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真正的艺术是没有阳春白雪与下里巴人之分的吧。因为它的震慑力是穿越我们所能见到的界限，到达心灵的最深处的。本期所选的两出电影巧合地都有一个片段是钢琴被劈烂。比利的父亲劈烂家里的钢琴，让他不要再做艺术梦了；艾达的丈夫斯图尔特劈烂她的钢琴，让她放弃优雅、压抑激情。但是他们最后都震服在两人的执着上——那是对自己最原始的渴望的执着，只不过它借舞蹈和钢琴彰显罢了。
场景一：一股莫名的力量推动着比利放下拳击课，去参加芭蕾课；而一接触到芭蕾就迷上。
Mrs. Wilkinson (Dance Teacher): Prepare, one, and two. Strong position, weight on both legs and 1)pirouette and down…Up you get. Find a place on that bloody wall and focus on that spot. Then whip your head round and come back to that spot. Prepare, one and two, and….Have you got the spot? Prepare. Prepare. Go! Go! Go! Go! Go, Billy!
威金森太太（舞蹈老师）：准备，一、二。手臂摆好，重心放在双腿上，用脚尖旋转，然后站好……站起来。在那面该死的墙上找一个定点，把注意力集中在上面，转完圈以后眼睛要回到那个点上。准备，一、二……找好那个点了没有？准备，准备，转，转，转，转啊！转啊，比利！
场景二：秘密的上课被做矿工的父亲发现了，他一直以为跳芭蕾是女孩的玩意，跳芭蕾的男孩都是娘娘腔的，所以极力反对儿子继续上课。
Dad: Ballet?
Billy: What’s wrong with ballet?
Dad: What’s wrong with ballet?
Billy: It’s perfectly normal.
Dad: Perfectly normal?
Billy’s nanna: I used to go to ballet.
Billy: See?
Dad: Aye, for your nanna, for girls, not for 2)lads, Billy. Lads do football, or boxing, or wrestling. Not friggin’ ballet. From now on you can forget about the fuckin’ ballet. From now on you stay here, you look after your nanna. Got it?
Nanna: They used to say that I could have been a professional dancer if I’d had the training.
Dad: Will you shut up?
Billy: I hate you! You’re a bastard!
爸爸：芭蕾舞？
比利：学芭蕾有什么不好？
爸爸：学芭蕾有什么不好？
比利：很正常啊！
爸爸：很正常？
奶奶：我以前也跳芭蕾舞。
比利：看吧！
爸爸：没错，奶奶可以，女生可以，男生就不行，比利。男生应该踢足球，或者打拳击，或者玩摔跤，而不是该死的芭蕾舞。从现在起，你不用想什么狗屁芭蕾了。从现在开始，你给我待在家里照顾奶奶，听到没有？
奶奶：他们以前都说，我可以成为职业的芭蕾舞演员，如果我能得到专业的训练。
爸爸：你闭嘴行不行？
比利：我恨你！你是个混蛋！
场景三：遇到了伯乐。老师看到了比利舞艺中的非凡之处，鼓励他参加舞蹈学校的甄选试，踏上成为真正舞者的寻梦之路。
Teacher: This’ll sound strange, Billy. But for some time now, I’ve been thinking of the Royal Ballet School.
Billy: Aren’t you a bit old, Miss.
Teacher: No, not me. You. I’m the bloody teacher. They hold auditions in 3)Newcastle.
Billy: I’ll never be good enough. I hardly know 4)aught.
Teacher: No, look, they’re not interested in how much ballet you know. They’ll teach you that. That’s why they’re a ballet school. It’s how you move, and how you express yourself that’s important.
Billy: Express what?
Teacher: I think you’re good enough to go for it. But it would mean an awful lot of hard work.
Billy: But I’m banned.
Teacher: Maybe I should have a word with him.
Billy: No, Miss!
Teacher: No, I could teach you on your own if you want.
Billy: We couldn’t afford it.
Teacher: I’m not doin’ it for the money, Billy.
Billy: But what about Dad?
Teacher: He doesn’t need to know.
Billy: What about my boxing and that?
Teacher: Oh 5)for fuck’s sake, Billy, if you want to piss around with your little mates, that fine with me!
Billy: Well, all right. All right, don’t lose your 6)blob.
Teacher: Blob?
Billy: So we could do it private, like?
Teacher: Just you and me.
Billy: Miss, you don’t fancy me, do you?
Teacher: (smile) No, Billy. Funnily enough, I don’t. Now 7)piss off.
Billy: (smile) Piss off yourself.
Teacher: See you Monday, then?
老师：这听起来有点奇怪，比利。但最近我一直在想皇家芭蕾舞学院的事。
比利：你进这间学校会不会有点老了，老师？
老师：不，不是我，是你。我是老师了。他们在纽卡斯尔举行甄选试。
比利：我永远都不够资格。我什么都不会。
老师：不，听我说，他们对你懂多少芭蕾一点都不感兴趣，他们会教你，因为他们是芭蕾舞学校。重要的是你的动作，还有你的表达方式。
比利：表达什么？
老师：我认为你够资格试试看。不过这表示你需要相当刻苦地练习。
比利：但我爸不会答应的。
老师：也许我该找他谈一谈。
比利：老师，不行！
老师：不，如果你愿意的话，我可以个别指导你。
比利：我们负担不起的。
老师：我教你不是为了钱，比利。
比利：可是我爸呢？
老师：他不需要知道。
比利：那我的拳击课呢？
老师：哦，看在老天的份上，比利！如果你喜欢继续和你的小同伴胡闹，我无所谓。
比利：好吧，拜托！别喷口水。
老师：口水？
比利：我们可以偷偷上课？
老师：只有我们两个。
比利：你不是喜欢我吧，老师？
老师：（微笑）不，比利。这太好笑了，我不喜欢你。还不快滚！
比利：（微笑）你也快滚吧。
老师：那就星期一见啦？
场景四：“永远忠于你自己。”——逝去的母亲的爱是比利在被忽略的角落坚持跳舞的动力之一。
Teacher: Brought your things?
Billy: I don’t know if they’re right, Miss?
Teacher: If they’re special to you, they’re right.
Billy: What are they for?
Teacher: To give us some ideas for a dance. Come on then, let’s see ’em. What’s that?
Billy: It’s a letter. It’s my mom’s. She wrote it for when I was 18, but I opened it.
Teacher: To my son, Billy. Dear Billy, I know I must seem like a distant memory to you, which is probably a good thing. It will have been a long time and I will have missed seeing you grow, missed you crying, laughing, and shouting…
Billy: …I would have missed telling you off. But please know that I was always there…
Teacher: …with you, through everything.
Billy: …with you through everything. I always will be and I am proud to have known you and I am proud that you were mine. Always be yourself. I love you forever.
Teacher: Mom.
老师：东西都带来了？
比利：我不知道有没有带对东西，老师？
老师：只要它们对你很特别就带对了。
比利：带来干嘛？
老师：为我们的舞蹈创作提供灵感。来吧！看看你带的东西。那是什么？
比利：是一封信，是我妈写的，要我等到18岁再看，但是我先打开了。
老师：给我的儿子，比利。亲爱的比利，我知道对你来说，我像是褪了色的记忆，这或许是件好事，因为这意味着已经很久了。虽然我不能看你长大，不能陪你哭，陪你笑，不能听你叫喊……
比利：……更不能骂你。但你要知道我一直在你身边……
老师：……和你一同度过一切。
比利：……和你一同度过一切，永远陪着你。我以你为荣，更以你是我儿子为傲。要永远忠于自己。我永远爱你。
老师：妈妈。
场景五：与《天鹅湖》的第一次亲密接触。在里面我们听到了一只天鹅为成为真女人的一线机会而亡的哀歌；听到了老师的芭蕾梦，甚至爱情梦碎，一身才华却流落无名小镇的凄凉；哪料这正是比利多年后以男版《天鹅湖》成名于世的伏笔。
(Ballet music, Swan Lake)
Billy: It’s 8)cush, isn’t it? So is there a story, then, Miss?
Teacher: Of course. It’s about a woman who’s captured by an evil magician.
Billy: Sounds crap.
Teacher: And this woman, this beautiful woman is forced to be a swan. Except for a few hours every night, she becomes alive, she becomes real again. And then one night, she meets this young prince and he falls in love with her. And she realises this is the one thing that will allow her to become a real woman once more.
Billy: So then what happens?
Teacher: He promises to marry her and then he goes off with someone else, of course.
Billy: So she has to be a swan 9)for good.
Teacher: She dies.
Billy: …’cause the prince didn’t love her?
Teacher: Come on, it’s time to go.
Billy: It’s only a ghost story.
Teacher: Come on.
（芭蕾名曲《天鹅湖》）
比利：听起来像是经典音乐，对不？应该还有一段故事吧，老师？
老师：当然。是讲关于一个被邪恶巫师囚禁的女人。
比利：听起来很烂。
老师：这个女人，这个美丽的女人，被迫变成一只天鹅。每晚只有短短的数小时，她才能回复人形，才能变回真正的自己。然后有一天晚上，她遇见一位年轻的王子，王子爱上了她。她知道，这是她惟一的机会，可以再变回一个真正的女人。
比利：然后呢？
老师：当然是王子答应娶她，却和别的女人跑了。
比利：于是她只能永远当天鹅？
老师：她死了。
比利：因为王子不爱她了？
老师：来吧！该走了。
比利：那只是个鬼故事。
老师：快点。
场景六：一场交接。老师发现了天才，启蒙了天才；父亲则担负起培养天才的经济重任。圣诞夜，父亲无意中看到儿子的舞蹈，被打动了，下决心帮他完成梦想。
(Doorbell, door opens)
Dad: How much is it gonna cost?
Teacher: And a happy Christmas to you too. Not as much as you might think. Maybe two 10)grand. But there’s a good chance the council…
Dad: Two grand. I was talking about the auditions.
Teacher: Now look, it’s just a matter of the trip to London. I’ll give you the money for the fare.
Dad: I didn’t come here to be 11)patronised.
Teacher: Oh, no one’s trying to patronise you. You’re being ridiculous.
Dad: Am I?
Teacher: Yes!
Dad: Thanks for everything you’ve done for Billy. But he is my son, isn’t he? I’ll handle this myself.
（门铃响，门开了。）
爸爸：到底要花多少钱？
老师：也祝你圣诞快乐。没有你想的那么多，大概要两千。很有可能学校会……
爸爸：两千？我是指甄选试。
老师：听着，这只不过就是去一趟伦敦的开销，我会帮你出车票钱的。
爸爸：我不是来求你施舍的。
老师：哦，没有人要施舍你，你实在是不可理喻。
爸爸：是吗？
老师：没错。
爸爸：谢谢你为比利所做的一切。但他终归是我的儿子，对吧？我自己会想办法。
场景七：父亲与哥哥正参加矿工的罢工，与政府对峙，争取合理工作环境；但是为了供比利去甄选试，甚至上芭蕾学校，父亲决定冒着背上“矿工的叛徒”的恶名的风险去上班；作为罢工领头，哥哥在两难中与父亲抱头痛哭。
Tony (Billy’s brother): Dad! What the fuck you doing? Dad, you can’t go back, not now.
Dad: Look at the state of us, man! What have we got to offer that poor 12)sod?
Tony: You can’t do this! Not now. Not after all this time. Not after everything we’ve been through!
Dad: It’s for 13)wee Billy! He might be a fucking genius for all we know.
Tony: For fuck’s sake, Dad. You can’t do this, man. Dad, Dad. He’s only 11, for fuck’s sake. He’s a kid. He’s just a fucking little kid.
Dad: I’m sorry. I’m sorry, son.
Tony: Please. Please.
Dad: I’m sorry, son. We’re finished, son. What choice have we got, eh? Let’s give the boy a fucking chance!
Tony: Please. Please. Don’t do this to me, Dad. We’ll find him some money. We’ll find it for him.
哥哥托尼：爸，你在搞什么鬼？爸，你现在不能回去。
爸爸：你看看我们现在的状况，小子。我们哪有能力帮那可怜的孩子？
哥哥：你不能这么做！现在不行。我们战斗了这么久，我们好不容易才熬到现在。
爸爸：我是为了小比利。他可能真的是个天才。
哥哥：看在老天爷的份上，爸。你不能这么做啊！爸，爸！他才11岁，天啊。他还是个孩子。他只是个毛头小子。
爸爸：对不起，儿子，真的对不起。
哥哥：别这样，别这样！
爸爸：对不起，儿子。我们完蛋了，儿子！我们还能怎么办？我们给他一个机会吧！
哥哥：别这样，别这样。爸，你不能这样对我。我们会为他弄到钱的，一定有办法帮他弄到的。
场景八：甄选试中，比利的舞蹈已经让评委震惊，但更令他们感动的是：草根的父亲愿百分之百支持儿子，以及比利对舞蹈的纯粹的热爱。
Tutor 1: Mr. Elliot, are you a fan of the ballet?
Dad: I wouldn’t exactly say I was an expert.
Tutor 1: You do realise that all pupils must attain the highest standards, not just in ballet, but in their ordinary academic work. No child can succeed without the 100% support of the family. You are completely behind Billy? Are you not?
Dad: Yes, yes, of course.
Tutor 2: Just one last question. Can I ask you, Billy, what does it feel like when you’re dancing?
Billy: Don’t know. Sort of feels good. Sort of stiff, and that...but once I get going, then, I like, I forget everything and sort of disappear. Sort of disappear. Like I feel a change in my whole body. Like there’s fire in my body. I’m just there, flying like a bird. Like electricity. Yeah, like electricity.
Tutor 1: Have a safe journey home.
甄试老师甲：艾略特先生，您是芭蕾舞迷吗？
爸爸：我不会说自己是专家。
甄试老师甲：你知道，所有的学生都必须达到最高的标准。这不仅包括舞蹈，还有他们平常的学业。学生需要家庭百分之百的支持才能成功。你完全支持比利吗？不是吗？
爸爸：支持，当然支持。
甄试老师乙：最后一个问题，比利，我想请问你，你跳舞的时候有什么感觉？
比利：不知道。有时觉得很好，有时有一点僵硬……但是只要一跳舞，我就会忘记全部的事情。然后……好像自己不存在一样，一切都消失了。感觉身体像是在改变，好像身体里面有一把火。我在那里，像小鸟一样飞翔。像电流一样，对，就像电流一样。
甄试老师甲：一路顺风。
场景九：一切终于开始获得回报了，比利被著名芭蕾学校录取，踏上成功第一步。
Nanna: Post!
Dad: This is it.
Billy: I got in.
Dad: He did it. He fuckin’ did it!
奶奶：邮差来了！
爸爸：就是这封了。
比利：我被录取了。
爸爸：他通过了！他真的通过了！
钢琴
一个关于野蛮与文明激烈碰撞、自闭与放开反复抗争的故事。主人公艾达为逃避文明世界的世俗纷扰，答应父亲来到新西兰这个刚被开发的新天地，并以为以自己的沉默和钢琴就可以让自己于象牙塔内求全；但是野蛮是不会放过任何一个人的，就如真爱也不会躲过任何一个人的，前提是这个人是个敢于去爱的人。艾达原来的丈夫斯图尔特虽是英国绅士，却以冷酷和横暴来对待艾达；乔治虽是半土著，却以柔情和宽厚融化了她冰封的心。
值得一提的是，这出电影的原声唱片是史上最成功的电影原声唱片之一。其中音乐多出自大师级人马Michael Nyman的手笔，并由主演Holly Hunter亲自演绎。
Narrator: She came to a strange land in search of a new life.
Ada’s daughter: We can’t leave the piano.
Ada’s husband: But there are too few of us here to carry it now.
Narrator: She came to a husband she had never met.
Ada’s husband: With time I’m sure she’ll become…14)affectionate.
Narrator: And discovered a passion that would change her world forever.
旁白：她来到一个陌生的国度，寻找新的人生。
艾达的女儿：我们不能扔下钢琴！
艾达的丈夫：但是我们不够人手来搬。
旁白：她投向她那从未谋面的丈夫处。
艾达的丈夫：假以时日，我肯定她会变得……有爱的。
旁白：却发现了（另）一股永远改变她世界的激情。
场景一：故事的开篇。以沉默守望着这个世界，在自己的天地里，用钢琴与自己倾诉。却在无形中筑起一座压抑自己情感与欲望的高墙。
The voice you hear is not my speaking voice, but my mind’s voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why, not even me. My father says it is a dark talent and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last. Today, he married me to a man I’ve not yet met. Soon, my daughter and I shall join him in his own country. My husband said my 15)muteness does not bother him. He writes, and 16)hark this, God loves 17)dumb creatures, so why not he! It were good he had God’s patience. For silence affects everyone in the end. The strange thing is, I don’t think myself silent. That is because of my piano. I shall miss it on the journey.
你听到的不是我口里发出的声音，而是我心里的声音。我自六岁起已没讲过一句话，没有人知道为什么，甚至连我自己也不知原因是什么。我爸爸说这是一种隐秘的技能，终有一天，它会进入我的思想并毁了我。今天，他将我嫁给一个素未谋面的人。我和我女儿将要出发去他的国家。我丈夫说我不说话对他没影响。他还写到: 神爱哑的生灵，为什么我不能！ 他有神的耐心，真好。所有人最后也都要回归寂静。奇怪的是，我不认为自己很沉默，那是因为我的钢琴，在旅途上我将想念它的。
场景二：故事的尾声。本想以死来与钢琴同葬于大海，获得永远的安宁；是爱情和亲情让她放下那代表着自我保护的钢琴，面对真实的自己、真实的生活。
What a death! What a chance! What a surprise! My will has chosen life? Still, it has had me 18)spooked, and many others besides.
I teach piano now in Nelson. 19)George has fashioned me a metal fingertip. I’m quite the town 20)freak, which satisfies.
I am learning to speak. My sound is still so bad I feel ashamed. I practice only when I am alone and it is dark.
At night I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes myself, floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it 21)lulls me to sleep. It is a weird 22)lullaby, and so it is. It is mine. There is a silence where have been no sound. There is a silence where no sound may be, in the cold grave under the deep, deep sea.
好一个死亡的滋味！好一个机会！好一个惊喜！我的意志选择了生存吗？我依然觉得不可思议，还有其他很多人也吓了一跳。
我现在在纳尔逊教琴。乔治给我定制了只金属手指。我已成了城中的怪物，我无所谓。我在学讲话，但五音不正,令我很自卑。我只有孤身一人在黑暗中才练习讲话。
晚上我会想到沉在海底的钢琴，有时也想到我自己，浮在上面。海底是那么平静安宁，令我进入梦乡。像一首怪异的安眠曲，就是这样，是我的。有一种寂静，一直是冰冷无声的；有一种寂静，是在深海的深处，全然静止。
翻译：moon cake
场景一：一股莫名的力量推动着比利放下拳击课，去参加芭蕾课；而一接触到芭蕾就迷上。
Mrs. Wilkinson (Dance Teacher): Prepare, one, and two. Strong position, weight on both legs and 1)pirouette and down…Up you get. Find a place on that bloody wall and focus on that spot. Then whip your head round and come back to that spot. Prepare, one and two, and….Have you got the spot? Prepare. Prepare. Go! Go! Go! Go! Go, Billy!
威金森太太（舞蹈老师）：准备，一、二。手臂摆好，重心放在双腿上，用脚尖旋转，然后站好……站起来。在那面该死的墙上找一个定点，把注意力集中在上面，转完圈以后眼睛要回到那个点上。准备，一、二……找好那个点了没有？准备，准备，转，转，转，转啊！转啊，比利！
场景二：秘密的上课被做矿工的父亲发现了，他一直以为跳芭蕾是女孩的玩意，跳芭蕾的男孩都是娘娘腔的，所以极力反对儿子继续上课。
Dad: Ballet?
Billy: What’s wrong with ballet?
Dad: What’s wrong with ballet?
Billy: It’s perfectly normal.
Dad: Perfectly normal?
Billy’s nanna: I used to go to ballet.
Billy: See?
Dad: Aye, for your nanna, for girls, not for 2)lads, Billy. Lads do football, or boxing, or wrestling. Not friggin’ ballet. From now on you can forget about the fuckin’ ballet. From now on you stay here, you look after your nanna. Got it?
Nanna: They used to say that I could have been a professional dancer if I’d had the training.
Dad: Will you shut up?
Billy: I hate you! You’re a bastard!
爸爸：芭蕾舞？
比利：学芭蕾有什么不好？
爸爸：学芭蕾有什么不好？
比利：很正常啊！
爸爸：很正常？
奶奶：我以前也跳芭蕾舞。
比利：看吧！
爸爸：没错，奶奶可以，女生可以，男生就不行，比利。男生应该踢足球，或者打拳击，或者玩摔跤，而不是该死的芭蕾舞。从现在起，你不用想什么狗屁芭蕾了。从现在开始，你给我待在家里照顾奶奶，听到没有？
奶奶：他们以前都说，我可以成为职业的芭蕾舞演员，如果我能得到专业的训练。
爸爸：你闭嘴行不行？
比利：我恨你！你是个混蛋！
场景三：遇到了伯乐。老师看到了比利舞艺中的非凡之处，鼓励他参加舞蹈学校的甄选试，踏上成为真正舞者的寻梦之路。
Teacher: This’ll sound strange, Billy. But for some time now, I’ve been thinking of the Royal Ballet School.
Billy: Aren’t you a bit old, Miss.
Teacher: No, not me. You. I’m the bloody teacher. They hold auditions in 3)Newcastle.
Billy: I’ll never be good enough. I hardly know 4)aught.
Teacher: No, look, they’re not interested in how much ballet you know. They’ll teach you that. That’s why they’re a ballet school. It’s how you move, and how you express yourself that’s important.
Billy: Express what?
Teacher: I think you’re good enough to go for it. But it would mean an awful lot of hard work.
Billy: But I’m banned.
Teacher: Maybe I should have a word with him.
Billy: No, Miss!
Teacher: No, I could teach you on your own if you want.
Billy: We couldn’t afford it.
Teacher: I’m not doin’ it for the money, Billy.
Billy: But what about Dad?
Teacher: He doesn’t need to know.
Billy: What about my boxing and that?
Teacher: Oh 5)for fuck’s sake, Billy, if you want to piss around with your little mates, that fine with me!
Billy: Well, all right. All right, don’t lose your 6)blob.
Teacher: Blob?
Billy: So we could do it private, like?
Teacher: Just you and me.
Billy: Miss, you don’t fancy me, do you?
Teacher: (smile) No, Billy. Funnily enough, I don’t. Now 7)piss off.
Billy: (smile) Piss off yourself.
Teacher: See you Monday, then?
老师：这听起来有点奇怪，比利。但最近我一直在想皇家芭蕾舞学院的事。
比利：你进这间学校会不会有点老了，老师？
老师：不，不是我，是你。我是老师了。他们在纽卡斯尔举行甄选试。
比利：我永远都不够资格。我什么都不会。
老师：不，听我说，他们对你懂多少芭蕾一点都不感兴趣，他们会教你，因为他们是芭蕾舞学校。重要的是你的动作，还有你的表达方式。
比利：表达什么？
老师：我认为你够资格试试看。不过这表示你需要相当刻苦地练习。
比利：但我爸不会答应的。
老师：也许我该找他谈一谈。
比利：老师，不行！
老师：不，如果你愿意的话，我可以个别指导你。
比利：我们负担不起的。
老师：我教你不是为了钱，比利。
比利：可是我爸呢？
老师：他不需要知道。
比利：那我的拳击课呢？
老师：哦，看在老天的份上，比利！如果你喜欢继续和你的小同伴胡闹，我无所谓。
比利：好吧，拜托！别喷口水。
老师：口水？
比利：我们可以偷偷上课？
老师：只有我们两个。
比利：你不是喜欢我吧，老师？
老师：（微笑）不，比利。这太好笑了，我不喜欢你。还不快滚！
比利：（微笑）你也快滚吧。
老师：那就星期一见啦？
场景四：“永远忠于你自己。”——逝去的母亲的爱是比利在被忽略的角落坚持跳舞的动力之一。
Teacher: Brought your things?
Billy: I don’t know if they’re right, Miss?
Teacher: If they’re special to you, they’re right.
Billy: What are they for?
Teacher: To give us some ideas for a dance. Come on then, let’s see ’em. What’s that?
Billy: It’s a letter. It’s my mom’s. She wrote it for when I was 18, but I opened it.
Teacher: To my son, Billy. Dear Billy, I know I must seem like a distant memory to you, which is probably a good thing. It will have been a long time and I will have missed seeing you grow, missed you crying, laughing, and shouting…
Billy: …I would have missed telling you off. But please know that I was always there…
Teacher: …with you, through everything.
Billy: …with you through everything. I always will be and I am proud to have known you and I am proud that you were mine. Always be yourself. I love you forever.
Teacher: Mom.
老师：东西都带来了？
比利：我不知道有没有带对东西，老师？
老师：只要它们对你很特别就带对了。
比利：带来干嘛？
老师：为我们的舞蹈创作提供灵感。来吧！看看你带的东西。那是什么？
比利：是一封信，是我妈写的，要我等到18岁再看，但是我先打开了。
老师：给我的儿子，比利。亲爱的比利，我知道对你来说，我像是褪了色的记忆，这或许是件好事，因为这意味着已经很久了。虽然我不能看你长大，不能陪你哭，陪你笑，不能听你叫喊……
比利：……更不能骂你。但你要知道我一直在你身边……
老师：……和你一同度过一切。
比利：……和你一同度过一切，永远陪着你。我以你为荣，更以你是我儿子为傲。要永远忠于自己。我永远爱你。
老师：妈妈。
场景五：与《天鹅湖》的第一次亲密接触。在里面我们听到了一只天鹅为成为真女人的一线机会而亡的哀歌；听到了老师的芭蕾梦，甚至爱情梦碎，一身才华却流落无名小镇的凄凉；哪料这正是比利多年后以男版《天鹅湖》成名于世的伏笔。
(Ballet music, Swan Lake)
Billy: It’s 8)cush, isn’t it? So is there a story, then, Miss?
Teacher: Of course. It’s about a woman who’s captured by an evil magician.
Billy: Sounds crap.
Teacher: And this woman, this beautiful woman is forced to be a swan. Except for a few hours every night, she becomes alive, she becomes real again. And then one night, she meets this young prince and he falls in love with her. And she realises this is the one thing that will allow her to become a real woman once more.
Billy: So then what happens?
Teacher: He promises to marry her and then he goes off with someone else, of course.
Billy: So she has to be a swan 9)for good.
Teacher: She dies.
Billy: …’cause the prince didn’t love her?
Teacher: Come on, it’s time to go.
Billy: It’s only a ghost story.
Teacher: Come on.
（芭蕾名曲《天鹅湖》）
比利：听起来像是经典音乐，对不？应该还有一段故事吧，老师？
老师：当然。是讲关于一个被邪恶巫师囚禁的女人。
比利：听起来很烂。
老师：这个女人，这个美丽的女人，被迫变成一只天鹅。每晚只有短短的数小时，她才能回复人形，才能变回真正的自己。然后有一天晚上，她遇见一位年轻的王子，王子爱上了她。她知道，这是她惟一的机会，可以再变回一个真正的女人。
比利：然后呢？
老师：当然是王子答应娶她，却和别的女人跑了。
比利：于是她只能永远当天鹅？
老师：她死了。
比利：因为王子不爱她了？
老师：来吧！该走了。
比利：那只是个鬼故事。
老师：快点。
场景六：一场交接。老师发现了天才，启蒙了天才；父亲则担负起培养天才的经济重任。圣诞夜，父亲无意中看到儿子的舞蹈，被打动了，下决心帮他完成梦想。
(Doorbell, door opens)
Dad: How much is it gonna cost?
Teacher: And a happy Christmas to you too. Not as much as you might think. Maybe two 10)grand. But there’s a good chance the council…
Dad: Two grand. I was talking about the auditions.
Teacher: Now look, it’s just a matter of the trip to London. I’ll give you the money for the fare.
Dad: I didn’t come here to be 11)patronised.
Teacher: Oh, no one’s trying to patronise you. You’re being ridiculous.
Dad: Am I?
Teacher: Yes!
Dad: Thanks for everything you’ve done for Billy. But he is my son, isn’t he? I’ll handle this myself.
（门铃响，门开了。）
爸爸：到底要花多少钱？
老师：也祝你圣诞快乐。没有你想的那么多，大概要两千。很有可能学校会……
爸爸：两千？我是指甄选试。
老师：听着，这只不过就是去一趟伦敦的开销，我会帮你出车票钱的。
爸爸：我不是来求你施舍的。
老师：哦，没有人要施舍你，你实在是不可理喻。
爸爸：是吗？
老师：没错。
爸爸：谢谢你为比利所做的一切。但他终归是我的儿子，对吧？我自己会想办法。
场景七：父亲与哥哥正参加矿工的罢工，与政府对峙，争取合理工作环境；但是为了供比利去甄选试，甚至上芭蕾学校，父亲决定冒着背上“矿工的叛徒”的恶名的风险去上班；作为罢工领头，哥哥在两难中与父亲抱头痛哭。
Tony (Billy’s brother): Dad! What the fuck you doing? Dad, you can’t go back, not now.
Dad: Look at the state of us, man! What have we got to offer that poor 12)sod?
Tony: You can’t do this! Not now. Not after all this time. Not after everything we’ve been through!
Dad: It’s for 13)wee Billy! He might be a fucking genius for all we know.
Tony: For fuck’s sake, Dad. You can’t do this, man. Dad, Dad. He’s only 11, for fuck’s sake. He’s a kid. He’s just a fucking little kid.
Dad: I’m sorry. I’m sorry, son.
Tony: Please. Please.
Dad: I’m sorry, son. We’re finished, son. What choice have we got, eh? Let’s give the boy a fucking chance!
Tony: Please. Please. Don’t do this to me, Dad. We’ll find him some money. We’ll find it for him.
哥哥托尼：爸，你在搞什么鬼？爸，你现在不能回去。
爸爸：你看看我们现在的状况，小子。我们哪有能力帮那可怜的孩子？
哥哥：你不能这么做！现在不行。我们战斗了这么久，我们好不容易才熬到现在。
爸爸：我是为了小比利。他可能真的是个天才。
哥哥：看在老天爷的份上，爸。你不能这么做啊！爸，爸！他才11岁，天啊。他还是个孩子。他只是个毛头小子。
爸爸：对不起，儿子，真的对不起。
哥哥：别这样，别这样！
爸爸：对不起，儿子。我们完蛋了，儿子！我们还能怎么办？我们给他一个机会吧！
哥哥：别这样，别这样。爸，你不能这样对我。我们会为他弄到钱的，一定有办法帮他弄到的。
场景八：甄选试中，比利的舞蹈已经让评委震惊，但更令他们感动的是：草根的父亲愿百分之百支持儿子，以及比利对舞蹈的纯粹的热爱。
Tutor 1: Mr. Elliot, are you a fan of the ballet?
Dad: I wouldn’t exactly say I was an expert.
Tutor 1: You do realise that all pupils must attain the highest standards, not just in ballet, but in their ordinary academic work. No child can succeed without the 100% support of the family. You are completely behind Billy? Are you not?
Dad: Yes, yes, of course.
Tutor 2: Just one last question. Can I ask you, Billy, what does it feel like when you’re dancing?
Billy: Don’t know. Sort of feels good. Sort of stiff, and that...but once I get going, then, I like, I forget everything and sort of disappear. Sort of disappear. Like I feel a change in my whole body. Like there’s fire in my body. I’m just there, flying like a bird. Like electricity. Yeah, like electricity.
Tutor 1: Have a safe journey home.
甄试老师甲：艾略特先生，您是芭蕾舞迷吗？
爸爸：我不会说自己是专家。
甄试老师甲：你知道，所有的学生都必须达到最高的标准。这不仅包括舞蹈，还有他们平常的学业。学生需要家庭百分之百的支持才能成功。你完全支持比利吗？不是吗？
爸爸：支持，当然支持。
甄试老师乙：最后一个问题，比利，我想请问你，你跳舞的时候有什么感觉？
比利：不知道。有时觉得很好，有时有一点僵硬……但是只要一跳舞，我就会忘记全部的事情。然后……好像自己不存在一样，一切都消失了。感觉身体像是在改变，好像身体里面有一把火。我在那里，像小鸟一样飞翔。像电流一样，对，就像电流一样。
甄试老师甲：一路顺风。
场景九：一切终于开始获得回报了，比利被著名芭蕾学校录取，踏上成功第一步。
Nanna: Post!
Dad: This is it.
Billy: I got in.
Dad: He did it. He fuckin’ did it!
奶奶：邮差来了！
爸爸：就是这封了。
比利：我被录取了。
爸爸：他通过了！他真的通过了！
钢琴
一个关于野蛮与文明激烈碰撞、自闭与放开反复抗争的故事。主人公艾达为逃避文明世界的世俗纷扰，答应父亲来到新西兰这个刚被开发的新天地，并以为以自己的沉默和钢琴就可以让自己于象牙塔内求全；但是野蛮是不会放过任何一个人的，就如真爱也不会躲过任何一个人的，前提是这个人是个敢于去爱的人。艾达原来的丈夫斯图尔特虽是英国绅士，却以冷酷和横暴来对待艾达；乔治虽是半土著，却以柔情和宽厚融化了她冰封的心。
值得一提的是，这出电影的原声唱片是史上最成功的电影原声唱片之一。其中音乐多出自大师级人马Michael Nyman的手笔，并由主演Holly Hunter亲自演绎。
Narrator: She came to a strange land in search of a new life.
Ada’s daughter: We can’t leave the piano.
Ada’s husband: But there are too few of us here to carry it now.
Narrator: She came to a husband she had never met.
Ada’s husband: With time I’m sure she’ll become…14)affectionate.
Narrator: And discovered a passion that would change her world forever.
旁白：她来到一个陌生的国度，寻找新的人生。
艾达的女儿：我们不能扔下钢琴！
艾达的丈夫：但是我们不够人手来搬。
旁白：她投向她那从未谋面的丈夫处。
艾达的丈夫：假以时日，我肯定她会变得……有爱的。
旁白：却发现了（另）一股永远改变她世界的激情。
场景一：故事的开篇。以沉默守望着这个世界，在自己的天地里，用钢琴与自己倾诉。却在无形中筑起一座压抑自己情感与欲望的高墙。
The voice you hear is not my speaking voice, but my mind’s voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why, not even me. My father says it is a dark talent and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last. Today, he married me to a man I’ve not yet met. Soon, my daughter and I shall join him in his own country. My husband said my 15)muteness does not bother him. He writes, and 16)hark this, God loves 17)dumb creatures, so why not he! It were good he had God’s patience. For silence affects everyone in the end. The strange thing is, I don’t think myself silent. That is because of my piano. I shall miss it on the journey.
你听到的不是我口里发出的声音，而是我心里的声音。我自六岁起已没讲过一句话，没有人知道为什么，甚至连我自己也不知原因是什么。我爸爸说这是一种隐秘的技能，终有一天，它会进入我的思想并毁了我。今天，他将我嫁给一个素未谋面的人。我和我女儿将要出发去他的国家。我丈夫说我不说话对他没影响。他还写到: 神爱哑的生灵，为什么我不能！ 他有神的耐心，真好。所有人最后也都要回归寂静。奇怪的是，我不认为自己很沉默，那是因为我的钢琴，在旅途上我将想念它的。
场景二：故事的尾声。本想以死来与钢琴同葬于大海，获得永远的安宁；是爱情和亲情让她放下那代表着自我保护的钢琴，面对真实的自己、真实的生活。
What a death! What a chance! What a surprise! My will has chosen life? Still, it has had me 18)spooked, and many others besides.
I teach piano now in Nelson. 19)George has fashioned me a metal fingertip. I’m quite the town 20)freak, which satisfies.
I am learning to speak. My sound is still so bad I feel ashamed. I practice only when I am alone and it is dark.
At night I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes myself, floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it 21)lulls me to sleep. It is a weird 22)lullaby, and so it is. It is mine. There is a silence where have been no sound. There is a silence where no sound may be, in the cold grave under the deep, deep sea.
好一个死亡的滋味！好一个机会！好一个惊喜！我的意志选择了生存吗？我依然觉得不可思议，还有其他很多人也吓了一跳。
我现在在纳尔逊教琴。乔治给我定制了只金属手指。我已成了城中的怪物，我无所谓。我在学讲话，但五音不正,令我很自卑。我只有孤身一人在黑暗中才练习讲话。
晚上我会想到沉在海底的钢琴，有时也想到我自己，浮在上面。海底是那么平静安宁，令我进入梦乡。像一首怪异的安眠曲，就是这样，是我的。有一种寂静，一直是冰冷无声的；有一种寂静，是在深海的深处，全然静止。
翻译：moon cake