《The Last King of Scotland》　末代獨裁　一部男人不可錯過的電影

No.079　《The Last King of Scotland》　末代獨裁　一部男人不可錯過的電影

英文導(dǎo)讀

The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 British drama film based on Giles Foden's novel of the same name, adapted by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock, and directed by Kevin MacDonald. The film was a co-production between companies from the United Kingdom and the United States, including Fox Searchlight Pictures and Film4.

The Last King of Scotland tells the fictional story of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a young Scottish doctor who travels to Uganda and becomes the personal physician to the dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery—and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.

The film is based on factual events of Amin's rule and the title comes from a reporter in a press conference who wishes to verify whether Amin declared himself the King of Scotland. Amin was known to invent and adopt fancy imperial titles for himself.

The Last King of Scotland received a limited release in the United States on 27 September 2006, with a UK release on 12 January 2007, a French release on 14 February 2007 and a German release on 15 March 2007. In the United States and Canada, the film earned $17,606,684 at the box office. In the United Kingdom, the film took$11,131,918. Its combined worldwide gross was$48,362,207.

The movie currently holds a "fresh" 87% on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Whitaker's performance was dubbed as the best foreign male actor performance at the Egyptian International film festival in 2007.

Whitaker received outstanding critical acclaim for his performance as dictator Idi Amin in the film. He won the Best Leading Actor award at the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors' Guild and the BAFTAs, in addition to awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics' Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics' Association, the National Board of Review and many other critics awards, for a total of at least 23 major awards, with at least one more nomination. The film was received well in Uganda, where it premiered two days before Whitaker won the Best Actor Academy Award.

The film received a 2007 BAFTA Award for Best British Film and the BAFTA award for Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to receiving nominations for Best Film. James McAvoy was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

獲獎情況

2007年第79屆奧斯卡：最佳男主角獎。

影片信息

導(dǎo)演：凱文·麥克唐納

編?。浩ぬ?middot;摩根、杰瑞米·布魯克

主演：福里斯特·惠特克、詹姆斯·麥卡沃伊、凱莉·華盛頓、吉莉·安德森

類型：劇情、傳記、歷史

制片國家（地區(qū)）：英國

上映日期：2007-01-12（英國）

片長：121分鐘、123分鐘（美國）

又名：《最后的蘇格蘭王》《蘇格蘭最后的國王》

劇情簡介

尼古拉斯·哥瑞肯（詹姆斯·麥卡沃伊　飾）是一位著名的醫(yī)師。1971年，為了逃避教會長老家庭給他帶來的極大的工作壓力，尼古拉斯·哥瑞肯來到了烏干達，并加入了醫(yī)學(xué)會。這個醫(yī)學(xué)會是由當(dāng)?shù)匾晃缓眯牡尼t(yī)生與他的妻子莎拉（吉莉·安德森飾）一起主辦的。尼古拉斯·哥瑞被美麗的莎拉深深地吸引。

在一次集會上，尼古拉斯·哥瑞肯偶然結(jié)識了烏干達新總統(tǒng)安迪·艾明（福里斯特·惠特克飾），安迪·艾明經(jīng)常傳召尼古拉斯·哥瑞肯和莎拉，所以，他們在醫(yī)學(xué)會上的時間便越來越少。

安迪有意與尼古拉斯·哥瑞肯親近，想通過他了解蘇格蘭的一切他感興趣的事物，安迪的野心就是有一天，成為蘇格蘭的國王。后來，安迪以總統(tǒng)御用醫(yī)生的身份把尼古拉斯·哥瑞肯留在身邊。最初，尼古拉斯·哥瑞肯拒絕了他的要求，但是后來，哥瑞肯發(fā)現(xiàn)，他除了待在這里之外，再無其他選擇。這里的奢侈生活，并沒有讓尼古拉斯感到快樂，他甚至感到很寂寞。只是，安迪的言論和對烏干達宏偉的建設(shè)計劃讓尼古拉斯覺得安迪是個好總統(tǒng)，兩人成為至交。

但是，一切并不像尼古拉斯·哥瑞肯看到的那么簡單，他根本不知道安迪實際上是一個殘暴的君主，他的野心很大，對人民也是進行殘暴的統(tǒng)治。尼古拉斯開始意識到自己曾多次被利用，還曾參與處死了安迪的一位妻子（凱莉·華盛頓　飾）。

這個時候，他想離開這里，竟恍然發(fā)現(xiàn)護照已經(jīng)被安迪沒收?，F(xiàn)在的他，就是生活在一個金籠子里，沒有自由，一切都掌握在安迪手中……

制作花絮

影片是編劇皮特·摩根和杰瑞米·布魯克根據(jù)的吉利斯·福登的同名小說改編而來。

編劇杰瑞米·布魯克不僅是出色的編劇，也是出色的導(dǎo)演，曾執(zhí)導(dǎo)過英國愛情喜劇《駕駛課》。

吉莉·安德森（飾演好心醫(yī)生的妻子莎拉）說一口標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的倫敦音，頗受歡迎。

由于影片根據(jù)同名小說改編，所以故事情節(jié)十分吸引人，但也正因為如此，使影片虛構(gòu)成分太多，脫離了真實的生活背景，給觀眾的影響力便減小了許多。

影片拍攝地主要在烏干達，在攝影師與設(shè)計師的共同努力下，成功地再現(xiàn)了烏干達30年前的情景。

重點學(xué)習(xí)

The newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante

我們都知道，文中的hand是“手”的意思，pick是“挑選”的意思，所以hand pick可以理解為“親自挑選”，另外，還有一個詞是handpick，該詞有“親自挑選”的意思，比如：You can handpick your assistants.（你可以自己選擇你需要的幫手。）

In addition to awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association

文中的in addition to是英語中的一個固定搭配，它是“除…以外，除…之外還”的意思，比如：In addition to this direct competition there are smaller foes, too.（除了這些直接的競爭外，還有一些小的競爭對手。）

單詞時間

dictator[dik?teit?] n. 獨裁者；命令者

self-appointed[?self??p?intid] adj. 自封的；自己做主的

flatter[?flæt?] vt. 奉承；諂媚；使高興

awaken[??weik?n] vi. 覺醒；醒來；意識到

savagery[?sævid?ri] n. 野性；野蠻人；原始狀態(tài)

complicity[k?m?plis?ti] n. 共謀；串通；共犯關(guān)系

betrayal[bi?trei?l] n. 背叛；辜負；暴露

factual[?fækt?u?l] adj. 事實的；真實的

verify[?verifai] vt. 核實；查證

fancy[?fænsi] adj. 想象的；奇特的；昂貴的；精選的

dub[d?b] vt. [電影]配音；輕點；打擊；授予稱號