《美国鼠谭》(An American Tail)又译为《老鼠也移民》,是1986年由美国环球影业公司制作发行的动画喜剧电影作品。影片描述的是关于老鼠家庭移弗民荒的故事。老鼠Fievel,在从沙皇俄国移民到美国的途中跟家人失散,于是它开始漫长的孤独旅程,为了寻找家人而四处闯荡,在纽约遭遇层出不穷的趣事和挑战。经过种种磨难,结果成为当地英雄,并因此得以和家人团聚。导演唐·布鲁斯(Don Bluth),监制史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格。本片动画制作精致,故事温馨感人,很有独创性和想象力。
somewhere out there由童声的Fievel Mousekewitz 和Tanya Mousekewitz 唱起来才最好听,尤其是高音上不去的时候,太可爱拉
Today our English Listening and Speaking course professor Mr.Krigline play a movie which called <An American Tail> for us. During watching the movie, I have thought more than what the movie wants to tell us. It's obvious that the movie shows the history of immigration to the United States. People from all over the world moved to American about 19th century. It is a combination of fear, hope, policy, and persistence. But, it is not the thing I want to discuss with you. Considering the complex historical and political reasons, it is not easy to study as a science student (though I am learning economic courses in college). There are so many characters obviously represent some complicated people or power in history, but I never care about these(oops, Never say never).
I will explain what I am thinking into two parts: the cats and the English studying.
In the first part, I am going to talk about the cats in the movie. As far as I am concerned, the cats in the movie represented a series of things in the real world, but we can call them 'fear' together. For example, fear from European, fear from invaders, fear from a completely different new lives … and so on. I prefer they were nobles from Europe(or where the immigrants came). Poor people in their motherland were treated unfairly and they had no choice but move to America. Because America is a country full of liberty and democracy, even poor people have power to decide what their lives will be like. So the rats(immigrants) thought 'there are no cats(nobles) in America'. But it was not true. To be realistic, we can find that European cats are quite different from American cats. European cats are invaders while American cats are native nobles. American citizens have to beat only European cats considering that American cats are also a part of themselves. The rats could evict European cats to other countries, but they had to accept American cats. When the rats accepted American cats and got fair with them they could make democracy come true.
In the second part, I'll show you the commons between the adventure of Fievel and our English studying. Considering how Fievel victory the difficulties, we find it quite same as our English studying. Because in Chinese environment it's week to get so many advanced information, we need to learn English to know more about the world. And their are some many things get in the way of English studying. At first, we don't have 'hope', we always say, it is too difficult to learn English, or I can never learn English well. But at the time when Fievel arrived America, the French pigeon told him to never say never, and hope the best, work the rest. While we are learning English, we are becoming braver and braver, smarter and smarter. Then, we can change English learning into English studying. We will no longer say what we can say but what we want to say. At the end of the movie, the fat French pigeon said, you will see more America, I think he meant, we can see not only wider but also deeper about America when we have a better command of English. So this movie also interacted me to study English.
So much for the movie. So much for the night. I deeply love it.