$课文21 威廉.S. 哈特和早期限的‘西部’影片
347. William S. hart was, perhaps, the greatest of all Western stars,
威廉.S.哈特大概是美国西部电影明星中的佼佼者。
348. fro unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne
他和加里.古柏、约翰.韦恩不同,
349. he appeared in nothing but Westerns.
他只在西部电影中扮演角色。
350. From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged.
在1914年至1924年期间,他首屈一指,独霸影坛。
351. It was Hart who created the basic formula of the Western film,
正是他创造了西部电影的基调,
352. and devised the protagonist he played in every film he made,
即在他自己的拍摄的影片中他所塑造的主人公形象:
353. the good-bad man, the accidental-noble outlaw,
被认为是坏人的好人,出人意料的高尚的逃犯,
354. or the honest-but-framed cowboy, or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip;
诚实却遭陷害的牛仔或因流言蜚语蒙受嫌疑的司法官。
355. in short, the individual in conflict with himself and his frontier environment.
总之,主人公是一个自相矛盾,又与他的拓荒环境相矛盾的人物。
356. Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood,
哈特与大部分同时代在好莱坞的演员不同,
357. Hart actually knew something of the old West.
他确实了解西部早期拓荒生活的一些情况。