首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Alan Taylor’s second feature, The Emperor’s New Clothes, is a wild leap from the cheap streets of Palookaville(愚人城) to the lavis
Alan Taylor’s second feature, The Emperor’s New Clothes, is a wild leap from the cheap streets of Palookaville(愚人城) to the lavis
admin
2011-01-26
56
问题
Alan Taylor’s second feature, The Emperor’s New Clothes, is a wild leap from the cheap streets of Palookaville(愚人城) to the lavish pomp(华丽)of costume drama. He hurdles the treacherous gap with ease. This is a playful piece of historical swash(泼溅) in which Ian Holm doubles up as Napoleon Bonaparte and a grubby deckhand called Eugene. Their uncanny likeness inspires a daring plan by Boney’ s loyal aides to swop (交换) the two men like pint pots, and smuggle the captive emperor off the island of St Helena and restore him to the throne.
It works well until Napoleon’s escape ship is diverted to Antwerp and his imposter( 冒名顶替的) gets drunk on delusions of grandeur. The twists are. as old as Aesop, and Holm has played the diminutive tyrant enough times to improvise his tics with impunity( 不受惩罚).
But the period detail, so often a hollow distraction, is welded into the melodrama with quiet ingenuity. The image of Napoleon, trundling through the fields of Waterloo, the site of his 1815 humiliation and now a tacky jumble of souvenir stalls, is a bauble (小玩具)worthy of The Antiques Road Show.
Duly humbled by his lowly disguise, and forced to seek the kindness of shapely peasants—notably bly Hjejle’ s fruit seller, Pumpkin--the toppled emperor is made painfully aware of the naked vanity of his own legend. Still, old habits die hard, and Napoleon’s military campaign to keep Pumpkin off the gloomy corners of Paris and turn her ailing watermelon business into Tesco will make the iron shopkeepers of Grantham and Finchley blush with envy. The morals are as pungent as moth- balls; the sentiments spongy and sweet.
This is the inevitable fate of a film that has been carefully springcleaned for family consumption. The lopsided joy is Holm, and his touching, virtuoso turns as both Napoleon and his increasingly unruly imposter. Eugene abuses his spitting image to transform his island prison into a fool’s paradise. The "free" Napoleon realises that only a total lunatic could possibly aspire to be Bonaparte.
Under the Ucertificate flap that reads, "To tame a dictator, all you need is a good peasant and a warm fire", is a ghostly, and surprisingly adult, sense of pathos.
The sentence "the toppled emperor is made painfully aware of the naked vanity of his own legend" can best be paraphrased as ______.
选项
A、the fallen emperor is forced to acknowledge his own incapability
B、the defeated emperor has painfully got to know the useless pursuit of the naked vanity of his own fate
C、the badly beaten emperor has painfully got to realize the true value of vanity of his own leg- end
D、the overthrown Napoleon Bonaparte has got to realize how ridiculous his pursuit of the naked honor and popularity was
答案
D
解析
本句的意思是通过和好心的水果贩相处,Napoleon Bonaparte痛苦地认识到他自己对荣誉和权利的追求是多么荒谬,选项D正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/fGBO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Lookatthenotesbelow.Someinformationismissing.Youwillhearadialogueonanewproject.Foreachquestion(9-15),filli
Lookatthenotesbelow.Someinformationismissing.YouwillhearareportonaTVshowabouttheIndiaeconomy.Foreachques
YouworkforaninternationalcompanyinNewYork.Youhavearrangedtomeetacolleague,JackChen,intheNewYorkofficeon3
Readthemessagefromyoursecretary.TelephoneMessageMr.Wangcalledtosaythathewaspromoted
Thisyearmorestaffwererecruitedthroughagenciesthaneithernewspaperoronlineadvertsbutboththesemethodsexperienced
TheInspironAndTheOthersDELLINSPIRONnotebooksaredesignedforsmallbusinesseswhichdemandbetterperformanceandmor
•Lookatthechartbelow.Itshowsacountry’sunemploymentrate.inflationrateandtherateofGDPgrowthduringeightquarters
Thewonderswhichmedicalworkershavealreadybroughtaboutinthediagnosisandtreatmentofdiseasesuggestthatatimemayc
1.AmericanhopesthatpressurefromtheUSwillforceJapantosuddenlydismantleitstradeharriersarealmostcertaintoeva
Diamondshavelittle______valueandtheirpricedependsalmostentirelyontheirscarcity.
随机试题
11个月男孩,因发热5d、咳嗽2d、稀便ld、右下肢不会活动半天入院。体查:体温38.2℃,神清,咽充血,心、肺未见异常,右下肢肌力Ⅲ级,腱反射消失。若为脊髓灰质炎,下列哪项说法不妥
下列常识中,正确的有()。
管理人管理事务经受益人事后追认的,从管理事务开始时起,适用()的有关规定,但是管理人另有意思表示的除外。
简述动物对水因子的适应。
患者,男性,50岁。戴用上半口义齿半年后出现前牙区黏膜疼痛,但因个人原因一直未复诊修改义齿。检查见上前牙前庭区黏膜增生呈多褶状,上唇系带部明显,义齿唇侧基托压迫增生的黏膜组织。患者发现增生的黏膜组织后,若停止戴用义齿,至今增生的组织未能自行消失,正确的
小儿泄泻各种证型中,最为多见的是
常用的计算机辅助系统有()。
制订物业管理方案的要点有()。
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayentitledCreatingaHarmoniousFamilybycommentingonthesayi
Departmentstoresarelargeretailstoressellingmanydifferentkindsofmerchandise【B1】______inseparatedepartments.Suchst
最新回复
(
0
)