金融時報:不可思議的漂流

不可思議的漂流

《少年派》榮獲第85屆奧斯卡最佳視覺效果獎，F(xiàn)T專欄影評家Nigel Andrews認為，這是一部用詩意的創(chuàng)造力將“不可能被影像化的故事”展現(xiàn)出來的影片，一部能讓觀眾們重新回到童年的影片。

測試中可能遇到的詞匯和知識：

virtuosity [,v??t??'?s?t?] n.精湛技巧；對藝術(shù)品的愛好

Anno Digitale 數(shù)字年

Yann Martel 加拿大作家馬特爾，英語小說界重要獎項布克獎（Booker Prize）得主

diluvian[dai'lju:vj?n] adj.大洪水的

fusillade[,fju?z?'le?d] n./v.猛射；槍炮的齊射

bestiary['best??r?] n.動物寓言集

orang-utan[?:,ræ?u:'tæn] and hyena[ha?'i?n?] 猩猩，和鬣狗；

equine ['ikwa?n] n./adj.馬，馬的

tour de force 絕技；精心杰作

Davy Jones’s locker 深海閻王戴維瓊斯的鎖柜，即葬身海底的意思，戴維瓊斯的頭是個大章魚的形象

ensorcelling[in's?:s?l??] adj.著迷

Afloat on an ocean of possibilities (328 words)

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Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is an eye-boggling demonstration of the virtuosities available to the poetically inventive film-maker in 2012 AD (Anno Digitale). I kept thinking of the TV Superman series and its famous old voice intro. Is Lee’s film a fable? Is it an adventure? No, it’s a super-movie. Faster than a speeding ballet, leaping tall decades at a single bound, this action fantasy from Yann Martel’s 2001 Booker Prize-winning novel says a final goodbye to pre-digital, pre-diluvian 3D.

Every filmgoer will re-become a child as he/she watches the shipwrecked Indian boy (played by vivid newcomer Suraj Sharma) grapple with adversity – storms, sharks, a fusillade of flying fish – as he is cast away at sea accompanied by a tiger from his dad’s zoo-in-transit. The other human characters, including a blink-and-you-miss-him Gérard Depardieu as the ship’s cook, are swiftly dispatched to Davy Jones’s locker; we don’t need them.

Though the worst of Martel’s book survives along with the best – the arguments for God’s existence which bookend the screenplay would barely stand up in a kindergarten – the best occupies most of the screen time. The lifeboat’s initial bestiary includes a zebra, orang-utan and hyena (terrifying), all digitised in part or whole, all in our faces or at our throats whenever Lee commands and the 3D specs obey.

The digi-tiger is a dazzler, expert, seamless, all-expressive: a screen tour de force as captivating in its virtuosity as the puppeteered stage equine in War Horse. Lee and his team also conjure high seas and mighty squalls and, for contrast, a night of phosphorescent jellyfish glowing back at the moon and a sunrise seascape golden, mirror-placid, horizonless. Sometimes boat and boy seem suspended in a vacancy between transparent infinities. This is picture-book picture-making as ensorcelling as any we have seen since Powell’s The Thief of Baghdad, another tale of an Indian boy, a world of magic, and showdowns with the elemental.

請根據(jù)你所讀到的文章內(nèi)容，完成以下自測題目：

1.What does the writer tell us about 3D?

A. It is poetically inventive.

B. There's a pre-digital 3D, and a modern 3D.

C. It was first introduced in the TV Superman series.

D. None of above.

答案(1)

2."Every filmgoer will re-become a child", why?

A. Because the characters are mostly non-human.

B. Because the shipwrecked boy grapples with all kinds of adversity.

C. Because the Indian boy is vividly played by young Suraj Sharma.

D. Because of Gérard Depardieu, a blink-and-you-miss-him actor.

答案(2)

3."The worst of Martel’s book survives along with the best", what is the worst?

A. The arguments for God’s existence.

B. The terryifying hyena.

C. Human characters who are swiftly dispatched to Davy Jones’s locker.

答案(3)

4.About War Horse and The Thief of Baghdad, which of the following is correct?

A. The tiger in Life of Pi and the horse in War Horse are both digitally designed.

B. In War Horse, high seas and mighty squalls were conjured.

C. The Thief of Baghdad was another tale of an Indian boy, a world of magic.

答案(4)

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(1) 答案：D.None of above.

解釋：ABC都是不正確的。poetically inventive是用來形容film-maker李安的。作者說這部影片leaping tall decades，一舉告別了前數(shù)碼時代——也就是經(jīng)典的《超人》電視劇的那個時代，進入了3D時代。

(2) 答案：B.Because the shipwrecked boy grapples with all kinds of adversity.

解釋：這是第二段的原話。主人公不可思議的遭遇讓觀眾們仿佛回到了童話時代，與他的經(jīng)歷產(chǎn)生共鳴。

(3) 答案：A.The arguments for God’s existence.

解釋：作者認為，對于上帝是否存在的爭論是書中的敗筆，would barely stand up in a kindergarten.

(4) 答案：A.The tiger in Life of Pi and the horse in War Horse are both digitally designed.

解釋：小說家馬特爾在寫作就知道這是一個“不可能被影像化的故事”， 而《少年派》獲得奧斯卡最佳視覺特效獎可謂是眾望所歸，老虎、海浪、神秘島等等都是數(shù)字化制作。而戰(zhàn)馬中的馬是用stage equine真馬拍攝的。