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From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report.
Not everything you see in Hollywood movies is real. Some of the beautiful, strange, scary images might have been produced on a computer. They are called visual effects. They once were produced only in Hollywood, but that has changed. New technology makes it possible for one film to include visual effects created in different countries.
Venkatesh Roddam is the chief executive officer of Reliance MediaWorks in India.
"In the last five to seven years is where you've seen an explosion of content getting processed in different parts of the world, Not just India, but China, Taiwan, Korea, India; these are all the markets that content from Hollywood is going to," said Roddam.
Dave Rand is a co-founder of the Association of Digital Artists, Professionals &Technicians. He says that sending visual effects work overseas hurts U.S. companies.
"I've been at 12 different visual effects companies. I've been on the staff of five, all of which have gone bankrupt for one reason or another; basically it's only two, the way we work and the subsidy race that's driven so many of them out of business," said Dave Rand.
Daniel Lay is the association's other founder, he believes U.S. federal courts should get involved in Hollywood's use of visual effects made by foreign companies.
"The United States government puts very strong anti-subsidy laws that have been around for years that allow for domestic industries that are being injured by these international subsidies to seek relief through the trade courts," Lay said.
Mr. Lay says he wants a tax ordered on work produced outside the U.S. Not surprisingly, Venkatesh Roddam of Reliance MediaWorks does not agree.
"It's not a progressive idea. You are actually artificially pumping up the cost. You are limiting talent availability," said Roddam.
Kunal Chindarkar works in Singapore for the visual effects company Double Negative. He says he learns a lot working on Hollywood movies with people from all over the world. His co-workers at Double Nagetive include people from Australia, France and the United Kingdom.
Venkatesh Roddam says working with Hollywood improves the quality of work worldwide. He says it is important for visual effects companies to have a presence in the U.S.
"You cannot survive in this marketplace without a physical presence here. So from that perspective, companies like ours will continue to create American jobs in America, rather than actually think about how much of this work is going to Canada or U.K. or India or China," said Roddam.
He says the visual effects industry will continue to develop. He adds that those who want to stay in the business will have to continue to change with it.
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词汇解释
1.visual effect 视觉效果；视觉特效，视觉效应
Pigments and tints are sometimes added to achieve the desired visual effect.
为达到理想的视觉效果有时还会加入颜料和染色剂。
2.bankrupt adj. 破产的 vt. 使破产 n. [经] 破产者
If the firm cannot sell its products, it will go bankrupt.
如果这家公司无法销售其产品，它将面临破产。
3.progressive adj. 进步的；先进的 n. 改革论者；进步分子
Willan was able to point to the progressive changes he had already introduced.
威兰能够指出他已经带来的有进步意义的变化。
内容解析
1.I've been on the staff of five, all of which have gone bankrupt for one reason or another; basically it's only two, the way we work and the subsidy race that's driven so many of them out of business.
out of business 破产；失业；损坏；受伤
This shop has gone out of business for two months.
这家商店已经停业两个月了。
Some of old newspapers had to go out of business for low sales.
有些老的报社由于销量低而倒闭了。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。
在好莱坞电影中看到的并非都是真的，有的漂亮的、奇怪的、吓人的图像可能是电脑制作的，这就是视觉效果。这些东西曾经只能在好莱坞制作，但现在情况不同了，新的技术使得一部电影可能包括在不同国家制作的视觉效果。
文卡塔斯·罗达姆是印度信实媒体的总裁。
“在过去5到7年间，世界各地这种制作模式实现了井喷，不仅在印度，中国、台湾、韩国和印度都是好莱坞电影将要去的地方。”
戴夫·兰德是美国数码艺术家、专家和技术人员协会和联合创立者，他说将视觉效果送到国外去制作损害了美国公司。
“我去过12个不同的视觉效果公司，我在其中5家工作过，这些公司现在都因为各种原因批产了，原因基本有两个，一个是我们的工作方式，一个是补贴竞争，这使得这些公司破了产。”
丹尼尔·莱是该协会的另一位创立者，他认为美国联邦法院应该介入到外国公司制作好莱坞视觉效果这件事上。
“多年来美国推出了非常严格的反补贴法，意在允许被国际补贴伤害的国内行业通过贸易法庭寻求帮助。”
莱说他希望下令对美国之外的作品征税，毫无奇怪，信实媒体的文卡塔斯·罗达姆并不同意这一做法。
“这不是个进步的想法，这其实是人为地提高成本，是在限制人才供应。”
Kunal Chindarkar就职于新加坡Double Negative视觉效果公司，他说在与世界各地的人们一起制作好莱坞电影中学到很多。他在这家公司的同事有来自澳大利亚、法国和英国的。
文卡塔斯·罗达姆说与好莱坞合作能提高全世界的作品质量，他说这对那些想在美国立足的视觉效果公司来说很重要。
“在美国无法立足，就无法在这个行业存活下去。所以从这个角度来说，像我们这种公司将继续在美国创造就业机会，而不是去想有多少工作将去加拿大、英国、印度或中国。”
他说视觉艺术行业将会继续发展，那些希望留在这个行业的人就必须与之同步发展。
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