Cyrano 本就是舞台劇. 所以他的對白就是他最重要的武器. 這部法國劇本被兩次被拍成電影, 一次是 1950 由好萊屋拍攝, 我貼的那一個就是來自 1950 年的那一部. 飾演 Cyrano 的演員 (José Ferrer)也因為這一部戲拿下了當年的最佳男主角. 後來法國人在 1990 年又拍攝了一次, 主角由法國首席男星 (Gérard Depardieu) 擔綱. 兩相比較, 1990 年法國拍的無論服裝, 鏡頭, 音樂, 人物, 實在沒話說. 相較之下, 1950 年, 好萊屋拍攝的就很難與之相比. 1950 年的很多鏡頭角度其實很像舞台劇, 而且又是黑白片. 但是, 再看完兩部戲後, 我的結論是兩部都很好看! 1950 年的戲和 1990 年想比, 兩位男演員都把整個鏡頭充滿實在了. 似乎其他的電影要素都變成了次要的, 或者不重要了. 我把整部戲裡很重要的一段過場, 貼出來相比或許較容易知道我在說的是啥了:
1950 年:
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1990 年:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbcqGDUedA&feature=related
很抱歉... 1990 年的好像都不能貼在這裡, 只好請有興趣的人自己去看...
另外, 全部的這一過場的大部分台詞在這裡:
And what would you have me do?
Seek for the patronage of some great man,
And like a creeping vine on a tall tree
Crawl upward, where I cannot stand alone?
No thank you! Dedicate, as others do,
Poems to pawnbrokers? Be a buffoon
In the vile hope of teasing out a smile
On some cold face? No thank you! Eat a toad
For breakfast every morning? Make my knees
callous, and cultivate a supple spine,-
Wear out my belly grovelling in the dust?
No thank you! Scratch the back of any swine
That roots up gold for me? Tickle the horns
of Mammon with my left hand, while my right
Too proud to know his partner’s business
Takes in the fee? No thank you! Use the fire
God gave me to burn incense all day long
Under the nose of wood and stone? No thank you!
Shall I go leaping into ladies laps
And licking fingers?-or-to change form-
Navigating with madrigals for oars,
My sails full of the sighs of dowagers?
No thank you! Publish verses at my own
Expense? No thank you! Be the patron saint
Of a small group of leterary souls
Who dine together every Tuesday? No
I thank you! Shall I labor night and day
To build a reputation on one song,
And never write another? Shall I find
True genius only among Geniuses,
Palpitate over little paragraphs,
And struggle to insinuate my name
In the columns of the Mercury?
No thank you! Calculate, scheme, be afraid,
Love more to make a visit than a poem,
Seek introductions, favors, influences?-
No thank you! No, I thank you! And again
I thank you!- But…
To sing, to laugh, to dream,
To walk in my own way and be alone,
Free, with an eye to see things as they are,
A voice that means manhood- to cock my hat
Where I choose- At a word, a Yes, a No,
To fight- or write. To travel any road
Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt
If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne-
ever to make a line I have not heard
In my own heart; yet, with all modesty
To say: “My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own.”
So, when I win some triumph, by some chance,
Render no share to Caesar- in a word,
I am too proud to be a parasite,
And if my nature wants the germ that grows
Towering to heaven like the mountain pine,
Or like the oak, sheltering multitudes-
I stand, not high it may be- But alone!
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