lifeisbeautiful解读.ppt

1、Life Is Beautiful,Life Is Beautifulis a 1997 Italiantragicomedy（悲喜剧）comedy-dramafilm directed by and starringRoberto Benigni. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, aJewish Italianbook shop owner, who must employ his fertile（丰富的） imagination to shield（防护） his son from the horrors（恐怖） of internment（拘留） in aNaz

2、i concentration camp（集中营）. Part of the,film came from Benignis own family history; before Robertos birth, his father had survived three years of internment at theBergen-Belsen concentration camp.,The film was a critical and financial success, winning Benigni theAcademy Award for Best Actorat the71st

3、 Academy Awardsas well as theAcademy Award for Best Original Dramatic Scoreand theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.,Plot,In 1939Italy, Guido Orefice is a young Jewish man who is leaving his old life and going to the city where his uncle lives for work. Guido is comical（滑稽的） and sharp, ma

4、king the best from each situation he encounters. From the start he falls in love with a girl Dora. Later he sees her again in the city where she is a teacher. Dora is set to be engaged（订婚） to a rich but arrogant,man. He is a local government official（政府官员） with whom Guido has run-ins（争论） from the be

5、ginning. Guido is still in love with Dora and performs many stunts（绝技表演） in order to see her. Guido sets up many coincidental incidents（巧合的事件） to show his interest. Finally Dora sees Guidos affection（感情） and promise and gives in,against her better judgement. He steals her from her engagement party o

6、n a horse, humiliating（羞辱） her fianc and mother. Soon they are married and have a son, Giosu. (Joshea in English.),Through the first part, the film depicts the changing political climate in Italy: Guido frequently imitates（模仿） members of theNational Fascist Party（法西斯党）, skewering（刺穿） their racist lo

7、gic（种族主义逻辑） and pseudoscientific reasoning（伪科学推理） (at one point, jumping onto a table to demonstrate his “perfect Aryan bellybutton（雅利安人的肚脐）). However,the growing Fascist wave（浪潮） is also evident: the horse Guido steals Dora away on has been painted green and covered inantisemiticinsults（反犹主义的侮辱）. L

8、ater during World War II, after Dora and her mother have reconciled（和解）, Guido, his Uncle Eliseo and Giosu are seized on Giosus birthday. They and many other Jews are forced onto a train and taken to aconcentration camp.,In the camp, Guido hides their true situation from his son. Guido explains to G

9、iosu that the camp is a complicated（复杂的） game in which he must perform the tasks Guido gives him. Giosu is at times reluctant（不甘心情愿的） to go along with the game, but Guido convinces him each time to continue on. Guido sets up the concentration camp,as a game for Giosu. Each of the tasks will earn the

10、m points and whoever gets to one thousand points first will win a tank. He tells him that if he cries, complains that he wants his mother, or says that he is hungry, he will lose points（失分）, while quiet boys who hide from the camp guards earn extra points（额外的分数）. Guido uses this game to,explain feat

11、ures of the concentration camp that would otherwise be frightening（令人害怕的） for a young child: the guards are mean only because they want the tank for themselves; the dwindling（减小的） numbers of children (who are being killed in gas chambers（毒气室）) are only hiding in order to score more points than Giosu

12、 so they can win the game. He puts off（阻止）,Giosus requests to end the game and return home by convincing him that they are in the lead for the tank, and need only wait a short while before they can return home with their tank.,Despite being surrounded by the misery（痛苦）, sickness（疾病）, and death at th

13、e camp, Giosu does not question this fiction（谎言） because of his fathers convincing performance and his own innocence（无知）. Guido maintains this story right until the end when, in the chaos（混乱） of shutting down the camp as the Americans approach, he tells his son to stay in asweatbox（狭窄囚,室）until every

14、body has left, this being the final competition before the tank is his. As the camp is in chaos Guido goes off to find Dora, but while he is out he is caught by a German soldier. An officer makes the decision to execute（处死） Guido. Guido is led off by the soldier to be executed. While the soldier is

15、leading him to his death, Guido passes by Giosu one last time, still in character（角,色） and playing the game. The next morning, Giosu emerges from（从中出来） the sweatbox as the camp is occupied（占领） by an American armored division（装甲师）. Giosu thinks he has won the game because Guido had told him that whoe

16、ver got to one thousand points would get a tank. The captives（俘虏） in the concentration camp emerge from hiding. The prisoners travel to,safety, accompanied by the Americans. While they are traveling, the soldiers allow Giosu to ride on the front of the tank with them. Giosu soon spots（发现） Dora in th

17、e procession（队伍） leaving the camp. Giosu and Dora are reunited（重聚） and are extremely happy to see each other. In the film, Giosu is a young boy; however, both the beginning and ending of the film are,narrated（叙述） by an older Giosu recalling（回忆） his fathers story of sacrifice for his family.,Awards,L

18、ife is Beautifulwas shown at the1998 Cannes Film Festival（嘎纳电影节）, and went on to win theGrand Prix.At the71st Academy Awards, the film won awards forBest Music, Original Dramatic Score, andBest Foreign Language Film, with Benigni winningBest Actorfor his role.,Reception,Life is Beautifulbecame commercially successful. After Miramax Films（米拉麦克斯电影公司） released the film on 23 October 1998 in the United States, the film went on to gross $57,563,264 in North America, and $171,600,000 internationally, with a worldwide gross