
藍海策略不只是個商業用語,它指的是全新的觀點,有時更是指廣宏的氣度.我們看到許多此時此刻在此地同樣發生的事情:全球化的市場競爭、即將沒落的傳統產業、保守狹隘的人心、封閉的刻板印象.....
英國人再度用傑出的劇本講述溫暖勵志但角度創新的電影故事.從<The Full Monty 脫線舞男>:失業鋼鐵工人敬業地將脫衣舞當成正經的工作,而且還包容其中一對男同志、<Billy Elliot舞動人生>:小男孩拒絕拳擊,勇敢地追求看似娘娘腔的芭蕾舞、<Calendar Girls 辣嬤寫真>:一群中年女子大膽以裸照為教會募款.<Kinky Boots 長靴妖姬>則將鞋廠維新與變裝作了巧妙融合.


Lauren這個角色排名第三,但戲份不多.她是一個符碼,象徵人心所有的優點:創新,包容,支持,激勵.她也是用來調合片中的男同志氣息.同樣是短髮,Sarah-Jane Potts把額頭梳起,有時還上了髮夾,看起來就像保守小鎮上的女孩.她鼻樑不高,甚至有點鼻頭朝天,再加上輪廓不深,簡直像長不大的娃娃臉.Sugar Rush會找她演出,外形上還真有點出奇招.但我家那口子對我說:我比較喜歡Sugar Rush裡的她.


"I'm not merely a transvestite, I'm also a drag queen. It's a simple equation. A drag queen puts on a frock looks like Kylie. A transvestite puts on a frock on looks like Boris Yeltsin in lipstick.
我不只是變裝癖,我還是變裝藝人.這很容易分.變裝藝人打扮起來像凱莉米洛(名歌手).變裝癖打扮起來像塗口紅的葉爾欽(前蘇聯總理)"
產業轉型總有陣痛,第一個難關是商品設計.Charlie第一件作品被Lola批評得體無完膚.
Lola: Burgundy....Please, God, tell me I've not inspired something burgundy. Red..Red..Red..Red, Charlie, boy! Rule one. Red is the color of sex. Burgundy is the color of hot-water bottles. Red is the color of sex and fear of danger, and signs that say, "Do not Enter". All of my favorite things in life. 酒紅色...老天,別說我給你酒紅色的靈感.紅色...紅色...紅色...紅色,小查!第一條,紅色是性感的顏色,酒紅色是熱水瓶.紅色是性感、恐懼危險的顏色,以及警示:禁上進入.我一生的最愛.
(*真講到我的心坎裡,看看Bad Girls 101 的劇評,我就是這樣在看那集紅色的運用)
Charlie: But they're comfy. 但它很舒服.
Lola: Comfy? Sex shouldn't be comfy.舒服?性感不該是舒服的.
I don't know what you're used to making, but now you're making sex. Two-and-a-half feet of irresistible tubular sex. I mean, that heel. For God's sake. 我不知道你以前在做什麼,但你現在是製造性感.二呎半長筒,無可抗拒的性感.我說,那鞋跟啊.幫幫忙.


編劇還安排鞋廠的資深男性員工提出解決方案:"Steel shank. A steel shank, cut thinly. Then molded in a continuous section from toe to heel without pinning. Not even Don would crush that. 用鋼片支撐鞋筒.切得很薄的鋼片支撐鞋筒,然後從腳尖到腳跟一體成型,連大胖子Don都穿不垮." (*這一段我不採用DVD的中譯,這是我的理解.)
當然故事的發展是Lola進駐鞋廠,跨刀設計工作.與小鎮居民的互動才是劇情重點.我很喜歡Lola幾段對話:
Charlie: You know you don't have to work in the rough-stuff room.你不必在廢料室工作.
Lola: But I feel at home here. They're my friends. Besides, one never knows what joy one might find amongst the unwanted...and abandoned. 但我有歸屬感.它們是我的朋友.何況,你永遠不知道沒有人要的東西裡....和被遺棄的東西裡,有什麼寶藏.”

Mike: Well, you wouldn't put a frock on. If you don't want to get off with blokes, why put a frock on? 你可以不用扮成女人.如果你不想和男人搞上,幹什麼扮成女人?
Lola: Thing is, Mike, ask any woman what she likes most in a man. Compassion, tendrness, sensitivity. Traditionally the female virtues. Perhaps what women secretly desire is a man who is fundamentally a woman. 問問女人,她們最喜歡什麼樣的男人?熱情、溫柔、敏感.都是傳統的女性美德.或許女人心裡想要的,是有女人本質的男人.
我當時聽到這句竊喜,字面上好像在解釋異性戀裡男性該擁有女性特質,但是微調最後一句譯法,倒好像在肯定所有女性不自覺的同性情慾:"或許女人暗地期望的男人,其實是個女人."

我回想起不少電影曾包括類似的顛覆意圖:
<Better Than Chocolate 甜過巧克力>:由男變女的變性人愛上偏T的書店女店長.
<High Heels 高跟鞋>:西班牙導演Almodovar 阿莫多瓦最愛玩耍性別主題.在本片男探長另一個身份是裝扮藝人,但愛的是女主角.
<Gaudi Afternoon>:<Six Feets Under 六尺風雲>裡的Lili Taylor演出穿著男裝的T,因<Pollack>獲得Oscar最佳女配角的Marcia Gay Harden「反串」穿著女裝的男變性人....夠性別混亂吧?二個人在片中爭奪小孩的撫養權.
女演員「反串」男變女或男性裝扮者,有越來越多的情況.近期有得獎的<Transamerica 窈窕老爸>,大家喜愛的Katherine Moennig以前曾在<Law & Order: Special Victims Unit>其中一集<Fallacy>「反串」過.連<Connie and Carla 妖姫也瘋狂>亦把類型題材惡搞一下.

在Sugar Rush,Saint曾手執皮鞭,不知Sarah-Jane Potts在這部戲有沒有事先預習過?

在腕力的比賽,Lola特別再穿女裝出現,挑戰Don.Lola其實可以贏過Don,他滿臉通紅,幾乎要哭出來,Lola最後故意放水.Don心知肚明,事後低調地問為什麼,Lola的用心是:"I don't want you to walk in the factory and feel that people didn't respect you, Don. I wouldn't want anyone else to know what that feels like. 我不希望你走入鞋廠覺得別人不尊重你.我不希望任何人有不被尊重的感覺." Don一直不尊重Lola,她用這種方法巧妙地讓他將心比心:Change your mind for somebody.
注意看看Don上臂上的紋身是一個大太陽.我在Movie Talk: Tattoo曾提及太陽與星辰常是雄性(masculinity)的象徵,可見Don的形象多麼陽剛.

Lola回心轉意是因為Charlie的電話留言:"...... I mean, I don't know what half a man is. I don't know what the hell a man is. But I know that if it involves being brave. You are more of a man than I will ever be. 我不曉得什麼叫不男不女,我連什麼是男人都不知道.但如果用勇氣來定義.你比我更像是個男人."
這是電影主題完美的註腳.但我點小小抱怨,女人也很勇敢啊,這樣定義永遠沒完沒了.

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