溫子仁的好萊塢逆襲之路

It’s never easy for an Asian to earn a place in Hollywood, either as an actor or a director. However, 41-year-old James Wan, an Australian of Malaysian Chinese descent, is one of the great exceptions. He brought his new film Aquaman to Chinese audiences on Dec 7.

不論是作為演員還是導演，亞裔想在好萊塢爭得一席之地都并非易事。但現(xiàn)年41歲的澳籍馬來西亞華裔溫子仁卻是一大例外。12月7日，他的新作《海王》在國內(nèi)上映。

Many have praised the film as the underwater cousin of Star Wars and The Lord of Rings. However, the movie is distinctly the work of Wan. The movie borrows elements from the ancient Chinese classic, Journey to the West.

不少人都稱贊這部電影是海底版《星球大戰(zhàn)》和《指環(huán)王》。但這部電影無疑帶有溫子仁作品的風格，并借鑒了中國古典名著《西游記》中的元素。

“I am of Chinese descent, so I heard many Chinese stories as I grew up. I have always liked Journey to the West and The Monkey King and was influenced by these Chinese elements when I was filming.” Wan told China News.

“身為華裔，我是聽著許多中國故事長大的。我一直都很喜歡《西游記》和孫悟空，在拍攝時也受到了這些中國元素的影響，”溫子仁在接受中國新聞網(wǎng)采訪時表示。

Wan’s Aquaman tells the story of the half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry. Curry has to find out who he really is and fight to be a king. Wan created a submarine world of giant crabs and gold and blue buildings made from coral. “The underwater stuff has never been executed like this before,” wrote US comic book writer Geoff Johns. “The visual effects shots coming in are just beautiful.”

溫子仁的《海王》講述了擁有半人類、半亞特蘭蒂斯人血統(tǒng)的亞瑟·庫瑞的故事。庫瑞需要弄清楚自己究竟是誰，并爭奪王位。溫子仁創(chuàng)造出了一個海底世界，這里生活著巨型螃蟹、金色和藍色建筑則是由珊瑚建造的。“如此制作水下事物還是頭一遭，”美國漫畫家喬夫·瓊斯寫道。“映入眼簾的特效鏡頭真是太美了。”

To have created this unique imaginary world is a successful switch for the director. After all, he is best known for his blockbuster horror films Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring. Saw was actually inspired by Wan’s nightmares during his first year in college. Together with his life-long colleague Leigh Whannell, he wrote a script based on them.

創(chuàng)造出如此獨特的奇幻世界是這位導演的一次成功轉(zhuǎn)型。畢竟，此前他最為知名的是執(zhí)導了《電鋸驚魂》、《潛伏》、《招魂》等恐怖大片。《電鋸驚魂》的靈感來源于溫子仁大一時所做的惡夢。根據(jù)這些惡夢，他和多年的同事雷·沃納爾創(chuàng)造出了劇本。

Wan was also greatly affected at an early age by the evil queen in the Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of 1937, a movie he saw with his mother. “As trippy as Snow White is, it has a very dark side to it. So from a very young age I was somewhat subjected to movies with a darker streak.”

溫子仁童年時和母親一起看了1937年的迪士尼經(jīng)典電影《白雪公主和七個小矮人》，其中的邪惡王后對他影響很深。“這部電影和《白雪公主》一樣迷幻，也有著相當陰暗的一面。從很小的時候起，我便多多少少傾向于更黑暗的電影。”

With the change in direction of Furious 7 and now Aquaman, Wan is showing that he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as a “horror director”. In fact, he’s a constant innovator. “I love horror, but I became somewhat synonymous with it,” Wan told CNN. “I just wanted to prove that I’m not just a horror filmmaker, I’m a filmmaker, period.”

從《速度與激情7》到如今的《海王》，溫子仁通過執(zhí)導方向上的轉(zhuǎn)變，表明了自己并不想受限于“恐怖片導演”的身份。事實上，他是個不斷的創(chuàng)新的人。“我喜歡恐怖片，但我卻漸漸被貼上了標簽，”溫子仁在接受CNN采訪時表示。“我只是想證明，我不僅僅是個恐怖片電影人，我本身也是個電影人，就是這樣。”