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美國作家吉爾 彭德(Gil Pender)隨未婚妻一家到法國巴黎采購婚禮用品,卻意外地在午夜登上一輛神秘的汽車。吉爾意外地見識了“黃金時代(The Golden Age)”巴黎的紙醉金迷,邂逅了當時生活在巴黎的各界名人,包括海明威、畢加索……在夢幻與現實的迷失與穿越中,吉爾最終在自己的寫作生涯上找到了突破口,也在浪漫之都結識了心靈伴侶。
由美國影壇傳奇人物伍迪 艾倫(Woody Allen)執導的影片《午夜巴黎》(Midnight in Paris)就講述了這麼一個故事。該片是2011年戛納電影節揭幕影片,被稱為是伍迪 艾倫“寫給巴黎的情書”,更深層地探討了美國與法國在生活選擇上的差異。
第一次世界大戰後,巴黎成了文化之都,令世界各地的音樂人、歌手、作家、思想家等無比向往,移居此地。本選段講的是吉爾在菲茨傑拉德夫婦(the Fitzgeralds)的引見下與海明威(Hemingway)初次見麵時的對話。
(They walk into 【1】Dingo Bar.)
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Greetings and 1)salutations. You’ll forgive me. I’ve been mixing grain and 2)grappa. Now this is a writer, aah, Gil. Yes? Gil.
Gil Pender: Gil Pender.
Fitzgerald: Gil Pender.
Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway.
Gil:(astonished) Hemingway?
Hemingway: You like my book?
Gil: Liked. I loved…a-all your work.
Hemingway: Yes, it was a good book because it was an honest book. And that’s what war does to men. And there’s nothing fine and noble about dying in the mud, unless you die gracefully. And then it’s not only noble, but brave.
Zelda Fitzgerald: (to Hemingway) Did you read my story? What’d you think?
Hemingway: There was some fine writing in it, but it was unfulfilled.
Zelda: I mighta known you’d hate it.
Fitzgerald: But, darling, you’re too sensitive.
Zelda: You like my story, but he hates me.
Fitzgerald: (to Hemingway) ①Please, old sport, you make matters extremely difficult.
Zelda: I’m 3)jumpy. Suddenly I don’t like the atmosphere here anymore.
Fitzgerald: Zelda, sweetheart…
Zelda: (wants to leave with Juan Belmonte) If you’re gonna stay here and drink with him, I’m goin’ with the 4)toreador.
Fitzgerald: (to Belmonte) Oh, would you bring her back at a reasonable time?
(Zelda leaves with Belmonte.)
Hemingway: She’ll drive you crazy, this woman.
Fitzgerald: She’s exciting, and she has talent.
Hemingway: This month it’s writing. Last month it was something else. You’re a writer. You need time to write, not all this fooling around. She’s wasting you because she’s really a competitor, (to Gil) don’t you agree?
Gil:Me?
Hemingway: ②Speak up, for Christ’s sake. I’m asking if you think my friend’s making a tragic mistake.
Gil:Actually, I…I don’t know the Fitzgeralds that well, so…
Hemingway: You’re a writer. You make observations. You were with them all night.
Fitzgerald: Can we not discuss my personal life in public?
Hemingway: She’s jealous of his gift…
Fitzgerald: Ugh.
Hemingway: …and it’s a fine gift. It’s rare. (to Gil) You like his work? You can speak freely.
Fitzgerald: Stop it! Would…stop it!
Hemingway: (to Gil)You like Mark Twain?
Fitzgerald: I’m going to find Zelda. I don’t like the thought of her with that 5)Spaniard.
(Fitzgerald walks away.)
Gil: (to Hemingway) May I? Yeah, I’m actually a huge Mark Twain fan. ③I…I think you can even make the case that all modern American literature comes from Huckleberry Finn.
Hemingway: You box?
Gil:No. No. Hmm. Not really, no.
Hemingway: What are you writing?
Gil:Novel.
Hemingway: About what?
Gil:It’s about a…a man who works in a 6)nostalgia shop.