电影中Philippe的原型，Philippe Pozzo di Borgo是Pozzo di Borgo公爵的儿子，当然，单单贵族身份还不足以让他可以那么富——他还是香槟生产商Pommery的老板，直到因滑翔伞事故而全身瘫痪。在妻子死后，他遇到了把他从绝望中拯救出来的私人护理Abdel，Abdel为他规划了许多出其不意的各种行程，据费加罗报说，比如“把他扔进飞机带他去了加勒比海的，以及加拿大北部。这只是一连串冒险的开始。” 他们最近的一次旅行是到摩洛哥，两人各自遇到了他们现在的妻子，就分开了。
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible — Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there’s room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me I say, “Do not despair.” The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass and dictators die; and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers: Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel; who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate; only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written, “the kingdom of God is within man” — not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men, in you, you the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite!! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise!! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers: In the name of democracy, let us all unite!
楼下街道两旁种满了橘子树（也许是橙子，也许是别的什么），于是我每次走过都会哼起”点亮橘子树”，刘若英2001年的歌，到现在已经十年，我也已经很多年没有听过了。有一个现象是，如果有段时间总是听什么，后来再也不听什么，隔了很久之后，一旦听到那个”什么”，那段时间就会历历在目。对我来说，”将爱”和沪西的日子紧紧相随，我不喜欢将爱，在那之后再也不会特意去听。刘若英是磁带的年代，我的电脑里没有一首MP3是她的歌，但我买过Love and the City之前她所有专辑的磁带，它们陪伴了那些动不动就感时伤怀的少年时光（靠，十年过去，少年成了怨妇，依然还是动不动就感时伤怀）。
That Hamilton Woman是费雯丽和劳伦斯·奥利弗在一起之后合作的第一部电影，演一桩改变历史的婚外恋。纳尔逊和汉密尔顿夫人最终没能在一起，以悲剧收尾；费雯丽和Larry虽然从婚外恋走向婚姻，二十年后还是以分离散场。不知道戏里戏外，哪个版本更让人唏嘘。这段曾被无数人视为天作之合的感情，现在只能在回忆里找安慰了。（有情结的可以去看看这个网站viv and larry）
开头对白：（What do you mean by savage?）..What you mean is not like you.
You think I’m an ignorant savage And you’ve been so many places I guess it must be so But still I cannot see If the savage one is me How can there be so much that you don’t know? You don’t know …
You think you own whatever land you land on The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim But I know every rock and tree and creature Has a life, has a spirit, has a name
You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You’ll learn things you never knew you never knew
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned? Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth Come roll in all the riches all around you And for once, never wonder what they’re worth
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers The heron and the otter are my friends And we are all connected to each other In a circle, in a hoop that never ends
How high will the sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you’ll never know And you’ll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper skinned We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains We need to paint with all the colors of the wind
You can own the Earth and still All you’ll own is Earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind
我尤其爱这句”The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim”，多么后工业社会啊，多么批判理论啊。
