Last Tuesday, CCTV Movie Channel was broadcasting the Japanese movie "The Story of the Boat" again.
I say "It's playing again" because I've watched "The Story of the Boat" twice through this channel, plus I've watched the subtitled version twice on the Internet. If I don't change the channel, this is my fifth time "Book of the Boat". A story that takes place in a publishing house where the books on the desk are far more exciting than the editors at the desk, and it is a story that takes place in the most old-fashioned and boring departmental dictionary editing room in the whole publishing house. I think I read it. It's not over for the fifth time, but in the end, I still can't leave behind Ma Diguang, the hero of "The Story of the Boat", who is rigid, step-by-step, and admits to death.
In the process of appreciating "The Book of the Boat" for the fifth time, I always think of the American movie "The Professor and the Madman". The reason is simple. Both of them are about the difficulty and loneliness of the dictionary compilation process and the perseverance and perseverance of the dictionary editor. story. If "The Story of the Boat" is likened to the dry landscape in a Japanese garden, "The Professor and the Madman" is a multicolored pool with the smell of sulphur in Yellowstone Park in the United States. Which of the dry landscape and the five-colored pond can add more color to the scenery? They are no different, with either elegant or strong style, each leading the way.
Really want to talk about the difference between the two movies, the characters in "The Story of the Boat", from the main protagonist to the minor supporting roles, are all mirror images of ordinary people in real life. And Dr. Miner, the madman in the two male protagonists of "The Professor and the Madman", is more like an extraordinary character full of dissimilarities that the screenwriter has made up by bringing together the characteristics of talented people in life.
One day, James Murray, a self-taught Oxford University professor, promised Oxford University Press to compile a "New English Dictionary" in five to seven years. The world's first computer will not be invented until more than half a century later. In an era when all the entries had to be dug out from the voluminous books and then copied into cards, the speed of language development made attempts What does it mean for James Murray to take on this gigantic project in an age when the lexicon professors feel they can't keep up? It means that in 5 or 7 years, or even after Hao Shou's poor experience, Professor Murray's dictionary building may not have been built yet. After anticipating this outcome, Professor Murray decided to ask for help from the society, that is, to ask for volunteers from the public, and ask volunteers to join the ranks of writing entries, so as to make "what one person can accomplish in 100 lifetimes, let 100 people use 1. life to complete." After the solicitation for entries was widely advertised and every book sold in the bookstore reached the readers, Professor Murray received a lot of feedback. Among them, a doctor surnamed Miner made outstanding achievements, and he even contributed More than 10,000 entries were written, which is an incredible amount of work for a linguistics professor who specializes in this work. Dr. Miner's unimaginable number of entries aroused the strong curiosity of Professor Murray Jean. After learning that Dr. Miner was a prisoner in prison, Professor Murray decided to visit him: Is it possible for Dr. Miner to walk out of prison and into his "writing room" to become the backbone of the dictionary? After seeing Dr. Miner, Professor Murray decided that his idea was in vain, because Dr. Miner was a murderer: Dr. Miner, who went mad after being strongly stimulated on the battlefield, suspected that passers-by were going to chase him. Shoot each other. There is only a thin piece of paper between the lunatic and the genius. Dr. Miner added another proof for this: Dr. Miner, who suspected that his nose hair was exuding poisonous gas and meticulously plucked his nose hair, remembered by Bo Wen. Any one of the more than 10,000 entries is likely to push Professor Murray and his assistants into a corner. Dr. Miner only needs to miss his lover and teach his lover literacy during the crazy interval. swipe away in the gap.
The writer and director of "The Professor and the Madman" insisted that the film was based on real events, but I always felt that Dr. Miner brought together the yearning for the genius of the director of the film and even many ordinary people who looked up to genius: God gave them outstanding Wisdom, they can always achieve what they want, like Dr. Mina, even in prison, he can treat patients who are helpless to others in a matter of seconds. If medicine is his specialty, then what do the paintings that cover a wall in the cell indicate? Professor Murray and three or five assistants could not solve the writing work of the entry "art", and it was really completed by Dr. Miner. Such a genius, we may not be able to meet it if we look forward to it. Even if we are lucky enough to meet it, it is very likely to pass him by because of the fragile nature of the genius. After a long talk with Dr. Miner in the prison, Professor Murray thought that Dr. Miner would follow his dictionary until the day it was finished. Turn yourself into a lunatic.
In the end, it was Professor Murray and his assistants who completed the "New English Dictionary" - no one doubts that genius will come to the world, just like Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, etc. in history Wait, like Dr. Miner in the movie The Professor and the Madman. After the flames of their thoughts cut through the dark sky and enlightened the world, only ordinary people like Professor Murray, who are diligent and diligent, work hard day and night, and the light of genius’s wisdom can be turned into a movie. A dictionary of , allowing the general population to benefit from the temperature of knowledge. "All great works of art originate from staring into the darkness for the first time, but not returning to it", what Dr. Miner said to those who affirmed his contribution when he first met Dr. Murray is rather a self-consciousness , shows the vast difference between geniuses and ordinary people. And Professor Murray is a fire thief in another sense. He seizes the light of wisdom of Dr. Mina, which may be fleeting, and unites a group of editors who are willing to contribute silently, using dictionaries to dispel the darkness of people's cognition. , until our eyes are filled with light.
Dr. Miner and Professor Murray, the two male protagonists of "The Professor and the Madman," both contributed to humanity. But who is more worthy of our worship? I think it's Professor Murray. What really changed the world was the Murray professors who dared to follow the spark of genius and were willing to work silently. If we compare two films with similar themes, "The Professor and the Madman" and "The Story of the Boat", the best one is probably "The Story of the Boat". Without such a shocking character as Dr. Mina, "The Story of the Boat" can still use the ordinary life of ordinary people to attract us to review the calm process of Ma Diguang and "Daduhai". I have to say that this The director of the film is well acquainted with the mental journey of a dictionary writer.
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