滑鼠輕按 改變電影風貌 - 影音

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Mar 26, 2007《紐時周報全文精譯》
滑鼠輕按 改變電影風貌

The Shape of Cinema, Transformed at the Click of a Mouse

田思怡譯

For some time now, it has been possible to imagine a moment when you - yes,
You, the Person of the Year, the ultimate arbiter of cultural relevance -
will be able to watch whatever you want whenever you want in the setting of
your choice. The handful of Web sites that now offer streaming or
downloadable feature films, along with wider video on demand through the
cable box or satellite dish, offer a glimpse of what is to come.

已有一段時間,可以想像這麼一刻,你──沒錯,就是你,去年時代雜誌年度
風雲人物,文化關聯性的最後仲裁者──將能在你的設定下,在任何時間看你
想看的任何東西。好幾家網站現在就提供源源不斷或可下載的劇情片,並且
透過機上盒或衛星天線提供更多隨選視訊系統,藉此一窺未來的樣貌。

Perhaps the most intriguing promise these sites hold is of a kind of virtual
cinematheque. The retrieval and preservation of film history has been a
project of many decades, accelerated and democratized by the rise of the DVD,
which has put integral, aesthetically credible versions of hundreds of old
films in easy reach of the multitudes.

也許這些網站提供的最引人入勝的前景,是某種虛擬的文獻電影館。電影史的
挽救和保存已是幾十年來的大業,靠著DVD崛起而加快腳步民主化,將數以百計
保存完整、未失去美感的老電影版本存放在方便大眾取得的媒介裡。

Not that the effort has been systematic or complete: there are still hundreds
more titles awaiting transfer to digital media. But the Internet extends the
promise of comprehensiveness and universal accessibility. It is now possible
to imagine - to expect - that before too long the entire surviving history
of movies will be open for browsing and sampling at the click of a mouse for
a few dollars.

倒不是這項大業已完成或系統化:仍有幾百部電影等著轉換成數位媒介。
但網路提升無所不包和全球供應的前景。現在可以想像並期待,不久後,整個
存活下來的電影史將開放,只要花幾美元,按一下滑鼠就能瀏覽淺嘗。

This aspect of the online viewing experience is not, in itself, especially
revolutionary. It makes established home viewing habits a bit easier to
indulge. What seems potentially more consequential is the rise of video on
demand as a form of first-run distribution, a way not only for old movies to
be saved, but also for new ones to be discovered.

這方面的網路觀賞經驗本身不算什麼革命,只是使人更容易耽溺於在家看
電影的老習慣。潛在的更重要後果是,隨選視訊系統成為電影首輪發行的
形式,不僅挽救老電影,也發掘新電影。

More and more movies that gain a bit of exposure on the festival circuit will
find their public not at the multiplex or the art house, but at your house.

未來會有愈來愈多在影展上獲得一點曝光機會的電影,不在大型電影院或
藝術電影院找觀眾,而是在你家裡找。

This, at any rate, is the possibility held out by sites like GreenCine,
Jaman, EZTakes and others like them, and also by Google Video, through which
you can purchase or “rent” a wide variety of films. If you look at Google’
s extensive documentary menu, you may be struck not only by the diversity of
subject matter, but also by the variety of running times. One thing online
distribution seems to accomplish is the erosion of the tyranny of the
feature. It is nearly impossible for a film that runs less than 70 minutes to
be booked into a theater by itself, or for, say, a 67- or 17-minute movie to
be given a block of television time. But on-demand screen time is more
flexible and may thus reward filmmakers for brevity or at least economy of
expression.

無論如何,GreenCine、Jaman、EZTakes和其他類似網站提供的就是這樣的
可能性。還有Google Video,透過這個網站,可以買或「租」各類型電影。
你看Google龐大的紀錄片目錄,也許不只驚訝主題的多樣性,放映時間也長短
不一。網路發行似乎成就一件事,就是打破劇情長片獨占市場。一部不到70
分鐘的電影,幾乎不可能打進電影院,一部67分鐘或17分鐘的電影,也不可能
分到電視播出時段。但隨選視訊系統的播放時間較具彈性,因此能夠獎賞拍片
簡潔,或至少表達精簡的電影人

But the filmmakers whose work circulates primarily through the various Web
and on-demand applications will be entering a marketplace that is already
glutted. The number of theatrically released films to open in Manhattan -
that is, the movies that merit a review in The New York Times - has nearly
doubled since the start of the decade, to around 600 a year. Add the films
that play only at festivals, and the number reaches the thousands; include
straight-to-video movies, on the Internet or DVD, and you have the potential
of tens of thousands of movies competing for the attention of the viewers.

但作品主要在網站和隨選視訊系統播放的電影人,進入的也是一個已經飽和的
市場。在紐約曼哈坦上映的院線片,也就是有資格獲得紐約時報評論的電影,
其數量自2000年初以來幾乎倍增,一年約600部。加上只在影展上放映的電影,
數量即達幾千部,包括直接拍成錄影帶的電影,網路播出或製成DVD,可能有
成千上萬部電影爭相引起觀眾注意。

How will they be sorted out? How will you know which ones you might want to
see? I don’t ask this question defensively, as a cultural gatekeeper
fretting over my waning authority - enough about you! some of us are trying
to make a living here - but out of genuine curiosity. It has become
something of a truism that Web culture is driven not by traditional forms of
taste making like the judgments of professional critics or the strategies of
corporate marketers, but rather by the lateral operations of social networks.
Niches and coteries form organically, as like-minded people bond in
cyberspace over shared enthusiasms. And this, in turn, encourages an
independent approach to production and distribution.

如何把這些電影整理出來?你怎麼知道你可能想看哪幾部?我並不是出於防衛
心理提出這個問題,身為一個憂心自己權威漸失的文化守門人──真是受夠你了!
我們只是想混口飯吃而已──而是純粹出於好奇。網路文化不由專業評論家的
評論或企業行銷人員的策略之類傳統品味塑造模式帶動,而是由社交網絡的橫向
操作推動,已是老生常談。想法相近的人因共同的興趣在網上連結,小眾市場和
小圈圈自然形成。緊接而來的是鼓勵獨立製片和發行。

Surely there can never be too many movies. Or, to put it another way, there
will always be too many movies, more than anyone can keep track of. That more
will be made, and that more will have a chance to be seen, is hardly cause
for complaint.

當然,電影永遠不嫌多。或換句話說,電影總是太多,多過任何人能跟得上的地步。
未來還會拍更多電影,更多電影有機會被看到,幾乎沒有理由抱怨。

But by now we should have learned to regard Utopian - or apocalyptic -
predictions about the Internet with a measure of skepticism. The technology
has yet to be developed that can increase the number of hours in the day,
which means that, somehow, we will still need to choose among the thousands
of movies at our instantaneous disposal.

不過,我們現在應已學會帶一點懷疑來看待有關網路烏托邦或啟示錄式的預言。
能使每天時數增加的科技尚未問世,這意味著,無論如何,我們仍有必要從成千
上萬部任我們立即選看的電影中挑選。

What will guide those choices? I doubt that, at least in the foreseeable
future, a filmmaker with a choice will refuse theatrical distribution in
favor of the Web, or that a Web-distributed feature will match the gross of
even a modest art-house release. But at the same time it seems likely that a
hot new filmmaker will be soon discovered on a download site and given a shot
at old-fashioned Hollywood success, a chance to make movies for the big
screen. In any case, we’ll have to keep watching.

用什麼來引導我們挑選?我懷疑,至少在可預見的未來,有選擇權的電影人會
拒絕院線發行,而選擇在網路上發行。我還懷疑,網路發行劇情片的總收入,
能比得上較小眾的藝術電影院線。但同時,炙手可熱的新電影人將很快在下載
網站上被發掘,在老式好萊塢成功模式中試試身手,而有機會為大銀幕拍電影。
無論如何,我們必須持續觀察。

By A. O. Scott

【2007-03-26/聯合報/B6版/UNITED DAILY NEWS】


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無間道的終極珍藏8dvd版

Suhail Hany avatar
By Suhail Hany
at 2007-04-11T16:00
最早的版本應該是完全絕版了吧? 如果還想收一樣有8dvd版本的無間道, 除了拍賣上面的一堆盜版之外~and#34;~(很不想收這種) 還有其他選擇嗎? 香港那邊的發行公司在限量珍藏版完售之後, 還有出過一樣張數的版本可以選擇嗎? 請知道相關訊息的版友賜教一下,感恩:) - ...

同樣是第三區.....

Linda avatar
By Linda
at 2007-04-08T18:08
同樣是第三區..感覺港版的包裝有些都做的 比台版用心多了 (不過有些也差不多)... 可是香港那裡似乎什麼片都會發行... 有時後找到一些電影是發行第三區的... 不過都是港版,不然就是韓國版(/‵Д′)/~ ╧╧ 我英文看不懂,大概都得依賴港版的繁體中文吧~~Orz... 不然第一區的包裝又更 ...

黛妃與女皇(The Queen)的三區DVD?

James avatar
By James
at 2007-04-08T13:59
請問有沒有人知道何時The Queen的三區DVD會出? 還是可以去那裡查這一類資訊呢? - ...

艾蜜莉的異想世界的DVD

Sierra Rose avatar
By Sierra Rose
at 2007-04-07T13:30
我非常喜歡這部電影 可是市面上都找不到 據說是沒有代理 絕版了 拍賣上也只有賣VCD的版本 我非常想買到精裝版的DVD 不過如果有平裝版也OK 不知到有沒有人知道要去哪買 或願意割愛呢 價錢可以再談 謝謝 - ...

性愛巴士。

Daph Bay avatar
By Daph Bay
at 2007-04-04T20:33
這部片會出dvd嗎? 扼腕。(很想見識首幕下腰是哪般光景‧_‧) - ...