“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(zhàn)，戰(zhàn)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。
您已閱讀11%（607字），剩余89%（4875字）包含更多重要信息，訂閱以繼續(xù)探索完整內容，并享受更多專屬服務。