影视听力 第7期:I Am Legend我是传奇

片名：我是传奇
英文片名：I Am Legend
又名：魔间传奇
国家/地区：美国
区域：欧美 
发行：华纳 Warner Bros. Pictures
类型：动作 科幻 冒险
导演： 弗朗西斯·劳伦斯Francis Lawrence
主演： 威尔·史密斯Will Smith 爱丽丝·布拉加Alice Braga 萨利·理查德森-惠特菲尔德Salli Richardson-Whitfield 威洛·史密斯Willow Smith 查理·塔韩Charlie Tahan
分级：美国PG-13
片长：115分钟
上映时间：2007年12月14日

 

剧情简介
　　
2012年，人类被不知名病毒感染，纽约成为一座空城。Robert Neville（Will Smith 饰）是为军方服务的科学家，也是对病毒有免疫力的幸存者。白天，他带着狗Sam在街道上寻找食物，用广播寻找幸存者，在实验室里研究治愈病毒的方法；晚上，他只能躲在屋子里，因为那些感染病毒而没有死亡的人们，成为了“夜魔”只能夜晚出来活动，丧失理智，会攻击所有的人。
　　
某天，Sam也感染病毒死去，Robert Neville陷入了前所未有的孤独。当他准备和“夜魔”们同归于尽的时候，另外一个幸存者Anna(Alice Braga 饰)救了他。Anna相信山上的隔离区还有幸存者，但是固执的Robert Neville却坚持守在纽约。
　　
又一个晚上，“夜魔”攻击Robert Neville的住所，此时他的研究已经获得成功，但是只有坚持到天亮，人类才能得以延存。

对话文本:普特网友，文本只包括旁白影评部分，不包括电影原声。

I Am Legend is a new film directed by Francis Lawrence. It's based on a well-known beloved science fiction novel by Richard Matheson that's been made into movie several times before starring Vincent Price and also Charlton Heston.

This one stars Will Smith. He plays Robert Neville, an army officer doctor and medical researcher who also seems to be the last man left alive on the island of Manhattan after a virus has wiped everyone out and forced the evacuation of the city. He is not entirely¹ alone. Neville has a faithful German shepherd named Sam and there're also a lot of mutant zombie types running around on the island. They can't come out in daylight because they'll disintegrate² or shrivel or die or something. But when the sun goes down, they come out looking for prey³ and they are the usual scary movie zombies. They wanna eat everyone in sight and they move very fast.

The movie, however, is best when it moves slowly. The first hour of this is really terrific because of the way that Francis Lawrence and a team of CGI effects specialists has emptied out the city and presented us some very familiar landmarks⁴ and yet it all looks very real and very vivid and there's something haunting about this but also sort of attractive about it. And imagine what a playground it would be if you could go out, deer hunting, if you could drive as fast as you want, all without leaving Manhattan.

And Will Smith is the other great asset that this movie has. He is one of the few movie stars I can think of who could carry a movie pretty much all by himself without another human being to talk to or to riff off ireful to the serve as his foil or a straight man. It's perhaps inevitable⁵ that this movie, because it is a genre⁶ movie, it's a zombie movie, a science fiction horror movie, an action movie, does disappoint in the end. The last half hour or so it gets very conventional, very sentimental⁷. I won't tell you what happens, but it suffices to say that it doesn't quite live up to either the hauntingness or the enchanted⁸ fantasy aspects of its premise⁹. But it is still a pretty good time.

1 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

2 disintegrate   

v.瓦解，解体，（使）碎裂，（使）粉碎

参考例句：

• The older strata gradually disintegrate.较老的岩层渐渐风化。
• The plane would probably disintegrate at that high speed.飞机以那么高速飞行也许会四分五裂。

3 prey   

n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨

参考例句：

• Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
• The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。

4 landmarks   

n.陆标( landmark的名词复数 )；目标；（标志重要阶段的）里程碑 ~ (in sth)；有历史意义的建筑物（或遗址）

参考例句：

• The book stands out as one of the notable landmarks in the progress of modern science. 这部著作是现代科学发展史上著名的里程碑之一。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The baby was one of the big landmarks in our relationship. 孩子的出世是我们俩关系中的一个重要转折点。 来自辞典例句

5 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

6 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

7 sentimental   

adj.多愁善感的，感伤的

参考例句：

• She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.她是多愁善感的人，她相信姻缘命中注定。
• We were deeply touched by the sentimental movie.我们深深被那感伤的电影所感动。

8 enchanted   

adj. 被施魔法的，陶醉的，入迷的 动词enchant的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• She was enchanted by the flowers you sent her. 她非常喜欢你送给她的花。
• He was enchanted by the idea. 他为这个主意而欣喜若狂。

9 premise   

n.前提；v.提论，预述

参考例句：

• Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.让我引述一些史实作为我立论的前提。
• We can deduce a conclusion from the premise.我们可以从这个前提推出结论。