2007-06-06 02:17:07Flamenco Lowewe

Oliver Twist 《孤雛淚》

Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver narrowly escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and is eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertaker’s other apprentice, Noah Claypole, makes disparaging comments about Oliver’s mother, Oliver attacks him and incurs the Sowerberrys’ wrath. Desperate, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels toward London.

奧立佛的親生母親是因一段無法公開的戀情兒意外懷了他,因為這段不倫之戀,她離家出走,在倫敦附近的救濟院中產下奧立佛,奧立佛一出生就成了孤兒,奧立佛爾坎坷的童年就這樣開始了。

他在監獄般的孤兒院中成長,孤兒院中只有不停的工作和挨餓。他逃出沒有人情味的孤兒院後被送到棺材店去當學徒,卻仍脫不了被虐待的命運,於是奧立佛再次逃亡,流浪在倫敦的街上,但是不幸受騙加入竊盜集團,被迫在街頭做小扒手,惡劣的環境、重重的誤會包圍了奧立佛,幸運之神並沒有遠離奧立佛,奧立佛的善良讓他得到幫助,終於得以洗脫罪名,脫離竊盜集團,並獲知自己真正的身分,和親人團聚。

關於原著作者

大文豪Charles Dickens (狄更斯)筆下最出名的兩個孤兒是【塊肉餘生記】中的大衛和【孤雛淚】中的奧立佛。狄更斯之所以擅長孤兒的故事,是因為他本人的童年也曾經充滿坎坷,狄更斯10歲時家道中落,父親因負債而被捕下獄,狄更斯只好輟學到鞋油廠工作,在工廠裡受盡屈辱,看盡人情冷暖,日後他寫作也常常以童年的遭遇為靈感,以英國中下階層社會的人物為寫作題材。「孤雛淚」狄更斯以寫實的手法描寫英國工業革命後的社會問題,也點出人性的黑暗面,而奧立佛象徵了人的善良面,他總是保持著純真的心,對生命抱著希望,這種執著讓他終於贏得幫助、脫離困境。


http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/olivertwist/site/

Flamenco Lowewe 2007-06-11 00:38:15

the link to preview the movie! 電影預告

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/oliver_twist/large.html

that`s one of my favorite movie!充滿濃濃的英國腔~~
write down 10 sentences from the movie and you can get the reward!!