Detail 1: COUNTDOWN (Chinese: Countdown)-a British puzzle entertainment program, which started in the early 1980s and has been broadcast on Channel 4. Now the length of the program has been extended from the original 24 minutes Until 36 minutes. John Richard Whiteley is the first host.
Detail 2: In the beginning, "Will" played by Hugh Grant walks through the coffee table, the TV, and finally to the sofa. The question that Countdown host John is asking on the TV-Who write the phrase "No man is an island" ? John Donne, John Milton, John F. Kennedy, John Bon Jovi. Will
deliberately said the answer incorrectly: "John Bon Jovi" (lead singer of Bon Jovi band). However, in fact, this is the 17th meditation in the "Prayer Collection" by John Donne, the great English poet of the 17th century metaphysics [1].
Detail 3: At the 29th minute of the movie, Weir describes his "unit of time" life on an isolated island. Enter the URL address: http://supermodelswithseethroughtops.com . In fact, this website has nothing but a picture of Pope Paul II sitting on the run.
Detail 4: "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Killing Me Softly with His Song) is a song composed by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel in 1973. Chen Kaige also has a movie of the same name, "The Gentle Kill Me" [3].
[1] John Dunn "Prayer Collection" Chapter 17, the original text is as follows
(Meditation XVII: No man is an island...)
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls[2]; it tolls for thee."
"Prayer Collection" (DEVOTIONS) No. Chapter 17
No one is an isolated island.
Everyone is a fragment of oneself.
If the waves wash away a piece of land, Europe will be a little smaller.
If there is a promontory, if your friend or your own manor is washed away. It’s the
same
if anyone’s death costs
me because I’m conceived in humans.
So you don’t have to ask for whom the bell rings
for you. [2]
[2] In the 1940s, American writer Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (For Whom the Bell Tolls) was taken from this poem.
[3] Has sung this song successively:
Herb Alpert
Engelbert Humperdinck
Frank Sinatra
Tori Amos
Alison Moyet
Eva Cassidy
Perry Como
The Jackson 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IidGBdnR_xI
Mina
Anne Murray
Luther Vandross
Toni Braxton
Alicia Keys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt9y_K3S4kk
Jaco Pastorius
Roberta Flack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpqXu0z3wU
The Plain White T's
The Youngblood Brass Band
Shirley Bassey http:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lsJ3eyrMAM
John Holt
sha Uthup
Thai singer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLe3IqLTkgM
(refer to youtube)
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