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'Deepwater Horizon' Honors The Sacrifice Without Sacrificing The Action

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One of the country's worst environmental disasters is now this season's big disaster movie. "Deepwater Horizon" tells the story of the oil rig that turned into an inferno² in 2010 off the coast of Louisiana. NPR critic Bob Mondello says the film tells a story of tragic³ missteps and personal heroics.

BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE⁴: Mike, who's played by Mark Wahlberg, is Mr. Fix-it (ph) on an oil rig in the Gulf⁵. He knows how everything works. We in the audience, though, need to be brought up to speed. So the film starts with a nifty demonstration⁶ on his kitchen table.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEEPWATER HORIZON")

KATE HUDSON: (As Felicia Williams) Honey, show Daddy.

STELLA ALLEN: (As Sydney Williams) I'm not done.

HUDSON: (As Felicia Williams) You did such a good job.

MARK WAHLBERG: (As Mike Williams) It's show time. I can do your props⁷.

MONDELLO: Mike's daughter is doing a school report.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEEPWATER HORIZON")

STELLA: (As Sydney Williams) My dad is Mike. He works on a drilling rig that pumps oil out from underneath⁸ the ocean.

WAHLBERG: (As Mike Williams) And we're the explorers.

STELLA: (As Sydney Williams) Like Dora.

WAHLBERG: (As Mike Williams) Like Dora.

STELLA: (As Sydney Williams) That oil is a monster, like the mean old dinosaurs⁹ all that oil used to be. So for 300 million years, these old dinosaurs have been getting squeezed tighter and tighter...

WAHLBERG: (As Mike Williams) We get it. Just use two tighters.

STELLA: (As Sydney Williams) Then Dad and his friends make a hole in their roof.

MONDELLO: Mike grabs a soda¹⁰ can and punctures¹¹ it with a metal thingy.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEEPWATER HORIZON")

WAHLBERG: (As Mike Williams) Yeah.

STELLA: (As Sydney Williams) And these mean old dinosaurs can't believe it - freedom. So they rush to the new hole.

MONDELLO: As she's talking, she pours honey down the straw.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEEPWATER HORIZON")

STELLA: (As Sydney Williams) They run into this stuff called mud.

MONDELLO: And darned if the honey doesn't block the soda, just like it's supposed to. Mom and Dad are proud.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEEPWATER HORIZON")

HUDSON: (As Felicia Williams) Yeah.

WAHLBERG: (As Mike Williams) That was amazing. Stay 10 forever, please.

MONDELLO: Then, as they walk away from the kitchen table, the honey gives way, and there's soda on the ceiling. So time to head to that oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, by helicopter because it's 50 miles off shore. Mike and the relief crew are surprised on arrival that some safety tests are being skipped. Mud gets poured, and it starts to act just like the honey in the kitchen.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEEPWATER HORIZON")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) We're rolling at 1,395, Mr. Jimmy. That's a lot of pressure.

KURT RUSSELL: (As Jimmy Harrell) Enough to cut your car in half.

MONDELLO: Safety guy Kurt Russel keeps ordering more tasks. BP oil exec John Malkovich, who is oily, keeps talking about how far behind schedule they are. And the rest, as they say, is history.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEEPWATER HORIZON")

WAHLBERG: (As Mike Williams) Hey, Jason, are you seeing this?

MONDELLO: Director Peter Berg spends the first part of the film finding intimate omens¹² for the disaster to come, then delivers catastrophe¹³ on an almost biblical scale - glass shattering as it's hit by gale¹⁴ force sludge, dying oil-soaked pelicans¹⁵ falling from the heavens, flames leaping skyward from a drilling rig turned floating volcano.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEEPWATER HORIZON")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Everybody off deck.

MONDELLO: Technical work is impressive enough that it's almost miraculous¹⁶ that the focus stays on the human beings at the inferno's center.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEEPWATER HORIZON")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) We've got to go right now.

MONDELLO: Real people - 11 of whom died in what is arguably the globe-scarring ecological¹⁷ disaster of our time. So you can't help marveling at the tightrope¹⁸ the filmmakers walk honoring their courage and sacrifice, while making an action flick¹⁹ entertaining enough to justify²⁰ the more than $100 million it took to make it live on the screen. And live "Deepwater Horizon" does, in 107 minutes of terse²¹, tight storytelling, a good 95 of which are white-knuckle tense. I'm Bob Mondello.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 inferno   

n.火海；地狱般的场所

参考例句：

• Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno.救援人员奋力营救大火中的受害者。
• The burning building became an inferno.燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。

3 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

6 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

7 props   

小道具； 支柱( prop的名词复数 )； 支持者； 道具； （橄榄球中的）支柱前锋

参考例句：

• Rescuers used props to stop the roof of the tunnel collapsing. 救援人员用支柱防止隧道顶塌陷。
• The government props up the prices of farm products to support farmers' incomes. 政府保持农产品价格不变以保障农民们的收入。

8 underneath   

adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面

参考例句：

• Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
• She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。

9 dinosaurs   

n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 )；守旧落伍的人，过时落后的东西

参考例句：

• The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 soda   

n.苏打水；汽水

参考例句：

• She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
• I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。

11 punctures   

n.（尖物刺成的）小孔( puncture的名词复数 )；（尤指）轮胎穿孔；（尤指皮肤上被刺破的）扎孔；刺伤v.在（某物）上穿孔( puncture的第三人称单数 )；刺穿（某物）；削弱（某人的傲气、信心等）；泄某人的气

参考例句：

• My car has had two punctures this week. 这个星期我的汽车轮胎被戳破两次。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• SCULLY: Needle punctures, maybe. An animal bite. Electrocution of some kind. 针刺的，也许。动物的咬伤。某种电击。 来自互联网

12 omens   

n.前兆，预兆( omen的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The omens for the game are still not propitious. 这场比赛仍不被看好。 来自辞典例句
• Such omens betide no good. 这种征兆预示情况不妙。 来自辞典例句

13 catastrophe   

n.大灾难，大祸

参考例句：

• I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
• This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。

14 gale   

n.大风，强风，一阵闹声（尤指笑声等）

参考例句：

• We got our roof blown off in the gale last night.昨夜的大风把我们的房顶给掀掉了。
• According to the weather forecast,there will be a gale tomorrow.据气象台预报，明天有大风。

15 pelicans   

n.鹈鹕( pelican的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Kurt watched the Pelicans fire their jets and scorch the grass. 库尔特看着鹈鹕运兵船点火，它们的喷焰把草烧焦。 来自互联网
• The Pelican Feeding Officers present an educational talk while feeding the pelicans. 那个正在喂鹈鹕的工作人员会边喂鹈鹕边给它上一节教育课。 来自互联网

16 miraculous   

adj.像奇迹一样的，不可思议的

参考例句：

• The wounded man made a miraculous recovery.伤员奇迹般地痊愈了。
• They won a miraculous victory over much stronger enemy.他们战胜了远比自己强大的敌人，赢得了非凡的胜利。

17 ecological   

adj.生态的，生态学的

参考例句：

• The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.这个地区已经宣布为生态灾难区。
• Each animal has its ecological niche.每种动物都有自己的生态位.

18 tightrope   

n.绷紧的绳索或钢丝

参考例句：

• The audience held their breath as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.杂技演员走钢丝时，观众都屏住了呼吸。
• The tightrope walker kept her balance by holding up an umbrella.走钢丝的演员举着一把伞，保持身体的均衡。

19 flick   

n.快速的轻打，轻打声，弹开；v.轻弹，轻轻拂去，忽然摇动

参考例句：

• He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
• By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下，将马头上的苍蝇驱走。

20 justify   

vt.证明…正当(或有理)，为…辩护

参考例句：

• He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
• Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗？

21 terse   

adj.(说话，文笔)精炼的，简明的

参考例句：

• Her reply about the matter was terse.她对此事的答复简明扼要。
• The president issued a terse statement denying the charges.总统发表了一份简短的声明，否认那些指控。