美国国家公共电台 NPR--Hollywood has a new star — a bear that gets into a lost cocaine stash

Hollywood has a new star — a bear that gets into a lost cocaine¹ stash²

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Cocaine Bear came in second place and drew $23 million at the box office in its first weekend. The movie is based on a true story.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

Hollywood has a new star, and it's a bear, a really agitated⁴ bear. OK. Why am I dancing around this? It's a bear high on cocaine that goes on a killing⁵ spree.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "COCAINE BEAR")

CHRISTIAN⁶ CONVERY: (As Henry) You're safe. Bears can't climb trees.

JESSE TYLER FERGUSON: (As Peter) Of course they can.

MART?NEZ: It's loosely based on a true story, and it's titled, appropriately enough, "Cocaine Bear." It mauled the competition this weekend, coming in second with $23 million in box office earnings⁷.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "COCAINE BEAR")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Apex⁸ predator⁹, high on cocaine, it's out of its mind.

MART?NEZ: So awesome¹⁰. Linda Holmes from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast has seen it. Her heart rate has returned to normal. She's here. Linda, to know that there's even a tiny shred¹¹ of fact about a black comedy horror film called "Cocaine Bear" is kind of amazing. Give us a short summary.

LINDA HOLMES, BYLINE¹²: Well, the only part of this that is real is that in 1985, there was a drug smuggling¹³ mishap¹⁴ that resulted in a bunch of bags of cocaine getting dumped in the forest, and a black bear found it and ate it. And unfortunately, the bear died. This movie presumes instead of the bear dying, the bear goes on a wild mauling, killing spree as various people come through the forest looking for the cocaine or looking for the bear.

MART?NEZ: Now, I'm looking forward to your examination of the many layers of metaphor¹⁵ here.

HOLMES: Yeah, there aren't any.

MART?NEZ: (Laughter).

HOLMES: The thing about "Cocaine Bear" that I like so much - and I do mean that - is that they used to call action movies, like, "Towards The Danger" (ph) or, like, "Under Suspicion" (ph). But now they've just decided¹⁶ we're just going to call it "Cocaine Bear." And it's the same thing. There was a movie earlier this year about a plane that went down, and they just called it "Plane." And I think there is a sense that, like, let's just say what we're doing.

MART?NEZ: It's like when a store has a store brand kind of item...

HOLMES: Right. Absolutely.

MART?NEZ: ...As opposed to, like, the brand name.

HOLMES: Absolutely. Just say what the thing is, and that way, people feel like they are getting their money's worth because it's hard for me to imagine somebody being like, I want to go see "Cocaine Bear" and not feeling like they got "Cocaine Bear."

MART?NEZ: Elizabeth Banks, she's the director here. She also directed one of the "Pitch Perfect" movies and also one of the "Charlie's Angels" movies. What did she bring to this?

HOLMES: I think she has a genuinely kind of offbeat¹⁷ sensibility. She is also an actress who's done lots of comedy. And I think that she brings a certain wacky sensibility, as do the producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller¹⁸, who have also worked on movies like "The Lego Movie" and "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse" and stuff like that. They also take a lot of movies that seem like bad ideas and make them into good ideas.

MART?NEZ: Now, Linda, let me ask you this because my 30-something-year-old son sees all of the '80s slasher movies with his daughters, my granddaughters. So is this movie, "Cocaine Bear," something I could take a 13- and a 9-year-old to see?

HOLMES: Well, it is an R-rated movie, and it is gory¹⁹. I think it is important to think of this as more like a slasher movie than, like, an action movie. You will see a lot of blood and innards and things like that. Everybody feels differently about that. I would not have been allowed to see this when I was 9, but many, many 9-year-olds have seen movies like this.

MART?NEZ: Now, one more thing really quick, Linda. I imagine it's probably more fun to see it with as many people as you can.

HOLMES: Absolutely. I think you have to see this movie with at least five people. If you go to a theater and see it, that's fine. If you're going to see it later, invite some people over because sitting there by yourself watching "Cocaine Bear" might make you feel silly or lonely.

MART?NEZ: Linda Holmes talks about all this stuff in much greater detail at the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour. Linda, thanks.

HOLMES: Oh, thank you.

1 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

2 stash   

v.藏或贮存于一秘密处所；n.隐藏处

参考例句：

• Stash away both what you lost and gained,for life continues on.将得失深藏心底吧，为了那未来的生活。
• That's supposed to be in our private stash.这是我的私人珍藏。

3 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

4 agitated   

adj.被鼓动的，不安的

参考例句：

• His answers were all mixed up,so agitated was he.他是那样心神不定，回答全乱了。
• She was agitated because her train was an hour late.她乘坐的火车晚点一个小时，她十分焦虑。

5 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

6 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

7 earnings   

n.工资收人；利润，利益，所得

参考例句：

• That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
• Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。

8 apex   

n.顶点，最高点

参考例句：

• He reached the apex of power in the early 1930s.他在三十年代初达到了权力的顶峰。
• His election to the presidency was the apex of his career.当选总统是他一生事业的顶峰。

9 predator   

n.捕食其它动物的动物；捕食者

参考例句：

• The final part of this chapter was devoted to a brief summary of predator species.本章最后部分简要总结了食肉动物。
• Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator.科摩多龙是目前存在的最大蜥蜴，它是一种令人恐惧的捕食性动物。

10 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

11 shred   

v.撕成碎片，变成碎片；n.碎布条，细片，些少

参考例句：

• There is not a shred of truth in what he says.他说的全是骗人的鬼话。
• The food processor can shred all kinds of vegetables.这架食品加工机可将各种蔬菜切丝切条。

12 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

13 smuggling   

n.走私

参考例句：

• Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
• The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

14 mishap   

n.不幸的事，不幸；灾祸

参考例句：

• I'm afraid your son had a slight mishap in the playground.不好了，你儿子在操场上出了点小意外。
• We reached home without mishap.我们平安地回到了家。

15 metaphor   

n.隐喻，暗喻

参考例句：

• Using metaphor,we say that computers have senses and a memory.打个比方，我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力。
• In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。

16 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

17 offbeat   

adj.不平常的，离奇的

参考例句：

• She adores old,offbeat antiques.她非常喜欢那些稀奇古怪的老古董。
• His style is offbeat but highly creative.他的风格很不寻常但非常有创造力。

18 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

19 gory   

adj.流血的；残酷的

参考例句：

• I shuddered when I heard the gory details.我听到血淋淋的详情，战栗不已。
• The newspaper account of the accident gave all the gory details.报纸上报道了这次事故中所有骇人听闻的细节。