新概念英语第四册美音版 21－William S. Hart and the Early Western Film
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[al:新概念英语（四）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（美音）] [ti:William S. Hart and the Early "Western" Film] [by:更多学习内容，请到yingyu.chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:00.58]Lesson 21 [00:02.87]William S.Hart and the early 'Western' film [00:13.65]How did William Hart's childhood prepare him for his acting role in Western films? [00:22.05]William S.Hart was, perhaps, the greatest of all Western stars, [00:29.56]for unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns. [00:36.57]From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged. [00:43.99]It was Hart who created the basic formula of the Western film, [00:48.96]and devised the protagonist he played in every film he made, [00:53.95]the good-bad man, the accidental, noble outlaw, [00:58.84]or the honest, but framed cowboy, or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip; [01:06.09]in short, the individual in conflict with himself and his frontier environment. [01:13.78]Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, [01:17.06]Hart actually knew something of the old West. [01:21.02]He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing, [01:25.00]and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences, [01:30.03]and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier, [01:35.67]And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, [01:43.23]myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, [01:48.63]the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization. [01:55.22]Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians [02:00.82]were bewildered by politicians, bankers and businessmen, [02:05.36]and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos. [02:11.49]Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited, [02:18.91]and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way, [02:25.08]his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive, [02:29.62]especially when it was Hart who, in the end, overcame the attacking Indians. [02:36.66]Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century [02:40.32]found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. [02:46.64]We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, [02:53.66]chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, [02:59.89]we all want a code to live by.