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| U.S. director
Steven Spielberg poses with the Legion d'honneur at the grade
of Chevalier after receiving the award from French President
Jacques Chirac during a ceremony at the Elysee
palace.(Reuters) | |
French President Jacques Chirac decorated US filmmaker Steven Spielberg
with the Legion of Honor, the country's highest distinction, in a ceremony
attended by a cluster of film stars.
"Our country loves cinema, all of cinema," said Chirac. "It is the
essence of our fight for cultural diversity recognizing the equal dignity
of all cultures," said the French leader before honoring Spielberg.
Chirac then evoked Spielberg's film Schindler's List, which he
described as one of his personal favorites.
"In this difficult period where intolerance, racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and fanaticism are
again manifesting themselves, it is essential for cinema to help us recall
the horror of the unspeakable."
In his response, Spielberg, who had arrived from the northern town of
Deauville where he is attending the 30th annual American Film Festival,
warned that hatred was a global threat more dangerous than either AIDS or
cancer.
"We live in a world right now which is not recognizable from what I
experienced growing up in the 1950s and 1960s," he told Chirac.
"I commend your efforts in what you are doing about anti-Semitism here
in France. We have to work very, very hard to make people understand that
it is the differences we have to celebrate and not condemn."
"Sometimes the minorities have the most to contribute to a society,"
the Jewish director added.
Spielberg also paid tribute to legendary French film director Francois
Truffaut, who died 20 years ago and who had starred in Spielberg's 1977
classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Attending the ceremony at the Elysee presidential palace were such
French and American film personalities as Gwyneth Paltrow, Sophie Marceau,
Nathalie Baye and Patrick Bruel.
The National Order of the Legion of Honor was founded by Napoleon
Bonaparte and recognizes eminent service to the Republic of
France.
(Agencies) |
在眾星云集的典禮上，法國總統雅克·希拉克授予美國電影導演史蒂文·斯皮爾伯格法蘭西共和國榮譽軍團勛章，這是法國的最高榮譽。
“我們的國家熱愛電影，所有電影。我們在努力營造文化多樣性時，關鍵的一點就是要認識到各種文化具有平等的價值。”法國總統希拉克在給斯皮爾伯格頒獎前說。
隨后，希拉克回憶起斯皮爾伯格的電影《辛德勒的名單》，他說這是他最喜歡的電影之一。
“在這個不容異說、種族歧視、仇外主義、反猶太主義、宗教狂熱再一次交織呈現的艱難時期，用電影幫助我們回憶無法形容的恐懼是重要的。”
斯皮爾伯格剛剛參加了在北部小鎮杜維勒舉行的第30屆美國電影節，又來參加該典禮。他在回答中提醒說仇恨是全球的威脅，它比愛滋病和癌癥更危險。
他對希拉克說：“我們現在的世界和我成長時的20世紀50、60年代已經大不相同了。”
“我對你在法國抵制反猶太主義方面做出的努力表示贊揚。我們必須非常、非常努力地工作，讓人們明白我們應該頌揚而不是譴責民族間的差異。”
猶太族導演（斯皮爾伯格）補充說：“有時候，少數民族為一個社會所做的貢獻最大。”
斯皮爾伯格也對法國傳奇人物、電影導演弗朗索瓦·特呂福表示贊揚。特呂福20年前去世，他曾在斯皮爾伯格1977年導演的經典之作《第三類接觸》中扮演主角。
很多法國和美國電影名人出席了在法國總統官邸愛麗舍宮舉行的慶典，其中包括格溫妮絲·帕特洛、蘇菲·瑪索、娜塔莉·貝伊和派屈克·布乃爾。
法蘭西共和國榮譽軍團勛章是拿破倫·波拿巴創立的，用以表彰那些為法蘭西共和國做出卓越貢獻的人。
（中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2004-09-07 09:48