，而捷克只能任人宰割。
在看s11 rng打edg间隙看的这部电影，刚开始一度不知道哪个更恶心。看到第三局我悟了，继续看这部电影，竟然发现还可以，电影有很多暗喻和对人类文明的讽刺吧，看不甚懂，图个猎奇
很顶，四舍五入有我的梦一半那么HiFi吧
我愿意相信标题的「疯神」指的是创作者自己，想象力的混乱集合体，一个颓废、疯狂、残忍的世界，充满了死亡和不可名状的生命，机械而又非理性。
这年头还做定格的，那真的是真爱了。但是题材嘛...就喜欢不起来了。无台词放大了定格的缺陷“动作不够细致”，于是只能靠世界观来弥补从动作细节上失去的东西。bold move，但是不太适合这个世代了。
以废土朋克风格定格动画表现的混合了宗教奇幻和政治隐喻的文明兴衰故事。本片的形式和主题高度统一，其黑色调性很容易使人联想到 Tim Burton 的一系列作品，但残酷程度则远甚之。影片的想象力之深刻壮阔令人叹服。
场景繁多，意义不明，有好几段镜头感觉像抽帧，碰瓷史云梅耶大可不必哈
又“看不懂但大受震撼.jpg”了，不过很享受观看过程。
非常奇特的想象力，也很有视觉冲击力，但主题有些晦涩难懂。
通过一个看似混沌不清的故事，实则让多种理念相互缠绕，继而生发出更为宏大的主题。蒂贝特用自身极富特色的影像语言，试图去演绎哲学上的三大终极问题：是谁？来自哪里？要到哪里去？
极度猎奇和重口，在怪诞的现实和迷幻的梦境中反复横跳，血肉朋克启示录，对观众太不友好，只能3分。。
don’t really care about the story gets a bit boring at times but visually cool as fuck. puppet blood is revolting. too many references. so much work. the set is insane.
你永远都猜不到下一个场景会有多恶心，刚用面包虫喂完我的守宫...
暗黑邪典，够刺激，最后是致敬2001太空漫游吗，我好像看见了黑石碑
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