2/22/2016

The Night Manager開播

Tom Hiddleston和Hugh Laurie主演的The Night Manager剛剛在BBC One播出了第一集,本來打算在開播前把John le Carré原著看完的我,現在只看了17%...

這套共六集的劇集每星期日播出一集,最後一集應該會在27/3播出,我現在只好把目標改為在大結局前看完原著吧。

雖然決定了未看完原著前不會看此劇,但剛剛還是按捺不住偷看了第一集的一點點,TH根本就是主角Jonathan Pine的化身!!!

看他在片場鑽研原著的樣子,便知道他有做足揣摩角的的功夫。雖然臨急抱佛腳的考生也是這樣子




早陣子去了幾間書局都找不到The Night Manager的小說,他手上的這個版本更是在網上也找不到。我現在是用Kindle看Penguin的電子書版,這個版本經常在對白處漏掉引號,有點奇怪...

但怎樣奇怪也好,也要在一個月內看完!(握拳)

握拳後又要去繼續工作了...(淚)


23/2 更新:在網上找到他手上的版本了!我應該訂嗎?應該訂嗎?應該訂嗎?應該訂嗎?應該訂嗎?

2/14/2016

鬼故事

膽小的我對鬼故事從來都避而不看,如果我突然為了一個人而看,那我應該很愛他。

對上一個令我願意為他看鬼故事的人,是夕爺:





當年硬著頭皮看,看得魂飛魄散。之後一直心有餘悸,連眼尾瞄到書架上的這本書都會覺得背後一涼,最後把它埋在書堆中,不在視線範圍內才稍為安心。

十多年後,因為Tom Hiddleston,終於又看了鬼故事。這次看的是電影Crimson Peak


幸好原來不是恐怖鬼片,而是歌德式浪漫主義風格電影。看完不但沒有心慌慌,還心思思去找Tom在訪問中提及的有關文學作品來看。






前陣子翻看幾年前旁聽Romantic Gothicism一科的筆記,想起當年很飲恨因為工作太忙不能繼續旁聽。多得「湯老師」,隔了這麼多年我終於找了當年本來要看的The Castle of Otranto來看。










一直都覺得迷偶像就像掉進一個大坑,現在發現迷上一個經常在訪問中引經據典的偶像,那個坑更加是無底深潭...

愈墮愈落,愈墮愈樂。

這是一個在情人節搵鬼愛的故事。

2/09/2016

Happy Birthday Tom Hiddleston!

這幾天聽著Tom的聲音倒數,終於到他的生日了! 本來打算趁今天詳述喜歡他的原因,奈何工作死線逼在眉捷,只好post一些短片來簡短介紹一下吧。 

以下是令我掉入這個TH大坑的二十大youtube短片:(本來是「十大」的,但選片的時候興奮過度...)

1) 看Thor時其實只是對Loki/TH有點留意,真正開始迷上是看完刪剪片段後。這些片段令人看到Loki一開始其實只是個愛玩的惡作劇之神,而且他在奧丁昏睡後坐上王位也是王后提出得,而非他謀朝篡位。電影把這些片段剪掉,令他變成儲心積累奪位的奸角。


2) 以Loki裝束神秘現身Comic Con的TH,台詞既保留Loki的經典對白,亦有為當日活動度身打造的對白,加上Loki附身般的邪氣演繹,令台下(及螢幕前的我)陷入瘋狂狀態。


3) 這個Jaguar廣告完全展現他演奸角的魅力。


4)雖然因為演奸角而為人熟悉,但平時其實經常ehehehe地笑。


5)因為太愛說話,所以經常劇透,這次被記者訪問時幾乎說漏了嘴的神情很傻。


6)超級親民。


7)看他的fancam,他都總是面帶笑容,對fans可以說是有求必應,這是唯一看到他生氣的一次。但生氣也以很有風度的方式維持現場秩序,EQ高得令人敬佩。


8)說「bad boy」時的聲線和表情是Loki上身嗎?XDDDD

9)在首爾一個商場出席Thor2的宣傳時,在台下簽名簽了近一小時才上台。本來以為一小時的簽名片段沒甚麼好看,可以看幾分鐘便關掉,豈料被他全程的燦爛笑容和熱情友善打動,看畢全場。


10)他為fans簽名總是很落力,有時會為了分秒必爭而跑來跑去,有時索性跪在地上簽名,這次則一邊簽一邊用口咬著筆蓋。在這下雨天,筆蓋掉了在地上他都二話不說便拾起,再繼續咬在口中。


11)被問及會否演Prince Charming時,質疑自己是否太老的表情很可愛!


12)充滿惡作劇和笑點的一個訪問,TH真的脾氣超級好。


13)他扮美國隊長Chris Evans超好笑,不過最好笑是扮Owen Wilson,超神似!


14)訪問結束時看了看記者的名牌,然後對記者說"Danke schön Alexander",真的很有禮貌!


15)愛pudding又愛cake的他真的很sweet~

16)拿著曲奇解釋delayed gratification。


17)為了籌款而說急口令,不斷說錯的樣子很可愛!

18)這封信寫得很動人,他讀信的聲音亦很迷人。


19)如果以為滿肚詩書的他是文弱書生,看他為舞蹈劇準備時會嚇一跳。


20)他簽名時有把男聲問他「Tom are you single?」,然後他倆的互動很搞笑。


其實他在很多訪問中的妙答都令我深深著迷,但今天時間有限,就先post以上較短的片段吧,較長的訪問有空時再寫。最後,祝今天35歲的Tom生日快樂!

2/08/2016

倒數1天

倒數的最後一天,就聽Tom唸他介紹過的詩吧。

這是Tom Hiddleston在Poems That Make Grown Men Cry一書中寫的文章:




可以邊看邊聽他唸:

2/07/2016

倒數2天

話說之前為了看Tom HiddlestonHenry V而找了Hollow Crown來看,結果被演Richard IIBen Whishaw驚豔了。

最初看的時候覺得BW雖然眼睛很漂亮,但樣子有點怪怪的(應該是因為造型吧),但看下去就被他的演技震攝了,特別是被逼退位和讀自己的罪狀那場戲,看完便完全明白為甚麼TH被問及對BW的看法時會說"He's the greatest actor of my generation.

早前翻看Romanticism一科的筆記,才記起老師推介過Bright Star這部電影,而男主角John Keats,原來正是BW飾演!



於是明明是為了看THHenry V而開始看Hollow Crown,結果還未看到他出場的那兩集,便去了找Bright Star來看。

但由於這部電影跟現正倒數的日子沒甚麼關係,在這裡寫觀後感的話有點離題,而且為了以示我的最愛仍然是TH,所以還是留待倒數完才寫吧。通常這樣說都代表不會寫)

Bright Star的片名來自John Keats的詩句"Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art"BW在片中也有唸過這首詩的一部分:



說了這麼多,其實是想說Richard ArmitageTom Hiddleston也唸過這首詩。(Tom看我多愛你!)

BRIGHT STAR, WOULD I WERE STEDFAST AS THOU ART
BY JOHN KEATS

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
         Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
         Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
         Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
         Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
         Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
         Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.

RA版本:




TW版本:


2/06/2016

倒數3天

翻看幾年前的筆記後發現,我的失憶症真的非常嚴重。

話說未翻看筆記前,聽Richard Armitage和Tom Hiddleston唸To His Coy Mistress時都覺得這首詩很耳熟,當時一直以為因為這是名詩所以有印象,翻看筆記時才發現自己原來是讀過的,還寫了那麼多彩虹般的字...(哪有這麼醜的彩虹!)



連串失憶事件令我有點擔心再過幾年會變成他...



以防再過幾年又忘記為何這首詩耳熟,還是把RA和TH唸的版本傳到這裡吧,日後看到的時候應該便會記得。兩個版本比較之下,發現TH果然是主修文學的,語氣轉折的地方跟筆記上highlight的地方一致。不過他唸得好像有點誇張令我有點想笑。


Richard Armitage版本:


 Tom Hiddleston版本:

2/05/2016

倒數4天

記得十多年前曾經聽過Sean Bean唸的King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table,那應該是我第一次聽英國演員唸audio book。

然後,大約五年前因為Sherlock而迷上Benedict Cumberbatch,於是在youtube不斷找他唸的東西來聽,詩、小說、兒童故事,連廣告旁白也覺得仿如天籟。

後來因為The Hobbit電影三部曲而留意Richard Armitage,更意外地發現他唸audio book非常好聽。上網查資料時才知道,原來他除了是演員,也當過配音員,怪不得聲線運用掌握得那麼好。我手機裡有他唸Percy Bysshe Shelley的Love's Philosophy,每次坐車時聽,都如痴如醉。

至於第四位聲線令我著迷的英國演員,當然就是這幾天一直提及的Tom Hiddleston。 天生一副迷人的好嗓子,加上主修古典文學,又曾在皇家戲劇藝術學院接受戲劇訓練,先天條件加上後天栽培,唸起詩來簡直令人神魂顛倒。

難得Richard Armitage和Tom Hiddleston都唸過Sonnet 116,今天就聽聽二人的不同風格吧。

SONNET 116
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Richard Armitage版本:

Tom Hiddleston版本:





2/04/2016

倒數5天

昨天提到當年最喜歡Shakespeare in Performance這一科,其實喜歡這科的原因之一,是喜歡這科的老師。

老師除了是學者,也是舞台劇演員和導演,所以除了會教文學科一般會教的分析技巧外,還會教透過聲音和動作去演繹文學作品的技巧。

以比較多人認識的Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day)為例,他示範了兩種讀法:

(由於本人比較懶比較忙,而且這個blog主要是自己看,所以直接把當年的筆記放上來,省卻打字的工夫。因為是一邊聽一邊抄的,字醜和有錯的地方請見諒)



Way2是較常見的浪漫讀法,Way1則是「腹黑」讀法。套用課堂筆記上的說法,則Way2讀法暗示"You will live FOREVER in my verse.",而Way1讀法則暗示"You will live forever IN MY VERSE."。

老師讀其他sonnets時也示範了不同讀法,情詩原來也可以讀得如此刻毒涼薄,如何可以不愛他?

至於跟老師同樣是在劍橋修讀文學的Tom Hiddleston,曾自認是浪漫派的他,讀的當然不是腹黑版本:











2/03/2016

倒數6天

多得一位熱愛Shakespeare、經常在訪問中引經據典的演員,家中塵封多年的MA筆記終於重見天日。

當年讀MA時,最喜歡的一科是Shakespeare in Performance,更因此在寫畢業論文時選了關於Hamlet的題目。(這是緣份呀緣份!)

不過翻看筆記,才發現自己記性差得可怕,當年讀過的寫過的演過的,都忘得七七八八。

這科在期末有Final performance,要上台演出,我演的是Twelfth Night。當年倒背如流的台詞,現在一句也背不出來。

台詞雖然忘了,但當年既緊張又奮興的心情,至今難忘。Final performance有acting和direction兩項分數,所以學生要兼任演員和導演。重看當年構思direction時自己畫的圖,真的覺得當年很用心(而且畫功奇差)。



不過更驚喜的是,找回了當年交的演出分析。這是Final performance後要交的一篇文章,分析自己對那場戲的處理,解釋為甚麼對白會那樣唸、`為甚麼會有某些動作等等。老年痴呆的我竟然完全沒有印象得過這樣的評語:




"you will be an amazing actor!"!!!!!!

雖然連同上半句一起看的話,就知道這代表演技超爛的我只能紙上談兵,但(選擇性地)看這評語的時候還是很高興的。(記性差真好,忘記了又可以再高興多一次)

雖然無法成為 an amazing actor,但迷上Tom Hiddleston這個amazing actor也很幸福。今天就聽他唸Twelfth Night的對白吧。

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.


2/02/2016

倒數7天

繼續聽著Tom Hiddleston的聲音倒數。

今天聽的這首詩,是他少數沒有用英倫腔和迷人聲線來唸的。扮聲又扮口音的演繹,加上這首詩本身的諷刺,令我覺得比起他唸的浪漫情詩,這首更吸引。



Life Story
BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

After you've been to bed together for the first time,
without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior acquaintance,
the other party very often says to you,
Tell me about yourself, I want to know all about you,
what's your story? And you think maybe they really and truly do

sincerely want to know your life story, and so you light up
a cigarette and begin to tell it to them, the two of you
lying together in completely relaxed positions
like a pair of rag dolls a bored child dropped on a bed.

You tell them your story, or as much of your story
as time or a fair degree of prudence allows, and they say,
       Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
each time a little more faintly, until the oh
is just an audible breath, and then of course

there's some interruption. Slow room service comes up
with a bowl of melting ice cubes, or one of you rises to pee
and gaze at himself with the mild astonishment in the bathroom mirror.
And then, the first thing you know, before you've had time
to pick up where you left off with your enthralling life story,
they're telling you their life story, exactly as they'd intended to all along,

and you're saying, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
each time a little more faintly, the vowel at last becoming
no more than an audible sigh,
as the elevator, halfway down the corridor and a turn to the left,
draws one last, long, deep breath of exhaustion
and stops breathing forever. Then?

Well, one of you falls asleep
and the other one does likewise with a lighted cigarette in his mouth,

and that's how people burn to death in hotel rooms.

2/01/2016

倒數8天

在昨天重開此blog,除了因為千萬隻雕飛過以致按捺不住,亦因為在一月的最後一天重開的話,在二月的第一天便可以開始倒數了!

 至於倒數甚麼,倒數完大家自然會知道。(沒有人想知道...)

這幾天就一邊聽著Tom Hiddleston 的聲音,一邊倒數吧!

找mp3的時候發現,我電腦內他唸詩唸小說唸散文的檔案,合共超過2GB,足夠倒數到明年...(遠目)

今天就先聽我最喜歡的一首吧:




may i feel said he

by e e cummings

may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she
(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she
(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she)
may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she
may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you're willing said he
(but you're killing said she
but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she
(tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she
(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)