《The Pianist》　鋼琴師　在充滿敵意與荒謬的世界里

No.083　《The Pianist》　鋼琴師　在充滿敵意與荒謬的世界里

英文導讀

The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film directed by Roman Polanski, written by Ronald Harwood and starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of Death of a City, a World War II memoir by the Polish-Jewish musician W?adys?aw Szpilman. The film is a co-production between Poland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay), his sisters Halina and Regina (Jessica Kate Meyer and Julia Rayner), and his brother, Henryk (Ed Stoppard). While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming presence of German forces and Hitler's designs on Poland, they're convinced that the Nazis are a menace which will pass, and that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis. Wladyslaw's naïveté is shattered when a German bomb rips through a radio studio while he performs a recital for broadcast. During the early stages of the Nazi occupation, as a respected artist, he still imagines himself above the danger, using his pull to obtain employment papers for his father and landing a supposedly safe job playing piano in a restaurant. But as the German grip tightens upon Poland, Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to face a certain death, Wladyslaw goes into hiding in a comfortable apartment provided by a friend. However, when his benefactor goes missing, Wladyslaw is left to fend for himself and he spends the next several years dashing from one abandoned home to another, desperate to avoid capture by German occupation troops. The Pianist was based on the memoir of the same name by the reallife Wladyslaw Szpilman; the book was first published in 1946 as Death of a City, but was banned by Polish Communist officials and went out of print until 1998, when a new edition was issued as The Pianist.

The Pianist received positive reviews from film critics. It has a 96% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 178 reviews with an average rating of 8.2/10 and the consensus, "Well-acted and dramatically moving, The Pianist is Polanski's best work in years." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave a positive review of the film, noting that "perhaps that impassive quality reflects what (director Roman) Polanski wants to say... By showing Szpilman as a survivor but not a fighter or a hero—as a man who does all he can to save himself, but would have died without enormous good luck and the kindness of a few non-Jews—Polanski is reflecting... his own deepest feelings: that he survived, but need not have, and that his mother died and left a wound that had never healed."

The Pianist met with significant critical praise and received multiple awards and nominations. At the 75th Academy Awards, The Pianist won Oscars for Best Director (Polanski), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ronald Harwood) and Best Actor (Brody), and was also nominated for four other awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 2003 and seven French Césars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Brody.

獲獎情況

2003年第75屆奧斯卡：最佳導演、最佳男主角、最佳改編劇本獎，并榮獲最佳影片提名、最佳剪輯提名、最佳服裝設計提名。

影片信息

導演：羅曼·波蘭斯基

編劇：羅納德·哈伍德

主演：阿德里安·布洛迪、托馬斯·克萊舒曼、艾米麗雅·?？怂?/p>

類型：劇情、傳記、戰(zhàn)爭

制片國家（地區(qū)）：法國、德國、英國、波蘭

上映日期：2002-09-25（法國）

片長：150分鐘

又名：《戰(zhàn)地琴人》《鋼琴戰(zhàn)曲》《鋼琴師》

劇情簡介

《鋼琴師》這部影片反映了第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間顛沛流離的生活，是導演波蘭斯基本人真實的成長經(jīng)歷，這部電影也融入了他個人的感悟。

影片根據(jù)波蘭鋼琴家瓦拉迪斯羅·斯皮曼的自傳體小說改編。斯皮曼出生于1911年，他與生俱來的鋼琴天賦，給他帶來了很多光芒，幾年后他被保送到柏林深造。

1933年，他的第一場個人演奏會得到了歐洲音樂界高度評價，回國后，他成為波蘭最年輕的鋼琴家之一。1939年，德國入侵波蘭，猶太人的身份讓斯皮曼的生命受到嚴重威脅。他的父母、親戚相繼被送到集中營。他被迫開始了逃亡的生活，在朋友的幫助下四處躲避追捕，等待救援，死亡的陰影時刻出現(xiàn)。直到有一位熱愛音樂的德國軍官被他的鋼琴聲音深深地打動，決定冒險保護這位年輕的鋼琴師。

在這位德國軍官的庇護下，斯皮曼熬到了戰(zhàn)爭結束。他將這段經(jīng)歷寫成了小說《死亡的城市》。但由于書中描寫了波蘭猶太人對當時蘇聯(lián)的不信任，有政治上的敏感話題，遭到蘇聯(lián)查禁。直到20世紀90年代，這本書才得以重見天日，改名為《鋼琴師》在美國重新發(fā)行，一舉登上了《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜。

制作花絮

阿德里安為了演這個角色，將自己的房子、車子都賣掉，只身到法國拍片，在拍片的七、八周內(nèi)，他每天要練4個小時的鋼琴，而且為了符合角色形象還要節(jié)食， 183厘米的身高，體重最后減到只剩下61千克。但是他為這個角色所付出的一切，一點也不后悔，因為自己所付出的忍耐和痛苦都不及故事中主角的百分之一。

在倫敦招主角的過程中，超過1400位男演員為瓦拉迪斯勞·斯皮曼的角色試鏡。結果卻令導演很不滿意，最終羅曼·波蘭斯基找到了演員阿德里安，就在巴黎他們兩人第一次會面的時候，波蘭斯基就認為他是最佳人選。

瓦拉迪斯勞·斯皮曼從集中營里逃出來并被告之“不要跑！”這段場景，來源于導演羅曼·波蘭斯基的一段類似的真實經(jīng)歷。

這是第一部獲得愷撒最佳電影大獎（法國國家電影獎項）而沒有任何一句法語出現(xiàn)的電影。

重點學習

And that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis

文中的in the event of是英語中的一個固定搭配，它有“如果，如果…發(fā)生，萬一，倘使”的意思，比如：In the event of illness, each student has a medical assistance card.（以防萬一生病，每個學生都得辦一張醫(yī)療幫助卡。）

When a German bomb rips through a radio studio

Rip through是英語中的一個固定短語，它有“裂開；突進；橫沖直撞；猛烈爆炸”的意思，比如：Bicycles with explosives rip through an outdoor market in the south of Baghdad.（帶有炸藥的自行車炸毀了巴格達南部的一個室外市場。）

單詞時間

devastate[?dev?steit] vt. 毀滅；毀壞

downbeat[?daunbi?t] adj. 悲觀的；不強烈的

occupation[??kju?pei??n] n. 職業(yè)；占有；消遣；占有期

comfortable[?k?mf?t?bl] adj. 舒適的，舒服的

flat[flæt] n. 平地；平面；公寓

menace[?men?s] n. 威脅；恐嚇

deportation[?di:p?:?tei??n] n. 驅逐出境；放逐

concentration[?k?ns?n?trei??n] n. 濃度；集中；濃縮；專心；集合

benefactor[?benifækt?] n. 恩人；捐助者；施主

memoir[?memwɑ:] n. 回憶錄；研究報告；自傳；實錄

impassive[im?pæsiv] adj. 冷漠的；無感覺的