[英伦广角] 2015-10-11 电影工业正在“挫败女人”

 “Never underestimate the power we women have to define our own destiny.”

It’s the story of women’s fight for equality, brought alive by a group of female film makers¹. But despite it being in 21st century and nearly 100 years after women got the votes, such an all-star female line-up is depressingly rare. “A story of women, in the past and present is absolutely vital and it reflects our life. And so we don’t see films reflecting our life, then how to…can we expect women to go to vote maybes? Working on this film has helped me to re-engage my own feminism, my own activism, and I think when you start to look at the figures across the board, not only in the film industry, but industry in general, in the world of business, in the world of law, we know stats don’t add up.”

The industry is more X ever being according to Eva Thompson. Patricia Arquette talked about pay and equality when she picked up her Oscar. And stats show that in the top 100 highest grossing films distributed in America in recent years, only 1.9 % of them were directed by women.

One of the themes of this year’s London Film Festival is “Strong Women”. Suffragette is the opening movie, and throughout there’s a selection of film showcasing female talent. But organizers wish they can go even further.

“We have 46 films directed by women, which sounds really impressive and makes you get every excited by how vibrant² the opportunities are for women directing now. But that’s still only 20% to our program of 240 films.”

Emily Blunt takes experience film makers’ preference for leading man first hand in her latest film. “The writer, when he was shopping it around to one finance X and the financer said: ‘If you make her a guy, I’ll make it tomorrow. And I’ll up your budget.’”

Actors like Anne Heathway are turning to producing to maximize their choices and believe the tide is turning. “I think the whole industry is being embarrassed by the state of things when you look at the numbers. And I think everybody, or at least enough people are trying to make it better. The needle’s moving is gonna take time of course, but I think there are lot of positive indicators³.”

Suffragette will undoubtedly⁴ remind audiences how far women have come, but the focus on gender⁵ equality will also draw our attentions to how far they are still least(?) to go.

Lucy Cotter, Sky News.

1 makers   

n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）

参考例句：

• The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
• The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 vibrant   

adj.震颤的，响亮的，充满活力的，精力充沛的，(色彩)鲜明的

参考例句：

• He always uses vibrant colours in his paintings. 他在画中总是使用鲜明的色彩。
• She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.她在学校表演中生气盎然地扮演了主角。

3 indicators   

（仪器上显示温度、压力、耗油量等的）指针( indicator的名词复数 )； 指示物； （车辆上的）转弯指示灯； 指示信号

参考例句：

• The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
• It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。

4 undoubtedly   

adv.确实地，无疑地

参考例句：

• It is undoubtedly she who has said that.这话明明是她说的。
• He is undoubtedly the pride of China.毫无疑问他是中国的骄傲。

5 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。