“Where are the wizards?” my cousin asked me, half an hour into a family screening of Braveheart. I saw where he was coming from. The film has all the trademarks of high fantasy: battles on green hills, warriors wearing chainmail and carrying wooden clubs, an absence of modern technology and a strange antiquated vernacular. There was going to be no magic, I explained; the film was simply set in Scotland in the Middle Ages. His disappointment was palpable.
我們全家人聚在一起觀看電影《勇敢的心》,半小時后,我的表弟問我:“巫師在哪里?”我明白他為什么會這樣問。這部電影具有高級幻想的所有特征:在綠色的山丘上作戰,戰士們穿著鏈甲,拿著木棍,沒有現代技術,還有一種奇怪的古代方言。我解釋說,不會有魔法;這部電影只是設定在中世紀的蘇格蘭。他的失望是可想而知的。
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