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中国文化软实力现状和建议 杨飞101002079 生技2班和平与发展是当今世界的两大主题,世界各国正积极利用这一战略发展机遇期不断增强综合国力,提升政治、经济、文化等各领域的世界竞争力。我国自改革开放以来,国民经济取得了突飞猛进的发展,在此基础上交通运输、城市建设等重大基础性工程纷纷破土动工,国防武器装备更新换代,军队战斗力水平不断提升。国家各项“硬实力”发展水平较新中国成立之初有了质的飞跃。但是我国“软实力”建设长期以来受重视程度低,相对欧、美等发达国家而言起步较晚。20世纪90年代初美国学者约瑟夫?奈首先提出了“软实力”的概念,在西方学界引起了强烈的反响。2004年奈在他的着作《软力量——世界政坛成功之道》中对“软实力”作出了进一步规范,他提出“软力量是通过吸引而非强迫或收买的手段来达己所愿的能力。它源于一个国家的文化、政治观念和政策的吸引力。”文化是一个民族的灵魂,是一个国家的身份。我国是世界四大文明古国之一,拥有丰富的文化资源,在历史上曾经占据过重要地位,对世界产生过深远影响。由于受近代战乱所致,中国文化的自身实力和影响力一度跌至谷底。新时期,我们再度扬帆起航,依托先辈们留下的文化宝库,结合本国的发展,使文化软实力有了大步提升. 一时间,世界各国掀起了学习中国语言和文化的热潮,人们正热切地想通过各种方式深入地了解中国。我国文化“软实力”在这个过程中得到不断的提升和增强,对我国综合国力的发展起到了重要的推动作用。然而中国虽然拥有五千年灿烂文明和丰富的文化底蕴,但其文化“软实力”的发展还尚未达到应有的水平。因此我国虽是文化大国,但却不是文化强国. 虽然华夏五千年文明孕育出大量的文化结晶,如仁义礼智信的道德理念、琴棋书画的艺术才能，四大发明更是令世界为之惊叹。但事实的情况却是：人们渐渐记不起《道德经》,传统的文化节日受不到人们的重视。中国虽然拥有这么多优秀的文化成果,但却没有把这些文化资源转化为强有力的文化竞争力。 首先,人们对文化资源的重视不够。在国家大力主导经济发展的时候,人们对文化发展的注意
老：Get out of the van! 从车里出来！ Out ! 出来！ 递：Jesus Christ, man. Don’t shoot me. 天哪，老兄。不要开枪。 老：Step away. 离车远点。 Turn around. Put your hands on your head. 转过去，手抱头。 （飞：What the hell is going on? 到底发生了什么？） 老：Why and what are you doing here? 你为什么来这里？ 递：I’m delivering a package man. 我只是送快递而已。 I got a package for this guy, David. 我有个快递要送给戴维。 Detective... 警探 David Mills. 戴维?米尔斯 老：Get it. Slowly. 拿过来。慢一点。 （飞：He’s opening the back of van. 他正在打开火车的后备箱。 We’ve got him in sight. 我们瞄准他了。） 递：This guy paid me ﹩500 to bing it out here, man. 有人出500块让我把它带过来。 He said he wanted it here at exactly 7 o’clock. 他让我在7点钟准时送到。 老：Put it down. 放下来。 We got a box 我们有个盒子。 （飞：We got a box . Call the bomb squad. 有一个盒子，快找拆弹组。 Bomb squad . We got a box . 拆弹组，我们这有个盒子。） 老：Face the van. 面朝货车。 Hands up. 举起手来。 Turn around . 转过来。 Okay. Go. 好的，快走。 Off you go. Go . 快离开这里。快。 I’m sending the driver out on foot . 我让司机跑着离开了。 （飞：He’s headed north, along the road. 他沿着路往北跑了。） 老：Have him picked up . 找人去接他。 Oh, I don’t know . 我不知道。 I’m going to open it. 我要打开它了。 罪：When i said i admire you , i meant what i said . 我说过我很佩服你，我是说真的。——打开箱子—— 老：It’s blood . 是血。 罪：You’ve made quite a life for yourself, Detective. 你有着美满幸福的生活，警探。 You should be very proud. 你应该很自豪。 轻：Shut the fuck up , you piece of shit . 闭上你的狗嘴，混蛋。 老：California, stay away from here . 加州号，不要靠近。 Stay away from here , now . Don’t, don’t , don’t come in here . 离这里远点，不要过来，不要。
Journey to the Center of the Earth（地心游记）2008 There is a part of me that will always have affection for a movie like "Journey to the Center of the Earth." It is a small part and steadily shrinking, but once I put on the 3-D glasses and settled in my seat, it started perking up. This is a fairly bad movie, and yet at the same time maybe about as good as it could be. There may not be an 8-year-old alive who would not love it. If I had seen it when I was 8, I would have remembered it with deep affection for all these years, until I saw it again and realized how little I really knew at that age. You are already familiar with the premise, that there is another land inside of our globe. You are familiar because the Jules Verne novel has inspired more than a dozen movies and countless TV productions, including a series, and has been ripped off by such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, who called it Pellucidar, and imagined that the Earth was hollow and there was another world on the inside surface. (You didn't ask, but yes, I own a copy of Tarzan at the Earth's Core with the original dust jacket.) In this version, Brendan Fraser stars as a geologist named Trevor, who defends the memory of his late brother, Max, who believed the center of the Earth could be reached through "volcanic tubes." Max disappeared on a mysterious expedition, which, if it involved volcanic tubes, should have been no surprise to him. Now Trevor has been asked to spend some time with his nephew, Max's son, who is named Sean (Josh Hutcherson). What with one thing and another, wouldn't you know they find themselves in Iceland, and peering down a volcanic tube. They are joined in this enterprise by Hannah (Anita Briem), who they find living in Max's former research headquarters near the volcano he was investigating. Now begins a series of adventures, in which the operative principle is: No matter how frequently or how far they fall, they will land without injury. They fall very frequently, and very far. The first drop lands them at the bottom of a deep cave, from which they cannot possibly climb, but they remain remarkably optimistic: "There must be a way out of here!" Sure enough, they find an abandoned mine shaft and climb aboard three cars of its miniature railway for a scene that will make you swear the filmmakers must have seen "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." Just like in that movie, they hurtle down the tracks at breakneck speeds; they're in three cars, on three more or less parallel tracks, leading you to wonder why three parallel tracks were constructed at great expense and bother, but just when such questions are forming, they have to (1) leap a chasm, (2) jump from one car to another, and (3) crash. It's a funny thing about that little railway: After all these years, it still has lamps hanging over the rails, and the electricity is still on. The problem of lighting an unlit world is solved in the next cave they enter, which is inhabited by cute little birds that glow in the dark. One of them makes friends with Sean, and leads them on to the big attraction -- a world bounded by a great interior sea. This world must be a terrible place to inhabit; it has man-eating and man-strangling plants, its waters harbor giant-fanged fish and fearsome sea snakes that eat them, and on the further shore is a Tyrannosaurus rex. So do the characters despair? Would you despair, if you were trapped miles below the surface in a cave and being chased by its hungry inhabitants? Of course not. There isn't a moment in the movie when anyone seems frightened, not even during a fall straight down for thousands of feet, during which they link hands like sky-divers and carry on a conversation. Trevor gets the ball rolling: "We're still falling!" I mentioned 3-D glasses earlier in the review. Yes, the movie is available in 3-D in "selected theaters." Select those theaters to avoid. With a few exceptions (such as the authentic IMAX process), 3-D remains underwhelming to me -- a distraction, a disappointment and more often than not offering a dingy picture. I guess setting your story inside the Earth is one way to explain why it always seems to need more lighting. The movie is being shown in 2-D in most theaters, and that's how I wish I had seen it. Since there's that part of me with a certain weakness for movies like this, it's possible I would have liked it more. It would have looked brighter and clearer, and the photography wouldn't have been cluttered up with all the leaping and gnashing of teeth. Then I could have appreciated the work of the plucky actors, who do a lot of things right in this movie, of which the most heroic is keeping a straight face. 1
《英语影视赏析》课程教学大纲 （2003年制订，2006年修订） 课程编号：100190 英文名：English Movie Appreciation 课程类别：专业选修课 前置课：基础英语 后置课：无 学分：2学分 课时：34课时 主讲教师：李丽萍褚玉襄 选定教材：Andrew Lynn，英语电影赏析，北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2005年。 课程概述： 本课程针对英语专业高年级学生开设。主要目的是为了顺应我国当前政治经济形势发展的需要，满足大学生迫切需要通过电视、电影等媒体来直接了解世界各国的政治、经济、文化和社会发展动态的需要。通过涵养学生的影视艺术感觉，提高学生英语水平和影视艺术鉴赏的审美品位。 学习语言的过程很大程度上是文化习得的过程。语言只有放置于一定的文化背景和语言环境的情况下才有其意义，学生才能够将语言认知能力转化为语言运用能力，达到学习语言的能力。 教学目的： 通过对影视英语的分析与欣赏，让学生能够身入其境地了解影视中各种人物的对话，了解各国的风土人情、特有的文化背景、历史与现状、科学技术的发展、地理地貌等特点。本课程借助现代媒体手段，充分利用各种可能的途径，获得各种特点的素材和资料，在课堂上和学生一起分析其中所用语言和其使用的环境，尤其是英文经典和热门电影的赏析和解读帮助学生领略电影大师们特色各异的创作韵趣，进一步认识电影思维、电影语言的独特规律，并从欧美和中国不同民族和地域的社会文化背景深入了解作品的文化学内蕴，通过教师分段的各种提问与讲解，使学生能对影片的内容有个透彻的了解，从而能逐渐培养起他们独立欣赏原版片的习惯与能力。学生通过本课程的学习，可以提高自身通过听觉获取信息的能力，可以较为顺利地听懂有一定难度的英语电影、电视片段等，了解英语国家的人文特点，提高英语文化素养，能够在日常生活中灵活运用所学知识进行交流。
文化软实力视域下的中国传统文化文化力分析 中国传统文化与文化软实力 软实力的定义，软实力与软权力的关系。 文化软实力基本内涵本文强调文化软实力，更多的强调文化对外的影响力，对于文化的界定已然不是单纯的文化，而是国际政治、国际关系中的文化。首先对于文化的界定要明确、分析。奈指出,软力量的来源主要有三种:“文化(在能对他国产生吸引力的地方起作用)、政治价值观(当它在海内外都能真正实现这些价值时)及外交政策(当政策被视为合法性及道德威信时)”。o 1、文化、软实力、文化软实力、中国文化软实力的内在联系 2、（大国崛起、软实力、硬实力、巧实力）、物质性成长和社会性成长。 一、文化软实力战略分析（研究路径）从层次分析法的方法分析中国文化软实力 预设性和生成性问题 1、从国家层面 2、从地区层面 3、从国际层面，全球互动，全球文化 4、战略思维，大国社会性成长规律转变现实与理想两种思维。世界大国地位的 维持的四个方面。成长方式的哲学思维的转变 5、战略结构（权力结构的转变，权力以知识为基础和前提） 6、战略定位与决策（中国崛起应当是两手抓，两手都要硬。中国文化软实力的 提高不是投资、援助等。） 二、战略和战术的结合提升策略 1、现实与理论的方面 2、理论和现实意义 中国提升文化软实力的现实实践。 与现实意义（软实力的双重作用 选题意义 国际文化讲坛上流传着一句名言：19 世纪是靠军事改变世界，20 世纪是靠经济改变世界，21 世纪要靠文化改变世纪。“文化软实力的发展，作为人类关照世界的新视角、认识世界的新理念、改变世界的新方式而受到前所未有的关注。” ①当前，文化软实力成为一个世界核心概念已是不争事实，它作为国家综合国力的重要组成部分，是当前国际竞争的“制高点”“，文化复兴是实现强国梦的必备条件，没有强大的文化力量，就没有强大的综合国力”②。国际社会的竞争也反复证明：一个民族或国家在文化发展上占据了制高点，获得了强大的文化软实力，该民族或国家也就能在全球激烈的竞争中取得主动地位和明显优势。在我国，适应国际形势的发展变化，更是随着中国特色社会主义理论与实践研究的不断推进以及民族伟大复兴中国梦的觉醒，文化软实力成为学界研究的热点问题。本文基于许多学者的研究成果，试图对中国特色文化软实力发展中存在的问题及其路径作点粗浅的探讨 国际视域下文化软实力的生成性问题与路径依 中国传统文化与文化软实力 本文主要强调在国际视域下，中国优秀的文化传统资源如何转变为文化软实力。
院系：会计学院班级：财务管理（一）班姓名：赵文增学号：2010052133 Outline： The Truman Show 1. A Brief Account of Its Background 2.The Story 3.What’s Interesting: 3.1.We All Are Always Desperate For Freedom 3.2.Negative Influence From Media 3.3.Measures To Prevent Us Suffering From Media 4.Conclusion
1. A Brief Account of Its Background of The Truman Show The Truman Show was a black comedy directed by Peter Weir, who was born in Australia. The film is released on 1st June,1998,which is acted by Jim Carrey, a famous comedy actor who has been well-known for "The King of Hollywood comedy". 2. The Story of The Truman Show Truman is determined to spare no effort to get over varieties of obstacles set up by Christof, attempting to break away from the dictatorship of Christof after finding himself robbed of freedom,and makes it in the ultimate. 3. What’s Interesting 3.1. Truman,who has been in ignorance of living in a utopia over the span of his lifetime,in which Christof acts exactly like the god.What a folly it is!From my point of view,I perceive our life will be of no meaning when it is beyond our control and almost nobody would like to lead a lifestyle just like a soap opera as Truman’s because we all are always desperate for freedom. 3.2. With the economic globalization,mass media are playing a more and more significant role in every corner across the whole world.However,we are so bombarded with negativity that is important to be aware of the effect that the media has on us at the same time.For instance,there is a probability that citizen’s privacy may be exposed to outside,especially for public figures. 3.3. With so much negative influence from media,then are there any measures that we can adopt to avoid us suffering from media?In my opinion,the most important of all is that we ought to form the ability to distinguish between right and wrong amongst mass media instead of blindly accepting what we hear in the media. 4. Conclusion Notwithstanding that mass media benefit us a lot,we are supposed to make the most use of them rather than rely on them.
Seven(七宗罪)1995 David Fincher's classic tale of inventive serial killing and urban degredation, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman on excellent form Who'd have thought? An absurd-sounding tale of a serial killer basing his crimes around the seven deadly sins, directed by the man behind the mess that was Alien3, turning out to be one of the most chilling and original thrillers of the 1990s. From the outset, through the film's brilliantly designed deliberate under-lighting - we see very little blood and guts - and muffled sound, the audience is encouraged to lean towards the screen, immerse itself in the film's unbearably grim world. Pitt is in career-making form as Mills, a simple cop moving with his sweet young wife (Paltrow) to a grim, anonymous city, determined to make a difference, to do some good. He is assigned to track down a vengeful killer, and works alongside Somerset (Freeman), a jaded, wise policeman on the verge of retirement. The two are that modern movie cliché -the mismatched pair thrown together by circumstance, who gradually learn mutual respect. But Fincher and Walker take these hackneyed ingredients, play with them in the context of a brilliantly cohesive plot, and present something consistently fresh - the police finding themselves with too much evidence, the premature unmasking of the killer - and very, very dark. 1
经典英文电影台词100句 美国电影学会于近日评选出了美国电影中的一百句最佳台词，《乱世佳人》的克拉克·盖博口中的“坦白说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎”荣膺榜首。评选结果的影片涵盖面十分广泛，最早的可以追溯到1927 年的第一步有声片《爵士歌手》，最近的则是2002年的《指环王之双塔骑兵》。其中《乱世佳人》、《卡萨布兰卡》、《绿野仙踪》等经典老片在榜上占据了不止一席之位，而《卡萨布兰卡》凭借6句经典台词居首位。美国电影学会总监费斯登堡认为，这些经典的电影台词已经成为了美国语言文化的一个组成部分，评选的目的是为了重新激起人们对美国经典电影的热情。 1，Frankly，my dear，I don＇t give a damn. 坦白说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎。（《乱世佳人》1939） 2，I＇m going to make him an offer he can＇t refuse. 我会给他点好处，他无法拒绝。（《教父》1972） 3，You don＇t understand！Icoulda had class.I coulda been a contender.I could＇ve been somebody，instead of a bum，which is what I am. 你根本不能明白！我本可以获得社会地位，我本可以是个竞争者，我本可以是任何有头有脸的人而不是一个毫无价值的游民！（《码头风云》1954） 4，Toto，I＇ve got a feeling we＇re not in Kansas anymore. 托托，我想我们再也回不去堪萨斯了。（《绿野仙踪》1939） 5，Here＇s looking at you，kid. 就看你的了，孩子。（《卡萨布兰卡》1942） 6，Go ahead，make my day. 来吧，让我也高兴高兴。（《拨云见日》1983） 7，All right，Mr.DeMille，I＇m ready for my close－up. 好了，德米勒先生，我已经准备好拍摄我的特写镜头了。（《日落大道》1950） 8，May the Force be with you. 愿原力与你同在。（《星球大战》1977） 9，Fasten your seatbelts. It＇s going to be a bumpy night. 系紧你的安全带，这将是一个颠簸的夜晚。（《彗星美人》1950）
Review of the Wreck-it Ralth Compared with the movies we have seen this semester，Wreck it Ralth is my favorite.It is the work of the Disney.we had a lot of fun in this film as well as moving. For this film, I want to write lots and lots, but feel my lack of language. Watched this movie ,Ithink that many people will have the feeling of fondly remembering. Exactly said, I am not a game fan, but it still aroused the memories of my childhood ,the street machine that in childhood played..In addition,I have never played Super Mario and PAC-man, and other classic games of figures I have just seen.But that's it, I still love this movie because it has put us in a game which always appears in a dream world. Therefore the angle of view of this movie gives people the fresh feeling At the beginning ,we all know that ralph is a good man but play a bad role.according to this,the story begins.In the hero duty,we knew the ralph's weakness.Fortunately，he overcomed his weakness and gain a sincere friendship. At the end of the film ,Ralth destroies the king with his huge fist,When he used the stone from the top of the volcano hit Coke fountain. his destruction has reached an extreme. And I am looking forward to this destruction, and adored this destruction,And my heart silently said: to make it ! Very humorous scene of the film, no matter how hard Felix tried,it only makethe Iron Prison firmer, and Ralth had become a savior. When your heart is full of love, the damage is also with personal happiness. The film is told in the usual frame of thinking, we have hidden things we can not see, such as the identity of the person,
中国特色社会主义理论 与实践研究课程论文 题目谈中国文化软实力及其作用 学院动物科学学院 专业水产养殖 年级2012级 学号21217059 姓名彭超 任课老师潘于旭 成绩_____________________ 2012 年10 月31 日
浅谈中国文化软实力及其作用 彭超 浙江大学动物科学学院，杭州 310000 摘要：当今中国的主导文化是中国特色社会主义文化,在主导文化基础上形成的文化软实力就是中国特色社会主义文化软实力。社会主义核心价值观是中国特色社会主义文化软实力的核心,较强的普世性、后发性、开放融合性、和谐共赢性是中国特色社会主义文化软实力的基本特征。中国特色社会主义文化软实力具有诸多的表现形式,我们应立足社会主义初级阶段的基本国情,进一步建构中国特色社会主义软实力体系。 关键词：文化文化软实力社会主义核心价值体系 文化软实力是一个国家的文化表现出来的影响力、凝聚力和吸引力，对国家综合国力有着举足轻重的作用。胡锦涛同志在党的十七大报告中指出：“当今社会，文化慢慢成为整个民族的凝聚力及创造力的重要源泉、越来越成为整个综合国力相互竞争的一项重要的指标，让精神文化生活丰富起来越来越变成人们的热切愿望，需要坚持以社会主义先进文化为前进的方向，兴起社会主义文化建设新高潮，鼓励整个民族文化创造活力，综合提高国家文化的软实力。”[1]可见文化不仅是一个民族的灵魂和精神，文化中所蕴含的文化软实力还是整个国家快速发展和民族振兴的强大动力。要了解文化软实力，我们先要了解文化的内涵。 1 “文化”的内涵与分类 什么是“文化”？到目前为止已经有多达500多种的定义。各学科对于文化都有不同的定义,现在只列举三个影响较为广泛的定义。 第一个给“文化”下明确定义的是英国人类学家泰勒,他认为“文化”是“一个复杂的总体,它包括知识、信仰、艺术、伦理道德、法律、风俗以及作为一个社会成员的个人通过学习获得的任何其他能力和习惯”。社会学家在“文化”的定义方面与人类学家比较相近,美国社会学家戴维·波普诺在分析文化定义时认为,文化是人类群体或社会的共享成果,这些共有产物不仅包括价值观、语言、知识而且包括物质对象。语言学家所给出的定义是:“文化的含义有广义和狭义之分。广义的文化是指人类的一切精神和实践活动的总和,包括人类世代所共享的物质财富和非物质财富。狭义的文化则是使用特种语言表达思想的某一社会群体的独特生活方式及其表达形式。”[2] H. H. Stern根据文化的结构和范畴把文化分为广义和狭义两种概念。广义的文化指的是人类在社会历史发展过程中所创造的物质和精神财富的总和,它包括物质文化、制度文化和心理文化三个方面。物质文化是指人类创造的种种物质文明,包括交通工具、服饰、日常用品,等等,是一种可见的显性文化;制度文化和心理文化指生活制度、家庭制度、社会制度以及思维方式、宗教信仰、审美情趣,它们属于不可见的隐性文化,包括文学、哲学、政治等方面内容。狭义的文化是指人们普遍的社会习惯,如衣食住行、风俗习惯、生活方式、行为规范等等[3]。 Hammerly把文化分为信息文化、行为文化和成就文化。信息文化指本族一般受教育语者所掌握的关于社会、地理、历史等知识;行为文化指人的生活方式、实际行为、态度、价值
经典爱情电影：最感人的台词赏析 Love means never having to say you're sorrry. 爱就是永远不必说对不起。(《爱情故事》) Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.You never know what you're gonna get. 妈妈说生活就像一盒巧克力，你永远都不知道你会得到什么。(《阿甘正传》) There is no crying in baseball. 在棒球运动中没有哭泣！(《红粉联盟》) A boy's best friend is his mother. 一个男孩最好的朋友是他的母亲。(《惊魂记》) Keep your friends close,but your enemies closer. 亲近你的朋友，但更要亲近你的敌人。(《教父》) Listen to them.Children of the night.What music they make. 快点来听!黑夜中孩子的声音是他们缔造的美妙音乐。(《吸血鬼》) Frankly,my dear, I don't give a damn. 坦白的说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎。(《乱世佳人》) I'm goig to make him an offer he can't refuse. 我会给他点好处，他无法拒绝。(《教父》) Here's looking at you,kid. 就看你的了，孩子。(《卡撒布兰卡>) Go ahead, make my day. 来吧，让我也高兴高兴。(《拨云见日》) There's no place like home.
Tess(苔丝)1979 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which Roman Polanski has turned into a lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate movie, might at first seem to be the wrong project for Mr. Polanski in every way. As a new biography of the director reports, when Tess was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the press pointed nastily and repeatedly to the coincidence of Mr. Polanski's having made a film about a young girl's seduction by an older man, while he himself faced criminal charges for a similar offense. This would certainly seem to cast a pall over the project. So would the fact that Hardy's novel is so very deeply rooted in English landscapes, geographical and sociological, while Mr. Polanski was brought up in Poland. Finally, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is so quintessentially Victorian a story that a believable version might seem well out of any contemporary director's reach. But if an elegant, plausible, affecting Tess sounds like more than might have been expected of Mr. Polanski, let's just say he has achieved the impossible. In fact, in the process of adapting his style to suit such a sweeping and vivid novel, he has achieved something very unlike his other work. Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean. In a preface to the later editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Mr. Hardy described the work as "an impression, not an argument." Mr. Polanski has taken a similar approach, removing the sting from both the story's morality and its melodrama. Tess Durbeyfield, the hearty country lass whose downfall begins when her father learns he had noble forebears, is sent to charm her rich D'Urberville relations. She learns that they aren't D'Urbervilles after all; instead, they have used their new money to purchase an old name. Tess charms them anyhow, so much that Alec D'Urberville, her imposter cousin, seduces and impregnates her. The seduction, like many of the film's key scenes, is presented in a manner both earthy and discreet. In this case, the action is set in a forest, where a gentle mist arises from the ground and envelops Tess just around the time when she is enveloped by Alec. Alec, as played by Leigh Lawson, is a slightly wooden character, unlike Angel Clare, Tess's later and truer lover, played with supreme radiance by Peter Firth. Long after Tess has borne and buried her illegitimate child, she finds and falls in love with this spirited soul mate. But when she marries Angel Clare and is at last ready to reveal the secret of her past, the story begins hurtling toward its final tragedy. When Tess becomes a murderer, the film offers its one distinctly Polanski-like moment—but even that scene has its fidelity to the novel. A housemaid listening at a door hears a "drip, drip, drip" sound, according to Hardy. Mr. Polanski has simply interpreted this with a typically mischievous flourish. Of all the unlikely strong points of Tess, which opens today for a weeklong engagement at the Baronet and which will reopen next year, the unlikeliest is Nastassja Kinski, who plays the title role. Miss Kinski powerfully resembles the young Ingrid Bergman, and she is altogether ravishing. But she's an odd choice for Tess: not quite vigorous enough, and maybe even too beautiful. She's an actress who can lose her magnetism and mystery if she's given a great deal to do (that was the case in an earlier film called Stay As You Are). But here, Mr. Polanski makes perfect use of her. Instead of a driving force, she becomes an echo of the land and the society around her, more passive than Hardy's Tess but linked just as unmistakably with natural forces. Miss Kinski's Tess has no inner life to speak of. But Mr. Polanski makes her surroundings so expressive that her placidity and reserve work very beautifully. Even at its nearly three-hour running time, Mr. Polanski's Tess cannot hope for anything approaching the range of the novel. But the deletions have been made wisely, and though the story loses some of its resonance it maintains its momentum. There are episodes—like one involving Tess's shabby boots and Mercy Chant, the more respectable girl who expects to marry Angel—that don't make the sense they should, and the action is fragmented at times. That's a small price to pay for the movie's essential rightness, for its congruence with the mood and manner of the novel. Mr. Polanski had to go to Normandy and rebuild Stonehenge to stage his last scene, according to this same biography. As is the case throughout his Tess, the results were worth the trouble. 1