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 Amber1: Hello, I’m Amber and this is bbclearningenglish.com.

In Entertainment today, we listen to a review of a new Hollywood film, The
Painted Veil, and we hear how the film – which stars Naomi Watts2 and Edward
Norton – is different from the classic English novel on which it’s based.
Somerset Maugham’s novel The Painted Veil tells the story of Kitty and Walter
Fane, a young English couple in the 1920s, who marry for the wrong reasons.
Kitty is a shallow rich girl who doesn’t love Walter, but wants to escape from
her family. Walter is a doctor, an expert in infectious diseases, and he’s a
serious, rather uptight3 person, although he loves his new wife very much.
The Fanes move to China, and Kitty meets Charles Townsend, an older,
married British diplomat4 and has a passionate5 affair with him ...
We asked the novelist Francis King (who knew Somerset Maugham) if he
agreed with critics that the new film of The Painted Veil doesn’t show the
powerful passion of Kitty and Townsend’s affair, and this is surprising as films
today have a greater freedom to depict6 sexual love.
As you listen to his answer, try to catch the expression Francis uses to stress
the strength of Kitty’s desire for Townsend.
Francis King
‘Yes, with the affair between Kitty and Townsend, they could have shown much more of that
because it is a tremendous, passionate affair. She’s absolutely obsessed7 with sex with him –
that never comes across really. You just see them once, when the door handle is turning, and
that’s all. So it is very old-fashioned in many ways, and the slowness of pace, I thought, was
old-fashioned.’ 
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Amber: Did you catch it? Frances says Kitty is ‘absolutely obsessed with’ sex with
Townsend. ‘To be obsessed with something’ is a very current expression in
English and it means that you’re unable to stop thinking about something.
Frances calls the film ‘old-fashioned’ – this expression is usually (as it is here)
used disapprovingly8 – he means it’s not a modern film, and he thinks it should
have been. For example, he says it had a ‘slowness of pace’ and most films
today are very fast-moving! Listen again.
Francis King
‘Yes, with the affair between Kitty and Townsend, they could have shown much more of that
because it is a tremendous, passionate affair. She’s absolutely obsessed with sex with him –
that never comes across really. You just see them once, when the door handle is turning, and
that’s all. So it is very old-fashioned in many ways, and the slowness of pace, I thought, was
old-fashioned.’
Amber: To punish Kitty for her affair with Townsend, Walter takes his wife to a remote
Chinese village where cholera9 has broken out … and we learn a lot more about
this terrible epidemic10 in the film than we do in the novel.
Next, the BBC interviewer, Mark Lawson, asks Frances to comment on the
language in the film and how he thinks it sounds to us today. Most of the
dialogue in the film is taken directly from the ‘vintage’ (old) novel and it
conveys how repressed the characters are – remember the story is set and was
written in the mid-1920s.
Notice the description ‘anachronisms of language and delivery’ – an
anachronism is something which exists out of its time in history.
Mark Lawson and Francis King
‘One of the objections that some people have when stories of this vintage are done now is that
there are anachronisms of language and of delivery. I wondered about the language – at one
point the doctor says, ‘I need to speak with you,’ which sounded slightly wrong to me.
Completely wrong, yes. ‘I need to have a word with you,’ he’d have probably said, yes.’ 
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Amber: While Walter works selflessly to help the Chinese villagers, Kitty begins to
see her husband in a new light, and their marriage slowly blossoms into love.
But then tragedy strikes … and Kitty is forced to examine the choices she
has made.
Most of The Painted Veil was filmed in China, and Frances says the scenery
in the film is ‘absolutely superb’ – it’s excellent – although there is very
little description of the landscape in the novel. But he says the film doesn’t
really show Kitty’s ‘spiritual’ journey – how her deep feelings and beliefs
change – and how she ‘ends up’ a ‘totally changed’ person.
Francis King
‘Here it was absolutely superb, but I get rather tired of all those jagged mountains and the
water underneath11 them – they seem to keep coming back, those mountains, and I felt what the
film didn’t bring out was that it’s not just a geographical12 journey for Kitty, the heroine, it’s
also a spiritual one – at the end of the novel, she ends up totally changed, she’s a different
person, and I don’t think you got that feeling from the film at all.’
Amber: Now let’s recap the language we focussed on.
 
to be obsessed with something – to be unable to stop thinking about
something
 old-fashioned – not modern, more typical of a time in the past
vintage – old, and of high quality and lasting value 

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1 amber LzazBn     
n.琥珀;琥珀色;adj.琥珀制的
参考例句:
  • Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗?
  • This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。
2 watts c70bc928c4d08ffb18fc491f215d238a     
(电力计量单位)瓦,瓦特( watt的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • My lamp uses 60 watts; my toaster uses 600 watts. 我的灯用60瓦,我的烤面包器用600瓦。
  • My lamp uses 40 watts. 我的灯40瓦。
3 uptight yjXwQ     
adj.焦虑不安的,紧张的
参考例句:
  • He's feeling a bit uptight about his exam tomorrow.他因明天的考试而感到有点紧张。
  • Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.试着一笑了之,不要紧张。
4 diplomat Pu0xk     
n.外交官,外交家;能交际的人,圆滑的人
参考例句:
  • The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话,紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
  • He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。
5 passionate rLDxd     
adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的
参考例句:
  • He is said to be the most passionate man.据说他是最有激情的人。
  • He is very passionate about the project.他对那个项目非常热心。
6 depict Wmdz5     
vt.描画,描绘;描写,描述
参考例句:
  • I don't care to see plays or films that depict murders or violence.我不喜欢看描写谋杀或暴力的戏剧或电影。
  • Children's books often depict farmyard animals as gentle,lovable creatures.儿童图书常常把农场的动物描写得温和而可爱。
7 obsessed 66a4be1417f7cf074208a6d81c8f3384     
adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的
参考例句:
  • He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
  • The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。
8 disapprovingly 6500b8d388ebb4d1b87ab0bd19005179     
adv.不以为然地,不赞成地,非难地
参考例句:
  • When I suggested a drink, she coughed disapprovingly. 我提议喝一杯时,她咳了一下表示反对。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He shook his head disapprovingly. 他摇了摇头,表示不赞成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 cholera rbXyf     
n.霍乱
参考例句:
  • The cholera outbreak has been contained.霍乱的发生已被控制住了。
  • Cholera spread like wildfire through the camps.霍乱在营地里迅速传播。
10 epidemic 5iTzz     
n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
参考例句:
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
11 underneath VKRz2     
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
参考例句:
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
12 geographical Cgjxb     
adj.地理的;地区(性)的
参考例句:
  • The current survey will have a wider geographical spread.当前的调查将在更广泛的地域范围內进行。
  • These birds have a wide geographical distribution.这些鸟的地理分布很广。
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