编写美好时光

Make it a happy one.

Have you ever looked at something

and known you want it,

want it more than anything

you've ever wanted in your life before,

and known that it can never be yours?

I have, and I tell you,

it'll either finish you

or put a fire in your belly

that'll keep burning

to the end of your days.

I wasn't there at the beginning

of the story,

but you can bet your bottom dollar

I'm not leaving before the end.

Because I know now that it has to be

the right sort of ending.

The sort of ending

that's worth fighting for.

<他们最好的> / <Their Finest> (2016)

在战争的阴影下

生活 依旧要继续

1940年的英国战争不断

每天都有敌军的空袭轰炸

但比满目疮痍伦敦 更残破的是人民绝望的心

面对未知的生命无常

电影成了唯一的心灵慰藉

资讯局电影部想要提升国家士气和民心

开始拍摄政治宣传电影

为了增加电影中的女性观点

原本从事广告文案的凯瑟琳（杰玛·阿特登 饰）被邀请加入编剧小组

和主编巴克利（山姆·克拉弗林 饰）一起编写

歌颂英国人在敦刻尔克行动中 英勇事迹的剧本

严肃有对电影剧本挑剔的巴克利 遇上 温柔却也执着的凯瑟琳

挖苦彼此的对白、斗嘴不断

但随着两人一起经历疯狂赶戏和剧本

默契和爱情都悄悄滋长

然而战事持续恶化

电影拍摄也面临困境

凯瑟琳 还要面对自己“已婚”的事实

她想要尽力维持 自己和还未登记的丈夫的关系

但是在剧本工作上投入过多的凯瑟琳

还是无暇顾及得全面

没能赶上画展的她 急忙赶回伦敦后却撞见了“丈夫”另觅新欢的画面

她难过了一段时间

甚至把这种消沉的情绪带到电影拍摄中

是你把我看得 太不重要

这次分离 其实过分轻视女性的必然后果

从一开始

她的丈夫 就对于女性能够挣钱、支付房费 持怀疑态度

他不能接受自己事业不顺

还要被女性协助的事实

甚至丈夫想要让凯瑟琳离开伦敦

放弃电影事业 也放弃独立自主的生活

其实从影片中 看得出来整个社会的趋势是

像电影这种文化产业慢慢 开始需要女性的视角

但是大部分人对于 女性 也能成为英雄

还是不支持的

比如 主编巴克利多次想要在剧本的走向上

抹去 或是看清 女性的重要性

全片透露出来的 女权主义

不看都不行

凯瑟琳呼吁大家 看重双胞胎姐妹的勇敢

在表现出英雄主义的情节上 也主张由女性来完成

她相信女性 想要传达出女性的力量

她以女性的视角来编写剧本

她以独立女性的姿态 获得人们的认可

她的剧本带给的大家感动

让人不止花费1个半小时来看电影

更是一刷再刷

感受镜头里传递出来的感情和精神

出色的完成了自己的工作的同时

在感情方面 她也表现出了女性意识

的确 在你还一无所知的时候

极容易崇拜男性的才气和能力

凯瑟琳就是这样 单纯地想要与她的“丈夫”守护着爱情

可是爱情走远的时候 也知进退

主编巴克利就是个不错的选择

可惜战争的意外

降临在 这两个心中有着无尽爱意的年轻人身上

巴克利的离开 让凯瑟琳又再次陷入低谷

但是如果不走出来

不重新 奋斗在我们所热爱的事业上

我们不就是被困难打到了嘛

让死亡凌驾于生活之上

是对死者的辜负

对自己的不负责任

除了表现很多女权主义的凯瑟琳

影片中饰演知名电影明星的 比尔·奈伊的演绎

也值得称赞

他对于凯瑟琳的态度 前后有着180度的转变

从看不起女性编剧 随意改变台词

对自己的表演能力过高的定位

到后期 如果剧本不是凯瑟琳亲自进行改动

他就拒绝出演

在凯瑟琳想要放弃编剧事业时

甚至亲自登门 劝说

演员的实力在于 用多少努力才能表现好一个人物

显然 比尔·奈伊真的是一个很好的演员

整部影片的演员 都在说英音

真的是 很迷人啊…

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讲了一部电影的幕后故事，以及作为这部电影的编剧的女主的感情生活。她写的剧本和她的感情部分是可以照应的，所以回味的时候觉得很巧妙：

女主Catrin刚开始没有正经办公桌，也只被当成临时工——剧本名义上讲的是两个女生的故事，但不被当成主角，英雄事迹被分配给男性完成（按编剧理论，主角应该是推动情节发展的人。这个剧本构思的时候就是两个女生参加敦刻尔克援救的故事，这两个女生按理说应该是故事的主角。但是编剧Tom一开始反对比如开小船、隔断绳索等关键行动由两个女孩完成，实际上是把她们在故事里的地位架空了）；

她有男友，但是和Tom日久生情——剧本里的Rose也是三角恋；

Catrin开场已经订婚——剧本里的美国小伙遗憾退场，“I wasn’t there in the beginning of the story, but you can bet your bottom dollar I’m not leaving before the end. ”

在编剧团队对剧本结尾如何发展一筹莫展时，她写出了完美结局——剧本里的Rose成为关键时刻割断绳索的人，成为名副其实的主角、英雄。

剧本里的Rose和Lily慢慢地夺回了自己的主角地位，Catrin也拿回了属于自己的名字，才华被承认，成为了自己生活的主导。

感情戏来说，“I wasn’t there in the beginning of the story, but you can bet your bottom dollar I’m not leaving before the end. ”这句话是剧本里美国小伙对Rose说的，也是这部电影里Tom想对Catrin说的。所以很感动。

Tom的意外身亡是有点狗血，如果不安排在刚表白完的时候死掉会好很多，不那么戏剧化。但我很能理解编剧让Tom这个角色死掉的原因，这样女主才是完全独立的。她一扫颓废，投入下一份编剧事业也就显得更有力量。

可以拥有，也可以失去。就算失去也不会停下脚步。酷！！

另，我要骂死女主原本的男朋友Ellis，女友付的房租还觉得是女友给自己的天大压力。要去开展览，希望女友配合自己的工作场所，跟着自己走。他就没想过要配合女友的工作！探视也是女友跑来探视，没想过要去找下女友！还出轨！离谱

以下为台词摘录：

这段太帅了。是关于电影的真实的争论。男主为了自己的剧本辩护，说电影的真实是创作者挑选的。

There’s someone who says that the Starling sisters never got to Dunkirk. That their engine broke down before they even were out of British waters. Pity. Pity all around really. Your first draft boded it so well.

So the Starling sisters lied.(帮女主打掩护）What difference does it really make?

God sake! Of course it makes a difference! It’s not the truth!

The truth is they stole a boat from a man, who terrified them and set out to cross 50 miles of open sea into a war.

They never got there.

Because their engine failed! Now that’s a truth we won’t be telling. Moral sapping apparently. We pick our truths. Isn’t that the point?

We are saying, this is based on a true story.

Then don’t! For Christ above, man! You are supposed to be the propagandist. 700 ships went to Dunkirk! 338000 men came back! Don’t say “It’s based on a true story”! Say, “It’s based on a hundred true stories, a thousand!”

338000 thousand.

Dunkirk, the biggest retreat in military history. Or the miracle that put the fire back in all our bellies.

Very well. Carry on as you were. I have a car waiting.

电影可以被提炼出中心思想、意义，但生活不是。我作为一个旁观者，惹味Tom的死亡也可以被提取出意义，比如让女性更有力量。但对电影里的人物来说，他的死亡是随机的，他的死亡并不被期待负担起任何的责任或意义，是无法从意义角度去解构的。

Is Mr. Backer all right?

He lost one of his grandsons.

Oh!

Hit by a tram on shore leave.

Oh! Must make it so much worse. It wasn’t for anything. Poor Mr. Backer.

This wasn’t for anything. Why do you think people like films? Because story is a structure. They’re a shape, a purpose, a meaning. And when things turned bad, it’s still a part of a plan, you know. There’s a point to it. Unlike life.

…

The thing about men who sent away to war. Mrs. Cole, is that some of them don’t come back at all. Some come back as heroes, some of then come back drunk squalid bullies. I was better off out his way.

In the pub?

Or the pictures. I liked the pictures best. Once in a while you just need to make one that’s worth it. Worth the hour and a half of someone’s life is gonna cost to see it.

The flat’s yours, you’re the one who pays the rent.

…

You know the first time I painted you outside the steelworks? Maybe I shouldn’t have shown you walking away.

Oh, I don’t know Ellis. Maybe you shouldn’t have made me so bloody small.

Tom指责狗男人行径的样子太帅了

Marry you.

I’m already married.

No, you’re not.

That was private. It was a private conversation.

You had to buy the ring yourself in Woolworths. When times got hard he tried to send you back to Wales. And he’s disappointed in you? He’s a stupid bloody fool. But he’s not as much a fool as you. He changed your name for Christ sake!

审查对各国创作者来说都是个大问题哈哈哈哈哈

Americans feel that the ending as presently written, is too subtly nuanced, too restrained.

Restrained? I mean it’s practically a call to arms!

Their concern is more, what one might crudely call.. The love triangle. I’ve to say as far as the home front goes, we can’t let it look that if she rather had the American.

Well that would be the teeth.

Teeth or no teeth. What all parties need is a morally clean, romantically satisfying resolution.

世事无常

When we were shooting in Devon, you always seemed so… vivid. Perhaps I’m just in a sentimental mood. My landlady was killed yesterday. I could hear her husband crying through the wall all night long. It seems to me when life is so very precarious, it’s an awful shame to waste it.

这段太浪漫了，作为编剧的女主，为他们海边的争执写了一个新的故事走向，不愧是你！

A full moon, a clear sky. A man sits by the shore. There has been a quarrel. A woman is walking away from him. Now she turns back. “I didn’t mean what I just said. And anyway… You said worse.”

It was a declaration.

“Stupid bloody” fool was good. Did you think of that beforehand?

Are you trying to pick a fight with me Mrs. Cole?

No. What I’m trying to say is that, if all of this stopped, the sparring and the jibing, and the insults and the arguments. I’d miss it. Even if I were dead. I’d still miss it.

The Catrin Cole School of Dialog. On and on and on and on. Lose half.

Which half?

The half you don’t need.

Alright. Alright. I’d miss you.

不要让死凌驾于生之上

You and me. Given up opportunities only because young men are gone.. or dying. But to turn our back on those opportunities, even when one has suffered such great loss, wouldn’t that be giving death dominion over life?

虽然在故事的开头我缺席了..

In another time, another place.. could it had been me?

Perhaps. But you are talking about a world without Johnnie. That’s not a world I’d care to live in.

OS: Have you ever looked at something and known you want it? Want than anything ever you wanted in your life before. And know it can never be yours. I have. And I tell you, it will either finish you or put a fire in your belly that will keep burning to the end of your days. I wasn’t there in the beginning of the story, but you can bet your bottom dollar I’m not leaving before the end. Because I know it has to be the right sort of ending. The sort of ending that’s worth fighting for.

灰常好看 笑了很多次 也有很多突如其来的意外 哭泣 女配神助攻 既然生命如此脆弱 就别浪费它 山姆克拉弗林 又死了 怎么老在电影里死啊 男女主和一干人等演员绝对英式 嘲笑美国好莱坞也很酷 导演再英一点更好 太规整 没吱毛边 一点废话都没有 跟一群人一起笑的感觉很好 战争摧毁很多人 但是是灾难更加成就我们 好好活着

1940年的英国战争不断，每天都有敌军的空袭轰炸，但比满目疮痍伦敦更残破的是人民绝望的心，面对未知的生命无常，电影成了唯一的心灵慰藉。资讯局电影部想要提升国家士气和民心，开始拍摄政治宣传电影，为了增加电影中的女性观点，原本从事广告文案的凯瑟琳被邀请加入编剧小组，和主编巴克利一起编写歌颂英国人在敦刻尔克行动中英勇事迹的剧本。大男人的巴克利遇上温柔的凯瑟琳，挖苦彼此的对白、斗嘴不断，但随着两人一起经历疯狂赶戏和剧本，默契和爱苗都悄悄滋长。然而战事持续恶化，电影拍摄也面临困境，凯瑟琳还要面对自己已婚的事实⋯⋯

这一场让我难以忘怀。像是不经意的展示了战争时期的残酷与不确定性，散落的模特肢体与黄色裙子姑娘尸体的结合，对照着「电影产业」与人类经历的真实生活一样。战争年代，不知何时空袭会发生，不知道何时办公室或者住所会被炮弹轰倒，周遭的朋友一个接着一个被拼凑起来，出现在停尸房，不知道自己还能不能见到明天的曙光。这就是他们的生活。