先把在水立方写的伦敦游记的相关部分贴过来。

其实仔细想想，这实在是也不能怪我。谁叫他俩是目前最当红的两位英国小生，彼此又是好邻居好兄弟，youtube上搜BC的访谈，旁边的列表里一准有他俩一起为《战马》做宣传时的访谈，小夏同学还夸Tom夸得那么不遗余力。好吧，《战马》的访谈看了，再去看几遍长腿抖森跳舞，然后顺手点了Tom在Nerd HQ的访谈，得，一下子就又陷进去了。陷进去才想起来，我其实一部Tom的戏还没看过呢。
工作已经忙得不可开交了，可我还是趁着非常有限的可以喘口气的机会去看了《雷神》(Thor)、《复仇者联盟》(Avengers)、《雷神2》(Thorthe Dark World)和《蔚蓝深海》(The Deep Blue Sea)。这几部电影说实话都没有特别地打动我，但对理解网上的好几个Tom的长访谈非常有帮助。这几个长访谈我都喜欢的不行，除了NerdHQ的那次，还有他在马德里NewYork Times的访谈，以及在悉尼Popcorn Taxi的那次等等。
Tom是个特别乐观的人，访谈里尽是些什么：“Take pains. Be perfect.” “We all have two lives. The second begins when you realizeyou only have one. ”这类的话。可能是因为这些话跟我现在的心境很吻合，我实在是爱听的紧。再加上伊顿公学、剑桥古典文学doublefirst honour毕业的背景，精通希腊语、法语，另外西班牙语、德语、俄语都是张嘴就能说上几句，待人谦恭有礼，长得又好，模仿起人来惟妙惟肖，实在让人很难不喜欢。
Tom是莎士比亚的脑残粉，说话的时候动不动就引用几句莎剧台词。他参与演出的莎翁剧目有《辛白林》(Cymbeline)、《奥赛罗》(Othello)、BBC的《空王冠》(TheHollow Crown)系列，以及刚刚在唐马仓库剧院演完的《科里奥兰纳斯》(Coriolanus)。
我因为Tom的缘故去买了《空王冠》系列来看，以他为主角的《亨利五世》还好，没想到他和JeremyIrons(杰瑞米艾恩斯)演的《亨利四世》，这对父与子之间的故事，让我一下子对莎士比亚着了迷。
围脖上看来的一段：抖森对莎士比亚的热爱感染了他的影迷.有记者问：“你有大批忠实的影迷,他们本来不会看《空王冠》,但因为你,他们就看了.你对此有何感想?”抖森答复：“如果影迷是因为知道洛基演这部剧而来,却因为爱上莎士比亚而看下去,我的任务就完成了...我能把这份爱传承下去,那就是我给观众最好的礼物.”
人真是奇怪的很，小时候对生命里的情绪感知强烈，却喜欢读什么“雪沫乳花浮午盏，蓼茸蒿笋试春盘，人间有味是清欢。”之类的句子，现在人到中年，心情其实没了太多太大的起起伏伏，反而爱上了莎翁戏剧里极致的情感。
从未认真看过莎剧的我，面对着这38部戏剧，再加上450年来后人无数的演绎和各种研究，像是穷人乍富的眼花缭乱着，不知道该怎么高兴了。想起《千江有水千江月》里大信给贞观的信里曾经有这么一段：“我们一个教授说：读书的目的，为了要与好的东西见面：好事、好情、好人、好物。”读了十几年英文，如果是为了让我找到信仰，又能学会appreciate Shakespeare（欣赏莎士比亚）（仅指按时间顺序），那真是我再美丽不过的幸运。

神探夏洛克 S3E2里 婚礼上的 Best Man Speech
Pray silence for the Best Man.
Sherlock: Ladies and gentlemen, family and friends, and, um, others.Er, …. Also.
Watson: Telegrams.
Sherlock: Right, um…. First thing first, telegrams. Well they’re notactually telegrams,
we just call them telegrams, I don’t know why. Weddingtradition. Because we
don’t have enough of that already, apparently.
“To Mr. and Mrs. Watson, so sorry I am unable to be with you on yourspecial day.
Good luck and best wishes. Mike Stanford. “
“To John and Mary, all good wishes for your special day. With love andmany big,
big squishy cuddles, from Stella and Ted.”
“Mary, lots of love, Poppet, oodles of love and heaps of good wishes.From CAM.
Wish your family could have seen this.”
“Special day”, “very special day”, “Love…” “Love…”, “Love…”, “Love…”
Bit of a theme, you get the general gist. People are basically fond.
John Watson. My friend, John Watson. John. When John first broached thesubject
to being Best Man, I was confused. I confess at first I didn’t realizehe was asking
me. When finally I understood, I expressed to him that I was bothflattered and
surprised. I explained to him that I’d never expected thisrequest and I was a little
daunted in the face of it. I nonetheless promisedthat I would do my very best to
accomplish a task which was, for me, asdemanding and difficult as any I had ever
contemplated. Additionally, I thankedhim for the trust he placed in me and
indicated that I was, in some ways, veryclose to being moved by it. It later
transpired that I’d said none of this outloud.
Done that. Done that, Done that bit, done that bit. Done that bit.

I’m afraid John, I can’t congratulate you. All emotions, particularlylove, stand
opposed to the pure, cold reason I hold above all things. A weddingis, in my c
onsidered opinion, nothing short of a celebration of all that isfalse and specious
and irrational and sentimental in this ailing and morallycompromised world. Today
we honor the deathwatch beetle that is the doom of oursociety, and in time one
feels certain our entire species. But anyway, let’stalk about John.
Watson: Please.
Sherlock: If I burden myself with a little helpmate during myadventures, it is not of
sentiment or caprice, it is that he has many finequalities of his own that he has
overlooked in his obsession with me. Indeed,any reputation I have for mental
acuity and sharpness comes in truth, from theextraordinary contrast John so
selflessly provides. It is, I believe, thatbrides tend to favour exceptionally plain
bridesmaids for their big day. Thereis a certain analogy there, I feel, and contrast is,
after all, God’s own planto enhance the beauty of his creation. Or it would be if
God were not aludicrous fantasy designed to provide a career opportunity for the
familyidiot. The point I’m trying to make is that I am the most unpleasant, rude,
ignorant, and all around obnoxious arsehole that anyone could possibly have the
misfortune to meet. I am dismissive of the virtuous, unaware of the beautiful,and
uncomprehending in the face of the happy.
So if I didn’t understand I was being asked to be Best Man, it isbecause I never
expected to be anybody’s best friend. And certainly not thebest friend of the
bravest and kindest and wisest human being I have ever hadthe good fortune of
knowing.
John, I am a ridiculous man. Redeemed only by the warmth and constancyof your
friendship. But as I am apparently your best friend, I cannotcongratulate you on
your choice of companion.
Actually, now I can.
Mary, when I say you deserve this man, it is thehighest compliment of which I am capable.
John, you have endured war and injuryand tragic loss, so sorry again about that last one.
So know this – today yousit between the woman you have made your wife and the man
you have saved. Inshort, the two people who love you most in all this world. And I know
I speakfor Mary as well when I say, we will never let you down and we have a lifetime
ahead to prove that.

这些日子看过的英剧、电影和舞台剧
唐顿庄园第四季 Downton Abbey
神探夏洛克第三季 Sherlock
空王冠系列 The Hollow Crown
蔚蓝深海 The Deep Blue Sea
战马 War Horse
凡尔赛 Versailles
队列之末 Parade*s End
大将军寇流兰 Coriolanus
李尔王 King Lear
唯爱永生 Only Lovers Left Alive
无事生非 Much Ado About Nothing
仲夏夜之梦 A Midsummer Night*s Dream
梅林传奇 Merlin

看了下Netflix的记录，7月10号开始看梅林传奇。
虽然觉得整个剧蛮幼稚的，可不知道怎么也就一路5季看了下来。
大概一方面是因为剧里写的Camelot精神，
另一方面是因为演Arthur的Bradley James实在养眼吧。

这两天的消息说抖森可能会演重拍的《宾虚》。
真的吗？如果是真的，可是太好了。
还记得大学时候看的日文字幕的《宾虚》，听不懂看不懂，连猜带蒙的，一样被震撼到热血沸腾。

美到让人想哭的一个访谈 --- 抖森关于Only Lovers Left Alive的访谈

真是喜欢Tom的遣词造句。

Only Lovers Left Alive
A Film about Love
When I first met Jim, all he said to me he wanted to make a film about love. And really it
was about two people, two creatures, who were pure spirits. And they were kind of …
they were yin and yang, they were black and white, they were the sun and the moon.
And they werevery rare sensitive delicate beings, who were alive to the gift of human
creativity, to the gift of life really. They were so sensitive to the things we’ve been given,
the things, nature, poetry and music, and science and philosophy and literature and love
ultimately. And the twist was these two creatures were vampires. And I thought it was
just the most amazing inversion of a very popular concept. That somehow in our
contemporary culture, vampires are everywhere.

Adam’s Character
When I first met Jim, he said “Tom, Adam isbasically Hamlet as played by Syd Barrette.”
And I thought that was one of thegreatest descriptions of a character that I have ever
heard. And I understoodit immediately. He is a melancholy sad poetic sensitive soul
inside the body ofa rock star. He was turned into a vampire around the late 16century
– early 17 century. We decided it so he lived through theromantic era. And in a way,
he is a kind of contemporary rock star with a soulof a romantic poet. For the last 500 years,
Adam has been a part of a movementin the progression of music and science. That’s
where his heart is. But he isalso a vampire, so he, so he is … so the normal things apply.

Vampire Artists
They’ve been incarnations of our sublimateddesires, you know. They have been a sort of
embodiment of our sexuality, of oursort of feral animalism. They are, cuz you know
vampires are the living dead. They’recloser to wolves and bats and beasts than humans.
And they live of blood, andthey have fangs, you know, there are all of these things. And
Jim was takingsomething that was very popular, and making it his own, and making
thesevampires, Adam and Eve, he was basically making them artists. Adam has aspecial
deal with the local hospital where he gets, you know, clean, pure,O-negative, type
O-negative blood. And he smuggles it in, he smuggles into hislife. Precisely because he
doesn’t want to destroy people, he doesn’t want tokill, or to bite. Yeah, I have been
saying to my family he’s like a vegetarianvampire. Ehehehe…

Live Forever
The question one has to ask oneself as an actorin this role is: what would it be like to live
forever? What would it be liketo be immortal? And for many many many people, that
would be a blessing.Because as human beings on this planet, we all run out of time.
We all do, weall die. And we all die, I’m sure, with a long list of things that we neverdid.
And Adam and Eve don’t have that problem. They have lived forever. Theywill live forever.
Vampires are eternal. And I think for Eve, I can’t speak forTilda, but I hope she would say
this, is that, her immortality is a blessing.And it’s given her the gift of seeing everything.
For Adam, there is a part ofimmortality as a vampire that is a curse. Because Adam has a
predisposition tomelancholia, to sadness, to depression. And for Adam, I think, the most
destructive aspect of human beings breaks his heart. The fact that human beingsdestroy
things, and they destroy each other, that they fight wars, that theyare capable of
prejudice or racism or hatred, or separatism of any kind, thatthey … The sort of the
fragility of the existence gives him such pain.

Detroit
Eve asked Adam, she says “Why do you live inDetroit?” And Adam says: “For me, Detroit
is like watching time-lapsephotography”. Time-lapse photography of a beautiful flower
that grows from aseed, and opens into an exquisite blossom. It’s majestic in its perfection.
Andthen the flower starts to close, it trembles and fades, its stem and leavesturn brown
and dry. And then it crumbles to dust. In a single century, that’sDetroit for him, is this
flower that goes comes into blossom and then fades anddies. And because Adam is who
he is, because he is Hamlet as played by Syd Barrette,because he is trying to channel his
melancholic soul into his music, into hiswork, because he is such an intelligent sensitive
person, that to him is sobeautiful. To live in a city, that is, that is an example of the
fragility oflife. If you were a vampire, living in the present… on this, in this presentday,
you don’t… you are someone who don’t want to be found out, you don’t wantto be
discovered. So where do you live? Well, Adam chooses to live in Detroitbecause
probably nobody is going to look for him there.

Ian’s Character
Ian is Adam’s manager. Adam was doing this thingwhere he wants, he wants to release
his music underground. But he doesn’t wantany credit for it. He doesn’t want any fame
or any money. He’s absolutely notinterested in fame or money, any of those stuff. He
just wants to know whatpeople think. And Ian is his mirror. And Ian just thinks Adam is
the best thingsince light spread. He, Ian is kind of hero worship of Adam in a way.
BecauseAdam represents everything that Ian loves, about Rock & Roll, you know,
about Detroit, about … he is … because Adam is just so cool, you know? He lovesmusic
for the sake of music, he doesn’t want money, he doesn’t want fame. He isindie, he is
reclusive, you know. He looks how he looks. He’s got long black hair, and he’s get …
heis very skinny and pale. He looks like Syd Barrette, you know. So they needeach
other. Ian needs Adam because Adam reminds him of what’s beautiful aboutmusic
and Detroit. And Adam needs Ian, because you know, he can’t go out toguitar shops
in the day time, he’ll be burned by the sun.