《罗马假日》电影英语教案

Unit 10 Roman Holiday （罗马假日）

I. Understanding the Movie

1．Background Information

这是一部历久不衰的轻喜剧故事片，获得第26届奥斯卡金像奖最佳影片提名、最佳剧本、最佳女主角、最佳服装设计等几项大奖。

《罗马假日》是爱情文艺片的典范，片中毫无大制作大场面，情节也简单得很，但清纯的公主和年轻的记者之间的爱情却感动了每一个人，那种单纯的爱时至今日仍被许多人留恋，格利高里·派克和奥黛丽·赫本的成功出演以及罗马的街头风景成为了世界经典。女主人公那俏皮的可爱样和男主人公那装着一湍清泉的眼睛最让我印象深刻。

影片讲述了这样一个故事——淘气美丽任性童心十足的英国公主到古都罗马访问，对繁文褥节视为苦事，晚上偷溜到市区欣赏夜色。在皇宫外游荡的两天时光里，不但爱上了五光十色的平民生活，而且还爱上了那位英俊潇洒的记者乔, 两人把臂同游，暗生情愫。.偏偏幸福总是短暂,.自由芬芳的恋爱后，公主为了本身的职责而忍痛牺牲爱情，无奈地回到了那个冷冰冰的皇宫，恢复了她本来刻板、沉闷的生活，履行她作为皇室成员的出访职责;花团锦簇风光旖旎的背后,她承受的是本不属于她的重重负担.一个原该灿烂活泼的灵魂就那样被无情的锁入幽深皇宫里. 这是她的宿命。但那份美丽的回忆成为了永恒。

很难找到词语来形容看完这部影片之后的心情，或许是向往后的无奈，抑或是梦破灭的那种心碎。《罗马假日》这部经久不衰的浪漫爱情喜剧给了我深深的触动。

片中的两位主人公的身份悬殊，一位是本着寻找关于外逃公主的新闻的普通职业记者，一个却是出使罗马的英国公主，但是在那个特殊的年代他们还是相爱了。古都罗马，见证了他们的浪漫爱情。露天咖啡馆、古罗马竞技场、石凿的雕像前、许愿石壁下、船上的舞会中、乔的小公寓……罗马的很多地方，甚至包括警察局，都留下了他们曾来过的痕迹，不知不觉，感情就在这点点滴滴中悄然积累。影片中的男主角情感很含蓄，直到他们跳水躲开特工人员的追捕并顺利爬上岸之时，那河畔的深情一吻才说明一切。然而不是所有童话故事的结局都能让“王子与公主从此幸福快乐的生活在一起”，因此当安妮最终意识到自己对家庭与国家的应尽责任与义务时，她只能忍痛割爱，黯然告别自己的爱人，重归皇室。两位主人公终究无奈于身份，形如陌生人，继续扮演着属于自己的角色，两条曾经相交过的线又无奈的回到了各自的轨道上。

侯门一入深似海，从此萧郎是路人。此情此情，叫人情何以堪？虽然随后的新闻发布会上两人还能再见最后一面，但已是咫尺天涯，碍于身份，相见却不能相认，只能通过凝望对方时专注，深情的眼神，万般无奈，尽在不言中了。俩人语带双关，以示告别，那些偷拍的照片成了最好的纪念礼物。

“在你出使的国家里，你最爱的是哪个国家。”

“最爱的，是罗马，当然是罗马！”只此一句，已胜过千言万语。

半个世纪以来，数以亿计不同种族、国籍和年龄的观众，被银幕上大不列颠公主安妮和美国记者乔·布莱德里的爱情深深打动——尽管他们的邂逅只持续了短短２４小时。

这样的结局固然令人扼腕叹息，但也正是因为这份遗憾的美丽，使得赫本那优雅脱俗的气质与迷人的微笑在我们的记忆深处永远地定格，最终凝成心口上那颗挥之不去的朱砂痣，轻轻一碰，总是隐隐作疼。曾经有人想拍摄《罗马假日》的续集，让两位主人公的后代来接续他们的情缘，但最终没有成功——这甚至可以说是一件幸事，因为缺陷就是一种美，一种刻骨铭心的美，让人去想象去思考。

2. Synopsis

1. The story is about a young princess (公主) (Hepburn) named Ann, making a goodwill (善意的) tour of Europe's capitals. She is tired of the responsibility (职责) and demands of the role she has been born into and longs to experience the every day pleasures of an ordinary person. In Rome she finally rebels. Waiting until after everyone in the embassy (大使馆) where her party is staying has gone to sleep, she slips out a window and finds herself alone on the streets of Rome.

She is found by Joe Bradley (Peck), a hardened (坚毅的) and somewhat cynical (愤世嫉俗的) reporter, on his way home from a late night card game. Not knowing who she is but seeing that she has no place to stay he takes pity on her and invites her to his apartment for the night. In a comical (滑稽的) scene, he offers her a pair of his pajamas (睡衣) and points to the couch where she can sleep. Innocent (天真的) aristocrat (贵族) that she is, she asks for a nightgown and help undressing. Bradley helps her take off her tie and then leaves the room. When he returns a few minutes later he discovers her sound asleep on the bed, leaving him the couch (沙发).

Leaving her sleeping the next morning, Bradley shows up late for work and tries to cover himself by saying that he had an interview (采访) with the princess. But his editor shows him a newspaper with her picture and headline stating that she was taken ill the night before and canceled all appointments (安排) for the day. Bradley immediately realizes who he has in his apartment and gets the editor to agree to pay $5,000 if he can get a real interview with the princess. On the way out Bradley contacts a photographer (摄影师) friend, Irving Radovich (Albert) and arranges for him to met him later with his camera for a big scoop.

Returning to his apartment, Bradley picks up the princess for their planned tour of the city. Bradley's real aim is to get the pictures and story he promised (答应) his editor. But the innocent charm of the princess softens him and the two start to fall in love. They end up having a good time and some comical adventures (冒险). Bradley conceals the fact that he is a reporter who knows who she really is and she doesn't tell him that that she is a royal princess. But in the end the truth comes out and the princess realizes that her duty to her country and family come first and she reluctantly (不情愿地) returns to her official role.

The two meet briefly at the end during her press conference with other reporters. She addresses Bradley as Mr. Bradley just like the others. As he is leaving, Bradley, quietly slips her the photos that his friend Irving had taken and lets her know that his story and pictures of their time together will never be published (公布).

The charming Audrey Hepburn plays a modern princess who takes a day on Rome. She meets up with reporter Peck and wise-cracking photographer Albert. Peck and Hepburn fall in love, though Peck plans to sell an "exclusive story with the princess." Roman Holiday is a fun romantic comedy, but stays realistic (现实) with its commentary on society and royalty.

2. Princess Anne of Great Britain's royal family as the heir to the throne will visit major cities in Europe, the news caused a great sensation.

Trip to Europe last stop is Rome, Princess Anne wanted to enjoy her view of the beautiful scenery, they can be de-camp to the identity of the noble princess, not the people in front of Lai Man in the spotlight refused, and gave her a sedative injection, Princess pretended to sleep, they go out to be de-camp, the more she secretly slipped out of the window. However, not long visit, the doctor gave her the injection of a sedative effect on the occurrence, she square pool of water near a bench at best Mimi and fell asleep.