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茶花女：威爾第作曲三幕歌劇
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《茶花女》
導演: 喬治·庫克
編劇: 佐伊·艾金斯、弗朗西絲·瑪麗恩、詹姆斯·希爾頓
主演: 葛麗泰·嘉寶、羅伯特·泰勒、萊昂納爾·巴里摩爾、伊麗莎白·艾蘭
類型: 劇情、愛情
製片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 英語
上映日期: 1936-12-12
片長: 109 分鍾
巴黎風塵女郎瑪格麗特約見華維爾男爵卻與青年亞芒認識。後倆人在書店相遇，瑪得知亞芒每天送花探病，深受感動邀其參加生日宴會。亞芒見她強顏歡笑更加憐惜，遂對她示愛。當晚男爵回來亞芒吃了閉門羹，懊悔之餘斥責她無情，請求父親資助他出國旅行。瑪趕去見他並互吐心意，瑪同意和男爵分手隨他到鄉下調養身體。亞芒父親勸瑪放棄亞芒，瑪因真心愛亞芒，為其著想，騙亞芒與其分手。幾個月後亞芒與男爵及瑪在賭場相遇，不料亞滿大贏，叫瑪隨他走，瑪拒絕，亞芒盛怒之下加以侮辱，並與男爵決斗，男爵受傷，亞芒畏罪潛逃。瑪深愛亞芒，卻拒絕任何資助，病情加重，待亞芒了解真相瑪已撒手人寰。

❹ 求《茶花女》的英文簡介和內容介紹

La Dame aux camélias

[Francesco Maria Piave's libretto for La traviata is based upon the novel La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The following article traces the creation of that work. - NMR]

Alexandre Dumas, fils (son), born in Paris in 1824, is considered one of the foremost French dramatists of the nineteenth century. He was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas, pére (father), the author of such novels as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

Dumas was raised by his seamstress mother, Catherine Labay, until his father legally recognized him and assumed responsibility for his care. He attended college but left before receiving a degree. His illegitimacy caused him much unhappiness, both in private school and in college where he had few friends. At age seventeen, he moved in with his father, soon adopted his extravagant lifestyle and fell into debt. At the theatre one evening he first saw Marie Duplessis, already famous in the demimonde for her beauty and ability to get men to spend money on her. In an episode reflected in the opera, he was at her home one day when a coughing episode resulted in her spitting up blood. He urged her to change her way of life, but she replied, "I should die. This life of excitement is what keeps me alive". He offered the kind of life she would need to get well, and she finally agreed upon the condition. "You are not to spy on me, you are not to ask questions; I shall live exactly as I please without giving you any account of what I do." Thus began liaison, as a result of which Dumas was soon deeply in debt. Finally, he decided he must break with her and sent her the following letter.

My dear Marie, I am neither rich enough to love you as I should like, nor poor enough to be loved by you as you would like. There is nothing for us to do but forget — you a name which must mean very little to you; I a happiness which is no longer possible for me. Needless to tell you how miserable I am, since you know how I love you. So, this is goodbye. You are too tenderhearted not to understand the reason for this letter, too intelligent not to forgive me. A thousand souvenirs, — A.D.

He was on a trip to Spain and North Africa when he learned that she was gravely ill. He wrote to her, telling her he would return and ask for her forgiveness. But he waited too long. Duplessis died of tuberculosis in 1846. Her tragic death, along with bitterness over his illegitimacy, inspire Dumas to write the novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), portions of which are based on the Duplessis-Dumas affair. The name of the hero, Armand Duval, is a thin disguise for the author. Actually, Dumas tells the story in the third person as it was related to him by Armand Duval.

Dumas ends his novel with great admiration for his heroine: "I do not draw from this story the conclusion that all women like Marguerite are capable of doing all that she did...far from it; but I have discovered that one of them experienced a serious love in the course of her life, that she suffered for it, and that she died of it". In life, Dumas had tried to save her; in the novel he tried to redeem her memory by making her a much less self-centered and more sympathetic character. This is the Marie best known today in her manifestations as Violetta, Camille and Marguerite.

Dumas's greatest triumph came in 1852 with the proction of the stage adaptation of the play based on this novel. It faithfully portrayed the life of a Parisian courtesan and brought realism to the French stage. His father was at first skeptical of the proposal to convert the novel to a play but so moved by the result that he agreed to proce it. Censors feared audiences would recognize characters as admirers of Duplessis and create a scandal, delaying the opening for four years. A powerful member of the nobility, the Duc de Morny, half brother of Napoleón III, supported Dumas, and the play was a success. It enabled Duma to pay off his debts, many incurred with Marie. Henry James later observed, "Some tender young men and some coughing young women have only to speak the lines to give it a great place among the love stories of the world". Giuseppe Verdi apparently heartily agreed because he based his popular opera La traviata on Dumas's work.

The success of La traviata did not quiet the critics of Dumas's La Dame aux camélias. Some considered the story poor and clumsy and said it cast a very thin veil over the most immoral acts. The same critics said Marguerite Gautier (the name given to the Duplessis in the play) is totally corrupt and in real life would not have given up her lover until he had no money left to support her. One wrote, "We are bound to protest against the false halo which he has shed round Marquerite to render her attractive to the undiscriminating reader".

The critics and essayists have continued to evaluate Dumas's work. In a 1972 essay, Roger Clark wrote, "It is a society from which there can be no escape, in which the penalty for non-conformity is death". In 1874, Dumas was elected to the illustrious L'Academie Française, an act which also prompted severe criticism. It was said, "In comedies inherently vicious he pauses to preach virtue but with language shocking even to vice, yet he has been elected a member of the French Academy, constituted to be a tribunal of taste".

Clayton Hamilton attempted to explain why the play has held the stage for over a century. He believes that it is because every celebrated actress desires to play the role of Marguerite Gautier.

No woman has ever failed as Camille (the name later given the heroine in this country for no explicable reason). It is kept alive because it contains a very easy and celebrated part that every ambitious actress wants to play. La Dame aux camélias is brought back decade after decade, not by reason of the permanent importance of the suthor but by reason of recurrent aspirations of an ever-growing group of emotional actresses.

Among the famous actresses who have had successes as Camille were Eleanora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt and Greta Garbo, who starred in the 1937 film with Robert Taylor. Bernhardt first played the role in her thirties and continued it until a number of her 'farewell' tours when she was seventy and had only one leg.

Dumas had a relationship with a Russian princess in 1859. A daughter was born, but they did not acknowledge her as theirs until the princess was widowed. He continued to write material that shocked his contemporaries — eleven of his plays have illicit love as a theme — yet he was admitted to the Legion d'honneur. His wife died in 1895 and, after marrying his long-time mistress, he died that same year.

In 1929, the Chicago Civic Opera proced a new work, Camille by a young American composer, Hamilton Forrest, and commissioned by the famous soprano, Mary Garden. It was to be sung in French with a contemporary setting. After many delays, it finally opened to mixed reviews. Mary Garden was acclaimed, the music less so. One critic called it a masterpiece, another saw no future for it. It had a few more performances, and parts were broadcast on the radio; then it disappeared. Despite some recent attempts to revive interest in it, Camille is probably doomed to obscurity, while Verdi's La traviata continues to be one of the most popular and frequently performed operas.

茶花女》是法國亞歷山大·仲馬（Alexandre Dumas，1824年7月27日-1895年11月27日）的代表作，他為了與同為作家的父親作區別，多稱小仲馬（Dumas, fils）。他本身是法國劇作家、小說家。《茶花女》是小仲馬的代表作。 《茶花女》（La traviata）亦是朱塞佩·威爾第（Giuseppe Verdi）作曲的四幕歌劇。義大利文劇本由皮亞威（Francesco Maria Piave）編寫，改編自亞歷山大·仲馬於1848年出版的小說《茶花女》（The Lady of the Camellias，La dame aux Camélias）。歌劇於1853年3月6日在威尼斯鳳凰歌劇院（Teatro la Fenice）首演。作品名稱「La traviata」解作「流浪的婦人」，或「失落的人」。 故事的原著小說，亦被改拍成電影《茶花女》（Camille）（1936）。《情陷紅磨坊》（Moulin Rouge!）（2001）亦是以茶花女作藍本改編。

劇本簡介
劇本。法國小仲馬作於1848年。巴黎名妓瑪格麗特為青年阿爾芒的真摯愛情所感動，毅然離開社交生活，與阿爾芒同居鄉間。阿爾芒之父責備瑪格麗特毀了兒子的前程，瑪格麗特被迫返回巴黎重操舊業。阿爾芒盛怒之下，在社交場合當眾羞辱她。瑪格麗特一病不起，含恨而死。阿爾芒讀了瑪格麗特的遺書，方知真相，追悔莫及。

作者簡介
小仲馬（1824~1895），19 世紀法國著名小說家、戲劇家。他的父親是以多產聞名於世的傑出作家大仲馬。在大仲馬奢侈豪華而又飄浮不定的生活影響下，小仲馬最初「覺得用功和游戲都索然寡味」。20歲時，他就結識了一些有夫之婦，過著紙醉金邊的生活。另一方面，小仲馬就熱切地期望著自己也能像父親一樣，揚名於文壇。於是，他也開始從現實中取材，從婦女、婚姻等問題中尋找創作的靈感。

劇情詳介
瑪格麗特原來是個貧苦的鄉下姑娘，來到巴黎後，開始了賣笑生涯。由於生得花容月貌，巴黎的貴族公子爭相追逐，成了紅極一時的「社交明星」。她隨身的裝扮總是少不了一束茶花，人稱「茶花女」。
茶花女得了肺病，在接受礦泉治療時，療養院里有位貴族小姐，身材、長相和瑪格麗特差不多，只是肺病已到了第三期，不久便死了。小姐的父親摩里阿龍公爵在偶然發現瑪格麗特很像他女兒，便收她做了乾女兒。瑪格麗特說出了自己的身世，公爵答應只要她能改變自己過去的生活，便負擔她的全部日常費用。但瑪格麗特不能完全做到，公爵便將錢減少了一半，瑪格麗特入不敷出，到現在已欠下幾萬法郎的債務。
一天晚上10多鍾，瑪格麗特回來後，一群客人來訪。鄰居普律當絲帶來兩個青年，其中一個是稅務局長迪瓦爾先生的兒子阿爾芒·迪瓦爾，他瘋狂地愛著茶花女。
一年前，瑪格麗特生病期間，阿爾芒每天跑來打聽病情，卻不肯留下自己的姓名。普律當絲向瑪格麗特講了阿爾芒的一片痴情，她很感動。瑪格麗特和朋友們跳舞時，病情突然發作，阿爾芒非常關切地勸她不要這樣殘害自己，並向瑪格麗特表白自己的愛情。他告訴茶花女，他現在還珍藏著她六個月前丟掉的紐扣。瑪格麗特原已淡薄的心靈再次動了真情，她送給阿爾芒一朵茶花，以心相許。
阿爾芒真摯的愛情激發了瑪格麗特對生活的熱望，她決心擺脫百無聊賴的巴黎生活，和阿爾芒到鄉下住一段時間。她准備獨自一人籌劃一筆錢，就請阿爾芒離開她一晚上。阿爾芒出去找瑪格麗特時，恰巧碰上瑪格麗特過去的情人，頓生嫉妒。他給瑪格麗特寫了一封措辭激烈的信，說他不願意成為別人取笑的對象，他將離開巴黎。
但他並沒有走，瑪格麗特是他整個希望和生命，他跪著請瑪格麗特原諒他，瑪格麗特對阿爾芒傾述「你是我在煩亂的孤寂生活中所呼喚的一個人」。
經過努力，瑪格麗特和阿爾芒在巴黎郊外租把一間房子。公爵知道後，斷絕了瑪格麗特的經濟來源。她背著阿爾芒，典當了自己的金銀首飾和車馬來支付生活費用。阿爾芒了解後，決定把母親留給他的一筆遺產轉讓，以還清瑪格麗特所欠下的債務。經紀人要他去簽字，他離開瑪格麗特去巴黎。
那封信原來是阿爾芒的父親迪瓦爾先生寫的，他想騙阿爾芒離開，然後去找瑪格麗特。告訴瑪格麗特，他的女兒愛上一個體面的少年，那家打聽到阿爾芒和瑪格麗特的關系後表示：如果阿爾芒不和瑪格麗特斷絕關系，就要退婚。瑪格麗特痛苦地哀求迪瓦爾先生，如果要讓她與阿爾芒斷絕關系，就等於要她的命，可迪瓦爾先生毫不退讓。為阿爾芒和他的家庭，她只好作出犧牲，發誓與阿爾芒絕交。
瑪格麗特非常悲傷地給阿爾芒寫了封絕交信，然後回到巴黎，又開始了昔日的荒唐的生活。她接受了瓦爾維勒男爵的追求，他幫助她還清了一切債務，又贖回了首飾和馬車。阿爾芒也懷著痛苦的心情和父親回到家鄉。
阿爾芒禁仍深深地懷念著瑪格麗特，他又失魂落魄地來到巴黎。他決心報復瑪格麗特的「背叛」。他找到了瑪格麗特，處處給她難堪。罵她是沒有良心、無情無義的娼婦，把愛情作為商品出賣。瑪格麗特面對阿爾芒的誤會，傷心地勸他忘了自己，永遠不要再見面。阿爾芒卻要她與自己一同逃離巴黎，逃到沒人認識他們的地方，緊緊守著他們的愛情。瑪格麗特說她不能那樣，因為她已經起過誓，阿爾芒誤以為她和男爵有過海誓山盟，便氣憤地給瑪格麗特寫信侮辱她，並寄去了一疊鈔票 瑪格麗特受了這場刺激，一病不起。新年快到了，瑪格麗特的病情更嚴重了，臉色蒼白，沒有一個人來探望她，她感到格外孤寂。迪瓦爾先生來信告訴她，他感謝瑪格麗特信守諾言，已寫信把事情的真象告訴了阿爾芒，現在瑪格麗特唯一的希望就是再次見到阿爾芒。
臨死前，債主們都來了，帶著借據，逼她還債。執行官奉命來執行判決，查封了她的全部財產，只等她死後就進行拍賣。彌留之際，她不斷地呼喊著阿爾芒的名字，「從她的睛里流出了無聲的眼淚」。她始終沒有再見到她心愛的人。 死後只有一個好心的鄰居米利為她入殮。當阿爾芒重回到巴黎時，她把瑪格麗特的一本日記交給了她。從日記中，阿爾芒才知道了她的高尚心靈。「除了你的侮辱是你始終愛我的證據外，我似乎覺得你越是折磨我，等到你知道真相的那一天，我在你眼中也就會顯得越加崇高。」
阿爾芒懷著無限的悔恨與惆悵，專門為瑪格麗特遷墳安葬，並在她的墳前擺滿了白色的茶花。

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❻ 求茶花女電影 1995

茶花女
嗶哩嗶哩有國語版可以觀看哦！

1995年12月26日（波蘭）
本片改編自法國作家亞歷山大·小仲馬的代表作，講述在19世紀40年代，一個叫阿爾豐西娜·普萊西的貧苦鄉下姑娘來到巴黎，走進了名利場，成了上流社會的一個社交明星，開始了賣笑生涯；並改名為瑪麗·杜普萊西，結識了小仲馬（小說中就是亞芒），於是兩人開始了一段交往的愛情故事。

❼ 有什麼好的英國或美國的電影

也許我沒其他人推薦的多，但前握運些日子看的族孫一部《風暴突擊者》（又譯：旋風小子）很不錯，男女主角都段穗梁很養眼（尤其是男主角）。要是女生的話肯定會尖叫的

❽ 求 1984.茶花女.Camille 百度雲免費在線觀看資源

《茶花女》網路網盤高清資源免費在線觀看：

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作品相關簡介：《茶花女》是德斯蒙·戴維斯執導，格列塔·斯卡奇、科林·費斯等主演的劇情片。

影片講述了在19世紀40年代，一個叫阿爾豐西娜·普萊西的貧苦鄉下姑娘來到巴黎，成了上流社會的一個社交明星，結識了小仲馬並與之相戀的愛情故事。

❾ 求電影：1981年版的《茶花女》（法國女星-伊莎貝爾於佩爾主演）的完整電影視頻

只有DVDRip版本，無字幕，網盤地址見附件，20天有效，但可能隨時失效。

❿ 《茶花女》主要內容概括，要英文的。

分類: 文化/藝術 >> 文學
解析:

La Dame aux camélias

[Francesco Maria Piave's libretto for La traviata is based upon the novel La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The following article traces the creation of that work. - NMR]

Alexandre Dumas, fils (son), born in Paris in 1824, is considered one of the foremost French dramatists of the nieenth century. He was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas, pére (father), the author of such novels as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

Dumas was raised by his seamstress mother, Catherine Labay, until his father legally recognized him and assumed responsibility for his care. He attended college but left before receiving a degree. His illegitimacy caused him much unhappiness, both in private school and in college where he had few friends. At age seventeen, he moved in with his father, soon adopted his extravagant lifestyle and fell into debt. At the theatre one evening he first saw Marie Duplessis, already famous in the demimonde for her beauty and ability to get men to spend money on her. In an episode reflected in the opera, he was at her home one day when a coughing episode resulted in her spitting up blood. He urged her to change her way of life, but she replied, "I should die. This life of excitement is what keeps me alive". He offered the kind of life she would need to get well, and she finally agreed upon the condition. "You are not to spy on me, you are not to ask questions; I shall live exactly as I please without giving you any account of what I do." Thus began liaison, as a result of which Dumas was soon deeply in debt. Finally, he decided he must break with her and sent her the following letter.

My dear Marie, I am neither rich enough to love you as I should like, nor poor enough to be loved by you as you would like. There is nothing for us to do but fet — you a name which must mean very little to you; I a happiness which is no longer possible for me. Needless to tell you how miserable I am, since you know how I love you. So, this is goodbye. You are too tenderhearted not to understand the reason for this letter, too intelligent not to five me. A thousand souvenirs, — A.D.

He was on a trip to Spain and North Africa when he learned that she was gravely ill. He wrote to her, telling her he would return and ask for her fiveness. But he waited too long. Duplessis died of tuberculosis in 1846. Her tragic death, along with bitterness over his illegitimacy, inspire Dumas to write the novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), portions of which are based on the Duplessis-Dumas affair. The name of the hero, Armand Duval, is a thin disguise for the author. Actually, Dumas tells the story in the third person as it was related to him by Armand Duval.

Dumas ends his novel with great admiration for his heroine: "I do not draw from this story the conclusion that all women like Marguerite are capable of doing all that she did...far from it; but I have discovered that one of them experienced a serious love in the course of her life, that she suffered for it, and that she died of it". In life, Dumas had tried to save her; in the novel he tried to redeem her memory by making her a much less self-centered and more sympathetic character. This is the Marie best known today in her manifestations as Violetta, Camille and Marguerite.

Dumas's greatest triumph came in 1852 with the proction of the stage adaptation of the play based on this novel. It faithfully portrayed the life of a Parisian courtesan and brought reali *** to the French stage. His father was at first skeptical of the proposal to convert the novel to a play but so moved by the result that he agreed to proce it. Censors feared audiences would recognize characters as admirers of Duplessis and create a scandal, delaying the opening for four years. A powerful member of the nobility, the Duc de Morny, half brother of Napoleón III, supported Dumas, and the play was a success. It enabled Duma to pay off his debts, many incurred with Marie. Henry James later observed, "Some tender young men and some coughing young women have only to speak the lines to give it a great place among the love stories of the world". Giuseppe Verdi apparently heartily agreed because he based his popular opera La traviata on Dumas's work.

The success of La traviata did not quiet the critics of Dumas's La Dame aux camélias. Some considered the story poor and clumsy and said it cast a very thin veil over the most immoral acts. The same critics said Marguerite Gautier (the name given to the Duplessis in the play) is totally corrupt and in real life would not have given up her lover until he had no money left to support her. One wrote, "We are bound to protest against the false halo which he has shed round Marquerite to render her attractive to the undiscriminating reader".

The critics and essayists have continued to evaluate Dumas's work. In a 1972 essay, Roger Clark wrote, "It is a society from which there can be no escape, in which the penalty for non-conformity is death". In 1874, Dumas was elected to the illustrious L'Academie Française, an act which also prompted severe critici *** . It was said, "In edies inherently vicious he pauses to preach virtue but with language shocking even to vice, yet he has been elected a member of the French Academy, constituted to be a tribunal of taste".

Clayton Hamilton attempted to explain why the play has held the stage for over a century. He believes that it is because every celebrated actress desires to play the role of Marguerite Gautier.

No woman has ever failed as Camille (the name later given the heroine in this country for no explicable reason). It is kept alive because it contains a very easy and celebrated part that every ambitious actress wants to play. La Dame aux camélias is brought back decade after decade, not by reason of the permanent importance of the suthor but by reason of recurrent aspirations of an ever-growing group of emotional actresses.

Among the famous actresses who have had successes as Camille were Eleanora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt and Greta Garbo, who starred in the 1937 film with Robert Taylor. Bernhardt first played the role in her thirties and continued it until a number of her 'farewell' tours when she was seventy and had only one leg.

Dumas had a relationship with a Russian princess in 1859. A daughter was born, but they did not acknowledge her as theirs until the princess was widowed. He continued to write material that shocked his contemporaries — eleven of his plays have illicit love as a theme — yet he was admitted to the Legion d'honneur. His wife died in 1895 and, after marrying his long-time mistress, he died that same year.

In 1929, the Chicago Civic Opera proced a new work, Camille by a young American poser, Hamilton Forrest, and missioned by the famous soprano, Mary Garden. It was to be sung in French with a contemporary setting. After many delays, it finally opened to mixed reviews. Mary Garden was acclaimed, the music less so. One critic called it a masterpiece, another saw no future for it. It had a few more performances, and parts were broadcast on the radio; then it disappeared. Despite some recent attempts to revive interest in it, Camille is probably doomed to obscurity, while Verdi's La traviata continues to be one of the most popular and frequently performed operas.