梅辛凭借在最新浪漫喜剧《大喜之日》中饰演的角色获高度赞扬

 

Messing Earns High Praise for Role in New Romantic

 Comedy The Wedding Date

梅辛凭借在最新浪漫喜剧《大喜之日》中饰演的角色获高度赞扬

 

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New Yorker Kat Ellis has a problem. She's traveling to England for her sister's wedding, but Kat's handsome ex-boyfriend will be there - (he happens to be best man at the wedding) and she doesn't want to face him or her dysfunctional family with no new romantic partner of her own.

 

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A shrewd businesswoman, Kat comes up with a solution: hire a professional from an escort service to masquerade as her wedding date.

 

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The genders¹ are switched, but the plot parallels Pretty Woman; and like that 1990 romantic hit, what starts as a business proposition blossoms into romance. Debra Messing, co-star of the popular TV comedy series Will And Grace, plays Kat and says she thinks most women can easily identify with the somewhat neurotic² character, if not her unconventional strategy.

 

Debra Messing: I was similar to Kat in that in my younger days I’m sure I would have been very judgmental and too scared to even explore that option; but now having done this movie it seems like just such a wonderful idea.

 

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Messing doesn't think audiences will relate Kat to the somewhat neurotic Grace Adler - her TV show personality.

 

Messing: Kat Ellis is so different from Grace. It was a great challenge and great fun to do that. Also, changing mediums - going from doing a sitcom³ to film work - the comedy is very different.

 

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Rising to the challenge of playing the perfect man is Dermot Mulroney, who co-stars as the all-too smooth escort-for-hire. Mulroney says shooting the film in and around London put the romantic comedy formula through a cross-cultural test.

 

Dermot Mulroney: We debated while making the movie what might appeal to the British sense of humor versus⁴ the American sense of humor. I think the funny stuff is funny and that slight cultural divide kind of slips away; but it was fun to talk about it as we were shooting it: what would be funny to this audience and that, knowing that it would be a cross-cultural and cross-gender flipping⁵ film in the first place.

 

The Wedding Date director, British filmmaker Clare Kilner, says she tried to toy with audience expectations of the comic romance genre⁶.

 

Clare Kilner: This is a romantic comedy with a slight difference ... with a bit of an edge to it. It's got a strong dramatic story at its core. The main character, Kat, is incredibly honest in her pursuit of love and happiness; but it's also very much about pretending and I was very interested from the beginning about the sort of public and private sides of people - what they're prepared to show in public and the masks that they put up when they're put in the sort of pressure cooker environment of a wedding or a function and then how they really feeling in their private moments. I think you can have a lot of fun with that.

 

But for star Debra Messing, the film is, plain and simple, about love.

 

Debra Messing: I think that this is a really sweet, lovely, romantic funny movie. There are a lot of epics⁷ out there to see, but you will feel good walking out of this movie. You will be elevated. You will be happy to be in love if you are. You'll be excited about falling in love if you aren't ... and it's a perfect Valentine's Day date movie.

 

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The Wedding Date also features Amy Adams as Kat's self-centered sister; screen and stage veteran Holland Taylor is their iron-willed mother; and British actor Jeremy Sheffield plays the handsome cad of an ex-boyfriend.

 

注释：

dysfunction [dis5fQNkFEn] n. 功能紊乱

shrewd [Fru:d] adj. 精明的

masquerade [7mAskE5reid] n. 化妆舞会

blossom [5blCsCm] vi. 发展

identify with 认同

neurotic [njuE5rCtik] adj. 神经质的

sense of humor 幽默感

genre [VB:Nr] n. 流派

self-centered [self5sentEd] adj. 自我中心的

1 genders   

n.性某些语言的（阳性、阴性和中性，不同的性有不同的词尾等）( gender的名词复数 )；性别；某些语言的（名词、代词和形容词）性的区分

参考例句：

• There are three genders in German: masculine, feminine and neuter. 德语中有叁性：阳性、阴性和中性。 来自辞典例句
• Japan was fourth among the genders of foreign students. 日本在二十个留美学生输送地中列第四位。 来自互联网

2 neurotic   

adj.神经病的，神经过敏的；n.神经过敏者，神经病患者

参考例句：

• Nothing is more distracting than a neurotic boss. 没有什么比神经过敏的老板更恼人的了。
• There are also unpleasant brain effects such as anxiety and neurotic behaviour.也会对大脑产生不良影响，如焦虑和神经质的行为。

3 sitcom   

n.情景喜剧，（广播、电视的）系列幽默剧

参考例句：

• This sitcom is produced in cooperation with Hong Kong TV.这部连续剧是同香港电视台联合制作的。
• I heard that a new sitcom is coming out next season.我听说下一季会推出一个新的情境喜剧。

4 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

5 flipping   

讨厌之极的

参考例句：

• I hate this flipping hotel! 我讨厌这个该死的旅馆！
• Don't go flipping your lid. 别发火。

6 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

7 epics   

n.叙事诗( epic的名词复数 )；壮举；惊人之举；史诗般的电影（或书籍）

参考例句：

• one of the great Hindu epics 伟大的印度教史诗之一
• Homer Iliad and Milton's Paradise Lost are epics. 荷马的《伊利亚特》和弥尔顿的《失乐园》是史诗。 来自互联网