美国之旅2
1988年派拉蒙推出的《美国之旅》是艾迪·墨菲在当红时代主演的浪漫喜剧,由约翰·兰迪斯执导,詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯、阿瑟尼奥·豪尔、嘉丝莉·毕薇斯也出演。艾迪·墨菲在片中饰演富有的虚构非洲国家扎门达的王子阿基姆Akeem,为了摆脱王室安排选择自己的妻子,他去到了美国留学,打工期间爱上了美国中产女孩萨莉。于是千方百计隐瞒自己的身份发动追求,不料消息走漏,国王带了大批随从赶到纽约,引发了连篇趣事。时隔32年后回归,这次非洲王子Akeem登基当了国王,但是据说当年他在美国留下了私生子,于是新的美国之旅开始了……《美国之旅2》讲述的故事是,艾迪·墨菲扮演的非洲王子如今加冕成了国王,詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯饰演的老国王告诉他:1988年的美国之旅他在美国留下了私生子,需要跑过去找到他,于是非洲国家王室成员二人组再度前往美国,新的美国之旅开始了。续集由克雷格·布鲁尔(《我叫多麦特》)执导,肯尼亚·巴里斯(《喜新不厌旧》《嗨翻姐妹行》)等执笔剧本,阿瑟尼奥·豪尔、詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯等也回归出演,韦斯利·斯奈普斯、琪琪·莱恩、莱斯利·琼斯、崔西·摩根、杰梅因·福勒等新加盟。据悉,派拉蒙将《美国之旅2》卖给了亚马逊,版权费据说高达1.25亿美元。这部续集电影原定于今年12月18日登陆北美院线,如今定档2021年3月5日上线亚马逊。
罗贝尔塔
John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).  John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable Roberta gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.  Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. Countess Scharwenka, a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.  Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.  When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.  Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.  John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.  The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
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