最新喜剧《优势合作》突出工薪一族的奋斗

 

New Comedy In Good Company Highlights Workplace Generation Struggle

最新喜剧《优势合作》突出工薪一族的奋斗

 

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Dan Foreman is a veteran sales manager at a national sports magazine; but after a corporate¹ takeover, he's demoted and a whiz kid half his age, Carter Duryea, is brought in to run the office.

 

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Dennis Quaid is the same age as his character, so he can identify with the experience of having to work with and for younger people. However, he says a point of the story is that the generations can learn from one another.

 

Quaid: As you get older you start to acquire more character, as it were. You don't seem to care so much about how it will appear or whatever. You just let go of a lot of stuff, so you can be a leading man and a character actor at the same time, in a way ... or carry a film was that way.

 

It doesn't help the situation much when Carter, played by Topher Grace, falls in love with Dan's college-age daughter, played by Scarlett Johansson.

 

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Grace, co-star of the popular TV sitcom² That 70's Show, says this character does not recognize - at least, not at first - how much he has to learn.

 

But that's his character. Off-screen, Grace says he sees it differently, especially after the experience of making this film.

 

Grace: You can't get away with bad acting³. It's like your final in school. It's this great test. I used to play tennis - I wanted to go into pro⁴ tennis - and what happens is when you're playing tennis with someone worse than you, you wind up losing to them. If you play with someone better than you, they make you better. So my thesis in terms of choosing projects is: I love being the least famous person in a movie.

 

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In Good Company is written and directed by Paul Weitz, who, at 38 is between the ages of the two main characters, so Weitz says he tried to tell the story from both points of view.

 

Paul Weitz: I think that there is always a flip⁵ side to ageism. First off, the younger people are, if they are lucky, get to the position that they are discriminating⁶ against; but also that there is no sort of apprenticeship⁷ system in business currently. So it's very easy to say Dennis Quaid's character is being hurt by this situation, but it's interesting to me to look at how the younger guy is being hurt by the situation. Also, mentoring⁹ is something that I'm very interested in. There are certain things that a mentor⁸ can tell you that your parents can not.

 

Weitz's previous films include the raunchy comedy American Pie and the comic romance About A Boy. Unlikely as it seems, he does find a thread running through those films that relates to this one.

 

Weitz: It's about what kind of man are you going to become. Are you going to become humanized? Or are you going to become more vicious?

 

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In Good Company also features Marg Helgenberger as Dan's eminently¹⁰ sensible wife; and Selma Blair plays the self-centered spouse¹¹ who leaves Carter just as his career is on the rise.

 

Alan Silverman for the Voice of America in Hollywood.

 

注释：

veteran [5vetErEn] adj. 经验丰富的

takeover [5teikEuvE(r)] n. 接管

generation [7dVenE5reiFEn] n. 一代人

co-star [5kEustB:(r)] n. 联合主演

ageism [5eidVizEm] n. 对老年人的歧视

apprenticeship [E5prentis7Fip] n. 学徒的身份

vicious [5viFEs] adj. 不道德的,

1 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

2 sitcom   

n.情景喜剧，（广播、电视的）系列幽默剧

参考例句：

• This sitcom is produced in cooperation with Hong Kong TV.这部连续剧是同香港电视台联合制作的。
• I heard that a new sitcom is coming out next season.我听说下一季会推出一个新的情境喜剧。

3 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

4 pro   

n.赞成，赞成的意见，赞成者

参考例句：

• The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
• Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军？

5 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

6 discriminating   

a.有辨别能力的

参考例句：

• Due caution should be exercised in discriminating between the two. 在区别这两者时应该相当谨慎。
• Many businesses are accused of discriminating against women. 许多企业被控有歧视妇女的做法。

7 apprenticeship   

n.学徒身份；学徒期

参考例句：

• She was in the second year of her apprenticeship as a carpenter. 她当木工学徒已是第二年了。
• He served his apprenticeship with Bob. 他跟鲍勃当学徒。

8 mentor   

n.指导者，良师益友；v.指导

参考例句：

• He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
• He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。

9 mentoring   

n.mentoring是一种工作关系。mentor通常是处在比mentee更高工作职位上的有影响力的人。他/她有比‘mentee’更丰富的工作经验和知识，并用心支持mentee的职业（发展）。v.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• One of the most effective instruments for coaching and mentoring is the "role rehearsal" . 辅导和教学的最有效的手段之一是“角色排练。” 来自辞典例句
• Bell Canada called their mentoring system a buddy-buddy system. 加拿大贝尔公司称他们的训导系统是伙伴—伙伴系统。 来自互联网

10 eminently   

adv.突出地；显著地；不寻常地

参考例句：

• She seems eminently suitable for the job. 她看来非常适合这个工作。
• It was an eminently respectable boarding school. 这是所非常好的寄宿学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 spouse   

n.配偶(指夫或妻)

参考例句：

• Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
• What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么？