[转帖] [Arts] [2011.09.17] Cold-war comeback 《锅匠 裁缝 士兵 间谍》：冷战归来

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“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
《锅匠，裁缝，士兵，间谍》

Cold-war comeback
冷战卷土重来


John le Carré’s thriller remade—and remodeled
约翰·勒·卡雷的侦探小说翻拍成电影，并且改头換面

Sep 17th 2011 | from the print edition



GARY OLDMAN, the pomaded star of the remake of John le Carré’s 1970s cold-war thriller, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, found himself being asked one question over and over while he was shooting the film. How different would he be from Alec Guinness, his predecessor in the role of George Smiley? “There are many ways of playing Smiley,” he found himself replying laconically. “Just as there are many ways of playing Hamlet.” And so it proves.

《锅匠，裁缝，士兵，间谍》是根据约翰·勒·卡雷的七十年代冷战侦探小说而翻拍的电影，打上发油的加里·奥德曼是该片的主演明星，他发现自己在拍摄这部电影时一遍又一遍地被问到一个问题：与之前版本中饰演乔治·史迈利一角的亚利克·基尼斯相比，他会呈现出多大的区别？“饰演史迈利的方式有很多种，”他简洁地对此回应。“就像饰演哈姆雷特的方式有很多种一样。”它如是证实。

Twelve years younger than Guinness was when he made the English spy famous in a BBC television adaptation in 1979, Mr Oldman (pictured below) has made his hero, in his own words, sexier, crueller and more melancholic. The old flabby, flaccid Smiley seems to have been retired, just as the old spymaster himself was put out to grass in the book. And there’s a sadistic side that Mr Oldman has brought carefully to the surface.

基尼斯在1979年的BBC电视改编版中饰演了这个英国间谍并使这一角色名声大噪。加里·奥德曼饰演他时要比当年的基尼斯年轻12岁。用奥德曼自己的话说，他让这个男主角更加性感、残忍而忧郁。老版中那位寡断且软弱的史迈利看上去像是早已退休，就像书中那个老间谍首脑自己被免职一样。奥德曼也小心翼翼地将该角色身上暴虐的一面展现了出来。

The British actor has had help along the way. First was the decision to appoint a Swede, Tomas Alfredson, to direct. Although best known for once directing a vampire film, Mr Alfredson has clearly also been influenced by the Danish crime series, “The Killing”. He brings a crucial pared-down bleakness that is unencumbered by too much fussy British anxiety about accents and class.

这位英国演员一路上得到了很多帮助。首先是该片被委任给瑞典人托马斯·阿尔弗莱德森来执导的决定。尽管阿尔弗莱德森以自己执导的一部吸血鬼电影而为人熟知，他也明显深受丹麦罪案剧集《谋杀》的影响。他为该片带来了至关重要的经过削弱的阴郁氛围，它并没有受到太多来自英国人对口音及阶级过于挑剔的焦躁的妨碍。

Then there is the fact that to work as a feature film, Mr le Carré’s book had to be condensed into 127 minutes, almost a third of the length of the television version. The action is tighter, more precise and more affecting. The catastrophic foray into the Czech double-agent underworld that takes up almost the entire first television programme, with much driving through mud and running about in dark forests, is, in the film, dispatched in two brisk takes: the British agent is shot as he leaves the café where a first meeting has been set up; a young woman, gently feeding her baby at the next table, is killed in the attack. As blood runs down the side of her face from the single bullet hole in the temple, the camera pans out to show her child still suckling at her breast.

然后就是这样一个事实：要将它制作成一部故事长片，约翰·勒·卡雷的书必须被浓缩进127分钟的胶片之内，这几乎只是电视版本时长的三分之一。情节更紧凑、更明确，也更感人了。对捷克双面特工地下组织悲惨的突袭几乎占据了电视剧版第一集的全部篇幅，它有大量驱车驶过泥地并在黑暗森林中奔跑的镜头，这在电影版中则由机敏的两个镜头完成：英国特工在离开召开第一次会议的咖啡馆时被射杀；一个坐在旁边座位上温柔地哺育着自己孩子的年轻女人在袭击中遇害。当鲜血从太阳穴上的子弹孔沿着脸颊流下时，镜头拉开并呈现了仍在吮吸着乳汁的孩子。

Paradoxically, Mr Alfredson has managed to keep the book’s slow, cerebral mood while at the same time speeding up the narrative about agents and double agents. Even the simplified version subtly emphasises the many subterranean conflicts between the players as they try to work out who is the best person to spy on the spies.

自相矛盾的是，阿尔弗莱德森一边试图保留书中缓慢而费脑的气氛，同时又加快了有关特工和双面特工们的叙事。甚至精简版中也巧妙地强调了在试图决定谁是去监视那些间谍的最佳人选时参与者们之间的许多隐秘斗争。

If Mr le Carré gave the book life and Alec Guinness extended it, Mr Alfredson has given the story a whole new incarnation. “Tinker, Tailor” brings together some of Britain’s finest—John Hurt, Toby Jones, and Colin Firth as the traitor to king and country. As for Mr Oldman’s Smiley, he might be more sexy, but his calibrated coldness can’t be mistaken for kindness. A deliciously memorable film.

如果说约翰·勒·卡雷为这本书赋予了生命，亚利克·基尼斯延长了它的生命的话，那么阿尔弗莱德森就是给了这个故事一个全新的肉身。《锅匠》一片聚集了英国最出色的一批演员——约翰·赫特，托比·琼斯以及柯林·菲尔斯，他们饰演国王及国家的叛徒。至于奥德曼所饰演的史迈利，他或许确实更性感了，但他那经校准过的冷淡不会被误认为是仁慈。一部好看而难忘的佳片。

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