飞跃情海

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。

oscar 有好几部人物传记电影，这也是其中一部。虽然有Kevin Spacey这样的大人物来演，然而这部片子本身真的没有ray来的震撼。

    感觉起来就是一个充满野心的男人的演艺历程，一直不认输，一直认为自己会赢，改了自己的名字，出了自己想要的专辑，娶了自己想要的妻子，然后经历人生的低潮，然后重新振作，想从政，然后发现自己原来是私生子，自己一直以为的姐姐是自己的妈妈，自己一直以为的妈妈和爸爸其实是外公外婆～～～

   然而这个故事对猫来讲还是不够震撼，可能太太太正常的美国化了吧～～～～

热爱音乐热爱秃秃的我，when the curtain falls流下了眼泪。

对这部影片的评价不如说是对Kevin.Spacey的一个诠释。
在这部影片里，秃秃展现了自己对歌唱，舞蹈，演技，导演的才华。
其他都可以，就是作为导演，秃秃还差了一点。
多少这不影片的确没有演绎出Bobby Darin的一身，当然，我不是导演，没有资格评说。

在我想象中（也是一部期待已久的movie）应该是充满那种破旧感的画面，一些安静的片段，可以更加让读者细细寻味。

这部影片就是少了这么些许安静的意味，虽然作为音乐剧式的电影，但是作为诠释Bobby Darin的一生的话，这种手法略显聒噪。

不过，这部影片还是展现出了它的风采，对色彩的追求，对画面的质量，都是一种上层生活的人所体现的品位，从此也可以看出秃秃的品位也是不俗的。

而秃秃也通过这部影片全面得展现了他得才华，让人们了解像他这样的人两次站在Oscar的领奖台上也不是浪得虚名。虽然我觉得他或许还能做的更好一些。

最喜欢的肯定是这部影片的歌曲，秃秃唱的有许多的确可以和原唱媲美，甚至超过原唱。不过也许是因为秃秃的年龄比Bobby Darin大一些，所以对于《Beyond the Sea》这首歌秃秃唱出了更多一些的稳重沧桑，少一些的激情欢乐。而Bobby的那种激情小细节，是秃秃所不能超越的。

另外想说的就是，不知道秃秃选择拍摄该剧是否找到了自己对生命的映射。47岁的他目前仍然未婚，似乎他一直在为电影奔波。这部电影当年在柏林电影节的时候，秃秃开了记者招待会做了相应的宣传，那时候的他看上去如此疲惫不堪（心痛）。可惜此片虽然获得多项提名，却仍然没有得到最终的好评。最近的超人归来上演后，秃秃也坦言似乎自A.B.以后，觉得自己无法在做的更好了。我想秃秃这一路上也是像Darin一样一直在寻找自己吧。希望秃秃成功～！

　　　　
　　　 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.

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。

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。