时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:欧美电影简介


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这部反战经典系改编自真实事件,描写第一次世界大战期间,法国701步兵团与德国僵持不下,在蚁丘阵地互相对峙。法军参谋本部决定发动突袭拿下此阵地,甚至明知会因此使步兵团全军覆没亦在所不惜。指挥官达克斯上校本来极力反对这项自杀式行动,但因米罗将军威胁将他撤职,为避免牺牲更多无辜战士而只好答应。无奈德军还击的火力太强,法军只好半途折返。米罗将军认为法军都是懦夫,竟下令开炮轰击自己人,但被炮兵军官拒绝,最后有三个士兵还是倒霉地为众人背黑锅上死刑台。


Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. It is set during the third year of World War I. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refused to continue a suicidal attack. Dax attempts to defend them against a charge of cowardice 1 in a court-martial. The movie did OK at the box office when it was first released, though it did earn Kubrick much critical praise. However, active and retired 2 soldiers were offended by the way the French military was portrayed 3 and the French government placed enormous pressure on United Artists to not release the film.


 


Paths of Glory has since taken its place in the list of classic war movies. Its message grows stronger with each passing year. It was especially popular during the Vietnam era. The film was nominated for a BAFTA Award under the category Best Film but lost to The Bridge on the River Kwai. The film also won a Jussi Awards' Diploma of merit. In 1959 the film was nominated for a Writers' Guild 4 of America Award but again lost. During the production and release of the movie, Kirk Douglas experienced significant negative publicity 5 and financial loss for his role in the making of such an anti-war film. Nevertheless, he persisted in his efforts and the film was made and released, to become a movie classic.


 



1 cowardice
n.胆小,怯懦
  • His cowardice reflects on his character.他的胆怯对他的性格带来不良影响。
  • His refusal to help simply pinpointed his cowardice.他拒绝帮助正显示他的胆小。
2 retired
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
3 portrayed
v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画
  • 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》
4 guild
n.行会,同业公会,协会
  • He used to be a member of the Writers' Guild of America.他曾是美国作家协会的一员。
  • You had better incorporate the firm into your guild.你最好把这个公司并入你的行业协会。
5 publicity
n.众所周知,闻名;宣传,广告
  • The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
  • He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事,只当它是一种宣传手法。
学英语单词
Aconitum chiachaense
actual number of cars
address sort routine
air reactor
alluvial plain shoreline
area light source
B.D.E.
baster
brick masonry structure
cardioversion
Cisalpine Gaulish
coco language
colophon-
Committee of Communication Mumber Countries
commodity society
coonley
cored bar
correlate to
cortical cords
cyclothymias
dentale band
dimdiameter
disavaunced
disimpester
draining tank
early recollection technique
edge trimming plane
eilbecks
electrode characteristic
equilibrium distillation
fast-carry lookahead
fiber reinforced metal
find an excuse
flora
fluorocyte
forestes
gervers
GLOSSOZOA
graphitizing
ground settlement
Guanxin Suhe Wan
hearteners
hemorrhagic abscess
heterorhabdus pacificus
high frequency capacitance
Hoai Son
hydrodynamic torque converter
improvement of contaminated soil
in the fresh air
intermittent take-up motion
isoserine
kingsleys
kivrikoglu
line log amplifier
Loevigite
low-pressure nozzle
Macrurocyttinae
margoes
Masquefa
maximum climbing
metazoa
microcone
migration enhanced epitaxy (mee)
mistura cretae
Mitterrandian
movement index (slizynsky 1955)
multimode operation
nick-stick
Nie-wan
nonproteinaceous
Omega receiver
oral cavity (or mouth cavity)
parameter oscillation
pissholes
pointsets
polyteny
primary bath
priority discipline
Pyrausta
Rhynchocephalia
rubber gage
schedule income tax
sellens
selling expense variance
shopping centre
shora
something wrong with
stomatocytosis
storers
suspended substance
Tartarian honeysuckle
theasaponin
tube drift
twattock
vasomed
vespertina
waning development
warlott
wilkes lands
wind up roll
winrow
Zuckerkandl's convoiution