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暴躁猫走上大银幕

2014-02-28

时代英语·高一 2014年2期
关键词:加菲猫龅牙莫瑞

It is the news that will bring hope to Lil Bub, the goats that yell like humans and other who wanna be film stars everywhere: Grumpy Cat, the moody feline queen on the Internet, looks set to get her very own movie!

A website reports that the winner of Webby Awards in 2013 is at the centre of a feature-film project being put together by her managers and Hollywood production company Broken Road. Grumpy, “Tardar Sauce” to her owner away from the cameras, will be given the power of speech and launched into a Garfield-style feature film.

“This started off as a picture of a cat, but rare is an image that evokes that much comedy,” said Todd Garner of Broken Road. “You read all of the pictures and the comments, and one is funnier than the next. We think we can build a big family comedy around this character.”

Grumpys appeal is hard to deny. The mixed-breed cat, whose moody facial expression is the result of dwarfism and an underbite, has more than 930,000 likes on her website page and more than 120,000 subscribers. She was also named most influential cat of the year by MSNBC.

There may be trouble ahead for filmgoers if the makers of Grumpy Cat: the Movie are basing their project on the dubious success of the Garfield films, however. Both 2004s Garfield: the Movie and 2006s sequel Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, featuring an apparently reluctant Bill Murray as the voice of the curmudgeonly cat, were widely panned. They did, however, take a combined $340 million at the global box office.

这条新闻会给小猫李二宝宝、那群叫声似人声的山羊,还有其他各地想成为电影明星的人或物带来希望:“暴躁猫”,这位在网上的愤怒猫女王,即将有自己的电影啦!

据某网站报道,2013年度网络维比奖的获得者“暴躁猫”将拍摄以她为主角的故事片,此片由暴躁猫的经纪人和好莱坞制片公司破路公司联合筹划。镜头之外的暴躁猫被主人称为“鞑靼酱”,她将在这部加菲猫风格的电影中拥有说话的能力。

来自破路公司的陶德·加纳说:“最初是从一张猫照片开始,但是很少有图片能引发这么多的喜剧效果。你去看所有的图片和评论,一张比一张有趣。我们觉得可以围绕这个角色开发一部大家庭喜剧。”

我们很难否认暴躁猫的吸引力。这只混血猫在她个人网站主页上获得了93万多个喜欢,还有12万个视频订阅者。她的愤怒表情源自她的侏儒症和大龅牙。她还被微软全国广播公司评为年度最有影响力的猫。

但是,如果《暴躁猫大电影》的制作者是以加菲猫电影的成功(成功?值得怀疑)为基础的话,影迷们也许要小心了。由比尔·莫瑞配音的两部加菲猫电影都惨受恶评——2004年的《加菲猫大电影》及2006年续集《加菲猫2双猫记》。很明显,比尔·莫瑞并不情愿给这只坏脾气的猫配音。但是,它们确实收获了总达3.4亿美元的全球票房成绩。

Grumpy Cat是一只红遍网络的猫,由于总是一副生气的表情,被网友称为“暴躁猫”。近日有消息称暴躁猫将走上大银幕,拍摄自己的电影。

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