电影名:《大腕》

导演：冯小刚

主演：葛优、唐纳德-萨瑟兰、关之琳、英达

上映日期：2001年

电影介绍：电影制片厂摄影科下岗职工尤优偶然遇到个甜活儿--为好莱坞大腕级导演泰勒在中国拍摄影片《末世皇朝》的工作过程，拍一部宣传纪录片。
　　泰勒的影片在北京紫禁城开拍了，在他华裔养女兼私人助理露茜的陪同下，泰勒缓缓地沿着高大的红墙走来，尤优扛着摄像机拍摄着泰勒的一举一动。泰勒对直率、勤奋的尤优颇有好感，同时也被中国的古老文化所吸引。
　　尽管紫禁城内外身着清朝服装的各路人马阵势浩大，但泰勒仍然情绪低落：“我有一种不祥的预感，也许无们所做的一切都是徒劳的。”这使得制片彼特十分不安，他对露茜说：“我们已经严重超支了，托尼明天就到，如果他看不到新的样片，你知道老托尼的风格吗？”
　　片期的拖延使股东们大为恼火，制片人老托尼亲自来到北京告知泰勒：“我今天不是以制片人的身份和你说话，我在这部影片的全部股权已经转让给一家日本公司了。我们已经物色了一个不错的导演来接替你继续完成这部影片，但他只是替你打工，导演的署名依然是你。”泰勒非常气愤。
　　“闲”下来的泰勒和露茜、尤优到寺庙游览。回来的路上，泰勒就生与死的问题与尤优探讨：“尤，中国的佛教认为人可以转世，肉体的死亡不是生命的结束，而是新生命的开始。”尤优：“我们中国有句话叫早死早托生。在中国活过70岁的老人死了，丧礼是喜丧。”泰勒：“是不是说中国老人的葬礼象喜剧？喜剧葬礼，我喜欢！”
　　泰勒和尤优相处得很好。在泰勒的办公室，泰勒与尤优话别：“尤，相信我的话，你有天赋，但你需要机会。”他摘下自己的手表给尤优带上。尤优比划着说：“什么时候来中国拍片，需要我我就来，为你工作不要钱。”此时，泰勒的头却无力地慢慢靠在了沙发上.....

        泰勒被救护车送往医院，临走前他对尤优说：“不要忘了，我需要一个喜剧葬礼。”
　　医生对守在急诊室外的尤优和露茜说：“病人的生命已不可挽回，家属可以准备后事了。”
　　依照泰勒的心愿，托尼决定把泰勒的葬礼交给尤优全权操办。尤优以侠义的心态接下了这个活儿。他找到开着一间演出公司，自称组织过多次大型演唱会的老同学路易王帮忙。路易王简直不敢相信自己的耳朵，他一巴掌拍在尤优的肩上说：“我给你提成！”
　　泰勒将死的消息无论对托尼、日本制片方和路易王来说都是一个难得的商机，唯有尤优和露茜是怀着朴实的情感面对这件事情。
　　依照路易王的策划，要为泰勒举办一个“节目丰富多彩，形式类似春节晚会、快乐大本营、欢乐总动员，同时又有点象赈灾义演一样的葬礼。葬礼将由电视向全球直播。”
　　300多万办葬礼的经费尤优和露茜没有着落，路易王倒是爽快，他可以找人掏钱，但掏钱的主儿自有人家的要求。于是，演出公司要让新签约的女星“傍”着泰勒出名，有众多公司不惜花大价钱在葬礼上做产品广告。“死去的泰勒”在他们眼里成了一部赚钱的机器。
　　就在大家做着发财梦的时候，这天，露茜到病房看望泰勒，惊喜地发现泰勒竟从死神那里回来了。托尼和泰勒决定对外封锁消息，让“戏”继续演下去。
　　广告拍卖会上，葬礼的广告价位一路飙升，肃穆的泰勒遗像也被设计成广告载体，自上而下如水波翻滚，变成色彩鲜艳的“可笑可笑”的健身饮品广告。
　　托尼和泰勒在医院里悠闲地抽着雪茄等着好戏的结果。
　　几乎葬礼的每一个细节都安排上了广告，泰勒“遗体”的每个部位也被充分利用，连假冒产品的制造者也不愿意失去此次大好商机。钱，越来越多，路易王干劲十足.....
　　当大家的发财梦做到最高潮时，泰勒康复的消息如一盆冷水浇在人们头上。
　　路易王受不了这意外的打击，犯了精神病，尤优不知怎样面对众多广告商也装病住进了精神病院.....
　　经过这场闹剧风波，尤、露二人彼此加深了了解，竟碰出爱的火花，影片以二人拥抱、长吻的镜头结束。

Film name: Big Shot’s Funeral

Director: Feng Xiaogang

Leading Roles: Ge You, Rosamund Kwan, Donald Sutherland, Paul Mazursky, Ying Da

Date of premier: 2001

Film Introduction: Yoyo (Ge You) is a down-on-his-luck cameraman who gets hired for a job and gets more than he bargained for. He's supposed to follow around legendary American director Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland), who's in the Forbidden City filming a remake of The Last Emperor. However, Tyler is creatively empty, and wastes time and money on the set. With investor concern mounting, Tyler is fired from the picture by his longtime friend (Paul Mazursky), whereupon he goes into a massive depression and ultimately a coma. Things don't look good for him, and his death is an almost assured outcome.
     However, Tyler had a final request. Having formed a quirky, unlikely friendship with Yoyo, Tyler asks the cameraman to prepare a "comedy funeral" for him. Tyler had a fascination with the practice of feel-good Chinese funerals which are given for the elderly, as those funerals celebrated long life and not the onset of death. Yoyo agrees, and enlists his friend, promoter Louie Wang (Ying Da), to set things up. They plan a massive, glitzy production set in the Forbidden City, which will feature all sorts of tacky pop-culture acts and displays—thereby granting Tyler's wish of a "comedy funeral."
     A catch exists, though. Tyler, Yoyo and Tyler's loyal assistant Lucy (Rosamund Kwan) are all dead-broke. As the costs of the funeral spiral out of control, Yoyo and Louie come up with a plan to sell advertising space at the funeral. Before they know it, they have brand names and upstart companies all vying for space. The pair even resort to selling adspace on Tyler's corpse, which is a total gas as Tyler isn't officially dead yet. It's assumed that he will die, but if he doesn't then bad things could happen.
           The film has more standard problems, like narrative sense and consistent acting. Once Louie and Yoyo start selling advertisting space, the film really begins to take off, but the eventual fallout of the funeral isn't handled in a satisfying way. The events in Big Shot's Funeral seem to lead up to a definite, almost necessary point, which is: what wil happen at the funeral? Will they pull it off? And will Tyler recover in time to wreck everything? These questions provide a great deal of suspense to the proceedings, but not everything is resolved. As a result, the expected payoff never occurs, and we're left with feel-good platitudes that really amount to little.
         As said before, Big Shot's Funeral doesn't end in an entirely satisfactory manner, though the characters end up pretty well. A happy ending seems to be in order for most of the cast, which wasn't really necessary. Plus, the film ultimately gives a lot of weight to the romance between Yoyo and Lucy, which is unfortunate as it's a plot development that's neither interesting or compelling. However, the above doesn't really detract from the obvious fun at needling China's ever-changing society, which Big Shot's Funeral succeeds at spectacularly. Satire is really hard to pull off, so even a halfway successful one like this sholud be given a look. People looking for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon thrills—which was also produced by Columbia Pictures Asia—should steer clear, but discerning audiences may find a lot to like.