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新概念第四册Lesson 21

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　　Lesson 21

　　William S. Hart and

　　the early 'Western' film

　　威廉.S. 哈特和早期限的‘西部’影片

　　How did William Hart's childhood prepare him for his acting role in Western

　　films?

　　William S. Hart was, perhaps, the greatest of all Western stars, for unlike

　　Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns. From 1914 to

　　1924 he was supreme and unchallenged. It was Hart who created the basic formula

　　of the Western film, and devised the protagonist he played in every film he

　　made, the good-bad man, the accidental-noble outlaw, or the honest-but-framed

　　cowboy, or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip; in short, the individual

　　in conflict with himself and his frontier environment.

　　Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, Hart actually knew

　　something of the old West. He had lived in it as a child when it was already

　　disappearing, and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences,

　　and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier. And although

　　no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth

　　and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the

　　individual and encroaching civilization.

　　Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians

　　were bewildered by politicians, bankers and businessmen, and unhorsed by fences,

　　laws and alien taboos. Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider, always one of

　　the disinherited, and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank

　　along the way, his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive,

　　especially when it was Hart who, in the end, overcame the attacking Indians.

　　Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to

　　escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. We still do;

　　living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery,

　　anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code

　　to live by.

　　CARL FOREMAN Virtue and a Fast Gun from The Observer

　　New words and expressions 生词与短语

　　Supreme

　　adj. 首屈一指

　　protagonist

　　n. 主角

　　outlaw

　　n. 逃犯，亡命之徒

　　framed

　　adj. 遭到陷害的

　　vicious

　　adj. 恶毒的

　　mythology

　　n. 神话

　　vanished

　　adj. 消失了的

　　absurdly

　　adv. 荒诞地

　　arena

　　n. 竞技场在

　　encroaching

　　adj. 渐渐渗入的

　　Indian

　　n. 印第安人

　　bewilder

　　v. 使手足无措

　　alien

　　adj. 外来的

　　taboo

　　n. 戒律

　　disinherit

　　v. 剥夺...继承权

　　undeclared

　　adj. 未经宣布的

　　hypocrisy

　　n. 伪善

　　chicanery

　　n. 诈骗

　　impending

　　adj. 迫近的，近在眉睫的

　　immolation

　　n. 杀戮

　　code

　　n. 准则

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