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== gothic
Synonyms of gothic
adjective
mediaeval, medieval
noun
black letter
== scarlet
adjective
of a brilliant red color.
"a mass of scarlet berries"
(of an offense or sin) wicked; heinous.
noun
a brilliant red color.
"papers lettered in scarlet and black"
== maestro
noun
a distinguished musician, especially a conductor of classical music.
"Martin Hayes is a fiddle maestro and Denis Cahill is a superb guitarist."
synonyms: conductor, (music) director
== unhinged
adjective
mentally unbalanced; deranged.
"the violent acts of unhinged minds"
== Aflame
In burning, in flame
== awash
adjective
covered or flooded with water, especially seawater or rain.
"the boat rolled violently, its decks awash"
synonyms: flooded, under water, submerged, submersed
== ravishing
adjective
delightful; entrancing.
"she looked ravishing"
synonyms: very beautiful, gorgeous, stunning, wonderful, lovely, striking, magnificent, dazzling, radiant, delightful, charming, enchanting, amazing, sensational, fantastic, fabulous, terrific, bodacious, hot, red-hot, -licious
== sanguine
adjective
optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.
"he is sanguine about prospects for the global economy"
synonyms: optimistic, bullish, hopeful, buoyant, positive, confident, cheerful, cheery, upbeat
blood-red.
"Instances later, she was a beautiful young maiden with sanguine hair and a scarlet dress."
bloody or bloodthirsty.
"It's terrible that a sword meant to save mankind from tyranny is corrupted to sanguine and destructive ends."
noun
a blood-red color.
"Most artists who have done much life drawing are familiar with sanguine , usually as a color of conté crayon or colored pencil."
== muck
noun
dirt, rubbish, or waste matter.
"I'll just clean the muck off the windshield"
synonyms: dirt, grime, filth, mud, slime, mess, crud, gunk, grunge, gunge, guck, glop
verb
mishandle (a job or situation); spoil (something).
"she had mucked up her first few weeks at college"
remove (manure and other dirt) from a horse's stable or other animal's dwelling.
"He'd asked me to muck a few horses out and I decided to take a radio down to keep myself entertained."
== duplicitous
adjective
deceitful.
"treacherous, duplicitous behavior"
== brazen
adjective
bold and without shame.
"he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance"
synonyms: bold, shameless, unashamed, unabashed, unembarrassed, defiant, impudent, impertinent, cheeky, insolent, in-your-face, barefaced, blatant, flagrant, saucy
made of brass.
"Among the Barcaeans there was a skilled worker in brass who took a brazen shield and, carrying it round within the wall, applied it here and there at places where he thought the workings might be."
verb
endure an embarrassing or difficult situation by behaving with apparent confidence and lack of shame.
"Of course, if we had brazened it out a bit more people might hardly have noticed."
== bachelorette
noun
a young unmarried woman.
"So I figured there would be lots of attractive, hopefully eligible bachelors and bachelorettes around my age."
a small bachelor apartment.
"a bachelorette in a high-rise complex"
== mortifying
adjective
embarrassing
humiliating, demeaning
== wraith
noun
a ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death.
"In keeping with the Batman myth established in the 30's comics, Wayne Senior is killed in a random street robbery, surviving only as a moral wraith tormenting the conscience of his orphaned son."
synonyms: ghost, specter, spirit, phantom, apparition, manifestation, spook, shade, phantasm
== apparition
noun
a ghost or ghostlike image of a person.
"Throughout history there have been reports of ghosts, apparitions and spiritual visitations, both angelic and demonic."
== perch
noun
a thing on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or a horizontal rod or bar in a birdcage.
"Dead branches also make perfect perches for resting birds and are good places to hang feeders."
synonyms: pole, rod, branch, roost, rest, resting place
an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins.
"Out back of the house, oak, hemlock and cedar trees crown a path toward a 30-acre lake stocked with largemouth bass, yellow perch , pumpkinseed sunfish, and more."
a linear or square rod (see rod ( sense 3 ) ).
"This strange measure undoubtedly is related to other archaisms such as the furlong, the perch and the fathom."
verb
(of a bird) alight or rest on something.
"a herring gull perched on the mast"
synonyms: roost, sit, rest, alight, settle, land, come to rest
== obsequious
低三下四
== baronet
男爵
== fright
noun
a sudden intense feeling of fear.
"I jumped up in fright"
synonyms: fear, fearfulness, terror, horror, alarm, panic, dread, trepidation, dismay, nervousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, perturbation, disquiet, jitteriness, twitchiness; a scare, a shock, a surprise, a turn, a jolt, a start, the shivers, the shakes, the jitters, the heebie-jeebies, the willies, the creeps, a cold sweat, butterflies (in one's stomach)
verb
frighten.
"come, be comforted, he shan't fright you"
== raven
乌鸦
== smolder
noun
smoke coming from a fire that is burning slowly without a flame.
"the last acrid smolder of his cigarette"
verb
burn slowly with smoke but no flame.
"the bonfire still smoldered, the smoke drifting over the paddock"
synonyms: smoke, glow, burn
== divine
adjective
of, from, or like God or a god.
"heroes with divine powers"
synonyms: godly, angelic, seraphic, saintly, beatific, heavenly, celestial, supernal, holy
excellent; delightful.
"that succulent clementine tasted divine"
noun
a cleric or theologian.
"There are also many references to contemporary natural sciences and a healthy smattering of Anglican divines , including Hooker, Andrewes, and Herbert."
synonyms: theologian, clergyman, clergywoman, member of the clergy, churchman, churchwoman, cleric, minister, man/woman of the cloth, preacher, priest, reverend
providence or God.
"After all, the Divine is an all-encompassing entity."
verb
discover (something) by guesswork or intuition.
"his brother usually divined his ulterior motives"
synonyms: guess, surmise, conjecture, deduce, infer, discern, intuit, perceive, recognize, see
== whisk
noun
a utensil for whipping eggs or cream.
"It doesn't take as long a time as you'd think to whip cream with a whisk ."
a bunch of grass, twigs, or bristles for removing dust or flies.
"Objects surround the two uniforms: a mop for the cleaner; a fly whisk , medicine containers, and a drum for the nanga."
a brief, rapid action or movement.
"a whisk around St. Basil's cathedral"
verb
take or move (someone or something) in a particular direction suddenly and quickly.
"his jacket was whisked away for dry cleaning"
synonyms: speed, hurry, rush, sweep, hurtle, shoot; pull, snatch, pluck, tug, jerk, whip, yank; d
== contraption
noun
a machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.
"There are the flying machines and steam contraptions , technology from a fantastic version of the industrial age."
synonyms: device, gadget, apparatus, machine, appliance, mechanism, invention, contriva
== somber
adjective
dark or dull in color or tone; gloomy.
"the night skies were somber and starless"
synonyms: dark, drab, dull, dingy, restrained, subdued, sober, funereal
== stab
noun 刺
a thrust with a knife or other pointed weapon.
"multiple stab wounds"
synonyms: lunge, thrust, jab, poke, prod, dig, punch
an attempt to do (something).
"Meredith made a feeble stab at joining in"
synonyms: attempt, try, effort, endeavor, guess, go, shot, crack, bash, whack, essay
verb
(of a person) thrust a knife or other pointed weapon into (someone) so as to wound or kill.
"he stabbed him in the stomach"
synonyms: knife, run through, skewer, spear, bayonet, gore, spike, stick, impale, transfix, pierce, prick, puncture, transpierce
== ornate
adjective
made in an intricate shape or decorated with complex patterns.
"an ornate wrought-iron railing"
synonyms: elaborate, decorated, embellished, adorned, ornamented, fancy, fussy, ostentatio
== vat
noun 大桶, 缸
a large tank or tub used to hold liquid, especially in industry.
"a vat of hot tar"
synonyms: tub, tank, cistern, barrel, cask, tun, drum, basin, vessel, receptacle, container, holder, reservoir
== mausoleum
noun
a building, especially a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs.
"Between this and the canal we discovered warehouses, mausolea and other buildings that fronted on to the road."
synonyms: tomb, sepulcher, crypt, vault, charnel house, burial chamber, catacomb
== cue
noun 暗示
a thing said or done that serves as a signal to an actor or other performer to enter or to begin their speech or performance.
"The Mayor, not heeding his cue , began his speech early and failed to mention the conference and exhibition sponsors."
synonyms: signal, sign, indication, prompt, reminder, nod, word, gesture
a long, straight, tapering wooden rod for striking the ball in pool, billiards, snooker, etc..
"When the cue hits the object ball it will bend the tangent line back away from the corner."
verb
give a cue to or for.
"curious pedestrians are cued by the arrival of stretch limousines"
use a cue to strike a ball in pool, billiards, snooker, etc..
"‘I missed a few easy balls today but I am cueing brilliantly,’ he said."
== waft
noun
a gentle movement of air.
"Thus even a not-entirely-great movie like City by the Sea feels like wafts of fresh air."
verb
pass or cause to pass easily or gently through or as if through the air.
"the smell of stale fat wafted out from the cafe"
synonyms: drift, float, glide, whirl, travel; convey, carry, transport, bear, blow, puff
== hobble
noun
an awkward way of walking, typically due to pain from an injury.
"he finished the game almost reduced to a hobble"
a rope or strap used for hobbling a horse or other animal.
"Soon thereafter ride participants saw her with the short lead rope and hobbles in place, learning a lesson in discipline!"
verb
walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury.
"he was hobbling around on crutches"
synonyms: limp, walk with difficulty, walk lamely, move unsteadily, walk haltingly, shamble, totter, dodder, stagger, falter, stumble, lurch
tie or strap together (the legs of a horse or other animal) to prevent it from straying.
"He untacked and unloaded the horses, then hobbled them and set them loose to graze."
== amiss
adjective
not quite right; inappropriate or out of place.
"there was something amiss about his calculations"
synonyms: wrong, awry, faulty, out of order, defective, flawed, unsatisfactory, incorrect, not right, inappropriate, improper
adverb
wrongly or inappropriately.
"how terrible was the danger of her loving amiss"
== wholesome
adjective 健康
conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being.
"the food is plentiful and very wholesome"
synonyms: healthy, health-giving, healthful, good (for one), nutritious, nourishing, natural, uncontaminated, organic
== flounder
noun 比目鱼
a small flatfish that typically occurs in shallow coastal water.
"The study was spurred by previous observations of feminization in estuarine fish, particularly the flounder , a common flatfish, Matthiessen said."
verb
struggle or stagger helplessly or clumsily in water or mud.
"he was floundering about in the shallow offshore waters"
synonyms: struggle, thrash, flail, twist and turn, splash, stagger, stumble, reel, lurch, blunder, s
== tresses
noun
hair, head of hair, mane, mop of hair, shock of hair, shag of hair, locks, curls, ringlets
== candelabra
烛台
== gig
noun 演出
a light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse.
"During the war we had a gig with a cart horse and used to bowl along around the north-west end of town - great transport when petrol was rationed."
a light, fast, narrow boat adapted for rowing or sailing.
"The new gig should be out of the builders by April next year, giving plenty of time to think of a name."
a live performance by or engagement for a musician or group playing popular or jazz music.
"Imagine being a successful Jazz musician playing gigs on the road, performing in the Big Apple's coolest clubs and even under the stage lights of Broadway."
a harpoonlike device used for catching fish or frogs.
verb
travel in a gig.
== rift
noun 裂痕
a crack, split, or break in something.
"the wind had torn open a rift in the clouds"
synonyms: crack, fault, flaw, split, break, breach, fissure, fracture, cleft, crevice, cavity, opening
a serious break in friendly relations.
"their demise caused a rift between the city's town and gown"
synonyms: breach, division, split, quarrel, squabble, disagreement, falling-out, row, argument, dispute, conflict, feud, estrangement, spat, scrap
verb
form fissures, cracks, or breaks, especially through large-scale faulting; move apart.
"a fragment of continental crust that rifted away from eastern Australia"
== oculus
eye
== revulsion
noun
a sense of disgust and loathing.
"news of the attack will be met with sorrow and revulsion"
synonyms: disgust, repulsion, abhorrence, repugnance, nausea, horror, aversion, abomination, distaste
the drawing of disease or blood congestion from one part of the body to another, e.g., by counterirritation.
"From observing the extraordinary cures effected by the aid of revulsion medical men have been borne away too much by an attachment to this mode of treatment."
== fright
noun
a sudden intense feeling of fear.
"I jumped up in fright"
synonyms: fear, fearfulness, terror, horror, alarm, panic, dread, trepidation, dismay, nervousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, perturbation, disquiet, jitteriness, twitchiness; a scare, a shock, a surprise, a turn, a jolt, a start, the shivers, the shakes, the jitters, the heebie-jeebies, the willies, the creeps, a cold sweat, butterflies (in one's stomach)
verb
frighten.
"come, be comforted, he shan't fright you"
== sumptuous
adjective
splendid and expensive-looking.
"the banquet was a sumptuous, luxurious meal"
synonyms: lavish, luxurious, opulent, magnificent, resplendent, gorgeous, splendid, grand, l
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Film Review: ‘Crimson Peak’
October 13, 2015 | 10:23AM PT
Radically shifting gears from 'Pacific Rim' into Gothic romance territory, Guillermo del Toro creates a visionary haunted house movie with vacancies where the scares should be.
Peter Debruge
Chief International Film Critic
@AskDebruge
Even the pristine white snow bleeds bright scarlet in “Crimson Peak,” the malformed love child between a richly atmospheric gothic romance and an overripe Italian giallo — delivered into this world by the mad doctor himself, horror maestro Guillermo del Toro, operating at his most stylistically unhinged. Aflame with color and awash in symbolism, this undeniably ravishing yet ultimately disappointing haunted-house meller is all surface and no substance, sinking under the weight of its own self-importance into the sanguine muck below. Named after the estate to which Mia Wasikowska’s newly orphaned and even newlier-wed heroine unwisely relocates with a plainly duplicitous brother-sister pair, “Crimson Peak” proves too frou-frou for genre fans, too gory for the Harlequin crowd and all-around too obvious for anyone pressed to guess what the siblings’ dark secret could possibly be, and will likely wind up an in-the-red setback to Universal’s most profitable year.
It’s a testament to del Toro’s stature in Hollywood that the studio greenlit this costly R-rated indulgence, far closer in tone to such Spanish-language chillers as “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Cronos” than any of the comicbook and action spectaculars that have since made him a household name in the States. After butting heads with Warners over “Pacific Rim’s” PG-13 rating (which may explain the delays to that pic’s sequel), he dramatically switches gears on a twisted costume opera designed to let his bloodier tendencies loose. Bursting with references both literary and cinematic, this is del Toro’s “The Age of Innocence” by way of Jack Clayton’s “The Innocents,” as brazenly over-the-top as those films were subtle, manifesting a ghost story in which Wasikowska’s Edith Cushing has far more to fear from the living than from the dead, and the female of the species is deadlier than the male.
An anomaly among the husband-hunting bachelorettes of turn-of-the-century Buffalo, N.Y., Edith would rather write fiction — specifically, tales of the supernatural — than attend fancy high-society balls. Though a skeptic toward romance, she believes in ghosts, having received a mortifying visit from her late mother (played by “Pan’s Labyrinth” creep Doug Jones) while still a young girl. At the time, she doesn’t put much stock in the wraith’s warning — “Beware of Crimson Peak,” hisses the incongruously computer-generated apparition — and she remains far more open-minded toward the undead than any of her altar-bound peers would be. That’ll come in handy more than an hour later, when she finally gets to Crimson Peak, a crumbling British mansion perched atop a heap of blood-red clay.
But first, she has to fall in love, which poses a unique challenge for del Toro. As with the heroine that he and co-writer Matthew Robbins have created, his literary role model is more Mary Shelley than Jane Austen. The helmer seems far more comfortable noodling around in the audience’s collective subconscious, where fears lurk and desire festers, than dealing with something as straightforward as pure romantic attraction, and though he’s attempted to create a triangle between Edith and two differently alluring men, hardy local doc Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam) and obsequious British baronet Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), it seems pretty clear that she’d be better off sticking to her principles and avoiding such entanglements altogether.
And yet, del Toro takes his time with Sharpe’s seduction, as if the director who can make people faint from fright were trying to prove to himself that he can get them to swoon as well. Just wait’ll you get to the sex scenes. Neither love nor lust comes easily to del Toro, despite a charming enough ballroom setpiece in which Edith and Sharpe test whether they can waltz in circles without extinguishing a lit candle, while the baronet’s raven-haired sister, Lucille (Jessica Chastain, alarmingly miscast), smolders in sync from behind the piano.
Something’s not quite right between these two siblings, and cinemas should comp the tickets of all who divine what the trouble is before Sharpe marries Edith against the objections of her aristocracy-phobic father (“Deadwood’s” Jim Beaver) and whisks his new bride off to the very place her dead mother so directly warned her not to visit. (Following his revoltingly brutal murder, ghost-dad should probably pay Edith a visit as well, if only to tell her who it was that smashed his skull in.) Sharpe may or may not love Edith, but he definitely likes her money, which he needs to finance a noisy contraption that digs that gross clay out from Crimson Peak.
While America, land of Thomas Edison, was lit all in gold and bronze tones, back home in Sharpe’s native Britain, things look infinitely more somber, the gloom pierced by almost fluorescent stabs of light — a look d.p. Dan Lausten clearly borrowed from the Dario Argento playbook (one the film itself dubs “gothic a la Italiana”). Ornate in the extreme, with entire rooms dedicated just to moths and a forbidden basement full of burbling blood-red clay vats, the Sharpes’ mausoleum-like home appears to be an LSD-spiked, Technicolor-nightmare version of Manderley, as featured in Hitchcock’s “Rebecca.” Cued by Fernando Velazquez’s wonderfully eerie score, one can practically feel the specter of past wives hanging about the place — they’re plainly visible to Edith, as they lurk behind closed doors and waft up through floorboards like projections from Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride.
Love may have hobbled her intellect, but Edith remains a reasonably smart young woman: All it takes is a reminder visit from her dead mom and a nasty fit of coughing up blood to realize that something is amiss. And her intuition is better than del Toro’s, who never should have chosen Chastain: While the actress expanded her strong, wholesome image by crossing over to the dark side in last year’s “A Most Violent Year,” the role of Lucille requires a streak of vicious insecurity and black-widow ruthlessness that Chastain flounders to convey. “Crimson Peak” demands a witchier — or at least bitchier — actress to go all Mrs. Danvers on Edith. (Parker Posey comes to mind, though Hiddleston’s “Only Lovers Left Alive” co-star, Tilda Swinton, would have made a delicious alternative.) Deprived of her own crimson locks, Chastain can’t even manage the British accent, and the character’s psychotic break ultimately ruptures the pic’s last shred of credibility.
By contrast, with her pale, porcelain-doll face and long blonde tresses, the appropriately cast Wasikowska practically glows in the dark as she takes candelabra in hand and goes looking for the haunted house’s secrets. Still, less setup and a lot more exploring would have done wonders, as the mansion is by far the film’s main attraction — the brainchild of del Toro and production designer Tom Sanders, whose work on “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” was an ideal warm-up for the gig.
As it happens, del Toro (together with co-writer Robbins) already has a far more effective haunted-house picture under his belt, the Troy Nixey-directed “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” (a movie that, while scripted for a PG-13, landed an R from the MPAA for sheer intensity). Though the director takes clear delight in being free to operate in adults-only mode here, the tonal mismatch between visual beauty and Grand Guignol gore — an oculus rift, if ever there was — yields revulsion rather than fright. He errs by opening the film with a flash-forward that assures us Edith will survive, and delivers the film’s only real scare in the very next scene, when her mom first visits. It hardly matters that “Crimson Peak” blossoms into del Toro’s most sumptuous film, as there’s no recovering from the fact the suspense crimson-peaks too early.
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