TED演讲:电影中的男子气概(3)

 　　Alison Bechdel is a comic book artist,  艾莉森·贝克德尔是一个漫画作家，

　　and back in the mid-'80s, she recorded this conversation  在80年代中期,，她记录下了她和一个朋友

　　she'd had with a friend about assessing the movies that they saw.  在评估她们看过的电影时的讨论内容。

　　And it's very simple. There's just three questions you should ask:  非常简单，只有三个问题：

　　Is there more than one character in the movie  这部电影中是否有一个以上的角色

　　that is female who has lines?  是女性并且有台词？

　　So try to meet that bar.  想想看这个标准。

　　And do these women talk to each other at any point in the movie?  如果是,这些女性角色在电影中是否交谈过？

　　And is their conversation about something other than  如果交谈了，有没有跟她们共同的心上人

　　the guy that they both like?   无关的谈话内容？

　　Right? Thank you.  明白了？谢谢。

　　Thank you very much.  非常感谢。

　　Two women who exist and talk to each other about stuff.  两个女人，有台词，有交谈。

　　It does happen. I've seen it,  确实有这样的电影。我看过，

　　and yet I very rarely see it in the movies  但是在我们看过的和喜欢的电影中

　　that we know and love.  是很少见的。

　　In fact, this week I went to see  事实上，这个星期我刚看过

　　a very high-quality movie, "Argo."  一部质量不错的电影《阿尔戈》（Argo）。

　　Right? Oscar buzz, doing great at the box office,  奥斯卡热门电影，票房很好，

　　a consensus¹ idea of what a quality Hollywood film is.  公认的好莱坞电影高品质电影。

　　It pretty much flunks² the Bechdel test.  但是贝尔德尔测试不及格。

　　And I don't think it should, because a lot of the movie,  我觉得这不应该。因为电影中的大部分情节

　　I don't know if you've seen it, but a lot of the movie  不知道你们看过没有，电影中的大部分情节

　　takes place in this embassy where men and women  都发生在发生人质劫持事件的大使馆内，

　　are hiding out during the hostage crisis.  男人和女人都躲在里面。

　　We've got quite a few scenes of the men  我们看到好几个场景，

　　having deep, angst-ridden conversations in this hideout,  男人们在藏身处深刻而充满焦虑的对话。

　　and the great moment for one of the actresses is  而电影中一个女演员最出彩的情节

　　to peek³ through the door and say, "Are you coming to bed, honey?"  是隔着一扇门问道，“睡觉么，亲爱的？”

　　That's Hollywood for you.  这就是好莱坞。

　　So let's look at the numbers.  来看看统计数字。

　　2011, of the 100 most popular movies,  2011年前100部最流行的电影中，

　　how many of them do you think actually have female protagonists⁴?  有多少部电影有女主角？

　　Eleven. It's not bad.  11部。不算太坏。

　　It's not as many percent as the number of women  就刚刚普选出的国会议员中

　　we've just elected to Congress, so that's good.  女性议员比例而言，这个比例算好的。

　　But there is a number that is greater than this  接下来这个比例比刚才的要高

　　that's going to bring this room down.  而这个比例会让在座各位震惊。

　　Last year, The New York Times published a study  去年，纽约时报发表了一份

　　that the government had done.  由政府完成的报告。

　　Here's what it said.  以下是内容。

　　One out of five women in America  每五名美国女性中就有一位

　　say that they have been sexually assaulted some time in their life.  曾经遇到过性骚扰。

　　Now, I don't think that's the fault of popular entertainment.  我不认为是流行娱乐圈的过错。

　　I don't think kids' movies have anything to do with that.  我不认为这是由于儿童电影导致的。

　　I don't even think that  我甚至觉得

　　music videos or pornography are really directly related to that,  色情音乐和电影跟这都没有直接关系，

　　but something is going wrong,  但是肯定哪里出问题了。

　　and when I hear that statistic,  当我听到这个统计数字，

　　one of the things I think of is  我当时想到的是

　　that's a lot of sexual assailants.  性骚扰者的数量竟然这么多。

　　Who are these guys? What are they learning?  他们是谁？他们怎么被教出来的？

　　What are they failing to learn?  他们漏学了什么？

　　Are they absorbing the story that  他们有没有理解电影的情节，

　　a male hero's job is to defeat the villain⁵ with violence  一个男性英雄打败了残暴的反派

　　and then collect the reward, which is a woman  然后获得荣誉和奖励--就是一个没有朋友

　　who has no friends and doesn't speak?  又不说话(没有思想)的女人?

　　Are we soaking up that story?  我们有没有从这些故事中吸取到什么？

1 consensus   

n.(意见等的)一致，一致同意，共识

参考例句：

• Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗？
• What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么？

2 flunks   

v.( flunk的第三人称单数 )；（使）（考试、某学科的成绩等）不及格；评定（某人）不及格；（因不及格而） 退学

参考例句：

• He got two flunks on his report. 他的报告上有两门不及格。 来自互联网

3 peek   

vi.偷看，窥视；n.偷偷的一看，一瞥

参考例句：

• Larry takes a peek out of the window.赖瑞往窗外偷看了一下。
• Cover your eyes and don't peek.捂上眼睛，别偷看。

4 protagonists   

n.（戏剧的）主角( protagonist的名词复数 )；（故事的）主人公；现实事件（尤指冲突和争端的）主要参与者；领导者

参考例句：

• Mrs Pankhurst was one of the chief protagonists of women's rights. 潘克赫斯特太太是女权的主要倡导者之一。 来自辞典例句
• This reflects that Feng Menglong heartily sympathized with these protagonists. 这反映出冯梦龙由衷地同情书中的这些主要人物。 来自互联网

5 villain   

n.反派演员，反面人物；恶棍；问题的起因

参考例句：

• He was cast as the villain in the play.他在戏里扮演反面角色。
• The man who played the villain acted very well.扮演恶棍的那个男演员演得很好。