《暮光之城》

This new movie, based on a hugely popular series of books by Stephanie Meyer, already has teenage girls waiting in line all over America. The film tells the story of Bella, a shy teenager who thinks she's ugly, who falls in love with a beautiful vampire boy called Edward who sparkles in the light. (Vampires are, apparently, made out of some kind of crystal.) Edward sweeps her off her feet, introduces her to his good vampire family, who only live on animal blood, and protects her from the evil vampires who would do bad things to her.

根據斯蒂芬妮?梅爾的系列暢銷小說改編的這部新影片幾乎使美國各地的少女們都為它排隊購票。影片講述的是一個認為自己長相丑陋的孤僻少女貝拉的故事，她愛上一個會在夜間發光帥氣的吸血鬼愛德華（顯然，吸血鬼是出自某種水晶）。愛德華使她為之傾倒，并向他善良的只吸食動物血液的吸血鬼家族介紹她，保護她不受其它邪惡吸血鬼的傷害。

In short, it's a romance fantasy for teenage girls. Edward is the perfect boyfriend, with bad boy style but a good boy heart, and Bella is a stand-in for every spotty adolescent girl in her first flush of hormones. Of course, that Bella is being played by Kristen Stewart, who is quite beautiful, rather spoils the plainness she claims in the books, but the poor boyfriends and husbands dragged to this movie have to have something to look at. Most of the film is focused on the tousled good looks of Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward as an intensely brooding emo teen, although occasionally doesn't seem to be taking the whole thing seriously.

總而言之，這是一部為小女生們創作的愛情故事。愛德華是個完美的男友，有著壞男孩兒的“范兒”但內心善良。而貝拉則代表所有情竇初開滿臉雀斑的少女。當然，美麗漂亮的克里斯汀?斯圖爾特飾演的貝拉把主人公在小說里所體現的平凡形象給毀了，但總得讓那些被拖去陪同觀看這部電影的可憐的男友或丈夫們有東西可看吧。影片的絕大部分都聚焦于頭發蓬亂帥氣的羅伯特?帕丁森，他飾演的愛德華是一個總是陷入不斷的沉思當中的少年，但偶爾他又好像不會把所有的事情都當回事兒。

The books are truly terrible; the nadir of an already degraded genre of vampiric fantasy that started with Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire - where the vampires were at least genuinely alien and scary - but with anything interesting or difficult stripped out. The film is mediocre. You don't have to suffer through Meyer's leaden prose, but the direction and cinematography are ripped from a hundred other movies, with everything in poetic shades of black and gray. There's no real driving force to the film, only interminable shots of Bella and Edward staring at each other or embracing romantically-yet-chastely.

該系列故事的小說版真的很糟糕，是自安妮?賴斯的《夜訪吸血鬼》推出以來已經名聲不佳的吸血鬼小說中最糟糕的一部?！兑乖L吸血鬼》中的吸血鬼至少還屬于令人恐懼的另類，但《暮光之城》剔除了任何有趣或讓人感到不適的因素。故事的電影版還算一般，你不用在梅爾沉悶的散文中煎熬，該片還借鑒了許多其它電影的拍攝角度及拍攝技術，使一切都處于詩歌般黑色和灰色的陰影下?！?br>