<笨人晚餐>聰明在哪裡

能和《全面啟動》叫板的電影，一定有可貴之處，要不星期3的晚上，電影院也不會爆滿。
 
影片分兩條主線，主角Tim的事業和愛情。公司內部的爾虞我詐，有錢人的裝模作樣，情侶間的說不清道不明。。。。光從劇情看，沒有什麼特別之處。明星，似乎也不夠大牌。上映之前，幾乎都沒聽到什麼動靜。北美第二的票房，可以說是個奇蹟，因為其他幾部幾乎都是大製作，大明星，或者是名片續集。
 
USA Box Office Returns
for the weekend starting 30 July 2010
Rank Weekend Total Weeks Screens Weekend screen avg. Cumulative
box office
1. Inception (2010)

        $27,485,245 (-36%) 3 3,545 $7,753 $193,313,741
2. Dinner for Schmucks (2010)

        $23,527,839 (%) 1 2,911 $8,082 $23,527,839
3. Salt (2010)

        $19,471,355 (-46%) 2 3,612 $5,390 $71,033,711
4. Despicable Me (2010)

        $15,524,230 (-34%) 4 3,602 $4,309 $190,330,425
5. Charlie St. Cloud (2010)

        $12,381,585 (%) 1 2,718 $4,555 $12,381,585
6. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)

        $12,279,363 (%) 1 3,705 $3,314 $12,279,363
7. Toy Story 3 (2010)

        $5,122,907 (-43%) 7 2,105 $2,433 $389,761,491
8. Grown Ups (2010)

        $4,548,144 (-39%) 6 2,269 $2,004 $150,761,385
9. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

        $4,465,524 (-54%) 3 2,524 $1,769 $52,026,528
10. Eclipse (2010)

        $4,014,953 (-44%) 5 2,334 $1,720 $288,199,907
 
《笨人晚餐》並非原創，是改編自1998年法國電影《晚餐遊戲》。法國電影的優勢就是能把主題平淡的電影拍出細節，在細節中體現演員，編劇和導演的功力。《笨人晚餐》在很大程度上保留了這個細節至上的精髓，加入了美國式的幽默。
 
比如，我們的頭號「笨人」，Barry，他的職業是稅務局職員。美國人最恨的機關，最無聊的工作。他的主管，那個號稱能控制別人，特別是Barry靈魂的變態，也極其符合美國人對這個機構的認知。
 
Tim在片中的霉事不斷，也符合了美國人對金融從業人員的怨恨，在保時捷被砸的時候，居然有人鼓掌！
 
美國人的自嘲精神在於，他們承認自己對世界無知。比如，曼德拉被認為是摩根弗瑞曼，比如聽不懂有口音的英語。觀眾的共鳴體現在不間斷的笑聲里。笑話雖然有低俗的，但是大部份包袱抖的都不錯。畢竟不是吉姆凱瑞的電影，主要靠肢體語言。
 
演員整體出彩，史蒂夫凱瑞不用說，演他老闆的扎克•加利費安納基斯《宿醉》，可惡的讓大家可以肆無忌憚的大罵稅務官員，演藝術家的克萊蒙特演出了當代藝術家瘋癲裝蒜的神韻。
 
大家在輕鬆的笑話裡都解了氣，在小老鼠做的模型里得到了溫馨，有些人還可以從Tim身上學到升值秘訣。唯一遺憾應該就是結尾，法國電影裡片子要表達的在飯局之前都演完了，而美劇沒有留白，高潮留在飯局上，問題飯局上沒有更多驚喜，最終還是法版的更好。
 
不過電影院的人都等到The End之後繼續看老滑鼠本表現的主人公們未來生活，歐美觀眾的審美還真不一樣！
 
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Susana (Kristen Schaal): Uck! It smells like cabbage on this floor.
Tim: That's the smell of dead dreams.
Susana: I go to clubs at night and people are like hey, who's wearing the cole-slaw? Do you know how hard it is to get laid if you smell like cole-slaw? Not hard...

Tim: You invite idiots to dinner and make fun of them?
威廉斯 (Larry Wilmore): Mmm-hmm.
Tim: That's...messed up.

Tim: Oh my god! You know that is just so like you. You call a guy a douche and you get your first museum show.

Tim: Jesus Christ! Are you okay?
Barry: Ahh, yeah. I'm okay. Is that a Porsche?
Tim: Yeah.
Barry: Oh wow...I have been hit by a Datsun before, but never a Porsche.

Tim: In the words of John Lennon, you may I'm a dreamer, but I'm not.
Barry: The only one.
Tim: The only what?
Barry: No that's the lyric. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
Tim: [chuckles] Okay Tim.

Tim: My back, my back, my back!
Barry: Is it your back?

[Motioning to a picture of Kieran shaking Nelson Mandela's hand.]
Barry: Oh my god! He's friends with Morgan Freeman!

Kieran: Julie's not a penguin, she's a lioness. Don't try to mate a lioness with a penguin, ever. Have you ever seen a mammal and a bird mate? I've never even heard of that.

Barry: So do you guys want to get pizza?
Darla (Lucy Punch): I want to lick cheese off of your naked body.
Barry: Oh, I'm sure Tim has plates.

Tim: Can you help me, please?
Therman (Zach Galifianakis): Perhaps...for a price.
Tim: How much.
Therman: I just need to hear Barry say you can eat my pudding.

Barry: A goat will eat anything. A goat could probably eat a bicycle.
Kieran: A goat could eat itself; if it was driven to it...I'm just a goat who's halfway through eating itself.
Barry: Just to be clear, what exactly are we talking about?
Kieran: Everything.

Barry: Well I try to look at the bright side. I guess you could say I'm internal optometrist. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade-unless you don't have any water or sugar. Then you just eat the lemons, and the rind will give you diarrhea. So...mamma-mia, poppa-pia, baby's got the dairh-hey Tim!

Lewis' Ventriloquist Wife: My god it's raining men. I don't know who's more gorgeous.
Barry: Well beauty is only skin deep-unless something is wrong with your bone structure. Then you could have flawless skin and still be very ugly-because your bones were just...gross.

Lewis' Ventriloquist Wife: Were you looking down my dress?
Tim: No.
Lewis' Ventriloquist Wife: Why not?
Barry: Tim, were you? Please don't embarrass me.

Therman: Brain control? There ain't no such thing as brain control. There's mind control-brain control is ridiculous.