影片對白  Look, there's no sense in entering a contest if you don't think you're gonna win. So do you think you can win Little Miss Sunshine?

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche尼采

電影中，Dwayne 因為尼采而緘口不言，這位哲學家又什么魅力呢？下面我們就來認識一下尼采。

German-Swiss philosopher and writer, one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The son of a Lutheran pastor, he studied at Bonn and Leipzig and at age 24 became professor of Classical philology at the University of Basel. He became close to the older Richard Wagner, in whose operas he saw the potential for the revival of Western civilization, but broke with Wagner angrily in 1876. His Birth of Tragedy (1872) contained major insights into ancient Greek drama; like Untimely Meditations (1873), it is dominated by a Romantic perspective also influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. Mental and physical problems forced him to leave his position in 1878, and he spent 10 years attempting to recover his health in various resorts while continuing to write prolifically. His works from Human, All Too Human (1878) to The Gay Science (1882) extol reason and science, experiment with literary genres, and express his emancipation from his earlier Romanticism. His mature writings, particularly Beyond Good and Evil (1886), A Genealogy of Morals (1887), and Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883 - 92), were preoccupied with the origin and function of values in human life. If, as he believed, life neither possesses nor lacks intrinsic value and yet is always being evaluated, then such evaluations can usefully be read as symptoms of the evaluator's condition. He fulminated against Christianity and announced the death of God. His major breakdown in 1889 marked the virtual end of his productive life. He was revered by Adolf Hitler for his dislike of democracy and his heroic ideal of the ?bermensch (Superman), though the Nazis perverted Nietzsche's thought and ignored much in it that was hostile to their aims. His analyses of the root motives and values that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights.

思想火花

全家人終于決定一起陪Olive 去參加比賽：為了節省開支，爸爸勉強同意開車；為了防止Frank 再次輕生，媽媽堅持要帶他一起去；爺爺堅持也要去，因為是他在"訓練"Olive，沉默的哥哥雖然不屑參加這樣的活動，但為了能考飛行學院還是答應去給妹妹鼓勁。而當大家都決定上路后，爸爸把Olive 來過來，問她有沒有信心贏得比賽，本來是想女兒會說沒有信心、就不必去了，沒有想到的是女兒在爸爸"成功學"的影響下，堅信自己會贏。當爸爸擁抱女兒時那無奈的表情真是讓人哭笑不得。

考考你

這段對白中有好幾句話是用現在進行時表示將要發生（討論）的事情，你能把它們全部找出來嗎？答案下期見。

Little Miss Sunshine《陽光小美女》（精講之三）考考你 參考答案

1) Richard: Finish your dinner! 把飯吃完了！
Olive: I'm finished! 我吃完了！

2) Sheryl: Where does that leave us? 那我們該怎么辦？

3) Richard: What about Olive? Olive 怎么辦？

4) Richard: You promised? 你答應了？

5) Richard: Don't start that. 別再提那個了。
Sheryl: It all goes to your nine steps! 這不正是你的九步成功法么？


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