The Mask (film)【電影－變相怪杰】
The Mask is an Oscar-nominated action comedy film, based on a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. This film was directed by Chuck Russell, produced by Dark Horse Entertainment and New Line Cinema, and originally released to movie theatres in 1994. The film stars Jim Carrey as Stanley Ipkiss (also known as The Mask) and Cameron Diaz as Tina Carlyle in her film debut.
Plot【劇情】
The film revolves around two men who live in Edge City. The first is a bank clerk named Stanley Ipkiss, a shy, luckless romantic who is regularly bullied by nearly everyone around him: his boss, landlady and even car mechanics; his only friends are his cocky but good-natured co-worker Charlie and his small but heroic dog Milo. The second man is an ambitious gangster named Dorian Tyrell who runs the exclusive Coco Bongo nightclub, but is plotting to move onto bigger things, namely the overthrow of his crimelord boss Niko. The two men's paths cross when Tyrell sends his singer girlfriend Tina Carlyle into Stanley's bank with a hidden camera, as part of Tyrell's plan to rob the establishment.
Stanley is immediately smitten by Tina and she seems possibly interested in him as well, but this is the only good thing to happen to him during this particularly miserable day, which ends with him fishing a mysterious wooden mask out of the city's filthy harbor and taking it home with him. When he impulsively puts on the mask, it wraps itself around his head, and brings forth the repressed side of his personality: a wackily-suited green-skinned wildman ("The Mask") who cheerfully proceeds to get revenge his landlady and the scheming mechanics, along with turning the tables on an unfortunate street gang which attempts to terrorize him. The next morning, a repentant Stanley tosses the mask out his window, but it boomerangs unnoticed back into his apartment.
Stanley proceeds to have run-ins with world-weary Edge City policeman Lieutenant Kellaway and hustling newspaper reporter Peggy Brandt, both of whom are investigating the Mask's activities of the previous night. Despite these threats, the temptation to again use the re-discovered mask is overwhelming, and that night he puts it back on. Planning to attend one of Tina's performances at the Coco Bongo, the Mask manages to noisily interrupt Tyrell's bank robbery and make off with the cash; Tyrell's close friend and pointman on the job ends up being shot dead by police responding to the disturbance. The Mask uses some of the money to buy his way into the Coco Bongo, where he "rocks the joint", exuberantly dancing with Tina in front of the cheering clientele before being confronted by Tyrell. The Mask literally bounces away, while Tyrell is temporarily arrested for the bank robbery by Kellaway, who also finds a piece of Stanley's distinctive pajamas left behind at the scene.
The next day Stanley meets with an expert on masks, who tells him the object is a depiction of Loki, the Norse god of darkness and mischief (and thus only works at night.) Despite this, and with both Tyrell and Kellaway hunting down his trail, a more-confident Stanley stands up to his boss and arranges for Tina to meet his "friend" the Mask at the local Landfill Park. The meeting does not go well, with Tina being scared away by the Mask's overly-forward advances, and Kellaway then appearing on the scene to arrest him for the bank robbery. The Mask toys with the enraged officer for a time before he zooms out of the park and magics a large chunk of the Edge City police force into joining him in staging an impromptu mass-performance of the song Cuban Pete. Peggy drives up and helps Stanley escape, but then turns him over to Tyrell in exchange for a briefcase full of reward money. Tyrell forces Stanley to explain how the mask works and then tries it on, becoming a truly demonic troll-figure. Stanley is literally dumped into Kellaway's lap with a cheap green mask and is thrown in jail.
A sympathetic Tina visits Stanley in his cell, where he urges her to flee Tyrell and the city. She attempts to do so, but is captured by Tyrell and dragged along on his raid on a big charity ball at the Coco Bongo, attended by the city's elite, and hosted by Niko. Niko is killed, and Mask-Tyrell prepares to blow up both the club and Tina. With Milo's (and then Charlie's) help, Stanley kidnaps Kellaway, breaks out of jail and goes to the club to rescue her. After some brief initial success, he is captured. Tina manages to trick Tyrell into taking off the mask, which gets kicked into the air. Milo sticks his head into the artifact, and the resulting pitbull assists maskless Stanley in successfully beating down Tyrell and his henchmen. Stanley finally retrieves the mask and wears it one last time, scaring away the rest of Tyrell's gangsters, swallowing the bomb and literally flushing Tyrell down the drain of the club's ornamental fountain. The city's mayor, witnessing most of this, thinks that Tyrell was the Mask all along, and calls off Kellaway.
As the sun rises, Stanley, Tina, Milo and Charlie take the mask back down to the harbor, where Stanley and Tina toss the object into the water. As they kiss and the credits roll, Charlie jumps in after it, only to find Milo swimming away with it.
大致看過(guò)以上的敘述內(nèi)容,應(yīng)該是很完整了.