1 The place and the movies 1
2 The village 3
3 The early days 7
4 The big studios 13
5 Changes at the studios 18
6 New Hollywood 23
7 Outside Hollywood 27
8 The Oscars 30
9 Graumans Chinese Theatre 32
10 A visit to Hollywood 35
11 Changing Hollywood 38
GLOSSARY 40
ACTIVITIES: Before Reading 42
ACTIVITIES: While Reading 43
ACTIVITIES: After Reading 47
TRANSLATION 参考译文 50
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Welcome to Hollywood, Mr Griffith. The film director D. W. Griffith liked the California village with its sunny weather, friendly people, and orange trees. Its a good place to make a movie, he thought, and soon the first movie, In Old California, was made. It was just seventeen minutes long.
Just over a hundred years later, Hollywood is a very different place, but its still the home of the movies for millions of people. Hollywood means the stars, from Charlie Chaplin to Brad Pitt, from Vivien Leigh to Penlope Cruz. It means the Oscars, the big film studios, Disney, Hitchcock, and Spielberg. And even today, with films on DVD and on the Internet, Hollywoods exciting story still goes on.
欢迎来到好莱坞,格里菲思先生。电影导演D. W. 格里菲思喜欢加利福尼亚州的这个村庄。这里天气明媚,居民热情,还生长着柑橘。这是个拍电影的好地方。他心想。很快,在这里拍摄的第一部电影《在古老的加利福尼亚州》完成了。这部电影的时长只有17分钟。
仅仅过了100多年,好莱坞就成了一个完全不同的地方,但在许多人心中这里依旧是电影之乡。好莱坞意味着明星,从查理卓别林到布拉德皮特,从费雯丽到佩内洛普克鲁兹。它意味着奥斯卡金像奖、大型电影公司、迪士尼、希区柯克和斯皮尔伯格。即便是在把电影装进DVD、放在因特网上的今天,好莱坞激动人心的故事依然在上演。