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[Day 1753 2019-07-14]
Lesson 21-1 William S. Hart and the early 'Western' film
William S. hart was, perhaps, the greatest of all Western stars, fro unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns. From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged. It was Hart who created the basic formula of the Western film, and devised the protagonist he played in every film he made, the good-bad man, the accidental-noble outlaw, or the honest-but-framed cowboy, or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip; in short, the individual in conflict with himself and his frontier environment.
Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, Hart actually knew something of the old West. He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing, and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences, and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier.
朗讀時間：1m5s
任務(wù)配置： L0+L4
[Day 1754 2019-07-15]
Lesson 21-2 William S. Hart and the early 'Western' film
And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.
Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians were bewildered by politicians, bankers and businessmen, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos. Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited, and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way, his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive, especially when it was Hart who, in the end, overcame the attacking Indians.
Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.
朗讀時間：1m21s
任務(wù)配置： L0+L4
知識筆記：
單詞：supreme 首屈一指的 / protagonist 主角 / outlaw 逃犯腻暮，亡命之徒 / framed 遭到陷害的 / vicious 惡毒的 / mythology 神話 / vanished 消失了的 / absurdly 荒誕地 / arena 競技場地 / encroaching 漸漸滲入的 / bewilder 使手足無措 / taboo 戒律 / disinherited 剝奪……繼承權(quán) / undeclared 未經(jīng)宣布的 / hypocrisy 偽善 / chicanery 詐騙 / impending 迫近的，迫在眉睫的 / immolation 殺戮 / code 準(zhǔn)則
練習(xí)感悟：
最近在完成院士思維的行動 所以英語暫緩啦? 不過讀讀英語真的會讓心情變好 而且很開心看到改過來的發(fā)音沒有那么快變回去
