It broke all box office records.

这部影片也打破了票房纪录
What it showed in silence was the preparation for the battle,

这部无声电影展现了战前准备
the huge artillery barrage, and then men going over the top.

纵横交错的火力网以及越过高地的士兵们
Because of this phony--there were men who went over the top,

那个虚构的镜头士兵们越过高地
stopped for a moment and then slid right down again,

停了一会然后又滑了下去
which caused women in the theaters that saw that to faint.

许多妇女看到这个场面时都昏了过去
They didn't know that this was simply nonsense,

她们不知道这完全是胡编乱造
that it was fiction.

是虚构的
I think the critical point to bear in mind,

请记住最重要的一点
therefore, is that as a filmic war, the war turned into myth

由于战争电影的介入这场战争
at the very moment that it was being fought.

还在进行的时候就变成了一团迷雾
Nobody had ever seen the landscape of the dark side of the moon

从未有人看到过那笼罩在黑暗中的场景