VOA标准英语2012--Tyler Perry Takes on Edgy New Role in 'Alex Cross'
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Tyler Perry Takes on Edgy 1 New Role in 'Alex Cross'
In Alex Cross, the toughest cases go to the title character, one of the Detroit police department's top murder investigators 2.
Away from the crime scenes, Cross goes home to his loving wife, two bright-eyed kids and their doting 3 grandmother. But his peace is shattered when a sadistic 4 murderer targets the detective's family.
Tyler Perry is better known for writing and directing faith-based inspirational films. So the Alex Cross story is quite a change.
"The revenge and the fighting back …it's not me by nature," Perry admits, "but I think we all have a bit of it in us and I just had to find a way to tap into it.
Perry says his version had to be different from the way the detective was portrayed 5 in the earlier films, Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider.
"I knew going in that I could not try to be Morgan Freeman playing Alex Cross," he says. "So in that sense I tried to forget everything that I saw and just go in and be the best that I could with it."
Author James Patterson, also a producer of the film, says Perry is actually closer in age and physical appearance to the way he describes Cross in the novels. However, this new screen version is more sinister 6 and the action is moved from the Washington, D.C. setting of the books to run-down neighborhoods of Detroit in the Midwest.
"Look, the book is the book. It's there. Nobody can mess with it. And the movie is the movie. I'm comfortable with that," Patterson says.
Perry acknowledges that things he says and does as this character might shock his core audience, more accustomed to seeing him in a wig 7 and dress as the funny old woman named Madea.
"I may lose a lot of the grandmothers who come out after church, but I'll do something for them a little later on," Perry says.
Alex Cross is directed by popular action filmmaker Rob Cohen. The cast features Matthew Fox as the killer 8. Award-winning Cicely Tyson plays the detective's strong-willed mother.
- She's been a bit edgy lately,waiting for the exam results.她正在等待考试结果，所以最近有些焦躁不安。
- He was nervous and edgy, still chain-smoking.他紧张不安，还在一根接一根地抽着烟。
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His doting parents bought him his first racing bike at 13.宠爱他的父母在他13岁时就给他买了第一辆竞速自行车。
- The doting husband catered to his wife's every wish.这位宠爱妻子的丈夫总是高度满足太太的各项要求。
- There was a sadistic streak in him.他有虐待狂的倾向。
- The prisoners rioted against mistreatment by sadistic guards.囚犯因不堪忍受狱警施虐而发动了暴乱。
- Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中，他始终把自己说成是受害者。
- The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- There is something sinister at the back of that series of crimes.在这一系列罪行背后有险恶的阴谋。
- Their proposals are all worthless and designed out of sinister motives.他们的建议不仅一钱不值，而且包藏祸心。
- The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
- He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。