听力每日练习 listen 4492 How much do you know Hollywood

2--Hackneyed theme !

1--What? How much do you know Hollywood?

2--Nearly eveythjng.

1--You are full of hoasts. I can examine you by question and answer.What is Hollywood? Where is it?What is the function of it?

2--Too easy queations. Listen carefully. Hollywood is the  movie capital of the world.It is located in southem Califomia.Many films have been made there,and the kinds have changed often.

1--Not bad.What kind of film did it produce from the easy-to mid 1930's

2--Ganster movies,Movie-Soers at that time could get a look at the people involved in crime and their violent activitiea by watching it.

1--Mm.What cume after that?

2--After all of that violence.people needed to laugh,so from the mid-to-late l940's.many detective movies about policemen who solved crimes were made.Then came musicals.

1--Pretty good. Please continue.

2--Right.By the mid-50's,this light-hearted genre was competing with films about nxiw senous aubjects.There was one kind that could be found throughout all of these yezcrs,and that was the ,mm,the. . .

1--The western films about America's cowbays.Indians and early setders.

B.Come on.

1--Since the early 1960's,there are horror movies about people who encounter frightenin8.unnatural suuations, and  aerious films such as documentanes about events that actually happened ,and science fiction movies about possible frrture and future worlds. Some peo-ple have also enjoyed watching psycho-dramas about the everyday problems that people have.

2--Any more?

1--Of course, no list of film would be complete without animated movies.These are especially popular among children.

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注解：

1.Hackneyed theme老调  

2.function功能

3.Ganster匪徒

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译文：

1--看这条消息，好莱坞简介。

2--都老掉牙了！

1--什么？关于好莱坞你知道多少？

2--了如指掌。

1--别吹了。让我用问答的方式考考你。好莱坞指什么？在哪儿？它是干啥的？

2--这也叫问题。仔细听着。好莱坞是世界电影之都，坐落在加利福尼亚南部，很多影片都是在这儿拍的，影片的风格也在不停地变化。

1--还行。那么从20世纪30年代初期到中期它生产什么样的片子？

2--警匪片。那时的影迷们通过看这种片子可以看到犯罪的人和他们的暴力行为。

1--嗯，后来呢？

2--看够了暴力片过后，人们需要一些笑料。这样30年代中后期，喜剧开始得到观众的青睐。

1--不错，接着说。

2--很好。到了50年代中期，这种轻喜剧形式受到严肃题材影片的冲击。还有一类片子是贯穿整个时期的，是……，嗯，是...

1--西部片。是关于美洲牛仔印第安人和早期移民的。

2--请继续。

1--从60年代起，关于人们经历恐惧、神秘事件的恐怖片开始兴趣。也有严肃题材的关于真实事件的纪录片，以及关于有可能发生的未来事件和未来世界的科幻片。还有些观众喜欢看的关于日常问题的心理剧。

2--还有吗？

1--当然，如果没有动画片，那电影世界就不算完整。这也是小观众喜欢看的影片。