VOA标准英语2012--Hollywood Resurrects Schwarzenegger's 'Total Recall'
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Hollywood Resurrects Schwarzenegger's 'Total Recall'
It's the not too distant future: a post-war society has the wealthy elite 1 living comfortably while the working poor battle over scraps 2. Unable to afford genuine adventures, they live vicariously through memories implanted by a company called Rekall.
But it all goes wrong for factory worker Douglas Quaid when the Rekall procedure reveals he is actually a secret agent and his adoring wife Lori is a rival assassin.
Colin Farrell stars as Quaid. The Irish-born actor admits he re-watched the 1990 film before playing the role.
"More to annoy myself and give myself a dose of the nerves, really, and to see if I could instill myself with any premature 3 regret, " Farrell jokes, "because I only looked at the film again after I had signed on to do it. But it was different enough. When I read the script, tonally it felt so different even though the plot points were the same."
There is plenty of action, from shoot-outs and bare-knuckle brawls 4 to futuristic car chases. But Farrell says there is also a desperate search for identity …for an answer to the question Quaid asks.
"I did read the original story, and I just marveled at the many-tiered levels of complexity 5 that Phillip K. Dick could achieve in such a short time with regard to the fracturing of a person's psychology 6 and the uncertainty 7 as to what was real and what was not," he says.
Director Len Wiseman says audiences will decide if the events are all in Quaid's mind.
"The most important thing about this movie, and I think the fun of it, is that question: is it fantasy or reality?" he explains. "I wanted to make sure that you could watch the movie from both perspectives and see if it really adds up."
Total Recall co-stars Kate Beckinsale as undercover assassin Lori.
- The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
- We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
- Don't litter up the floor with scraps of paper. 不要在地板上乱扔纸屑。
- A patchwork quilt is a good way of using up scraps of material. 做杂拼花布棉被是利用零碎布料的好办法。
- It is yet premature to predict the possible outcome of the dialogue.预言这次对话可能有什么结果为时尚早。
- The premature baby is doing well.那个早产的婴儿很健康。
- Whatever brawls disturb the street, there should be peace at home. 街上无论多么喧闹，家中应有宁静。
- I got into brawls in the country saloons near my farm. 我在离我农场不远的乡下沙龙里和别人大吵大闹。
- Only now did he understand the full complexity of the problem.直到现在他才明白这一问题的全部复杂性。
- The complexity of the road map puzzled me.错综复杂的公路图把我搞糊涂了。
- She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
- He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
- Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
- After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。