1. Comprehension and Language Learning
In this section, we’re going to work on the scripts of some classical English movies, study the movie English language, including some difficult language points, idioms, phrases, slangs etc.

1.1 Gone with the Wind
Introduction
There was a land of cavaliers and cotton fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of lights and only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A civilization GONE WITH THE WIND.
曾有一骑士与棉田之地叫古老的南方，
雅士们在此世外桃源中享受最后的升平
这就是最后可见到的，只可在书中寻获，
因为它只是一个记忆之梦。
一个随风而逝的文化……

Gone With The Wind (1939) is often considered the most beloved, enduring（不朽的） and popular film of all time. Sidney Howard's script was derived from（源自） Margaret Mitchell's first and only published, best-selling Civil War and Reconstruction Period novel of 1,037 pages that first appeared in 1936, but was mostly written in the late 1920s. Producer David O. Selznick had acquired the film rights to Mitchell's novel in July, 1936 for $50,000 - a record amount at the time to an unknown author for her first novel, causing some to label the film "Selznick's Folly." At the time of the film's release, the fictional book had surpassed（超越）1.5 million copies sold. More records were set when the film was first aired on television in two parts in late 1976, and controversy arose when it was restored and released theatrically in 1998.
The famous film, shot in three-strip Technicolor, is cinema's greatest, star-studded, historical epic film of the Old South during wartime that boasts an immortal cast in a timeless, classic tale of a love-hate romance. The indomitable heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, struggles to find love during the chaotic Civil War years and afterwards, and ultimately must seek refuge for herself and her family back at the beloved plantation Tara. There, she takes charge, defends it against Union soldiers, carpetbaggers（美国内战后利用南方不定局势谋利的人）, and starvation itself. She finally marries her worldly admirer Rhett Butler, but her apathy（冷漠）toward him in their marriage dooms（注定）their battling relationship, and she again returns to Tara to find consolation（安慰）- indomitable（不屈不挠）.
Authenticity（确实性）is enhanced（增强）by the costuming（戏装）, sets, and variations on Stephen Foster songs and other excerpts from Civil War martial airs. Its opening, only a few months after WWII began in Europe, helped American audiences to identify with the war story and its theme of survival.
With three years advance publicity and Hollywood myth-making, three and one-half hours running time (with one intermission), a gala premiere in Atlanta on December 15, 1939, highest-grossing film status (eventually reaching $200 million), and Max Steiner's sweeping musical score, the exquisitely-photographed（拍摄精细的）, Technicolor film was a blockbuster（流行佳作） in its own time. A budgeted investment of over $4 million in production costs was required - an enormous, record-breaking sum. The film (originally rough-cut at 6 hours in length) was challenging in its making, due to its controversial subject matter (including rape, drunkenness, moral dissipation and adultery) and its epic（史诗般的）qualities, with more than 50 speaking roles and 2,400 extras.

Comments on Gone with the Wind
1. 作为一名大导演，弗莱明对于南北战争这个宏大的历史事件的处理是相当出色的。影片没有描写过一个战争场面，但却通过几个人物的爱情波折及塔拉庄园和奥克斯庄园的兴衰，反映了人们对战争的态度、战争的进程和对战争的诅咒，影片的时间跨度很长，情节也很多，但却那么和谐地构成一个完整的整体，没有使人感到有多余的镜头，从这一点看来，这部影片就可以称得上是一部史诗。                        　　——纽约影评人协会
2. 费雯丽是如此惊艳，以至于不该如此真实；她是如此真实，以至于不该如此惊艳。她有如此的美貌，根本不必有如此的演技；她有如此的演技，根本不必有如此的美貌。……好莱坞只为她一人分裂！                      　　      ——第１２届奥斯卡评委会
3. 她（费雯丽）是一个伟大的演员，是上帝的杰作，如果没有她，这部影片未必能如此大受欢迎。                                     　　——英国前首相　丘吉尔
    
Comonts on the Film Makers and Actors of Gone with the Wind
1.  William Cameron Menzies, Production Designer: No film has ever looked quite like “Gone with the Wind”, and that’s about the best compliment a production designer can ever receive. 
2．Ernest Haller and Ray Rennehan, Color Cinematographers: Watch the prayer scene just after the war breaks out and tell me exactly how Scarlett and Melanie’s shadows are projected so big on the back wall.  It’s simply cinematic mastery.
3．Clark Gable- Rhett Butler: 65 years later, Gable’s towering performance is still the standard bearer for what a Hollywood superstar can accomplish with the whole film world at his feet.  Gable was king, and Rhett is his crowing achievement.
4．Vivien Leigh- Scarlett O’Hara: She’ll always be Scarlett, both a blessing, and in a way, to a professional, a curse.

Scripts (Excerpt)
A. (Ashley leaves the hall with intention of walking Butler around the house. But before he can do this, Scarlett calls him into a detached room.)
SCARLETT: Ashley!
ASHLEY: Scarlett...who are you hiding from here? ... What are you up to? Why aren't you upstairs resting with the other girls? What is this, Scarlett? A secret?
SCARLETT: Well, Ashley, Ashley...! I love you.
ASHLEY: Scarlett...
SCARLETT: I love you, I do.
ASHLEY: Well, isn't it enough that you gathered every other man's heart today? You always had mine. You cut your teeth on it.
SCARLETT: Oh, don't tease me now. Have I your heart my darling? I love you, I love you...
ASHLEY: You mustn't say such things. You'll hate me for hearing them.
SCARLETT: Oh, I could never hate you and, and I know you must care about me. Oh, you do care, don't you?
ASHLEY: Yes, I care. Oh can't we go away and forget we ever said these things?
SCARLETT: But how can we do that? Don't you, don't you want to marry me?
ASHLEY: I'm going to marry Melanie.
SCARLETT: But you can't, not if you care for me.
ASHLEY: Oh my dear, why must you make me say things that will hurt you? How can I make you understand? You're so young and I'm thinking, you don't know what marriage means.
SCARLETT: I know I love you and I want to be your wife. You don't love Melanie.
ASHLEY: She's like me, Scarlett. She's part of my blood, we understand each other.
SCARLETT: But you love me!
ASHLEY: How could I help loving you? You have all the passion for life that I lack. But that kind of love isn't enough to make a successful marriage for two people who are as different as we are.
SCARLETT: Why don't you say it, you coward? You're afraid to marry me. You'd rather live with that silly little fool who can't open her mouth except to say "yes", "no", and raise a houseful of mealy-mouthed brats just like her!
ASHLEY: You mustn't say things like that about Melanie.
SCARLETT: Who are you to tell me I mustn't? You led me on, you made me believe you wanted to marry me!
ASHLEY: Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time...
SCARLETT: You did, it's true, you did! I'll hate you till I die! I can't think of anything bad enough to call you...
 (Ashley leaves. Scarlett throws a vase to the wall in anger. The crashing of the vase startles Rhett Butler. He rises up from the couch in a dark corner of the room.)
RHETT: Has the war started?
SCARLETT: Sir, you...you should have made your presence known.
RHETT: In the middle of that beautiful love scene? That wouldn't have been very tactful, would it? But don't worry. Your secret is safe with me.
SCARLETT: Sir, you are no gentleman.
RHETT: And you miss are no lady. Don't think that I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me.
SCARLETT: First you take a low, common advantage of me, then you insult me!
RHETT: I meant it as a compliment. And I hope to see more of you when you're free of the spell of the elegant Mr. Wilkes. He doesn't strike me as half good enough for a girl of your...what was it...your passion for living?
SCARLETT How dare you! You aren't fit to wipe his boot!
RHETT: And you were going to hate him for the rest of your life.

B. (Melanie passes away)
Scarlett: Oh, Ashley! You really love her, don't you?
Ashley: She's the only dream I ever had that didn't die in the face of reality.
Scarlett: Dreams! Always dreams with you! Never common sense.
Ashley: Oh, scarlett, if you knew what I've gone through...
Scarlett: Oh, Ashley, you should have told me years ago that you  loved her, not me, and not left me dangling with your talk of honor. But you had to wait'til now, now when Melly's dying to show me I could never mean anything more to you than... than this Watling woman does to Rhett! And I've loved something that, that doesn't really exist. Somehow I don't care. Somehow it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter one bit. Oh, Ashley, Ashley, forgive me! Don't cry. She mustn't see you have been crying!
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett! Rhett! Where are you going? Rhett! Wait for me!　Rhett! Rhett! Rhett!
Rhett: Come in.
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett!
Rhett: Melanie... She is...? Well... God rest her. She was the only completely kind person I ever knew... A great lady...a very great lady. So she's dead? That makes it nice foryou, doesn't it?
Scarlett: Oh, how can you say such a thing! You know how I loved her really!
Rhett: No, I don't know that I do. But at least it's to your credit that you could appreciate her at the end.
Scarlett: Of course I appreciated her. She thought of everybody except herself, why, her last words were about you.
Rhett: What did she say?
Scarlett: She said, "Be kind to Captain Butler. He loves you so."
Rhett: Did she say anything else?
Scarlett: She said, she asked me to look after Ashley, too.
Rhett: It's convenient to have the first wife's permission, isn't  it?
Scarlett: What do you mean? What are you doing?
Rhett: I'm leaving you, my dear... All you need now is a divorce, and your dreams of Ashley can come true.
Scarlett: Oh, no! No! You're wrong! Terribly wrong! I don't want  a divorce. Oh, Rhett, when I knew tonight that I... when I knew I loved you I ran home to tell you. Oh, darling,darling...
Rhett: Scarlett, please don't go on with this. Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this  last.
Scarlett: "This last?"... Rhett, do listen to me. I must have loved you for years only I was such a stupid fool I didn't  know it. Please believe me! You must care! Melly said you did.
Rhett: I believe you. But what about Ashley Wilkes?
Scarlett: I...I never really loved Ashley...
Rhett: You certainly gave a good imitation of it...up'til this morning. No, Scarlet, I tried everything, and if you'd only met me half way, even when I came back  from London...
Scarlett: Oh, I was so glad to see you! I was, Rhett. But, but you were so nasty!
Rhett: And then when you were sick and it was all my fault, I hope against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't.
Scarlett: I wanted you... I wanted you desperately! But I didn't think you wanted me.
Rhett: It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie there was a chance we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you... When  she went, she took everything.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett! Rhett! Please don't say that! I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything...
Rhett: My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying "I'm sorry", all the past can be corrected... Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett! Where are you going?
Rhett: I'm going to Charleston, back where I belong.
Scarlett: Please, please... take me with you!
Rhett: No. I'm through with everything here. I want peace... I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace... Do you know what I'm talking about?
Scarlett: No. I only know I love you.
Rhett: That's your misfortune.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett! Rhett! Rhett! But, Rhett, if you go,what shall I do? Where shall I go?
Rhett: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!
Scarlett: I can't let him go! I can't! I won't think about losing him now! I'll go crazy if I do!... I'll think about that tomorrow... After all, tomorrow is another day!

Learning Language
Chapter 1
SCARLETT: Oh, Paw, you know I'm no 'tattle like Sue Ellen. But it does seem to me that after you broke your knee last year jumping that same fence......
Mr. O'HARA: I'll not have me own daughter telling me what I shall jump and not jump. It's my own neck, so it is.
tattle 这个词是闲谈，空谈的意思，在这里用的很随便，与父女之间亲密闲聊的气氛相称，这里准确的一个词是“tattler”
“It’s my own neck, so it is” 是口语化的表达，即“It’s my own business.”

Mr. O'HARA: Here, here what are you after? Scarlett! What are you about? Have you been making a spectacle of yourself running about after a man who's not in love with you? When you might have any of the bucks in the county?
“make a spectacle of oneself” 某人出洋相
buck 原指“牡鹿，雄兔”，在这里谕指“男人”，俚语中还有“美圆”的意思

Chapter 2
SCARLETT: First you take a low, common advantage of me, then you insult me!
RHETT: I meant it as a compliment. And I hope to see more of you when you're free of the spell of the elegant Mr. Wilkes. He doesn't strike me as half good enough for a girl of your...what was it...your passion for living?

take advantage of sb. 欺骗、捉弄、利用某人
spell 咒语、符咒

Chapter 4
RHETT: There's a little battle going on right now that ought to pretty well fix things. One way or the other.
SCARLETT: Oh, Rhett, is Ashley in it?
RHETT: So you still haven't gotten the wooden headed Mr. Wilkes out of your mind? Yes, I suppose he's in it.
“a little battle”是一场重要的战役被轻描淡写了，体现了Rhett语言的幽默
“ought to fix things” 此指决定成败
“one way or the other” 胜负未定

Chapter 8
RHETT: Well, don't worry. Yeah, The Yankees have trumped up some charge against me but what they're really after is my money. They seem to think I made off with a Confederate treasury.
SCARLETT: Well, did you?
RHETT: What a leading question. Let's not talk about "sordid things like money. How good of you to come and see me. And how pretty you look.
trump up 意为捏造（借口）
make off with sth. 卷逃，携款逃跑 make off 本身就有匆匆离开，逃跑
a leading question 原意是最重要的问题，在这里应理解为“直截了当的问题”

Chapter 10
RHETT: If you don't show your face tonight, you'll never be able to show it in this town as long as you live. And while that wouldn't bother me, you're not going to ruin Bonnie's chances. You're going to that party if only for her sake. Now get dressed. Now wear that. Nothing modest or matronly will do for this occasion. And put on plenty of rouge. I want you to look your part tonight.

show one’s face 露脸 出面
if only 表示愿望或未实现的条件

Chapter 11
RHETT: I was very drunk and quite swept off my feet by your charms.
SCARLETT: You needn't bother to apologize, nothing you ever do surprises me.

be swept off one’s feet 比喻被弄得神魂颠倒，变得如痴如醉

Chapter 12
RHETT: It seems we've been at crossed purposed, doesn't it. But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie there was a chance we might be happy. I like to think that Bonnie was you. A little girl again. Before the war and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you. And I could pet her and spoil her as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.

at crossed purposed 表示不协调、不搭调
to do things to sb. 表示对某人施加影响

Sentences and Phrases to be remembered
1. Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it’s the only thing that lasts.
土地是世界上唯一值得你去为之工作, 为之战斗, 为之牺牲的东西,因为它是唯一永恒的东西
2. I wish I could be more like you.
我要像你一样就好了
3. Whatever comes, I’ll love you, just as I do now. Until I die.
无论发生什么事,我都会像现在一样爱你,直到永远
4. I think it’s hard winning a war with words.
我认为纸上谈兵没什么作用
5. Sir, you’re no gentleman. And you miss are no lady.
先生,你可真不是个君子,小姐,你也不是什么淑女
6. I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.
我做任何事不过是为了有所回报,我总要得到报酬
7. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you.
哪怕是世界末日我都会爱着你
8. I love you more than I’ve ever loved any woman. And I’ve waited longer for you than I’ve waited for any woman.
9. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as God as my witness, I’ll never be hungry again! 
即使让我撒谎,去偷,去骗,去杀人,上帝作证,我再也不要挨饿了
10. Now I find myself in a world which for me is worse than death. A world in which there is no place for me.
现在我发现自己活在一个比死还要痛苦的世界,一个无我容身之处的世界
11. You’re throwing away happiness with both hands, and reaching out for something that will never make you happy.
你把自己的幸福拱手相让,去追求一些根本不会让你幸福的东西
12. Home. I’ll go home. And I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
家,我要回家.我要想办法让他回来.不管怎样,明天又是全新的一天

1.2 The Lion King
 
Introduction
The film tells the incredible story of the love between the proud lion ruler Mufasa and his son Simba, a naive and curious cub who struggles to find his place in nature’s great “circle of life”. Set in an emotionally colorful background, Simba experiences some of life’s most glorious moments and toughest challenges.

Scripts (Excerpt)
(Mufasa, the lion king is telling Simba, his son, an importamt rule of life.)
Mufasa: Look, Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom.
Simba: Wow!
Mufasa: A king's time is ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here and and rise with you as the new king.
Simba: And this will all of mine?
Mufasa: Everything!
Simba: Everything the light touches! What about that shadowy place?
Mufasa: That's beyond our borders, you must never go there, Simba.
Simba: But I thought a king can do whatever he want.
Mufasa: Oh, there's more to being a king than getting your way all the time.
Simba: There's more?
Mufasa: Simba, everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Simba: But dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba. But let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass and the antelopes eat the grass, and so we are all connected in a great circle of life. Simba, let me tell you something that my father told me. Look at the stars the great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
Simba: Really?
Mufasa: Yes, so whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you , and so will I.

Sentences and Phrases to be remembered
1. Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance.
　　世界上所有的生命都在微妙的平衡中生存。
2. I laugh in the face of danger.
　　越危险就越合我心意。
3. I’m only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn’t mean you go looking for trouble.
　　我只是在必要的时候才会勇敢，勇敢并不代表你要到处闯祸。
P.S. look for trouble 自找麻烦
4. When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world.
　　如果这个世界对你不理不睬，你也可以这样对待它。
P.S. turn one’s back on sb.意为“不理睬某人”
5. It’s like you are back from the dead.
　　好像你是死而复生似的。
6. You can’t change the past.
　　过去的事是不可以改变的。
7. Yes, the past can hurt. But I think you can either run from it or learn from it.
　　对，过去是痛楚的，但我认为你要么可以逃避，要么可以向它学习。
8. This is my kingdom. If I don’t fight for it, who will?
　　这是我的国土，我不为她而战斗，谁为呢？
9. Why should I believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie.
　　我为何要相信你？你所说的一切都是谎话。
10. I’ll make it up to you, I promise.
　　    我会补偿你的，我保证。
1.3 The Lord of the Rings
                           
Scripts (Excerpt)
A．Galadriel: "Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it."
Galadriel: "It began with the forging of the great rings."
Galadriel: "Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings."
Galadriel: "Seven to the Dwarf lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls."
Galadriel: "And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men — who above all else, desire power."
Galadriel: "For within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race."
Galadriel: "But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made."
Galadriel: "In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master ring, to control all others."
[Sauron is shown at the Crack of Doom, masked and clothed in metal armor, wearing the One Ring on his right hand.]
[The Ring begins to glow and a red inscription appears.]
Galadriel: "And into this Ring, he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all."
B．[On the Mountain of Fire, Sam crawls up to Frodo and takes him in his arms.]
Sam: "Do you remember the Shire, Mister Frodo? It'll be spring soon, and the Orchards will be in blossom."
Sam: "And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket and they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields."
[Frodo opens his eyes and stares blindly at Sam.]
Sam: "And eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?"
Frodo: "No, Sam, I can't recall the taste of food."
Frodo: "Nor the sound of water. Or the touch of grass. I'm naked in the dark. There's nothing… no veil… between me and the wheel of fire! I can see him with my waking eyes!"
Sam: "Then let us be rid of it, once and for all! Come on, Mister Frodo. I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you! Come on!"
[Sam lifts Frodo over his back and staggers up the mountainside, with Frodo on his shoulders.]