怪獸哥斯拉踏上好萊塢星光大道英語(yǔ)美文
Godzilla honored with star on walk of fame怪獸哥斯拉踏上好萊塢星光大道
Film character "Godzilla" blows off steam as it arrives for a ceremony to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California November 29, 2004. The movie icon celebrates its 50th anniversary with the star as well as the premiere of the film "Godzilla Final Wars." (Reuters)
Fifty years after he first lumbered from the sea to breathe fire, trample cities and thrill generations of filmgoers, Japan"s most famous movie monster, Godzilla, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame recently.
The gargantuan reptile is the latest in a pantheon of famous critters, including Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker, to have his name enshrined on Hollywood Boulevard along with 2,200 flesh-and-blood stars, like Cary Grant and John Wayne.
Accepting the honor on behalf of the self-proclaimed "King of the Monsters" was the 5-foot-4-inch-tall Japanese actor who plays Godzilla on screen, Tsutomo Kitagawa. The actor donned the fearsome rubber suit he wears in his latest picture, "Godzilla Final Wars," which opens on Dec. 4 in Japan.
The film is the 28th Godzilla adventure produced by Japanese studio Toho Co. Ltd. since the giant, prehistoric lizard, awakened by atomic bomb tests, first roared out of the Pacific to threaten civilization in the original 1954 movie.
A metaphor for the perils of the nuclear age, the film was made nine years after the end of World War II, when the firebombing of Tokyo and atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still fresh in Japan"s national consciousness.
Soon after it was released in Japan, Hollywood producers bought U.S. rights to the film and instead of dubbing it into English, they recut the original with new scenes starring Raymond Burr as an American reporter covering the monster"s rampage through Tokyo.
Although Godzilla was a deadly and destructive force in his big-screen debut, the fire-breathing beast returned in subsequent films to save mankind from other monsters.
Several of his former outsized foes, including the giant moth-like creature Mothra, make comeback appearances in "Final Wars," which Toho is touting as its last Godzilla tale -- at least for now.
"So long as Godzilla can fascinate people, I believe he will be resurrected by new generations of filmmakers in the future," producer Shogo Tomiyama said.
Godzilla"s star was unveiled outside Hollywood"s landmark Grauman"s Chinese Theatre, where his latest film was set for its world premiere.
A throng of onlookers shouted "We love you, Godzilla!" and "Viva Godzilla!" as the monster posed for pictures, spewed bursts of carbon-dioxide gas at photographers from his jaws and danced a few steps with Hollywood"s honorary mayor, Johnny Grant.
50年前，它步履笨重地走出海面，口吐火焰，踐踏城市，令幾代影迷膽戰(zhàn)心驚;50年后，日本最著名的電影怪獸“哥斯拉”在好萊塢星光大道上贏得了一顆“星星”。
這只體形龐大的爬行動(dòng)物是星光大道“卡通生物園”里的新成員，這里還住著米老鼠、賓尼兔和啄木鳥伍迪等。怪獸哥斯拉把自己的名字銘刻在好萊塢大道上，和卡里·格蘭特、約翰·韋恩等2200名真人明星一起名載史冊(cè)。
怪獸哥斯拉的扮演者、身高5英尺4英寸的日本男演員村田雄浩代表自稱“怪獸之王”的哥斯拉接受了這份榮譽(yù)。他身穿可怕的橡膠外套，這也是他在最新影片《哥斯拉：最后戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)》中的怪獸造型。該片將于12月4日在日本公映。
這部電影是自1954年首部哥斯拉電影問(wèn)世以來(lái)的第28部哥斯拉冒險(xiǎn)系列電影，由日本學(xué)者影業(yè)公司制作。在1954年拍攝的最早的影片中，這條龐大的史前蜥蜴在一次原子彈試驗(yàn)中蘇醒，首次咆哮著浮出太平洋，威脅人類文明。
作為對(duì)核時(shí)代危機(jī)的隱喻，這部電影拍攝于二戰(zhàn)結(jié)束后第9年，當(dāng)時(shí)東京遭火焰炸彈空襲事件和廣島、長(zhǎng)崎的原子彈爆炸事件在日本民族的意識(shí)里仍然鮮活。
這部影片在日本發(fā)行后不久，好萊塢制片人就購(gòu)買了它在美國(guó)放映的版權(quán)。他們并沒(méi)有用英語(yǔ)給它配音，而是重新剪切了母片，用雷蒙德·伯爾飾演的美國(guó)記者的新片段取代了怪獸踐踏東京的`狂暴行為。
盡管怪獸哥斯拉首次亮相電影銀屏?xí)r代表的是一種破壞性極強(qiáng)的致命力量，但在后來(lái)的影片中，這頭噴火野獸回歸善良，從其他怪獸手中拯救人類。
它從前的幾位頭號(hào)敵人，包括蛾形巨型生物摩斯拉也在新片《哥斯拉：最后戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)》中再次現(xiàn)身。學(xué)者影業(yè)公司聲稱這是他們制作的最后一部哥斯拉電影——至少現(xiàn)在來(lái)說(shuō)是這樣的。
“只要哥斯拉能讓人們著迷，我相信將來(lái)他會(huì)在新一代電影制作人手中復(fù)興的�！敝破烁簧角f五說(shuō)。
哥斯拉的“好萊塢之星”已在好萊塢地標(biāo)格勞門中國(guó)劇院外面揭幕，哥斯拉最新影片也將在這里舉行全球首映儀式。
當(dāng)這頭怪獸擺好造型準(zhǔn)備拍照，張開大口向攝影師噴出二氧化碳爆炸氣體，還和好萊塢名譽(yù)市長(zhǎng)強(qiáng)尼·格蘭特跳起了舞，這時(shí)，一群旁觀者大喊“我們愛(ài)你，哥斯拉!”，“哥斯拉萬(wàn)歲!”
Vocabulary:
lumber: to move with a rumbling noise(移動(dòng)時(shí)伴有隆隆的響聲，沉重地走來(lái))
gargantuan: of immense size, volume, or capacity; gigantic(面積或體積龐大的)
pantheon: a circular temple in Rome, completed in 27 b.c. and dedicated to all the gods(萬(wàn)神殿，羅馬圓形神廟， 公元前27年完工，供奉所有的神)
critter: a living creature(生物，多帶詼諧意味)
enshrine: to enclose in or as if in a shrine(珍藏，仿佛置入神龕中)
resurrected: to rise from the dead; return to life(復(fù)蘇，復(fù)興)(：夏根建)
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