美国国家公共电台 NPR Harry Dean Stanton, A Supporting Actor Who Became A Star, Dies At 91

 

SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Harry¹ Dean Stanton has died at the age of 91. He played supporting roles for decades. And then, as NPR's Ted² Robbins tells us, he became a cult³ favorite.

(SOUNDBITE OF RY COODER'S "PARIS, TEXAS")

TED ROBBINS, BYLINE⁴: The year was 1984. The film was Wim Wenders's "Paris, Texas." As Ry Cooder's guitar plays, the movie opens on a thin, weathered man wearing an old suit and a red baseball cap wandering the desert with an empty water jug⁵. It's Harry Dean Stanton in his first lead role at age 58. He's Travis Henderson, a beat down guy who, jealous of his wife, took their son and left years ago. He comes back to find her in a Houston Peep Show, where he delivers a 10-minute monologue⁶.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "PARIS, TEXAS")

HARRY DEAN STANTON: (As Travis Henderson) I knew these people...

NASTASSJA KINSKI: (As Jane Henderson) What people?

ROBBINS: Travis talks through a one-way mirror to his wife, played by Nastassja Kinski. She can't see him. But, gradually, she realizes it's her husband telling her the story of his life.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "PARIS, TEXAS")

STANTON: (As Travis Henderson) He started thinking that she was seeing other men on the sly.

ROBBINS: They reunite. Then mother and son reunite. Then after decades as a character actor, Harry Dean Stanton became a star. He was born in Kentucky to a tobacco farmer father and a hairdresser mother. He studied theater at the University of Kentucky. He served in the Navy in World War II, then went to Hollywood after. With his deep-set eyes and hawk⁷ nose, he got cast over and over as an outlaw⁸ or an oddball. More than a hundred TV and film roles followed, from "Cool Hand Luke" to "The Godfather: Part II" to the first "Alien" in 1979, where he was Brett, a tight-lipped spaceship crew member.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "ALIEN")

YAPHET KOTTO: (As Parker) He can always get to a doctor when we get back home.

STANTON: (As Brett) Right.

SIGOURNEY WEAVER⁹: (As Ripley) Whenever he says anything, you say, right, Brett. You know that?

STANTON: (As Brett) Right.

ROBBINS: Of course, Stanton gets eaten alive by the alien monster. That's the way it was until "Paris, Texas." Then also in 1984 came the cult classic "Repo Man."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "REPO MAN")

STANTON: (As Bud) Never broke into a car, never hotwired a car.

ROBBINS: Harry Dean Stanton was the repo man Bud, schooling¹⁰ young Emilio Estevez's character Otto.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "REPO MAN")

STANTON: (As Bud) I shall not cause harm to any vehicle, nor the personal contents thereof, nor through inaction let that vehicle or the personal contents thereof come to harm. That's what I call the repo code, kid.

ROBBINS: Once in a while, he played a normal guy - Molly Ringwald's dad in "Pretty In Pink." OK, that's pretty much it for normal guys. Stanton was in six David Lynch movies. And not too long ago, he played the polygamist cult leader Roman Grant on HBO's "Big Love."

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BIG LOVE")

STANTON: (Singing) Glory, glory - hallelujah. On the pulpit of Juniper Creek¹¹.

ROBBINS: That singing - well, music was Harry Dean Stanton's other love. He sang and played harmonica on stage and off.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "PARTLY FICTION")

STANTON: (As himself, singing) I'm going where the sun keeps shining through the pouring rain.

ROBBINS: That's from a 2012 documentary about Stanton by Sophie Huber called "Partly Fiction." In one scene, his friend, director David Lynch, asks Harry a couple of deep questions. The answers were sort of Buddhist¹² and very Harry Dean Stanton.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "PARTLY FICTION")

DAVID LYNCH: (As himself) How would you describe yourself?

STANTON: (As himself) As nothing. There is no self.

(LAUGHTER)

LYNCH: How would you like to be remembered?

STANTON: It doesn't matter.

ROBBINS: It may not have mattered to him, but the rest of us will remember Harry Dean Stanton as a singular presence on screen. Ted Robbins, NPR News.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "EVERYBODY'S TALKIN'")

STANTON: (Singing) I'm going where the sun keeps shining through the pouring rain, going where the weather suits my clothes.

1 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

2 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

3 cult   

n.异教，邪教；时尚，狂热的崇拜

参考例句：

• Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书，但有一定的崇拜者。
• The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 jug   

n.(有柄，小口，可盛水等的)大壶，罐，盂

参考例句：

• He walked along with a jug poised on his head.他头上顶着一个水罐，保持着平衡往前走。
• She filled the jug with fresh water.她将水壶注满了清水。

6 monologue   

n.长篇大论，（戏剧等中的）独白

参考例句：

• The comedian gave a long monologue of jokes.喜剧演员讲了一长段由笑话组成的独白。
• He went into a long monologue.他一个人滔滔不绝地讲话。

7 hawk   

n.鹰，骗子；鹰派成员

参考例句：

• The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it.鹰猛地朝兔子扑下来,并把它杀死。
• The hawk snatched the chicken and flew away.老鹰叼了小鸡就飞走了。

8 outlaw   

n.歹徒，亡命之徒；vt.宣布…为不合法

参考例句：

• The outlaw hid out in the hills for several months.逃犯在山里隐藏了几个月。
• The outlaw has been caught.歹徒已被抓住了。

9 weaver   

n.织布工；编织者

参考例句：

• She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快，而且布的质量很好。
• The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。

10 schooling   

n.教育；正规学校教育

参考例句：

• A child's access to schooling varies greatly from area to area.孩子获得学校教育的机会因地区不同而大相径庭。
• Backward children need a special kind of schooling.天赋差的孩子需要特殊的教育。

11 creek   

n.小溪，小河，小湾

参考例句：

• He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
• People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。

12 Buddhist   

adj./n.佛教的，佛教徒

参考例句：

• The old lady fell down in adoration before Buddhist images.那老太太在佛像面前顶礼膜拜。
• In the eye of the Buddhist,every worldly affair is vain.在佛教徒的眼里，人世上一切事情都是空的。