Hello, English learners. Welcome back（在后） to EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erica. And today we're going to go back to the movies, but this time we're going to do it a little bit different. That's right.
We're going to be listening as two movie critics（批评家） offer their opinion on the latest release（释放）. All right. So we're going to be learning（学习） how to criticize（批评） or give your opinions about something. That's right. And here we're talking movies, but a lot of this language can be used to offer your criticism（批评） or ideas on literature（文学） or art or other artistic（艺术的） pursuits. Okay（好）.
So before we listen to this dialogue for the first time, let's take a look at vocabulary preview. Vocabulary preview. Well, we're going to look at one word here that we will hear in the dialogue. And it is erudite. Erudite. Erudite.
Okay. So this word erudite, some people pronounce it erudite. That's true. And basically（基本上） it's an adjective describing someone who has a lot of knowledge about a subject. Okay. So an erudite in engineering（工程）.
Yes. Or an erudite professor. Okay, very good. So that's the word that we're going to preview today. And now let's listen to our dialogue and find out what movie they are criticizing. Welcome back movie lovers to another premiere（首位的） movie review.
My name is Richard Clark and I am joined today by the very erudite David Watson. Thank you, Dick. Today, we're going to talk about the movie Lion King. Tell（ 告诉） me what is your impression（印象） of this film? Well, I think this film is simply（简单地） a fable（寓言） depicting（描述） man's eternal greed for power. And in my opinion, it's a very fine film.
Even despite（不管） the accusations（控告） of plagiarism of traditional folktales from other countries, the musical score was amazing. The animation（活泼） was very well done and the story was simply（简单地） enchanting. But I think otherwise（另外）, even though（ 虽然） the animation（活泼） was technically strong. And as you say, the score and songs performed by Elton John were great. The film lacks（ 缺乏） certain originality（创意）. It lacked heart.
And I would dare（ 敢） to say it was too predictable（可预言的）. Predictable? How? Come on, Dave. It's a G-rated（认为） movie. It's for the kids.
It's not a thriller. Well, that's just it. It did have some very dramatic（戏剧的） and intense（强烈的） scenes. For example, when Mufasa dies or the dark grim（严酷的） portrayal（描画） of scar. Even so, the film is linear（线的）. Mufasa dies.
Simba runs away thinking it's his fault（过错）. Falls in love and returns to retake what's rightfully his. It's just too cliche. How can it be cliche? It's a fable. It's telling a time honored story.
The movie makes a point of how the hunger（饿） of power leads to corruption（贪污） and teaches children of the value（价值） of respect, life, and love. You have always been so soft, dick. Open your heart, Dave. Don't shut us out. Anyway, that's all for today, folks（人们）. Join us next time as we talk about how to lose a guy in 10 days.
I'm sure you'll love that one, dick. All right. So The Lion King, one of my all time favorites. A very good movie and well, mixed feelings about it, right? Some people think it's good. Other people, other people think it's not that（那么〔大、多等〕〔尤指通过手势比画来表示大小、数量等〕） good.
I'm in the good camp, as you know. But anyway, there's tons（吨） of really useful and quite difficult language here. So why don't we look at that now in Language Takeaway（外卖食品）? Language Takeaway. All right. On Language Takeaway today, we have five words and we can start with the first one.
So the critic, the first critic said that this was a movie depicting man's eternal（永恒的） greed（贪心） for power. Depicting. To depict. All right. So this word depict, it sounds a little bit strange. So before we explain it, let's take a look at some examples.
Example one. I don't really like the way that novel depicted the role of women in society. It was pretty sexist. Example two. The film depicts the realities（现实） of war very accurately（精确地）. Example three.
So this image here is depicting some of the most well known scenes from Australian history. All right.