访谈录 2010-03-16&0318 汤姆汉克斯Morning Joe访谈（四

Well, the fate that went along with all of those projects was, I’m sorry to say, a very gross or crass¹ or specific commercial success. Those projects made money because that they were dazzling, cinematic, pieces of entertainment. Where you really get into a territory as we did with John Adams with our good friends at HBO, with he take something and… We just say they this is not ganna make a dime². No body cares about three cornered hats and articles of confederation or where John Adams was, uh, as representing the ambassador, the first term ambassador that called Saint James, and when we could turn that into something that becomes vivid entertainment for the people who watch every Sunday night. Well, then I guess we’re kinda like in the high country, but I think that’s the fun, we get together and figure out, well, let’s make this real stuff fascinating and entertaining and enthralling³ and let’s not make anything up, or let’s make it as little up as possible

 

Let’s talk about how you got from what you love to, being able to make money at it. So people would be interested so you could teach Americans about history. So fancy what you said about you had sort of an Aha moment. How do I bridge this? I want to talk about this. Nobody is gonna go see history and then you were sitting there watching Ken⁴ Berns.

Oh, yeah, the Civil War, yes.

Late in the night, they’ll approach… And you said, there you had nothing but stills, a voice over and music, your son at your feet and you would end up weeping at the end of every episode.

Every single episode.

Was that your Aha moment is, you know what, if they can do this with a 150 year-olds steels, I can make a movie.

I was a pure audience member. I was learning something brand new; I wish all I was transported back in that time. And actually the time was actually talking about today. And all it was was black and white photographs, great music, pictures of trees and, you know movies of creeks⁵ at sunsets, and some damn good performances from the likes of Jason Robards. War is all hell. You know that. And it was…I said, if you can hold my attention and get me involved in that, there is got be something to this. Ken Berns has the great best job in the world.

We all say about Ken, however, he’ll never make another film until he go south, shall be foot and when he did it in World WarⅡon film he went right back down on south again so war has free syllables⁶ when that voice went to war. Tom, where do you go from here? After the Pacific and Band of Brothers, or is there a third part of the trilogy?

Well, there are, is going, I don’t know, because this is expensive stuff to do. It ain’t cheap and but you also can’t, you can’t force it through. There is going to be some story that will come up to the forefront. They will say, Ah, I’ve never see this before even that was very familiar territory and we can convince the powers of this to pony⁷ up some change, we’ll go at it again. But this is substantial, not a change I got pony up, you know, HBO, this is probably the most expensive thing that’s ever been on television.
 

1 crass   

adj.愚钝的，粗糙的；彻底的

参考例句：

• The government has behaved with crass insensitivity.该政府行事愚蠢而且麻木不仁。
• I didn't want any part of this silly reception,It was all so crass.我完全不想参加这个无聊的欢迎会，它实在太糟糕了。

2 dime   

n.（指美国、加拿大的钱币）一角

参考例句：

• A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
• The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。

3 enthralling   

迷人的

参考例句：

• There will be an enthralling race tomorrow. 明天会有场吸引人的比赛。
• There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. 在这样地施加影响时，令人感到销魂夺魄。

4 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

5 creeks   

n.小湾( creek的名词复数 )；小港；小河；小溪

参考例句：

• The prospect lies between two creeks. 矿区位于两条溪流之间。 来自辞典例句
• There was the excitement of fishing in country creeks with my grandpa on cloudy days. 有在阴雨天和姥爷一起到乡村河湾钓鱼的喜悦。 来自辞典例句

6 syllables   

n.音节( syllable的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a word with two syllables 双音节单词
• 'No. But I'll swear it was a name of two syllables.' “想不起。不过我可以发誓，它有两个音节。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

7 pony   

adj.小型的；n.小马

参考例句：

• His father gave him a pony as a Christmas present.他父亲给了他一匹小马驹作为圣诞礼物。
• They made him pony up the money he owed.他们逼他还债。