东北大学《大学英语2》课件-第2讲.pdf

Unit 2 Movies and Entertainment 东北大学大学英语Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 Reading 3 3 Pre-reading Questions Topic Preview Text C Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 Topic Preview Do you like animal movies?Read the reviews od the two popular movies.Kung Fu Panda(2008)Enthusiastic,big and a little clumsy,Po is unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy.His dreams become reality when he joins the world of kung fu under the leadership of Master Shifu.But before they know it,the revengeful snow leopard Tai Lung is in their way,and its up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat.Po puts his heart into the task,and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 Life of Pi(2012)When Pis family moves from India to Canada,a disaster strikes,leaving Pi,the lone survivor of the family,in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat.His only companion is a Bengal Tiger.This calamity gives Pi a chance to rediscover himself in terms of spirituality and adventure.Life of Pi is a 3D adventurous drama film directed by Ang Lee,who won a second Academy Award for Best Director for this film.Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 Pre-reading Questions 1.Have you ever seen any of Steven Spielbergs movies?Which one do you like best?2.Whats your favorite genre?Do you like movies about wars and fighting?3.Do you like movies with animals involvement?Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 Text C Text Understanding the Structure of the text Comprehension Questions 3 Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 Text C War Horse A bullet is beautiful when removed from its context,smooth and shiny and cool to the touch.It is simple yet elegantits edges running upward to a point or a glinting,symmetrical hill.A child who didnt know better might mistake it for a pocket-size spaceship,or a tiny tower when set on end.They would not recognize it as a thief.Yet thieves are exactly what bullets are.In the context of war,they rob countries of their men,men of their ideals,ideals of their virtue.They take breath and blood and thought,and let them lie in the mud of battle,scattered like shrapnel.They take sight and sound,life and limb,hope and courage.And even if you safeguard all of that,theres still one thing the wartime bullet will always take:innocence.Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 In beautiful,green,southwestern England,a horse is born.It is a beautiful beast,all grace and muscle and shiny coat.And,as beauty is wont to do at times,it makes a farmer lose his head.Determined to own the animal and show up his deep-pocketed landlord,Ted,the slightly drunk farmer,overbids for the horse and brings him home instead of a good,sturdy plow horse.Hes gone and mortgaged the future for a pretty,worthless pony.Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 But when the man sobers up and moves to put a bullet into the beast,his son Albert steps between the flesh of the animal and the bullets barrel.“Hell show you,”Albert says of the horse whom hes named Joey.“Well show you.Well get it done.”Thanks to Alberts determination and the horses ability to adapt,Joey becomes the prettiest plow horse in all of Devonshire.Now,Albert tells his horse,they can be together,“which is the way I think things were meant to be.”Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 And perhaps they would have been,too,had the calendar not said 1914 and the world not marched toward catastrophe.When the war arrives,it takes not the farmer,not the boy,but Joey,the big,beautiful horse in all his magnificence and innocence,the horse whos known only harnesses and fields and apples from Albert.“Its challenging to tell a story where you have to look at a horse and wonder what the horse is feeling from moment to moment,”director Steven Spielberg told USA Today.“But thats why I wanted to direct this picture.Youre giving language to a horse based entirely on his physical performance.”Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 Joey,the hero of War Horse,tells us about the nature of war.Theres nothing glamorous or glorious about the conflict we see.And yet in the midst of war,we see the horse embody admirable human traitseven sacrificing his own potential well-being for that of a comrade.Spielberg uses the horse as vehicle by which we can see the horror of war,and also the little ways by which we can rise above its horror.Movies and Entertainment UNIT 2 Joey changes hands several times throughout the film,and each of his caretakers manifests positive traits.When British officer Captain Nicholls buys Joey and realizes how important the horse is to Albert,he promises the boy hell bring him home safely if he can.The young French girl Emilie hides Joey and another horse,Topthorn,in her upstairs bedroom,keeping them out of sight from German soldiers.When the horse gets tangled up in barbed wire in the infamous No Mans Land between the French and German trenches,a British and a German soldier form an unlikely temporary alliance to free the gallant creature.Movies and Ente