影视听力 第38期: 理发师陶德

受法官塔萍（阿伦.瑞克曼）陷害，被迫流放他乡15年的陶德（约翰尼.德普）回到伦敦后，满心的怒火，只想复仇。他的妻子露西（劳拉.凯利）已经不知所踪，而女儿乔安娜（珍妮.怀森纳）则被塔萍作为养女囚禁在深宅大院里。
　　
陶德遇到了馅饼店老板娘洛薇特夫人（海伦娜.卡特），也是一直爱恋他的女人。在馅饼店楼上，陶德重新开张了他的理发店。渐渐的馅饼的生意好了起来，只是烟筒里不断冒出恶臭的黑烟。理发店的客人也很多，却很少见到有人走出来。那里，陶德一直在等着法官塔萍的到来。

 对话文本:(系普特网友整理，文本只包括旁白影评部分，不包括电影原声。)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon¹ Barber of Fleet Street is Tim Burton’s extraordinary adaptation of the popular and much revived stage musical by Stephen Sondheim. It stars Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd and Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett who makes meat pies out of the demon barber’s victims.

The story is a simple one of vengeance². Sweeney Todd started out a happy-go-lucky young barber in London. His wife and daughter were stolen from him by an evil judge played by Alan Rickman. And he’s come back looking for revenge. Now one thing that Burton has done is he’s taken a lot of the humor and whimsy³ and playfulness that was in Sondheim’s original. And that was, I hear although I didn’t see it, in Hal Prince’s original staging back in the 70s. And he’s made this into a very dark, gothic fable⁴. It’s a strange mixture of genres⁵. It’s certainly a musical. There are songs in it. The characters sing. There are costumes. There are even bits that are kind of song and dancy.

There are a few funny grotesque⁶ bits in it. Sacha Baron⁷ Cohen shows up as a rival barber. Timothy Spall plays the Rickman character’s second-in-command with a kind of a louche swagger.

But it’s also a horror movie with some very extreme brutal⁸ violence and blood and an overall atmosphere and mood of somber⁹, vengeful misanthropy. This is a movie about how horrible people are and just how low they can sink. And it’s one of my favorite movies of the year.

There are a lot of things working in this movie’s favor. One of them is that Tim Burton who has always been one of the most visually inventive directors around hasn’t always been a great storyteller and it sometimes felt a little detached from the emotions of his material. This one he really plunges¹⁰ into. This is one of his best movies in a very long time. Burton is really just in full command of his expressive¹¹ as well as his visual capabilities¹².

And there is also Johnny Depp, who is Burton’s best leading man and one of the most interesting actors working today, who gives Sweeney a kind of melancholy¹³ angry charisma¹⁴. He’s a very attractive character, but he’s also a monster. But really this is a very dark, grim vision and a very convincing, a very powerful one as well. This is not a movie that may have you singing and dancing on your way out of the theater, but you may find that you have trouble falling asleep at night after you’ve seen it.

1 demon   

n.魔鬼，恶魔

参考例句：

• The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福。
• He has been possessed by the demon of disease for years.他多年来病魔缠身。

2 vengeance   

n.报复，报仇，复仇

参考例句：

• He swore vengeance against the men who murdered his father.他发誓要向那些杀害他父亲的人报仇。
• For years he brooded vengeance.多年来他一直在盘算报仇。

3 whimsy   

n.古怪，异想天开

参考例句：

• They are like oracular messages,but witty-jaunty at times-and sometimes trembling on the edge of whimsy.它们都像神谕，但很机智，有时极其轻快，有时又濒于怪诞。
• He had a whimsy about flying to the moon.他有个想飞上月球的怪念头。

4 fable   

n.寓言；童话；神话

参考例句：

• The fable is given on the next page. 这篇寓言登在下一页上。
• He had some motive in telling this fable. 他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。

5 genres   

（文学、艺术等的）类型，体裁，风格( genre的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Novel and short story are different genres. 长篇小说和短篇小说是不同的类别。
• But confusions over the two genres have a long history. 但是类型的混淆，古已有之。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译

6 grotesque   

adj.怪诞的，丑陋的；n.怪诞的图案，怪人（物）

参考例句：

• His face has a grotesque appearance.他的面部表情十分怪。
• Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.她对这件事的陈述是荒诞地歪曲了事实。

7 baron   

n.男爵；(商业界等)巨头，大王

参考例句：

• Henry Ford was an automobile baron.亨利·福特是一位汽车业巨头。
• The baron lived in a strong castle.男爵住在一座坚固的城堡中。

8 brutal   

adj.残忍的，野蛮的，不讲理的

参考例句：

• She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
• They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。

9 somber   

adj.昏暗的，阴天的，阴森的，忧郁的

参考例句：

• He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
• His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。

10 plunges   

n.跳进，投入vt.使投入，使插入，使陷入vi.投入，跳进，陷入v.颠簸( plunge的第三人称单数 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• Even before he plunges into his program, he has his audience in his pocket. 他的节目甚至还没有出场，就已控制住了观众。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• 'Monseigneur, he precipitated himself over the hill-side, head first, as a person plunges into the river.' “大人，他头冲下跳下山坡去了，像往河里跳一样。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

11 expressive   

adj.表现的，表达…的，富于表情的

参考例句：

• Black English can be more expressive than standard English.黑人所使用的英语可能比正式英语更有表现力。
• He had a mobile,expressive,animated face.他有一张多变的，富于表情的，生动活泼的脸。

12 capabilities   

n.能力( capability的名词复数 )；可能；容量；[复数]潜在能力

参考例句：

• He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大，自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
• Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为，标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

13 melancholy   

n.忧郁，愁思；adj.令人感伤（沮丧）的，忧郁的

参考例句：

• All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
• He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过，他感到很郁闷。

14 charisma   

n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质，魅力

参考例句：

• He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力，是个伟人。
• I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力，能吸引这么多人。