W. ブッシュ （１）

ブッシュ

今週は、ジョージ・Ｗ・ブッシュの半生を描いたオリバー･ストーン監督作の『ブッシュ』をお送りしよう。

『ブッシュ』というタイトルになっているが、原題は『Ｗ．』。この辺がアメリカらしくてセンスがあるんだけど、"Ｗ．"では日本人には伝わらないので直接的に"ブッシュ"となっている。日本人が英語をいつまでも理解出来ないのがこういったところでわかるよね。感覚から変えないと日本人は英語をいつまでも理解出来ないと思うよ。それほど日本語と英語は違う。

先週は、マイケル・ムーア監督の『ボーリング・フォー・コロンバイン』を通じてアメリカの銃社会や歴史的背景について学んだ。その続きというわけではないんだけど、ジョージ・Ｗ・ブッシュの姿を通じても、アメリカという国の背景を学ぶことが出来ると思う。

本作は、オリバー・ストーン監督らしい骨太な作りになっていて、ジョージ・Ｗ・ブッシュの政策やアメリカに及ぼした影響を批判するものではなく、ジョージ・Ｗ・ブッシュの二世としての苦しみなどがつづられた実話のヒューマンドラマになっている。ジョージ・Ｗ・ブッシュこそ"アメリカ"なのかもしれない。


SUMMERY

W. is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as Bush, with a supporting cast that includes Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Scott Glenn, and Richard Dreyfuss. Filming began on May 12, 2008, in Louisiana and the film was released on October 17.


英単語

No.	英単語	発音	詞	意味
1	presidency	prézədənsi	名	大統領の職、任期
2	biographical	bὰɪəgrˈæfɪk(ə)l	形	伝記の
3	Louisiana	luìːziˈænə	個	ルイジアナ州　米国南部の州 Louisiana Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Louisiana is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties. subdivision [śʌbdɪv̀ɪʒən] (名) 一部分、一区分け parish [pˈærɪʃ] (名) 教区、教会区 equivalent [ɪkwív(ə)lənt] (名) １．同等(価値)　２．同義語 term [tˈɚːm] (動) 表現する、呼ぶ （名） A　１．学期　２．任期　３．期間 B　１．用語、専門用語　２．言い方、表現 C　１．交際関係、間柄　２．条件、料金　３．協約、同意
4	George W. Bush		個	George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States of America from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush, he was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked in oil businesses. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. thereafter [ðèɚˈæftɚ] (副) その後は、それ以来
5	Oliver Stone		個	William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and veteran. Stone came to public prominence between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s for writing and directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an infantry soldier. Many of Stone's films focus on contemporary and controversial American political and cultural issues, such as JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon. prominence [prάmənəns] (名) 名声 infantry  [ínfəntri] (名) 歩兵隊 veteran  [véṭərən] (名) ベテラン、退役軍人 contemporary  [kəntémpərèri] (形) 同時代の、同世代の controversial  [kὰntrəvˈɚːʃəl] (形) 論争の、議論の
6	Ellen Burstyn		個	Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next decade included several films and television series.
7	Elizabeth Banks		個	Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell; February 10, 1974) is an American actress, producer and director. Banks made her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy (1998).
8	James Cromwell		個	James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American film and television actor. Some of his more notable films include Babe (1995), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), Space Cowboys (2000), The Sum of All Fears (2002), W. (2008), The Artist (2011), and the television series Six Feet Under (2003–2005), 24 (2007), and American Horror Story: Asylum (2012).
9	Thandie Newton		個	Thandiwe Nashita "Thandie" Newton[2] (born 6 November 1972) is a British actress.[3][4] She has appeared in a number of British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness, Mission: Impossible II, Crash, Run Fatboy Run, W., 2012 , Norbit and For Colored Girls.
10	Scott Glenn		個	Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1941) is an American actor. His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado (1985), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Roger in Training Day (2001), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and The Wise Man in Sucker Punch (2011).
11	Richard Dreyfuss		個	Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Goodbye Girl.

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