1、Unit 17Laughter教材背景链接看憨豆先生主演的电影，一定会有这样的“笑果”！IT is unbearably tense.A secret agent from British intelligence finds himself ambushed(中埋伏)in a church.The agent manages to escape.A highspeed chase around London begins，with the agent leading in a superspeed motorized wheelchair.Waita wheelchair？Yesthis i
2、snt the latest James Bond movie.Instead，it is Johnny English Reborn，a movie which will come out in the UK in October.The hero，Johnny English，is played by actor Rowan Atkinson，who has achieved worldwide recognition for his performance as Mr Bean.The movie is a sequel(续集)to the boxoffice hit，Johnny En
3、glish.This time，an international group of assassins(刺客)is planning to murder world leaders.The bumbling(笨拙的)secret agent takes up the mission to stop them.Laughter is something the British take very seriously.They count their humor(or，as they spell it，“humour”)among their greatest exports.Its as imp
4、ortant to British culture as afternoon tea or David Beckham.So director Oliver Parker didnt want to try and get cheap laughs.“It is very important to keep the integrity(truthfulness)of a serious spy thriller as much as possible，”he said.“In my mind，I felt that if we could get the thriller right，then
5、 the comedy would work better.”But he admitted that combining a comedy with a thriller was not an easy job.“It was a very difficult thing.So much of Rowans comedy is the delight of knowing that theres a banana skin that he can step on.But if you play that too often，then the banana skin loses its sli
6、pperiness(滑溜)，”Parker explained.The beauty of Johnny English Reborn，as Atkinson，56，explained to the newspaper The Australian，is that all the characters seem to think everything is very serious.The actors play their roles as if they were in a serious film.Its up to the audience to realize how ridiculous everything is.新课导入笑，是劈开阻碍陌生人之间交往坚冰的利斧；是融化人与人之间心里隔阂的熔炉；是胶合人与人之间情感的粘合剂；是促进人与人之间融洽和谐的春风雨露。一句话，笑，是人类最美好的表情和最圣洁的语言；是人类最具魅力和威力的表情动作。本部分内容讲解结束按ESC键退出全屏播放
