棒球史詩KANO擊出漂亮全壘打 - 電影

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看了之後覺得寫得不錯 一時興起就嘗試翻譯了

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影評：棒球史詩KANO擊出漂亮全壘打
Review: Baseball Epic KANO Hits A Home Run


台灣史詩鉅片賽德克‧巴萊的幕後團隊，帶來了一部大銀幕的運動傳奇電影，
改編自嘉農棒球隊讓人難以置信的真實故事，那是一個多元族群的農村高中生
棒球隊在1931年的日治時期，打進甲子園冠亞軍戰的故事。
From the team behind Taiwanese epic Seediq Bale comes a rousing big screen
sports saga telling the incredible true story of the Kano baseball team, a
multiethnic squad of rural highschoolers who made it to the national
championships in Japan in 1931.

時至今日，要製作一部真正獲得好評的運動電影仍然困難。因為運動比賽的本質，
很可能無法吸引很大部分不瞭解或對該項運動沒興趣的觀眾，或者讓電影的情節和
結局太容易預料。然而如果一切到位，一部成功的運動電影可以一如預期讓觀眾投
入到忘了起身離開，為主角的勝利歡呼，甚至默默流下眼淚。
In this day and age it can be difficult to make a genuinely good sports film.
Either the nature of the game itself alienates large portions of the
potential audience if they are not interested or do not understand it, or the
contests themselves tend to have a fairly predictable outcome. That said,
when done right, a successful sports film can make audiences cling to the
edge of their seats in anticipation, cheer out loud in the euphoria of
victory, and even shed a little tear along the way, for any number of reasons.

在海角七號和賽德克‧巴萊接連成功後，台灣導演魏德聖選擇編劇並監製KANO
這部片長達3小時的大規模電影作品，並且將導演筒交給曾演出賽德克‧巴萊、
初次執導電影的馬志翔，而靠著一群閃亮的年輕新星擔綱演出，馬志翔成功讓
KANO擊出一記好球。
Hot off the one-two punch of Cape No.7 and Seediq Bale, Taiwanese director
Wei Te-sheng opts to write and produce this grand scale, 3-hour true story,
while gifting Seediq Bale star Umin Boya his first start in the director's
chair. And it's fair to say that he hits Kano out of the park, aided in no
small part by a stellar cast of youngsters filling out most of the leading
roles.

1931年的台灣仍在日本統治之下（也是魏德聖前一部作品賽德克‧巴萊中所描述
的霧社事件衝突過後），但一支默默無名的棒球隊旋風般地打進甲子園冠亞軍戰，
史無前例的贏得了日本人民的心，在此之前，這群來自農村和鄉下的少年，不曾
在任何一局球賽中得分，更別說獲勝。而球隊中前所未見的日本人、漢人、和原
住民球員組合，雖然讓這支隊伍獨一無二，卻也曾讓他們不受看好。
In 1931, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule (following the conflict depicted
in Wei's previous film), an underdog team like no other won the hearts of the
entire Japanese empire, when they emerged seemingly from nowhere to take the
Koshien High School Championships by storm. Prior to that season, this rag
tag collection of farmers' kids and village lads had never even managed to
score a single run, let alone win a game. What made the team unique, however,
was that it was made up of Japanese, Han Chinese and indigenous Taiwanese
boys - something not only unheard of, but actively campaigned against prior
to their participation.

嘉農棒球隊能這麼快嶄露頭角，要歸功於近藤教練領導有方，演出近藤一角
的永瀨正敏，精準詮釋出這個魔鬼教練的氣質，近藤教練原本也是球員，他
和妻子及兩個女兒來到南方小鎮嘉義，找到了自己的歸屬。為了讓這群孩子
受到更好的訓練，近藤接下教練一職後，面對經費短缺，他得向學校的校長
和地方的大人物們爭取資源，但這些人全都不看好嘉農棒球隊。
The secret to Kano's overnight success was the commanding leadership of Coach
Kondo. Brilliantly portrayed with commanding stoicism by Nagase Masatoshi,
Kondo is a former player who finds himself in the small southern town of
Kagi, together with his wife and two young daughters. Compelled to bring some
order and discipline to these boys, Kondo takes over the team officially,
where he must deal with a lack of budget but reams of bureaucracy from the
school board and town authorities, none of whom see any promise in the team.

在近藤的魔鬼訓練下，這群孩子們感受到辛苦訓練後的成長，更培養出團隊精神。
球員間的種族差異絲毫沒有影響他們，只有地方人士和日本記者這類不相干的人，
以此大作文章。這群孩子只想著打球、想著變強、想著打進甲子園。進軍甲子園不
僅是近藤帶給他們的夢想，對近藤自身和這群孩子們來說，也是一場心靈的療傷。
While Kondo leads them with a stern hand, the boys are quick to recognise the
benefits of regimented training and the nurturing of a strong team dynamic.
What is most interesting is how the ethnic differences between the teammates
themselves never fazes them in the slightest, and is only ever brought up by
outsiders - mainly authority figures and the mainland Japanese press. The
boys just want to play, and improve, and go all the way to Koshien - a dream
Kondo instills in them as much for his own emotional catharsis as for them.

KANO這部電影中還有些支線故事及更宏觀的主題，能撩撥觀眾的情緒。
當時正在興建的嘉南大圳，得以讓嘉義小鎮脫胎換骨，成為豐饒的農業
天堂，嘉南大圳在全片中雖然只是點綴，卻明顯隱喻了近藤教練灌輸給
球員們的責任感和紀律，不僅讓球隊本身同心協力，也讓整個國家都上下
一心。此外片中也隱約透露出太平洋戰爭的陰影和不祥徵兆。這部電影是
由一名敵隊球員的回憶展開倒敘，這個由青木健飾演的棒球員，在多年後
走訪嘉義追尋自我，過程中也暗示了許多嘉農的球員們將被迫在無止盡的
戰爭衝突中消磨生命。
There are subplots in the story, and larger themes that flirt with the
audience's attention along the way. The development of the Kanan Canal
through the region, which will transform the town into a rich agricultural
haven is an obvious but underplayed metaphor for how the responsibility and
discipline Kondo instills in the boys will help not only the team, but the
country as a whole. Of course, the shadow of the Pacific War looms ominously
in the background. The film is told in a series of extended flashbacks from
the perspective of Aoki Ken's rival ball player, who finds himself in Kagi
many years later. The notion that many, if not all, of the Kano boys will
have been touched and consumed by the conflict lingers throughout.

嘉農球隊中除了王牌投手吳明捷有一段沒有結果的曖昧戀情外，
片中並沒有對其餘的球員多加著墨，主要是因為魏德聖和馬志翔
認為球隊應該是一體的，不論是在打球、訓練、或者和對手打架
，他們都一起經歷，而非各自行動。
The individual members of the team aren't given much opportunity to develop
when off the diamond, with the possible exception of star pitcher Akira Go
(Tsao Yu-ning), one of the indigenous players, who has the closest thing to a
romance, albeit one he is never able to consummate. In that regard, Wei and
Boya maintain the notion that the team is a single unit, and whether they are
playing, training, or getting into scraps with rival squads, they do so
together, rather than as identifiable individuals.

KANO全片是否需要長達3小時的確引來爭論，但馬志翔在棒球運動本身的
情緒張力之外，沒有強化讓人揪心的緊張感，而是維持了輕快的節奏和
調性。電影後三分之一的比賽，編排有如芭蕾舞一般優美，出色地傳達了
一支無名球隊用熟練的美技，讓原本輕視他們的5萬名觀眾為嘉農瘋狂。
佐藤直紀的配樂略帶誇張、像軍隊進攻一般排山倒海而來，絲毫不放過整部
電影中任何一個能擊中觀眾情緒、或牽動觀眾呼吸的細微之處。而秦鼎昌在
大場面的攝影中運鏡豐富飽滿，沒有留下太多空間處理細節，並用華麗鮮明
的色彩和讓人摒息的俯角遠景攝影，捕捉了家鄉的稻田和甲子園觀眾們的激情。
Kano's 3-hour running time is an obvious point of contention, but Boya keeps
the pace brisk, when not unbearably tense, and the mood light, except when
the emotions of the sport itself take over. The choreography of the games
themselves is almost balletic, brilliantly conveyed in the film's final third
as the deft fielding of this unknown side slowly begins to win over the
cynical 50,000-strong crowd at Koshien stadium. Sato Naoki's score does lean
towards the bombastic, even militaristic, and ensures there is never a missed
emotional beat or breath of subtlety to the whole affair. But Chin
Ting-chang's sumptuous photography conveys that there is no room for subtlety
in this grand spectacle, capturing the paddy fields back home and the roaring
crowds in Koshien in sumptuous colours and breathtaking vistas from his
swooping cameras.

KANO自豪又感性描述了這個關於決心、自信、與努力的傳奇故事，這些能傳達給
年輕觀眾的價值觀，和故事本身一樣具有吸引力。而年輕演員們都非常有魅力、
讓人著迷，不時還小露上半身，對票房更是加分。這部充滿活力又兼具娛樂性的
史詩電影，會讓人忍不住想喝采，又流下了眼淚，更重要的是，你不用瞭解或
喜愛棒球，也能看得懂，我經常看球賽看完第一局就沒了勁，但KANO卻從頭到尾
都能抓住觀眾的心。
Kano is big, brazen and unashamedly sentimental in its depiction of this
incredible story of determination, self-belief and hard work - values nobody
should complain about being peddled to younger audiences as seductively as
this. The young cast are charismatic, enthusiastic and quite often shirtless,
which won't hurt ticket sales either. The result is a rollicking epic of
entertainment that will force you to stifle the occasional cheer and even
shed a few tears, and most importantly, doesn't require you to have any
understanding or affection for the sport of baseball. The real thing often
loses my attention before the end of the first innings, but Kano is riveting
from beginning to end.


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