访谈录 2012-12-18&12-20 《滚石》影评家谈圣诞影片

 Hi, everybody. I’m Peter Travers. I host the popcorn¹ movie show here at ABC and on line. And ABC Family is running a 25-days of Christmas, the whole month, which made me think, what are my favorite Christmas movies. And they are all available on ABC Family. But these are the three, come on.

 

I’m going with Elf. I mean if you haven’t seen it, this is gonna change your life. This is where Farol at his very funniest which he sang a lot. Especially in the Elf cast², and I mean anybody can look funny, and this guy really looks funny and he’s found out from Santa that he is actually a human and he has to go back to New York and live and explain why a elf is like and mean no in New York. So this movie has laughs and it has that little thing we want in a Christmas movie where we tier up a little. 

 

For fun, for a Christman movie, that just makes you laugh from start to finish, is there anything better than National Lampcoon’s Christmas Vacation. 

 

Ok, I’m a sucker for all those Lampcoon movies. But Christman vacation with Chavy chase³ at his stupidest, I mean the roar⁴ of car grizward, is built-in stupidity and Chavy chase clases to the man of born. 

 

And Berverly Danchlow is there with his wife. And now since this movie was made in 1989, this kids are played by Johny Goldleggy who’s on Big Benthory and Julia Luathu’s God Knows Where. 

 

But this movie, this movie is funny in everywhere because it’s everybody’s waited decorate for a Chiristmas and there is the scene in this movie where Chavy puts too many lights all over the house and the tree, well, you know what, I’m not gonna say more, just see it. 

 

And watch a Christmas movie of any kind unless you got a little dicken thing there. And a Christman carol⁵ has been made maybe 110 times; but the most recent one is called a Christman Carol with Performance Capture⁶, with Jim Carry, doing scrooch, and almost everything else. He plays all the ghosts that come to haunt⁷ him. 

 

A pair of problems sometimes for Performance Capture but not in this movie. Jim Carry, I think he is kind of a walking cartoon anyway; and in this movie, seeing him play all of these parts, you get that spirit of Christmas and you get a sense of – I’d love this season, I love just sit in home, lying back and watching these movies and ABC Family has made it all possible for you. So these are my favorite three movies.

1 popcorn   

n.爆米花

参考例句：

• I like to eat popcorn when I am watching TV play at home.当我在家观看电视剧时，喜欢吃爆米花。
• He still stood behind his cash register stuffing his mouth with popcorn.他仍站在收银机后，嘴里塞满了爆米花。

2 cast   

vt./vi.(cast,cast)投掷；投射；抛

参考例句：

• You can cast your vote at the local polling station.你可以在当地的投票站投票。
• He cast off fear and decided to make a try.他去掉害怕心理，决定试一试。

3 chase   

vt.追逐，追赶，追求；n.追赶

参考例句：

• The police grabbed the robbers after a long chase.警察经过长距离追赶后逮住了抢劫犯。
• Would you chase me if I did?如果我逃开了，你会来追吗？

4 roar   

n.吼，咆哮，轰鸣，喧闹；vi.吼叫，大声说出，喧闹；vt.呼喊，使轰鸣

参考例句：

• He began to roar when I took the chocolate away. 当我把巧克力拿走时，他大哭起来。
• The machines roar incessantly during the hours of daylight.机器在白天隆隆地响个不停。

5 Carol   

n.赞美诗，圣诞颂歌

参考例句：

• Silent Night is my favourite carol.《平安夜》是我最喜欢的圣诞颂歌。
• The people in the church are singing a christmas carol.教堂里的人们正在唱圣诞颂歌。

6 capture   

vt.捕获，俘获；占领，夺得；n.抓住，捕获

参考例句：

• The company is out to capture the European market.这家公司希望占据欧洲市场。
• With the capture of the escaped tiger,everyone felt relieved.逃出来的老虎被捕获后，大家都松了一口气。

7 haunt   

vt.常出没于，使苦恼，萦绕；n.常去的地方

参考例句：

• The area was a haunt of criminals.这个地区是罪犯经常出没的地方。
• The college library is a favorite haunt.大学图书馆是人们喜欢的地方。