“Where are the wizards?” my cousin asked me, half an hour into a family screening of Braveheart. I saw where he was coming from. The film has all the trademarks of high fantasy: battles on green hills, warriors wearing chainmail and carrying wooden clubs, an absence of modern technology and a strange antiquated vernacular. There was going to be no magic, I explained; the film was simply set in Scotland in the Middle Ages. His disappointment was palpable.
我们全家人聚在一起观看电影《勇敢的心》,半小时后,我的表弟问我:“巫师在哪里?”我明白他为什么会这样问。这部电影具有高级幻想的所有特征:在绿色的山丘上作战,战士们穿着链甲,拿着木棍,没有现代技术,还有一种奇怪的古代方言。我解释说,不会有魔法;这部电影只是设定在中世纪的苏格兰。他的失望是可想而知的。
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