《Crazy Heart》　瘋狂的心　生活不是游戲

No.080　《Crazy Heart》　瘋狂的心　生活不是游戲

英文導讀

Crazy Heart is a 2009 American drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist portrayed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Other supporting roles are played by Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, and child actor Jack Nation. Bridges, Farrell, and Duvall also sing in the film.

The film's main character, Bad Blake played by Jeff Bridges, is based on a combination of Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard. The writer-director Cooper initially wanted to do a biopic on Haggard but found the rights to his life story were too difficult to obtain. The novel on which the film was based, was actually inspired by country singer Hank Thompson. Bridges earned the 2009 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film.

Filming took place during 2008 in New Mexico (Albuquerque, Española, Galisteo, Santa Fe), in Houston, Texas, and in Los Angeles, California. Original music for the film was composed by T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton, Ryan Bingham and others.

The film was produced for $7 million by Country Music Television, and was originally acquired by Paramount Vantage for a direct-to-video release, but was later purchased for theatrical distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures. It opened in limited release in the U.S. on December 16, 2009.

Jeff Bridges' performance earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor, as well as Best Actor prizes from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Broadcast Film Critics Association, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the Independent Spirit Awards. Bridges also received nominations from the Chicago Film Critics Association, London Critics Circle, Online Film Critics Society and the Satellite Awards. Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The song "The Weary Kind" earned Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett the 2009 Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Globe.

獲獎情況

2010年第82屆奧斯卡：最佳男主角、最佳原創(chuàng)歌曲獎，并榮獲最佳女配角提名。

影片信息

導演：斯科特·庫珀

編?。核箍铺?middot;庫珀、托馬斯·科布

主演：杰夫·布里吉斯、瑪吉·吉倫哈爾、柯林·法瑞爾、羅伯特·杜瓦爾

類型：劇情、愛情、音樂

制片國家（地區(qū)）：美國

上映日期：2009-12-6（美國）

片長：112分鐘

又名：《聲聲相識》《我心狂野》《狂野之心》《狂野的心》

劇情簡介

拜德·布雷克（杰夫·布里吉斯飾）曾是一位叱咤風云的鄉(xiāng)村音樂歌手，然而他卻在事業(yè)的巔峰時期肆意消耗著自己的人生，結婚、外遇、離婚、酗酒、打人……多年過去了，布雷克成為了一名酗酒成性的落魄藍調鄉(xiāng)村歌手。

《圣菲報》的記者簡（瑪吉·吉倫哈爾　飾）覺得，布雷克其實只是在逃避自己，她堅持要幫助布雷克擺脫酒精的荼毒，讓他重新在舞臺上煥發(fā)光彩。布雷克在簡的鼓勵下，也開始逐漸振作起來，重新拿起了吉他。不過畢竟多年過去，今非昔比，眼下的時代已經截然不同，布雷克如何跟上時代是一個嚴峻的問題。過去布雷克的弟子，如今的搖滾巨星湯米·斯威特（柯林·法瑞爾　飾）開始扶持自己敬佩的師父重新走上音樂之路。

一切似乎都在向著好的方向進行。但在簡攜4歲的兒子來休斯敦探訪布雷克的過程中，一個意外卻讓布雷克真正地意識到自己的人生路在何方……

制作花絮

《瘋狂的心》改編自托馬斯·科布的同名小說。

《瘋狂的心》的投資僅為700萬美元。

扮演布雷克的影星杰夫·布里吉斯本身就是一位流行音樂愛好者，他至今已經創(chuàng)作了200多首歌曲，出版了數(shù)張音樂大碟。

重點學習

Jeff Bridges plays a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter

文中的down-and-out是一個形容詞，如果你描述某人是down-and-out, you mean that they have no job and nowhere to live, and they have no real hope of improving their situation. 也就是“窮困潦倒的；被擊垮的”的意思，比如：I try to help those down-andout in our neighborhood.（我試著幫助那些社區(qū)中生活窘迫的人們。）

Found the rights to his life story were too difficult to obtain

Too…to是英語中常用的一種常見句型，基本形式為“too+形容詞或副詞+to+動詞原形”，在大多數(shù)情況下表示否定意義，是“太……而不能……；太……無法……”的意思。比如：It's too cheap to be good. （這東西太便宜，好不了。）有時不定式前可以帶有一個由介詞for引出的邏輯主語，比如：It' s too expensive for her to buy. （它太貴了，她買不起。）另外還需注意不定式后跟賓語的情況：一般情況下，too…to…結構中的不定式可根據(jù)其是否及物來確定它是否帶賓語；但是，若句子主語與其后不定式有動賓關系，那么，其后的及物動詞不定式不能帶賓語。比如：The nice dress is too expensive for her to buy. （這件漂亮的連衣裙太貴了，她買不起。）此外，若句子主語與其后不定式有動賓關系，且其中的動詞為不及物動詞，此時應注意在其后加適當?shù)慕樵~，比如：The room is too dirty to live in. （這房間太臟，不能住。）

單詞時間

journalist[?d??:n?list] n. 新聞工作者；報人；記日志者

portray[p?:?trei] vt. 描繪；扮演

combination[?k?mbi?nei??n] n. 結合；組合；聯(lián)合；化合

biopic[?bai?upik] n. 傳記電影，傳記片

inspire[in?spai?] vt. 激發(fā)；鼓舞；啟示；產生；使生靈感

performance[p??f?:m?ns] n. 性能；績效；表演；執(zhí)行

originally[??rid??n?li] adv. 最初，起初；本來

distribution[?distri?bju:??n] n. 分布；分配

association[??s?usi?ei??n] n. 協(xié)會，聯(lián)盟，社團；聯(lián)合；聯(lián)想