The Great Voice Actor

Since the creation of animated (动画的) motion pictures, the use of actors supplying voices 【小题1】(be) invaluable. Behind every famous cartoon character’s personality is the actor standing in the recording booth and 【小题2】 (stretch) their manner of speaking in unrecognizable ways. For some of these performers, the voices they’ve provided have far surpassed them as people in both recognizability and adoration.

Mel Blanc, known as “The Man of Thousand Voices”, 【小题3】 (regard) as the most prolific actor to ever work in Hollywood with over a thousand screen credits. He developed and performed nearly 400 distinct character voices. Whether in legendary shorts or lesser-known commercials, Mel Blanc walked so the voice actors of today 【小题4】 run.

Mel Blanc lent his voice to many classic characters, but the one he is best known for is Bugs Bunny. There is little that can be said about Bugs’ impact 【小题5】 hasn’t already been said for decades. The character is 【小题6】 helped launch Warner Bros. animation into the mainstream. Bugs was even the face of Warner Bros. Family Entertainment, appearing at the beginning of many films. 【小题7】 a character may not talk, that doesn’t mean a fair bit of voice acting isn’t involved. Mel provided the various noises of the beloved pet dinosaur, Dino, in The Flintstones. While obviously not as quotable as his caveman companions, every fan knows the excited bark of Dino when he sees his master, Fred, arrive home. In January 1961, at the age of 52, Blanc was severely injured in a car accident and had to tape his part at home with a microphone 【小题8】 (suspend) over his bed.

Mel Blanc paved the way for voice acting as a true art, though it’s a skill that often goes unrecognized when praise is focused on movies and TV. The characters we all love wouldn’t be where they are in the public eye without 【小题9】 who put a voice to them. Many recognizable or popular voice actors of our modern era have Blanc 【小题10】 (thank) for their start, and hope to reach his level of unmatched expertise at bringing countless characters to life the way no one else can.

Back in 2013, the legendary Japanese animator and director Hayao Miyazaki formally announced he would retire and make no more feature-length films 【小题1】(follow) the completion of The Wind Rises. Well, it turns out that you can’t keep an Oscar-winning artist away from all 【小题2】 he loves. Miyazaki has revealed in a documentary 【小题3】 (air) on Japanese TV that he is now coming out of retirement to make a new animated feature.

【小题4】 the documentary, Miyazaki said that he was dissatisfied with the 12-minute CGI-animated film Boro the Caterpillar （《毛毛虫菠萝》）he was currently working on and would like to expand it into a feature-length film instead. The film could take up to four years to make, which means Miyazaki would be around 80 years old by the time it【小题5】(complete). If he sticks to his ideal timetable, it would be finished before the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Little is known about Boro the Caterpillar, other than 【小题6】 Miyazaki describes the film as “a story of a tiny, hairy caterpillar, so tiny that it 【小题7】 be easily squished（压坏）between your fingers.” And he has been working on the story for about two decades. The 12-minute Boro the Caterpillar will not be completed for about another year and 【小题8】 (screen) exclusively at the Ghibli Museum, a museum showcasing the work of Studio Ghibli co-founded by Miyazaki.

【小题9】he hasn’t received a green light for the new film, Miyazaki is seen starting work on animation for the project. He plans to create storyboards（剧情梗概系列图）for about 100 cuts of footage. “I think it’s still better 【小题10】 (die) when you are doing something than dying when you are doing nothing,” he said. This is Miyazaki—if he wants to make a film, it’s going to get done undoubtedly. There’s no way anyone would turn down another amazing piece of art from the legendary animator.

At the International Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Wang Ge,【小题1】 paper-cutting artist, runs a market stand where impressive examples of her work are on display in the popular tourist destination.

Growing up in the region and influenced by diverse ethnic cultures, she is committed to 【小题2】(tell)Xinjiang stories through her paper cutting while protecting and promoting the traditional folk art. “Paper cutting is a 【小题3】 (combine) of folk art and daily life,” said Wang, who graduated 【小题4】the art department of Xinjiang Normal University.

During her decades of paper cutting she 【小题5】(inspire) by real-life experiences, especially those relating to ethnic culture in the region. She often travels to Kashgar, Hotan and Aksu in southern Xinjiang to explore 【小题6】local ethnic people live. One of her works features 20 people 【小题7】 (dress) in traditional costumes with musical【小题8】(instrument) in hand, singing and dancing in a grape garden. Wang saw the lively scene when she was traveling in Aksu.

After the COVID-19 outbreak, Wang gave online lectures on paper cutting, attracting 100, 000 viewers and teaching students 【小题9】 (able) to attend school how to cut the images of medical workers from paper. Wang said she was pleased 【小题10】(see)pupils who lacked colored paper painting the white paper red and green as an exchange art form.