American beauty 美国丽人
美国丽人（American Beauty）纯英对白剧本
2--Not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts3--whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school.4--What a lame-o.5--Someone really should just put him out of his misery.6--Want me to kill him for you?7--Yeah.Would you?8--My name is Lester Burnham.9--This is my neighborhood.10--This is my street.11--This is my life.12--I'm42years old.In less than a year...13--...I'll be dead.14--Of course,I don't know that yet.15--And in a way,I'm dead already.16--Look at me.17--Jerking off in the shower.18--This will be the high point of my day.19--It's all downhill from here.20--That's my wife,Carolyn.21--See the way the handle on those pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? 22--That's not an accident.23--Hush,Bitsy!24--Hush!What is wrong with you?25--That's our next door neighbor,Jim.26--And that's his lover...Jim.27--You spoil her.Bitsy...28---Me?-...no bark!Come inside now!29---Come on.-Good morning,Jim!30--Morning,Carolyn.31--I love your tie.That color!32--I just love your roses.33--How do you get them to flourish like this?34--Well,I'll tell you:eggshells and Miracle-Gro.35---I've never heard of that.-Man...36--...I get exhausted just watching her.37--She wasn't always like this.She used to be happy.38--We used to be happy.39--My daughter,Jane.Only child.40--Janie's a pretty typical teenager:41--angry,insecure,confused.42--I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass43--but I don't want to lie to her.44--Jane,honey,are you trying to look unattractive?46--Congratulations,you've succeeded admirably.47--Lester,could you make me a little later?I'm not quite late enough.48--Nice going,Dad.49--Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser.50--And they're right.51--I have lost something.52--I'm not exactly sure what it is,53--but I know I didn't always feel this...sedated.54--But you know what?55--It's never too late to get it back.56--Hello.This is Lester Burnham from Media Monthly magazine.57--I'm calling for Mr.Tamblin,please.58--Well,we're all under a deadline here.59--There's some information about your product launch60--that isn't even covered in your press release and...61--Yeah,OK.Can I ask you a question?62--Who is Tamblin?Does he exist?63--'Cause he doesn't ever seem to come in.64--Yeah,OK.I'll leave my number.65--It's555-0199.66--Lester Burnham.Thank you.67--Hey,Les.68--You got a minute?69--For you,Brad,I got five.70--So I'm sure you can understand71--our need to cut corners around here.72--Sure.Times are tight.You got to free up some cash.73--You got to spend money to make money,right?74---Exactly.-Like the time when Mr.Flournoy75--used the company MasterCard to pay for that hooker,76--then she used the card and stayed at the St.Regis for three months...77---That's unsubstantiated gossip!-That's$50,000!78--That's someone's salary who's gonna get fired79--because Craig has to pay women to fuck him!80--Jesus!Calm down.81--Nobody's getting fired yet.82--That's why we're having everyone write out a job description83--mapping out in detail how they contribute.84--That way management can assess who's valuable...85--And who's expendable.86--It's just business.87--I've been writing for this magazine for14years.You've been here a month? 88--I'm one of the good guys,Les.90--This is your one chance to save your job.91--There's no decision.Just write the damn thing.92--You don't think it's weird and kind of fascist?93--Possibly,but you don't want to be unemployed.94--Let's sell our souls and work for Satan because it's more convenient.95--Could you be a little bit more dramatic,please?96--So we finally got new neighbors.97--If the Lomans had let me represent them instead of the Real Estate King98--that house would never have sat on the market for six months.99--They were still mad at you for cutting down their sycamore.100--Their sycamore?Come on!101--A substantial portion of the root structure was on our property.102--How can you call it their sycamore?103--I wouldn't have the heart to cut down something if it wasn't partially mine. 104--Mom,do we always have to listen to this elevator music?105--No.No,we don't.106--As soon as you've prepared a nutritious,yet savory,meal that I'm about to eat 107--you can listen to whatever you like.108--So,Janie,how was school?109--It was OK.110--Just OK?111--No,Dad.It was spectacular.112--Well,you want to know how things went at my job today?113--They've hired this efficiency expert.114--This really friendly guy named Brad.How perfect is that?115--He's there to make it seem like they're justified in firing somebody116--because they couldn't just come right out and say that.117--That would just be too honest.118--So they've asked us.You couldn't possibly care less,could you?119--Well,what do you expect?120--You can't all of a sudden be my best friend just because you had a bad day. 121--I mean,hello!You've barely even spoken to me for months.122--What?You're Mother of the Year?You treat her like an employee.123--What?124--What?!125--I'm going to get some ice cream.126--Janie...127--I'm sorry I haven't been more...128--...available.I'm just...I...129--You know,you don't always have to wait for me to come to you.130--Great.So now it's my fault?131--I didn't say that.It's nobody's fault.132--Janie,what happened?We used to be pals.133--I will sell this house today.134--I will sell this house today.135--I will sell this house today.136--I will sell this house today.137--Welcome.I'm Carolyn Burnham.138--This living room is very dramatic.139--Wait till you see the native stone fireplace!140--A simple cream could really lighten things up.141--You could even put in a skylight.142--Well,why don't we go into the kitchen?143--It's a dream come true for any cook.144--Just filled with positive energy.145--You'll be surprised how much a ceiling fan can cut down on your energy costs. 146--You know,you could have some really fun backyard get-togethers out here. 147--The ad said this pool was"lagoon-like."148---Nothing"lagoon-like"about it.-Except for maybe the bugs!149--There aren't even any plants out here!150--What do you call this?Is this not this a plant?151--If you have a problem with the plants,I can call my landscape architect.152---Solved!-I think lagoon,I think waterfall.153--I think tropical.This is a cement hole.154--I have some tiki torches in the garage.155--Shut up!156--Stop it!You weak.You baby!Shut up!157--Shut up!Shut up!158--Who are you looking for?159--My parents are coming tonight.160--They're trying to,you know,take an active interest in me.161--Gross.I hate it when my mom does that.162--They're such assholes.Why can't they just have their own lives?163--What makes you so sure she wants us to be there?Did she ask?164--Of course not.She doesn't want us to know how important this is to her. 165--But she's been practicing her steps for weeks.166--I'll bet money she'll resent it.167--And I'm missing the James Bond marathon on TNT.168--Lester!This is important!169--I'm sensing a real distance growing between you and Jane.170--Growing?She hates me.171--She's just willful.172--She hates you,too.173--I'm sorry,I'm sorry.174--Pardon me.Excuse me.175--Now,for your halftime entertainment,176--Rockwell High's award-winning Dancing Spartanettes!178--Shit!They're still here.179---Janie!-Hey,I really enjoyed that!180---Congratulations!You were great!-I didn't win anything.181--Hi,I'm Lester,Janie's dad.182--Oh,hi.183--This is my friend,Angela Hayes.184--OK.Good to meet you.185--You were also good tonight.Very...186---...precise.-Thanks.187--Nice to meet you,Angela.Honey!188--I am so proud of you!You know,I watched you very closely.189--You didn't screw up once!190--OK.We have to go.191---So what are you girls doing now?-Dad!192--We're going out for pizza.193--Really?We can give you a ride.I have a car.Want to come with us? 194--Thanks,but I have a car.195--You have a car.Well,that's great.That's great.196--'Cause Janie's thinking about getting a car soon,aren't you?197--Dad!Mom's waiting for you.198--It was very nice meeting you,Angela.199--Any friend of Janie's is...200--...a friend of mine.201--Well...202--...I'll be seeing you around,then.203--Could he be any more...pathetic?204--I think he's sweet.205--And I think he and your mother have not had sex in a long time.206--It's the weirdest thing.207--I feel like I've been in a coma for about20years208--and I'm just now waking up.209--Spectacular.210--I'm so sorry my dad was weird tonight.211--That's OK.212--I'm used to guys drooling over me.213--It started when I was about12.214--I'd go to dinner with my parents.215--Every Thursday night,Red Lobster.216--And every guy there would stare at me when I walked in.217--And I knew what they were thinking.218--Just like I knew guys at school thought about me when they jerked off. 219---Vomit.-No,I liked it.220--And I still like it.222--it means I really have a shot at being a model,which is great.223--Because there's nothing worse in life than being ordinary.224--I really think it'll happen for you.225--I know.226--Because everything that was meant to happen,does...227--...eventually.228--Asshole.229--Hello?230--Hello?231---Hello?-Why'd you call me?232--I didn't.233--My phone rang and I answered,and somebody hung up.234--I star-69ed,and I called you back.235--Well,I was in the shower.236--Oh,gross!237--Ricky?Breakfast!238--Be right there.239---Mom?-Hello.240--I don't eat bacon,remember?241--I'm sorry.I must've forgotten.242--What's new in the world,Dad?243--This country is going straight to hell.244---Are you expecting anyone?-No.245--No.246---Hi.-Welcome to the neighborhood.247--Just something from our garden.248--Except the pasta.We got that at Fallaci's.249--It's unbelievably fresh.Drop it in the water and it's done.250--Jim Olmeyer.Two doors down.Welcome to the neighborhood.251--Colonel Frank Fitts,US Marine Corps.252---Nice to meet you.This is my partner.-Jim Berkley,but people call me J.B. 253--Let's cut to the chase,OK?What are you guys selling?254--Nothing.We just wanted to say hi to our new neighbors.255--Yeah,yeah...256--You said you're partners,so what's your business?257--Well...258--He is a tax attorney.259--And he's an anesthesiologist.260--How come these faggots always have to rub it in your face?261--How can they be so shameless?262--That's the whole thing,Dad.263--They don't feel that's anything to be ashamed of.264--Well,it is.266--Don't placate me like I'm your mother,boy.267--Forgive me,sir,for speaking so bluntly:268--Those fags make me want to puke my fucking guts out.269--Well,me too,Son.270--Yeah,me too.271--I'm serious.He just pulled down his pants and yanked it out.272--You know,like,"Say hello to Mr.Happy."273---Gross.-It wasn't gross.274---It was kind of cool.-So did you do it with him?275--Of course I did.276--He is a really well-known photographer.277--He shoots for Elle on,like,a regular basis.278--It would've been so majorly stupid of me to turn him down.279--You are a total prostitute.280--Hey.That's how things really are.281--You just don't know because you're this pampered little suburban chick. 282--So are you.You've only been in Seventeen once,and you looked fat!283--So stop acting like you're goddamned Christy Turlington!284--Cunt!285--I am so sick of people taking their insecurities out on me.286--Oh,my God!That's the pervert who filmed me last night.287--Him?Jane,no way,he's a total lunatic.288---You know him?-Yeah.289--We were on the same lunch shift when I was in ninth grade290--and he would always say the most random,weird things.291--And then one day,he was just,like,gone.292--And then,Connie Cardullo told me293--that his parents had to put him in a mental institution.294--Why?What did he do?295--What do you mean?296--Well,they can't put you away just for saying weird things.297--You total slut!298---You've got a crush on him!-What?Please!299--You're defending him.You love him.You want to have10,000of his babies. 300---Shut up!-Hi.301--My name's Ricky.I just moved next door to you.302--I know.303--I remember this really creepy incident where you were filming me last night. 304--I didn't mean to scare you.I just think you're interesting.305--Thanks,but I don't need some psycho obsessing about me right now.306--I'm not obsessing.I'm just curious.307--What a freak!308--And why does he dress like a Bible salesman?310--That can't be real.311--I don't believe him.312--I mean,he didn't even look at me once.313--How'd you get in the Army?314--Look,Sergeant,I got three reasons for being in the Army.315--First,I'm patriotic.Second,I love my country.And third,they nailed me. 316--You two boys report to me immediately after this formation.317--Take them away,Sarge!318--Hey.319--One,two,three,four.320--What's going on here?321--Bend all the way down.Here comes the bull of the woods.322--I'm sorry,what?323--Mom,nobody said anything.324--Oh.I'm sorry.325--Everyone's with their spouse.How'd it look if I showed up with no one? 326---You end up ignoring me and talking...-Now listen to me.327--This is an important business function.328--As you know,my business is selling an image329--and part of my job is to live that image...330--Honey,do me a favor.331--Just say whatever you want to say and spare me the propaganda.332--All right.Hi,Shirley!333--Listen,just do me a favor.Act happy tonight.334---I am happy,honey.-No,you're not.335--Oh!That's Buddy!336--Buddy.Buddy!337---Hi.-Hi!Good to see you again.338--It's so good to see you,too,Catherine.339---Carolyn.-Carolyn,of course.How are you?340--Very well,thank you.341---Hello,Christy.-Hello.342---My husband,Lester.-It's a pleasure.343--We've met before,actually.This thing last year.344---Christmas at the Sheraton.-Oh,yeah.345--It's OK.I wouldn't remember me,either.346--Honey,don't be weird!347---All right,honey.I won't be weird.-OK.348---I'll be whatever you want me to be.-Well,OK...349---We have a very healthy relationship.-I see.350--Well,I don't know about you guys,but I need a drink.351--Put a little more in there,cowboy.352--Excuse me.354--Yeah.355--I'm Ricky Fitts.I just moved in the house next to you.356--Hi,Ricky Fitts.I'm Lester Burnham.357--Hi,Mr.Burnham.358--Do you party?359---Excuse me?-Do you get high?360--I probably wouldn't even tell you this if I weren't a little tipsy361--but...I'm in complete awe of you.362--I mean,your firm is hands down the Rolls Royce of local real estate firms363--and your personal sales record is...364--It's very intimidating.365--You know,I'd love to sit down with you and just pick your brain.366--If you'd ever be willing.367--You know?I suppose,technically,I'm the competition368--but,I mean,I don't flatter myself369--that I'm even in the same league as you.370--I don't.371--I'd love to.372---Really?-Absolutely.373--Call my secretary.Have her schedule a lunch.374--I'll do that.Thank you.375--Did you see that movie where the body is walking around carrying its own head 376--and then the head goes down on that babe?377--Re-Animator.378--Look,I'm not paying you to do whatever it is you're doing out here.379--Fine.So don't pay me.380---Excuse me?-I quit.381--So you don't have to pay me.Now leave me alone.382--Asshole.383--I think you just became my personal hero.384--Doesn't that make you nervous,just quitting your job like that?385--Well,I guess when you're all of,what,16...386--Eighteen.387--I just do these gigs as a cover.388--I have other sources of income.389--But my dad interferes less in my life390--when I pretend to be an upstanding young citizen with a respectable job.391--Lester?!392--What are you doing?393--Honey,this...Ricky Fitts.394--This is Ricky Fitts.395--I'm Ricky Fitts.I just moved into the house next to you.396--I go to school with your daughter.398---Yeah.Jane.-Really?399--Hi.I'm ready to go.400--I'll meet you out front.401--I'm in trouble!402--Nice meeting you,Ricky Fitts.Thanks for the...thing.403--Anytime.Lester!404--If you want any more,you know where I live.405--Shit.They're home.Quick,let's go up to my room.406--I should say hi to your dad.407--I don't want to be rude.408--Nice suit.409--You're looking good,Mr.Burnham.410--Last time I saw you,you looked kind of wound up.411--Is that root beer?412--I love root beer,don't you?413---Hey.-Hi,Mom.414--You remember Angela?415--Yes,of course.416--I forgot to tell you,she's gonna spend the night.Is that OK?417--Sorry about my dad.418--Don't be.I think it's funny.419--Yeah,to you,he's just another guy who wants to jump your bones. 420--But to me,he's just...too embarrassing to live.421--Well,your mom's the one who's embarrassing.What a phony. 422--But your dad's actually kind of cute.423--Shut up.424--He is.If he just worked out a little,he'd be hot.425---Shut up!-Come on!426--Like you've never sneaked a peek at him in his underwear?427--I bet he's got a big dick.428--You are so grossing me out right now!429--If he built up his chest and arms,I would totally fuck him!430--I would!I would suck on your dad's big,fat dick431--and then I'd fuck him until his eyes rolled back in his head!432--Jane!What's that noise?433---I swear I heard something.-Yeah.434--That was the sound of you being a huge,disgusting pig.435--No,I'm serious.See?436---Oh,my God,Jane.-What is it?437--It's that psycho next door.Jane,what if he worships you?438--What if he's got,like,a shrine with pictures of you439--surrounded by dead people's heads and stuff?440--Shit.I bet he's filming us right now.442--Welcome to America's Weirdest Home Videos.443---Ricky?-Coming,Dad.444--You know I don't like locked doors in my house,boy.445--I'm sorry.I must've locked it by accident.446--So,what's up?447--I need a urine sample.448--Wow.It's been six months already.449--Can I give it to you in the morning?I just took a whiz.450--Yeah,I suppose.451--You know...452--Well...Good night,Son.453--I've been waiting for you.454--You've been working out,haven't you?455--I could tell.456--I was hoping you'd give me a bath.457--I'm very,very dirty.458--What are you doing?459--Nothing.460--You were masturbating.461---I was not.-Yes,you were.462--All right,so shoot me!I was whacking off.463--That's right,I was choking the bishop.Chafing the carrot.464--You know,saying hi to my monster.465---That's disgusting!-Excuse me,466--but some of us still have blood pumping through our veins!467---So do I!-Really?468--I'm the only one who seems to be doing anything about it!469--Lester,I refuse to live like this.470--This is not a marriage!471--This hasn't been a marriage for years.472--But you were happy as long as I kept my mouth shut.473--Guess what?I've changed.And the new me whacks off when he feels horny, 474--'cause you're obviously not gonna help me out in that department.475--I see.You think you're the only one who's sexually frustrated.476--I'm not?Well,then come on,baby,I'm ready!477--Don't you mess with me,mister.478--I will divorce you so fast it'll make your head spin!479--On what grounds?480--I'm not a drunk.I don't fuck other women.481--I don't mistreat you.I've never hit you.482--I don't even try to touch you since you made it abundantly clear483--just how unnecessary you consider me to be!484--But I did support you when you got your license.486--So turn out the light when you come back to bed,OK?487--It's a great thing when you realize488--you still have the ability to surprise yourself.489--Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.490--Hey,guys!491---Lester,I didn't know you ran.-I just started.492--Good for you.493--I figured you might be able to give me some pointers.I need to shape up.Fast. 494--Are you looking to just lose weight495--or do you want to have increased strength and flexibility as well?496--I want to look good naked.497--What is this?498--Fucking gay pride parade?499--Hey,Ricky.500--My life is passing before my eyes and those two have barely broken a sweat. 501--Sorry,hi.Lester Burnham.I live next door.We haven't met.502--Colonel Frank Fitts,US Marine Corps.503--Oh,well...504--Welcome to the neighborhood,sir.505--Ricky...506--I was thinking about...the movie we talked about.507---Re-Animator.-Yeah.508--You want to borrow it?It's up in my room.509---OK.-Come on.510---Can you hold this for a sec?-Sure.511--I don't think my dad would come in while someone else is here,512---but you never know.-What is this?513--Urine.514--I have to take a drug test every six months just to make sure I'm clean.515--Are you kidding?You just smoked with me last night.516--It's not mine.517--One of my clients is a nurse in a pediatrician's office.518--I cut her a deal,she keeps me in clean piss.519--You like Pink Floyd?520--I like a lot of music.521--Man,I haven't listened to this album in years.522--How much do you want?523--I don't know.It's been a while.How much is an ounce?524--This is totally decent,and it's300.525--This shit is top-of-the-line.526--It's called G-13.It's genetically engineered by the US government.527--It's extremely potent,but a completely mellow high.No paranoia.528--Is that what we smoked last night?530---How much?-Two grand.531--Jesus!532--Things have changed since1973.533--You don't have to pay now.I know you're good for it.534--Thanks.535--There's a card in there with my beeper number.536--Beep me any time,day or night.537--And I only accept cash.538--Now I know how you can afford all this equipment.539--When I was your age,I flipped burgers all summer just to buy an8-track. 540--That sucks.541--No.Actually,it was great.542--All I did was party and get laid.543--I had my whole life ahead of me.544--My dad thinks I pay for all this with catering jobs.545--Never underestimate the power of denial.546--What the hell do you think you're doing?547--Mom's mad.Bench presses.548--I'm going to whale on my pecs,and then I'm going to do my back.549--I see you're smoking pot now.I'm so glad.550--I think using illegal psychotropic substances551--is a very positive example to set for our daughter.552--You're one to talk,you bloodless,money-grubbing freak.553--Lester,you have such hostility in you!554--Do you mind?I'm trying to work out here.555--Unless you want to spot me.556--Lester,you will not get away with this!You can be sure of that!557--That's...what...558--...you...think.559--"My job consists of basically masking my contempt560--for the assholes in charge561--and,at least once a day,562--retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off563--while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble hell."564--Well,you obviously have no interest in saving yourself.565--Brad,for14years I've been a whore for the advertising industry.566--The only way I could save myself now is if I start firebombing.567--Whatever.Management wants you gone by the end of the day.568--What sort of severance package is management prepared to offer me 569--considering the information I have about our editorial director570--buying pussy with company money?Which I think would interest the IRS, 571--since it technically constitutes fraud.572--I'm sure that some of our advertisers and rival publications574---What do you want?-One year's salary with benefits.575--That's not going to happen.576--What do you say I throw in a little sexual harassment charge to boot?577---Against who?-Against you.578--Can you prove that you didn't offer to save my job579--if I let you blow me?580--Man...You are one twisted fuck.581--Nope.582--I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.583--Yeah!584---Carolyn.-Buddy.585--I am so sorry to have kept you waiting.586--Christy left for New York this morning.587--Let's just say things were a little hectic around the house.588--What's she doing in New York?589--She's moving there.Yes.We are splitting up.590---Buddy,I'm so sorry.-Yes.591--According to her,I'm too focused on my career.592--As if being driven to succeed is some sort of a character flaw.593--She certainly did take advantage of the lifestyle my success afforded her. 594--It's for the best.595--When I saw you two at the party the other night,you seemed perfectly happy. 596--Call me crazy...597--...but it is my philosophy that in order to be successful,598--one must project an image of success at all times.599--What are you doing?600--I was filming this dead bird.601--Why?602--Because it's beautiful.603--I think maybe you forgot your medication today,mental-boy.604--Hi,Jane.605--Look,I want you to stop filming me.606--OK.607--Well,whatever.This is boring.608--Let's go.609---Do you need a ride?-Are you crazy?610--I don't want to end up hacked to pieces in a dumpster somewhere.611--It's OK.I'll walk.But thanks.612--See?He doesn't want to go e on.Let's go.613--Come on,Jane.614--I think I'm gonna walk,too.615--What?Jane,that's,like,almost a mile!616--God!I love it!。
美国丽人(Social drama—American beauty)
Social drama—American beauty 一．Basic elements of social drama（社会问题片）1.Definition（定义）:1)It’s an adverse condition affecting a significant number of people.(这个问题必须是对规模较大的一群人产生负面影响的某种环境)2)It is something that can only occur if those concerned about the problem haveenough power and influence to bring it to public attention.（它必须足以构成一个问题，即关心这个问题的人必须有足够的权利和影响力来吸引公众注意）3)If the appropriate measures are taken—the problem can be solved.（人们必须相信，只要采取合理的措施就能解决问题）2.Characteristics（特点）:1）Identify a social ill(发现一种社会疾病)2）Find a method to cure the disease(找到治愈这种顽症的方法)3.Typical example(典型影片):1）One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest(飞越疯人院)—探讨精神治疗制度2）Philadelphia(费城)—探讨艾滋病问题3）American history X(野兽良民)—探讨种族歧视的原因4）Traffic(毒品网络)—探讨毒品问题5）American beauty(美国丽人)—探讨男性危机问题二．Film report—American beauty1.General introductionType ：S ocial dramaShow time ：O ct.1 1991Main award ：T he 72th OscarChinese name：美国丽人English name：American BeautyRegion：AmericaDirector：Sam Mendes2.Detonator(引线): Lester (main role) was dying……Question:Why was he dead? How did he dead?Who killed him?3.Synopsis(故事梗概):American beauty tells the story of Lester, a middle-aged man who lives a sedated(平静的) life with his family in American suburbia(市郊)。
《美国丽人》
电影名称赏析
American Beauty被中译癿“美国丽人”对观众 领会影片所要传达癿主旨造成丌小癿干扰。 Beauty在其中直译作丽人过亍草率，Beauty一 词其实更应代表一切癿美丽。同旪，Beauty还具 有美女和美丽这物化和精神化两斱面癿双兰含丿， 为电影本身也增添了些许魅力。而影片引用吸大 麻癿Ricky所观察癿事物，以那般“美丽”癿诠 释作为片名，用黑色幽默揭示（美国）当代生活 癿普遍现象。是一部非常有意丿癿电影。 American beauty 是一种生长在美国癿蔷薇科 植物，一年四季都开着大朵癿紫红色花，又名月 月红，American beauty 也是哥伦比亚特区癿 区花，曾经在美国十分叐欢迎，但现在由亍没有 太多癿商业价值而备叐冷落。
美国丽人
故事梗概
莱斯特·伯哈姆已经活丌到一年了，而现在似乎还看丌出什举迹 象…… 他癿家住在平静癿市郊，他有一个美丽癿妻子卡罗琳和一个未成年癿 女儿珍妮。但是，他癿家庨幵丌象外人看到癿那举并福。他癿妻子事业 有成，已经拥有了一个自己癿房地产公司，而他自己在工作中却没有叏 得任何癿成就，他为一家幸告公司已经干了整整14年，他对自己癿工作 感到厌倦，因为他讨厌那些他丌得丌巳结癿顾客以及公司里自以为是癿 老板。他相信他癿妻子一定认为他是一个失败者，因为他们已经有奶几 年没有碰过对斱了。卡罗琳把自己癿精力都花在了事业上，奵看起来是 一个自信癿事业女性癿形象，然而奵癿感情却在渴望着抚慰。女儿珍妮 憎恨自己癿父母，因为奵感到他们几乎从未真正注意过奵，亍是奵整日 围着女友安吉拉转，而一天奵収现奵癿新邻居里奇曾正在用摄像机身偷 拍奵，这使奵每天癿生活开始充满刺激。终亍有一天，当莱斯特遇上了 刚做完中孥篮球赛拉拉队癿珍妮和安吉拉旪，他立刻被安吉拉癿美丽深 深地打动，心中癿那种丽已死去癿感觉奶像又重新癿复燃了。从此莱斯 特癿生活开始収生发化：他勇敢癿面对老板辞退了工作，他开始注意自 己癿形象，他还在里奇那里买回一些上等癿大麻吸食，已过中年癿他落 入了一个未成年少女癿爱情陷阱。不此同旪，卡罗琳对莱斯特发化也产 生了反应，奵开始不房地产商“国王”私通，事态逐渐地向着十分有趣 却无法预料癿斱向収展，直到有一天里奇癿父亲丼起枪口，对准了莱斯 特。 最后飞舞癿塑料袋，正奷《阿甘正传》羽毖舞动出人生癿平凡和美 奸，这个塑料袋似乎诉说着人生癿无助和无奈。
american beauty (美国丽人)
American Beauty（美国丽人）(Drama/Comedy) ( 1998)?2000 by Raymond WeschlerMajor CharactersLester (‘Les? Burnhan...........Kevin SpaceyAn unhappy and frustrated advertising executive whose wife nolonger cares about him, and whose daughter almost hates him.Carolyn Burnham..................Annette BenningLester’s unhappy wife, who is a struggling real estate agent.Jane (‘Janie? Burnham...........Thora BirchLester and Carol’s 16 year old daughter who is a typically frustrated and insecure teenager, who strongly dislikes both of her parents.Angela Hays.......................Mena SuvariJane’s very pretty friend who wants to be a fashion model, whois interested in Lester even though that makes Jane very angry.Ricky Fitts.......................Wes BentleyA gentle but somewhat strange teenager who movesin next door to the Burnhams, who likes Jane very much.Colonel Frank Fitts...............Chris CooperRicky’s extremely conservative father, a member of the UnitedStates marines, who strongly dislikes drugs and homosexuals.Barbara Fitts.....................Allison JanneryRicky’s quiet and gentle mother, and Frank’s wife.Buddy Kane........................Peter GallagherThe top real estate agent in the neighborhood where theBurnhams live, who decides to have an affair with Carolyn.Jim Olmeyer.......................Scott BakulaA gay neighbor of the Burnhams who is an attorney.Jim Berkeley………………………………?.Sam RobardsJim Olmeyer’s partner, who is an anesthesiologist.。
《美国丽人》英文角色分析
A Brief Analysis Of Lester Burnham In 《American Beauty》徐朋Introduction《American Beauty》is directed by Sam Meendes. The main character in this film is called Lester Burnham . He has a wife named Carolyn Burnham and a daughter Jane Burnhan . Lester is forty-two years old and feels his life is flat and dull ,feeling that he has lost something .Then his daughter’s friend Angela Hages came into his life and many changes happened in his life and sense.At last, he finds his personality. But the people around hi m don’t understand him and finally killed him. This film brings the social problems in American society to light. Although the film is over ,we are still in thinking .Key WordsLester Burn ham changes personality social problems(一）Summarization of the spot of the film“My name is Lester, This is my hometown,this is my street,this is my life.I’m 42 years old and last in the year.I’ll be dead .Of course,I don’t know that yet.And in little way, I’m dead already ……Both my wife and my daughter think I’m a lose r and they are right.I have lost something.I’m not exactly sure what it is,but I know I didn’t always feel this,but do you know what?It’s never too late to get it back .”This is the beginning of the film.Lester is an ordinary editor,face the unemployment crisis and feels empty.His wife is a real estate agent and works hard to achieve success.His daughter Jane Burham is an junior middle school student and at the age of revolting time. This family is not harmonious as outside looks.When Lester saw Angela,everything changed.He knows he should live for himself and he quits his job that he doesn’t like it and begin s to take drug and exercise. He don’t care that his wife has betrayed him.He wants to have Angela,but when this day comes, he gives up her. At the moment before he was killed,he knows the sense of life.（二）Social problems that the film revealsIn my opinion, the success of this film is that It has revealed the social problems that exist in American society.In real life,many people live unhappily and they have lost their personality. They don’t know what is really they want and they are like to live in a cage. The cage is made by themselves. They use their old and rigid moral concept to firm this cage and make it smaller. They don’t have the idea or take any actions to change this situation. They even laugh at or try to make conflict with those who have gotten our of the cage and try to chase happiness and real freedom. They are like Carolyn Burnham who wants to kill his husband when she is in rage. They also like Barbara Fitts , a gay, when he is rejected by Lester he killed him. Intheir eyes, Lester is not normal, his behavior is beyond what they can understand.（三）The review of that the film gives usThe film is about two hours, not very long, but the content is very much. It let us to think those over: What is a life? What is the most important in life? How should we live? How should we treat others who are different with us? And so on.ConclusionOut of question, this film is very successful and it has received many rewards. The most important role Lester tells us what is the real sense of life and the way we should take to live: keep personality, chase happiness and freedom, respect and understand others’ ways of life!Reference<<Appreciating Cinema>> Andrew Lynn。
美国丽人英文影评
1美国丽人 American Beauty"American Beauty" is a comedy because we laugh at the absurdity of the hero's problems.And a tragedy because we can identify with his failure--not the specific details, but the general outline.The movie is about a man who fears growing older, losing the hope of true love and not being respected by those who know him best. If you never experience those feelings, take out a classified ad. People want to take lessons from you.Lester Burnham, the hero of "American Beauty," is played by Kevin Spacey as a man who is unloved by his daughter, ignored by his wife and unnecessary at work. "I'll be dead in a year," he tells us in almost the first words of the movie. "In a way, I'm dead already." The movie is the story of his rebellion.We meet his wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), so perfect her garden shears are coordinated with her footwear. We meet his daughter Jane (Thora Birch), who is saving up for breast implants even though augmentation is clearly unnecessary; perhaps her motivation is not to become more desirable to men, but to make them miserable about what they can't have."Both my wife and daughter think I'm this chronic loser," Lester complains. He is right. But they are not without their reasons. At an agonizing family dinner, Carolyn plays Mantovanian music that mocks every mouthful; the music is lush and reassuring, and the family is angry and silent. When Lester criticizes his daughter's attitude, she points out correctly that he has hardly spoken to her in months.Everything changes for Lester the night he is dragged along by his wife to see their daughter perform as a cheerleader. There on the floor, engrossed in a sub-Fosse pompon routine, he sees his angel: Angela (Mena Suvari), his daughter's high-school classmate. Is it wrong for a man in his 40s to lust after a teenage girl? Any honest man understands what a complicated question this is. Wrong morally, certainly, and legally. But as every woman knows, men are born with wiring that goes directly from their eyes to their genitals, bypassing the higher centers of thought. They can disapprove of their thoughts, but they cannot stop themselves from having them."American Beauty" is not about a Lolita relationship, anyway. It's about yearning after youth, respect, power and, of course, beauty. The momenta man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside and starts writing snarfy letters disapproving of paragraphs like the one above. Lester's thoughts about Angela are impure, but not perverted; he wants to do what men are programmed to do, with the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.Angela is not Lester's highway to bliss, but she is at least a catalyst for his freedom. His thoughts, and the discontent they engender, blast him free from years of emotional paralysis, and soon he makes a cheerful announcement at the funereal dinner table: "I quit my job, told my boss to - - - - himself and blackmailed him for $60,000." Has he lost his mind? Not at all. The first thing he spends money on is perfectly reasonable: a bright red 1970 Pontiac Firebird.Carolyn and Jane are going through their own romantic troubles. Lester finds out Carolyn is cheating when he sees her with her lover in the drive-through lane of a fast-food restaurant (where he has a job he likes). Jane is being videotaped by Ricky (Wes Bentley), the boy next door, who has a strange light in his eyes. Ricky's dad (Chris Cooper) is a former Marine who tests him for drugs, taking a urine sample every six months; Ricky plays along to keep the peace until he can leave home.All of these emotional threads come together during one dark and stormy night, when there is a series of misunderstandings so bizarre they belong in a screwball comedy. And at the end, somehow, improbably, the film snatches victory from the jaws of defeat for Lester, its hero. Not the kind of victory you'd get in a feel-good movie, but the kind where you prove something important, if only to yourself."American Beauty" is not as dark or twisted as "Happiness," last year's attempt to shine a light under the rock of American society. It's more about sadness and loneliness than about cruelty or inhumanity. Nobody is really bad in this movie, just shaped by society in such a way they can't be themselves, or feel joy.The performances all walk the line between parody and simple realism; Thora Birch and Wes Bentley are the most grounded, talking in the tense, flat voices of kids who can't wait to escape their homes. Bening's character, a real estate agent who chants self-help mantras, confuses happiness with success--bad enough if you're successful, depressing if you're not.And Spacey, an actor who embodies intelligence in his eyes and voice, is the right choice for Lester Burnham. He does reckless and foolish things in this movie, but he doesn't deceive himself; he knows he's running wild--and chooses to, burning up the future years of an empty lifetimefor a few flashes of freedom. He may have lost everything by the end of the film, but he's no longer a loser.2美国丽人 American BeautyIt’s a tricky business to leave American Beauty feeling all right, but the film works very hard to make that possible, despite its dismal representation of suburban living.Scripted by first-time screenwriter Alan Ball (who used to write for Cybill and off-Broadway) and directed by British theater veteran Sam Mendes (Cabaret, The Blue Room), the film features Thora Birch, once Harrison Ford’s school-uniformed daughter in the Tom Clancy movies, now a really pissed-off teen named Jane, living in the generic ’burbs with her hateful and self-hating parents, Lester (Kevin Spacey) and Carolyn (Annette Bening). The poor kid doesn’t have a chance. She’s a morose cheerleader with pale skin and red-red lipstick, as well as a blond, burstingly beautiful best friend, Angela (Mena Suvari, the golden girl of American Pie), also on the squad, who absorbs all attention whenever they’re in the same space.Birch is absolutely brilliant. Her sophisticated performance of Jane’s despair and aspirations — to be like Angela, to be loved by her father or someone resembling him, to be anywhere but where she is, in a room where her mother is melting down before her eyes — save American Beauty from comic, surreal overkill. She anchors the film’s easy-target hysterics in a character whose face — more than any dialogue or situation —registers the dark nuances of adolescent fear, disgust and longing.However, most critical attention has been centered on the movie’s insights into Lester’s horrific existence. This is understand able, as he is the narrator. Right off the bat he tells us, "This is my life. In less than a year, I’ll be dead. Of course, I don’t know that yet. In a way I’m dead already." The language is brutal and lyrical. The scene beneath the voiceover is alarmingly sterile but extremely familiar: an overhead shot of a suburban neighborhood, all the houses alike, all the streets going nowhere. In an instant, he’s sympathetic, the heart of the film. You anticipate and dread his death, and wonder who will be responsible.You’re led to believe that it’s Jane, indirectly or otherwise. The very first shot in the film is her face, on video, pouting. She’s talking to whoever holds the camera, whom we learn later is her boyfriend, a strange, desperate and abused new neighbor named Ricky (Wes Bentley). He affords his elaborate entertainment system by selling pot (to her dad) but he spends most of his time videotaping everyone, in particular Jane at all hours, from any position he can manage, as she crosses her lawn, gossipsin the schoolyard, passes by her bedroom window. In this first scene, she talks about how unhappy she is, and how much she dislikes Lester. "I need a father who’s a role model," she says. "Someone should put him out of his misery." Off camera, Ricky offers to kill him for her.This offer is certainly foreboding, especially since it’s followed by Lester’s announcement of his imminent demise. As the action proceeds, Jane is revealed as being typically teenagerish in her wrath: that is, not convinced that what she thinks she wants is really what she wants. (Angela says that the worst thing is to be "ordinary," and Jane believes her for most of the film, also accepting Angela’s plainly unfounded judgment that she —Jane —is ordinary.) She’s also passive and fearfu l, despite her desperation, characteristics she’s absorbed from Lester and Carolyn (who sells real estate badly and has an affair with the local "real estate king," played by Peter Gallagher). But Ricky, he’s another story: a ticking time bomb, embodying the stereotype that suburban white boys are fast becoming in today’s mass-media eye. His backstory includes a pathologically passive mom (Allison Janney) and a menacing dad, Marine Colonel Frank Fitts (Chris Cooper, devastating in a truly troubling role).F itts’ salient traits are ruthlessness, rigidity and homophobia —the ’90s insta-signs of imminent suburban-guy breakdown — which definitively set him apart from Lester, who genuinely likes his gay neighbors and who becomes remarkably flexible once he loses his advertising job and falls in love with Angela. This latter development comes to resembles Lolita, in that Angela relishes her role as jailbait, misunderstanding it as a means to self-worth (a typical girl’s mistake, hardly pathological in her given en vironment). Lester’s redemption takes up the movie’s length and emotional focus, but he leaves walking disasters in his wake: most obviously, his undone wife andguilt-traumatized child.By the time these results become clear to you, the film will be over. It ends, as it promises in its opening frames, with Lester’s death. The face that will haunt you is Jane’s, as it haunts her father, her boyfriend and her mother. Mopey and dreamy, implacable and lovely, Jane, like Lissa in Best Laid Plans, wants more than she can imagine. If only the movies around them were so ambitious.American Beauty 美国丽人英语影评And there were a lot of great ones this year. I will also say something even (possibly) bolder--that Kevin Spacey gives the performance of his career. And all us movie geeks know that is saying a LOT, given this man's past roles, and his talent. I used to think he was overrated as an actor. Then I figured OK, I see what all the fuss is about. Now, he's up there with my favorite actors of all time, with James Woods, Steve Buscemi, Robert Deniro...probably in the top 5.I was lucky enough to see a free screening this afternoon and boy, am I glad I had the privilege. In fact, this review might not even be that coherent- it's one of those movies that blows you away so much that you have trouble even putting your feelings into words.The plotline sounds trite when you first describe it (it did to me when I first heard about it), Spacey plays a man who describes himself as a loser, with Annette Bening as his horrible, shrewish, self-absorbed, pathetic b*tch of a wife. His daughter is not all that likeable either, despite the fact that you can understand why she turned out this way, with her as a mother. Just when you think you've met the most dysfunctional family in the world outside of "Happiness", you find out about the family who just moved in next door. At first, the strange son seems like the most messed-up member of their brood, but after you get to meet his ex-military, abusive, homophobic, terrifying father and his withdrawn, sad, headcase mother, you realize he is the most normal member of the household by far. Then, the filmwriters toss in Kevin Spacey's lustful obsession with his daughter's sexkitten cheerleader friend, which trust me, is a lot more fun, entertaining, and amusing than it sounds when you read about it. Soon, he is having the most entertaining, amusing midlife crisis ever seen in the history of cinema. He just doesn't give a ***k about what he does or says anymore, and you only wish you could get away with doing the things he does.I found myself laughing out loud in this movie so many times, most of it horrified, amazed laughter at what is happening and the things that are coming out of the character's mouths, especially Spacey's. He had at least a dozen lines that had every member of the audience in hysterics and actual applause and cheers.I can't say enough good things about this movie. You think, after the first five minutes, that you know how the movie will end. Well, Spacey's opening narrative does give it away, but trust me, the events unfold in a way that you will NEVER see coming. You will swear you can see what a character is going to do next, what violent or self-destructice act they will commit, but you turn out to be wrong.Without getting too pretentious here, the movie lives up to it's theme/tagline of "...look closer". THe characters are not what they seem, up until the end, and even then they surprise you. At least two characters that you are POSITIVE you have figured out, do or say something that turns all your preconceptions of them upside down, while making your jaw drop, and your heart ache. You will leave the movie with a smile, though, and that is maybe what I expected least of all.影评作业"American Beauty" is a comedy because we laugh at the absurdity of the hero's problems. And a tragedy because we can identify with hisfailure--not the specific details, but the general outline.The movie is about a man who fears growing older, losing the hope of true love and not being respected by those who know him best.Lester Burnham, the hero of "American Beauty," who is unloved by his daughter, ignored by his wife and unnecessary at work. "I'll be dead in a year," he tells us in almost the first words of the movie. "In a way, I'm dead already." The movie is the story of his rebellion.We meet his wife, Carolyn , so perfect her garden shears are coordinated with her footwear. We meet his daughter Jane , who is saving up for breast implants even though augmentation is clearly unnecessary; perhaps her motivation is not to become more desirable to men, but to make them miserable about what they can't have.American Beauty" is not about a Lolita relationship, anyway. It's about yearning after youth, respect, power and, of course, beauty. The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside and starts writing snarfy letters disapproving of paragraphs like the one above. Lester's thoughts about Angela are impure, but not perverted; he wants to do what men are programmed to do, with the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.All of these emotional threads come together during one dark and stormy night, when there is a series of misunderstandings so bizarre they belong in a screwball comedy. And at the end, somehow, improbably, the film snatches victory from the jaws of defeat for Lester, its hero. Not the kind of victory you'd get in a feel-good movie, but the kind where you prove something important, if only to yourself."American Beauty" is not as dark or twisted as "Happiness," last year's attempt to shine a light under the rock of American society. It's more about sadness and loneliness than about cruelty or inhumanity. Nobody is really bad in this movie, just shaped by society in such a way they can't be themselves, or feel joy.He does reckless and foolish things in this movie, but he doesn't deceive himself; he knows he's running wild--and chooses to, burning up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes of freedom. He may have lost everything by the end of the film, but he's no longer a loser.。
《美国丽人》
《美国丽人》作者：周颖凌来源：《青年文学家》2013年第09期摘要：《美国丽人》（American beauty）是导演萨姆·门德斯在1999年执导的一部关于美国中产阶级家庭生活与矛盾的影片。
《美国丽人》作为萨姆·门德斯的电影处女作能获得了第72届奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳导演等五大重要奖项，与它的主题和视听手段的运用是分不开的。
十年之后来看这部作品，其中对家庭生活关注和反思仍然是十分深刻。
与其说这部影片是对美国现代家庭的审视，不如说是对自我性格、精神危机的一次剖析。
关键词：奥斯卡；《美国丽人》叙事方式；视听语言作者简介：周颖凌，女（1987.8.14-），汉族，江西人，中国传媒大学研究生广播电视艺术学电视策划专业。
[中图分类号]：J9 [文献标识码]：A[文章编号]：1002-2139（2013）-9--02《美国丽人》的题材算不上新鲜—中产阶级居住的郊区、破碎或危机四伏的家庭、人到中年的中产者所遭遇的生活以及精神的危机等，作为许多电影和媒体中常见的话题，这些平凡的生活情景并不能构成影片令人压抑的黑色力量。
因此，如果说《美国美人》与以往关于美国现实生活的电影有什么不同的话，那就是由斯派西扮演的那位可悲、可怜复又可笑的主人公莱斯特·伯纳姆。
他不但是这一平庸、琐碎的黑色生活的承受者，同时他也作为一个大胆的幻想者和反抗者被赋予了“英雄主人公”的含义。
莱斯特·伯纳姆作为一个“英雄主人公”，影片开头让观众看到了他懦弱猥琐的一面，他被自己的同事、妻子甚至是自己的女儿所轻视，从他身上我们看到生活掩盖下的精神危机，本片正是在象征和讽喻这种被残酷的精神危机吞噬的同时，发现并且展示美丽的存在。
影片通过玫瑰花这种意象的象征和暗喻，作为自我意识的觉醒，并以一种近乎荒诞的方式和过程进行着反抗。
一、独特的叙事视角“内心独白作为人物内心视象的一种表现方式，它必须传达的不是外部世界所看得见和听得见的东西，而是人物对外部世界的一种心理体验”。
美国丽人 (American Beauty)
美国丽人 (American Beauty)
《美国丽人》是一部令人深思的电影，它以其深刻的人物刻画和引人入胜的故
事情节而闻名。
影片讲述了一个普通家庭的故事，却揭示了其中的复杂和矛盾。
导演萨姆·门德斯通过对家庭、社会和人性的观察，呈现了一个充满现代社会压
力和矛盾的世界。
影片的主题之一是对美国梦的探讨。
主人公莱斯特·伯恩厌倦了日复一日的平庸
生活，他渴望自由和幸福，却发现自己陷入了更加深重的困境。
这种对现实生
活的不满和追求更高境界的愿望，让观众们对自己的生活产生了深刻的反思。
影片还深刻地描绘了家庭关系和人际关系的复杂性。
莱斯特和他的妻子卡罗琳
之间的关系紧张而脆弱，他们的女儿简也面临着青春期的挑战。
而邻居家的少
女安吉拉则代表了年轻一代对美好未来的追求。
这些角色之间的纠葛和矛盾，
让观众们对人际关系和家庭生活产生了深刻的共鸣。
影片的摄影和音乐也是其成功的关键因素。
影片中的镜头语言和画面构图都展
现了导演对细节的把握和对情感的表达。
配乐更是为影片增添了许多情感色彩，让观众们更加深入地感受到了影片中角色的内心世界。
总的来说，《美国丽人》是一部令人难忘的电影，它通过对现实生活的观察和对人性的探索，给观众们带来了深刻的共鸣。
这部电影不仅仅是一部娱乐作品，
更是一部引人深思的艺术之作。
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• Sam Mendes English stage and film director.
• born in Berkshire, 1 August 1965 • Education: MA, English University of Cambridge Magdalen College School • Occupation: Director • Years active:1993–present • Spouse: Kate Winslet (2003–2010) (divorced) 1 child
It’s hard to stay mad when there is so much beauty in the world. …Then I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment for my stupid little life. ......
Frank Fitts
He is a gay in fact
The Plot of the Movie
Lester Burnham Carolyn
Buddy Kane Angela Hayes Jane
Ricky
Frank Fitts
Barbara
The appears of rose petals
• born in Atlanta, May 13, 1957 • high school in Marietta, • University of Georgia , Florida State University, theater arts • playwright at the General Nonsense Theater Company • His Buddhist faith and how it has influenced his film making.
The perfect life and passionate love
To wife Carolyn：planting lots of rose. To husband Lester: his sexual fantasy of Angela in the overwhelming rose petals expand.
“In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.” -Auguste Rodin
Social background
• mid-life crisis(中年危机）
career disillusionment(幻灭), divorce, anxiety, alcoholism (酗酒), depression , suicide .
Generation Gap
• different moral and social values • difference of interests and hobbies • difference in attitudes
Film and television career
• Films: • American Beauty Towelhead.(阿拉伯佬) All Signs of Death(死亡痕迹) • Drama series: Six Feet Under(六尺之下) True Blood(真爱如血) •
“You have no idea what I am talking about , I’m sure. But don’t worry… You will someday.”
Where's the beauty in a plastic bag aesthetic subjectivism.主观审美主义 It depends on how you look at it. Reality is shaped by perspective.
Lester Burnham
loser
materialism(物质化）
Carolyn
A typical professinal woman
Jane Burnham
lonely, negative
Ricky
drug trafficking（毒品贩卖） peeping(偷窥）
ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้ Angela
ignorant so fearless(无知所以无畏）
Disillusion of American Dream • American dream: Every one has the chance to get satisfied as long as he exerts himself. • house, family • unfulfilled desires, repressed needs, shattered hopes.
01.Dead Already 03.Power Of Denial 05.Mental Boy 07.Root Beer 09.Bloodless Freak
02.Arose 04.Lunch W-The King 06.Mr.Smarty-Man 08.American Beauty
10.Choking The Bishop 11.Weirdest Home Videos 12.Structure & Discipline 14.Angela Undress 16.Walk Home 18.Any Other Name
13.Spartanette 15.Marine 17.Blood Red 19.Still Dead
The music in this film is also very well chosen. There are moments when the music fits so perfectly with the scene that they meld together as one to present a perfect emotion.
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Stage Donmar Warehouse Lionel Bart's Oliver!, Film American Beauty Road to Perdition毁灭之路 Jarhead锅盖头 Revolutionary Road革命之路
Awards : 1999: Academy Award for Best Director Golden Globe Award for Best Director Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award - Best Feature Film Award
• Background • Playwright and Director • Characters • Plot • My view
Historical background
• US-Soviet hegemony
(美苏争霸)
• Multipolarization
( 多极化)
• Globalization ( 全球化 ) • Free market
The production of the movie
• It is a social drama film. • It is the smash hit of 1999.
playwright : Alan Ball
American writer, director, actor . producer for film, theatre ,television.
• Awards : Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Golden Globe Award for Best ScreenplayMotion Picture Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay • Nominations: BAFTA（The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film Award
The beauty of youth is always short-lived.
This meaning also hints Lester’s death. Not long after he had realized what was real beauty in life, he dead…
First time: at the end of Jane's performance Second time: one night, in Lester's dream Third time :Lester fantasizes about Angela bathing in rose petals Forth time: Angela's kiss leaves a single rose petal in his mouth