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French Kiss 情定巴黎 凯特是个墨守成规的传统美国女孩，她与加拿大医生查理订婚后就向往过一种稳定的生活。一天查理要去巴黎开会，希望两人能一起在花都度过浪漫的一周。虽然凯特早就想看看巴黎的名胜，可她天生惧怕坐飞机，所以只好作罢。不料几天之后查理打电话向凯特提出分手，原来他爱上了一位漂亮的法国女郎。凯特怒火中烧，顾不得对飞行的恐惧，马上登上了去巴黎的飞机，誓将查理从法国女郎的手中夺回来。等待起飞时凯特发现身边坐着一位粗鲁而直率的法国男子吕克，两人唇枪舌剑的交锋使她忘却了对飞行的恐惧。其实吕克是一个珠宝大盗，欲利用凯特走私一条价值不菲的项链。两人究竟能否达到各自的目的呢？ Kate is an American history teacher engaged to a Canadian doctor Charlie who loves traveling. But Kate is afraid of traveling by air. One day Charlie tells her that he is going to attend a medical conference in Paris and asks her to go with him. After some hesitation, Kate goes to an air-travel simulation1 center to receive some training. Unfortunately, she is nearly frightened to death on the very first simulation. Poor Kate has to give up the idea of spending a week with Charlie in Paris though she desires to see the Eifel Tower2 all the time. Besides, she has to stay in Canada for a certain period of time before she can get the permanent residence visa. After Charlie has left for Paris, Kate receives several phone calls from him excitedly describing the beauty of the city, which makes Kate feel a bit regretful. One evening, Charlie again rings Kate. This time he is more excited, but what he tells Kate almost drives her mad. In stammer,3 Charlie says that he has met a French girl named Juliette and has fallen in love with her, which indicates that his relationship with Kate has come to an end. Angry Kate decides to go to Paris immediately despite her air-phobia.4 Boarding on the plane, Kate is very nervous. She looks around and sees a savage-looking French man coming her way and chooses to sit beside her. This makes her even more nervous. What is worse, the man, whose name is Luc, tries to start a conversation with her very rudely, which develops into a "war of words" in which Luc mocks Kate as a woman fearing life and love while Kate argues otherwise. Before Kate realizes it, the plane has taken off and she finds it not so frightening in the air. Through the heated argument, Kate learns that Luc is a French playboy enjoying life whenever he can while Luc knows that Kate comes to Paris to get her fiance5 back. Just before the plane touches down6 in Paris, Luc goes to the rest room7 at the rear of the plane where he hides a beautiful necklace into a vine.8 Then he puts the vine into Kate's bag without being noticed. Going through security check at the airport, Luc offers to give her a ride to Hotel George V where Kate's fiance stays. However, as soon as Luc gets out of the airport, he is stopped by a police detective named Jean Paul who knows him too well to let him go easily. Luc watches Kate leaving in a taxi, but he can do nothing about it. Despite a careful search, the detective does not find anything illegal in Luc's baggage. Once he is set free, Luc gets to Hotel George V as soon as he can. As he is to enter the hotel, he happens to see another thief Bob coming out. When Luc finds Kate in the lobby, she has just fainted on the sofa after seeing Charlie and Juliette coming down in the hotel's glass elevator. Luc wakes her up, but Kate cannot find her bag, which obviously was stolen. Kate remembers that a handsome French man tried to talk to her before she saw Charlie and blacked out.9 Realizing that the bag was taken away by Bob, Luc immediately takes Kate, in a stolen brand new car, to Bob's place where he gets his vine back while Kate only gets an empty bag. It turns out that Bob sold her passport to someone else and gave her clothes to a prostitute.10 While Luc leaves happily with his vine, Kate has no place to go since it is dark by now. The next morning, she goes to the American Embassy where her request for a new passport is rejected because of her application to be a Canadian citizen. So she has to resort to the Canadian Embassy where her application for a Canadian residence visa is also turned down for her violation of Canada's immigration law.11 Desperate, Kate goes back to Hotel George V to seek help from Charlie, only to be told that her fiance and his lover have just left for Cannes12 in southern France. Determined to get Charlie back, Kate goes to the railway station to catch the train to Cannes where she again sees Luc. It turns out that Luc found nothing inside his vine and went back to Bob who told him that he knew nothing about the necklace which might still be in Kate's bag. Thus Luc followed Kate all the way to the station and wait for a chance to get his necklace back. At the same time, the Detective arrested Bob and got the information that Luc had smuggled13 an expensive necklace into France. When Luc was following Kate, he was being watched and followed by the Detective. At the railway station, Luc manages to get rid of the "tail" and gets onto the moving train. Kate is surprised to see him again on the train. Luc tries every way to search Kate's bag but in vain. Because no matter how hard he tries, Kate always keeps the bag to herself. Even in sleep at night, she puts it under her head as a pillow. When Luc wakes up again the next morning, Kate is no longer in the car, which scares him to death. After a quick search, Luc discovers Kate in the dining car enjoying the delicious French cheese and beef while marveling at14 the beautiful scenery outside the train. Unfortunately, Kate soon suffers from a stomachache, and Luc has to accompany her to get off the train at a small station which happens to be Luc's hometown. It is a place full of vineyards,15 and where they receive a warm welcome. While Kate is enjoying the bump foods at the dinner table, Luc finds an opportunity to search Kate's bag at last. But, he cannot find the necklace no matter how hard he tries. Despite the great disappointment, Luc begins to have a special attachment to Kate. He invites her to taste a box of different bottled wines brewed16 by himself, saying that wines have diversified personalities just like people brought up in different environments. He also talks about his dream of buying a piece of land for a vineyard of his own. But this will probably remain a dream forever because he has lost the expensive necklace. Touched by Luc's romantic description, Kate also begins to like him. Just before boarding on the train to continue her journey, Kate reveals the very necklace on her neck and asks Luc to accompany her. Luc is very happy and gives her a lot of valuable advice on how to win Charlie back, the most important of which is treating him indifferently and disturbing his happy relationship with his lover. Then, Kate should invite Charlie to a dinner to discuss the detailed plan of breaking up,17 which will definitely cause him to regret. Just as the plan begins to work, the detective
spots Kate and tells her the story about the stolen necklace which is
reckoned18
to be at least $100,000. He tells Kate that if the necklace is returned
to him the next day, Luc will not be sued. Kate agrees to help, but
she also asks the Detective a favor that all her savings wired19
from Canada should be exchanged into a check paid to her by Cartier,
a well-known jewelry store in Paris. At the dinner table, Charlie is
amazed by Kate's radiant beauty, especially with the necklace that Luc
insisted that she put on for the occasion. Charlie is also impressed
by Kate's resolution to break up with him without even a bit of sadness,
which adds to his regret. He cannot help asking her for a dance, and
the evening ends with the two going to bed together. But Kate is thingking
all the time about Luc. Meanwhile, Luc seduces20
Juliette to upset Charlie. Curiously, Luc's mind is full of Kate while
making love to Juliette.
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Dialogue
Between Luc and Kate When the Plane Is to Take Off