一部能像文学作品那样仔细阅读的电影
- Qing Liu
- Jun 20, 2016
- 3 min read


大家还记得片头的那位女读者吗?她不畏深冬时节的严寒,来到一个偏僻的墓园,只为祭奠一位国宝级别的作家。这位作家写了《布达佩斯大饭店》,而这本书让这个女孩爱不释手,一个人在墓园的长椅上静静地阅读,专注而不能自拔。看完这部电影后,我觉得自己就像那个女孩,对这个电影膜拜不已。就情节,电影构图,画面色彩,服装道具背景,演员表现而言,以堪称完美。而我不想再谈论以上这些,我只想说说这部电影的台词,对每个角色台词的遣词造句,英语用的实在是文艺而经典,幽默而优美,让我深深沉醉。我不禁感叹到,英语是如此的有魅力,描述东西简洁而准确,又能营造高深的感觉,然而如果中文翻译翻得好,就会为英语更添一层魅力。有时,我会想,为什么中文一个成语,英文就一个词就能表现出相同的意思。下面就让我冒充一回英文老师,挑选出这部电影的经典佳句。
开头有一段关于作家的自嘲,我觉得很有意思。
“It is an extremely common mistake, people think the writer's imagination is always at work that he's constantly inventing an endless supply of incidents and episodes that he simply dreams up his stories out of thin air. In point of fact, the opposite is true. Once the public knows you're a writer, they bring the characters and events to you and as long as you maintain your ability to look and to carefully listen, these stories will continue to seek you out over your lifetime. To him who has often told the tales of others, many tales will be told. The incidents that follow were described to me exactly as I present them here and in a wholly unexpected way.”
大家经常误会一件事情,总以为作家有无穷的想象力,总是文思泉涌,永远不缺故事可说,能凭空想象出精彩情节。可是事实恰恰相反,一旦大家知道你是个作家,他们就会带着人物和故事来找你。你只要好好观察,专心聆听就可以,这些故事会继续跟着你一辈子。常说别人的故事的人,会听到很多故事。接下来我要说的故事,内容完全没有添油加醋,是在我意想不到的情况下听到的。(电影版翻译)
人们会犯一个极其常见的错误,总认为作家的想象力能够随时开启,事件和情节如泉涌般源源不断,故事总能轻易地被凭空创作出。可事实上,情况恰恰相反。一旦人们知道你是个作家,他们会把人物和发生的事带到你面前。只要你认真去看,仔细去听,这些故事将会继续追随你一辈子。那些常常述说别人传说的人,他们使许多传说得以流传。 接下来我要讲的事件,和我听到的丝毫不差,它的发生让人出乎意料。(本人献丑版翻译)
还有Gustave对在Zero说的那句有名的金句。“You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse, that was once known as humanity. ”
看到了吗?在野蛮的屠宰场上,还是有些文明的微光存在,就是人性。(电影版翻译)
看到了吗?在这片残暴野蛮的屠宰场,仍然残存着文明的丝丝微光,这就是人性。(本人献丑版翻译)
最后再补上一点对这部电影的介绍。
It is a hugely imaginative and immensely charming film. The narrative takes the form of a story within a story within a story within a story. The elements of the story contains murder mystery, prison escape, grand adventure, and brotherhood inside. Gustave is a precise, fastidious, even a little a bit affected but kind-hearted, right-minded and humanistic-concerned man. Zero takes Gustave as his idol and does everything strict by what Gustave says. Gustave recognize somebody like himself, somebody who pays more attention to other people. It isn't to do job well, actually interested in the whole thing. They clap. They become wonder partners and brothers in arms.
这是一部充满想象力和令人无比着迷的电影。电影的表现手法采用故事中的故事中的故事。电影元素包含谋杀谜案, 越狱,大冒险,兄弟情。古斯塔沃是一位一丝不苟,吹毛求疵,甚至有点做作的人,但是他善良,充满正义感,具有人文关怀。零把古斯塔沃当作他的偶像,对古斯塔沃言听计从。古斯塔沃能够识别出谁与他志同道合。当他发现零善于察言观色,发自内心的喜欢自己的工作,而不是迫于生计,于是他们一拍即合。他们成为完美搭档和手足兄弟。
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