电影鉴赏（阿凡达）.ppt

电影鉴赏之《阿凡达》 剧情介绍 An Alien Language The blockbuster film Avatar has been a smash hit at the box office in the UK and around the world, becoming the fastest film ever to earn $1bn (7bn yuan) in ticket sales. But as well as being an entertaining feast for the eyes, the sci-fi epic also introduces movie-goers to a brand new language invented especially for the film. The movie is set on an alien planet called Pandora which is inhabited by many strange species. The most humanoid of the planets inhabitants are the Navi, and it is the struggle between the Navi and human interlopers that forms the core narrative of the film. The film has been released in 2D and 3D versions In order to add authenticity to his vision of an alien race the film’s director James Cameron asked a professor of linguistics from the University of Southern California to invent a language for the Navi. Professor Paul Frommer worked with James Cameron for four years to build upon the original 30 words or so that the director had already come up with for the language. According to Professor Frommer, the most important aspect of the Navi language was that it could be articulated. This is an alien language but obviously it has to be spoken by human actors, Professor Frommer told the BBC, it has to be sounds that human beings are comfortable producing. The language currently has a lexicon of around 1000 chinese 　　故事从地球开始，杰克·萨利（Jake Sully，萨姆·沃辛顿饰）是一个双腿瘫痪的老兵，他觉得没有任何东西值得他去战斗，因此他对被派遣去潘多拉星球的采矿公司工作欣然接受。　　这个星球上有一种别的地方都没有的矿物元素“unobtanium”，能够吸引人类不远万里来到这里拓荒的原因就是它“unobtanium”将彻底改变人类的能源产业。但是问题是，资源丰富的潘多拉星球并不适合人类生活，这里的空气对人类致命，本土的动植物都是凶猛的掠食者，极度危险。这里的环境也造就了与人类不同的种族：10英尺高的蓝色类人生物“Navi族”。Navi族不满人类拓荒者的到来，也不喜欢人类的机器在这个星球的土地上因为到处挖矿而留下的斑斑伤痕。　　由于潘多拉星球环境严酷，人类传统的宇航服、机甲都不足以保护矿工，于是科学家们转向了克隆技术：他们将人类DNA和Navi人的DNA结合在一起，制造了一个克隆Navi人，这个克隆Navi人可以让人类的意识进驻其中，成为人类在这个星球上自由活动的“化身”。然而并不是任何人都可以操纵这个克隆Navi人，只有DNA与他身上人类DNA配型相符的人才有这样的能力。　　杰克·萨利的双胞胎哥哥是这个克隆Navi的人类DNA捐献者，他就可以操纵这个克隆 Navi人，然而他被杀死了，采矿的公司为了不让砸下去的钱白砸（克隆Navi人价格不菲），必须找到一个可以代替他操纵克隆Navi的人，这个人的D