原版英文电影《苏菲的选择》赏析

Questions: Which Character do you like the best? And Why? What do you think its main themes will be? In groups, brainstorm what you think its genre will be. Who do you think the film is aimed at? Why? Keywords: genrethe categories of literature and film (horror, romance, science fiction etc.). Biography:the story of someone’s life. Suffraget :he movement to extend the right to vote to include women. Franchise the right to vote. Segregation :the law in America that kept blacks and whites apart, with separate public amenities and seats on public transport.

film information Director: Mike Newell Key Cast: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Marcia Gay Harden. Running Time: 125 mins Release date: March 12 2004 Cert: 12A (contains moderate sex references WITH: Julia Roberts (Katherine Watson), Kirsten Dunst (Betty Warren), Julia Stiles (Joan Brandwyn), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Giselle Levy), Dominic West (Bill Dunbar), Juliet Stevenson (Amanda Armstrong), Marcia Gay Harden (Nancy Abbey), Marian Seldes (Jocelyn Carr), Ginnifer Goodwin (Connie Baker), Topher Grace (Tommy Donegal) and John Slattery (Paul Moore).

The plot: Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia_Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus with a prestigious reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson, her East Coast teaching stint comes during a less-progressive time that finds most of her students -- among them Betty Warren (Kirsten_Dunst), Joan Brandwyn (Julia_Stiles), and Giselle Levy (Maggie_Gyllenhaal) -- more interested in nabbing a good husband than achieving scholastic and intellectual growth. Watson challenges her students and the Wellesley faculty to think outside of the current mores of the community and redefine what it means to be a success; meanwhile, she tries to come to terms with her own heart's desires.

''You can bake your cake and eat it too!'‘ said Watson, And in her art history classes, which inspire the screenplay's most intelligent writing, she challenges her students to do more than simply identify paintings shown in slides. Why is an original van Gogh a work of art and a reproduction not? she asks. And where does a do-ityourself, paint-by-numbers van Gogh fit into the scheme of things? The early 50's also brought the ascendance of Abstract Expressionism, and the appearance of a Jackson Pollock canvas on campus stirs up ripples of controversy. But Katherine's biggest boo-boo has nothing to do with notions of aesthetics. Arriving at Wellesley, she is appalled to discover that

In the film Mona Lisa Smile we see the girls being given a lesson in how to prepare dinner for their husband’s boss. What does this imply about the expected role of women? The subjects that he girls learn at c

ollege all seem to be ‘arts’ based:History of Art, Italian and Etiquette. The sciences have traditionally been seen as ‘male’ subjects. Why do you think this is? Make two lists: one of subjects that you per-ceive as ‘female’ and theother as ‘male’. What charac-teristics make up your idea of‘female’ and ‘male’?

Do you smile to tempt a lover, or is this your way to hide a broken heart?’ ---then what’s the meaning of the movie title? the title of the film refers to the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), a Renaissance artist and inventor. One of the reasons the painting is so famous is because of Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile: is she really smiling? The technical term for this painting tech-nique is sfumato, which means soft and blurry. If you look directly at her smile it seems todisappear, when you look away it reappears. The poster for the film is of the four main female characters gazing at a painting: they have similarly indefinable expressions

The Background of the movie education It wasn’t until 1853, with the establishment of Cheltenham Ladies’ College, that the need for sufficient education for women was acknowledged and it was 1880 before women could take degrees at the University of London. In America, Vasser was the first women’s college and opened in 1865.

work and war The onset of World War One meant that women were needed to fill in jobs for men who were away fighting in the war. This proved to the general population that women could work as hard as men and deserved to have the right to vote, and women over the age of 30 were finally granted the right to vote in 1918.

feminism The term became part of the English language in the 1890s, from France. The two central ideas within feminism are: *throughout history women have suffered systematic social, political and economic disadvantages *these disadvantages must be corrected

By 1953 women’s rights worldwide had come a long way, but in America there was still civil unrest because of another form of inequality: racism and segregation. It wasn’t until 1965 that the law banned segregation of whites and blacks. In the film Mona Lisa Smilethere are no ethnic characters; they are noticeable by their absence.

The film shows the 1950s ‘ideal’ woman as one that is pretty and house-proud, and emphasising her husband’s career over her own. Women have historically been portrayed as ‘trophies’, as an appendage to a man; their own existence is only qualified

说到韦斯利，其实可以以五十年代为界，分为两个阶段。 宋美龄就学的时代，美国有大量暴发户的女儿想得到老欧 洲的爵位，于是韦斯利就担负起教化暴发户女儿的任务， 把她们教育成文雅的贵族夫人，学会如何操持一个大家庭， 管理

众多家仆，举办社交活动，相夫教子。五十年代以后， 韦斯利摇身一变，逐渐成了极端女权主义的大本营，臭名 昭著 .十年代中期美国的风气是回归家庭，那时人们的观 念很保守，女子要穿紧身衣、塑腰、穿腹带、要以结婚为 神圣的使命。当然六十年代的美国女权运动马上就到来， 反越战，然后就是性解放，最后是七八十年代的传统家庭 回归。。

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