VOA标准英语2012--'One Day on Earth' Delivers Global Message

'One Day on Earth' Delivers Global Message

 

"One Day on Earth," a film created by Kyle Ruddick and Brandon Littman, documents one day in the life of humanity from every country on the planet.

More than 15,000 people contributed footage from their ethnic¹ communities and helped to create a global patchwork² of universal themes - including birth, love, creativity, war and death - all filmed on the same day, Oct. 10, 2010. 

The film will be presented in 170 countries on Earth Day this Sunday, April 22. The filmmakers describe in their own words how the film was made.

According to director Kyle Ruddick, the idea for the film was inspired by music. 

"You can take music from all over the world and you can combine it," he says, "and I thought that cinema should have something that immediate³, that in the moment, and I had this idea that basically, what if as many people across the world filmed at the same time during one day."

The film is roughly based on the cycle of life.

"There is definitely a story to this movie, there is a narrative," Ruddick says. "But the way that we found it, was to really listen to all the perspectives and go through 3,000 hours of footage. It was a very laborious⁴ and enjoyable process, actually. It was about the discovery of what people have sent to us. And that was really an exciting process because every day you are discovering something new you didn’t know about that was beautiful and profound and from a place in the world you hadn’t seen before.”

For producer Brandon Littman, the logistics were a challenge.

"Filming in every country in the world requires a lot of friends and a lot of supporters," he says. "We spent long days and nights establishing communication from large organizations like the United Nations and the Red Cross and Red Crescent to smaller NGOs and filmmakers around the world. I think at the time there were about 15,000 members of 'One Day on Earth.'"

And what do filmmakers hope viewers will take away from the film?

"My hope is that people see this movie and they feel interconnected and they feel incredible gratitude⁵ for being alive and hope for the future," Ruddick says, "but they also feel responsibility to the challenges they face on a personal and global level." 

1 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
• The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。

2 patchwork   

n.混杂物；拼缝物

参考例句：

• That proposal is nothing else other than a patchwork.那个建议只是一个大杂烩而已。
• She patched new cloth to the old coat,so It'seemed mere patchwork. 她把新布初到那件旧上衣上，所以那件衣服看上去就象拼凑起来的东西。

3 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

4 laborious   

adj.吃力的，努力的，不流畅

参考例句：

• They had the laborious task of cutting down the huge tree.他们接受了伐大树的艰苦工作。
• Ants and bees are laborious insects.蚂蚁与蜜蜂是勤劳的昆虫。

5 gratitude   

adj.感激，感谢

参考例句：

• I have expressed the depth of my gratitude to him.我向他表示了深切的谢意。
• She could not help her tears of gratitude rolling down her face.她感激的泪珠禁不住沿着面颊流了下来。