「悪名高き」カラスのカナック “Criminal” crow Canuck
2017年7月6日
今回の記事は「「悪名高き」カラスのカナック」という内容です。さていったいどのような内容なのでしょうか。
今回のポッドキャストです。お聴き下さい。
本日のSentence
identifiable=【形】〔特定の人や物であると〕確認、認識できる
Canuck=【名】カナダ人、フランス系カナダ人
ボキャブラリー
| aggressive | adj | 攻撃的な、積極的な。強引な方法で振る舞う、または行動すること |
|---|---|---|
| injure | verb | 傷つける。（誰か／何かに）危害または損傷を与えること |
| incident | noun | 事件。とくに暴力、犯罪、危険な出来事など何かが起こること |
| tag | noun | タグ、札。識別のために誰か、もしくは何かに付けられたラベル |
| hop | verb | 跳び回る。ある場所から別の場所にすばやく動く |
日本語訳
「カナック」と名付けられたそのカラスは、攻撃的な行動が原因でイーストバンクーバーでトラブルを引き起こしている。この5月、カナックは郵便配達人を襲撃して負傷させた。そのことにより、カナダ郵便公社は2ヶ月近く郵便配達を一時中止した。
そのカラスは左脚の赤いタグで簡単に識別できる。カラスの最初の「犯罪」行為は、2016年5月に犯行現場からナイフを盗んだことだった。その後の事件では、カナックはパトカーに入り、コンピュータのボタンを取り去ったりした。今年3月には、バンクーバーのヘイスティング競馬場から蹄鉄用の釘を盗むところも見つけられた。彼はまた、何度もマクドナルドのテーブル間を跳び回ることでも有名だ。
カナックは多くの住人との間で問題を抱えているが、彼には少なくとも1人の友人がいるようだ。それは、フェイスブックで「Canuck and I」を管理している、ショーン・バーグマン氏という人で、バーグマン氏は最近のカナックの悪さは営巣の季節のせいだと信じている。
参考動画
マクドナルドに現れたカナック君
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ヒッチコック監督へのインタビュー動画です
Mr Hitchcock, why do you always make "mystery" films?Well, life is a big mystery, isn't it... and always has been. I think people are intrigued by mystery – to find out about things they don't know anything about. That's a mystery!
But surely not as sensational as you make it seem?
Life is more sensational. I would say that... how does one describe drama? Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Do you regard the mystery – the form of mystery – in a film as a kind of escape for yourself, in any way? An escape, possibly, from your own fears?
Well, it might have started that way. I suppose it must have all started when I was in my mother's arms, at the age of six months. And she said to me "boo!", and scared the ...something out of me, you know!
Can you remember any specific instance when you were frightened as a child?
Well, I have a vague recollection of being scared by a policeman. I think that when I was probably about four or five years of age being sent with a note to the local police station and being shut in a cell as a punishment for some... mishap, or... I don't... I think, I don't even know what it was for, but I was probably unjustly incarcerated at the time. But, you see the psychiatrist will always tell you that if you have a fear that is rooted in you and comes from something in your childhood, the moment you can go back to it and release it, all is well. It doesn't apply to me – I'm still scared of policeman.
Would you say you were a very timid man?
Utterly timid. I'm scared of everything.
Is there one rule, above all others, that is indispensable to a director who wants to frighten an audience?
I think he should understand the psychology of audiences. He should also know that audiences love to enjoy the very thing that they have built in, and that's fear that all started when the mother said "boo!" But for some inexplicable reason, they like to – how shall I say it – put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what it's like. That's why they go for rides on switchbacks and scream, and scream, and then get off giggling. Girls go on swings that go higher and higher, and suddenly, when they get too high, they get scared and come down again. They're all trying it out.
Your new film is called "Psycho", can you tell me something about it?
Well, "Psycho" is my first attempt at a "shocker". In other words, it has, in it's content, certain episodes which do shock. In some sense it could be called a "horror" film, but the horror only comes to you after you've seen it – when you get home... in the dark!
But can you be more specific? Is it about kind of...
...well, the broad idea is a young man, played by Anthony Perkins, who runs a small motel of about 12 units – a rather cheesy affair really – and in an old house, behind the motel, is his mother and she, I'm afraid, is homicidal. He should put her away, but he loves her too much. So, you can imagine what happens to the guests at the motel.
You once told me that actors were cattle to be shoved about... I wonder if you would care to enlarge on that?
You mean you want to make them larger cattle than they are?
No!
Well, I don't... that's really a joke. But, erm, they're children you know, and invariably the problem one always has with actors is coping with their ego. But they have to have the ego and they have to be ultra-sensitive otherwise they wouldn't be able to do what is asked of them.
You invariably appear in your own films, Mr Hitchcock. Have you ever been tempted to become an actor yourself?
Nothing so low as that.
Mr Hitchcock, thank you very much.
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