访谈录 Interview 2007-02-15&17, 让浪漫的电影情节营造气氛

Sharyn Alfonsi: You wanna a nice cozy¹ evening at home with a romantic movie. Let’s pick some good ones from David Edelstein ---- a critic for New York Magazine and contributor to CBS Sunday Morning, and with Entertainment Weekly’s film critic ---- Lisa Schwarzbaum. Welcome to you both.

Lisa Schwarzbaum : Thank you.

David Edelstein: Thank you

Sharyn Alfonsi: You guys have some very interesting picks here. Lisa, let’s start with yours. Your first one is a film from 1945 --- Brief Encounter.

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Yes, it’s very very sexy. It’s two married people do not consummate² their affair.

Sharyn Alfonsi:Oh, practically not in halfway³.

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Nothing gets more glamorous⁴ than that. No, this is no category script, David Lynn’s direction. It is a masterpiece of holding back and I think since it was made during WWII, it was all about sacrifice and keeping things together and it’s just brimming with the unexpressed and the unacted-upon.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Tortured love is the best kind, right?
Lisa Schwarzbaum: It’s my favorite kind of movie.
Sharyn Alfonsi: David?

David Edelstein: Unconsummated love is the best kind. I, I, see I gravitate more toward movies where the characters go pass the infatuation part, pass like freaking, hating each other and then kind of fall back in love --- Stanley Cavell, the philosopher called it the comedy of remarriage and that’s why my favorite movie of all time is The Lady Eve in which Harry⁵ Fonda learns that Barbara Stanwyck is basically a skunk⁶ and but she tricks him into thinking she is somebody else and he falls in love with her again. And he learns that, you know, they are never as great as you think, but they are never as bad as you think either. They were all just human.
Lisa Schwarzbaum: See, actually …

Sharyn Alfonsi: Further X-ray is about an hour particularly shows.

David Edelstein: what we suppose.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Who was broken up with on Valentine’s Day? It’s not these things.

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Boys and girls.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Exactly. Lisa, you have a really other interesting picture Truly Madly Deeply, a little more recent. He died; she ends up lonely with grasp again. So romantic

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Yes,. Yes, because she loves him so much that Alan Rickman comes back to Juliet Stevenson. She’s just one of the great crying scenes of all time. One of the things I love about this is in pairing this two together is that in fact that Alan Rickman and his ghost friends sit around watching Brief Encounter on television---- perfect perfect little connection. It’s just wonderful and in fact she does learn to move on and find a lovely new man in her life who is living. So that’s a good thing.

Sharyn Alfonsi:A little more updated.
David Edelstein: Great Valentine’s movie ‘cause it is about grief, you know,

Lisa Schwarzbaum: That’s me.

David Edelstein: about moving through grief. So, yes, so, the Shop Around The Corner, a lot of people know this movie. It was a musical She Loves Me, about two people who worked side by side and hated each other’s guts⁷, but in fact, they had this whole secret life as pen pals⁸ and it is when you learn, that you know, the surface is one thing, the soul is another thing. And you know, it’s all crazy and mixed-up and it makes up sense.

Lisa Schwarzbaum: And it’s quite the same as You’ve Got Mail.

Sharyn Alfonsi: That’s what I wanna ask.

David Edelstein: Oh, no. We are still waiting for the…

Sharyn Alfonsi: we are friends of you, we can’t even talk about Meg Ryan this day, this is little still highbrow.
David Edelstein: We are waiting for the great internet version of this story; it’s not You’ve Got Mail.
Sharyn Alfonsi: David, you have another one. It’s really an interesting one, a depressing one, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.

David Edelstein: Violent, violent, emotionally violent. That’s about…

Sharyn Alfonsi: They, they have a surgery to have each other removed, you know, from their mind, how romantic is that though.

David Edelstein: But they can’t. They loathe⁹ each other, but, no, they loathe each other, they come to loathe each other, Jim Kerry and Kate Winslet loathe each other and yet even after a surgery to purge¹⁰ the memories, they cannot get themselves out of their heads. So here is my design for living, for in-and-out of love with the same person all your life.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Ok.

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Another theory.

Sharyn Alfonsi: And then have a surgery to remove them from your brain. Let’s end on a more romantic note you can’t go on without Casablanca.

Lisa Schwarzbaum: You, you, Casablanca, there is what else do you need… or then you can start quoting all the absolute beautiful lines from it, the beautiful angles of Ingrid Bergman’s chin tilted¹¹ up, Rick, Elsa, I mean you can watch this every single year.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Ok, that’s all good. That’s my picks. Thank you so much.

1 cozy   

adj.亲如手足的，密切的，暖和舒服的

参考例句：

• I like blankets because they are cozy.我喜欢毛毯，因为他们是舒适的。
• We spent a cozy evening chatting by the fire.我们在炉火旁聊天度过了一个舒适的晚上。

2 consummate   

adj.完美的；v.成婚；使完美 [反]baffle

参考例句：

• The restored jade burial suit fully reveals the consummate skill of the labouring people of ancient China.复原后的金缕玉衣充分显示出中国古代劳动人民的精湛工艺。
• The actor's acting is consummate and he is loved by the audience.这位演员技艺精湛，深受观众喜爱。

3 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

4 glamorous   

adj.富有魅力的；美丽动人的；令人向往的

参考例句：

• The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊，但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
• It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差，并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。

5 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

6 skunk   

n.臭鼬，黄鼠狼；v.使惨败，使得零分；烂醉如泥

参考例句：

• That was a rotten thing to do, you skunk!那种事做得太缺德了，你这卑鄙的家伙！
• The skunk gives off an unpleasant smell when attacked.受到攻击时臭鼬会发出一种难闻的气味。

7 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 pals   

n.朋友( pal的名词复数 )；老兄；小子；（对男子的不友好的称呼）家伙

参考例句：

• We've been pals for years. 我们是多年的哥们儿了。
• CD 8 positive cells remarkably increased in PALS and RP(P CD8+细胞在再生脾PALS和RP内均明显增加(P 来自互联网

9 loathe   

v.厌恶，嫌恶

参考例句：

• I loathe the smell of burning rubber.我厌恶燃着的橡胶散发的气味。
• You loathe the smell of greasy food when you are seasick.当你晕船时，你会厌恶油腻的气味。

10 purge   

n.整肃，清除，泻药，净化；vt.净化，清除，摆脱；vi.清除，通便，腹泻，变得清洁

参考例句：

• The new president carried out a purge of disloyal army officers.新总统对不忠诚的军官进行了清洗。
• The mayoral candidate has promised to purge the police department.市长候选人答应清洗警察部门。

11 tilted   

v. 倾斜的

参考例句：

• Suddenly the boat tilted to one side. 小船突然倾向一侧。
• She tilted her chin at him defiantly. 她向他翘起下巴表示挑衅。