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[00:03.75]威廉.S.哈特和早期的"西部"影片
[00:07.50]First listen and then answer the following question.
[00:09.82]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:12.15]How did William Hart's childhood prepare him for his acting role in Western films?
[00:15.92]威廉.哈特的童年时代为他在西部电影中扮演角色奠定了什么基础?
[00:19.70]William S.Hart was,perhaps,the greatest of all Western stars,
[00:23.08]威廉.S.哈特大概是美国西部电影明星中的佼佼者.
[00:26.46]for unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns.
[00:30.15]他和加里.古柏和约翰.韦恩不同,他只在西部电影中扮演角色.
[00:33.83]From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged.
[00:37.76]在1914年至1924年期间,他首屈一指,独霸影坛.
[00:41.69]It was Hart who created the basic formula of the Western film,
[00:45.02]正是哈特创造了西部电影的基调,
[00:48.35]and devised the protagonist he played in every film he made,
[00:51.44]即在他自己拍摄的影片中他所塑造的主人公的形象:
[00:54.52]the good-bad man,the accidental-noble outlaw,
[00:57.48]被认为是坏人的好人,出人意料的高尚的逃犯,
[01:00.45]or the honest-but-framed cowboy,or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip;
[01:04.42]诚实却遭陷害的牛仔,或因流言蜚语蒙受嫌疑的司法官.
[01:08.39]in short,the individual in conflict with himself and his frontier environment.
[01:11.92]总之,主人公是一个自相矛盾,又与他的拓荒环境相矛盾的人物.
[01:15.44]Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood,
[01:17.73]哈特与大部分同时代在好莱坞的演员不同,
[01:20.01]Hart actually knew something of the old West.
[01:22.34]他确实了解西部早期拓荒生活的一些情况.
[01:24.66]He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing,
[01:27.69]作为一个孩子他曾在西部生活过,当时西部拓荒生活正在消失.
[01:30.72]and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences,
[01:33.86]他塑造的英雄人物深深地扎根于他本人的记忆和经历之中,
[01:36.99]and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier,
[01:40.17]也扎根于有关已经消失的拓荒生活的历史和神话之中.
[01:43.34]And although no period or place in American history
[01:45.82]虽然美国历史上没有任何时期或地区比西部拓荒时期
[01:48.30]has been more absurdly romanticized,
[01:50.48]更荒谬地被浪漫主义化
[01:52.67]myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena,
[01:56.05]但神话和事实至少在某一个舞台上共存,
[01:59.43]the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.
[02:02.66]也就是存在于个人与渐渐闯入的文明这两者的冲突之中.
[02:05.88]Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians
[02:09.21]习惯与大自然和印第安人作斗争以求生存的拓荒者
[02:12.55]were bewildered by politicians,bankers and businessmen,
[02:15.52]被政客、银行家和商人搞得晕头转向,
[02:18.50]and unhorsed by fences,laws and alien taboos.
[02:21.69]最后被圈地法律和外来清规戒律击败.
[02:24.88]Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider,always one of the disinherited,
[02:28.75]哈特扮演的被误认为坏人的好人总是一个局外人,一个被剥夺继承权的人,
[02:32.63]and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way,
[02:35.96]如果他认为在进行过程中有必要枪击一个司法官或抢劫一个银行,
[02:39.29]his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive,
[02:42.26]他的早期观众很容易接受,觉得应原谅他,
[02:45.22]especially when it was Hart who,in the end,overcame the attacking Indians.
[02:48.91]特别是当哈特最后战胜了前来进攻的印第安人时,观众更能原谅他.
[02:52.59]Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century
[02:55.26]生活在20世纪20年代的观众认为,
[02:57.92]found it pleasant to escape to a time when life,
[03:00.34]逃到一个即使艰苦但比较简朴的时代中去
[03:02.75]though hard,was relatively simple.
[03:04.93]是件愉快的事,
[03:07.12]We still do;living in a world in which undeclared aggression,war,hypocrisy,
[03:11.28]我们今天仍有这种感觉.如今,不宣而战的侵略、战争、虚伪、
[03:15.45]chicanery,anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives,
[03:19.42]诈骗、无政府状态以及即将临头的毁灭成了我们日常生活的一部分,
[03:23.39]we all want a code to live by.