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國際時事跟讀 Ep. L196: 麥可傳記電影破影史紀錄 Michael Jackson Biopic Moonwalks Into History

Highlights 主題摘要
Lionsgate's Michael Jackson biopic opened to $97M domestically and $219M globally, the biggest biopic debut of all time.
Critics panned the film at 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, but audiences gave it a record-high 97% score.
Jackson's U.S. music streams surged 95% over the opening weekend, with 31.7 million plays recorded.

Lionsgate's Michael did not merely open — it moonwalked into box office history. Antoine Fuqua's big-budget biopic of the King of Pop grossed $97.2 million in North America and $218.8 million globally across its debut weekend, setting an all-time record for the genre. The domestic figure alone surpassed Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which had held the biopic crown with an $80 million opening, while the global haul eclipsed Bohemian Rhapsody to claim the top worldwide launch for any music biopic in history.

麥可傑克森的傳記電影《麥可》首映週末在全球颳起一陣旋風。這部由獅門影業製作的大卡司傳記片，北美票房達9,720萬美元，全球累計2.188億美元，成為影史上票房最高的傳記電影首映週末。北美成績超越克里斯多福．諾蘭的《奧本海默》（8,000萬美元），全球表現則超越《波希米亞狂想曲》，寫下音樂傳記電影的全球首映新紀錄。

The film's staggering performance caught even its own producers off guard. Lionsgate had projected a domestic opening of around $70 million heading into the weekend, with bullish tracking peaking at roughly that figure. That estimate was blown apart by nearly $30 million. The appeal cut across demographic lines — Latino and white audiences each accounted for 26% of ticket buyers, while Black moviegoers made up 38%. Crucially, the film drew both older fans who grew up with Jackson's music and younger audiences discovering it anew, with those aged 18–34 representing up to 50% of opening-weekend attendance.

這個數字連製片方都始料未及。獅門影業上映前預估北美票房約7,000萬美元，實際結果超出近3,000萬。觀影族群涵蓋各族裔與年齡層：拉丁裔與白人觀眾各佔26%，黑人觀眾佔38%。值得注意的是，電影同時吸引了從小聽麥可長大的老影迷，以及重新認識他音樂的年輕族群，18至34歲觀眾佔首映週末票房的50%。

The triumph arrived despite a profound critics-versus-audiences divide. Michael holds a 40% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes — reviewers largely objecting to its sanitised treatment of the abuse allegations that shadowed Jackson's later career — yet it earned a 97% audience score on the same platform, the best ever for the genre, alongside a CinemaScore grade of A-. The film's $200 million budget, partly inflated by a costly third-act overhaul to remove those depictions, looks increasingly justified. The commercial logic is already clear: Lionsgate is widely expected to greenlight at least one sequel covering the later chapters of Jackson's life.

這場勝利的背後，伴隨著罕見的評論與口碑落差。《麥可》在爛番茄的影評人評分只有40%，多數評論批評電影刻意迴避傑克森晚年的性醜聞指控；觀眾評分卻高達97%，創下音樂傳記電影紀錄，CinemaScore也拿到A-。電影製作費達2億美元，其中包括重寫第三幕、刪除相關情節的大筆開銷，如今看來物有所值。獅門影業預計將至少再推出一部續集，繼續講述傑克森的後半段人生。

Off-screen, the film's release set off a parallel surge in Jackson's music catalog. U.S. streams jumped 95% over the opening weekend, reaching 31.7 million plays on Friday and Saturday alone, according to industry analytics firm Luminate. The Jackson 5's catalog also benefited, climbing 85% over the same period. On Apple Music, Jackson placed eight songs on the Global Daily Top 100, with "Billie Jean" leading at No. 11 — a reminder that, even 17 years after his death, the King of Pop's reach remains without parallel.

電影帶動的效應也延伸到串流平台。根據音樂數據公司Luminate統計，首映週末美國境內麥可傑克森的串流量暴增95%，光週五、週六兩天就累計3,170萬次。傑克森五人組（英語：The Jackson 5，前名傑克森兄弟）的作品同樣跟著沾光，串流量成長85%。Apple Music上，他有八首歌進入全球每日百大，〈Billie Jean〉排名第11。距離他辭世已17年，流行音樂之王的號召力仍然無可比肩。

Keyword Drills 關鍵字
Eclipsed [verb, to surpass something previously dominant]: The newcomer eclipsed every rival within two seasons.
Blown apart [verb phrase, to far exceed a prediction or expectation]: The results blew apart every forecast analysts had made.
Demographic [adjective, relating to the statistical characteristics of a population]: The campaign was designed to cut across demographic lines.
Sanitised [adjective, made less controversial by removing uncomfortable elements]: The report felt sanitised and avoided the hardest questions.
Greenlight [verb, to give official approval for a project to proceed]: The studio plans to greenlight a sequel before year's end.

Reference article:
1. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/michael-jackson-record-box-office-biopic-opening-1236577460/
2. https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/michael-box-office-opening-weekend-record-1236730805/
3. https://apnews.com/article/michael-jackson-michael-streaming-movie-biopic-92af09f94a1ca6c30a2061d4642bd995

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Topic 1: California Is Trying to Jump-Start the Hydrogen Economy

Since President George W. Bush fueled a minivan with hydrogen 15 years ago, the promise of cars and trucks powered by the fuel has come up mostly empty. 15 年前，時任美國總統的小布希為一輛廂型休旅車加上氫燃料，發展氫能小客車和貨車的美好期盼迄今卻大抵落空。

That hydrogen pump, in Washington, closed long ago. But in California, the beginnings of a hydrogen economy may finally be dawning after many fits and starts. 華府的那座加氫站早已停用，然而在加州，氫經濟在幾經周折之後，可能真的要起步了。
Dozens of hydrogen buses are lumbering down city streets, while more and larger fueling stations are appearing from San Diego to San Francisco, financed by the state and the federal government. With the costs of producing and shipping hydrogen coming down, California is setting ambitious goals to phase out vehicles that run on fossil fuels in favor of batteries and hydrogen. 在州政府和聯邦出資之下，從聖地牙哥到舊金山，數十輛氫動力公車緩緩行駛於城市街道，更多且更大的加氫站也一一出現。由於氫製造和運輸的成本下降，加州立定遠大目標，要逐步淘汰化石燃料車，轉向電動車和氫能車。

Some energy executives said they expect investment in hydrogen to accelerate under President-elect Joe Biden, who made climate change a big part of his campaign and proposed a $2 trillion plan to tackle the problem. 一些能源業高管預期，對氫能的投資會在總統當選人拜登上台後加速成長。拜登以遏制氣候變遷為重要政見，並提出一項 2 兆美元的因應計畫。

A recent McKinsey & Co. study estimated that the hydrogen economy could generate $140 billion in annual revenue by 2030 and support 700,000 jobs. The study projected that hydrogen could meet 14% of total American energy demand by 2050. 管理顧問公司麥肯錫最近在一份研究中估計，到 2030 年時，氫經濟每年能創造 1400 億美元營收，支撐 70 萬個工作機會。這份研究預測，到 2050 年，氫將能滿足全美 14% 的能源需求。

The use of hydrogen, the lightest and most abundant substance in the universe, is still in its infancy, and California is determined to be its cradle in the United States. The state now has roughly 40 fueling stations, with dozens more under construction. While those numbers are tiny compared with the 10,000 gasoline stations across the state, officials have high hopes. 氫是宇宙中最輕且最豐富的物質，人類利用氫能還在初始階段，而加州決心成為美國氫能利用的搖籃。加州目前約有 40 個加氫站，還有數十個在興建中。雖然加氫站數量與全加州一萬個加油站相比微不足道，但官員仍滿懷希望。

With about 7,500 hydrogen vehicles on the road, an aggressive state program of incentives and subsidies from cap-and-trade dollars envisions 50,000 hydrogen light-duty vehicles by mid-decade and a network of 1,000 hydrogen stations by 2030. 目前加州約有 7500 輛氫能車上路，州政府積極利用取自「總量管制與排放交易」的財源來進行補貼和獎勵，希望達到 2025 年左右有 5 萬輛輕型氫能車上路，2030 年有 1000 個加氫站的目標。

Hydrogen-powered vehicles are similar to electric cars. But unlike electric cars, which have large batteries, these cars have hydrogen tanks and fuel cells that turn the gas into electricity. The cars refuel and accelerate quickly, and they can go for several hundred miles on a full tank. They emit only water vapor, which makes them appealing to California cities that are trying to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. 氫能車類似電動車，不同的是，電動車的電池很大，氫能車則有氫氣儲存槽和把氫氣轉換成電力的燃料電池。氫能車補充燃料和加速都很快，氫氣槽加滿後能跑幾百哩。氫能車只會釋出蒸氣，對於努力減少汙染和溫室氣體排放量的加州很有吸引力。

"Almost any objective analysis for getting to zero emissions includes hydrogen," said Jack Brouwer, director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine. 爾灣加州大學國家燃料電池研究中心主任傑克‧布勞爾說：「幾乎所有關於如何達到零排放的客觀分析都會提到氫。」

Topic 2: Wheels falling off China's 'deep fake' car manufacturer

Chinese automobile manufacturer Zotye Auto is a household name in China. The company is famous for manufacturing copies of car models by luxury international brands including Audi, Porsche and Lamborghini. After a long delay, on June 22, Zotye Auto finally released its 2019 year end financial results. The report revealed that last year, the automaker suffered losses of 11.2 billion yuan (approximately NT$46.6 billion), or an average of 30 million yuan per day. The company's market value also shrank from 30 billion yuan to a mere 3.6 billion yuan. Even worse, because the company is unable to guarantee the authenticity, accuracy and completeness of its financial report, Zotye Auto has been issued with a "risk of delisting warning" by Shenzhen Stock Exchange. 以模仿奧迪、保時捷、蘭寶堅尼等高級進口車，在中國家喻戶曉的車商眾泰汽車，六月二十二日終於發布二○一九年財報，顯示全年慘虧一百十二億元人民幣（以下同），約新台幣四百六十六億，相當於每天平均虧損三千萬，市值也由逾三百億縮水至僅剩三十六億元；更慘的是，該公司因為無法保證年報的真實性、準確性和完整性，已被深圳證券交易所實施「退市風險警示」。

Seemingly without a care for the outside world, Zotye Auto has been audaciously building slavish copies of imported luxury car models. The company became a household name in China after producing facsimile versions of the Audi Q3 (Zotye SR7), Porsche Macan (Zotye SR9) and Lamborghini Urus (Zotye Concept S). Due to Zotye Auto's uncanny ability to produce lookalike cars, there is a joke currently doing the rounds in China: "If you want to get behind the wheel of a Lamborghini, pay a visit to Zotye Auto." 眾泰汽車因為不顧外界觀瞻，大膽模仿進口名車，而在中國家喻戶曉，該公司推出的眾泰 SR7 模仿奧迪 Q3，眾泰 SR9 模仿保時捷 Macan，眾泰
Concept S 模仿蘭寶堅尼 Urus。由於模仿能力出眾，中國坊間甚至流傳著一句調侃話：「這輩子能不能開蘭寶堅尼，就看眾泰了！」

However, having relied on imitating the work of others, the company lacks home-grown innovation, while the quality of its vehicles has not kept pace with the sophistication of its copycat designs. Annual sales have been steadily falling too: in 2016, the company sold 330,000 vehicles. This fell to 310,000 in 2017 and only 230,000 in 2018. Zotye Auto initially set a sales target of 480,000 vehicles per year, yet in 2018 it failed to reach even half that figure. Last year, sales declined at an even steeper rate with the company only managing to shift 116,600 vehicles. 但靠著山寨別人，缺乏自主創新，且品質也未同步提升的營運模式畢竟無法持久。眾泰汽車二○一六年、二○一七年的年銷量還分別有三十三萬輛、三十一萬輛，但此後每況愈下，二○一八年僅剩二十三萬輛，為四十八萬輛的目標的一半不到，二○一九年進一步跌至十一點六六萬輛。

To make matters even worse, Zotye Auto chief executive Lou Guohai has stated that he cannot guarantee the authenticity, accuracy and completeness of his company's year end financial report, citing various reasons including uncertainty over the company's ability to continue operating, multiple lawsuits and outstanding obligations. 雪上加霜的是，眾泰汽車董事婁國海表示，無法保證該公司年報內容的真實性、準確性和完整性，理由包括：公司的持續經營能力存在較大不確定性，公司面臨眾多訴訟及擔保事項等。

Topic 3: Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are 'Way in the Future'

A year ago, Detroit and Silicon Valley had visions of putting thousands of self-driving taxis on the road in 2019, ushering in an age of driverless cars. 一年前，底特律和矽谷曾有 2019 年讓數千輛自動駕駛計程車上路的願景，要開啟無人駕駛車的時代。
Most of those cars have yet to arrive — and it is likely to be years before they do. Several carmakers and technology companies have concluded that making autonomous vehicles is going to be harder, slower and costlier than they thought. 這些車大多數還沒上路－而且很可能還要等好多年才會上路。數家汽車製造商和科技公司已作出如下結論：製造自動駕駛車將比他們以為的更困難、更緩慢且更花錢。

"We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles," Ford's chief executive, Jim Hackett, said at the Detroit Economic Club in April. 「我們對自駕車問世的評估過於樂觀。」福特汽車執行長吉姆．哈克特今年 4 月在底特律經濟俱樂部這麼說。

In the most recent sign of the scramble to regroup, Ford and Volkswagen said Friday that they were teaming up to tackle the self-driving challenge. 福特和福斯周五宣布要合組團隊以迎接自駕車的挑戰。這也是業界忙著重新組合、再次出發的最新跡象。

The two automakers plan to use autonomous-vehicle technology from a Pittsburgh startup, Argo AI, in ride-sharing services in a few urban zones as early as 2021. But Argo's chief executive, Bryan Salesky, said the industry's bigger promise of creating driverless cars that could go anywhere was "way in the future." 這兩家汽車製造商計畫使用匹茲堡新創公司「亞果人工智慧」的自駕車技術，最快於 2021 年在一些都會區提供共乘服務。但是亞果的執行長布萊恩．薩勒斯基說，這個產業更大的承諾，也就是創造可去到任何地方的自駕車，「還在遙遠的未來」。

He and others attribute the delay to something as obvious as it is stubborn: human behavior. 他和另一些人將這個延誤歸咎於顯而易見且難以應付的一項因素：人類行為。

Researchers at Argo say the cars they are testing in Pittsburgh and Miami have to navigate unexpected situations every day. Recently, one of the company's cars encountered a bicyclist riding the wrong way down a busy street between other vehicles. 亞果研究人員說，他們在匹茲堡和邁阿密測試的車輛，每天都須經歷無法預期的狀況。最近，這家公司一輛車遇到一名自行車騎士，在一條車多的街道上逆向行駛在車輛間。

Another Argo test car came across a street sweeper that suddenly turned a giant circle in an intersection, touching all four corners and crossing lanes of traffic that had the green light. 另一輛亞果的測試車遇到一輛掃街車，在一個十字路口突如其來大轉彎，碰到四個街角，而且橫越已經轉為綠燈的車道。

"You see all kinds of crazy things on the road, and it turns out they're not all that infrequent, but you have to be able to handle all of them," Salesky said. "With radar and high-resolution cameras and all the computing power we have, we can detect and identify the objects on a street. The hard part is anticipating what they're going to do next." 「你在路上見到所有瘋狂的事，而且發現它們並非那麼不常見，但你必須有能力處理所有狀況。」薩勒斯基說。「我們擁有雷達、高解析度鏡頭和所有電算能力，可偵測並識別街道上的物體。困難的部分是預測它們下一步會做什麼。」

Salesky said Argo and many competitors had developed about 80% of the technology needed to put self-driving cars into routine use — the radar, cameras and other sensors that can identify objects far down roads and highways. 薩勒斯基說，自駕車進入日常使用所需技術，亞果和許多競爭對手約已開發成功 80%－雷達、攝影鏡頭及其他可在一般道路和高速公路識別遠方物體的感應器。

But the remaining 20%, including developing software that can reliably anticipate what other drivers, pedestrians and cyclists are going to do, will be much more difficult, he said. 但是剩下的 20%，包括開發能夠可靠預測其他駕駛人、行人和自行車騎士下一步行動的軟體，會難得多。

A year ago, many industry executives exuded much greater certainty. They thought that their engineers had solved the most vexing technical problems and promised that self-driving cars would be shuttling people around town in at least several cities by sometime this year. 一年前，許多業界高管還展現出遠比當下更有把握的態度。當時他們認為，他們的工程師已解決最困難的技術問題，且承諾自駕車今年之內，至少可在幾個城市輸運民眾。

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你有沒有遇過那種英文?字面上每個字都看得懂，合在一起卻完全不知道它在說什麼。Well oiled machine—上好油的機器？這跟機械廠有什麼關係？這集從一瓶南非進口橄欖油開始，聊到一個你明天就能在辦公室用上的英文慣用語。

從新竹到開普敦，橄欖油搭上了線

這集有個亮點。節目老鐵粉 Allen哥—新竹在地人，同時也是台灣百大青農——寄來了他們家自產的南非開普省橄欖油。沒錯，同一塊地，隔壁就是世界百大酒莊。

John老師說，其實開普省能種葡萄的地方就能種橄欖，地中海型氣候嘛。意大利、西班牙的橄欖油都快被我們喝光了，下一站就是南非了。那瓶 extra virgin 寄到錄音間，兩個老師討論了半天要不要拿來炒菜——不是不行，但拿 extra virgin 炒菜，有點像拿精品保養品擦腳底。
重點是：Allen哥不只是老鐵粉，他還在考慮把事業延伸到南非，先把小孩送去開普敦大學這樣。把小孩當先遣部隊，聽起來很熟悉，不就是我們台灣人最常見的那種家族事業佈局。

Wait What 系列：那些讓人慢半拍的英文慣用語

如果你在捷運上滑過我們的 IG，可能有看過 Wait What 系列。就是那種你一看到英文、腦袋當機兩秒才反應過來的 idiom，我們做成圖卡讓你一秒懂。

最近幾個做出來的——break the ice、cold turkey、butter someone up——你可能聽過，但你知道在辦公室情境裡怎麼用嗎？在台北的茶水間想跟外國主管拉近關係，光靠「天氣不錯」是不夠的。這些英文慣用語才是讓你顯得自然、不像在背課文的關鍵。

這週的新 idiom 是 Well Oiled Machine。

Well Oiled Machine，不是在說你是個零件
聽到「上好油的機器」別緊張，不是在說你可以被取代。這個說法是在誇一個系統、一個團隊、甚至一個家，所有事情順到像抹了油一樣，不卡、不拖、沒有摩擦。

My family is a well oiled machine. 就是說我們家大小事都協調得很好，小孩準時上學、長輩身體健康、週末不用搶遙控器。放到工作場景就更實用了——向上管理的時候跟老闆說 Our team runs like a well oiled machine，是在說分工明確、效率高、不需要你一直盯著。
更進階一點：My investment portfolio is a well oiled machine. 竹科的工程師聽到這句，大概秒懂什麼叫「錢自己在賺錢」。

這種英文慣用語學起來不難，難的是在對的時機自然地說出來。

一週一個，一年就累積快六十個，明天直接拿去茶水間用，比硬背單字有效多了。
John老師在節目裡說，其實每集 café 的 VIP 學習筆記裡，光是 idioms 就可能有二三十個，跟 Angel老師合作那集更是直接衝到三十個。看到這個數字很多人會想：我要怎麼全部背起來？

不用全部背。真的不用。阿鍵老師說得很直接：常用的學起來，不常用的聽過知道意思就好。在捷運上通勤學英文，不是去準備英文考試，是讓這些字在你腦袋裡有個印象，哪天聽到或看到，你不會當機。

每週一兩個，扎實地用出去，比拿著單字本背了一整頁卻一個都想不起來有意義太多了。

單身租屋族有機會免繳稅？
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Summary:

The story of Ms. Beshara, the founder of Ninjavideo in 2010 was busted by the federal agents for illegally streaming and distributing pirated tv shows on her website. At the time, her site has 2.6m visits a day and 60,000 registered members. File-sharing online amounts to about a quarter of all consumer traffic. In 2012, Megaupload was seized and shutdown with Kim Dotcom arrested in New Zealand, but not extradited.

原文章討論: https://www.15mins.today/blog/ep-927-in-culture-of-access-a-frustrating-pursuit-of-bootleggers

Vocabulary and Sample Sentence

Piracy n. the practice of robbing ships at sea. Many movies were pirated and made available online before its actual release. Online piracy hinders the development of the movie and music industries.

Indict v. accuse or charge with a serious crime Kim Dotcom was indicted by the US on charges related to copyright infringement. He was indicted by the prosecutor for theft.

Confiscate v. take or seize someone’s property with authority The FBI confiscated Ms. Beshara’s computer hardware. The school teacher confiscated the student’s smartphone when he was caught using it in class.