片名：丑陋事实
地区：美国
类型：剧情 喜剧 爱情
语言：英语
导演：罗伯特·路克蒂克 Robert Luketic
主演：凯瑟琳·海格尔 Katherine Heigl

杰拉德·巴特勒 Gerard Butler

布里·特纳 Bree Turner

艾里克·温特 Eric Winter

尼克·西塞 Nick Searcy

切瑞·海恩斯 Cheryl Hines

约翰·迈克尔·辛吉斯 John Michael Higgins

电影介绍

艾比·里克特（凯瑟琳·海格尔饰）是一位早间节目的制片人。事业成功的她一直在寻求完美先生，为此还专门调查与她约会对象的资料。一天，老板向她的节目组介绍了一位非常有自我主见的新同事迈克（杰拉德·巴特勒饰）。艾比对他的粗俗语言感到非常厌恶。与此同时，艾比遇见了一位刚搬进对面屋子的聪明、帅气、事业成功的整形外科医生科林（艾里克·温特饰）。科林是那种女孩子梦寐以求的单身汉，因此自然地他成为了艾比心中的完美先生。

迈克认为艾比如果用她自己的方法是无法获得外科医生的注意，因此他自告奋勇地提出担任艾比的“军师”，并告知让男人与女人一起的“丑陋事实”。而艾比也因为他的一句“不成功我离开节目组”的承诺而同意了。在“军师”的一番打造下，艾比显得更加迷人，浑身散发着女人的魅力，并且成功与科林约会。然而相处久之下，迈克与艾比之间似乎发生了一丝微妙的化学反应……

幕后花絮

导演罗伯特·路克蒂克首次执导的影片《律政俏佳人》上映后即获得不俗的成绩。当年该片不仅取得近1亿美元的票房，而且还获得两项金球奖提名。2008年，他执导了哥伦比亚影业公司的热门电影《决胜21点》，影片的灵感来自于美国一个关于一群智力出众的大学生如何从赌城拉斯维加斯赢得数百万美元的真实故事。而在这部影片之前，路克蒂克还执导了卖座影片《怪兽婆婆》和浪漫喜剧《偶像有约》。如今，他正执导一部由艾什顿·库彻和凯瑟琳·海格尔主演的动作惊悚片《五个杀手》，该片初定于明年六月上映。

影片《丑陋事实》同样由凯瑟琳·海格尔担任女主角，只不过这里她的“谈情对象”是《300勇士》里的那位勇猛战士杰拉德·巴特勒。凯瑟琳在十五岁的时候就已经登上电视屏幕，她当时出演了根据法国喜剧片改编的电视剧《我的爸爸是英雄》，在里面饰演一个离婚家庭的女儿。此后，她还出演了《暴走潜龙2》、《鬼娃新娘》、《圈套》等影片。然而最终让她从此发光发亮的是她在美国热门电视剧《实习医生格雷》中的出色表演，凭此她获得2007年艾美奖的最佳女配角奖。之后，她再次转向大银幕，主演了《一夜大肚》和《新娘靠边闪》（又名《27套礼服》）卖座喜剧片，让她成为好莱坞当前炙手可热的明星之一。凯瑟琳在接受采访时说：“我很喜欢年轻的观众，喜欢这类电影，我依然想向和我一样年纪和我同时代人们讲述真实的故事。”

凯瑟琳·海格尔继续演此类喜剧电影，人们也许不会觉得有什么奇怪。然而，凭借大型动作电影《300勇士》一炮而红的杰拉德·巴特勒出演这类喜剧电影，还的确让人感觉到新奇。是什么原因让他出演这部影片的呢？他接受采访解释说道：“我参演这部影片主要原因之一是因为我正拍摄另一部动作电影，我在里面扮演的角色非常黑暗且内心复杂。晚上，我会和湖畔公司的一些家伙吃晚餐，我会说一些肮脏和粗俗的笑话，然后他们会继续说一些“丑陋事实”。我从没有看过那剧本，最后，我看了并说‘好，我接爱’。很奇怪的是，我花了好几天才找到我的感觉。第一天，饰演这个有美国口音角色的我真的很紧张，总是忘记自己的台词。有好几天都这样。每一次面对凯瑟琳和必须摸她头发的时候，我也会很紧张。因为她是个非常有魅力的女人。”

影片编剧卡伦·麦卡拉·劳特斯和克尔斯滕·史密斯是继《律政俏佳人》之后再次与导演罗伯特·路克蒂克合作。在过去五年里劳特斯与史密斯两人都是在一起进行写作，史密斯解释说：“以前我们是分开独立写，然后我们会重写对方的稿子。但后来当我们一起处理故事情景的时候，我们意识到一起工作有趣多了，然后我们喜欢重写我们共同的创作，而不是设法将我们的意见强加到另一个人创作里。”在他们开始写这部影片还没有谁担任里面的角色时，他们已经想好要让凯瑟琳做女主角了。劳特斯说：“我们以前已经见过她，而且我们是她的粉丝。因此当剧本完成后，我们就商量着应该由哪位来演，当时我们脑里就想着凯瑟琳是最佳人选。”史密斯则补充说道：“艾比这个角色是缺陷的，同时有趣，是真正实力和片刻狂欢这个弱点的有趣结合。凯瑟琳在这方面做的很好，好像就是她自己似的那么自然。”

影片描述了男女之间的争斗，对此男女主角各自阐述了他们想法。凯瑟琳说：“我不能代表男人发言，因为我身边并没有很多像影片中迈克有那样的行为。我有很多男性朋友像他那样开玩笑，但实际上他们并不相信那些。我知道，至少对我和我的朋友来说，艾比只是有那么一点小夸张的女性。我想影片最重要的部分是讨论不管男女有多不同但你会如何妥协。你不必刻意地去完全改变自己去附合你想要在一起的人，但你必须要有一些妥协。你自己必须要放开一点。老实与不顾一切就只是一线之差而已。”

杰拉德则说道：“作为男人，我们从不知道女人们进了洗手间后会谈论什么，她们总是一起进去。而同样的，女人也从没有真正了解男人真正所想的。我想这是第一部将男人真实想法说出来的电影。通过我们的游戏，我们的弱点和我们的缺陷，其实最终我们都在追求一件事，我们都想有个伙伴，都想得到友谊。我认为影片中男女之间的斗争同时也是观众之间的斗争。我觉得电影很棒，因为它真实阐述了双方的价值观。我想当放出这些情景时，观众会感到非常震惊和意外。男人可能会想‘感谢上帝有人说了出来’，而女人可能会想‘你知道什么？我早就知道了。我该死地了解。’那就是为什么当影片放映出来时能给人带来巨大的安慰。”

或许透过这部影片可以让女人或男人更加了解对方，又或者女人可以在这部影片学到某些吸引男人的方法，但无论怎样，女人与男人的交往不能光靠表面，而应该是发自内心。

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丑陋事实 英文影评

The Ugly Truth Movie Review

An independent woman gets some valuable advice from a macho pig
by Roger Ebert

Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler are so pleasant in "The Ugly Truth" that it’s a shame to spoil their party. But toil and try as they do, the comedy bogs down in relentless predictability and the puzzling overuse of naughty words.

Once the movies were forbidden to drop the f-word at all, but in this one, it’s only an opening salvo in a potty-mouth bombing run. Heigl plays Abby, producer of the early morning news on a Sacramento station that is operated like no other station in the history of television. Anchored by a bickering married couple, the broadcast is tanking in the ratings, and so her boss forces Abby to bring in Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a macho local cable personality whose ideas about the battle of the es date back to about Alley Oop.

On his first appearance, he departs from his script, diagnoses the anchor as the victim of his control-freak wife and suggests they’ve probably stopped sleeping together. “This is great!” the station manager raves, despite that the that segment runs so long, it steps on the first five minutes of the network morning slot.

Abby is a raving beauty who of course can’t find a man, maybe because her standards are those of a perfectionist. A handsome young orthopedic surgeon (Eric Winter) comes within her sights, after she twists an ankle falling from a tree outside his bedroom window watching him dry off after a shower while she was trying to rescue her cat. That’s the sort of thing, wouldn’t you agree, that happens all too rarely in life?

Mike, the rugged -talk guru, tells her she’s making all the wrong moves if she ever wants to catch this guy and starts coaching her. So which guy does she end up with? Guess. The movie leaves not a stone unturned, including the semi-obligatory Beauty Makeover Montage, during which Mike advises her on the requirements of a push-up bra and tells her to acquire longer hair. Uh, huh. And when the doc takes her to a ballgame, Mike broadcasts instructions to her earphone, just as a producer might speak into an anchor’s earpiece.

There’s one scene with real comic possibilities, but it doesn’t pay off. Mike gives her a pair of remote-controlled, battery-powered vibrating panties. (Yes, they actually manufacture such items. Isn’t the Web a useful resource?) Abby, the silly girl, foolishly decides to wear these to a business dinner and takes along the remote control, for reasons it is hard to explain. A kid at a nearby table grabs the remote control. We all know what’s coming, and Heigl makes a real effort, but I’m afraid Meg Ryan’s restaurant orgasm in "When Harry Met Sally" remains the gold standard in this rare but never boring category.

The TV news as portrayed in the film makes "Anchorman -- The Legend of Ron Burgundy" look like a documentary. Every segment can run as long as necessary. Macho Mike ad libs everything. Yes, he’s good for ratings, but if after a few days, he’s really pulling in a 12 in the 5 a.m. hour, in prime time he would outscore the Oscars. And TV cameras do not usually follow newsmen out of the studio and into the street and watch whatever they do — although if it were funnier, we might not mind.

Again, Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler are awfully nice here but the movie does them in. Amazing that this raunchy screenplay was written by three women. At its conclusion, I am forced to report, it provides abundant evidence of my belief that a good movie has rarely featured a hot-air balloon.

The Ugly Truth: Movie Review By Lexi Feinberg

Love At First Fight

Here comes another standard movie about the dating escapades of beautiful, successful, foolish-in-love white folks. "The Ugly Truth" has absolutely nothing new to say and is, at best, a gimmicky fantasy, despite star Katherine Heigl's claim that it feels like "two people … coming together in a [grown-up] world, not the cartoon version."

In this ever-so-reality-based story, Abby (Heigl) is a morning show producer in Sacramento who hopes to boost ratings without selling her soul. No such luck as her superior hires Mike (Gerard Butler), an outspoken, ist pig for a he-said dating segment called, what do you know, "The Ugly Truth." Naturally, they lock horns instantly, in that ual tension kind of way.  www.130q.com

In addition to acting as the network's love-themed Bill O'Reilly, he starts shelling out romantic advice to Abby, who fancies the waxy, bland hunk next door (Eric Winter). Stop being yourself, he says. Instead act as both a stripper and a librarian, laugh at everything he says, never criticize him and definitely don't mention any of your problems.

As Mike coaches Abby to win over the chiseled doctor, he starts to realize, gosh, she's kind of swell (seems like "He's Just Not That Into You" déjà vu). He may play a barbaric jerk on TV, but deep down he's a sweetie, really; his adoring nephew would vouch for him. Admittedly, Butler ("300") is a riot in this part, channeling Tom Cruise's trash-talking character in "Magnolia" -- he's always fun to watch, even though you wish he could be superimposed into a better movie. Same goes for Heigl ("27 Dresses"), who has supreme comic timing despite her pin-up girl looks. She's particularly droll in a scene where she has dinner with higher-ups while wearing vibrating underwear, and enjoys her entrée just a bit too much.

"The Ugly Truth" isn't terrible, but it screams of been-there-done-that. Director Robert Luketic (who helmed the grotesque "Monster-In-Law") goes through the motions and lacks a signature touch. Not that he has much to work with: The script from Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith is too blah and obvious for its own good ("I liked caviar until I realized it was made of fish eggs!" says Bree Turner in a supporting role). You won't need a compass to figure out where this story is going every inch of the way.

The film relies entirely on the chemistry between Heigl and Butler -- though he could likely have sparks with a lamp post -- and scattered moments of broad humor. Like one of Abby's botched dates early on, it fails to leave any kind of lasting impression.