飞跃情海2004

　　　　
　　　 Somewhere beyond the sea
　　　 Somewhere waitin’ for me
      My lover stands on golden sands
      And watches the ships that go sailin’.
 
      Somewhere beyond the sea
      She's there watchin’ for me
      If I could fly like birds on high
      Then straight to her arms I’d go sailin’.
     
      It's far beyond the stars
      It's near beyond the moon
      I know beyond a doubt
      My heart will lead me there soon.
 
      We'll meet beyond the shore
      We'll kiss just as before
      Happy we'll be beyond the sea
      And never again I'll go sailin'.
 
      I know beyond a doubt
      My heart will lead me there soon
      We'll meet … I know we'll meet … beyond the shore
      We'll kiss just as before.
 
      Happy we'll be beyond the sea
      And never again I'll go sailin'.
 
      No more sailin' …
      So long sailin' …
      Bye, bye sailin'...
      Move on out, captain …
      So long, ensign …
 


Finding Nimo（海底总动员）是我家闺女们常看的片子，结尾的那首Somewhere beyond the sea她们也能哼哼几句。前年有部也是表现歌星生活的传记片，名字就叫　Beyond the Sea，编剧导演和主演是奥斯卡得主Kevin Spacey 。影片的主人公Bobby Darin出身贫寒，小时候即患有心脏病，在母亲的鼓励下开始走上歌舞之路。其实他一直认作母亲的女人是他的外祖母，他是个私生子，其亲生母亲一直被他当做姐姐。婚姻生活也比较离奇，他的妻子Sandra Dee 是童星出身，其母为挣钱谎报了她的年龄，她嫁人的时候才１６岁。为了和死亡争夺时间，Bobby Darin拼命工作，到处演唱、拍电影，曾经获得奥斯卡的提名，３７岁就离开了人世。Beyond the Sea不是他最早演唱，但他的版本比较有名。

在影片中Kevin Spacey 亲自演唱，有评论说比原唱还要好。没听过原唱，不好比较，不过感觉比Walk the Line那两位主演唱得要好得多。不过Kevin Spacey演出时 的年纪比Bobby Darin去世时还大８岁，看他和小姑娘谈恋爱我觉得很不舒服。作为编导还算称职，这是他导演的第二部作品，不知他是否会向前发展。

有意思的是，贝托鲁齐的The Dreamers（戏梦人生）也以那首歌曲为主旋律，歌曲在影片中反复播放，令我怀疑这首歌曲原来就是法文的，从听者的感觉来看，法文版的演唱更自然顺畅。感谢万能的GOOGLE，我今天找到了源头。果真如此。

请看英语版填词人Jack Lawrence 的叙述：
http://www.jacklawrencesongwriter.com/home.html


The Story Behind The Song
As with all of Trenet's songs this one was originally published by Raoul Breton in France with the title "La Mer" (The Sea). This was also the title of a lovely concert piece by Debussy. In previous years I had met M. & Mme. Breton on their New York visits and written English lyrics to their French hits. I never did direct translations; for one thing, my high school French was inadequate.

But I truly felt doing a literal translation was hardly creative so I would play the French song over and over until it became part of me. Then and only then would I start creating my lyric. In the past I had written lyrics to a couple of Trenet's French hits and when we finally met on one of his trips to the U.S. he complimented me on my work.

The Bretons came to my home in New York in '46 with recordings of "La Mer" and said that Trenet would like me to do the English lyric. I loved the unusual melody he had written but was not intrigued with his French lyric, which told about the different moods of the sea, and how they affected him.

Also, most of the recordings that had been made were somber and symphonic in feeling. I decided that my lyric would tell a different story — a romantic tale of a sea-faring lover and a land-locked lover waiting on a golden shore for his return.

I would like to quote from an article by Will Friedwald that appeared in the 2002 music issue of Vanity Fair. He wrote:

"Lawrence's words to "Beyond The Sea" constitute a lyric of the highest order. He started by adding that one word: beyond, and that drove the entire song. In the song's middle section Lawrence goes beyond "beyond" by using the word as the linchpin of a series of phrases, each with a slightly different meaning. "Beyond a star... Beyond the moon... Beyond a doubt" The word star arrives on an accidental C-sharp, which charges the phrase with unexpected oomph and gives the word an especially starry feeling. Changing the title, paradoxically, allowed Lawrence to remain phonetically faithful, at least, to Trenet's original: in Trenet's text each 8 bar "A" section begins with the words "La Mer"; in Lawrence's version each of these sections commences with "Somewhere" so that the English lyric has the same sonic feel as the original."

Thank you, Will, for the clarity of your explanation. It's so nice to know that the workings of one's mind are being appreciated by experts.

Let me continue with more of Will's article:

"For all the craftsmanship of Lawrence and Trenet, "Beyond The Sea" was not an instant hit in America. The early recordings were surprisingly heavy. Benny Goodman recorded it with a string orchestra in 1947 and Tex Beneke cut it with his Glenn Miller orchestra. (An air check survives of Beneke playing it with Ronnie Deauville, a crooner who was almost impossible to distinguish from the young Sinatra. This track has been circulated by collectors as a Miller-Sinatra recording). For ten years or so the song lay dormant."

One day at the publisher's offices I ran into a new young singer with a distinctive style. He was brash and a bit cocky but rather refreshing and his name was Bobby Darin. He didn't hesitate to tell everyone that someday he would be as popular as Sinatra. I gave him a copy of "Beyond The Sea" and asked him what he thought of it. He said he liked some of the recordings he'd heard but he felt the song lacked a definite beat. A few months later he sent me his latest album and there was "Mack The Knife" and "Beyond The Sea" done to a crisp with an infectious toe-tapping beat and Bobby's inimitable delivery. Everyone in the business will agree that Bobby Darin's version turned those two songs into mega-hits.

Through the years, after his untimely death, there has been repeated talk of one of the big studios filming THE BOBBY DARIN STORY. Recently, Kevin Spacey announced that for years he has been eager to star in that role. Some say he may be a bit long in the tooth to play that youngster but let's wait and see. After all, he's an Oscar winner.

热爱音乐热爱秃秃的我，when the curtain falls流下了眼泪。

对这部影片的评价不如说是对Kevin.Spacey的一个诠释。
在这部影片里，秃秃展现了自己对歌唱，舞蹈，演技，导演的才华。
其他都可以，就是作为导演，秃秃还差了一点。
多少这不影片的确没有演绎出Bobby Darin的一身，当然，我不是导演，没有资格评说。

在我想象中（也是一部期待已久的movie）应该是充满那种破旧感的画面，一些安静的片段，可以更加让读者细细寻味。

这部影片就是少了这么些许安静的意味，虽然作为音乐剧式的电影，但是作为诠释Bobby Darin的一生的话，这种手法略显聒噪。

不过，这部影片还是展现出了它的风采，对色彩的追求，对画面的质量，都是一种上层生活的人所体现的品位，从此也可以看出秃秃的品位也是不俗的。

而秃秃也通过这部影片全面得展现了他得才华，让人们了解像他这样的人两次站在Oscar的领奖台上也不是浪得虚名。虽然我觉得他或许还能做的更好一些。

最喜欢的肯定是这部影片的歌曲，秃秃唱的有许多的确可以和原唱媲美，甚至超过原唱。不过也许是因为秃秃的年龄比Bobby Darin大一些，所以对于《Beyond the Sea》这首歌秃秃唱出了更多一些的稳重沧桑，少一些的激情欢乐。而Bobby的那种激情小细节，是秃秃所不能超越的。

另外想说的就是，不知道秃秃选择拍摄该剧是否找到了自己对生命的映射。47岁的他目前仍然未婚，似乎他一直在为电影奔波。这部电影当年在柏林电影节的时候，秃秃开了记者招待会做了相应的宣传，那时候的他看上去如此疲惫不堪（心痛）。可惜此片虽然获得多项提名，却仍然没有得到最终的好评。最近的超人归来上演后，秃秃也坦言似乎自A.B.以后，觉得自己无法在做的更好了。我想秃秃这一路上也是像Darin一样一直在寻找自己吧。希望秃秃成功～！

在中央6套看到了这部片子。吸引我的不是Kevin也不是四五十年代好莱坞的怀旧气息，而完完全全是Kevin在影片里表演的Bobby Darin的音乐。

回忆就像月光 在每个人的眼中都不一样
午夜十分 静静聆听来自kevin spacey的声音 空气中充斥着无限遐想~

不久前听说kevin息影了 也许是结婚 或者是像外界传闻的那样因为《Beyond the sea》没能得到大部分观众的肯定 暂时放弃了对表演事业的执着
现在我们暂且抛开对这部电影的失望与不满 抛开我们眼中狡奸巨猾的跛子杀人狂形象 重新开始认识kevin的精神境界 领略kevin的伟大 对人生的理解与诠释~

对于bobby dralin 这个歌手并不是太熟悉 曾经除了从《海底总动员》的主题曲中听过"beyond the sea"的翻唱 还有我音乐文件夹里孤独的一首"some body to love" 似乎再也没有一点印象~

他没有nat king cole 在国际上的影响力 没能像frank sinatra那样流芳百世 充其量只是一个满怀抱负孤身闯入好莱坞的小演员~对于他的任何一种职业我都没有办法给予正确的判断

当他还是一个初出茅庐的孩子时 对世界充满好奇 什么都敢于尝试 他能歌善舞 并且在电影界取得了优异的成绩 很快又拿到了格莱美奖 娶了美丽的电影明星做妻子~人世间的全部美好在他身上实现了 安逸且激情四射~

当时间像流水一般划过 随之而改变的不单是音乐和电影 国家陷入了政治僵局 大量的民主运动在60年代展开 人们因为奢侈淫乱的物质生活而失去信仰迷乱困惑时 bobby 的事业便一落千丈 曾经靠年轻气盛 勇猛无畏的拼搏得来的一切荣誉都让他开始怀疑 此时看似是一场私人的情感恩怨让bobby逃离了城市 将自己封闭起来不断的谱写新的乐曲 当bobby再度带着Simple Song of Freedom上台演唱时 却被不识趣的观众嘘声赶下台 人们厌恶这样奇怪的音乐 而bobby的样子像足了一个落寞的嬉皮士~

眼见为实 人们在第二次的用心聆听中接受了bobby的创作 但这位伟大的艺术家却因为心脏病永远的去了 他留下许多非凡的创作 这些最流行的爵士歌曲至今为止仍被不少歌手传唱改编 在The Curtain Falls这首歌曲开始的一刹那 我相信 时间抹去的只是一个名字 而伴随着音乐的必定是他的灵魂 一颗对事业执着且热爱的心

《飞越情海》这个翻译显然不够恰当 更加愿意从《海底总动员》里接纳《飞越海洋》这个善良勇敢的名字 故事讲完了 而真正懂得kevin的人们 会和kevin一起明白这不单是一场电影 一场表演show 更是一个完整的人生 每个人都该从中得到历练 进行充满勇气的旅程 从年少轻狂到稳重成熟 从跛子 杀人狂到郁郁不得志的中年男人 包括《超人归来》里的秃头野心家 《k-pax》中的精神病患者 《洛城机密》中的潇洒干探 还有人们眼中极为不解的bobby dralin 歌舞升平 嬉笑怒骂 这就是kevin的本色吧 亲爱的 原谅这个贪玩的大男人 他并非想要改变所有观众和支持者的思想 只是想告诉人们 生活来之不易 能在世上唱唱跳跳 那是多么快乐！

oscar 有好几部人物传记电影，这也是其中一部。虽然有Kevin Spacey这样的大人物来演，然而这部片子本身真的没有ray来的震撼。

    感觉起来就是一个充满野心的男人的演艺历程，一直不认输，一直认为自己会赢，改了自己的名字，出了自己想要的专辑，娶了自己想要的妻子，然后经历人生的低潮，然后重新振作，想从政，然后发现自己原来是私生子，自己一直以为的姐姐是自己的妈妈，自己一直以为的妈妈和爸爸其实是外公外婆～～～

   然而这个故事对猫来讲还是不够震撼，可能太太太正常的美国化了吧～～～～

“I have worn the country's colors in a thousand different ways; I have won the game of life upon the table which it plays; I'm a sun without a setting and a tear without regretting; I'm a mind full of forgetting but I am, most of all, I am."---Bobby Darin

because of the movie, just google Bobby's brief introduction, the boy got rheumatic fever as a kid and didn't expect to make it through his twenties,he was very upfront, a positive guy,knew clearly what he wanted and just went straight for it, what he said:I've got a lot to do in a short period of time and I'm going to accomplish it.

I admire this kind of person, always knows clearly what he want and just go streight for it. Think it over by myself: what do you want? and what are you going to accomplish. Saying is easier than doing, thinking is also easier, what you need is ACTION!

By the way, i like one of the lines: memory just like moonlight, you get what you want.