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1、20143635何志俊 20143653童新玉 Birth place:New Jersey, USADate of birth:26July 1959Seven(七宗罪）七宗罪）House of Cards(纸牌屋）纸牌屋）KPAX(K星异客）星异客）The Usual Suspects（非常嫌疑人）（非常嫌疑人）Birthplace: Topeka, Kansas, USADate of both：May 29, 1958May 29, 1958Main works:Coastal Disturbances(沿途风雨）沿途风雨）Being Julie(成为茱莉亚）成为茱莉亚）The Wom

2、en（女人们）（女人们） American Beauty tells the story of Lester Burnham,a middle-aged man who lives a sedated life with his family in American suburbia. One evening he is pressured by his wife to attend a performance at their daughters local school. Participating in the performance is Janes best friend Angel

3、a,an attractive blonde-haired girl.Lester is mesmerized.In angry and shame,Fitts returns with a gun and shoots Lester in the head.At the moment of his death,leaster finally relioves the most beautiful moments of his life,and comes to realize what it is that he was been seeking all long.12C Classical

4、 lineslassical linesLester Burnham: Remember those posters that said, Today is the first day of the rest of your life? Well, thats true with every day except one: the day that you die.莱斯特：记得那些海报上说过，莱斯特：记得那些海报上说过， 今天是你余生的第一今天是你余生的第一天？天？ 是呀，每天都真是如此，不过死的那天除外。是呀，每天都真是如此，不过死的那天除外。Lester Burnham: No, Brad

5、; Im just an ordinary guy who has nothing left to lose.莱斯特：不，布拉德，我只是个没什么可失去的普通人。莱斯特：不，布拉德，我只是个没什么可失去的普通人。 In the beginning of the film, there is a narrator that In the beginning of the film, there is a narrator that tell us the leading actor Lester was dead ,and let us feel tell us the leading actor

6、 Lester was dead ,and let us feel interested in the plot and why he was erested in the plot and why he was killed. American Beauty is not about a family relationship, American Beauty is not about a family relationship, anyway. Its about the pursuit of youth, respect, power, and, anyway. It

7、s about the pursuit of youth, respect, power, and, of course, beauty .Lesters thoughts about Angela are impure, of course, beauty .Lesters thoughts about Angela are impure, but not perverted; he wants to do what men are programmed to but not perverted; he wants to do what men are programmed to do, w

8、ith the most beautiful woman he has ever seen .The do, with the most beautiful woman he has ever seen .The appearance of Angela let him resurgent .He was depressed for appearance of Angela let him resurgent .He was depressed for a long time and he finally broken out ,and contradiction was a long tim

9、e and he finally broken out ,and contradiction was sharpened .He knows hes running wild-and chooses to burn sharpened .He knows hes running wild-and chooses to burn up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes of freedom. He ma

10、y have lost everything by the end of the of freedom. He may have lost everything by the end of the film, but hes no longer a loser .As the lines in the film-film, but hes no longer a loser .As the lines in the film-“Lester Burnham: No, Brad; Im just an ordinary guy who Lester Burnham: No, Brad; Im j

11、ust an ordinary guy who has nothing left to losehas nothing left to lose.”.” In the end ,Lester was killed by Colonel Fitts,he finally In the end ,Lester was killed by Colonel Fitts,he finally realized that the beauty he has been finding has been there realized that the beauty he has been finding has been there all long in the memories of seemingly unimportant moments of all long in the memo