美国丽人--英文赏析ppt.ppt

1、20143635何志俊 20143653童新玉,American beauty 美国丽人,Date : 1999 Genre： Drama Director：Sam Mendes Actors： Kevin Spacey Annette Bening Thora Birch,Best Director Best Original Screenplay Best Motion Picture Best(LeaOscarding)Actor Best(Leading)Actress Best Original Score,Oscar,Sam Mendes,Birthplace:England,Da

2、te of birth:1965.8.1,Main works:CompanyAway We Go,Kevin Spacey,Birth place: New Jersey, USA Date of birth: 26 July 1959,Main works,Seven(七宗罪） House of Cards(纸牌屋） KPAX(K星异客） The Usual Suspects（非常嫌疑人）,Annette Bening,Birthplace: Topeka, Kansas, USA Date of both：May 29, 1958 Main works: Coastal Disturba

3、nces(沿途风雨） Being Julie(成为茱莉亚） The Women（女人们）,Synopsis,American Beauty tells the story of Lester Burnham,a middle-aged man who lives a sedated life with his family in American suburbia.,One evening he is pressured by his wife to attend a performance at their daughters local school. Participating in t

4、he performance is Janes best friend Angela,an attractive blonde-haired girl.Lester is mesmerized.,Angela,Lesters meeting with Angela awaken in him a vitality he has not known for years. With the assistance of his neighbours on,Ricky Fitts,he begins to rediscover the pleasures of his youth.He quits h

5、is meaningless office job and starts smoking marijuana again;in flight from the restraints of his marriage,he even turns a blind eye to his wifes infidelity.,Misleading,Colonel Fitts misunderstands the relationship between Lester and his son Ricky. Himself a repressed homosexual,he believes that Les

6、ter is paying money to his son in exchange for sexual favours.,Never Ending Story,In angry and shame,Fitts returns with a gun and shoots Lester in the head.At the moment of his death,leaster finally relioves the most beautiful moments of his life,and comes to realize what it is that he was been seek

7、ing all long.,12,Classical lines,Lester Burnham: Remember those posters that said, Today is the first day of the rest of your life? Well, thats true with every day except one: the day that you die. 莱斯特：记得那些海报上说过，今天是你余生的第一天？是呀，每天都真是如此，不过死的那天除外。 Lester Burnham: No, Brad; Im just an ordinary guy who ha

8、s nothing left to lose. 莱斯特：不，布拉德，我只是个没什么可失去的普通人。,American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as office worker Lester Burnham, who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughters best friend, Angela (Men

9、a Suvari). Annette Bening co-stars as Lesters materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane; Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper and Allison Janney also feature.,summary,The film has been described by academics as a satire of American middle class notions of beauty and perso

10、nal satisfaction; analysis has focused on the films explorations of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, beauty, materialism, alienation, self-liberation and redemption.,In the beginning of the film, there is a narrator that tell us the leading actor Lester was dead ,and let us feel interested in

11、the plot and why he was killed. American Beauty is not about a family relationship, anyway. Its about the pursuit of youth, respect, power, and, of course, beauty .Lesters thoughts about Angela are impure, but not perverted; he wants to do what men are programmed to do, with the most beautiful woman

12、 he has ever seen .The appearance of Angela let him resurgent .He was depressed for a long time and he finally broken out ,and contradiction was sharpened .He knows hes running wild-and chooses to burn up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes of freedom. He may have lost everything by the end of the film, but hes no longer a loser .As the lines in the film- “Lester Burnham: No, Brad; Im just an ordinary guy who has nothing left to lose.” In the end ,Lester was killed by Colonel Fitts,h