[00:-1.00]GETTING TO KNOW STEVEN SPIELBERG
[00:-2.00]Steven Spielberg, whose mother was a music teacher,
[00:-3.00]was born in 1946 in a small town in America.
[00:-4.00]He started making short films when he was still a young boy.
[00:-5.00]He made hkis first real film when he was twelve.
[00:-6.00]This was a film in which Spielberg used real actors instead of toys.
[00:-7.00]He wrote the seripts for the films himself.
[00:-8.00]In 1959 Spielberg won prize for a short film which he made when he was thirteen years old.
[00:-9.00]A few years later, when he was sixteen,he made a film called Firelight.
[00:10.00]When Spielberg was young,
[00:11.00]his dream was to go to the Film Academy, but he couldn't.
[00:12.00]The reason why he could not go there was that his grades were too low.
[00:13.00]After studying English, he got a small job at a film studio.
[00:14.00]Here he worked on a short film,
[00:15.00]which won him ajob as the youn gest film director in the world.
[00:16.00]This was the moment when Spielberg's career really took off.
[00:17.00]Jaws (1975), one of his first films, was a real blockbuster.
[00:18.00]It is a bout a big white sharkn .
[00:19.00]that a ttacks swimmers who are spending their holidays in a small village by the sea
[00:20.00]Many people who saw the film were afraid to swi in the sea
[00:21.00]when they remembered the scenes in which people were eaten by the shark.
[00:22.00]Spielberg has made two films about creatures that come to the earth from outer space.
[00:23.00]For example,ET (1982) IS about a young boy called Elliott
[00:24.00]who makes friends with a small creature frome outer space
[00:25.00]and helps him to find a way to go home.
[00:26.00]The world of adults is cold.
[00:27.00]Scientists want to find ET to cut him into pieces to do research.
[00:28.00]But in the world of children and the world where ET comes from,
[00:29.00]love and friendship are the most important things in life.
[00:30.00]Jurassic Park, which Spielberg made in 1993,
[00:31.00]is about a park where a very rich man keeps different kinds of dinosaurs.
[00:32.00]When the park is hit by a storm, things start going wrong.
[00:33.00]The film becomes very exeiting when the children are hunted by meat-eating dinosaurs.
[00:34.00]After these highly successful films Spielberg made several follow-ups of Jaws and Jurassic Park.
[00:35.00]His later films such as Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan
[00:36.00]are about the cruelty of war.
[00:37.00]In his war films,he has shown that love and peace will win over war in the end.
[00:38.00]Stven Spielberg is one the top directors in the film industry and also has many fans in China.
[00:39.00]When aske about the secret of his success,
[00:40.00]Steven Spielberg said that he owes much of his success and happiness
[00:41.00]to his wife and children.
[00:42.00]He met Cate Capshaw, who is an actress,
[00:43.00]when he was working on one of his films.
[00:44.00]After that it still took seven years before they finally got married.
[00:45.00]The couple has seven chikdren in all.
[00:46.00]NOT ONE LESS
[00:47.00]Zhang Yimou's film "Not One Less" tells a simple but moving story.
[00:48.00]Mr Gao,the only teacher of the Shuiquan Primary School,
[00:49.00]has to stay away for a month to take care of his sick mother.
[00:50.00]The village leader,Mr Tian,asks Wei Minzhi to take Mr Gao's place until he comes back.
[00:51.00]Minzhi is only a 13-year-old girl who has finished her primary school.
[00:52.00]When she is asked to do the job,she says she can read,write and sing.
[00:53.00]She gets the job because there is nobody else in the village who can take it.
[00:54.00]The most important thing for young Minzhi
[00:55.00]is not to lose any more pupils from the school
[00:56.00]-NOT ONE LESS-before Mr Gao returns!
[00:57.00]At first Minzhi doesn't know what her students need to learn.
[00:58.00]And she doesn't know how to keep them quiet in class.
[00:59.00]She writes the lessons onto the blackboard n
[-1:00.00]and then makes her students copy them into their notebooks
[-1:-1.00]She tries to keep the students in the classroom
[-1:-2.00]by locking them up in the classroom and running after those who escape.
[-1:-3.00]The naughtiest pupil in her class is an 11-year-old boy named Zhang Huike.
[-1:-4.00]He causes trouble for Minzhi almost every day.
[-1:-5.00]Perhaps you think Minzhi will be happy when Huike runs away from school.
[-1:-6.00]No! When she hears that Huike has gone to town,
[-1:-7.00]she becomes very worried and determines to bring Huike back safely.
[-1:-8.00]Minzhi wants to go to town,but can't afford to buy a bus ticket.
[-1:-9.00]All the other pupils do their best to help her get onto a bus without a ticket.
[-1:10.00]When Minzhi has to get off the bus,she walks till she finally reaches the town.
[-1:11.00]She looks everywhere but cannot find Huike.
[-1:12.00]Then she decides to ask the TV station for help.
[-1:13.00]She wants them to let her appear live on the air,hoping that Huike will see her.
[-1:14.00]She waits at the gate of the TV station for two days till the boss calls her.
[-1:15.00]When Huike sees the crying Minzhi on television,he himself starts crying,
[-1:16.00]but he is also happy to see her.
[-1:17.00]At last,both Minzhi and Huike go back to their village,
[-1:18.00]together with the people from the TV station.
[-1:19.00]Many people like this film not just because the story itself is moving,
[-1:20.00]but also becaue most of the people in the film
[-1:21.00]use their real names and play themselves |