Ask the famous man in the novel to make a movie for revenge, and ask the woman to pay for her mother's illness. They met in Japan, and the woman had a birthmark.

Basic information

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Original: Gone with the Wind (margaret mitchell)

Movie: Gone with the Wind.

Director: victor fleming

Starring: Vivien Leigh, clark gable, leslie howard, Olivia de Havilland.

Type: plot, love war

Release: 1939 065438+ 10/5.

Region: USA

Duration: 238 minutes

Color: color

Dialogue: English

Produced by MGM.

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Gone with the Wind is the proudest blockbuster in Hollywood film history. The film was shown for four hours, and the audience flooded in. Its charm runs through the whole 20th century, so it is called the "first blockbuster" in Hollywood. The film cost more than $4 million that year and took three and a half years to complete. During this period, several directors changed, and more than 60 main actors and more than 9,000 supporting roles appeared on the screen. In the 12 Academy Awards in 1939, he won eight Academy Awards in one fell swoop and made a sensation in American film circles. This historical blockbuster with huge cost, luxurious scenes and grand and realistic war scenes has become a classic in the history of American movies with its commendable artistic achievements, which makes people never tire of watching it.

186 1 On the eve of the civil war, Tara's lovely daughter Scarlett fell in love with Ashley, the son of another manor owner, but Ashley chose Melanie, Charles' cousin, as her lifelong companion. Scarlett was jealous and married Melanie's brother Charles first. Soon, the American Civil War broke out. Ashley and Charles were drafted into the army and went to the front. Charles soon died in the war. Scarlett became a widow, but her heart has been madly in love with Ashley.

One day, at a bazaar, Scarlett met Rhett, a dashing businessman. Rhett began to pursue Scarlett, but she refused. Scarlett just wanted to pursue Ashley, but she was also rejected.

In the war, the American southern army was defeated, and Atlanta was crowded with wounded soldiers. Scarlett and her sister Melanie volunteered to join the ranks of nurses to take care of the injured soldiers. Seeing the horrors brought by the war, the wayward Scarlett has matured a lot. Just then, the news came from the front that the Union Army was calling quickly. Many people began to flee their homes in horror. Scarlett's mother and two sisters were sick. Scarlett really wants to go back to Tara and her beloved mother. Unfortunately, Melanie is going to have a baby, so Scarlett must stay and take care of her.

On the day of the northern siege, Scarlett begged Rhett to help escort her and Melanie, who had just given birth, back to Tara. Rhett told Scarlett that he couldn't witness the Confederate rout and didn't lend a helping hand. He wanted to take part in the Confederate War. He left his pistol and kissed Scarlett goodbye. Scarlett had to bravely drive the carriage back to Tara alone. By this time, the family had been driven out by the federal soldiers first. Her mother died the day before she went home, and her father was insane because of this huge blow.

Soon, the war was over. Life is still difficult. The rulers from the north demanded that the manor owners pay heavy taxes. Scarlett desperately went to Atlanta to borrow money from Rhett, only to learn that he had been put in prison. On the way back, Scarlett met the upstart Frank who was going to marry her sister. In order to revive the bankrupt family business, she tricked Frank into marrying herself.

Scarlett illegally employs prisoners in Frank's lumber mill and does big business with businessmen from the north. At this point, Rhett regained his freedom by bribing money. The two met by chance and started a love-hate relationship again.

Frank and Ashley joined an anti-government secret organization and were surrounded by the North Army at a rally. Frank was shot, Ashley escaped injured, and returned to Melanie with Rhett's help. Scarlett is a widow again. At this time, Rhett came to propose to her, and she finally married Rhett, who had always loved her smuggling arms and food to get rich. After marriage, the husband and wife lived in a luxurious mansion in Atlanta. A year later, his daughter Bonnie was born, and Rhett devoted all his feelings to Bonnie. Scarlett accidentally looked at Ashley's photo and was found by Rhett, which eventually led to the breakup of their relationship. Later, on the eve of Ashley's birthday party, Scarlett's warm embrace with Ashley aroused criticism from others, but Melanie did not believe that there was an affair between them. Rhett doesn't think so.

When Scarlett tells Rhett that she is pregnant again, Rhett asks suspiciously whose child is that? Scarlett tried to beat Rhett in shame and anger, but accidentally rolled down the stairs and caused miscarriage. Rhett feels guilty and is determined to make up with Scarlett, only to find that while they are talking, his little daughter Bonnie accidentally falls off her horse and dies. Meanwhile, something unfortunate happened in another family, and Melanie finally fell ill because of overwork. Before she died, she entrusted her husband Ashley and her son to Scarlett, but asked her to keep this secret. Scarlett threw herself into Ashley's arms in despair and hugged him tightly. Rhett, who stood by, couldn't stand it any longer and turned away. Facing the heartbroken and unresponsive Ashley, Scarlett finally understands that the Ashley she loves does not exist. What she really needs is Rhett.

When Scarlett came home and told Rhett that she really loved him, Rhett no longer believed her. He is determined to leave Scarlett and go back to his hometown to find something beautiful. Scarlett, who was abandoned, stood in the foggy yard and remembered what her father had said to her: "Only land exists with tomorrow." She decided to stay on her own land and create a new life. She is looking forward to a better tomorrow.

This film won eight awards in the 12th Academy Awards: Best Film Award, Best Art Direction Award, Best Screenplay Award, Best Director Award, Best Photography Award, Best Actress Award, Best Supporting Actress Award and Best Editing Award.

Scarlett

A woman like a cat. With cat-like eyes, cat-like smile, cat-like pace and cat-like agility. Then, what kind of attitude and experience does this cat-like woman provide us to treat life, love, difficulties and setbacks?

First, she dares to take responsibility when encountering difficulties. Although she wavered, she finally took responsibility. For example, she saved Melanie, revived Tara, and later helped the Ashley family for a long time.

Second, she dares to love and has no regrets. She loved Ashley all her youth, but she didn't give up her efforts until she reached the limit of her ability.

Third, when she finally realized that what she had done before was wrong, she immediately apologized to Rhett and asked for forgiveness.

Generally speaking, Scarlett is a strange girl, a woman without a man. No wonder Rhett, such a great man, fell at her feet. Every time I watch Gone with the Wind, I get different results. When I was young, I hated Scarlett, who was vain and pushy. I liked Melanie, who was pure and kind. I didn't like Rhett Butler, who was glib. I liked Ashley, who was gentle and gentle. I liked the picturesque scenery and rural life in the south, and I didn't like the glitz and debauchery in the north. After watching it many times, I couldn't help admiring Scarlett. Originally she was a weak woman, willful and young. Her first marriage was an impulsive revenge. She married a boy she didn't love and made herself a young widow. The second marriage was for the survival of the family and took away my sister's sweetheart Kennedy. Although Kennedy is already an old man and a half, he is no match for Scarlett. He was helpless in the face of her ruthlessness. In the end, he was shot to get back at the poor white man because Scarlett was almost insulted. Unfortunately, he died in vain, but he never enjoyed Scarlett's love. So Scarlett became a widow again, and she was a rich widow. In that war-torn era, in order to make a promise to Ashley to take care of Melanie, when the northern army was about to capture Atlanta, Scarlett decisively delivered Melanie and found Rhett to break through many obstacles and checkpoints and return to Tara, his hometown in the country. When she was hungry and cold, she suffered multiple blows from her mother's death, her father's dementia, her home being robbed and poverty. She persevered, took the lead in farming, ordered her sister to get up to pick cotton, took care of Melanie and Xiaobo, and supported the family's livelihood. At that time, she was only a little girl in her twenties at most, and she should be a spoiled little girl in her mother's arms. However, in the face of such great difficulties, she did not choose to escape, but bravely shouldered the burden of her family and fought against her fate with perseverance that ordinary people could not match. Whenever I see Scarlett holding a radish and swearing to heaven that she will never let her family suffer and starve again, I always feel that the director's use of light and background is so ingenious and artistic, vividly depicting Scarlett's strong and true inner feelings of longing for stability, survival and prosperity. I think at that time, she had completed the most difficult evolution, from an ugly caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly, free and noble. At that time, Scarlett was like a goddess-the goddess of desire who longed for wealth, and would do anything for it.

Strong and tenacious

No matter in the face of the ruins and smoke of war, the death of mother and father, the poverty and hardship of life or the death of her daughter, she is the strongest and most tenacious, and she is the first to get out of pain and hardship. When Scarlett faced the scarred Taylor Manor, her tenacity and strength made the eldest daughter of this family shoulder the burden of parents. At the end of the film, she firmly told us that tomorrow is another day.

showy

This should be a derogatory term, but Scarlett's vanity seems particularly lovely. Vanity seems to be a compliment to her. A famous model once said, "Girls always have a little vanity, no matter what vanity is." When Scarlett tore off her mother's only relic, the curtain, she would make a beautiful dress with it anyway, and put it on her body to look forward to new clothes. Her vanity made her a seemingly unfilial daughter, but her practice (that is, her vanity) was the only way to save the whole family at that time. Vanity gives the whole family hope of survival, and such vanity should not be considered worth abandoning.

greedy

This should always be a derogatory term. However, Scarlett's greed is not only understandable, but also commendable to some extent. After the war, Taylor Manor was controlled by the Union Army. The death of her mother and the collapse of her father made Scarlett, the eldest daughter of the family, shoulder the burden of "parents". The scarlett family lead a hard life. The war made her poor, and poverty was followed by hunger. However, the most terrible thing is the land that has no money to pay taxes and almost lost its source of livelihood. In order to borrow money to pay taxes, Scarlett seduced her sister's lover and became the proprietress of a small shop. After all this, she understood what kind of society she lived in and the importance of money in this society. Therefore, when she has the money she needs now, she will naturally want to have more money. In the pursuit of "more money", she showed an excellent quality that an early capitalist must have-greed.

Cruelty and selfishness

These two words seem to be derogatory terms for anyone, especially women who take gentleness and kindness as their virtue. However, Scarlett's cruelty and selfishness are commendable to some extent. First of all, in the period of social transformation, people's ideas need to change from traditional ideas to new ones that adapt to social development. Those who can't change their ideas at the first time will lose the initiative to lead the times. Scarlett is a woman who changed her mind at the first time, accepted the new society and social system, new values and new way of life, and became a small capitalist. At this point, she is very remarkable. Moreover, when the capitalist system was just established, selfishness and cruelty were the key to the survival and development of a capitalist. In capitalist society, love for the world has always been a factor that hinders the survival and development of capital itself. At this time, selfishness and cruelty have become the advantages of the strong.

beautiful

Scarlett provides us with an attitude towards love. She is beautiful, but she just uses her beauty properly to get what she likes, and never uses her beauty to play with love, whether it is her own or someone else's love. Scarlett is beautiful, but beauty is not a necessary condition for having love-you may not be as beautiful as Scarlett, but you also have the right to pursue your own love.

To sum up, we have come to the conclusion that:

Scarlett, a woman like a cat, a strong, tenacious, vain, greedy, cruel and selfish woman, is a model of women.

Ruite

I must admit, for me, the attraction of Gone with the Wind is definitely related to Rhett starring clark gable.

Of course, Scarlett's green eyes are as charming, attractive and fascinating as a cat. She is a woman who fascinates women. She is selfish, cold, heartless, smart, unscrupulous and strong, but she is also kind, beautiful and fragile. She is an unattainable goddess, which makes many women dream of being rich, beautiful, capable and strong like her, and makes men like Rhett fall for her. At least that's what I think. But I think Rhett brings more sweet fantasies about love and marriage to our female audience. He is so handsome, so cynical, so confident, rich and full of the charm of a mature man. This is an idol that many women should have.

Here are a few simple flashbacks of Scarlett and Rhett's meeting, acquaintance and love, which can make people deeply impressed by Rhett's beloved, persistent and full of personality male charm:

The first paragraph: Rhett first met Scarlett at a barbecue in the Twelve Elephant Tree Garden. Scarlett flirts with all the men, only to find Rhett paying attention to her. Scarlett complained to the female companion around her: "He looked at me as if I was naked." It can be seen that Rhett gives people the impression that he is not gentle and gentlemanly, and has a strong insight and influence on the world that others do not have, which shows that he is different from ordinary southern men: realistic, bold and enterprising. When he was hiding in the study and overheard Scarlett dare to show her love to Ashley, she slapped Ashley in disgust and broke a small vase. He whistled, so Scarlett accused him of being a gentleman. He also refuted that Scarlett was not a real lady, which made Scarlett very angry. The first time they met, it was a love encounter.

The second paragraph: Because of the death of Charles, Scarlett went to Atlanta to play. She is dressed in mourning and eager to fly on the dance floor again, which shows her inner yearning and longing for a free life. It was Rhett who saw her mind and paid a lot of money to pry open the depressed social and moral cage for her, which made her embark on the most different fate from other southern women. This is a key step for Scarlett to resist the moral standards of the old society, and this step, without Rhett's subtle support and arrangement, Scarlett will never come out. Without this crucial step, Scarlett, a capable, strong and independent gone with the wind, will never exist in the future!

Segment 3: In order to help Scarlett return to her hometown, Rhett desperately gets a badly injured old horse and helps her carry Melanie into the carriage. At the same time, after going through all kinds of hardships, Rhett was shocked to see many southern soldiers bravely marching forward and dying, and decided to go to the battlefield to do their part to defend their homeland. At this time, it can be seen that he can risk his life for the woman he loves; Similarly, in the face of family destruction, he is also a warm-blooded man. It is here that the director described to us the image of a typical southern man, who is deeply hidden under the usual cynical appearance, but also has a heart full of blood for honor. Here we can see that although Rhett is usually smart and realistic, he is actually a southerner at heart.

Fragment 4: After experiencing the pain of losing her daughter and Scarlett's spiritual betrayal, Rhett is extremely disappointed with everything in the face of Melanie's death, and goes home to pack his bags and return to his hometown of Charleston. When the stupid Scarlett finally found herself deeply in love with Rhett, she found that she had finally lost the person she loved the most. Rhett finally left very simply, which made Scarlett deeply regret. Until here, we heard the voice of heartbreak that was once soft for love, and at the same time we became "heartless" to Scarlett because of heartbreak. Rhett's presence here makes us feel that this man dares to love and hate. He handles things very cleanly and is very masculine.

Let's talk about Ashley and Melanie. They are almost the same, with all the virtues, knowledge, culture, thought and cultivation of the South.

Melanie is basically perfect. She is kind, kind and brave. When Scarlett picked cotton, she wanted to help. When Scarlett killed someone, she also helped. Besides Rhett, she is another supporter of Scarlett. I think the writer must like Melanie. He deified her even more. Even donating wedding rings changed the leader from Scarlett to Melanie. I have done a small-scale survey. Basically, people who read books first like Scarlett, and people who watch movies first like Melanie. I think Melanie is too good to be true. Scarlett is real, with both shortcomings and advantages.

Ashley is real. He is a man who lives in the past. Times have changed. He doesn't want to face it. He lacks courage. He doesn't love Scarlett, nor does he say he doesn't love her. When Scarlett desperately looked for him, he only gave her the red soil of the manor. Later, she learned that Scarlett had sold herself, and he said that he should rob her. He just said, I don't think he will go. It is better to drag this saber to help Scarlett deal with the deserter Melanie.

The characters in Gone with the Wind are all perfect. Without Melanie's ladylike demeanor, how can Scarlett's disrespect be reflected? Without Ashley's cowardice, how can you show Rhett's demeanor?

Scarlett's wet nurse Margaret.

Warm, reliable and safe. Always protect her children like a mother, Scarlett.

Rational, intelligent, realistic, calm, with a touch of black cunning. She knows Scarlett, supports her and loves her. Although she doesn't talk much, she has always been Scarlett's backer and strong.

Loyal, stubborn and lovely. For your baby, it is desperately protecting; Although she is only a domestic slave, she has her own principles to defend.

The image of black wet nurse is very successful. As a result, hattie mcdaniel, the actor who plays the black mother, beat Olivia (Melanie) and won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 12 Academy Awards, which is said to be the first black person to win an Oscar in history. Heidi injected her unique sense of humor into the image of wet nurse Margaret. Her lines were read perfectly, and she cooperated with Scarlett's Vivien Leigh like a green leaf supporting a red flower. As a result, they both won the prize. Because of the success of the role of wet nurse, Hattie later monopolized the role of almost all black nannies on the screen. In many films, she can be seen as chubby, docile and talkative.

Classic fragment

After Rhett left Scarlett, Scarlett finally sat on the stairs and said, "After all, tomorrow is another day."

After returning to the destroyed home, Scarlett said on the mountain-"As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees will never crush me. When I get through this, I will never go hungry again, and I will never let my relatives go hungry again, even if I have to steal, rob and kill. Please be my witness, I will never go hungry again anyway! "

Film evaluation

Some people say that the most classic scene of this film is the scene when Scarlett returns to her destroyed home after the war, holding red clay in the garden and vowing that no matter whether she steals or robs, her family will not starve to death, because her eyes and expression were really shocking at that time. I don't object either, because this is really a classic movie. There are too many classic scenes, and everyone has his own preferences. I'd rather choose this: in the future, tomorrow is a new day. what is love ? What is hate? Love and hate can be like two parallel lines that never intersect, and they may only need a ray of sunshine to melt away. People who cherish what they have are happy, because we always don't know what we need. Too many people don't know how to cherish until they lose it. I especially like Tagore's poem: If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you will also miss the stars. After many vicissitudes, you should learn to ignore the past. Because-tomorrow is another day.

"Don't take French leave, dear.

After shopping all night, I look sleepy now.

I am afraid I lost you in my sleep.

Don't leave without saying goodbye, my love.

I started up and reached out to touch you. I asked myself:

"Is this a dream?"

I wish I could tie your feet with my heart and hold them tightly to my chest!

Don't leave without saying goodbye, my love. "

-Tagore's Gardeners Collection

classic lines

The American Film Academy ranks in the top 65,438+000 for some special film projects every year. The film Gone with the Wind, which won the first place in the list of classic lines in 2005, is a line played by clark gable in 1939. That's what Rhett said to Scarlett: "Frankly, honey, I don't care at all." "Gaby's lines have been quoted on different occasions," Bob said. "This sentence is used by both men and women when they want to control the situation in a relationship that is not fully invested."

Out-of-print Translation Order of Mr. Fu Donghua

The year before last, after I continued to translate The Biography of Don Quixote, I was quite tired of what I translated. I think this kind of work is too mechanical, which is not very good for people and myself. It's better to take advantage of my remaining years to do more pen and ink and not marry others, so that I can feel at ease. So I declared to my friends at that time: The Biography of Don Quixote was my last translation.

At the beginning of this summer, Gone with the Wind, a film shot by this book, was released in Shanghai for more than 40 days. Shanghai residents made a fuss, setting an unprecedented record since the release of foreign films. At the same time, the second edition of this book has become a sensational reading, and some people even use it as an English textbook. However, I am still like a countryman who has just arrived in Shanghai, and I know nothing about it. A few days before the film was released, a friend urged me to translate this book seriously, as if the translation of this book was mine. At that time, my psychology of being tired of translating books has not changed; I thought that a fashionable book is not necessarily a good book, so I hesitated and paused for nearly a month. It was not until I read the contents of the book and learned about the movies that I felt that it was not as good as the masterpieces of ancient famous artists, but it was definitely not as good as those fashionable novels with low taste-its popularity was not without reason and it was really worth translating. At the same time, my friends who encouraged me to translate told me that this book has been published in two versions in Japan, both of which are very popular. So I made a stupid effort to decide this matter-they have it, how can we not?

However, such a masterpiece of more than one million words, in such a period of expensive paper, even if I am not afraid of losing energy, how can I be a publisher who is not afraid of losing capital? What a coincidence! At that time, Guohua Compilation Society had just been established. When it heard that I was interested in translating this book, it immediately sent a representative to contact me. We met in good faith and settled the matter in a few words. So I started writing on June 25, and now I can finally publish the first volume as scheduled, and the time of the second volume is relatively leisurely, and I am already familiar with it, which is probably not a problem.

This is the reason why I translated this book. If the readers are not disappointed after reading it, then I can thank the friends who encouraged me to translate and the gentlemen of Guohua Compilation Society instead of you, because without their encouragement and help, this translation would not have been possible.

In principle, the translator has dedicated a translation to the reader, and his task has been completed, so there is no need to say anything more. But in order to show special courtesy to readers, there are a few words that seem to have to be said.

Once upon a time, Li Yishan, a Chinese poet, pointed out twelve things about "killing scenery", such as "drinking among flowers" and "lighting a fire under the moon" (see miscellaneous). I'm giving him a supplement now, that is, "putting a hat on art". For example, our old gentleman forbade young people to read A Dream of Red Mansions and The Water Margin (although they all read it and like it, otherwise how could they know that they shouldn't be allowed to read it), saying that they were "books to teach prostitutes" was a way of "putting a hat on works of art". No one wears this kind of hat now, but new red and green hats are still emerging one after another. Although all good works of art must always be true gold and not afraid of fire, it can never be hidden by a hat; But, for example, a piece of pure white jade, painted with a color out of thin air, isn't that a big waste? All real works of art, its structure must be extremely complex and subtle, and connoisseurs can have different opinions, but they will never see through it at a glance. As far as a good novel is concerned, if you look at it from the perspective of the characters, you can always see that they have places you have seen, your friends and even yourself. But in fact, those characters will never be exactly like the people you met or your friends or yourself. What you saw in those characters, what you saw.

People, your friends or yourself are only part of those roles, not all of them. Because otherwise, the novel is not creative, so it can't be great. Just like Scarlett, the heroine of this book, sometimes you think she is familiar, sometimes you think she is strange, sometimes you can understand her, sometimes you feel puzzled, but you will always think she is real and the author's writing is impeccable. This is the key to the success of a character's description. As long as it has this key, the character will not allow you to put a hat on it.

Judging from the plot of the novel, it is easier to cause distorted interpretation. A common way to distort interpretation is to take the story out of context, extract lessons without analysis, or extract critical standards. That is, I heard someone add the word "pacifism" to this book. Whether this hat is a honor or a disgrace, of course, depends on the psychological change of the giver, and there is no conclusion objectively. However, I am extremely reluctant to put such a hat on this book, let alone read this book with this sentence in my heart. Because the author of this book just wants to use a real historical relic to set off a few special characters and portray some common human feelings, there is no doctrine, and he doesn't want to publicize or advocate anything at all. Why did you frame her like this? What's more, what she describes in this book is the American Civil War, which is 80 years away from us now, far away from Wan Li. What does it have to do with our own affairs? Therefore, for such a linguist who is taken out of context, I have to "spoil the scenery" on the day of becoming famous.

Regarding the translation of this book, I have to ask the readers to give me some freedom. Because translating such books is actually different from translating C 1assics. If you have to translate word for word, I'm afraid it will be boring to read. That is, people's names and place names, I have China them now, just to save readers a little effort. In terms of dialogue, we also strive to translate it into Chinese. There are many humorous, sharp and obscene idioms, which are replaced by our own idioms in order to get the effect of hearing their voices when reading. There are some lengthy descriptions and psychological analysis, which I think have little to do with the development of the plot, and will make readers very tired, so I will honestly and rudely abridge them. But there are not many such places. In a word, my purpose is to be loyal to the interesting spirit of the book, not to a chapter. If critics want to find fault with me and say that I have translated a word incorrectly, I would like to thank you in advance.

Finally, I want to explain the translation of this book a little. The original name of Gone with the Wind is found in Chapter 24 of this book, which means that the hometown of the hero in this book has gone with the wind. The original translation of Gone with the Wind by Shanghai Cinema is consistent with its original name, but some of it is not like the title. Later, it was changed to Gone with the Wind and had to be dedicated to the film. Now it's gone with the wind. The original meaning of "gone with the wind" is "return air", that is, "storm" The real name of the wind is broad, and here it clearly refers to the storm. "Gone with the wind" means "flying" and "drifting away", and it also includes the meaning of going far away. So I think this space is enough to express my original intention.

Fu Donghua

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