影视听力 第3期:La Vie en Rose 玫瑰人生

剧情简介
　　
有着“小麻雀”之称的法国国宝级歌手艾迪特•皮雅芙（玛丽昂•歌迪亚饰），她有着传奇的一生。皮雅芙的童年颠沛流离，先是被母亲抛弃，然后被父亲送到妓院由祖母抚养，随后在父亲从军队退役后，又被强行带走随马戏团演出生活。再之后皮雅芙跟随父亲卖艺为生，街头初啼并到成为一名酒吧卖唱的少女。
　　
正式登台的皮雅芙顺利成为一名歌喉迷人的明星，演唱了许多脍炙人口的歌曲。然而她的情感却一再受挫，尤其是和拳击手马塞尔（让-皮埃尔·马丁斯饰）的情感经历。她的晚年每况愈下，最后死于肝癌。

 

对话文本:

La Vie en Rose, a new film by Olivier Dahan , tells a story of Édith Piaf, the great French singer who is one of the icons¹ of French culture in the postwar era. Piaf is played by Marion Cotillard, a fine-boned, big-eyed actress who gives one of those bravura² biopic performances that seems bent³ on convincing you that you are actually watching not just the person,the movie is about but an even more real version of that person.

Now this movie has some of the standard satisfactions and also the standard limitations of the Hollywood biopic.It made me wonder if all famous musicians basically have the same life or if all movies about famous musicians basically tell the same story, like  Ray Charles in Ray and Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, this Édith Piaf rises up from an impoverished⁴ unhappy traumatic childhood to battle drug addiction⁵, to have a series of love affairs, to collapse⁶ on stage, to get in car accidents, to have a lover died in a plane crash, to betray her best friends to sign record deals , and to just sing her little heart out.

The director seems to make some very odd choices about what to tell and what not to tell, for example it’s not until the very end of the movie when Édith Piaf is on her death bed that you suddenly have a flash back and discover that when she was a teenager she had a child who died of meningitis.It's kind of like "Oh, by the way, did I mention, I had a child and she died".One thing that’s not mentioned at all is the Second World War, the movie jumps from 1940 when Édith Piaf meets a soldier who is about to go off to the front to 1947 when she’s in New York falling in love with a French boxer⁷. And it seems odd that a movie about such a major figure in the history of France would not have anything about her life in the major event of 20th century French history. So all in all, this is a rather baffling movie, just doesn’t feel particularly urgent or necessary.It doesn’t feel like it adds anything to your understanding of  this fascinating and strange figure.

Vocabulary

bravura :   Great skill shown in the way you perform, write, paint etc, especially when you do something very difficult:

                 Eg.a bravura performance

普特网友

1 icons   

n.偶像( icon的名词复数 )；（计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的）符号，图像

参考例句：

• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下，后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

2 bravura   

n.华美的乐曲；勇敢大胆的表现；adj.壮勇华丽的

参考例句：

• The music ends with a display of bravura.音乐以一段壮丽的乐章结束。
• This picture has a bravura of execution.这幅画作风大胆。

3 bent   

n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的

参考例句：

• He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
• We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。

4 impoverished   

adj.穷困的，无力的，用尽了的v.使（某人）贫穷( impoverish的过去式和过去分词 )；使（某物）贫瘠或恶化

参考例句：

• the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
• They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。

6 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

7 boxer   

n.制箱者，拳击手

参考例句：

• The boxer gave his opponent a punch on the nose.这个拳击手朝他对手的鼻子上猛击一拳。
• He moved lightly on his toes like a boxer.他像拳击手一样踮着脚轻盈移动。