No.083　《The Pianist》　钢琴师　在充满敌意与荒谬的世界里

英文导读

The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film directed by Roman Polanski, written by Ronald Harwood and starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of Death of a City, a World War II memoir by the Polish-Jewish musician Władysław Szpilman. The film is a co-production between Poland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay), his sisters Halina and Regina (Jessica Kate Meyer and Julia Rayner), and his brother, Henryk (Ed Stoppard). While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming presence of German forces and Hitler's designs on Poland, they're convinced that the Nazis are a menace which will pass, and that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis. Wladyslaw's naïveté is shattered when a German bomb rips through a radio studio while he performs a recital for broadcast. During the early stages of the Nazi occupation, as a respected artist, he still imagines himself above the danger, using his pull to obtain employment papers for his father and landing a supposedly safe job playing piano in a restaurant. But as the German grip tightens upon Poland, Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to face a certain death, Wladyslaw goes into hiding in a comfortable apartment provided by a friend. However, when his benefactor goes missing, Wladyslaw is left to fend for himself and he spends the next several years dashing from one abandoned home to another, desperate to avoid capture by German occupation troops. The Pianist was based on the memoir of the same name by the reallife Wladyslaw Szpilman; the book was first published in 1946 as Death of a City, but was banned by Polish Communist officials and went out of print until 1998, when a new edition was issued as The Pianist.

The Pianist received positive reviews from film critics. It has a 96% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 178 reviews with an average rating of 8.2/10 and the consensus, "Well-acted and dramatically moving, The Pianist is Polanski's best work in years." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave a positive review of the film, noting that "perhaps that impassive quality reflects what (director Roman) Polanski wants to say... By showing Szpilman as a survivor but not a fighter or a hero—as a man who does all he can to save himself, but would have died without enormous good luck and the kindness of a few non-Jews—Polanski is reflecting... his own deepest feelings: that he survived, but need not have, and that his mother died and left a wound that had never healed."

The Pianist met with significant critical praise and received multiple awards and nominations. At the 75th Academy Awards, The Pianist won Oscars for Best Director (Polanski), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ronald Harwood) and Best Actor (Brody), and was also nominated for four other awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 2003 and seven French Césars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Brody.

获奖情况

2003年第75届奥斯卡：最佳导演、最佳男主角、最佳改编剧本奖，并荣获最佳影片提名、最佳剪辑提名、最佳服装设计提名。

影片信息

导演：罗曼·波兰斯基

编剧：罗纳德·哈伍德

主演：阿德里安·布洛迪、托马斯·克莱舒曼、艾米丽雅·福克斯

类型：剧情、传记、战争

制片国家（地区）：法国、德国、英国、波兰

上映日期：2002-09-25（法国）

片长：150分钟

又名：《战地琴人》《钢琴战曲》《钢琴师》

剧情简介

《钢琴师》这部影片反映了第二次世界大战期间颠沛流离的生活，是导演波兰斯基本人真实的成长经历，这部电影也融入了他个人的感悟。

影片根据波兰钢琴家瓦拉迪斯罗·斯皮曼的自传体小说改编。斯皮曼出生于1911年，他与生俱来的钢琴天赋，给他带来了很多光芒，几年后他被保送到柏林深造。

1933年，他的第一场个人演奏会得到了欧洲音乐界高度评价，回国后，他成为波兰最年轻的钢琴家之一。1939年，德国入侵波兰，犹太人的身份让斯皮曼的生命受到严重威胁。他的父母、亲戚相继被送到集中营。他被迫开始了逃亡的生活，在朋友的帮助下四处躲避追捕，等待救援，死亡的阴影时刻出现。直到有一位热爱音乐的德国军官被他的钢琴声音深深地打动，决定冒险保护这位年轻的钢琴师。

在这位德国军官的庇护下，斯皮曼熬到了战争结束。他将这段经历写成了小说《死亡的城市》。但由于书中描写了波兰犹太人对当时苏联的不信任，有政治上的敏感话题，遭到苏联查禁。直到20世纪90年代，这本书才得以重见天日，改名为《钢琴师》在美国重新发行，一举登上了《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜。

制作花絮

阿德里安为了演这个角色，将自己的房子、车子都卖掉，只身到法国拍片，在拍片的七、八周内，他每天要练4个小时的钢琴，而且为了符合角色形象还要节食， 183厘米的身高，体重最后减到只剩下61千克。但是他为这个角色所付出的一切，一点也不后悔，因为自己所付出的忍耐和痛苦都不及故事中主角的百分之一。

在伦敦招主角的过程中，超过1400位男演员为瓦拉迪斯劳·斯皮曼的角色试镜。结果却令导演很不满意，最终罗曼·波兰斯基找到了演员阿德里安，就在巴黎他们两人第一次会面的时候，波兰斯基就认为他是最佳人选。

瓦拉迪斯劳·斯皮曼从集中营里逃出来并被告之“不要跑！”这段场景，来源于导演罗曼·波兰斯基的一段类似的真实经历。

这是第一部获得恺撒最佳电影大奖（法国国家电影奖项）而没有任何一句法语出现的电影。

重点学习

And that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis

文中的in the event of是英语中的一个固定搭配，它有“如果，如果…发生，万一，倘使”的意思，比如：In the event of illness, each student has a medical assistance card.（以防万一生病，每个学生都得办一张医疗帮助卡。）

When a German bomb rips through a radio studio

Rip through是英语中的一个固定短语，它有“裂开；突进；横冲直撞；猛烈爆炸”的意思，比如：Bicycles with explosives rip through an outdoor market in the south of Baghdad.（带有炸药的自行车炸毁了巴格达南部的一个室外市场。）

单词时间

devastate[ˈdevəsteit] vt. 毁灭；毁坏

downbeat[ˈdaunbiːt] adj. 悲观的；不强烈的

occupation[ˌɔkjuˈpeiʃən] n. 职业；占有；消遣；占有期

comfortable[ˈkʌmfətəbl] adj. 舒适的，舒服的

flat[flæt] n. 平地；平面；公寓

menace[ˈmenəs] n. 威胁；恐吓

deportation[ˌdi:pɔ:ˈteiʃən] n. 驱逐出境；放逐

concentration[ˌkɔnsənˈtreiʃən] n. 浓度；集中；浓缩；专心；集合

benefactor[ˈbenifæktə] n. 恩人；捐助者；施主

memoir[ˈmemwɑ:] n. 回忆录；研究报告；自传；实录

impassive[imˈpæsiv] adj. 冷漠的；无感觉的