靈感的源頭——藏在電影背後那對真實的情侶

我今天早晨讀到這篇文章，試著翻譯了一下。希望各位喜歡這系列影片的朋友們喜歡。這三部曲可以排進我看過的最浪漫的影片之列。也祝福你們都能找到那個陪你絮絮叨叨永遠說下去的好朋友兼愛人。（舊約聖經中，描述妻子時，用的一個希伯來文的意思是：平等的、最親密無間的朋友、夥伴。如果你能和你最好的異性朋友結婚，那就是一個莫大的祝福和美事！）

翻譯的不好，歡迎探討指點！
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The Real Couple Behind Before Sunrise
《愛在日出之前》背後真正的情侶

By Forrest Wickman
福雷斯特·威克曼
Posted Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 9:02 AM
發表於2013年5月30日，星期四，9:02AM

If you stick around through the closing credits of Before Midnight, the latest film in the trilogy that also includes Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, you』ll see that the movie is dedicated to someone whose name even the most die-hard fans have never heard before: Amy Lehrhaupt. Almost 25 years ago, Lehrhaupt met a young man named Richard Linklater and spent a night with him that he never forgot. Their encounter inspired Linklater to conceive and direct Before Sunrise, the first film in the series. She never saw it, though; unbeknownst to Linklater, by the time that movie came out, Lehrhaupt was dead.
《愛在午夜降臨前(Before Midnight)》是包括《愛在日出之前(Before Sunrise)》、《愛在日落之前(Before Sunset)》在內的三部曲之中的最後一部。如果你堅持看完了這部電影結束時的演職員名單的話，你會看到導演將這部電影獻給了一個人，而這個人的名字就算是最死忠的影迷也從沒有聽說過——艾米·賴豪普特（Amy Lehrhaupt）。差不多25年前，艾米·賴豪普特遇見了一個叫做理察·林克萊特（Richard Linklater）的年輕人，並與之共度一晚，這一晚讓他難以忘懷。他們的這次偶遇激發了林克萊特構想並執導《愛在日出之前》的靈感，這也是此三部曲中的第一部。然而，她並沒有看到該片，因為林克萊特並不知道，在這部影片上映之前，賴豪普特已經香消玉殞了。

Linklater never mentioned Lehrhaupt by name in the press before promoting Before Midnight—Ethan Hawke has said that the director was uncomfortable mentioning her until 「extremely recently」—but he has long made brief references to their encounter. From a number of interviews he’s done over the years, we can now piece together the complete story of how Lehrhaupt helped inspire the series.
在宣傳推廣《愛在午夜降臨前》之前，林克萊特從未在媒體上提及過賴豪普特的名字。伊桑·霍克（Ethan Hawke）曾說過，導演林克萊特直到「非常近的最近」，一直都對提及她感到不自在。但是，林克萊特在很久以前就曾簡略的提到過他們的相遇。我們現在則可以從這多年來他參與過的多個採訪中拼湊出這個完整的，關於賴豪普特如何激發了這一系列電影創作靈感的故事。

Linklater met Lehrhaupt in fall 1989, when he was visiting his sister in 費城. He was 29 and had just finished shooting Slacker, and was staying there for one night while passing through on the way home from 紐約. Lehrhaupt was several years younger, about 20. They met in a toy shop, and ended up spending the whole night together, 「from midnight until six in the morning,」 「walking around, flirting, doing things you would never do now.」 As in Before Sunrise, most of what they did was talk, 「about art, science, film, the gamut.」 Did they kiss? Yes. Did they have sex? The Times went so far as to ask Linklater in a recent interview, but he said he wants to 「leave a little mystery.」
林克萊特與賴豪普特相遇在1989年的秋天，他正在費城拜訪他的sister。他時年29歲，剛完成了電影《都市浪人（Slacker）》的拍攝，在從紐約返回家的途中，在那裡經停一晚。賴豪普特比他小幾歲，大約20歲。他們在一家玩具商店相遇，最後共度了整夜。「從午夜直到凌晨六點」，「四處閒逛、調情、做著那些你現在永遠不會去做的事」，就像在《愛在日出之前》一樣，他們所做的絕大部份事情就是聊天，「聊藝術、科學、電影，聊所有東西」， 他們接吻了嗎？是的。他們做愛了嗎？在泰晤士報（The Times）最近採訪林克萊特時詢問他到這個地步，但他說，他想保留一絲神秘。

Even in the midst of that romantic night, the filmmaker in Linklater couldn』t help but consider its cinematic possibilities. In a 2004 interview with the 紐約 Times, he remembered 「walking around [thinking], 『If I could just capture this feeling I』m having right now,』 instead of actually having that feeling.」 On a recent episode of the podcast The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith, he recalled mentioning the movie idea to Lehrhaupt that night:
即使是在這樣一個浪漫的夜晚中，林克萊特身體裡電影製作人的身份無法自己的考慮起把它拍攝成電影的可能性。在2004年一次與紐約時報（The 紐約 Times）的採訪中他談到，他記得「四處走動，[思考著]，『我要能把我現在的感覺捕捉保留下來就好了，而不是只是實實在在的感受到它。』 在最近某集的播客節目《與傑夫·戈德史密斯（Jeff Goldsmith）一起問與答（The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith）》中，林克萊特回憶起他在那晚向賴豪普特提起這個拍電影的主意：

    |||Even as that experience was going on … I was like, 「I』m gonna make a film about this.」 And she was like, 「What 『this』? What』re you talking about?」 And I was like, 「Just this. This feeling. This thing that’s going on between us.」|||
    |||正當那種體驗還在繼續的時候，我就說：「我要把它拍成電影。」她說：「『它』是什麼？你在說什麼啊？」然後我說：「它就是『這個』，這個感覺，這個在我們之間流動的東西。」|||

But as the night came to an end, the paths of Linklater and Lehrhaupt began to diverge from the fictional storyline of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy). In fact, on The Q&A, Linklater revealed that the ending of Before Sunrise was in part a response to what happened with him and Lehrhaupt. Unlike Jesse and Céline, who agree to reconvene in six months, the real-life young lovers exchanged numbers and tried to keep in touch while they were away. They called each other a few times, but it was 「that long distance thing」 that did them in. 「It sort of did the fizzle,」 he says, 「So in the first movie that was a thing, the idea that they would intellectually kind of get beyond that and say 『Well, we』re on different continents. What are the odds that it’s gonna work. Let’s just commit to this night.』 」
但是，在那晚結束之後，林克萊特與賴豪普特的人生道路和虛構的故事情節中傑西（Jesse）（伊桑·霍克飾）與賽琳（Céline）（朱莉·德爾佩飾）兩人的人生軌跡比起來，變得越來越大相逕庭。實際上，在那個問與答播客節目上，林克萊特透露說，《愛在日出之前》的結局部份程度上是對發生在他和賴豪普特身上事情的一個回應。與傑西和賽琳兩人約定6個月後再見不同的是，現實中的這兩個年輕愛人互相交換了電話號碼，並試圖在他們分別期間保持聯繫。他們給對方打過幾次電話，但"遠距離戀愛"把他們搞的疲憊不堪，「我們的關係慢慢的就虎頭蛇尾的結束了，」林克萊特接著說：「所以在第一部電影中也將它反映了出來，他們在理智上越過了它，說『唉，我們生活在不同的大陸上，這段感情不太可能發展下去，我們就盡情投入這一個夜晚吧。』」

Linklater soon became involved with another woman, who 「swept into [his] life ... and took over for about a year or so,」 and he and Lehrhaupt never talked again. He did think that maybe 「she would show up at a Before Sunrise screening or something.」 In Before Sunset, Céline shows up at a reading of Jesse’s book This Time, which is based on their night together. 「It would be so weird,」 he said, in 2004. But she never did.
林克萊特不久就和另一個女人發展起了親密的關係，這個女人「走進並執掌了他的生活……大約一年多，」之後，他和賴豪普特再沒有交談過。他確曾想過，或許「她會出現在《愛在日出之前》的一次放映時，或諸如此類的。」在《愛在日落之前》中，賽琳出現在傑西的書《這一次/這時光（This Time）》的讀書會上，而那本書就是依據他們共處的那一晚而寫的。「（她若出現在《愛在日出之前》的一次放映時，）那一定會感覺很怪異。」林克萊特在2004年這樣說。但是，她從來沒有出現過。

Linklater didn』t know then that Lehrhaupt had died in a motorcycle accident on May 9, 1994, before she reached her 25th birthday. Before Sunrise started filming a few weeks later. Linklater only learned of her death three years ago, when a friend of Lehrhaupt’s, who knew about the encounter, put it together and sent him a letter. 「It was very sad,」 Linklater told the Times. Ethan Hawke was similarly devastated when he heard it, though he reminded Linklater that if he hadn』t met her, then he never would have made these movies or met some of the people who worked on them with him. 「Who knows how we reverberate through each other’s lives,」 Linklater reflected in another interview, 「But she’s an inspiration on this.」
那個時候，林克萊特並不知道賴豪普特已於1994年5月9日死在一場摩托車車禍中，那時還不到她25歲的生日。《愛在日出之前》則於幾周後開始拍攝。林克萊特直到3年前才獲悉她的死訊，一個知道他們二人那次相遇的賴豪普特的朋友，集合了這些消息，發了一封信給他。林克萊特告訴泰晤士報：「我感到非常悲傷。」 伊桑·霍克獲悉這個消息的時候，也同樣悲痛萬分，不過他還是提醒林克萊特，如果他未曾遇見過她，那他也就不會創作出這些電影，以及遇見一些跟他一起，為這些電影而努力工作的人。林克萊特在另一個採訪中深思反省道：「誰也不知道我們怎樣在彼此的生命中交織迴蕩出聲響，但她是這迴蕩聲響的靈感。」

In this way, Linklater did find another way to make that feeling, that 「thing in the air」 they once had between them, last: He turned it into cinema.
就這樣，林克萊特，他最終，還真是，找到了另一條創造那感覺的途徑，那種他們曾經擁有的，迴蕩在他們之間的，「漂浮在空氣裡的東西」——他把它變成了電影。