 迪斯尼的经典动画片伴随我们的成长，文章会唤起你的美好回忆，快进入迪斯尼世界吧！ 为何迪斯尼动画能够久盛不衰？
The films we watch the most aren't the great classics, but the lovingly crafted Disney stories that first fired our young fertile imaginations. 我们看的最多的电影不是大片、经典，而是第一次激发我们无限想象力的，由迪斯尼精心打造的动画故事。 Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was the first feature length animation made by Disney in 1937 白雪公主和七个小矮人是迪斯尼的第一部长篇动画片，制作于1937年。 Disney’s animated movies have gripped the imaginations of every generation since the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937. Part of the reason has been simply that so many of them offer such a magical experience, presenting irresistible, versions of timeless stories, beautifully realised. 从1973发行《白雪公主和七个小矮人》以来，迪斯尼的动画电影吸引了每一代人的想象力。部分原因当然是，其中许多电影为我们提供了一段神奇的经历，令人无法抗拒，以及永恒的故事版本，美好愿望的实现。 But just as important is the fact that we tend to see them for the first time at a very young, impressionable age – and they then stay with us for ever. 但另一个重要原因是，我们在很小的时候便第一次尝试看动画片，那时我们无忧无虑，然后动画便永远伴随着我们。 The shocking death of Bambi’s mother, for instance, lurks among the earliest memories of many of us. More happily, who, even 30 or 40 years after first hearing it, can forget Baloo’s joyous song The Bare Necessities in The Jungle Book (1967)? 比如说小鹿斑比的妈妈之死让我们很震惊，其中隐藏着我们许多人的记忆。甚至是在第一次看过之后的三四十年，我们都会很开心。我们能忘掉《森林王子》（1967）中巴鲁的生活必需品《巴鲁的快乐歌曲》吗？ The arrival of home video 30 or so years ago (and subsequently DVD) has also had an enormous effect on our consumption of Disney. A mini-library of favourites sits somewhere near the TV in many, many homes. 大约三十年前家庭录像产生（接着是DVD），在我们观看迪斯尼动画中，它仍然起着很大作用。许多家庭的电视机前都有一个迷你影迷团。 Indeed, it occurred to me recently that, for all my love of the great film classics, from Citizen Kane through Powell & Pressburger to modern masters such as Scorsese and Herzog, the films I have probably watched the most (because I have young kids) are Cinderella, The Jungle Book and Mulan. 说实在话，最近我突然想起，我喜欢的所有经典大片，从《公民凯恩》到《鲍威尔和斯伯格》再到现代大师如斯科塞斯和赫佐格的作品。我看的最多的是《灰姑娘》和《森林王子和花木兰》（因为我有小孩）。 Disney has become so huge a part of popular culture that it has shaped our perception of age-old stories. 迪斯尼已成为流行文化的重要组成部分，它塑造了我们心目中对于古老故事的理解。 When I spoke last week to the makers of Tangled – the 50th Disney animation – they were acutely aware of the responsibility they were taking on in bringing the Rapunzel story to the big screen. 上周我和迪斯尼的第五十部动画片《长发公主》的制作者交谈时，他们说，在将《长发公主》搬上大银幕时，真正意识到了他们肩负的责任。 Co-director Byron Howard said: “What happens with a Disney film, when they make a classic tale, that version of the story becomes the definitive version. For instance, when you think of the Little Mermaid now, you think of [Disney animator] Glen Keane’s version of Ariel. Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast – the same thing.” 联合董事拜伦?霍华德曾说：“对于迪斯尼来说，当它制作一部经典故事时，这个版本将成为该故事的最终版本。比如说，现在想到《小美人鱼》，你想到的是迪斯尼制作的动画，格伦?基恩版的《美人鱼》。《美女与野兽》也是这样。” Their goal with Tangled, said Howard, was to make a very contemporary film that was also so timeless that, 200 years from now, it would still be the definitive version of Rapunzel. 霍华德说，他们关于《长发公主》的目标就是打造一部能够永久流传的当代影片，从现在起两百年，一直是《长发公主》的终极版本。 Which is exactly what Walt would have wanted. 而这正是迪斯尼所希望的。 |
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