[转载]涉及语言、语言学和语言学家的25部必看电影
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1. Iceman (1984)
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in
ice and bring him back to life (no, this isn't the comedy Encino
Man). His speech is decoded by a linguist from MIT using a 'pitch
stress meter'.
Get the DVD here: Iceman DVD
2. Pontypool (2010)
A must-see for linguists. A virus spreads through a community and
only a linguist can solve the mystery. Can't give more details
without spoilers.
Get the DVD here: Pontypool DVD
3. Ghost Warrior (1984)
A deep-frozen 400-year-old samurai is shipped to Los Angeles, where
he comes back to life, speaking an ancient Japanese dialect.
Get the DVD here: Ghost Warrior
4. Ball of Fire (1941)
A lexicographer realizes that the slang section of his dictionary
is outdated and decides to visit a nightclub where he meets a
snarky burlesque performer. He becomes fascinated by her command of
popular jargon, but she is the fianc&e
acute;e of a mobster and wanted by the police.
Get the DVD here: Ball of Fire DVD
5. Enemy Mine (1985)
A science-fiction film about a human and alien soldier who become
stranded together on an inhospitable planet and must overcome their
mutual distrust and learn each others' languages in order to
cooperate and survive.
Get the DVD here: Enemy Mind DVD
6. My Fair Lady (1964)
By now, everyone knows this tale of the phonetician who makes a bet
that he can refine the cockney speech of Eliza Doolittle
Get the DVD here: My Fair Lady DVD
7. Nell (1994)
Two doctors observe and try to communicate with a wild woodswoman
in North Carolina who speaks a strange unknown language.
Get the DVD here: Nell DVD
8. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
A Disney cartoon featuring a decipherer of ancient languages who
finds the lost continent.
Get the DVD here: Atlantis: The Lost Empire
9. Stargate (1994)
A linguist and Egyptologist is transported to another planet where
his knowledge of hieroglyphics and ancient languages proves useful
as the natives speak a dialect that has evolved from ancient
Egyptian.
Get the DVD here: Stargate DVD
10. Windtalkers (2002)
A drama about the use of the Navajo language as a secret code
during World War II.
Get the DVD here: Windtalkers DVD
11. Finding Nemo (2016)
Speaking of Navajo, this movie was recently re-released with a
Navajo dubbed soundtrack
(Star Wars is also available in Navajo here: Star Wars in Navajo
)
12. Youth without Youth (2008)
Movie about a 70-year old linguist (working on finding roots of
human language) who suddently becomes 35 again.
Get the DVD here: Youth without Youth DVD
13. The Statue (1971)
A risqué comedy featuring a British linguist who becomes
internationally famous for inventing a universal language
(Unispeak)
Get the DVD here: The Statue DVD
14. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser / Jeder für sich und Gott gegen
alle (1974) (German)
This movie is based on a true story about one of the few
socially-isolated children who learned to speak after the age of
17
Get the DVD here: Enigma of Kaspar Hauser DVD
15. On Top of the Whale / Het dak van de Walvis (1982)
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism.
The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an
ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language.
That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore
means everything.
Only available on VHS: On Top of the Whale
16. The Wild Child / L'enfant sauvage (1969)
Another movie about a language-deprived child found in
south-western France in the late 18th century.
Get the DVD here: The Wild Child DVD
17. Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)
The protagonist in this movie works at a translation agency. She
translates Spanish into English for her boss at work and English
into Spanish for her pregnant Chilean friend.
Get the DVD here: Truly, Madly, Deeply DVD
18. The Miracle Worker (1962)
Teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller out of
darkness and teaches her about language.
Get the DVD here: Miracle Worker DVD
19. The Linguists (2008)
In this documentary, director Seth Kramer follows a pair of
language scholars as they journey through rugged lands in order to
find isolated civilizations and hear rare tongues. The linguists,
who speak a combined two dozen languages themselves, go to Siberia
to listen to a language that will most likely disappear in the next
few decades. They trek to India to explore how English colonists
altered the nation's culture, and they also visit the American
Southwest to talk with Native Americans.
20. The Grammar of Happiness (2012)
The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett among
the extraordinary Amazonian Piraha tribe, a group of indigenous
hunter- gatherers whose culture and outlook on life has taken the
world of linguistics by storm. His assignment was to translate the
book of Mark into the tongue of the Piraha, a people whose puzzling
speech seemed unrelated to any other on Earth. What he learned
during his time with the Piraha led him to question the very
foundations of his own deep beliefs.
21. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
In this movie, the dialogue is entirely in reconstructed Aramaic,
vernacular Hebrew and Latin with subtitles.
Get the DVD here: Passion of the Christ DVD
22. Apocalypto (2006) This movie was filmed entirely in the Yucatec
Maya language (with subtitles) Get the DVD here: Apocalypto
DVD
23. The Interpreter (2005) The Interpreter features an interpreter
at the United Nations who speaks a made-up African language based
on Shona and Swahili, created by an African linguist in London. Get
the DVD here: The Interpreter DVD
24. Last of the Mohicans (1992)
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