我看了541部英文电影的点点心得--透析英语:电子词典时代的学习革命

英语的“听力原著”之中，要数电影最难。英文原声电影中的对白台词是英语民族的生活直接反映，而且言者情绪化倾向严重，较之新闻广播的演说式发言难懂得多，还由于影片音响效果的影响，甚至比洋人当面和你说的口语还难听。——如果我们能摘取电影这颗“英语听力皇冠上的明珠”，我们的耳朵在截获英语情报的时候就得心应手了：无论是在国际商业军事的谍报战中，还是在国内英语考场的肉搏战中。
看电影，首先要“端正目的”：是娱乐，不是学习。这才符合实用主义。
其次，必须习惯不看任何字幕。破除“精听”的桎梏，观念上必须不把所看的电影当回事，看不懂听不懂无所谓，没有人那么无聊出份考题给你做的。如果看的是电视或者VCD上的电影，无法消除字幕，那你需要看上大约10部电影来让自己的眼球上移，习惯不去瞧屏幕底部的字幕；如果看的是DVD电影，请你把字幕关掉——连英文字幕也不要，因为看英文字幕是阅读，没长听力——想想和洋人谈判的时候，他们会给咱们打字幕吗？电影提供了视觉和听觉的信息，听觉信息之中除了人物的台词对白，还包括配乐、音效等等，你听到的英语只不过是电影庞大的信息量中一小部分，因此，电影中即使有很多对白听不懂，也是不难了解电影大概情节的，换言之不影响娱乐。我看过的大多数电影，不是枪战爆炸刀光剑影，就是人类怪兽你追我赶，即使完全听不懂也能理解个八九不离十。即使是有“深度”的片子，眼睛不看字幕就会更多地接收画面信息，很大程度上弥补了听不懂造成的理解偏差。毕竟，电影是看的嘛——大胆放飞你的耳朵，捕捉电影中的英语吧！
第三，为了保证影片英语收听的海量性，引入“透析电影指数（Movie Index,MI）”。MI的定义简单，就是你看过的英文原声电影的部数，重复看的不算数。每看完一部，把英文片名记录在笔记本上。有朋友反映：看了5部都听不太明白，听力没什么进步呀！MI=5，太少了，进步当然不明显。当MI=50的时候，你的接收能力就和MI=5的时候完全不一样了。尤其是你的MI和DI配合增长的时候，你的听力更是突飞猛进。我的DI升到30的时候，MI到了200，电影里的人咕哝几声，我就知道他想说什么了。MI的增长比DI快，当你看见笔记本上一列长长的片名时，成就感起来了：它们是学习的成果，进步的见证。
电影世界精彩无限。在我长达数页的MI记录当中，什么片子都有：有枪战爆炸的（“007”铁金刚系列），有汽车追逐的（《Speed》-《生死时速》），有怪兽怪物的（《Alien》-《异形》系列），有科幻特技的（《Matrix》-《黑客帝国》系列），有机器人的（《Terminator》-《未来战士》系列），有战争的（《Saving Private Ryan》-《雷霆救兵》），有奇幻的（《The lord of the rings》-《魔戒》系列），有爱情的（《Ghost》-《人鬼情未了》）……（请恕我不懂电影学分类，胡乱罗列一通。）
总之只要是英文的，就来者不拒——商业片艺术片照看，获奖片垃圾片全收，为的是发扬“练功狂主义”，追求MI的飙升。由于MI和DI一样，一部电影要看完才能加1，结果很多郁闷透顶的片子也勉强看下来了。例如那部被西方电影人当作绝对经典的《Citizen Kane》（《公民凯恩》），我看到最后竟然没有像其他观众一样睡着。也正因为这种“全盘照收”的方式，我接触到各种艺术流派，眼界为之开阔。
以下是我看过片子的列表
"All quiet on the western front"
007: A view to a kill
007: Die another day
007: Golden eyes
007: The world is not enough
007: Tomorrow never dies
10.5(核震过后）
100 girls
2001.A.Space.Odyssey
21 grams
50 First Dates
8MM
A beautiful mind
A bug's life
A Few Good Man
A fish called Wandar
A little romance
A steetcar named desire
A Tale of two cities
A walk in the clouds
Addicted to love
AI, Artificial Intelligence
Alexander
Alien 1
Alien 2
Alien 3
Alien 4
Alien Vs. Predator
ALL ABOUT EVE
Almost Famous
Alone in the dark
Amadeus
American Beauty
American Pie - Band Camp
American Pie 1
American Pie 2
American Pie 3
American Psycho
American sweethearts
Anaconda
Anastasia
Animal instinct
Apocalypse now
Apollo 13
Arachnid
Armageddon
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
As good as it gets
Assassins
At close range
At the first sight
Augustus
Austin Powers: The spy who shagged me
Babe
Back to the future 1
Back to the future 2
Basic Instinct
Batman 3 forever
Batman begins
Before sunrise
Behind enemy lines
Ben Hur
Bewitched
Big Fish
Birdy
Black hawk down
Black Masks 2
Blade 1
Blade 2
Blade 3
Blade runner
Blow
Blue Crush
Boa Vs. Python
Born on the fourth of July
Bourne Supremacy 1
Bourne Supremacy 2
Boys don’t cry
Brave heart
Brokeback Mountain
Bulletproof monk
Cabin fever
Caligula
Capote
Casablanca 1942
Catch me if you can
Cellular
Charlie’s angels 1
Charlie’s angels 2 Full throttle
Chicago
Cinerenta
Citizen Kane
Citizen Ruth
City of Angels
Cleopatra
Cliff hanger
Close encounters of the third kind
Closer
Cold Mountain
Collateral
Collateral Damage
Commando
Con Air
Constantine
Copland
Counter strike
Courage under fire
Coyote Ugly
Crash
Crash
Crash Landing
Creep
Crying Freeman
Cube 2-Hypercube
Cyber corps 1
Cyber corps 2
Cypher
Dancer in the dark
Dances with wolves
Daylight
Dead birds
Dead end
Dead poets society
Death Watch
Deep Fault
Deep Shock
Demolition man
Detour
Dial for murder
Die Hard 1
Die Hard 2:die harder
Die Hard 3:With a Vengeance
Dirty Harry
Dorm Daze
Double team
Dracula
Driven
D-TOX 狙击杀手
Earthsea
Ed Gein
Edward scissor hands
Elektra
Elephant
Ella Enchanted
Enemy at the gates
Epicenter
Eurotrip
Evita
Evolution
Face off
Factotum (a man with many jobs)
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 911
Fantastic four
Far from heaven
Fight Club
Final Analysis
Final Destination
Final fantasy
Finding Nemo
Finding Neverland
First Blood Rambo 1
First Blood Rambo 2
First Blood Rambo 3
Forest Gump
Formula to death
Four weddings and one funeral
Frankenstein
Freddy Vs. Jason
Frequency
From hell
Full metal jacket
Galaxy quest
Garfield 2
Garfield the movie
Ghost
Ghost of Mars
Ghost world
Ginger Snaps unleashed
Girl with a pearl earring
Gladiator
Goal!
Godfather 1
Godfather 2
Godfather 3
Godzilla
Gone with the wind
Good Night, And Good Luck
Good Will hunting
Gothika
Grand hotel
Groundhog Day
Guarding Angel
Halloween
Hamlet
Harry Potter 1 and the sorcere
Harry Potter 2 and the chamber
Harry Potter 3 and the Prisoner of Azikaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Heavy fist
Helen of Troy
Hell Boy
Henry & June
Hidalgo
Hitch
Home alone 3
Home alone 4
Hostage
Hostel
Hot Shots!
I know what you did last summer
I spit on your grave
I, robot
I, spy
Ice age 1
Immortal
In blood tide
In Magnum Force
In the cut
In the heat of the night
In the name of the father
Independence Day
Indiana Jones 1 Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones 2 The palace of doom
Indiana Jones 3
Interview with the vampire
It happened one night
Jackass
Jane Eyre
Jarhead
Jason X
Jaw 2
Jaws 1
JFK
Joan of Arc
Johnny English
Journey to the centre of the earth
Jumanji
Jurassic Park 1
Jurassic Park 2:The lost world
Jurassic Park 3
Kate and Leopole
Kill Bill 1
Kill Bill 2
King Author
King Kong
King Solomon’s mine
Kinsey
Kiss of Death
Kiss the girls
Kramer Vs. Kramer
L. A. Confidential
Lady Chatterley
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2
Last minute hero
Lawrence of Arabia
Le Vol Du Phenix
Leaving LasVegas
Legally blonde 2
Legend of the fall
Les Marines
Lethal weapon 4
Live wire
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lord of the rings 1
Lord of the rings 2:The two towers
Lord of the rings 3:The return of the king
Lord of war
Love story
Madagascar
Master and commander-Russell Crow
Matchstick men
Matrix 1
Matrix 2 Reloaded
Matrix 3 Revolution
Meet the Fockers
Memoirs of a Geisha
Message in a bottle
Mickey blue eyes
Midnight cowboy
Midway
Million Dollar Baby
Mind hunter
Mission Impossible  1
Mission Impossible  2
Mission: Impossible III
Monalisa Smile
Moonlight Mile
Moulin Rouge
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Munich
My best friend's wedding
My Fair Lady
Naked weapon
National treasure
Nightmare
Norma Rae
Northwest by north
Not another teen movie
Notorious
Notting Hill
Ocean's 12
Ocean's eleven
Oliver Twist
Once upon a time in America
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Out cold
Out of Africa
Outbreak
Patton
Paulie
Payback
Paycheck
Pearl Harbor
Penertrator
Philadelphia
Phone booth
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pocahontas
Predator 1
Predator 2
Pretty woman
Pulp Fiction
Python
Raging Bull
Rain Man
Ransom
Rapid Exchange
Rebecca
Red Star
Red Surf
Reign of Fire
Reindeer games
Rendezvous
Requiem for a dream
Resident Evil 1
Resident Evil 2
Ring
Rivers spirits women
Road to perdition
Robocop 1
Robocop 2
Robocop 3: Dark justice
Rocky 1
Roman holiday
Romeo must die
Rowing with the wind
Run Lora run
Running red
S.W.A.T
Sabrina
Saints & Soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
Scream 1
Scream 2
Sea Biscuit
Second name
Sense and senability
Serendipity
Seven
Seven years in Tibet
Shadow fury
Shaggy dog
Shakespeare in love
Shark Tale
She gets what she wants
Shining
Shocking dark
Show girl
Shrek 2
Signs
Sin city
Sinbad-Legend of the seven sea
Singing in the rain
Sleepers
Sleepless in Seattle
Snake Eye
Snatch
Sniper 1
Sniper 3
Snow white and the 7 dwarfs
Son of the mask
Spartacus
Special force
Speed 1
Speed 2
Spellbound
Spider
Spider-man 1
Spider-man 2
Stage Fright
Star troopers
StarWars.Episode.IV-A.New.Hope
StarWars.Episode.VI-Return of the Jedi
StarWars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999
StarWars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002
StarWars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Stealing Harvard
Stealth fighter
Steath
Sudden Impact
Suddenly naked
Sword fish
Tears of the sun
Terminators 2
Terminators 3:The rise of the machines
Tess
The 10th kingdom
The 5th element
The abyss
The adventures of Pluto Nash
The age of innocence
The animatrix
The Big Red One
The bridges of the Madison cou
The bridges of the River Kuai
The Butterfly Effect
The cave
The Chronicles of Narnia：The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The clockwork orange
The core
The craft
The day after tomorrow
The Dead Pool
The enemy of the state
The enforcer
The English patient
The exorcist
The faculty
The fast and the furious
The Final Countdown
The fire line
The Fly
The fugitive
The ghost ship
The girl next door
The Gods must be crazy 1
The Gods must be crazy 2
The graduate
The green mile
The hours
The in-laws
The interpreter
The island
The Italian job
The Jack Bull
The last emperor
The last samurai
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen LXG
The lion king 1
The lion king 2 Simba's pride
The lion king 3 Hakuna Matata
The lover
The man in black 1
The man in black 2
The medallion
The Monkey King
The Mummy 1
The Mummy 2:Return
The next best thing
The notebook
The Odyssey
The Patriot
The pianist
The piano
The polar express
The postman
The prince of Egypt
The Punisher
The quick and the dead
The run down
The running man
The Saint
The Scorpion King
The seven year itch
The Shawshank redemption
The Silence of The Lambs 1
The Silence of The Lambs 2-Hannibal
The sound of music
The specialist
The squid and the whale
The star war 3
The sting
The tailor of Panama
The terminal
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The thirteenth ghost
The Transporter
The Tuxedo
The unbearable lightness of being
The usual suspects
The village
The Weather Man
The Wedding Singer
The wizard of Oz
The world of Susie Wong
The year of the Yao
The.Sixth.Sense
The.Three.Musketeers (Disney cartoon)
There’s something about Mary
Thirteen days
THX.1138
Ticker
Tiger land
Timeline
Tin cup
Titanic
Total recall
Toy story
Transformer
Tremor
Troy
True lies
Twister
U.S. Marshals
Underworld
Unforgiven
V for vendetta
Van Heising
Vertical limit
Walk the Line
War and peace
War of the worlds (H.G. Wells')
Waterloo Bridge
Welcome to Mooseport
West side story
What's the worst than could happen?
When a stranger calls
White wolves-arcy in the wild
Wicker Park
Wild at heart
Wild things 2
Wild Wild West
Wind talkers
Wuthering Heights
X-Men 2 United
XXX 1
XXX 2 the next level
You've Got Mail
Zathura