欧美小说赏析教学资料：legendofthefall--introduction

1、90the legends of the fall (1994)oscar award for best cinematography 电影摄制adapted from the novella by jim harrisonthe film begins with a prelude that introduces the patriarch 族 长 of the clan, col. william ludlow (anthony hopkins), who becomes embittered by the way his country treats american indians.

2、disenchanted 幻想破灭的，he retires from the military and moves to montana with his three sons 一 the wild tristan, the stoic alfred and the young, naive samuel。the central plot has samuel bringing home his fiancee, susannah (julia ormond), which, of course, sets jealousies in motion as both alfred and tri

3、stan fall in love with her.before samuel and susannah can marry, however, world war i breaks out in europe, and samuel expresses his desire to go to canada and enlist wants to go and fight the good fight, though it is against his father's wishes so, alfred and tristan join up, too, to look after

4、 samuel.without giving too much away, let's just say that the competition for susannah's hand only heats up after the war,as alfred struggles withinnerturmoil动(tangled emotion)。, desiring to do the right thing, andtristan becomes anoutcastput himself on exile 自我流放流浪者，traveling around the wor

5、ld and tastingexotic/outlandishforbidden fruits before returning home.bootlegging私自贩卖the film's timeframe spans the decade before world war ithroughtheprohibitionera(19201933) , and into the 1930s, ending with a brief scene set in 1963 the film centers on the ludlow family of montana, including

6、vet eran of the indian wars, colonel ludlow, his sons, alfred, tris tan, and samuel, and objec t of the brothers' love, susannahplotsick of the betrayals the united states government has perpetrated on the native americans, colonel william ludlow (anthony hopkins) retires to a remote part of mon

7、tana with one stab, a cree friend, where they build a ranch accompanying them are hired hand decker, decker's cree wife pet and their daughter isabel two. the colonet s wife, isabel, does not adapt to the harsh winters and moves to the east coast colonel ludlow has three sons: alfred, the eldest

8、, is responsible and cautiousamerican indian warsamerican indian wars is the name used in the united states to describe a series of conflicts between american settlers or the federal government and the native peoples of north america before and after the american revolutionary war. the wars resulted

9、 from the arrival of european colonizers who continuously sought to expand their territory, pushing the indigenous populations westwards. the wars were spurred by ideologies such as manifest destiny, which held that the united states was destined to expand from coast to coast on the american contine

10、nt, and which resulted in the policy of indian removal, by which indigenous peoples were removed from the areas where europeans were settling, either forcefully or by means of voluntary exchange of territory through treatiesthe wars, which ranged from the 17th-century (jamestown massacre of 1622, pe

11、quot war of 1637, anglo-powhatan wars, king： philip's war, kin父 william'sas well as queen anne'swar, tuscarora wai yamasee war and dummer's war at the opening of the 18th century) to the french and indian waipontiac's rebellion and lord dunmore's war after the middle of that century until the wounded knee massacre and ''closing' of the american frontier in 1890，genera