飞屋环游记.ppt

National Research Centre for Foreign Language EducationBeijing Foreign Studies University北京外国语大学中国外语教育研究中心
许永建
飞屋环游记
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The film centers around an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen and an earnest young Wilderness Explorer named Russell who flies to South America in a house suspended by balloons. The film has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, making it Pixar's second-most commercially successful film, behind Finding Nemo.
Carl Fredricksen is a shy and quiet boy who idolizes renowned/well-known/famous explorer Charles F. Muntz.
He learns, however, that Muntz has been accused of fabricating the skeleton of a giant bird he had discovered in Paradise Falls, South America. Muntz vows to return there to capture one alive. One day, Carl befriends an energetic tomboy named Ellie (Elizabeth Docter), who is also a Muntz fan. Detailing her ambitions in her personal scrapbook, she tells Carl her desire to move her "clubhouse" -- an abandoned house in the neighborhood -- to a cliff overlooking Paradise Falls, making him promise to help her.
Carl and Ellie eventually get married and grow old together in the restored house, working as a toy balloon vendor and a zookeeper, respectively. Unable to have children, they repeatedly saved money for a trip to Paradise Falls, but end up spending it on other urgent things. An elderly Carl finally arranges for the trip, but Ellie suddenly becomes ill and passes away.
Years later, Carl's house becomes surrounded by urban development, but he refuses to sell his property. He then ends up in a fight/tussle with a construction worker over his broken mailbox, and is forced by a court order to move into a retirement home. However, Carl comes up with a scheme to keep his promise to Ellie: he turns his house into a flying house, using thousands of balloons to lift it off its foundations.
A young Wilderness Explorer named Russell becomes an accidental passenger, having begged/pestered Carl earlier in an attempt to