时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:欧美电影简介


英语课

《上帝之城》是2002年由费尔南多·梅里尔斯执导,马修斯·纳克加勒、艾莉丝·布拉加、索·豪黑主演的一部惊悚电影。电影改编自半自传式小说《God's Town》,于2002年8月30日巴西上映。影片围绕上帝之城展开,一个出生于贫困家庭的黑人小孩布斯卡,弱小的他害怕成为一个罪犯,满足于一份低薪的工作。因为他拥有一双善于发掘生活的艺术家的眼睛。最后,他成为了一位职业摄影师。


City of God is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Kátia Lund. The story was adapted by Bráulio Mantovani from the 1997 novel of the same name written by Paulo Lins. However, the movie characters are not fictitious 1 and the plot is based upon real events. It follows the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s. The end of the film shows the war between the drug dealer 2 Li'l Zé and the criminal Knockout Ned. City of God was ranked third in Film4's "50 Films to See Before You Die", and No.6 on The Guardian's "The 25 Best Action Movies Ever".


 


The movie's tagline is: "If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you", (a Portuguese 3 proverb similar to the English "Damned if you do, damned if you don't"). It describes the hopelessness of being involved in criminal activity in Rio's favelas. Most of the cast were from real-life favelas, including the real-life City of God itself. About a hundred children were hand-picked and placed into an "actors' workshop" for several months. Their training focused on simulating authentic 4 street-war scenes, such as a hold-up, a scuffle, a shoot-out, etc. After filming, it was too dangerous for the young actors to return to their old lives in the favelas and so help groups were set up for them to build lives elsewhere.


 



1 fictitious
adj.虚构的,假设的;空头的
  • She invented a fictitious boyfriend to put him off.她虚构出一个男朋友来拒绝他。
  • The story my mother told me when I was young is fictitious.小时候妈妈对我讲的那个故事是虚构的。
2 dealer
n.商人,贩子
  • The dealer spent hours bargaining for the painting.那个商人为购买那幅画花了几个小时讨价还价。
  • The dealer reduced the price for cash down.这家商店对付现金的人减价优惠。
3 Portuguese
n.葡萄牙人;葡萄牙语
  • They styled their house in the Portuguese manner.他们仿照葡萄牙的风格设计自己的房子。
  • Her family is Portuguese in origin.她的家族是葡萄牙血统。
4 authentic
a.真的,真正的;可靠的,可信的,有根据的
  • This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
  • Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。
学英语单词
airbladder
airplane sounding
APDEX
arm wrestles
back-plane drivers
barmy sponge
bedside monitor
biotrophy
bit crushers
break-even revenue
broken plateau
calcaneotibial ligament
cargo decks
cargo oil pipe
chemiluminescence reaction
civet cats
colpospasm(colpismus)
coronal invagination
curtailment of expenditures
Damg.
despotists
destination selection
diiodoaniline
Dolichandrone
dydek
episcopizes
formal defect
gastrular mesoderm
genips
Handegg
hard handed
have no claim on
hungarian grasses
hydrophily
ill-come
Inflarm
interface critical distance
internet fraud
irrational synthesis
isosplendenine
janio
Jeremiah
lopping tree
lubricating oil system
macaluba
make a pig of ourselves
marischini
masseteric artery (or maxillo-muscular artery)
Melqart
mercury-zinc cyanide
model vibrator
modern trend
mossyback
multi-value measure
negative binomial probability function
noncomplimentary
nonliterary
one-acters
Onich
ore deposit
Osler's thiads
overall computing speed
para rivers
petroleomics
phenoxy acid
pizza paddles
plastic friction
poale
pressosensitivity
pseudobonds
pub crawl
public-policy
qo
qualified accountants
racahs
reachability set
rilievi
roof cant rail
shiplets
short notice
snaffle bit
Starker, Janos
sub-collateral
super-saturated
tailor's bunion
Tarrafal
technique of marginal analysis
thyroid scintillation detector
time delay undervolt relay
to take away
tracking and ranging
triple valve nipple
tuned plate
ultrasonic detector for density of mixed fuel
under report
undulating membrane
unhurdled
unvaried
Vaterland
warreniplema fumicosta
weediest
year