Chack Jones’s Beautiful Life
Academy Award-winning animator1) Chuck Jones,who drew such beloved cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny,Daffy Duck and Porky Pig,died of congestive2) heart failure at his home on Feb.22,2001.He was 89.
Jones worked on more than 300animated films in a career that spanned more than 60years.Three of Jones’ films won Academy Awards:“Frigid Hare,”“So Much,So Little”and“The Dot and the Line,”for which Jones also received a directing Oscar.One of Jones’ most popular films,“What‘s Opera,Doc?”was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1992for being“among the most culturally,historically and aesthetically3) significant films of our time.”He was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1996for lifetime achievement.He also received an honorary life membership from the Directors Guild of America.
Born in 1912in Spokane,Wash.,Jones moved to Hollywood with his family.After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute(now the California Institute of Arts),he began making a living drawing pen cilportraits on Olvera Street,a historic Los Angeles marketplace.He landed his first job washing animation cels in 1932,working for legendary Disney animator Ub Iwerks.
He became an animator for Warner Brothers(1933~1962),where he helped bring to life some of the studio’s most recognizable characters.In addition to Bugs and Daffy,he worked on the fast-moving4),beep-beeping Road Runner and his hap less pursuer5),Wile E.Coyote.He also drew Pepele Pew,the romantic --minded skunk with a French accent.
Jones opened his own company,Chuck Jones Enterprises,in 1962,directing such animated features as The Phantom Tollbooth(1971)and specials for television.
The animator’s work won him admirers throughout the entertainment business.“Chuck Jones’ originality,his humor and his pacing still have no peer today,”director Steven Spielberg once said.
查克·瓊斯的美麗人生
奧斯卡獎(jiǎng)得主,曾經(jīng)塑造了兔八哥、達(dá)菲鴨、胖小豬等深受人們喜愛的卡通人物的動(dòng)畫師查克·瓊斯,因充血性心力衰竭于2001年2月22日在家中去世,享年89歲。
在60多年的職業(yè)生涯里,瓊斯共創(chuàng)作了300多部動(dòng)畫片,其中的3部動(dòng)畫片---《冰冷的野兔》、《太少里的太多》、《點(diǎn)與線》獲得了奧斯卡獎(jiǎng),瓊斯也因此獲得最佳導(dǎo)演獎(jiǎng)。瓊斯最受歡迎的作品之一,《博士,什么是歌劇?》因其“屬于當(dāng)代在文化、歷史和美學(xué)上都具有重要意義的影片”而被載入1992年“全國(guó)電影登記”里。1996年,瓊斯獲得奧斯卡終生成就榮譽(yù)獎(jiǎng),他還成為美國(guó)導(dǎo)演協(xié)會(huì)的終生榮譽(yù)會(huì)員。
瓊斯于1912年出生于華盛頓州的斯波坎,之后隨家人遷到好萊塢。從周納德藝術(shù)學(xué)院(現(xiàn)在的加州藝術(shù)學(xué)院)畢業(yè)后,他就在歷史悠久的洛杉磯集市奧爾維拉街靠用鉛筆繪畫人像為生。1932年他找到了第一份工作,是為迪斯尼公司的傳奇人物烏伯·伊沃克斯動(dòng)畫師的動(dòng)畫片涂色。
1933年至1962年,他在華納兄弟影業(yè)公司從事動(dòng)畫片制作;在那里他幫助公司把一些最受觀眾認(rèn)可的卡通人物變得生動(dòng)活潑起來。除了兔八哥和達(dá)菲鴨外,他還塑造了行動(dòng)迅速的嗶嗶鳥和它那倒霉的追逐者荒野狼,以及說話帶法語口音、思想怪誕的臭鼬Pepele Pew的形象。
瓊斯于1962年開辦了自己的公司---查克·瓊斯公司,導(dǎo)演了諸如《收費(fèi)亭里的幽靈》(1971年)等多部動(dòng)畫片和電視專題片。
瓊斯動(dòng)畫事業(yè)的成就使他在娛樂行業(yè)里倍受推崇。“查克·瓊斯的獨(dú)創(chuàng)性,他的幽默風(fēng)格和才能,至今仍無人可與之媲美,”導(dǎo)演史蒂芬·斯皮爾伯格曾如是說。
NOTE 注釋:
animator [`AnImeItE(r)] n. 漫畫家
congestive [kEn5dVestiv] adj. 充血的
aesthetically [i:s5WetikEli] adv. 審美地, 美學(xué)觀點(diǎn)上地
fast-moving [fB:st 5mu:viN] adj. 情節(jié)緊湊動(dòng)人的
pursuer [pE`sjU:E(r)] n. 追隨者, 追求者