飞跃情海2004

在中央6套看到了这部片子。吸引我的不是Kevin也不是四五十年代好莱坞的怀旧气息，而完完全全是Kevin在影片里表演的Bobby Darin的音乐。

回忆就像月光 在每个人的眼中都不一样
午夜十分 静静聆听来自kevin spacey的声音 空气中充斥着无限遐想~

不久前听说kevin息影了 也许是结婚 或者是像外界传闻的那样因为《Beyond the sea》没能得到大部分观众的肯定 暂时放弃了对表演事业的执着
现在我们暂且抛开对这部电影的失望与不满 抛开我们眼中狡奸巨猾的跛子杀人狂形象 重新开始认识kevin的精神境界 领略kevin的伟大 对人生的理解与诠释~

对于bobby dralin 这个歌手并不是太熟悉 曾经除了从《海底总动员》的主题曲中听过"beyond the sea"的翻唱 还有我音乐文件夹里孤独的一首"some body to love" 似乎再也没有一点印象~

他没有nat king cole 在国际上的影响力 没能像frank sinatra那样流芳百世 充其量只是一个满怀抱负孤身闯入好莱坞的小演员~对于他的任何一种职业我都没有办法给予正确的判断

当他还是一个初出茅庐的孩子时 对世界充满好奇 什么都敢于尝试 他能歌善舞 并且在电影界取得了优异的成绩 很快又拿到了格莱美奖 娶了美丽的电影明星做妻子~人世间的全部美好在他身上实现了 安逸且激情四射~

当时间像流水一般划过 随之而改变的不单是音乐和电影 国家陷入了政治僵局 大量的民主运动在60年代展开 人们因为奢侈淫乱的物质生活而失去信仰迷乱困惑时 bobby 的事业便一落千丈 曾经靠年轻气盛 勇猛无畏的拼搏得来的一切荣誉都让他开始怀疑 此时看似是一场私人的情感恩怨让bobby逃离了城市 将自己封闭起来不断的谱写新的乐曲 当bobby再度带着Simple Song of Freedom上台演唱时 却被不识趣的观众嘘声赶下台 人们厌恶这样奇怪的音乐 而bobby的样子像足了一个落寞的嬉皮士~

眼见为实 人们在第二次的用心聆听中接受了bobby的创作 但这位伟大的艺术家却因为心脏病永远的去了 他留下许多非凡的创作 这些最流行的爵士歌曲至今为止仍被不少歌手传唱改编 在The Curtain Falls这首歌曲开始的一刹那 我相信 时间抹去的只是一个名字 而伴随着音乐的必定是他的灵魂 一颗对事业执着且热爱的心

《飞越情海》这个翻译显然不够恰当 更加愿意从《海底总动员》里接纳《飞越海洋》这个善良勇敢的名字 故事讲完了 而真正懂得kevin的人们 会和kevin一起明白这不单是一场电影 一场表演show 更是一个完整的人生 每个人都该从中得到历练 进行充满勇气的旅程 从年少轻狂到稳重成熟 从跛子 杀人狂到郁郁不得志的中年男人 包括《超人归来》里的秃头野心家 《k-pax》中的精神病患者 《洛城机密》中的潇洒干探 还有人们眼中极为不解的bobby dralin 歌舞升平 嬉笑怒骂 这就是kevin的本色吧 亲爱的 原谅这个贪玩的大男人 他并非想要改变所有观众和支持者的思想 只是想告诉人们 生活来之不易 能在世上唱唱跳跳 那是多么快乐！

要彻底爱上一个演员，我会看他在SNL上的表现。
会唱，会跳，能无节操地搞笑，才是真正的艺术家。祖迪罗啊，囧瑟夫啊，班德拉斯还穿高跟鞋扮过女人。
你不能总是阴沉或者帅气，即使阴郁如吴镇宇都能装颠卖傻。
碰巧，史派西也在SNL上玩过烂gag。当然了，他是地球上唯一一个不用搞笑也能令你折服的好演员。


还真的没有一个人能像他这样波澜不惊地用演技彻底把你俘虏。
我第一次在荧幕上看到他，是《美国丽人》里的中年大叔，我记得他顶着一身下垂的肌肉在抽大麻举哑铃。逐渐把他的每一部电影看完后，我觉得他私底下该是那种穿着优质睡衣趿着拖鞋，儒雅又慵懒地斜躺在沙发上边抽雪茄边听老爵士的人。
居然猜中了，他是一个真正的爵士粉。观赏完《飞跃情海》后，我觉得他年轻时一定和我们一样，在睡房里大声播着喜欢的歌，拿水瓶当麦克风，边唱边笨拙地扭动身躯。
不然他优雅的滑步里哪来那种对偶像崇拜的狂热和熟悉。这不是演技不演技的问题了，是兴趣爱好在一个人身上围绕起的光环。


这不是最好的歌舞片，也不是最好的史派西，但当他穿着不符年龄的鲜黄橙红的西装跳起beyond the sea，你还是舍不得不爱，因为他是最优秀最独一无二的史派西。
因为当初他的When Curtain Falls一响起，我一直在哭。
还能有比你更优秀的人吗。

这部电影，确实只能用“观赏”二字去形容，一贯闻名于内敛深沉的史派西在你面前载歌载舞，那已经可以超越电影本身内容了。

“I have worn the country's colors in a thousand different ways; I have won the game of life upon the table which it plays; I'm a sun without a setting and a tear without regretting; I'm a mind full of forgetting but I am, most of all, I am."---Bobby Darin

because of the movie, just google Bobby's brief introduction, the boy got rheumatic fever as a kid and didn't expect to make it through his twenties,he was very upfront, a positive guy,knew clearly what he wanted and just went straight for it, what he said:I've got a lot to do in a short period of time and I'm going to accomplish it.

I admire this kind of person, always knows clearly what he want and just go streight for it. Think it over by myself: what do you want? and what are you going to accomplish. Saying is easier than doing, thinking is also easier, what you need is ACTION!

By the way, i like one of the lines: memory just like moonlight, you get what you want.

　　　　
　　　 Somewhere beyond the sea
　　　 Somewhere waitin’ for me
      My lover stands on golden sands
      And watches the ships that go sailin’.
 
      Somewhere beyond the sea
      She's there watchin’ for me
      If I could fly like birds on high
      Then straight to her arms I’d go sailin’.
     
      It's far beyond the stars
      It's near beyond the moon
      I know beyond a doubt
      My heart will lead me there soon.
 
      We'll meet beyond the shore
      We'll kiss just as before
      Happy we'll be beyond the sea
      And never again I'll go sailin'.
 
      I know beyond a doubt
      My heart will lead me there soon
      We'll meet … I know we'll meet … beyond the shore
      We'll kiss just as before.
 
      Happy we'll be beyond the sea
      And never again I'll go sailin'.
 
      No more sailin' …
      So long sailin' …
      Bye, bye sailin'...
      Move on out, captain …
      So long, ensign …
 


Finding Nimo（海底总动员）是我家闺女们常看的片子，结尾的那首Somewhere beyond the sea她们也能哼哼几句。前年有部也是表现歌星生活的传记片，名字就叫　Beyond the Sea，编剧导演和主演是奥斯卡得主Kevin Spacey 。影片的主人公Bobby Darin出身贫寒，小时候即患有心脏病，在母亲的鼓励下开始走上歌舞之路。其实他一直认作母亲的女人是他的外祖母，他是个私生子，其亲生母亲一直被他当做姐姐。婚姻生活也比较离奇，他的妻子Sandra Dee 是童星出身，其母为挣钱谎报了她的年龄，她嫁人的时候才１６岁。为了和死亡争夺时间，Bobby Darin拼命工作，到处演唱、拍电影，曾经获得奥斯卡的提名，３７岁就离开了人世。Beyond the Sea不是他最早演唱，但他的版本比较有名。

在影片中Kevin Spacey 亲自演唱，有评论说比原唱还要好。没听过原唱，不好比较，不过感觉比Walk the Line那两位主演唱得要好得多。不过Kevin Spacey演出时 的年纪比Bobby Darin去世时还大８岁，看他和小姑娘谈恋爱我觉得很不舒服。作为编导还算称职，这是他导演的第二部作品，不知他是否会向前发展。

有意思的是，贝托鲁齐的The Dreamers（戏梦人生）也以那首歌曲为主旋律，歌曲在影片中反复播放，令我怀疑这首歌曲原来就是法文的，从听者的感觉来看，法文版的演唱更自然顺畅。感谢万能的GOOGLE，我今天找到了源头。果真如此。

请看英语版填词人Jack Lawrence 的叙述：
http://www.jacklawrencesongwriter.com/home.html


The Story Behind The Song
As with all of Trenet's songs this one was originally published by Raoul Breton in France with the title "La Mer" (The Sea). This was also the title of a lovely concert piece by Debussy. In previous years I had met M. & Mme. Breton on their New York visits and written English lyrics to their French hits. I never did direct translations; for one thing, my high school French was inadequate.

But I truly felt doing a literal translation was hardly creative so I would play the French song over and over until it became part of me. Then and only then would I start creating my lyric. In the past I had written lyrics to a couple of Trenet's French hits and when we finally met on one of his trips to the U.S. he complimented me on my work.

The Bretons came to my home in New York in '46 with recordings of "La Mer" and said that Trenet would like me to do the English lyric. I loved the unusual melody he had written but was not intrigued with his French lyric, which told about the different moods of the sea, and how they affected him.

Also, most of the recordings that had been made were somber and symphonic in feeling. I decided that my lyric would tell a different story — a romantic tale of a sea-faring lover and a land-locked lover waiting on a golden shore for his return.

I would like to quote from an article by Will Friedwald that appeared in the 2002 music issue of Vanity Fair. He wrote:

"Lawrence's words to "Beyond The Sea" constitute a lyric of the highest order. He started by adding that one word: beyond, and that drove the entire song. In the song's middle section Lawrence goes beyond "beyond" by using the word as the linchpin of a series of phrases, each with a slightly different meaning. "Beyond a star... Beyond the moon... Beyond a doubt" The word star arrives on an accidental C-sharp, which charges the phrase with unexpected oomph and gives the word an especially starry feeling. Changing the title, paradoxically, allowed Lawrence to remain phonetically faithful, at least, to Trenet's original: in Trenet's text each 8 bar "A" section begins with the words "La Mer"; in Lawrence's version each of these sections commences with "Somewhere" so that the English lyric has the same sonic feel as the original."

Thank you, Will, for the clarity of your explanation. It's so nice to know that the workings of one's mind are being appreciated by experts.

Let me continue with more of Will's article:

"For all the craftsmanship of Lawrence and Trenet, "Beyond The Sea" was not an instant hit in America. The early recordings were surprisingly heavy. Benny Goodman recorded it with a string orchestra in 1947 and Tex Beneke cut it with his Glenn Miller orchestra. (An air check survives of Beneke playing it with Ronnie Deauville, a crooner who was almost impossible to distinguish from the young Sinatra. This track has been circulated by collectors as a Miller-Sinatra recording). For ten years or so the song lay dormant."

One day at the publisher's offices I ran into a new young singer with a distinctive style. He was brash and a bit cocky but rather refreshing and his name was Bobby Darin. He didn't hesitate to tell everyone that someday he would be as popular as Sinatra. I gave him a copy of "Beyond The Sea" and asked him what he thought of it. He said he liked some of the recordings he'd heard but he felt the song lacked a definite beat. A few months later he sent me his latest album and there was "Mack The Knife" and "Beyond The Sea" done to a crisp with an infectious toe-tapping beat and Bobby's inimitable delivery. Everyone in the business will agree that Bobby Darin's version turned those two songs into mega-hits.

Through the years, after his untimely death, there has been repeated talk of one of the big studios filming THE BOBBY DARIN STORY. Recently, Kevin Spacey announced that for years he has been eager to star in that role. Some say he may be a bit long in the tooth to play that youngster but let's wait and see. After all, he's an Oscar winner.

因为这是kevin第一次执导的影片，尽管美国影评界对此片评价不高，可我还是想看看kevin的表演，听听被影评界不屑的kevin的献唱。

kevin是个气质独特的演员，美国美人中他似笑非笑的表情，七宗罪中的变态又保守的杀人犯，都是电影史中独一无二的气质。现实生活中kevin比较特立独行，完全保护自己的私生活，哪怕得罪长着跟踪眼的狗仔队也在所不惜。所以，与其说他是个大明星，不如说他是个非常优秀的性格演员和有魅力的男人，这可能更合他心意。

他首次执导就选择了歌舞片，理论上讲，这一点也不明智。不过可以看出来，他是非常用心想塑造好bob。对于bob这样的歌手，用歌舞片的形式，一定会比普通传记片更精彩。但是歌舞片的调度非常复杂，没有经验很容易沦为平庸。

我觉得片中kevin的舞蹈动作常有不到位的感觉，感染力还很缺乏，一些歌舞镜头明显很薄弱，没有造出音乐应有的气氛。kevin这个性格演员，即使内心对bob这个角色充满期待和决心，但是在对话时，表情却常常是僵硬的。他演绎的bob充满活力，但是偶尔表情的僵硬还是露出了非常演绎的感觉，所以说，对他的这次表演，我只能打3分。

bob的一生非常具有戏剧化，kevin设计了年幼的bob和年长的bob常常出现在同个场景，是很好的想法，因为年幼的bob还有很多疑问没有解答，当bob在成年后面对世界迷茫时，他就和年幼的自己对话。不过这个很好的点子，并没有很好的衔接，显得很生硬，和现实冲突的感觉。接近结尾时年幼的bob和年长的bob一起唱歌那里本应该很出彩，但是场面调度和表演动作不到位，减弱了表现力。

电影我打3颗星，加一颗星完全是因为kevin——如果没有勇气和决心，没有人会用歌舞片来成就自己的第一次导演作品。为kevin这样的魄力，我相信，以后他还会自己导演一部心仪的电影，期待。

不过，最难过的是，看这个电影时，还是不可遏止的感觉到，kevin真的老了。