1. King Kong
《金剛》

"It was beauty that felled the beast." These are the final lines of dialogue spoken in Merian C. Cooper's 1933 film about a giant ape and his doomed love affair with a starlet, and they only scratch the surface of King Kong's profound depths. An effects movie in a time where effects were nonexistent, Cooper's film proved to be the Jurassic Park of its day if for no other reason than its technological innovation But it remains a classic today not because of the wonderful stop-motion animation work, but its ability to render Kong as one of the silver screen's most tragic figures.
電影《金剛》拍攝于1933年。在導演梅里安·C·庫珀的鏡頭里，一只巨猿深深地愛上了一位女演員，但以悲劇收場。對于《金剛》影片的無窮深意來說，影片結尾那句“打敗野獸的，是美女”只能算是概括出了其寓意的一點皮毛。對于一個還不存在特效的時代，單就技術創新來講，該片可以算是當時的《侏羅紀公園》了。而撇開令人稱道的延時影像技術不論，巨猿金剛這樣一個銀屏悲劇形象，也足以讓該片躋身經典。

Banana Bonus: It's a classic.
看點：經典之作，無需多言。

Vocabulary
spaghetti western：意式西部片
quadruplegic：四肢癱瘓者
horrendous：可怕的，驚人的

英文來源：ign.com
譯者：garywguo
審校&編輯：杜娟