星际穿越中英文介绍.ppt

·Introduction In the near future Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, and humanity is facing extinction. A group of explorers embark on an interstellar voyage into the unknown in search of a planet that can sustain life. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), the pilot of the crew, must decide between seeing his children again and the future of the human race. 故事发生在近未来，地球饱受干旱与饥荒，人类濒临灭绝。一组探险人员开始星际航行，希望能在未知的宇宙中找到一颗能让人类继续生存的星球。飞行员库珀（马修?麦康纳 饰）同样面临艰难的抉择：是拯救人类，还是与孩子们重聚。 So, as you might have guessed, the story is divided into two parts — one that takes place on Earth and another that takes place in space. Much of the outer space photography brings to mind Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity — spectral and spectacular — and even gives you a little bit of cinematic revelation from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Of course, everything looks so familiar that it feels a bit emulated and lacking in variation. 你也许已经猜到了，故事分成两部分：一部分发生在地球上，另一部分发生在外太空。影片中很多外太空影像都让我们想起阿方索?卡隆的《万有引力》——诡异而壮观——你甚至还会看到斯坦利?库布里克《2001太空漫游》的一些影子。当然，所有这些似曾相识都会给人些许效仿之感，让人觉得有些缺乏新意。 ·Introduction The film is at its strongest when it remains Earthbound (however ironic that may sound for a film about interstellar travel). When the focus is on tragedy — a loving father potentially leaving his children forever with no guarantee that his sacrifice won’t be in vain — Interstellar shows an emotional heft. Even when the film throws out typical sci-fi tropes (the nature of time and space, the place of humanity in the universe) for viewers to think about, Nolan explores these ideas in human terms. 影片最动人之处是主角们还在地球上时（虽然作为一部关于星际穿越的影片，这种评价听来有些讽刺）所面临的悲剧：一位慈爱的父亲可能再也见不到自己的孩子，而这样的牺牲可能也只是徒劳。影片的情感份量不言而喻。虽然影片不乏典型的科幻概念（时空的性质、人类在宇宙中的位置）供观众思考，但诺兰的解读却更侧重人文角度。 “We’ve forgotten who we are. Explorers, pioneers — not caretakers,” says McConaughey’s Cooper in Interstellar. That could be Nolan’s perspective about movies in this timid age of old genres endlessly repeating themselves. He’s the rare filmmaker with th