影片对白  Golly, this is without a doubt my all-time crummiest moment. Huh? Jon. Man, I've been such a stupid, selfish cat. I've lost my friend. I've got to find him.

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Free Willy -- 人鱼的童话

Free Willy is a 1993 Warner Brothers film about a boy who befriends an orca (killer whale).

When fishermen separate a young orca named Willy from his parents, he ends up in a glorified fishbowl at a marina in the Seattle area. Meanwhile, a street kid named Jesse (Jason James Richter) gets caught vandalizing the marina, but his social worker, Dwight (Mykelti Williamson), helps him avoid legal consequences, provided he cleans up his mess at the marina. While there, Jesse befriends the orca and teaches him tricks, something the trainer, Rae (Lori Petty), had failed to do. However, when Willy is unable to perform effectively in front of the audience, the owner of the marina plans to kill Willy for the insurance money. Thus, Jesse and his friends, including an Indian shaman named Randolph (August Schellenberg), must free Willy.

The aquatic star of this film was an orca named Keiko. The huge national and international success of this movie inspired a letter writing campaign to get Keiko released from his captivity as an attraction in the amusement park Reino Aventura in Mexico City. Keiko was released into a bigger pool in Oregon when his dorsal fin was damaged because his old pool was too small. Though Keiko was eventually released, he continually sought out human contact, and eventually died near Norway.

The film managed to improve the image of orcas, which were previously depicted as shark-like maneaters in popular culture. In fact, they pose little threat to humans unless attacked.

Sequels and Spin-offs
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)
Free Willy (TV series) (1994), a two-season animated spin-off in which Willy and other sea creatures could talk. Although it was released between the first two films, it fits better in continuity terms between the second and third films (see summaries linked above).

Dargis在这里谎称自己是Free Willy这部电影的粉丝，标明自己热爱动物，实际上背地里却在策划着杀死动物们的勾当。

考考你

用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1． 她觉得她的计划到处碰壁。
2． --保尔赢了。这可太让人吃惊了。
    --我也非常吃惊。
3． 那个混蛋竟然骚扰我女朋友。

Garfield 2《加菲猫》2（精讲之四）考考你 参考答案

1. You chaps know me. I'm no snob. Right? But this cat is too much.
你们这些家伙知道我，我不是个势力的人，对吧？但是这只猫也太出格了。

2. Don't get your knickers in a twist. I know he's a pain in the neck, but we just got to keep him safe till Monday.
别沮丧了。我知道他挺烦人的，但是我们只要保证他的安全到星期一就行了。

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