Heroes - AICN訪談part 1 - 歐美

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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31459

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Ain’t It Cool is in the middle of an email interview with Kring. We were
originally going to post the whole thing at once but – because Kring’s
first answer touches on tonight’s episode – we’re going to jump the gun
and publish the first part of the conversation now:

AICN網站現在正在用E-mail和製作人(Tim)Kring做訪談中。原本我們打算全部作完在貼出
新聞，不過剛好Kring的第一個答案和今晚播出的這集有關，所以我們決定先把訪談的第
一部份貼出來：

AICN: Ando Masahashi's a young guy; has he accumulated enough vacation time
to be out of the office this long? Will there be a discussion of Hiro putting
Ando on a sidekick salary?
TIM KRING: Ando's and Hiro's employment situation at Yamagoto Industries will
be touched upon in episode 14. However, it seems to me that saving the world
has overshadowed any petty issues with their jobs. As for the "sidekick" of
it all -- I guess I never really looked at him that way. Let me think about
that one.

AICN：Ando是個年輕人，他真的累積了那麼多休假天數來讓他離開辦公室這麼久阿？你們
有討論Hiro會不會打算給Ando薪水當他的sidekick嗎？
Kring：第十四集(就是今晚的這集)會提到Hiro和Ando在山本公司的受雇狀況。不過就我
看來，拯救世界之餘他們應該已經不會在意工作上的小問題吧。至於你說的sidekick，我
猜我從來沒把Ando當作是(sidekick)。讓我好好想想。

Will we learn how Primatech Paper is inhibiting Sylar's powers? When will we
learn how Sylar was able to kill Eden from within his cell?
They have had him pretty drugged up. That in conjunction with the proximity
of the Haitian and Sylar was supposed to be subdued enough to not be able to
use his powers. As for Eden, there had originally been a scene that clarified
that she was able to distract the Haitian in order to slip into Sylar’s
cell. It was our intension that this allowed Sylar the extra power that he
needed to overpower Eden. However, I hope it was clear that she killed
herself in order to keep Sylar from getting her power.

AICN：有關Primatech Paper怎麼限制Sylar的能力，還有Sylar怎麼能解決Eden，我們會
到答案嗎？
Kring：他們給他下了不少藥。加上Haitian的控制範圍，Sylar其實不應該可以使用他的
能力。至於Eden，原本有一幕會解釋她支開了Haitian才得以溜進去Sylar的牢裡。是我們
刻意讓Sylar能夠擁有足夠的能力反過來制服Eden的。不過我希望情況很明顯，是Eden自
殺避免Sylar取得他的能力。

One hears that different writers are responsible to some degree for different
characters. Bryan Fuller, for example, is said to have been assigned Claire.
Which writers oversee which characters at the moment?
This only happened for a couple of scripts. We very soon afterwards reached a
point where every writer has written every character. The stories are now
divided up on purely ad hoc basis.

AICN：我們之前聽說每個編劇各自負責一個角色。Bryan Fuller就說他是負責Claire的部
份，那其他人呢？
Kring：那只是一開始的情況。我們很快就進展到需要每個編劇都參與到每個角色。現在
故事的每個部份都只是特別分開。[很確定沒有翻譯好^^"]

In an early pilot script, the "big bad" was, if I recall correctly, a
superpowered Mideast terrorist who did NOT abscond with the brains of others.
Why did you decide to go instead with the superpowered serial killer Sylar?
The concept of Sylar as villain was introduced from the very first few
minutes of the pilot. He was the "patient zero" that Suresh's father had gone
looking for (and subsequently been murdered by). And in the pilot, Suresh
finds a cassette tape on the floor of his father's ransacked apartment with
the name "Sylar" written on it. In episode two we hear that tape and realize
that Sylar is evil. Sylar was planned from the very beginning to be a
tangential threat to our Heroes - His story line was planned to run
concurrently with the idea of the prophecy of the apocalyptic doom for New
York. The terrorist's role in the story has now been replaced by Ted, the
radioactive man - NOT Sylar.

AICN：最早的劇本裡面，我記得沒錯的話"幕後大黑手"是一群有超能力的中東恐怖份子，
他們並不會打人腦的主意。為什麼你決定要修改成超能力連環殺手Sylar？
Kring：有關Sylar是個反派是一開始就確立好的，首集的前幾分鐘就提到了"0號病患"，
那就是Suresh爸在找尋(而後來被其所殺)的人。後來也發現了一捲錄音帶，上面寫著
Sylar，並且在第二集播放出來的時候，我們確定了Sylar不懷好意。Sylar從一開始就是(
我們)計畫中的反派，隨著紐約大毀滅的故事線一起發展。恐怖份子的部分不是Sylar取代
，而是轉變成Ted，擁有放射能的男人。

Also in an early version of the pilot, Isaac cuts off his own hand. Was this
element eliminated because of the expense of erasing a piece of Santiago
Cabrera’s anatomy every week, or was there more to it?
Once I realized how tight the chronology of the show was going to be, I got
cold feet about it. In other words, each episode, at least for the first
dozen, would pick up almost immediately where the last had left off. We were
going to sew the hand back on, but I just felt that an injury of this
magnitude would overwhelm the character's storyline. In reality he'd have to
spend weeks in the hospital. So we dropped the idea.

AICN：還有在未修改的首集中，Isaac砍掉了他自己的手。這個故事被改的原因，是你們
覺得要每一集都對Santiago的手做後製很麻煩嗎？還是有更深的原因？
Kring：當我發現故事時間線會很緊湊，我就開始有點害怕。換句話來說，每一集幾乎都
是緊接著上一集的尾巴。我們會把他的手縫回去，但我覺得這樣大的傷害對角色故事線的
影響頗多，按照正常來講他應該待在醫院好幾個禮拜，所以我們放棄了這個主意。

What were you up to with all that eclipse business in the pilot? Were you
using it as a storytelling device to tie all the characters together, or were
you thinking in the early going that the eclipse might somehow have triggered
all these superpowers?
An eclipse is a powerful image that has captivated us as a species since the
dawn of man. There is power and mystery and awe in it. However, the eclipse
in Heroes was never meant to trigger the superpowers. It was, as you say, a
unifying global event that worked thematically with telling stories from
around the world. But stay tuned, the eclipse just may have a little more
significance than that.

AICM：你對首集那個日蝕現象有什麼打算呢？它只是代表了把眾人連結起來的故事道具，
還是你一開始有打算讓這個日蝕現象成為眾人啟動能力的原因？
Kring：日蝕現象是個非常強烈的景象，人們從最早開始就為其?迷。其中帶有有著力量，
神秘感和敬畏。Heroes中的日蝕一開始就不是設定來啟發眾人能力的。它，就是你(們)說
的，是個世界性的現象，串聯起各地的故事線。不過你們等著，或許日蝕現象還有你們不
知道的重要性。

to be continued …
待續
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