美語情景對話 第612期:Making a Film 拍電影

Todd: OK, now Jeff, you made a movie recently. Can you talk a little about what your movie is about?

託德：傑夫，你最近拍了部電影。請你談談這部電影的內容。

Jeff: OK, Todd, I want to qualify that it is not a movie. It's a television documentary. Very big difference, but actually a movie and a documentary, there's not a lot of difference. I think the main difference is probably time. There's a beginning and a middle and an ending to both, but television documentary must be done in 46 minutes plus commercials and a movie is two hours or three hours.

傑夫：託德，我要糾正一下，不是電影，而是電視紀錄片。這有很大區別，其實電影和紀錄片沒有太大的不同。我想兩者主要的不同應該是時長。電影和紀錄片都是由片頭、正片和片尾組成，不過電視紀錄片的時長要限制在46分鐘以內，這是包含了廣告的時間，而電影可以長達兩三個小時。

Todd: OK, well thanks for that. OK so it's a documentary. What is the documentary about?

託德：好，謝謝你的說明。你拍了部紀錄片，那部紀錄片講的什麼內容？

Jeff: Our documentary is about Indian life, and about our life interacting with the Indians. We're driving a small auto-rickshaw, which is a three-wheeled. It's a three wheeled car, a mini-three-wheeled car without doors and it doesn't go very fast and it's very uncomfortable and we drive that from the Eastern border at Bangladesh to the western border of Pakistan, and we drive it straight across to Northern India.

傑夫：我們的紀錄片是有關印度生活以及我們與印度生活的互動。我們拍攝時駕駛的是電動三輪車，那是一種沒有門的小型三輪車，速度不快，坐着也不舒服，我們開着這種車從孟加拉國東部邊界前往巴基斯坦西部邊界，橫穿印度北部地區。

Todd: Wow, that's some idea. Where did you get this idea? Why did you decide "Hey, I'm going to go film you know, going across India?

託德：哇，這個想法不錯。你們是怎麼想出這個主意的？你們爲什麼決定跨越印度拍攝紀錄片？

Jeff: Well, we'd been to India numerous times and it's an amazing country and we wanted to go back and we wanted to do something, we wanted to do some sort of video or documentary there and we wanted to do something unique that hasn't been done before there and this sort of just popped up in our heads through discussion and kicking around certain ideas, so it was just sort of an inspirational, spur of the moment thing. They're everywhere in India and we saw one and said "Let's drive one across India so it was sort of just came to mind."

傑夫：嗯，我們之前去過印度很多次，那是一個神奇的國家，所以我們想再去的時候做些什麼，我們想在那裏拍攝視頻或紀錄片，我們想做些獨特的事，以前沒人做過的事，然後我們在討論和隨意暢談時候突然就想到了這個主意，是一瞬間涌現的靈感。這種電動三輪車在印度非常普遍，我們看到後就想到要開着它穿越印度，這個主意是突然想到的。

Todd: Wow! Well if you had to describe your trip or sum up what the whole experience was like, how would you describe it?

託德：哇！要是讓你描述這趟旅程還有總結這次的經歷，你會怎麼來形容？

Jeff: I think the best word to use to describe the trip was stupid! I don't think anyone would recommend doing it to anyone. I wouldn't do it again and it was very dangerous. It was very uncomfortable. It was very hot, very noisy. It did nothing. I think the main thing it did was take a few years off my life but it was an experience. It wasn't fun but it was a good experience.

傑夫：我覺得最貼切的形容是，這趟旅程非常愚蠢！我認爲沒有人會向其他人推薦這種做法。我不會再來一次，因爲這樣做太危險了。非常不舒服，而且又熱又吵。這次旅行沒有什麼意義，我最主要的感受是這趟旅行讓我減壽好幾年，不過這畢竟是次經歷。雖然不好玩，但卻是次不錯的經歷。

Todd: Alright. Thanks Jeff.

託德：對。謝謝你，傑夫。

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重點講解：
1. interact with 相互交流；相互溝通；互動；
例句：Teachers have a limited amount of time to interact with each child.
教師和每個孩子溝通的時間有限。
2. pop up 突然出現；不意冒出；
例句：You solved one problem and another would immediately pop up.
你解決完一個問題，另一個問題又會馬上冒出來。
3. kick around 非正式地討論；隨便談談；
例句：They started to kick around the idea of an electric scraper.
他們開始討論弄一個電鏟。
4. come to mind 突然想起；（想法）一下子冒出來；
例句：I just picked up whatever goods come to mind.
我只是想到什麼就拿什麼罷了。
5. sum up 總結；概括；
例句：She summed up the situation in a few choice phrases.
她言簡意賅地總結了情況。