The use of the word imitation（模仿） reminds me that we ought to
make some more comments on the risk of people imitating what they see on the
screen in the way of crime（犯罪） or violence. First there was always a risk of children acting out
scenes which could be dangerous. For example, I remember a woman who was head
of a middle school telling me that she had happened to look out of her window
when the children were on the playground and had seen them putting a small boy
on a chair with a rope round his neck and the rope over the branch of a tree;
fortunately she was in time to get there before the child was hanged. I
remember a film in particular in which the hero who was imprisoned had escaped
by electrocuting（通电触死） his guard, the technique of doing this being shown in detail. This
was the kind of scene which we could cut for these reasons.
In films for young people and adults we
always tried to keep off the screen the details of criminal techniques, such as
how to open a locked door with a piece of hard plastic or how to open a safe;
if we were consulted（请教） before production, I used to advise that the details should not be
shown. When I gave talks in prisons about film checking I had full support for
this, since fathers who were in prison for criminal offences did not want their
children to get on crime.
Every time I gave a talk in a prison
someone used to mention the French film Rififi. made by Jules Dassin in 1954.
This remarkable film showed in great detail a robbery of a jeweler’s shop, the
robbery lasting about half an hour and being backed by only natural sound...one
of the most brilliant film sequences（连续镜头） of all time. I remember our discussion at the time. We thought that
the robbery was finished only with the use of advanced and obviously expensive
equipment and that only the most experienced and skilled criminals could
possibly imitate it; we believed therefore that it was relatively safe. When talking
in prisons some years later I learned that there had been several robberies in
which the techniques had been copied, so perhaps we were wrong.
31. The writer thinks that____________.
A. the details of the criminal technique
should be kept
B. the details of the crime should not be
shown on the screen
C. children should not imitate what they
see on the screen
D. it is dangerous to imitate what they see
on the screen
32. What is the writer’s attitude（态度） towards the film in which
the hero had escaped by electrocuting the guard?
A. The writer likes it very much.
B. The writer is strongly against it.
C. The writer thinks the film has some
value.
D. The writer does not show his/her
attitude.
33. Parents in prison agreed to film
checking because______.
A. they did not want their children to
follow them
B. the crime on screen could be imitated
without difficulty
C. they had given a talk on it
D. they had made mistakes
34 .All the following statements
about“Rififi”are true EXCEPT______.
A. that the robbery shown needs experience
and skills
B. that some very good tools were used in
the robbery
C. that the film showed the technique in
detail
D. that the technique of the robbery was
not imitated
35. It can be inferred from the passage
that______.
A. it is hard for children to tell the
differences between real life and the imaginary
B. only people in prison support film
checking
C. only children imitate what they have
seen on the screen
D. the writer used to advise the details of
crime should be shown
