《The Iron Lady》　鐵娘子　撒切爾帶你重溫英國風云

No.077　《The Iron Lady》　鐵娘子　撒切爾帶你重溫英國風云

英文導讀

The Iron Lady is a 2011 British biographical film based on the life of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century. The film was directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Thatcher is portrayed primarily by Meryl Streep, but also, in her formative and early political years, by Alexandra Roach. Thatcher's husband, Denis Thatcher, is portrayed by Jim Broadbent, and Thatcher's longestserving cabinet member and eventual deputy, Geoffrey Howe, is portrayed by Anthony Head.

'The Iron Lady' is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

The film begins circa 2008 (opening against the backdrop of news of the Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing) with an elderly Lady Thatcher buying milk unrecognized by other customers and walking back from the shop alone. Over the course of three days we see her struggle with dementia and with the lack of power that comes with old age, while looking back on defining moments of her personal and professional life, on which she reminisces with her (now dead) husband, Denis Thatcher. She is shown as having difficulty distinguishing between the past and present. A theme throughout the film is the personal price which Thatcher has paid for power. Denis is portrayed as somewhat ambivalent about his wife's rise to power, her son Mark lives in South Africa and is shown as having little contact with his mother, and it is implied that Thatcher's relationship with her daughter Carol is at times strained.

While the film was met with mixed reviews, Streep's performance was widely acclaimed, and considered to be one of the finest of her career. She received her 17th Academy Award nomination and ultimately the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Thatcher across four decades. She also earned her third Golden Globe Award for Best Actress –Motion Picture Drama (eighth overall), and her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

獲獎情況

2012年第84屆奧斯卡：最佳女主角、最佳化妝獎。

影片信息

導演：菲利達·勞埃德

編劇：艾比·摩根

主演：梅麗爾·斯特里普、吉姆·布勞德本特、安東尼·海德

類型：劇情、傳記

制片國家（地區(qū)）：英國、法國

上映日期：2012-01-06（英國）

片長：105分鐘

又名：《鐵娘子：堅固柔情》《鐵娘子：戴卓爾夫人傳》《鐵娘子撒切爾》

劇情簡介

這部名為《鐵娘子》的傳記片背景設在1982年馬島戰(zhàn)爭期間，講述了撒切爾如何利用這場戰(zhàn)爭穩(wěn)固自己的統(tǒng)治地位，以及在第二年獲得連任的故事。

耄耋之年的撒切爾夫人（梅麗爾·斯特里普　飾）罹患老年癡呆癥，時常在幻覺和回憶中切換。她作為雜貨店店主的女兒，因為出身貧寒，飽受世人的白眼。然而，在聆聽了保守黨的演講后，她堅定了自己的政治信仰，并以優(yōu)異成績考入牛津大學，雖然在一次議員選舉中落敗，但是她卻收獲了真摯的愛情，這堅定了她從政的人生道路。她逐漸走到了保守黨首的位置。終于，保守黨在選舉中獲勝，而她也成為了英國歷史上第一位女首相，組建了自己的內閣政府。

面對紛繁復雜的國際國內局勢，她主張的自由市場政策也飽受非議，但是她用過人的智慧和超強的忍耐力，戰(zhàn)勝了左輔右弼眾叛親離的局面，憑一己之力拯救了英國經濟，捍衛(wèi)了領土主權，被世人稱作鐵娘子……

制作花絮

這是導演菲利達·勞埃德第二次和梅麗爾·斯特里普合作，她們上次合作是拍攝《媽媽咪呀》。

這部電影也是菲利達·勞埃德的銀幕處女作。

重點學習

While looking back on defining moments of her personal and professional life

文中的look back on是“回顧，回憶”的意思，比如：Mr. Nelson liked to look back on the time he spent with his daughter.（納爾遜先生喜歡回憶他與女兒度過的時光。）文中的defining moment是“決定性時刻；轉機性事件”的意思，比如：List the defining moments of your life.（列出你生命中關鍵性的時刻。）所以，文中這句話的意思是：“當回憶起她個人及職業(yè)生涯中的關鍵性時刻時。”

She is shown as having difficulty distinguishing between the past and present

文中使用的是have difficulty (in) doing sth.該句型中的in可以省略，是“做某事有困難”的意思，比如：I always have difficulty in pronouncing new words.（對新單詞的發(fā)音我總是有困難。）

單詞時間

formative[?f?:m?tiv] adj. 形成的；造型的；格式化的

surprising[s??praizi?] adj. 令人驚訝的；意外的

intimate[?intim?t] adj. 親密的；私人的；精通的；[婉]有性關系的

influential[?influ?en??l] adj. 有影響的；有勢力的

smash[smæ?] vi. 粉碎；打碎

circa[?s?:k?] prep. 大約于

dementia[di?men?i?] n. [內科] 癡呆

reminisce[?remi?nis] vi. 回憶

ambivalent[?æmbi?veil?nt] adj. 矛盾的；好惡相克的

strained[streind] adj. 緊張的；勉強的；牽強附會的；濾過的