Author Blake Snyder Tells How to Write a Screenplay (1/3)

听写
This is the second book Snyder has written for aspiring authors of screenplayers. Each has been called Save the Cat, which refers to a crucial point in the plot. “It’s a classic moment in a lotlots of movies you see it, when we meet the hero of the movie for the first time. And the hero does something nice, like Save A Cat, that makes us like him and want to go on the journey with him.” Snyder says a journey can take different forms, but there’re just a few basic stories. He calls one Monster in the House, an evil force terrorizes a small community, and he says the force iss often unleashed by a human saner feelingsin or failing. Jaws, the story of a great white shark that terrorizes the shore coastal community of I features ?Amity, fits into the category. “It will attack and devour, anything. It is as if God created the devil, gave him Jaws.” Snyder says the evil in this film was unleashed by the greatest greed of city leaders. “As It’s the sin of greed, they that brings the monster, the Jaws, the shark to into Aamity. They want to keep the beaches open regardless of the danger.” He says Alien, a tale of an extraterrestrial monster, also features ?fits into the category ,fear and greed expose the spaceship crew to an alien parasite.

生词
unleash〔比喻〕解放,使自由;放纵;发动。

翻译
这是S为成为剧作家所写的第二本书。两本书都因电影中的一个关键情节被称作“拯救猫”。“这是个在很多电影中都能看到的经典场景。当我们在电影中第一次看到主角时,他做了一件善事,比如救了一只猫,这使得我们喜欢他并想跟随他继续关注情节的发展。”他说虽然情节的发展有很多种形式,但有一些基本的故事。他把其中一个称为“屋中的怪兽”。一个邪恶势力威胁着一个小城,这个恶势力通常是被人类的原罪或失误而释放出来。《大白鲨》讲述了一个大白鲨威胁沿海城市A的故事,就符合这个模式。“它会攻击,吞食任何东西。仿佛上帝创造了魔鬼,给了他一个血盆大口。”S说在这部影片中,大白鲨是因城市领导的贪婪而被释放的。“贪婪的原罪把怪物大白鲨带到A。他们想继续开放海滩,而不顾其中的危险。”他说讲述外星怪物的《外星人》也符合这个模式。恐惧和贪婪使宇宙飞船中的宇航员受到外星寄生虫的袭击。

总结
还成吧,除了那个fits into the category……纠结……今天的题材很不错,摆脱了政治的就是好……听TIH听惯了,把录音也写出来了,结果没原文,还把听写器搞抽了……

posted @ 2007-11-22 12:07 vivianliv86 阅读(9) 评论(0)  编辑  收藏 所属分类: 每日VOA 网摘收藏

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