影视听力 第12期:First Sunday 笨贼的祈祷

杜瑞尔和李约翰是一对不折不扣的笨贼，这对铁哥们不学无术，靠一些偷鸡摸狗的小勾当混口饭吃，偏偏又笨得出奇。这不，好不容易得手了，却又把车撞上了路边摊，倒霉的笨贼二人组只好乖乖的被警察带走咯。最后，杜瑞尔和李约翰被判罚社区服务令，总算用不着蹲大牢了。

对话文本

First Sunday is a new comedy directed and written by David E. Talbert, a first-time film maker¹ who's had a lot of success with plays, and this movie, kind of plays a little bit like a play. It seems perhaps like it would have been more comfortable on the stage than on the screen, but it has its good points.

Ice Cube is the star. He plays Durrell, a man in Baltimore who has to come up with 17,000 dollars or else his child and his child's mother will move out of town.

Durrell's best friend is Lee John played by Tracy Morgan and he's the usual comic sidekick to Ice Cube. Ice Cube does best in comedies when he has a comic sidekick ‘cause he doesn't show a lot of great humor or enthusiasm himself.

But the person who really steals the show is Katt Williams playing Rickey, choir² director at the church that Lee John and Durrell decide to rob.

What kind of people would rob a church? That question gets asked again and again, the whole middle third of First Sunday consists of people asking the two robbers what are you doing robbing a church?

But they need the money and the comedy needs a hook³. There needs to be some misunderstandings, some shenanigans.

Robbing a Church is one way to get inside a church and church is where these guys are supposed to end up.

You can see the aim mic coming from a mile away. This is gonna be a warm slightly sentimental⁴ movie about redemption, the bad guys see the error of their ways, the nice people of the church take them in and life goes on.

Your life will certainly go on if you skip this movie but if you are in the mood for something easy, soft, sweet with some funny moments then you could do worse than to check out First Sunday.

1 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

2 choir   

n.唱诗班，唱诗班的席位，合唱团，舞蹈团；v.合唱

参考例句：

• The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
• The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。

3 hook   

vt.钩住；n.钩子，钩状物

参考例句：

• The blacksmith forged a bar of iron into a hook.铁匠把一根铁条锻造成一个钩子。
• He hangs up his scarf on the hook behind the door.他把围巾挂在门后的衣钩上。

4 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。