[專欄教學] The Monuments Men 大尋寶家 – 演員好友揪到陣，一起上戰場搶救藝術珍寶! @ IMDb看電影學英文

球員兼裁判，是一件絕對會被噓到爆的事情。但是如果這位球員跟這位裁判，換成史上最帥熟男George Clooney，我想大家一定會立刻把噓聲吞到肚子裡去吧！沒錯沒錯！咱們George Clooney自編自導自演的這片新作品，拉了好友Matt Damon還有一票Hollywood巨星，像熱騰騰奧斯卡影后Cate Blanchett一起來參與，完全就是未演先騷動！

Hollywood最性感的熟男，可是不怕人家說他老呢！理由竟是….

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

對於變老這件事情，我還蠻自在的，因為它已經比另一個選項好多了，這選項就是掛掉。所以呢，我會選擇變老。

雖然慶幸他自己可以老是跟年輕正妹一起尬戲，他還是偷偷地為其他熟女演員抱了不平喔～

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

這真是難以置信地不公平！你看不到太多60歲的女人跟20歲的男孩一起在電影中出現！

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements.

monument [ˋmɑnjəmənt] (n.) 不朽的作品、豐功偉業。

Example: Shakespeare ' s plays remain as monuments to his genius.

platoon [pləˈtun] (n.) (通常由中尉指揮的)排。

Example: The platoon pulled back to safety.

rightful [ˈraɪtfəl] (adj.) 合法的、正當的。

Example: The painting has been returned to its rightful owner.

curator [kjʊˋretɚ] (n.) (博物館或美術館的)館長、負責人。

Example: The curator conducted the visitors around the museum.

a race against time [e res əˈɡenst taɪm] (idiom) 與時間賽跑。

Example: We'll try to get this finished by May, but it'll be a race against time.

destruction [dɪˈstrʌkʃən] (n.) 破壞、毀滅、消滅。

Example: Some scientific discoveries have been perverted to create weapons of destruction.

James Granger: "If Germany falls, they are to destroy everything."

fall [fɔl] (v.) 1. 垮台、失勢。 2. 陷落、失守、(競選)失利。

Example: There's a danger of the government falling because it will lose its majority.

Example: Croatian army troops retreated from northern Bosnia and the area fell to the Serbs.

Frank Stokes: "We have been tasked to find and protect art that the Nazis have stolen. You've all been selected because we're going to need your knowledge and we're going to need your skill."