8. Independence Day (1996)

　　8、 《独立日》(1996)

　　Don’t you just hate it when aliens invade your home planet, destroy major cities and massacremillions of people? Well, thanks to the 1996 movie “Independence Day,” we learned that all youhave to do to defeat this menace is bring a laptop aboard the alien mothership and upload a virusto its computer which, as luck would have it, is fully compatible with Apple software. That SteveJobs really was a visionary genius.

　　如果外星人入侵地球，毁灭各大城市，杀人如麻，你会不会咬牙切齿呢?多亏了1996年电影《独立日》，我们才知道，要击溃这种入侵，只需要带一台笔记本电脑登上外星人的母舰，向其电脑上传一种病毒即可。而幸运的是，这台电脑恰好和苹果公司的软件完全兼容。斯蒂夫•乔布斯真是个能洞见未来的天才啊!

　　Holes in the plot aside — and there were lots of them — the movie was fully embraced byaudiences, who bought $306 million worth of tickets, or $456 million today. A sequel is in theworks, but it will not feature the original’s biggest star, Will Smith, because, as director RolandEmmerich said, “he’s too expensive.”

　　尽管有这种穿帮——这种穿帮还不少——这部片子却受到观众热捧，票房高达3.06亿美元，相当于今天的4.56亿美元。该片的续集正在拍摄，但原来那位大明星威尔•史密斯就不出演了，因为导演罗兰•艾默里奇说“他的身价太高了”。