情人节,洛杉矶,花店老板瑞德(艾什顿•库彻 Ashton Kutcher 饰)向女友莫莉(杰西卡•阿尔芭 Jessica Alba 饰)求婚,对方欣然应允,他欣喜若狂地跟好友朱丽叶(珍妮弗•加纳 Jennifer Garner 饰)分享。而后者的医生情人却不能共度佳节, 所以她只能去陪闺蜜。小白领利兹(安妮•海瑟薇 Anne Hathaway 饰)跟男友乔什欢度春宵后,马上去做带班秘书。体育记者凯文(杰米•福克斯 Jamie Foxx 饰)临时被拉去做情人节的报道,他采访了瑞德,这使得后者店里的生意超好,宾客盈门,甚至还包括12岁的小男孩。后者的保姆正欲同男友初尝禁果,而爷爷、奶奶却在回首往事。他的母亲、美军上尉凯特(朱莉娅•罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)却在飞机上与陌生人霍顿聊得火热。正在众人想方设法示爱的同时,橄榄球名将西恩(埃里克迪恩 饰)想要在此时宣布一个惊人的消息,所以他联系了高薪公关秘书卡拉(杰西卡•贝尔 Jessica Biel 饰)……
Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest-ever architect. However, few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them and the significance of his radical family background.
In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture: Fallingwater, the house over the waterfall, has been called the greatest house of the 20th century; the spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York reinvented the art museum; the concrete Unity Temple was the first truly modern building in the world. But the underlying philosophy that links all Wright's buildings is as important as anything he built.
Those ideas were rooted in the Unitarian religion of Frank Lloyd Wright's mother. Anna Lloyd Jones was born and raised near Llandysul in west Wales and migrated to America with her family in 1844, most likely to escape religious persecution. Her son, Frank, was raised in a Unitarian community in Wisconsin, a small piece of Wales in America. The values he absorbed there were based on the sanctity of nature, the importance of hard work, and the need to question convention and defy it where necessary. Wright's architecture was shaped by, and expressed, these beliefs.
Frank Lloyd Wright set out to create a new American architecture for a new country. He built his own lifelong home in the valley he was raised in, and he named it after an ancient Welsh bard called Taliesin. It was the scene of many adventures - and a horrific crime. In 1914, a servant at Taliesin ran amok and killed seven people including Wright's partner, Mamah Cheney, and her two young children.
Wright rebuilt his home and went on to marry a Montenegrin woman, Olgivanna Milanoff, some 30 years younger than him. It was Olgivanna who struck upon the idea that saved Wright's career after the Wall Street Crash and personal scandal laid it low. She decided that her husband should take on apprentices and that the apprentices should pay for the privilege. The Taliesin Fellowship had a hands-on approach, with apprentices often building extensions to Wright's own houses, labouring and cooking for him. Somehow it worked, lasting for decades and nurturing hundreds of young talents.
Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 aged 91 while working on his final masterpiece, New York's incomparable Guggenheim Museum. He had been born in the wake of the American civil war, the son of a pioneer, and died a television celebrity, in the space age. He is buried in the shadow of Taliesin, alongside his Welsh ancestors.
A 150 years after his birth, Jonathan Adams argues that Frank Lloyd Wright is now a vitally important figure who can teach us how to build for a better world. Wright believed in what he called organic architecture; buildings that grace the landscape, express an idea of how to live and respond to individual needs. This bespoke approach - a philosophy, not a style - puts him at the heart of modern architectural thinking.
身形矮小、其貌不扬的柯克(杰伊·巴鲁切尔 Jay Baruchel 饰)是供职于匹兹堡机场的一名普通保安。他的爱情可以称得上是完败,女友玛妮(林德赛·斯隆 Lindsay Sloane 饰)弃之而去,他一心重修旧好而不能;工作枯燥乏味,波澜不惊,平时最多和学生时代的好友扯扯皮、谈谈心,俨然一个不被人关注的废柴。
然而就是这么一个小人物,却狠狠交了一把桃花运。偶然机会,柯克邂逅了美丽出众、光彩夺目的富家女莫莉(爱丽丝·伊芙 Alice Eve 饰),对方热情主动,令柯克如坠梦中。一段身份地位乃至各个方面都极不相称的恋情就此展开,不过诸多的麻烦也随即涌现,柯克该如何面对这突如其来的一切……