1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家Cultural corner 1. Which film made Spielberg win an Oscar? A. E. T. B. The Indiana Jones Trilogy C. Jurassic ParkD. Schindlers List 2. Spielberg became the greatest American film director because . A. he showed his ability when he was young B. his film won an Oscar C. he made more su
2、ccessful films than others D. for many gears, he couldnt make a mistake3. Which is his full-length film? A. Sugarland Express.B. Firelight. C. Ambling. D. E. T. 4. Which is wrong? A. Jurassic Park is a film about dinosaurs. B. Some of his late films have been successful C. His first film is a 15-min
3、ute home movie D. Compared with other directors, he understands the meaning of the word “entertainment ” more5. Translate the following. But it is generally agreed, that he more than anyone else in the history of films, understands the meaning of the word “entertainment”. Extra-readingT: Here are tw
4、o supplementary reading materials on the screen for you to read.Ang LeeBorn in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of the greatest contemporary(现代的)filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then went to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre
5、Direction at the University of Illinois, and a Masters Degree in Film Production at New York University. At NYU, he served as an Assistant Director on Spike Lees student film, Joes Bed-Study Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983).After Lee wrote a couple of screenplays, he eventually appeared on the film s
6、cene with Pushing Hands (1992), a dramatic-comedy reflecting on generational conflicts（分歧） and cultural adaptation（改造）. The Wedding Banquet (1993) as Lees next film, an exploration of cultural and generational conflicts through a homosexual（同性恋的）Chinese man who feigns（假装）a marriage in order to satis
7、fy the traditional demands of his Taiwanese parents. It obtained him globe and Oscar nominations（提名）, and won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The third movie in his trilogy（三部曲）of Taiwanese-Culture / Generation films, was Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which received a Best Foreign Film Osca
8、r nomination. Lee followed this with Sense and Sensibility (1995), his first Hollywood-mainstream movie. It acquired a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and won Best Adapted Screenplay. The National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle also voted the years Best Director Lee. Lee and fre
9、quent cooperator James Schamus next filmed The Ice Storm (1997), which acquired the 1997 Best Screenplay at Cannes(嘎纳). The Civil War drama Ride With The Devil (1999) soon followed and received critical praise, but it was Lees Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which is considered one of his gre
10、atest works, a sprawling period film and martial arts epic that dealt with love, loyalty and loss. It swept the Oscar nominations, and became the highest grossing foreign-language film ever released in America. Lee then filmed the comic-book adaptation, Hulk (2003) an elegant（优美的）and skillful film w
11、ith nice action scenes. Lee has also shot a short film Hire, The Chosen (2001), and is currently working on Brokeback Mountain (2005), a film based on a short story by E. Annie Proulx.Neil JordanBorn in 1950 in Sligo, Ireland, Neil Jordans early career began as a writer. He wrote short stories Night
12、 in Tunisia in 1976. He also published three novels, The Past (1979), The Dream of A Beast (1983) and most recently Sunrise with Sea Monster (1994). Jordans published fiction has been translated into several anguages, including French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese.In 1982 Ne
13、il Jordan wrote and directed his first feature film Angel. The Company of Wolves (1984) was his next film and was honored（给以荣誉）with Best Film and Best Director Awards by the London Critics Circle. Mona Lisa followed in 1986, and Mona Lisa was followed by two comedies. One, High Spirits (1988), was s
14、et in Ireland. The other, Were No Angels (1989), his first all-American production, starring Robert De Nitro and Sean Penn. He then returned to Ireland to make a much smaller film The Miracle in 1991, which starred Beverly DAngelo.In 1992 Jordan wrote and directed The Crying Game which was nominated
15、 for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Stephen Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson) and which won Jordan an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.In 1994 Jordan returned to the United States to film an adaptation（改编）of Anne Rices popular novel Interview With
16、the Vampire. Next came the film of the Irish revolutionary Michael Collins (1996), starring Liam Nelson, Aidan Quinn and Julia Roberts, which won a Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival. In 1999 Jordan made the psychological （心理学的）thriller In Dreams. In the same year he went on to di
17、rect his own adaptation of Graham Greenes novel The End of the Affair. Jordan was honoured with the BAFTA for the Best Adapted Screenplay.In February 2001 Neil Jordan was the recipient (领奖人) of the Ireland Fund of France Wild Geese Award. In December of the same year he was conferred（授予）with the deg
18、ree of Doctor of Literature from the Queens University Belfast. Jordan set up the production company Company of Wolves with Stephen Woolly. And now he lives in Dublin, Ireland. Background information about Films and TV Programmes1. Information about the director Ang LeeFamily of Taiwan-born Ang Lee
19、cheer in Taipei as they watch Lee at the 78th annual Academy Awards on television March6,2006. Lee won the best director Oscar for Broke back Mountain. (Reuters)Best director winner Ang Lee poses withhis Oscar at the 78th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, March 5, 2006. Lee won for hiswork on Brok
20、eback Mountain. (Reuters) Ang Lee won the Academy Award as best director Sunday for the cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain, becoming the first Asian to win Hollywoods top honor for filmmakers. Adept at genres from Westerns to historical romance to martial-arts pageants, Lee won his Oscar for a purely
21、 American story about two men tragically swept up in a gay romance that they conceal from their families for two decades. Well, I wish I knew how to quit you, Lee said, smiling and clutching his Oscar. The characters taught all of us who made Brokeback Mountain so much about not only gay men and wom
22、en whose love is denied by society, but just as important the greatness of love itself. Brokeback Mountain earned Lee the best-director honor at key earlier Hollywood awards, including the Directors Guild of America ceremony and the Golden Globes. At 51, Lee scored an Oscar triumph in Hollywood unma
23、tched even by Asias most acclaimed filmmaker, the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, whose career spanned five decades. Kurosawa received an honorary Oscar in 1990, delivered a foreign- language winner with 1975s Dersu Uzala and was nominated for best-director for 1985s Ran, but did not win. Born
24、in Taiwan, Lee first came to Hollywoods notice with the romantic charmers The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman, which earned back-to-back Oscar nominations for foreign-language film for 1993 and 1994. Since then, Lee has been a chameleon. He made the Jane Austen costume romance Sense and Sens
25、ibility, a best-picture nominee; the stark American drama The Ice Storm; the Western Ride With the Devil; and the martial-arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which won the Oscar for foreign-language film five years ago. Crouching Tiger also was a best-picture and best-director nominee at the O
26、scars. His Crouching Tiger follow-up was the comic-book adaptation Hulk, an unusual commercial departure for the independent-minded director. Lee joked about his commercial foray at Saturdays Independent Spirit Awards , where Brokeback Mountain won best picture and director. Crouching Tiger took the
27、 same prizes at the Spirit Awards five years earlier. Its been five years since the last time I stood here. Between Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonand Brokeback Mountain, I made The Hulk, Lee said, drawing a big laugh from the Spirit Awards crowd. But in my mind Ive never left the independent spirit.
28、 2. Information about the actor Chow Yun-FatChowYun-FatChineseactionfilmstarChow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周润发) (born May 18, 1955 on Lamma Island, Hong Kong) is among a handful of internationally recognized (认可) screen actors that Hong Kong has ever produced, along with Bruce Lee (李小龙) and Jackie Chan (成龙)
29、.Raised on the tiny offshore island of Lamma, Chow spent his childhood (童年) in poverty. His life started to change as his application (申请) was accepted as an actor-trainee by the local television station, TVB. It didnt take long for Chow to become a household (家喻户晓) name in Hong Kong following his r
30、ole in the hit series The Bund (Chinese: 上海滩; literally: Shanghai Beach) in 1983.Although Chow continued his TV success, his ultimate goal was to become a big screen actor. However, his occasional (偶然的) ventures onto the big screens with low-budget movies were disastrous (损失惨重的). Success finally cam
31、e when he teamed up with a then relatively unknown director John Woo in the 1986 low-budget action movie A Better Tomorrow, which swept the box offices in parts of Asia and established both Chow and Woo as megastars (巨星). Taking the opportunity, Chow quit TV entirely and dedicated himself to making
32、more gun fu movies. His later films include heroic bloodshed movies The Killer (1989) and Hard Boiled (1992), and the romantic An Autumns Tale (1987). He is, however, best known for playing honorable (可敬的) tough guys, whether cops or criminals. He starred, together with Andy Lau, in the 1989 film Go
33、d of Gamblers (Du shen), directed by the prolific Wong Jing. The film surprised many and turned out immensely popular, broke Hong Kongs all-time box office record, and spawned a series of gambling (赌博) movies, as well as several more comic sequels starring Stephen Chow.Being one of the hottest (热门的)
34、 screen commodities in Hong Kong, Chow was called upon by Hollywood (好莱坞) in an attempt to duplicate his success on an international scale. His first two films Replacement Killers (1998) and The Corruptor (1999) were box-office sleepers. His next film Anna and the King (1999) (安娜与国王) did better, but
35、 the success was mostly credited to actress Jodie Foster. Ironically, he receded to a supporting role in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) (卧虎藏龙), and it became a winner at both the box office and the Oscars (奥斯卡).Chow is still waiting for the type of success he once enjoyed in Hong Kong. He once admitted to a Hong Kong reporter (记者) that his ultimate (最终) goal is to win an Oscar as an actor. When asked what if it never comes true, he replied I would just have to laugh about it.- 4 - 版权所有高考资源网
