★このブログは私が南山中高等学校男子部の英語教員だったときに英語の副教材として発行していた「日英バイリンガル通信」の継続版です。★第1号は2002年11月発行で、当時の生徒は中学1年生でした。通信の最終号(第29号)は2008年3月発行で、生徒は持ち上がってきた高校3年生です。★同年3月に退職してからも同通信をブログで発行し続け、今日に至っています。
This is a continuation of the bilingual bulletin that I published for my students when I was an English teacher at Nanzan High School in Nagoya, Japan. I started the publication when I taught the seventh graders in 2002 and finished it when they graduated in 2008. I published 29 issues during the 6 years.
Stuart
Freeborn and his staff had a hard time to make the ape masks and suits for the
Dawn of Men sequence in 2001: Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick
and written by Arthur Clarke.
They went to
a zoo to watch a monkey’s movement and behavior, such as bearing fangs, eating,
snarling, and drinking, used a real baby monkey for a scene where a female
“ape” fed, put a tiny oxygen tank inside the ape mask for the actor to breathe
easily in the mask, and made a false tongue and false teeth to look like a real
monkey mouth, which turned inside out, and used a tremendous number of bulbs that
amounted to a million watt to make the scene as bright as the sun. and tamed a
leopard for the scene of a leopard attack. After innumerable trials and errors,
Freeborn, at last, finished the scene.
One day
Freeborn happened to see 2001: A Space Odyssey. Here is what he wrote when
he saw the Dawn of Men sequence:
“I thought,
“Oh it doesn’t look too bad, you know?” And then there was this American family
behind me, and Ma says to Dad, ‘Are those real monkeys?’ And, of course, my ears
pricked up, and Dad says, ‘Hum, Yes, dear.’ ‘How do you get them to act like
that?’ ‘Well, you see, they’re specially trained.’ And . . . that was worth
anything else. That made it for me. I thought, ‘Well, that’s it! I did it.
That’s great.’ So that was reward enough.”
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