影视教育/MOV IEL ITERATURE
2010年第16期
英文电影赏析
在大学英语教学中的作用
■李 曦(重庆科技学院,
重庆 401331)
[摘 要] 随着教育现代化的发展,在多媒体教学环境下的今天,如何有效地提高大学生英语听说能力和培养大
学生跨文化交际能力已成为广大英语教师面临的一个重大课题。而英文电影作为一种直观、形象、生动的方式越
来越受到学生们的青睐。本文通过英文电影赏析课程的优越性来阐明它在英语学习中的重要作用。[关键词] 英文电影赏析;跨文化交际;英语视听说 随着英语教学课堂模式的不断转变和多媒体课堂教学的不断普及,使得在大学开设英文电影赏析课程成为可能。电影诞生已有百余年的历史,在它的成长过程中,文学、戏剧、音乐、美术、摄影等艺术形式为其提供了丰富的营养,使其有力地影响着人们的精神和生活。[1]
而英文电影赏析课程通过一场视觉、听觉的盛宴激发学生学习英语的动机,当学生在欣赏一部优秀的英文电影,感受电影艺术所带来的愉悦的同时,他们开拓了眼界,增长了见识,同时也了解到了异国的文化习俗和风土人情。
在经典电影《泰坦尼克号》播出后,其中的台词“You ju mp,I ju mp ”一夜之间成了时尚,甚至没学过英语的人也会说。在看过《功夫熊猫》后,很多学生都知道“师父”———master 这一词。通过《变形金刚》我们了解了美国人汽车文化的情结。电影对人们学习英语语言、文化所起的促进作用可见一斑。在教学中,恰当有效地运用英文原声电影进行英语教学是一个非常有效的辅助教学方法。通过这种新的教学方式,使学生有身临其境的感觉,充分调动学生视听说的积极性,同时也为教师的教学提供广阔的空间,提高学生的英语听说能力和跨文化交际能力。
一、英文电影带给学生的跨文化启示
所谓跨文化交际,即不同文化背景的人走到一起分享思想、感情和信息时所发生的一切。对一个英语非母语的学习者而言,要想能够熟练地运用英语,就要了解英语国家的文化。有时候由于文化的差异,会导致语言的说法完全相反,从而引起交流的误解。所以很好地了解英语国家
的文化是非常有必要的。学好外语就是掌握“听、说、读、写”四种技能和文化系统,我们应该试着让学生使用语言。但是为了用适当的形式说,学习者应该了解一些英语国家文化背景知识。而开设英文电影欣赏课程,让学生在娱乐中学习文化是种不错的方式。
每一部英文电影都有它一定的文化背景。当学生们观看电影《飘》,他们能够了解到美国南北战争,他们也能够理解美国历史中重要的奴隶制背景。在电影《真爱至上》中,学生可以获知文化习俗,例如与中国传统七夕节不一
样的节日“Valentines πDay ”以及“Christ m as ”。看过电影《勇敢的心》,学生就可以领略原声音乐风笛与呢绒格子裙的魅力,而这些早已成为苏格兰民族的象征。这些都很好地弥补了非英语专业学生对英美文化概况缺乏了解的缺陷。
我们都知道西方国家的文化基本上是一种基督教文化。在西方,家喻户晓的《圣经》对其整个文化产生了极为深远的影响。有些英文电影中就透露出宗教对心灵的影响,有些则探讨宗教衍生出的伦理价值观念。影片《骇客帝国》就是一个基督教寓言。这个寓言的核心角色是尼奥。他的
一生是按照耶稣基督设计的。像耶稣一样,尼奥被选定为人类的救世主。像耶稣一样,尼奥必须做出巨大的牺
牲———牺牲自己的生命———来换取其他人的幸福。[2]
此外,
和耶稣一样,尼奥被杀了,但是又复活了,复活以后他有了坚不可摧的不朽身体。这些都体现了基督教的宗教文化。在影片《红字》中可以了解到宗教和人们的生活息息相关,如A rthur:I n the name of the Father,and the Son and the Holy
Ghost,May the Lord,bless thee and care for thee,and watch over thee,Amen (以圣父、圣子、圣灵之名,愿上帝保佑
你,爱护你,与你同在,阿门),这些话都源于《圣经》。宗教对语言起到潜移默化的影响,在影片中我们可以对更多跨文化的东西加以品味。
看英文电影还可以促进学生了解英语国家非语言活动在交际中的作用。人们交际的完整过程是由非语言交际与语言交际共同形成的。非语言交际是体现非语言行为的过程,它在特定的场合或语境中或独自出现、或与语言行为
同时发生,以表达自己的思想或领会别人的意图。[3]
非语言
交际的手段有很多种形式,包括身体动作、表情等因素。这些因素教师课堂上是无法充分展现的,因此可以借助电影,让学生了解非语言活动在交际中的意义和作用。例如,在很多英文影片中英语国家的夫妻在分别和久别重逢时,习惯在大庭广众之中或其家中亲吻或拥抱。在中国人眼中,这种举动则不能接受。在影片中我们常看到如果西方人想
表示“我不知道”“我有什么办法呢”的时候他们常常耸肩,表现为皱动前额,抬眉耸肩,双肘弯曲,双掌向上摊开,甚至还微曲双腿,这是英语国家和许多西方国家常见
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的身体动作表示。而中国人表示上述含义时,习惯动作是摇头或摆手。
二、英文电影能提高学生的听力能力
随着中国入世和全球一体化的进程加速,社会对人们的英语交流能力要求越来越高。2004年教育部颁发的《大学英语课程教学要求(试行)》对外语教学提出的新要求:“大学英语的教学目标是培养学生英语综合应用能力,特别是听说能力。使他们在今后工作和社会交往中能用英语有效地进行口头和书面的信息交流。”随着计算机等现代化信息设备的引进,为改进听力的课堂教学提供了充分的硬件。通过计算机,教师可以迅速提供视觉形象,丰富视觉直观内容,创造仿真情景,做到声情并茂。这一切使得听力教学在选材上有了广泛的空间。而选材的第一个要求是听力材料应当使学生感兴趣。兴趣是最好的老师。只有感兴趣,学生才会投入时间及注意力将它学好。而英文电影正具备了这个特点。教师可以在利用英文电影参与听力教学中做有计划、有步骤、有目的的尝试。
利用英文电影进行听力教学,会使教学内容更加丰富有趣,信息量更大,更流畅,尤其采用图、文、声、像等多媒体立体语言教学,使材料具有形象化、多样化、生动化的特点,可激发学生的兴趣,唤起好奇心,听力训练才有可能顺利有效地进行,并达到最佳效果。英文电影语言真实地道,能反映英语国家的真实语言使用情况,更能使学生掌握地道的语言知识,使学生在交际中减少语言文化障碍。
英文电影用于听力教学可以改善听的氛围。电影集图像、声音为一体,可以充分调动学生的视觉与听觉。其丰富的内容、直观的动作形象、曲折动人的情节可激发学生的兴趣,从而引发学生想听的强烈愿望,为学生自然主动
地营造了良好的氛围和环境。[4]
在听的过程中,学生就能够集中思想,利用所学过的知识和现实的非语言手段进行思考、假设、猜测意义、预测情节的发展,从而理解说话者语言表达的意义并吸收信息。通过情景来帮助理解和判断,可以满足学生的成就感,提高学习热情,使听不再是一种负担,而是一种自然的习惯和享受。在享受中提高了英语听的能力。
三、英文电影能使学生掌握
地道的英语口语表达方式,提高说的能力
英文原版电影呈现的是标准的语音。跟中国的电视剧或电影一样,除非有剧情的需要,大部分英文原版电影的主要角色讲的英语应该都是比较标准的。在观看英文原版电影的过程中,观众可以亲身体验地道的英语发音。
通过观看英语原版电影还可以学到地道的句型和词汇。英文电影中的语言是最生活化的语言。在跟本土人进行语言交流时,有些词的出现频率非常高,可学英语的人却不懂他们想表达什么意思。以《老友记》为例,“There you go .”或“Here you go .”这些句型的出现非常普遍,在跟讲英语的人交流时也总会碰到,学生碰到这些句型时的第一反应就是把它翻译成中文,但是好像又没有确切的汉语
意思,其实这两个句子的意思多可以在具体的语境中去体
会,大部分都表示“事情就这样了”这个意思。[6]
再比如说,当我们在听《僵尸新娘》中的以下这段对白,我们可以学到西方婚礼上新郎新娘说的结婚誓言。V ict or:W ith this hand,Iwill lift your s orr ows .Your cup will never e mp ty,f or Iwill be your wine .Ah,M rs .Evergl ot you l ook lavishing this evening .W hat πs that,M r .Evergl ot?Call you Dad?I f you insist,sir .W ith this candle,Iwill light your way in darkness .W ith this ring,I ask you t o be m ine .
E m ily:I do .You may kiss the bride .
西方婚礼中新郎常用“W ith this ring,I ask you t o be m ine .”来向新娘求婚,而新娘也会回答“I do .”表示我愿意。
英文电影提供了真实可用的情景英语。大多数国内学生被外国朋友问候“How are you?”时,第一反应就是回答“I πm fine,thank you,and you?”而在电影里,从来不可能看到这样的回答。看过多部美国原版电影的同学可能会用“W hat πs up,man?”这句话来问候朋友,而不会再用“How are you?”了。这就是原版电影提供给观众的真实的情景英语。通过看原版电影学习到的情景英语要比学生拿课本背诵那些模式英语容易得多了。
四、结 语
如今,英文电影教学已证明是一种有效的外语教学手
段,它不仅能够丰富外语教师所传授的内容,并且使外语学习氛围更加地道、更加直接。只有充分把握好英文影视教学的特点,精选英文电影教材,有目的性地进行课堂活动设计,才能有助于激发学生的学习能动性。但是由于英文电影赏析课程在很多高校是一门新开课程,还没有形成完善的课程体系,主要表现在对电影的选择上具有很大的随意性、缺乏电影理论基础、对电影作品的分析流于表面等。因此在英文电影赏析的课程设计中遵循一定的基本原则并采取一些行之有效的教学方法,从而真正达到“赏”与“析”相结合,全面提高学生英语能力。
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[作者简介]李曦(1979— ),男,重庆人,研究生,重庆科技学院外语系讲师,主要研究方向:英语语言测评。
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The Blind Side Have you ever seen the famous film ‘The Blind Side’ which moved and so many people? I love this film so much that whenever I feel down I will watch it again and again to encourage myself.I really have learned a lot from this film. Firstly, I'd like to introduce you about the film. The film tells the story of a homeless African American boy Michael Oher is a young children, again to escape from the adoptive family, finally met a kind-hearted Touchy wife, by her help, Michael Oher gradually find themselves in their own physical condition and hard work, he finally became the first American National Football League player. Secondly, As far as I am concerned, Michael Oher is unfortunately, because he is a child that he has been abandoned many times, but he is lucky. Because he met the Leigh Anne Touchy. She was very cared about him, taught him how to shop, and told him said what he want. Sean Touchy was the first person in the family to pay attention to the Michael. He supported his wife and cared about that boy. Even though he didn't say anything, we could see it from his behavior. Although S.J is a child, but he is intelligent, mischief and he is a little football fan, he helped Michael training, encouraging the Michael , in his mind, Michael is a big brother. Collins, although Michael's arrival at the beginning of her caused some problems, but in the end, she was accepted this brother, regardless of her students in the eyes of surprise self-study with him and hide behind the wall and listen to the mother to Michael and tells the story of S.J. Then, He asked Touchy wife for a driver's license, in his view, this is a proof of identity, and he wants to live a normal life. When he entered the black town he refusing to let Touchy lady get off, blocking the S.J with his arm in an accident when, in his mind, that’s his family, and when his family is in danger, he must go to protect them. Last but not least, I think we will be moved by the Anne family behavior; Michael will also be responsible and keep moved, he insisted, gradually overcome those difficulty to become a successful football superstar. This is a film about sports Michael in the care of the family of Anne, Step by step effort and success. Then we
《经典英语影视赏析》课程教学大纲 课程名称（中文）：经典英语影视赏析 课程名称（英文）：Appreciation of English Classic Films and Television Plays 课程类型：历史与文化类适用范围：贵州大学各专业本科生 学时数：32 其中：实验/实践学时：课外学时：无 周学时：2 学分数： 2 考核方式：考查 制订单位：外国语学院制订日期：2014-07-10 执笔者：张涛 【课程性质】 本课程是各专业本科阶段的一门选修课程。 【教学目的】 本课程旨在提高学生对语言真实度的各类视听材料的理解能力和口头表达能力。以经典英语影视为对象，通过“视”、“听”、“说”、“写”的结合，以直观画面和情节内容为基础开展有针对性的口语训练，运用复述、总结、对话、口头概述等活动形式，提高学生的听力理解和口头表达能力，同时通过论文写作的形式，加深他们对英语国家的政治、经济、社会、文化等方面的认识和了解，从文化层面上更好的把握语言这门艺术。 【教学任务】 此课程教学旨在使学生在提高英语语言能力的同时对西方的电影和文化有更多的了解和认识。 【教学内容】 1.阐述当代原版电影的一般知识，即通俗地介绍电影的文化特征和艺术特征，同时比较完整地介绍英美电影的历史和特点。 2.精心挑选了在世界上具有广泛影响的影片作为读解素材，其中大部分影片曾获得过奥斯卡奖。在理解剧情的基础上，领略电影作品从独特的美学价值和文化性格所展现出不同民族的艺术风格。 3.介绍部分当代英美电影的著名导演和演员，了解各种电影手法和创作技巧。 【教学原则和方法】 教学原则： 英语影视课的教学既要注意结合各门课程所学内容，打好扎实的语言基本功，又要突出语言交际能力的培养，注重培养学生的跨文化交际能力。在教学中，要正确引导学生学习中西文化的差异，处理好欣赏和批判的关系以及如何正确接受西方文化的方法。 教学方法： 课堂教学采取学生为主体、教师为主导的教学模式。在教学中，利用音像环境所提供生动的英语语境训练听力和口语，分析英语经典影片，长、短片结合。多开展以任务为中心的、形式多样的教学活动，通过“视”、“听”、“说”的综合训练，提高学生的英语语言运用能力。 【先修课程要求】 以语音、语法、词汇、听力、口语等为基础的综合能力培养的大学英语课程。 【教材与主要参考书】 教材： Andrew Lynn Appreciating Cinema 《英语电影赏析》外语教学与研究出版社, 2005年参考书： 徐志英邓杉赵蓉英语电影视听说外语教学与研究出版社, 2009年
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
小王子电影观后感英文版 本文为小王子电影观后感英文版范文，让我们通过以下的文章来了解。 Recently, I read a fairy story book, Little Prince. This book tells the adventurous experiences of little prince from his planet to the earth. Little prince comes from the outer space and he is hurt by a rose. So he leaves there and travels into space. He comes to the earth and be the friend of a fox. The fox tells his secret to little prince and he helps a pilot in the desert. In the end, he dies under the help of a snake and his soul goes back to his planet. This book is very interesting and teaches me a lot. I like little price adventures. He teaches me to be honest and love others. All of us should never loss the pureness of childhood. This is a fairytale whose distribution volume is only second to The Bible. It’s been translated to versions of many other languages. And I gather there must be something special, something really great about it. It’s this conviction that drove me to read it at the first beginning. Well, with due respect to the author, I failed to see how this fairytale be worthy
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
外国电影观后感英文版3篇电影罗马假日英语观后感 he story is about a young princess （公主）（Hepburn）named Ann，making a goodwill （善意的）tour of Europe's capitals。She is tired of the responsibility （职责）and demands of the role she has been born in to and longs to experience the every day pleasures of an ordinary person。In Rome she finally rebels。Waiting until after everyone in the embassy （大使馆）where her party is staying has gone to sleep，she slips out a window and finds herself alone on the streets of Rome。 She is found by Joe Bradley （Peck），a hardened （坚毅的）and somewhat cynical （愤世嫉俗的）reporter，on his way home from a late night card game。Not knowing who she is but seeing that she has no place to stay he takes pity on her and invites her to his apartment for the night。In a ical （滑稽的）scene，he offers her a pair of his pajamas （睡衣）and points to the couch where she can sleep。Innocent （天真的）aristocrat （贵族）that she is，she asks for a nightgown and help undressing。Bradley helps her take off her tie and then leaves the room。When he returns a few minutes later he discovers her sound asleep on the bed，leaving him the couch （沙发）。 Leaving her sleeping the next morning，Bradley shows up late for work and tries to cover himself by saying that he had an interview （采访）with the princess。But his editor shows him a newspaper with her picture and headline stating that she was taken ill the night before and canceled all appointments （安排）for the day。Bradley immediately realizes who he has in his apartment and gets the editor to agree to pay $5，000 if he can get a real interview with the princess。On the way out Bradley contacts a photographer （摄影师）friend，Irving Radovich （Albert）and arranges for him to met him later with his camera for a big scoop。 Returning to his apartment，Bradley picks up the princess for their planned tour of the city。Bradley's real aim is to get the pictures and story he promised （答应）his editor。
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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
看英语电影观后感英文版 电影大家看过许多了，观后感大家也写过许多，那么偶尔看一 看写一写英语的观后感也是不错的。下面是的关于英语电影观后感， 希望对您有所帮助 ! Avatar is directed by James Cameron.The two main characters are Jake Sully,played by Sam Worthington,and Neytiri,played by Zoe Saldana. Clones named Avatars are sent to Pandora Pla to persuade people there to leave the pla so that human beings can exploit a rare mineral.Jake is sent there to control his Avatar.However,he es across Neytiri and they fall in love with each other.Jake begins to see that nature and the pla should be protected.At last he and the people there work together to defeat human beings and send them back to the earth. 3D technology and the beautiful natural scenery are the two highlights of the film.The message of the film is simple — human beings should protect nature and live in harmony with it. am honored today watched the United States ， 3D cartoon animated film The story is the old manCarl and his wife Eliza has always been thought of children in South America