英文电影教学资源库
主讲教师:于春梅18604497253
1    英文电影欣赏-动画篇
2    英文电影欣赏-艺术篇
3    英文电影欣赏-音乐篇
4    英文电影欣赏-体育篇
5    英文电影欣赏-文化篇
6    英文电影鉴赏-英国文学篇
7    英文电影鉴赏-美国文学篇
8    英文电影鉴赏-美国历史篇
9    英文电影鉴赏-美国法律篇
10    英文电影鉴赏-人性探讨篇
The Old Man and the Sea tells thestory of a battle between an aging, experienced fisherman, Santiago, and a large marlin.The story opens with Santiagohaving gone 84 days without catching a fish, and now being seen as"salao", the worst form of unluckiness. He is so unlucky that hisyoung apprentice, Manolin, has been forbidden by his parents to sail with himand has been told instead to fish with successful fishermen. The boy visits Santiago's shack eachnight, hauling his fishing gear, preparing food, talking about Americanbaseball and his favorite player, Joe DiMaggio.Santiago tells Manolin that on the next day, hewill venture far out into the Gulf Stream, north of Cuba in the Straits of Florida to fish, confident thathis unlucky streak is near its end.
On the eighty-fifth day of his unluckystreak, Santiago takes his skiff into the Gulf Stream, sets his lines and, by noon,has his bait taken by a big fish that he is sure is a marlin.Unable to haul in the great marlin, Santiago isinstead pulled by the marlin, and two days and nights pass with Santiago holding onto theline. Though wounded by the struggle and in pain, Santiago expresses a compassionateappreciation for his adversary, often referring to him as a brother. He alsodetermines that, because of the fish's great dignity, no one shall deserve toeat the marlin.
On the third day, the fish begins to circlethe skiff. Santiago,worn out and almost delirious, uses all his remaining strength to pull the fishonto its side and stab the marlin with a harpoon.Santiago strapsthe marlin to the side of his skiff and heads home, thinking about the highprice the fish will bring him at the market and how many people he will feed.
On his way in to shore, sharks are attractedto the marlin's blood. Santiagokills a great mako shark with his harpoon, but he losesthe weapon. He makes a new harpoon by strapping his knife to the end ofan oar tohelp ward off the next line of sharks; five sharks are slain and many othersare driven away. But the sharks keep coming, and by nightfall the sharks havealmost devoured the marlin's entire carcass, leaving a skeleton consistingmostly of its backbone, its tail and its head. Santiago knows that he is defeated and tellsthe sharks of how they have killed his dreams. Upon reaching the shore beforedawn on the next day, Santiagostruggles to his shack, carrying the heavy mast on his shoulder, leaving thefish head and the bones on the shore. Once home, he slumps onto his bed andfalls into a deep sleep.
A group of fishermen gather the next dayaround the boat where the fish's skeleton is still attached. One of thefishermen measures it to be 18 feet (5.5 m) from nose to tail. Pedrico isgiven the head of the fish, and the other fishermen tell Manolin to tell theold man how sorry they are. Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take it fora shark. The boy, worried about the old man, cries upon finding him safe asleepand at his injured hands. Manolin brings him newspapers and coffee. When theold man wakes, they promise to fish together once again. Upon his return tosleep, Santiagodreams of his youth—of lions on an African beach.
The Old Man and the Sea(1952)helped toward restoring Hemingway’s literary image, so that Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in 1954.
京ICP备10040544号-2
京公网安备 11010802021885号