《Munich》　慕尼黑　紛繁謎團背后的人性大網

No.049　《Munich》　慕尼黑　紛繁謎團背后的人性大網

英文導讀

Munich is a 2005 historical film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Black September terrorist group after the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.

The 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, were supposed to be a peaceful gathering of outstanding athletes from around the world, but on September 5, the games took a sinister turn when eight masked Palestinian terrorists invaded the Olympic village, killing two Israeli athletes and abducting nine others. The kidnappers demanded safe passage out of Germany in addition to the release of Arab prisoners in Israeli and German prisons, but when they arrived at the Munich airport they were met by German police and military forces, and in the melee that followed, all nine hostages were killed. In the wake of the killings, the Israeli government gave Mossad, the nation's intelligence agency, a special assignment—to track down and eliminate the Palestinians responsible for the death of the Israeli athletes. A young and idealistic Mossad agent (Eric Bana) is assigned to the four-man unit created to wipe out the Olympic terrorists, but while he believes in serving his country, as their bloody work goes on he begins to buckle under the weight of his work and wonders if he can morally justify his nation's acts of revenge. Munich also stars Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Ciarán Hinds.

The film is based on the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by Canadian journalist George Jonas, which in turn was based on the story of Yuval Aviv, who claims to have been a Mossad agent. In the book, Aviv's story is told through a protagonist called "Avner".

The film was shot in Malta, Budapest, Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, Paris, and New York.The box office gross was$130,346,986.

The film garnered a 78% favorable rating from critics (per Rotten Tomatoes). Roger Ebert praised the film, saying that "With this film (Spielberg)has dramatically opened a wider dialogue, helping to make the inarguable into the debatable." and placed it at the third on his top ten list of 2005. James Berardinelli wrote that "Munich is an eye-opener – a motion picture that asks difficult questions, presents well-developed characters, and keeps us white-knuckled throughout." He named it the best film of the year; it was the only film in 2005 which he gave four stars, and he also put it on his Top 100 Films of All Time list. Entertainment Weekly film critic Owen Gleiberman said that Munich was the first film of 2005.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Spielberg), Best Adapted Screenplay (Kushner and Roth), Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn) and Best Original Score (John Williams). However, it won none.

獲獎情況

2006年第78屆奧斯卡：最佳影片提名、最佳導演提名、最佳改編劇本提名、最佳剪輯提名、最佳原創(chuàng)配樂提名。

影片信息

導演：史蒂文·斯皮爾伯格

編劇：托尼·庫什納、艾瑞克·羅斯

主演：艾瑞克·巴納、丹尼爾·克雷格、塞倫·希德、馬修·卡索維茨

類型：劇情、驚悚、歷史

制片國家（地區(qū)）：美國、加拿大、法國

上映日期：2006-01-06（美國）

片長：164分鐘

又名：《慕尼黑慘案》《復仇》

劇情簡介

1972年，在聯(lián)邦德國舉辦的第20屆奧運會上，巴勒斯坦的極端恐怖組織“黑色九月”闖進了奧運村，綁架了11名以色列運動員，以此要挾以色列釋放被關押的該組織成員。本該是萬眾歡騰的慕尼黑，卻被重重的陰森恐怖所籠罩。

以色列的殺手們不理解他們暗殺目標的選定方式，也不明白手中黑名單上的人從何而來，開始懷疑自己的所作所為是否正確。在他們的內心進行掙扎的時候，聯(lián)邦德國的警察直接沖進了恐怖組織的巢穴，企圖武裝營救人質，這樣的結局導致了11名以色列運動員全部遇難。

事件發(fā)生之后，以色列“摩薩德”組織高層迅速訓練了一批特工，展開了對“黑色九月”組織以及相關的巴勒斯坦人長達一個世紀的血腥報復……

制作花絮

《慕尼黑》的開拍日，正好是《世界大戰(zhàn)》的首映日。

在片場，雖然斯皮爾伯格才是“老板”，但演員們卻更愿意聽取編劇托尼·庫什納的建議。

在馬耳他實地拍攝時，劇組中的一輛德國進口的貨車突然起火，每一個人都驚恐地以為這是一場恐怖襲擊……后來才知道是由于馬耳他的夏天太熱了，導致發(fā)動機超負荷，才會引起火災，好在沒人受傷。

杰弗里·拉什的角色本來屬于本·金斯利，怎奈金斯利另有一部片約在身，實在分身乏術。

重點學習

In the wake of the killings

In the wake of是英語中的一個固定搭配，是“緊跟，尾隨；伴隨而來；緊緊跟在…的后面；效仿；作為…的結果”的意思，比如：She hands over a letter written by her GP in the wake of the operation. （她遞過來一封信，那是她的家庭醫(yī)生在手術之后緊跟著寫下的。）另外，在航海學中，該搭配還有“追隨著前船的航跡（船駛過后留在水面的余跡），跟在前船后面”的意思。

A young and idealistic Mossad agent (Eric Bana) is assigned to the four-man unit created to wipe out the Olympic terrorists

Wipe out是英語中一個固定搭配，在文中是“消滅；殺死，殺光”的意思，比如：Half of the population was wiped out by the plague.（一半的人口在瘟疫中喪生。）

Wipe out還有“破壞；徹底毀掉；擦掉；消除；擦凈…的內部”的意思，比如：The town was wiped out by the earthquake. （城市在地震中被毀掉了。）

單詞時間

retaliation[ri?tæli?ei??n] n. 報復；反擊；回敬

massacre[?mæs?k?] n. 大屠殺

sinister[?sinist?] adj. 陰險的；兇兆的；災難性的；左邊的

terrorist[?ter?rist] n. 恐怖主義者，恐怖分子

abduct[æb?d?kt] vt. 綁架；誘拐

intelligence[in?telid??ns] n. 智力；情報工作；情報機關；理解力

assignment[??sainm?nt] n. 分配；任務；作業(yè)；功課

buckle[?b?kl] vi. 扣??；變彎曲

protagonist[pr?u?tæɡ?nist] n. 主角，主演；主要人物，領導者

dramatically[dr??mætik?li] adv. 戲劇地；引人注目地

inarguable[in?ɑ:ɡju?bl] adj. 不容爭辯的