经典英语电影讲解-返老还童.ppt

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button返老还童,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,content,1、Protagonists2、Background3、Story line4、Lines5、Questions,返老还童,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,Benjamin Button,Daisy,1、Protagonists The main characters in this movie are Benjamin Button and Daisy：,返老还童,返老还童,返老还童,Benjamin Button was born in Baltimore.Strangely,he is a eighty year old baby when he was born.His father abandoned him on the road.Luckly,his foster mother(养母)took him.Benjamin Button seemed to be old and clumsy when he was a child,so the people who knew of him looked at him with strange eyes.He grew up with the care and guidance from his foster mother Queeney(奎尼).There was another strange thing.Hes getting younger and younger when the other people were getting old.He met Daisy when Daisy was six.The sweet and kind girl touched his heart.Then theyre apart until the period just after the Second World War.Daisy was a charming dancer that time.,Benjamin Button,返老还童,When the Second World War began,Benjamin Button went to England to contribute to the anti fascist war by ship from America like many compatriots(同胞).During this period,he knew about many kinds of people.The British Trade Minister lady Elizabeth Abbott was one of them,and it is Benjamins first section of love life that time.He survived the real war,and realized the tragedy of war and life,but also understood the greatness of humanity.Benjamin went back to America after the war,when he wasnt an old person,and became a handsome and graceful middle-aged person.Fatefully,his dream lover Daisy when he was a child went into his life again.and she was a beautiful and successful dancer that time.Then the two people went together after they went into a,返老还童,committed relationship.It was the happiest time they ever had when their age and appearance were all matched.As time went by,the vitality of the others gradually disappeared with years,but Benjamin was younger and smarter.One morning,he said goodbye to his wife and walked toward the future unknown by himself.More than ten years later,Daisy adopted little Benjamin and he died in her arms as a baby at last.,返老还童,Daisy,Daisy met Benjamin when she was a little girl had a good impression of each other.Then they separated for a while and Daisy became an excellent dancer.She met Benjamin again and married him at last.The whole story was recorded in a diary by Daisy.,返老还童,2、Background,The story happened in the time after the first world war.A clock maker Mr.Getus son participated the first war and died in the war.So he made a counterclockwise clock for the train station,and wished that if the hour hand was counterclockwise rotation(逆时针旋转),every second of history would go back,and the war would not happen,and the people died in the war would be alive,and then they could go home,and work,till(耕种)，marry with children of their own,and death would come after the beautiful life.This film is adapted from the novel with the same title,which was written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.He was one of the greatest American,返老还童,writers in the 20th century.He is one of the representative writers of the Lost Generation,and also called poet laureate(桂冠诗人)of the Jazz Age.The famous novel The Great Gatsby is his work.As one of the representative writers of the Lost Generation he was confused and hesitant about the future,and felt strongly about the spiritual crisis of the war though he hadnt participated war.He described the classes that he was familiar to show that old dream was like a bubble,and American Dreams didnt exist.All characters in his works experienced frustrations and pain of awakening and disillusion.,返老还童,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,3、Story line,A strange baby named Benjamin B utton was abandoned by his biological（亲生的）parents after birth,because of this,a hitherto(前所未有的)unknown freak（奇异的事物）actually born a man like olden.Fortunately,one kind black woman adopted Button this weird baby.Then he met the second women in his life who completely changed his life,Dasiy,one 6 year old little girl.The love between the two peoples heart began to sprout.,返老还童,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,Ten years later,the flames of the World War II is more violent burning the whole world.Benjamin Button participated in the war.During this period,he met all kinds of people,met the British Trade Minister Mrs.Elizabeth Abbott,and tasted the first paragraph of life love.,返老还童,Benjamin returned to the United States after World War II.He was out of childhood age,childhood dream lover Daisy who was a dancer with successful career and infinite charm appeared again in his life.After mature communication,they spend a few years together with happiness.Finally,he left the Dasiy to the growth of the daughter.,返老还童,4、Lines,Im blind in the one eye,I cant hardly hear,I get twitches and shakes out of nowhere,I lose my line of thought,but you know what?God keeps reminding me Im lucky to be alive.我瞎了一个眼睛，几乎听不见晨间喧嚣，动不动就抽搐，总是丢三落四，上帝却依然扔下闪电来提醒我，能够活着已经是桩幸运的事了。There is always something that I should remember for the rest of my life.总有一些事情是我需要铭记一生的。You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went,You can swear,curse the fates,regret everything you ever did but when it comes to the end,You have to let it go.你可以像疯狗那样对周围的一切愤愤不平。你可以诅咒命运，但是等到最后一刻到来之时，你还得平静的放手而去。,返老还童,Everybody feels different about themselves one way or another.Were all going the same way,just taking different roads to get there.每个人对于自己的感受都不一样。我们都走向同一个方向，只是走的路不同罢了I hope you make the best of it.I hope you see things that startle you.I hope you feel things you never felt before.I hope you meet people with a different point of view.I hope you live a life youre proud of.If you find that you are not,I hope you have the strength to start all over again.我希望你有时能驻足于这个令你感到惊叹的世界，体会你从未有过的感觉。我希望你能见到其他与你观点不同的人们。我希望你能有一个值得自豪的人生。如果你想象的生活不一样，我希望你能有勇气重新启程。,返老还童,Were meant to lose the people we love.How else would we know how important they are to us.我们命中注定要失去我们所爱之人，不然我们怎么知道他们在我们生命中有多重要。For what its worth,its never too late,or in my case,too early,to be whoever you want to be.Theres no time limit,stop whenever you want.You can change or stay the same.Theres no rules to this thing.We can make the best or the worst of it.And I hope you make the best of it.只要是有意义的事 再晚去做还有意义的（或者对我来说，太早），成为你想成为的人。没有时间的限制，只要愿意什么时候都可以开始。你能从现在开始改变 也可以一成不变。这件事没有规矩可言。你能活出最精彩的自己 也可能搞得一团糟，但我希望 你能活出最精彩的自己。,返老还童,QUESTION 1:,5、Question,prematurelystrikinglypostcardtwitchesplanadeduplextoereconcileplaymatedementia,过早的，先天的显著地、出奇的明信片抽搐；急拉海滨大道、平坦空地二倍的，复式公寓脚趾；足尖使和解；调停玩伴、游伴痴呆,walk oncaught upseem likecrossing the roadcurse the fates,返老还童,继续走、走下去抓住、遇上看起来像过马路诅咒命运,Might I say you are looking youthful.Honey,she needs a father,not a.I get and shakes out of nowhere.Im just not sure how to this.We sold my fathers house on.He has the beginnings of.We bought ourselves a.Did you count the?Ill send you a.Hes old.,返老还童,prematurelystrikinglypostcardtwitchesplanadeduplextoereconcileplaymatedementia,过早的出奇的明信片抽搐海滨大道复式公寓脚趾使和解玩伴痴呆,strikingly,reconcile,esplanade,dementia,duplex,toe,postcard,prematurely,playmate,twitch,Daisy:,Button:,QUESTION 2:In your opinion,what is the most important thing for love?,返老还童,The movie was based on Buttons diary that an old mother want her daughter read for her.,返老还童,QUESTION 3:Why the old mother want to tell Buttons story to her daughter even she was on her deathbed?,返老还童,返老还童,返老还童,QUESTION 4:How do you think the bad things in you life?,返老还童,END THAKS!,返老还童,