美語情景對話 第1078期:Foreign Flicks 外國電影

Goron: When I want to look something like more original, I started to watch some Korean movies or Indian movies from Bollywood, which are really interesting. I was fairly surprised. Try it guys because Korean movies are great. Are great.

高倫：我想看原創電影時，我會選擇韓國電影或印度寶萊塢的電影，這些電影非常有意思。我感到相當震驚。我建議你們也看看，韓國電影真的很不錯。非常不錯。

Michael: Korean movies are good but the ones – the typical thing about Korean movies, they always end bad.

邁克爾：韓國電影是不錯，不過韓國電影中有一些典型的情節，而且結局通常不好。

Win: They always end with cancer.

溫：通常都有癌症情節。

Michael: Whereas Hollywood movies, usually there's always like it has a good ending.

邁克爾：而好萊塢電影的結局都很好。

Goron: And actually, Japanese movies do the same thing. The happy ending is not so granted. And probably many people like them for this reason.

高倫：實際上，日本電影和韓國電影一樣。日本電影一般也不會是圓滿結局。這可能是許多人喜歡這類電影的原因。

Michael: And I would say that even Norwegian movies, they try to, you know, go out from the norm that movies are supposed to end nicely. And that they have like a shocking ending. It's like reading a novel with a shocking ending that you wouldn't expect to happen.

邁克爾：甚至挪威電影也在試圖擺脫常態，儘量不出現美好的結局。他們喜歡令人吃驚的結局。就好像你看了一本小說，結局令你非常震驚，你之前完全沒有想到。

Goron: Because I think some love movies really have a bad effect on the real life because people are trying to have the same relationship that they see on the movies. And then when it's not like – love is not like that. It's not that beautiful. It's not like happy ending all the time. And so they...

高倫：我認爲一些愛情電影對現實生活產生了不好的影響，因爲人們會試圖尋找電影中呈現的那種戀愛關係。可是現實是，愛情並不是那樣的。愛情並沒有那麼美好。並不是所有的戀情都有美滿的結果。所以他們……

Michael: Oh but...

邁克爾：哦，可是……

Win: Yeah.

溫：對。

Goron: And then – and they are shocked when their real life – they see that they...

高倫：當他們的現實生活不像電影那樣美好時，他們會感到震驚……

Michael: But not all movies are like that. I mean, even animation movies like you've seen Up, right?

邁克爾：可是並不是所有電影都是那樣的。還有一些動畫電影，你看過《飛屋環遊記》嗎？

Goron: Well, the plot is like they fall in love, they have like a nice time, and then the problematic moment. You know, they overcome like the difficulties, and then at the end, they live all together. Happy ending.

高倫：電影情節都是這樣的，男女主人公墜入愛河並度過了一段美好時光，然後是他們之間會產生問題。接下來他們克服會困難，最後他們一起幸福的生活。圓滿結局。

Win: Well, that's the usual Western discourse of how you produce a movie. But I think nowadays, movie producers are trying to do a lot of different things from the past.

溫：一般西方電影都是這樣的。不過我認爲，現在的電影製作人在努力製作與以前不同的電影。

Goron: Yeah, they try but basically...

高倫：對，他們是在努力，不過……

Michael: It's interesting to say because maybe why we prefer movies to have good endings and why we prefer them to be very harmonic is because maybe we don't want to watch depressing things. We want the movie to give us a good feeling in the aftermath.

邁克爾：值得思考的是，也許我們喜歡看美好和美滿結局的電影是因爲，我們不想看到令人沮喪的事情。我們希望看完電影后能有好心情。

Goron: To give us hope.

高倫：給我們希望。

Michael: Yeah, give us hope, give us like good thoughts. And you know when I watched Up for instance, which is an animation. When I just saw the first part of the movie, it really – I almost cried just watching it. I never cry to an animation film like that before. It was really, really touching.

邁克爾：對，給我們希望和積極的想法。舉個例子，我在看動畫電影《飛屋環遊記》時，在電影最開始的時候，我看哭了。之前我看動畫電影從來沒哭過。那真的令人非常感動。

Goron: Right. I cried to the Lion King. [Laughs]

高倫：沒錯。我看《獅子王》的時候哭了。（笑）

Michael: When I was younger, I cried to the Lion King.

邁克爾：我小時候看《獅子王》時也哭了。

Goron: No, I still cry when I see that.

高倫：我現在看依然會哭。

Win: I mean it's good to be emotional.

溫：我認爲調動情緒的電影是好電影。

Goron: Oh yeah. When the movie is good, it's good forever.

高倫：沒錯。如果一部電影是好電影，那就永遠是好電影。

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重點講解：
1. be supposed to do sth. 應當，應該，須；
例句：He is supposed to be here tonight.
他今晚應該會在這裏。
2. all the time 一直；始終；
例句：My last job lacked variety; I was doing the same things all the time.
我上次那份工作缺乏變化，我老是在做同樣的事情。
3. fall in love 墮入愛河；
例句：The prince and Cinderella fall in love.
王子與灰姑娘墜入情網了。
4. for instance 例如；譬如；
例句：You can't depend on her: for instance, she arrived late yesterday.
她靠不住，舉例說,昨天她就來遲了。