美国国家公共电台 NPR Summer Movie Preview: 'Wonder Woman,' 'Rough Night,' 'Transformers'
时间：2018-12-02 作者：英语课 分类：2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
Hollywood has been having a banner year at the box office from "Beauty And The Beast" to "Guardians 1 Of The Galaxy 3." So how will the film industry keep its winning streak 4 going? Well, in his summer preview, Bob Mondello says movie studios seem to be banking 5 more than usual on women.
BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE 6: It was always going to be the year of Wonder Woman.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "WONDER WOMAN")
GAL 2 GADOT: (As Wonder Woman) The gods made the Amazons to restore peace to the world, and it's what I'm going to do.
MONDELLO: Gal Gadot was the one bright spot in "Batman v Superman." Now she's got a whole movie to twirl her lasso of truth in while wielding 7 her other trinkets - indestructible wrist bracelets 8.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "WONDER WOMAN")
CHRIS PINE: (As Steve Trevor) Yep, that's not going to work. Please put the sword down.
LUCY DAVIS: (As Etta Candy) It doesn't go with the outfit 9.
PINE: (As Steve Trevor) At all.
MONDELLO: But Gadot isn't the only blockbuster goddess sporting special effects this summer. When Universal reboots its "Mummy" franchise 11, Tom Cruise will be battling an ancient Egyptian princess.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE MUMMY")
ANNABELLE WALLIS: (As Jenny Halsey) Legend has it she's a being of unimaginable powers. Now she's using you to regain 12 them.
MONDELLO: And a goddess of more contemporary vintage is the season's most notable secret agent-slash-assassin. Played by Charlize Theron, she's a bruiser, a brawler 13, a tough cookie in every respect. They call her the Atomic Blonde.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "ATOMIC BLONDE")
CHARLIZE THERON: (As Lorraine Broughton) I chose this life, and someday it's going to get me killed...
(SOUNDBITE OF GUNFIRE)
THERON: (As Lorraine Broughton) ...But not today.
JAMES MCAVOY: (As David Percival) God, I think I love you.
THERON: (As Lorraine Broughton) That's too bad.
MONDELLO: Women will also be dominating a couple of the season's group comedies, Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith going on what they call a girls trip.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "GIRLS TRIP")
REGINA HALL: (As Ryan) We haven't hung in five years. This weekend is about us. Today is the last day that we will ever be this young.
TIFFANY HADDISH: (As Dina) I'm about to get pregnant tonight.
MONDELLO: And Scarlett Johansson has her own posse of friends in "Rough Night."
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "ROUGH NIGHT")
SCARLETT JOHANSSON: (As Jess) This is so much fun.
ZOE KRAVITZ: (As Blair) Let's get a stripper.
JILLIAN BELL: (As Alice) Yes.
KRAVITZ: (As Blair) Right?
MONDELLO: It's called "Rough Night" because things do not go smoothly 14.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "ROUGH NIGHT")
JOHANSSON: (As Jess) He's dead.
BELL: (As Alice) Oh, God.
KRAVITZ: (As Blair) Let's get rid of all the drugs.
BELL: (As Alice) I'm on it.
JOHANSSON: (As Jess) Not by doing them.
BELL: (As Alice) OK, someone tell me what to do, and I will do it.
MONDELLO: That is something you would never hear from the assertive 15 women in two of the summer's more serious films. "Beatriz At Dinner" lets Salma Hayek take on an arrogant 16 hotel developer who may remind you of someone.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BEATRIZ AT DINNER")
SALMA HAYEK: (As Beatriz) You think that you can hide up here behind these gates and that everything is going to be all right?
JOHN LITHGOW: (As Doug Strutt) The world doesn't need your feelings. It needs jobs. It needs money. It needs what I do.
HAYEK: (As Beatriz) The world doesn't need you.
MONDELLO: Then there's this 19th century wife.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LADY MACBETH")
FLORENCE PUGH: (As Katherine) Sit back down.
NAOMI ACKIE: (As Anna) No.
PUGH: (As Katherine) Sit down.
MONDELLO: You do not want to cross her. She's not Shakespearean, but she earns the film's title, "Lady Macbeth."
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LADY MACBETH")
PUGH: (As Katherine) Through hell and high water, I will follow you.
COSMO JARVIS: (As Sebastian, grunting).
PUGH: (As Katherine) Sebastian.
MONDELLO: Also in petticoats are the ladies in "My Cousin Rachel" and Sofia Coppola's "Beguiled," who tend to see the men in their lives as broken birds who need to be nursed back to health.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE BEGUILED")
NICOLE KIDMAN: (As Martha Farnsworth) I need rags. I need chloroform. Go to the smoke house. Get the saw now.
MONDELLO: Sound a bit bloodthirsty for your taste - well, things are more sanguine 17 in "Ingrid Goes West," where "Parks And Recreation's" Aubrey Plaza 18 drops her amusingly blase 19 persona to become amusingly obsessed 20 with social media. The film "Megan Leavey" tells the true story of a woman Marine 21 who bonded 22 with a bomb-sniffing dog in Iraq. And creative women are profiled in "Maudie" about a painter, "The B-Side" about a photographer, "Polina" about a dancer and the Sundance sensation "Patti Cake$" about a rapper.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "PATTI CAKE$")
DANIELLE MACDONALD: (As Patti, rapping) It's Ritz Cracker 23, a gold heart, swagger is Viagra. I roll stone through Jersey 24 like Jagger in a Jaguar 25.
MONDELLO: It's not that the summer will be all women all the time. Action sequels - and there are a lot of those - will largely center on men from "War For The Planet Of The Apes..."
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES")
ANDY SERKIS: (As Caeser) I fight only to protect apes.
MONDELLO: ...To "Transformers: The Last Knight 26..."
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT")
GEMMA CHAN: (As Quintessa) Optimus Prime, do you seek redemption?
PETER CULLEN: (As Optimus Prime) I do.
MONDELLO: ...To latest Marvel 27 reboot.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING")
TOM HOLLAND: (As Peter Parker) So to become an Avenger 28, are there, like, trials or an interview?
ROBERT DOWNEY JR: (As Tony Stark) Do me a favor. Can't you just be a friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man?
MONDELLO: Also comics related - an apocalypse that's not a sequel from Stephen King, "The Dark Tower."
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE DARK TOWER")
TOM TAYLOR: (As Jake Chambers) You let that tower fall, billions of people die.
IDRIS ELBA: (As Roland Deschain) Do they have guns and bullets in your world?
TAYLOR: (As Jake Chambers) You're going to like Earth a lot.
MONDELLO: Guns plus fast cars and action figure in a couple of crime world thrillers 29. "Baby Driver" is about a driver named...
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BABY DRIVER")
ANSEL ELGORT: (As Baby) Baby.
LILY JAMES: (As Deborah) Your name's Baby - B-A-B-Y, Baby.
MONDELLO: And in the rated-R for language "Hitman's Bodyguard 30," Samuel L. Jackson is the hitman, Ryan Reynolds the less-than-enthusiastic bodyguard.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE HITMAN'S BODYGUARD")
RYAN REYNOLDS: (As Michael Bryce) I hope they kill him. I really do. This guy singlehandedly ruined the word [expletive].
SAMUEL L JACKSON: (As Darius Kinkaid) Tick, tock, [expletive]. I will bust 10 a cap in your [expletive].
REYNOLDS: (As Michael Bryce) Have you ever said please?
JACKSON: (As Darius Kinkaid) Please, [expletive].
REYNOLDS: (As Michael Bryce) Why are we always yelling?
MONDELLO: Parents who want to watch "Hitman's Bodyguard" will need to drop the kids off at something a little milder. Happily, that'll be easy. There will be a double dose of Steve Carell in "Despicable Me 3," not just Gru but his twin brother, Dru.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DESPICABLE ME 3")
STEVE CARELL: (As Dru) You ready to continue the family tradition, you and me?
(As Gru) No, I left that life behind me.
MONDELLO: Also Lightning McQueen and Mater in Cars 3.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "CARS 3")
OWEN WILSON: (As Lightning McQueen) I can't go out on the track and do the same old thing. It won't work.
LARRY THE CABLE GUY: (As Mater) You know what I'd do?
WILSON: (As Lightning McQueen) What?
LARRY THE CABLE GUY: (As Mater) I got nothing.
MONDELLO: And there's a film about animated 31 fourth graders who hypnotize their principal as a prank 32 then have trouble controlling their creation.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC 33 MOVIE")
THOMAS MIDDLEDITCH: (As Harold) Captain Underpants, you can't actually fly.
ED HELMS: (As Captain Underpants) I take to the sky like an ostrich 34.
KEVIN HART: (As George) Wow, he is super dumb.
MONDELLO: Does all of this escapist fare have you craving 35 escape of a more grounded sort? Well, Kumail Nanjiani based the season's most engaging romantic dramedy on his own early encounters with the woman who became his wife. It's called "The Big Sick" because unknown to either of them at the time, she was very ill. And that wasn't their only challenge.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE BIG SICK")
KUMAIL NANJIANI: (As Kumail) I've been dating this girl. She's white.
ADEEL AKHTAR: (As Naveed) A white girl?
NANJIANI: (As Kumail) OK, you can't look like you and yell white girl. It's OK. We hate terrorists.
MONDELLO: There are other darker fact-based films about the ways racism 36 impacts America, a serious look from Kathryn Bigelow and her "Zero Dark Thirty" team in the drama "Detroit" about the 1967 riots in that city.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DETROIT")
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) It's a war zone out there. They're destroying the city.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Whoa, hey, y'all seeing this?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) Hey, look; we're not so far from the Algiers. Let's just go there until all this blows over.
MONDELLO: And the biopic "All Eyez On Me" looks at the life and legacy 37 of assassinated 38 rapper Tupac Shakur.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "ALL EYEZ ON ME")
HILL HARPER: (As Journalist) You said - and I quote - if they kill me, "I want the people to know the real story."
MONDELLO: While we're talking fact-based, there are some provocative 39 documentaries coming our way - "Whose Streets?" about the societal disaster that was Ferguson, Mo., and Al Gore 40's "An Inconvenient 41 Sequel."
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AL GORE: The most criticized scene in the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" was showing that the combination of sea level rise and storm surge would flood the 9/11 Memorial site. And people said, what a terrible exaggeration.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City last night, flooding the World Trade Center site.
MONDELLO: Water, water everywhere. It's also blocking the escape of allied 42 soldiers in Christopher Nolan's World War II epic, "Dunkirk"
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DUNKIRK")
JAMES D'ARCY: (As Colonel) The enemy tanks have stopped.
KENNETH BRANAGH: (As Lieutenant) Why?
D'ARCY: (As Colonel) Why waste precious tanks when they can pick us off from the air like fish in a barrel? There are 400,000 men on this beach.
MONDELLO: Nolan's idea is to tell the story of "Dunkirk" almost entirely 43 through the eyes of the troops involved. If you want the strategy of the higher-ups, you'll find that in the movie "Churchill."
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "CHURCHILL")
BRIAN COX: (As Winston Churchill) We defy Hitler. It is time to win this great war.
MONDELLO: Yeah, well, audiences elsewhere at the multiplex will know what he really needs is Wonder Woman on his side - couldn't hurt. I'm Bob Mondello.
- Farmers should be guardians of the countryside. 农民应是乡村的保卫者。
- The police are guardians of law and order. 警察是法律和秩序的护卫者。
- We decided to go with the gal from Merrill.我们决定和那个从梅里尔来的女孩合作。
- What's the name of the gal? 这个妞叫什么？
- The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
- The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。
- The Indians used to streak their faces with paint.印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。
- Why did you streak the tree?你为什么在树上刻条纹？
- John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
- He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
- His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
- We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
- The rebels were wielding sticks of dynamite. 叛乱分子舞动着棒状炸药。
- He is wielding a knife. 他在挥舞着一把刀。
- The lamplight struck a gleam from her bracelets. 她的手镯在灯光的照射下闪闪发亮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- On display are earrings, necklaces and bracelets made from jade, amber and amethyst. 展出的有用玉石、琥珀和紫水晶做的耳环、项链和手镯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
- His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。
- I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
- She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。
- Catering in the schools is run on a franchise basis.学校餐饮服务以特许权经营。
- The United States granted the franchise to women in 1920.美国于1920年给妇女以参政权。
- He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
- The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
- Drunken Brawler can crit and proc a ground unit, but not an air unit. 醉拳可以躲避地面单位的攻击或者对其产生致命一击，却不能作用于空军。
- The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作，所以工作进展顺利。
- Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。
- She always speaks an assertive tone.她总是以果断的语气说话。
- China appears to have become more assertive in the waters off its coastline over recent years.在近些年，中国显示出对远方海洋的自信。
- You've got to get rid of your arrogant ways.你这骄傲劲儿得好好改改。
- People are waking up that he is arrogant.人们开始认识到他很傲慢。
- He has a sanguine attitude to life.他对于人生有乐观的看法。
- He is not very sanguine about our chances of success.他对我们成功的机会不太乐观。
- They designated the new shopping centre York Plaza.他们给这个新购物中心定名为约克购物中心。
- The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen.这个广场上布满了便衣警察。
- She's very blase about parties.她非常腻烦聚会。
- The film star is blase about endless flattery now.那位电影明星现在对无休无止的吹捧已经厌烦了。
- 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。
- Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
- When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
- The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee.威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
- This adhesive must be applied to both surfaces which are to be bonded together.要粘接的两个面都必须涂上这种黏合剂。
- Buy me some peanuts and cracker.给我买一些花生和饼干。
- There was a cracker beside every place at the table.桌上每个位置旁都有彩包爆竹。
- He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
- They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
- He was green with envy when he saw my new Jaguar car.看见我那辆美洲虎牌新车，他非常妒忌。
- Should you meet a jaguar in the jungle,just turn slowly,walk away.But slowly,never look back.你在丛林中若碰上美洲虎，就慢慢转身走开，可一定要慢，切莫回头看。
- He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
- A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。
- The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
- The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。
- "Tom Sawyer, the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main. “我乃西班牙海黑衣侠盗，汤姆 - 索亚。
- Avenger's Shield-0.26 threat per hit (0.008 threat per second) 飞盾-0.26仇恨每击（0.08仇恨每秒）
- He has written seven thrillers, and clearly enjoys intellectual pursuits. 他已经写了7本惊悚小说，显然很喜欢这样的智力活动。 来自辞典例句
- Most Americans prefer to read fast-moving adventure stories that we call "thrillers". 大部分美国人喜欢看我们称之为"惊险小说"的情节多变的冒险故事。 来自辞典例句
- She has to have an armed bodyguard wherever she goes.她不管到哪儿都得有带武器的保镖跟从。
- The big guy standing at his side may be his bodyguard.站在他身旁的那个大个子可能是他的保镖。
- His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
- We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。
- It was thought that the fire alarm had been set off as a prank.人们认为火警报警器响是个恶作剧。
- The dean was ranking the boys for pulling the prank.系主任正在惩罚那些恶作剧的男学生。
- I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
- They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。
- Ostrich is the fastest animal on two legs.驼鸟是双腿跑得最快的动物。
- The ostrich indeed inhabits continents.鸵鸟确实是生活在大陆上的。
- a craving for chocolate 非常想吃巧克力
- She skipped normal meals to satisfy her craving for chocolate and crisps. 她不吃正餐，以便满足自己吃巧克力和炸薯片的渴望。
- He said that racism is endemic in this country.他说种族主义在该国很普遍。
- Racism causes political instability and violence.种族主义道致政治动荡和暴力事件。
- They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
- He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
- The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。
- Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后，肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。 来自辞典例句
- She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
- His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。
- The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
- Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。
- You have come at a very inconvenient time.你来得最不适时。
- Will it be inconvenient for him to attend that meeting?他参加那次会议会不方便吗？