2007/8提過她演出《And When Did You Last See Your Father?》,大概是去年吧,念她念著慌,我從Amazon UK買來DVD。EC戲份不多,演出年輕的侍女和少主發生一段情,後來扮老成中年婦女與長大後的少主(Colin Firth飾)續舊。故事重點不在EC,不過Jim Broadbent與Colin Firth精采的父子對手戲,結尾讓我大哭一場。
The Snowman是1982年在英國Channel 4播出的動畫,一直到80年代末期我才從LD影碟看到這部作品.我一直不能忘懷小男孩與雪人在空中自由飛翔配上插曲"Walking in the Air",對童真與想像力最美麗的描繪.而片尾的圍巾,既點出時光流逝的惆悵,也留下希望.
第三季Glee配合耶誕節翻唱"Do They Know It's Christmas?",我回頭找出1984年的原唱,記得那時音樂影帶在台灣還不流行,電台主持人余光介紹它有一堆當紅藝人助陣,快速登上流行排行榜.以我淺薄的音樂常識,到現在也只認出:Duran Duran, Paul Young, Boy George, George Michael, Sting, Bono, Phil Collins. 當時男歌手髮長濃密,不是同志的也像個同志.流行歌手為慈善目的合力出片,此似為濫觴.
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最近Glee第三季在美國最火紅的曲目是劇中Mercedes與Santana一起表演Adele兩首作品 "Rumour Has It/Someone Like You" 重組編曲。這部影集最受歡迎的曲子通常不是去比較和原作如何貼近,而是創新的詮釋角度和新注入的情感。Adele的表演已經非常飽滿,Santna還能唱出另一種境界真是令人讚歎。Santana那句:Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said,從原版淡淡地哀怨變成高空墜落穿破胸口的巨刃(不過配舞看來有點不搭):
娜塔莉擁有龐大的金錢自主權之後,首先登場的戀人是Elisabeth de Gramont (1875–1954),出身法國貴族,家族歷史可追溯至17世紀.兩人在1909年春天相識,直到1910年5月1日被標記為戀情的紀念日.我們不知道Elisabeth先前有沒有女同經歷,只曉得她當時已是Clermont-Tonnerre公爵夫人,而且育有兩女.
看過Milk(自由大道)就知道這位就是知名的Harvey Milk在1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade的歷史留影。
上方彩虹彩帶攝於華盛頓特區,下方豎立於費城的紀念碑文:Gay Rights Demonstrations July 4, 1965-1969. Annual public demonstrations for gay and lesbian equality were held at Independence Hall. These peaceful protests and New York's stonewall riots in 1969 & Pride Parade in 1970 transformed a small national campaign into a civil rights movements.
沒機會看全版轉播,就看英國衛報提供這段精采剪載版。1:49出現Jane本次典禮中最佳台詞: "A lot of people are very curious why I’m a lesbian. Ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage."「我家也有大明星」的一班角色把人家逼彎的。
說到宗教和歷史,我推薦另一本80年代老書新譯:《讀歷史,我可以學會什麼?》(The Lessons of History)為歷史學家威爾杜蘭《世界文明史》的最終篇。其中一章,他認為宗教對社會安定有很大功能,因為「神最初是由恐懼而產生」,神職人員順勢利用宗教來支持某些道德規範和律法。其實大自然的勝敗與善惡無關,也與宗教無關.然而宗教會隨著時局變化而消長,不可能完全消失。宗教厲害之處是能為一般人帶來想像和希望,「只要貧窮存在,上帝也會存在」。我認為其中的「貧窮」是種代名詞,凡是對現狀無所適從者,容易向宗教尋求慰藉。
或許我們的人心在處於黑暗時代,這是因為事情本來就難以理解?還是有人抗拒理解?
"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"電視版女主角是Charlotte Coleman,她最知名的作品可能是《Four Weddings and a Funeral》 (妳是我今生的新娘,1994),飾演休格蘭的妹妹,愛頂著一頭彩色短髮.很可惜她在2001年因病去世.
電視版的養母由Geraldine McEwan飾演,後來她演出陳可辛在美執導的《The Love Letter》(情有千千結,1999),片中令人芳心大亂的情書其實出自Geraldine McEwan的角色。
席維斯史特龍在1995年演過的版本叫《Judge Dredd 超時空戰警 》,但我不記得有Madeline Madrigal這個角色。編劇描述此角:“a woman in her late fifties or early sixties with a big scar through her cheek and lip.” Lena Headey就是扮演這位壞女人,年紀並不顯老,但是臉上有疤,確實有點不計形象。她為什麼常要超齡演出,這是市場定位的策略嗎?
OK, the next book... I'm right in the middle of it at the moment, so it's very much in my head. It's set in London in the 1920s, and is full of lesbian passion and angst – great fun, especially after The Little Stranger ...
華老師會重讀20年代的《寂寞之井》
The Well of Loneliness: I haven't read it for years, and must re-read it now that I'm working on the '20s
For research – I'm reading lots of Virginia Woolf, which is fabulous. Novels, diaries and letters – every observation so brutally perfect - she's got a mind like a skewer! But I'm also reading middlebrow fiction from the '10s and '20s – authors who were fantastically popular in their day but very unfashionable now, like Warwick Deeping, and Robert Hichens (who's unexpectedly rather wonderful, with lots of 'women on the edge of a nervous breakdown'-type female characters)
她也提到對於The Night Watch電視版的看法,唉,我就不提了,等到寫影評,我自己來一次痛痛快快的清算.
華老師最後提到對一些女同影視的印象,《Portrait of a Marriage》肯定是研究20年代拉子故事的參考資料之一.她沒看過《Candy Bar Girls》(我沒看過)但看過《Lip Service》,還覺得《Lip Service》不錯呢.
TV-wise, Janet McTeer was pretty darn good as Vita S-W in Portrait of a Marriage. Gina Gershon was good in Bound. Fiction-wise - God, my mind's gone blank... Help me out, someone.
I missed the Candy Bar thing. I fear it will make me feel Very Old. I did enjoy Lip Service, which was good when it was daft but really very good when it got less daft: I wish someone had seen that there was a rather brilliant drama in there, struggling to get out.
The media - I just wish that lesbians and gay men would get represented in ordinary rather than sensational ways - in stories that aren't necessarily about sexuality at all.
在娜塔莉厚重的情史,第一個出現的重量級人物是巴黎高級名妓Liane de Pougy (1869–1950)。所有的資料都提到娜塔莉1899年愛上她,後來打扮成「侍童」的模樣(另一說,她穿得像王爾德筆下的Happy Prince),說自己是愛神差使而來,對她大獻慇虔。Liane見識過各方追求,竟喜歡上娜塔莉的表白,陷入熱戀。Liane還暱稱娜塔莉為moonlight(月光),取其銀白髮色。
Liane de Pougy本名Anne Marie Chassaigne,出身小康家庭,16歲不願奉父母之命成婚,但不幸自己選擇私奔的對象是個打老婆的爛人,讓她一生帶著毒打造成的傷疤。她後來拋家棄子,學習琴棋書畫、舞蹈、表演,改頭換面,終於在巴黎打出名號。