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
abdoulaye
abnormal end dump
adipose osteoporosis
after-guards
Aitken's method of interpolation
astroarena
base power
basic depreciation rate
bathmats
bay window
bogue out
Bungarus candidus
busen voltameter
business speculation
Caelifera
cataline
Charpy impact test
Cock-Rock
commodity-oriented
constraint manifold
convert to fixed column
core moulding machine
differential case oil collector drum
echo beat
election manifesto
electrical strip
electro-heat installation
Empire Res.
evodiaefolius
exact interest
Faciometer
Farm Relief Law
feel hate towards
Finny County
for your part
freeters
furnace heat release
giambattista marinis
gracefulness
hackforth
Homeric Greek
humourising
impelling
incentive engineer
industrial towns
Ivanjica
justless
Kirondrin
landfyrd
large scientific code
laserable material
lithophyta
Lomaiviti Grp.
luife
magellanicum
mateur
measurable parameter
misobservance
mitsuko
morganti
needle-lift sensor
nicey-nice
non-parametric induction
nonclotted
nonequilibrium state
nonhermetic
odoriferant
ostery
other woman
out of pocket expense
oxy-
PGK
pogues
press for repayment of a loan
ranan
removal power
Rhodosporidium
rolled broken stone
San Giovanni Teatino
Satie
search depth
sex-on-premises venue
shaking device
shield engineering
significance ratio
space charge balanced flow
standby resources
stinkbags
surface-reaction control
tendency
tin deposit
tobernalts
tongue apparatus of petromyzon
Toom-Cook algorithm
trans-boundary
trust funds ledger
tunnel triode
turning away
undercolors
unequal perturbation
user oriented
vecinas