新闻周刊:普卢默:成名于《音乐之声》 在演艺道路上永不停歇(1)

Christopher Plummer on "Boundaries," Replacing Kevin Spacey and Retirement¹: "I'm Going to Drop Dead on Stage, I Hope"

克里斯托弗·普卢默取代凯文·史派西出演电影《边界》，关于退休：“我希望我能死在舞台上”

By Zach Schonfeld

作者：扎克·斯科菲尔德

Christopher Plummer is talking about playing Iago, and I am becoming distracted by a monkey.

克里斯托弗·普卢默正在谈论埃古（莎士比亚剧作《奥赛罗》中的反面人物），而我被一只猴子分散了注意力。

Forgive me: There is a magnificent painting in Plummer's living room,

请原谅我：普卢默的客厅里挂着一幅漂亮的画，

an 18th-century portrait of a mischievous² monkey raiding a fruit platter, and it's on a wall just over his shoulder.

这是18世纪的画，淘气猴子偷吃水果拼盘的肖像，，画就挂在他肩膀上方的墙上。

The 88-year-old actor must be used to the distraction³ of his guests,

这位88岁的演员一定习惯了客人的分心，

because my wandering gaze produces a benevolent⁴ chuckle⁵.

因为我四处张望的目光引来一阵仁慈的笑声。

In fact, Plummer's house—

事实上，普卢默的屋子

a sprawling⁶, century-old former barn hidden in the rolling woods of southwestern Connecticut—

——一个巨大的百年谷仓，隐藏在康涅狄格州西南部起伏的树林里

resembles a shrine⁷ to the animal kingdom,

——就像动物王国的圣地，

with monkeys, birds and other creatures painted on walls, embroidered⁸ on cushions and set within frames.

猴子、鸟类还有其他物种绘在墙上、绣在垫子上、镶在镜框里。

Dogs, however, win: There's a painting of a pooch, and photos of Plummer’s own now-deceased dogs.

然而，狗赢了：有一幅狗的画，多张普卢默自己已逝的狗的照片。

He's crazy for them.

普卢默深深爱着它们。

"I really like them better than people," Plummer confesses.

“我爱他们胜于爱人，”普卢默坦白道。

"Also, I love to be loved. I need to be loved. And dogs can give you that in two seconds."

“而且，我爱被爱的感觉。我需要被爱。而狗狗可以在两秒内我给这些感受。”

Humans might not give it up quite so fast,

人可能不会这么快就放弃，

but there's plenty of adoration⁹ going around thanks to a late-career renaissance¹⁰ that makes Plummer's Sound of Music stardom seem like a distant prelude¹¹ from another century (which it was, come to think of it).

但由于职业生涯的复兴，普卢默的《音乐之声》似乎是另一个世纪遥远的序曲，到处都是崇拜（你想起来了吧）。

Dogs, it turns out, are also abundant in his latest film, the dysfunctional-family comedy Boundaries, co-starring Vera Farmiga.

事实证明，在他最新的电影机能失调的家庭喜剧《边界》中，狗狗的数量也很多，和维拉·法梅加共同演绎。

She plays a struggling single mom who can't stop rescuing strays dogs off the streets;

法梅加扮演一个苦苦挣扎的单亲妈妈，不由自主去救助街上那些流浪狗；

he is her pot-dealing father who was never around when she needed him.

普卢默扮演单亲妈妈的父亲，贩卖大麻，在需要的时候从不在场。

When dad is kicked out of his nursing home, the pair is forced to road-trip cross-country with her troubled son.

当父亲从养老院被赶出来时，夫妇二人被强迫和儿子一起进行横穿全国的公路旅行。

This trigenerational plot is a bit reminiscent of Sidney Lumet's 1989 movie Family Business

这三代人的情节让人想起西德尼·吕米特1989年的电影《家族企业》

(in which Sean Connery plays the lawbreaking grandfather of Matthew Broderick),

（在《家族企业》中，肖恩·康纳利饰演马修·布罗德里克的祖父），

which is a neat coincidence since Plummer made his film debut¹² in another Lumet movie,

这是一个纯粹的巧合，因为正是普卢默在吕美特导演的电影中的首次亮相，

1958's Stage Struck,

1958年的《战国春秋》，

and starred alongside Connery in the 1975 gem¹³ The Man Who Would Be King.

且与康纳利一起主演了1975年的《国王的男人》。

1 retirement   

n.退休，退职

参考例句：

• She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
• I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。

2 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。

3 distraction   

n.精神涣散，精神不集中，消遣，娱乐

参考例句：

• Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注，不能有丝毫分神。
• Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。

4 benevolent   

adj.仁慈的，乐善好施的

参考例句：

• His benevolent nature prevented him from refusing any beggar who accosted him.他乐善好施的本性使他不会拒绝走上前向他行乞的任何一个乞丐。
• He was a benevolent old man and he wouldn't hurt a fly.他是一个仁慈的老人，连只苍蝇都不愿伤害。

5 chuckle   

vi.／n.轻声笑，咯咯笑

参考例句：

• He shook his head with a soft chuckle.他轻轻地笑着摇了摇头。
• I couldn't suppress a soft chuckle at the thought of it.想到这个，我忍不住轻轻地笑起来。

6 sprawling   

adj.蔓生的，不规则地伸展的v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的现在分词 )；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）

参考例句：

• He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上。
• a modern sprawling town 一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇

7 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
• They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。

8 embroidered   

adj．绣花的

参考例句：

• She embroidered flowers on the cushion covers. 她在这些靠垫套上绣了花。
• She embroidered flowers on the front of the dress. 她在连衣裙的正面绣花。

9 adoration   

n.爱慕，崇拜

参考例句：

• He gazed at her with pure adoration.他一往情深地注视着她。
• The old lady fell down in adoration before Buddhist images.那老太太在佛像面前顶礼膜拜。

10 renaissance   

n.复活，复兴，文艺复兴

参考例句：

• The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。
• The theme of the conference is renaissance Europe.大会的主题是文艺复兴时期的欧洲。

11 prelude   

n.序言，前兆，序曲

参考例句：

• The prelude to the musical composition is very long.这首乐曲的序曲很长。
• The German invasion of Poland was a prelude to World War II.德国入侵波兰是第二次世界大战的序幕。

12 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

13 gem   

n.宝石，珠宝；受爱戴的人 [同]jewel

参考例句：

• The gem is beyond my pocket.这颗宝石我可买不起。
• The little gem is worth two thousand dollars.这块小宝石价值两千美元。