高级英语视听说(第二版)---教师用书及课后答案(6)

The tragedy of Nina, and of many young performers and athletes, is that perfection in one area of life has led to sacrifices in many of the others.

Performances

According to The Independent, the film Black Swan was considered one of "the most highly anticipated" films of late 2010. Natalie Portman has won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the film was itself nominated for Best Picture within a total of 5 nominations including one for Darren Aronofsky for the Best Director.

Portman played a veteran ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's 2010 film Black Swan, a role of which critic Kurt Loder wrote: "Portman gives one of her most compelling performances in this film, which is saying something." To prepare for the role, she went through five to eight hours of dance training each day for six months and lost 20 pounds. In 2011, she won both the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. He was always artistic: he favored classic movies and, as a teenager, and he even spent time doing graffiti art. Aronofsky got a reputation as a brash, intelligent filmmaker at the age of 29, with Pi, his 1998 feature directorial and screenwriting debut. In Black Swa n, as in his other representative films, he uses a technique known as the hip-hop montage, which is a sequence of images or actions shown in fast-motion with accompanying sound effects, usually shown to simulate a certain action, such as taking drugs. Meanwhile, he employs sounds to objects that are not always seen on screen. And most characteristic of him and most obvious in the Black Swan, he portrays characters (like Nina and to some extent