A Room with a View

现在是格林尼治时间2007年12月25日凌晨3点09分。北京时间12月25日上午11点09分。
我刚刚在新的CRI论坛上逛了很久（很久 =  30 min 以上）回来。
对12月23日的活动"Lazy Felix和他的朋友们"进行了追踪。
看过了所有可以看的视频和图片。

感叹小飞愈发老练成熟。而且他现在红的真是...据说最后签名的时候场面混乱。。。？可想而知他多么popular了。
这家伙是不是该考虑雇个保镖。

话说这次的活动是他自己策划的吧？我怀疑是。根本就是以他为中心的呀。主要由他表演节目。还有活动的名字。
猜想这不能算是官方的频道活动，倒更近似于他个人形象的推广。
他的朋友们，呵呵。这时候就是他人脉的展现啦。
夏雨肖玮。多好多好。

这人不一般的。可以在毕业几年之内做到这种程度。。。
几年前我们都觉得他有朝一日会很红。
现在他很红了。。。也许还不够红。他还会继续把自己做大的。我倾向于这样以为。
这么精明的人哪有不成功的。他各方面的素质综合起来就保证了他会成功。

至于他真的唱的怎么样，这并不重要。:)
重要的是，他会唱，他会弹，他会讲，他聪明，他深谙很多事情的规则。
他不可能不成功。
这种性格的人想要什么通常都能得到。

哈哈哈，我怎么这么装蛋的分析他的成功因素呢。
该打该打
祝小飞一帆风顺如日中天咯。
虽然他毕竟和我最开始欣赏和喜欢的Felix不一样了，谁让我选择支持这家伙呢。

I think I'm in love with something I cannot have.
But they say it's better than having something you cannot love.

I like you.
I like you so much.

英国1月4日上映。不出意外的话，我应该可以看到完整的全片。
英国的评级是18。美国是NC-17。中国没有电影分级制度。真可惜。
该片在美国上映时，李安坚决不剪。但是为了在中国的上映，他亲自剪掉了10分钟不到。（传闻说他剪掉了二三十分钟，其实没有。）之所以有这样的传闻是由于中国记者在威尼斯电影节上看到全片时大多都瞬间傻掉了，他们从来没有想过可能有这种电影存在，就像被打了当头一棒。所以很多记者回来写稿子：这片子在国内怎么放？剪掉30分钟么？

我做了一点功课。其实对这片子已经望眼欲穿啊。只好在imdb和youtube上搜罗所有的视频。又把trailer看了2遍。
张爱玲的小说大家应该都好好研习一下。非常非常精简，隐晦。但是包含着极丰富及丰富的信息。李安对小说的评价：

"This is very different writing from other novels. It's a short story. And it's a perfect piece of work, it's absolutely brilliant. There are so many hints she layed down to you, and you just get trapped. And I hate her because she can do that with language, which then directs to your mind and now I have to use photograph, and have real actors and story-telling and drama to fill out all the spaces she layed out, and that's not easy."

以下两个访谈还稍稍有些深度。

他说他第一次看这个小说被吓到：张爱玲居然敢写出这样一个故事，她不仅敢写female sexuality，而且她居然把它放在一个爱国的背景环境下来表现。这个很nerve-wracking.
关于剪掉sex scene的版本在大陆引起的反应，比起完整版在港台两地的反应的分析比较。
关于不同文化背景的观众（中国/美国）对本片的反应。



这个更值得看。关于他为什么要拍色戒的primal urge。
他说这片子是mixed genre, 或者说，更贴近old fashioned film noir.
他认为那些sex scene从某种程度上说，是影片的中心。
但是他拍这些镜头怎样的不舒服。这对于他自己的disire是一种exposure.
他说本来是来源于自己的dream，结果拍着发现更像是nightmare而不是dream
"because it's private, uncomfortable, psychological barriers"

Well...partly, this gives a description of my mood, at this very moment.


Humbert: I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face. 


From "Lolita" (1997), a film starring Jeremy Irons.

"Armed only with a checkbook and a family tree."

被Pitchfork评为2006年Top 100 tracks第99位。不过说真的我觉得它比top 30的一些都好的多。
Genre：indie，singer/song writer，alternative, britpop.
又是个关于一个女人的一生的苍凉故事。（和王安忆的某个作品有的一拚？）
注意每一段高潮部分的弦乐。
I've been listening to it for almost a week already, but not until today, when suddenly it seized me as if embodied with a mysterious power, was I hooked. The string ensemble near the end comes with somewhat imminent fate, uncertainty, solitude, and infinite sadness.
Then I was hooked. Right there, that moment.

 

Artist:    The Divine Comedy
Album: Victory for the Comic Muse
Year:     2006

Back in the day you had been part of the smart set
You'd holidayed with kings, dined out with starlets
From London to New York, Cap Ferrat to Capri
In perfume by Chanel and clothes by Givenchy
You sipped camparis with David and Peter
At Noel's parties by Lake Geneva
Scaling the dizzy heights of high society
Armed only with a cheque-book and a family tree

You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
Until the light of youth became obscured
And left you on your own and in the shade
An English lady of a certain age
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
You'd say with a conspiratorial wink
"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"
And he'd say,"no, you couldn't be!"

You had to marry someone very very rich
So that you might be kept in the style to which
You had all of your life been accustomed to
But that the socialists had taxed away from you
You gave him children, a girl and a boy
To keep your sanity a nanny was employed
And when the time came they were sent away
Well that was simply what you did in those days

You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
Until the light of youth became obscured
And left you on your own and in the shade
An English lady of a certain age
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
You'd say with a conspiratorial wink
"You wouldn't think that I was sixty three"
And he'd say,"no, you couldn't be!

Your son's in stocks and bonds and lives back in Surrey
Flies down once in a while and leaves in a hurry
Your daughter never finished her finishing school
Married a strange young man of whom you don't approve
Your husband's hollow heart gave out one Christmas Day
He left the villa to his mistress in Marseilles
And so you come here to escape your little flat
Hoping someone will fill your glass and let you chat about how

You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
Until the light of youth became obscured
And left you all alone and in the shade
An English lady of a certain age
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
You'd say with a conspiratorial wink
"You wouldn't think that I was fifty three"
And he'd say,"no, you couldn't be!