影视听力 第35期: I'm Not There我不在场

剧情简介

在这部关于鲍勃·迪伦生平的传记电影中，将分别由六位演员扮演鲍勃·迪伦，分别演绎鲍勃在不同时代的生活故事和音乐经历。该片讲述了鲍勃·迪伦早期作为民谣歌手艰苦奋斗的生活，和1960年代初成形的美国民歌界的英雄和知识分子，具有争议的摇滚转型、摩托车意外事故还有后来从公众视线里销声匿迹的隐退，近年来工作重心不放在录制唱片而是举行巡回演唱会上，如名为“永不停止的巡演”（The Never Ending Tour）等等。

 对话文本:(系普特网友整理，文本只包括旁白影评部分，不包括电影原声。)

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, Christian¹ Bale, and Heath Ledger² who incarnate³ 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 interpretation⁴ 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 celebrity⁵, 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 whatsoever⁶ 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 obsession⁷ with Dylan, Todd Haynes's.

And as such it's a really exhilarating experience. In effect, you are watching one very smart, very tricky⁸, very clever artist. That's Todd Haynes paying tribute to one who has no match when it comes to cleverness, trickiness⁹, or mischievous¹⁰ intelligence.

1 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

2 ledger   

n.总帐，分类帐；帐簿

参考例句：

• The young man bowed his head and bent over his ledger again.那个年轻人点头应诺，然后又埋头写起分类帐。
• She is a real accountant who even keeps a detailed household ledger.她不愧是搞财务的，家庭分类账记得清楚详细。

3 incarnate   

adj.化身的，人体化的，肉色的

参考例句：

• She was happiness incarnate.她是幸福的化身。
• That enemy officer is a devil incarnate.那个敌军军官简直是魔鬼的化身。

4 interpretation   

n.解释，说明，描述；艺术处理

参考例句：

• His statement admits of one interpretation only.他的话只有一种解释。
• Analysis and interpretation is a very personal thing.分析与说明是个很主观的事情。

5 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。

6 whatsoever   

adv.（用于否定句中以加强语气）任何；pron.无论什么

参考例句：

• There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
• All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样，你就怎样对人。

7 obsession   

n.困扰，无法摆脱的思想(或情感)

参考例句：

• I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
• She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。

8 tricky   

adj.狡猾的，奸诈的；(工作等)棘手的，微妙的

参考例句：

• I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手，你能帮我吗？
• He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题，只做了个笼统的表述。

9 trickiness   

n.欺骗；狡猾；棘手；微妙

参考例句：

• These puzzles are famous for their trickiness. 这些智力游戏以其机巧而闻名。 来自互联网

10 mischievous   

adj.调皮的，恶作剧的，有害的，伤人的

参考例句：

• He is a mischievous but lovable boy.他是一个淘气但可爱的小孩。
• A mischievous cur must be tied short.恶狗必须拴得短。