欧美人文风情第84篇:教授告诉你什么是好电影

 Thanks to the American Film Institute for, ever since 1966, 1967 creating this place where talented and gifted young people, and not so young people, 感谢美国电影学会，自1966、1967年设立这个地方让有才华、有天份的年轻人、以及不那么年轻的人，

can come to learn the tools that they can use in order to help us see better films. 得以前来学习他们能够用以帮助我们看到更好电影的工具。

Hollywood may not welcome you, but Hollywood needs you. 好莱坞也许不会欢迎你，但好莱坞需要你。

And I'm looking forward to reviewing your films. 而我期待评审你们的电影。

In this group of people here, our filmmakers who will make Academy Award-winning films, 在这里这群人中，我们那些会做出得奥斯卡奖电影的制作人、

filmmakers whose films we will remember a thousand years from now, a thousand, 那些电影会在距今一千年后、一千年，仍让我们无法忘怀的制作人，

think if we could see any film at all, even a five-minute camera on the street from the year 1000, 他们认为如果我们可以看到任何影片，甚至是第一千年时看到一段五分钟长的街头监视器影片，

and this last century that we went through was the first century that is recorded on film for people to see as long as there are people who want to see them, 还有我们所走过的上个世纪，是第一个只要有人们想看，就能用影片记录下来给他们观赏的世纪，

so...you'll be recording¹ your times and our times after all of us are gone. 所以...如果这样的话，在我们全都走了之后，你们就会记录你们的时代和我们的时代。

And the motion picture is the most important art form ever devised by the human race. 电影是人类所曾发明出最重要的艺术形式。

That's because it is the art form that creates more empathy than every other and than any other. 那是因为这这是比起所有其他以及任何其他形式都能产生更多同理心的艺术形式。

It creates our ability to step out of our own shoes. 它建立我们跳出自身窠臼的能力。

One of the marks of civilization is to be able to somehow step outside your own mind and your own experience, 文明的影响之一就是，能够用某种方式去跨出你自己的想法和你自己的经验，

and understand what it is like to be a person of another race, another age, another gender², another nationality, 去了解身为一个不同种族、不同年纪、不同性别、不同国籍的人是什么样子，

to have physical capabilities³, to have different beliefs. 去有实质能力、有不同的信仰是什么样子。

And when I go to the movies, for two hours at least, I have an out-of-body experience. 当我去看电影，至少有两个小时，我都有灵魂出窍的体验。

The movie is working for me to some degree I'm that person on the screen. 电影对我来说在某种程度上让我觉得我是荧幕上的人。

I forget my social security number. I don't know where I parked the car. 我忘记我的社会安全号码。我不知道我把车停哪。

I'm having vicariously an experience that happened to someone else. 我正感同身受般地拥有发生在其它人身上的经历。

And that makes me a better person or can make me a better person. 那让我变成一个更好的人，或是可以让我变成一个更好的人。

And I sincerely believe that to see good films and to see important films is one of the most profoundly⁴ civilized⁵ experiences that we can have as people; 我由衷地相信欣赏好电影以及欣赏重要的电影是我们身为人类所能拥有最深入的文明化体验之一；

that when we go to the theater and empathize with those people who are not ourselves, 当我们去电影院并移情于那些不是我们自己的人们时，

it makes us better people, more broad-minded, more able to understand what's right with the world and what's wrong with the world. 这让我们变成更好的人、心胸更宽阔、更能了解世界上的是非对错。

Now there're also films that are unworthy. There're films that are merely entertaining, 也有些不值得一看的电影。有那些仅仅是娱乐性的电影，

I mean, I'm the guy who gave thumbs-up to The Day After Tomorrow. I love the tidal wave, right? 我是说，我是那个给《明天过后》一个赞的人。我好爱那个海啸，对吧？

I mean, if you wanna see a Russian tanker⁶ floating down fifth avenue, you've got to go see that film. I mean that's... 我是说，如果你想要看一艘俄罗斯的油轮漂过第五大道，你得去看看那部电影。我是说那是...

On the other hand, when I saw Monster, which is made by a graduate of this institution, 另一方面，当我看到《女魔头》，这是由这个学院的一位毕业生所制作的，

I was so profoundly moved that I told Richard Roeper who loved it also, 我深深地受到感动，因此我告诉同样也喜爱这部电影的Richard Roeper ：

"We have to do this not a week early, not two weeks early. “我们必须不只在一周前、不只在两周前做这件事，

We have to review this three weeks early to get the word out there because this is the movie." 我们得在三周前写这部片的影评，让消息散布出去，因为这是真正好电影。”

These small films, like this, these independent films get lost. 这些小制作电影，像这种，这些独立制作电影都被漠视了。

They have to compete against sixty million-dollar advertising⁷ campaigns, 他们必须跟六百万美金的广告宣传活动竞争，

and the word has to get out of there. This is important. 电影消息必须要推广出去。这很重要。

And I believed today, as I said, that Charlize Theron in that film is one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema. 今日我相信，如同我所说的，那部电影中的莎莉赛隆是影史上最杰出的表演之一。

But in a way, it's misfortune⁸ that her performance was so great that it drew attention away from Patty Jenkins's achievement as the director. 但某一方面来说，很不幸的是她的表现是如此优异，以致于它把注意力从Patty Jenkin身为导演的成就上给转移开了。

Because that was a great film. 因为那是部优秀的电影。

And for her, to be able to put her mind and her imagination into the life of this person, who had been casted away by the society, 对她来说，能够将她的想法和她的想像力注入到这个人的生活中，她被社会抛弃，

Aileen Wuornos, and to see what her life had been like and what made her that person who committed those murders; Aileen Wuornos，能够看看她的人生是什么样子以及是什么让她成为犯下那些谋杀案的人；

that person whose society rejected and whose social workers never came into contact with. 那个她的社会拒斥、她的社工从未联系的人。

That person represents many people in our society who have not enjoyed the benefits that they should have in this world that we live in. 这个人代表我们社会上的许多人，他们在我们所生活的世界中没有享受过他们应得的利益。

And so they call her America's first serial⁹ killer¹⁰ as if she belongs in that Guinness Book of World Records isn't enough, 所以他们称她为美国第一个连续杀人魔，好像她名列金氏世界纪录名册上还不够似的，

we have to try to find out who that person was. 我们得试着找出那个人是谁。

And that film helped me to find out who that person was, and where she came from, 而那部电影帮助我去了解那个人是谁、她从哪里来，

and how in a way our society helped her hold the gun that committed those murders. 以及我们的社会用什么方式助长她举起犯下那些谋杀的枪。

So that's what a great film can do, and that's what Patty Jenkins did and that's what Charlize Theron did. 那是一部伟大的电影所能做的事，那是Patty Jenkins所做的事，那是莎莉赛隆所做的事。

That's what many other people behind me have done with their films. 那是我身后许多人用他们的电影已经完成了的事。

And that's what you guys are gonna go do, and I can't wait to see you do it. Thank you. 而那也是你们所要去做的事，我迫不及待要看到你们去做。谢谢。

 

1 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

2 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

3 capabilities   

n.能力( capability的名词复数 )；可能；容量；[复数]潜在能力

参考例句：

• He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大，自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
• Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为，标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

4 profoundly   

ad.深深地

参考例句：

• We are profoundly affected by what happens to us in childhood. 童年发生的事深深地影响着我们。
• It disturbs me profoundly that you so misuse your talents. 你如此滥用自己的才能，使我深感不安。

5 civilized   

a.有教养的，文雅的

参考例句：

• Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
• rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为

6 tanker   

n.油轮

参考例句：

• The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
• Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。

7 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

8 misfortune   

n.不幸，厄运，逆境，不幸事故，灾难

参考例句：

• It is said to be an omen of misfortune.那被认为是一种不幸的先兆。
• She had the misfortune to break her leg.她不幸摔断了腿。

9 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

10 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。