影視英語聽力 第35期：I'm Not There我不在場
在這部關于鮑勃·迪倫生平的傳記電影中，將分別由六位演員扮演鮑勃·迪倫，分別演繹鮑勃在不同時代的生活故事和音樂經歷。該片講述了鮑勃·迪倫早期作為民謠歌手艱苦奮斗的生活，和1960年代初成形的美國民歌界的英雄和知識分子，具有爭議的搖滾轉型、摩托車意外事故還有后來從公眾視線里銷聲匿跡的隱退，近年來工作重心不放在錄制唱片而是舉行巡回演唱會上，如名為“永不停止的巡演”(The Never Ending Tour)等等。
對話文本:
I'm Not There is a new film directed by Todd Haynes and it's being described as a movie about Bob Dylan which is both very accurate and a little bit misleading. Haynes's approach is really meant to explode all of the conventions and clichés and expectations of movies that tell the life story of famous artists or musicians.
There is no character in this movie named Bob Dylan. Instead, there are 6 different characters played by different actors including Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Christian Bale, and HeathLedger who incarnate various aspects of Dylan's art, life and career. Here's Jude Quinn who is Ms Blanchett playing Bob Dylan more or less as he appeared in D.A.
Pennebaker's great documentary “Don't Look Back”.
And then there is Heath Ledger playing a movie star who once played a character based on another character sort of like Bob Dylan, whose marriage to an artist played by Charlotte Gainsbourg is falling apart. Now what this all adds up to is not an interpretation of Bob Dylan's life or an explanation of his place in American culture, but I think a celebration of his spirit and also an attempt to examine some of the interesting problems and insights relating to American culture, to celebrity, to pop music, and to the possibilities of film-making that the career of Bob Dylan raises.
What I can't say with any certainty about I'm Not There is how it will appeal to those who have no interest whatsoever in Bob Dylan. I think that its visual techniques and its approach to story-telling and its kind of abstract playful spirit may bring a lot of new people in. But I don't know since I've grown up listening to Bob Dylan's music and wondering what it meant. This movie really immersed me in someone else's obsession with Dylan, Todd Haynes's.
And as such it's a really exhilarating experience. In effect, you are watching one very smart, verytricky, very clever artist. That's Todd Haynes paying tribute to one who has no match when it comes to cleverness, trickiness, or mischievous intelligence.
