《巴里 · 林登／Barry Lyndon》中的一个桥段、以及导演的解读

内容摘自《Kubrick on Barry Lyndon - An interview with Michel Ciment》

「大家想骗人时总会扮得很真，不对吗?」

Kubrick 的访谈中 (with Michel Ciment) ：

Q: But you use it(commentary) in other way – to cool down the emotion of a scene, and to anticipate the story. For instance, just after the meeting with the German peasant girl – a very moving scene – the voice-over compares her to a town having been often conquered by siege.

但你用旁白还有别种功效——抑制场景中的感情元素，以及预告下面的故事。比如，就在遇上快乐的德国女孩后——一段很动人的场景——旁白把她比作了一座经常被攻占的城镇。

A: In the scene that you’re referring to, the voice-over works as an ironic counterpoint to what you see portrayed by the actors on the screen. This is only a minor sequence in the story and has to be presented with economy. Barry is tender and romantic with the girl but all he really wants is to get her into bed. The girl is lonely and Barry is attractive and attentive. If you think about it, it isn’t likely that he is the only soldier she has brought home while her husband has been away to the wars. You could have had Barry give signals to the audience, through his performance, indicating that he is really insincere and opportunistic, but this would be unreal. When we try to deceive we are as convincing as we can be, aren’t we?

你所说的这场戏，旁白的作用是观众所见表演的反讽注脚。这只是整个故事中很小的一段戏，所以必须以经济的方式呈现。巴里对女孩很温柔很罗曼蒂克，但他真正想的是骗她上床。女孩很寂寞，巴里帅气又殷勤。用心想的话，女孩的丈夫从军去了，巴里不太可能是她带回家的唯一大兵。你可以让巴里用表演来提醒观众，暗示他并无诚意，纯是投机取巧，但这么拍就不真实了。大家想骗人时总会扮得很真，不对吗？

访谈中提到的旁白：

A lady who sets her heart on a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly or her life will be sad one…This heart of Lischen’s was like many a neighboring town,and had been stormed and occupied many times brfore Barry came to invest it.

爱上军人的女人必须有很快就得换爱人的心理准备，不然她会过着悲惨的一生。莉丝琴的心跟临近的小镇一样，在巴里来访之前，已经多次遭到入侵进驻。