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黑人受歧视、遭迫害一直是当今社会的敏感话题。而新晋黑人导演贾斯汀·西米恩却以亲身经历为蓝本,用讽刺的口吻创作了一部颇具争议的电影—《亲爱的白人》。该片讲述了常春藤联校里的故事:白人学生开办的“非裔美国人”主题派对引起了黑人学生群体的不满,从而引发了一场“动乱”。该片在圣丹斯电影节上反响热烈,口碑获赞,并最终收获特别评审大奖。影片出彩的地方在于它表面上虽然是黑人学生向那些对少数族裔缺乏敏感度的白人宣战,实则是那些黑人学生本身面临的自我认知的问题,最终超越种族和民权政治,启发每个人在这个时代中对个人身份的定位进行思考。
Arun Rath (Host): “Dear White People”—the new film with that 1)edgy title has Justin Simien, its young black director, being 2)heralded as a Spike Lee for 3)millennials. It’s a movie about race and identities set at a fictional Ivy League college, or as the poster has it, a satire about being a black face in a white place. NPR’s Shereen Marisol Meraji talked with the director and has more.
Shereen Marisol Meraji (Byline): “Dear White People”follows four black students at a 4)predominantly white college called Winchester University. Samantha White.
(Soundbite of Film, “Dear White People”)
Tessa Thompson (As Samantha White): We can bring black back to Winchester.
Meraji: She’s the 5)militant film student who heads the African-American house on campus. Coco Connors, the 6)assimilationist who wants to fit in by any means necessary...
(Soundbite of Film, “Dear White People”)
Teyonah Parris (As Coco Conners): There is nothing hood about me.
Meraji: Troy Fairbanks, the popular and handsome 7)legacy kid and Lionel Higgins, the film’s unlikely hero, a gay sci-fi geek who has no idea where he belongs...
(Soundbite of Film, “Dear White People”)
Brandon Bell (As Troy Fairbanks): Tell me man, what’s harder, being black enough for the black kids or black enough for the white ones?
Tyler Willians (As Lionel Higgins): Being neither.
Justin Simien: I think the film attempts to admit that there is no 8)quintessential blackness.
Meraji: Director Justin Simien says “Dear White People” is about the battle these four characters are having with the identities they’ve created and their true selves.
Simien: Each of my four characters are just attacking that same problem from a different point of view. The, sort of,idea-should I wear my hair this way?
Should I be militant? Should I conform? I think they’re all kinds of struggling with the deep fear that this is all just in response to white people.
Meraji: He says he’s trying to get at how this battle, between identity and self, a part of the universal college experience, is made more difficult when you’re one of just a few black faces on a campus. Simien graduated from Chapman University, a predominately white private college in Southern California, and used his personal experiences to seed the script. Simien: My 9)suitemate when I first moved in-uh, this blonde, blue-eyed kid-he insisted that he was, you know, way blacker than me because he could Crip Walk and I couldn’t.
Meraji: He says it may sound insignificant, but these things happen all the time in college and beyond. Constantly having to prove your worth and your blackness can feel 10)oppressive over a time. Having people assume you’re a thug or a good basketball player or not black enough because you’re smart or don’t know the latest dance. For Simien, it’s a form of racism.
阿伦·拉斯(主持人):《亲爱的白人》——这部有着尖锐标题的电影让新晋黑人导演贾斯汀·西米恩被誉为第二个斯派克·李(译者注:Spike Lee是美国著名的黑人导演,曾执导过《答案》、《胜券在握》等电影且大获成功。作为一名最具黑人意识的导演,他一生的愿望就是拍出真正的“黑人电影”,因而他所涉及的题材也大都是与黑人的出路、觉醒,与种族歧视有关的主题)。这是一部有关种族和身份的电影,情节设定在一所虚构的美国常春藤联盟大学。或者正如海报上所说的,它是对于黑人在白人区生活的一种讽刺。NPR栏目组的谢林·玛莉索·麦拉吉与该剧的导演一道谈论更多有关这部电影的详情。
谢林·玛莉索·麦拉吉(撰稿人):《亲爱的白人》讲的是四个黑人学生在一所叫温彻斯特的有名白人大学的故事。萨曼莎·怀特。
(电影《亲爱的白人》原声片段)
泰莎·汤普森(饰演萨曼莎·怀特):我们可以把黑人带回温彻斯特。
麦拉吉:她是激进的电影专业学生,负责管理非籍美国人在大学的宿舍生活。可可·康纳斯是一名社会主义同化主张者,她想法方设法去融入……
(电影《亲爱的白人》原声片段)
泰柔娜·派丽丝 (饰演可可·康纳斯):我是无害的。
麦拉吉:特洛伊·费尔班克斯——帅气而受欢迎的校长的儿子,莱昂内尔·希金斯——最不可能成为电影主角的人,他是一个同性恋科幻极客,找不到自己的归属……
(电影《亲爱的白人》原声片段)
布兰登·贝尔(饰演特洛伊·费尔班克斯):告诉我兄弟,做一个纯正的黑人与做一个白人眼中的黑人,哪一个更难?
泰勒·威廉斯(饰演莱昂内尔·希金斯):两种人都做不成更难。
贾斯汀·西米恩:我认为这部电影就是试图承认没有典型的黑人。
麦拉吉:导演贾斯汀·西米恩说《亲爱的白人》是关于四个主角为自己创造的身份与他们真实自我之间的斗争。
西米恩:四个主角每人都从不同的角度抨击同一个问题。类似于这样的想法——我应该弄这样的发型吗?我应该激进吗?我应该守规矩吗?我认为这都是应对白人深层恐惧而产生的各种挣扎。
麦拉吉:他说他是想表现这个有关身份和自我的斗争——一种在校园中普遍存在的经历,如果发生在校园里为数不多的几个黑人学生身上会更加的艰难。西米恩毕业于查普曼大学,一所在南加州有名的白人私立大学,他用亲身经历来构思剧本。
西米恩:当我起初搬进去的时候,我的室友—呃,那个金发碧眼的人坚持认为,你知道吗,他比我像黑人得多,因为他能够跳Crip Walk(一种起源于美国贫困区的街舞)而我不能。
麦拉吉:他说这可能听起来微不足道,但这些事情总是在大学期间或者毕业后发生。在一段时间里经常需要证明你的价值、你黑人的身份会让人感到很压抑。对于西米恩而言,如果人们猜测你是一个暴徒或是好的篮球选手,或是因为你聪明,或者你不会跳最新的舞蹈,而觉得你不像黑人,这些都是一种种族歧视。
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Arun Rath (Host): “Dear White People”—the new film with that 1)edgy title has Justin Simien, its young black director, being 2)heralded as a Spike Lee for 3)millennials. It’s a movie about race and identities set at a fictional Ivy League college, or as the poster has it, a satire about being a black face in a white place. NPR’s Shereen Marisol Meraji talked with the director and has more.
Shereen Marisol Meraji (Byline): “Dear White People”follows four black students at a 4)predominantly white college called Winchester University. Samantha White.
(Soundbite of Film, “Dear White People”)
Tessa Thompson (As Samantha White): We can bring black back to Winchester.
Meraji: She’s the 5)militant film student who heads the African-American house on campus. Coco Connors, the 6)assimilationist who wants to fit in by any means necessary...
(Soundbite of Film, “Dear White People”)
Teyonah Parris (As Coco Conners): There is nothing hood about me.
Meraji: Troy Fairbanks, the popular and handsome 7)legacy kid and Lionel Higgins, the film’s unlikely hero, a gay sci-fi geek who has no idea where he belongs...
(Soundbite of Film, “Dear White People”)
Brandon Bell (As Troy Fairbanks): Tell me man, what’s harder, being black enough for the black kids or black enough for the white ones?
Tyler Willians (As Lionel Higgins): Being neither.
Justin Simien: I think the film attempts to admit that there is no 8)quintessential blackness.
Meraji: Director Justin Simien says “Dear White People” is about the battle these four characters are having with the identities they’ve created and their true selves.
Simien: Each of my four characters are just attacking that same problem from a different point of view. The, sort of,idea-should I wear my hair this way?
Should I be militant? Should I conform? I think they’re all kinds of struggling with the deep fear that this is all just in response to white people.
Meraji: He says he’s trying to get at how this battle, between identity and self, a part of the universal college experience, is made more difficult when you’re one of just a few black faces on a campus. Simien graduated from Chapman University, a predominately white private college in Southern California, and used his personal experiences to seed the script. Simien: My 9)suitemate when I first moved in-uh, this blonde, blue-eyed kid-he insisted that he was, you know, way blacker than me because he could Crip Walk and I couldn’t.
Meraji: He says it may sound insignificant, but these things happen all the time in college and beyond. Constantly having to prove your worth and your blackness can feel 10)oppressive over a time. Having people assume you’re a thug or a good basketball player or not black enough because you’re smart or don’t know the latest dance. For Simien, it’s a form of racism.
阿伦·拉斯(主持人):《亲爱的白人》——这部有着尖锐标题的电影让新晋黑人导演贾斯汀·西米恩被誉为第二个斯派克·李(译者注:Spike Lee是美国著名的黑人导演,曾执导过《答案》、《胜券在握》等电影且大获成功。作为一名最具黑人意识的导演,他一生的愿望就是拍出真正的“黑人电影”,因而他所涉及的题材也大都是与黑人的出路、觉醒,与种族歧视有关的主题)。这是一部有关种族和身份的电影,情节设定在一所虚构的美国常春藤联盟大学。或者正如海报上所说的,它是对于黑人在白人区生活的一种讽刺。NPR栏目组的谢林·玛莉索·麦拉吉与该剧的导演一道谈论更多有关这部电影的详情。
谢林·玛莉索·麦拉吉(撰稿人):《亲爱的白人》讲的是四个黑人学生在一所叫温彻斯特的有名白人大学的故事。萨曼莎·怀特。
(电影《亲爱的白人》原声片段)
泰莎·汤普森(饰演萨曼莎·怀特):我们可以把黑人带回温彻斯特。
麦拉吉:她是激进的电影专业学生,负责管理非籍美国人在大学的宿舍生活。可可·康纳斯是一名社会主义同化主张者,她想法方设法去融入……
(电影《亲爱的白人》原声片段)
泰柔娜·派丽丝 (饰演可可·康纳斯):我是无害的。
麦拉吉:特洛伊·费尔班克斯——帅气而受欢迎的校长的儿子,莱昂内尔·希金斯——最不可能成为电影主角的人,他是一个同性恋科幻极客,找不到自己的归属……
(电影《亲爱的白人》原声片段)
布兰登·贝尔(饰演特洛伊·费尔班克斯):告诉我兄弟,做一个纯正的黑人与做一个白人眼中的黑人,哪一个更难?
泰勒·威廉斯(饰演莱昂内尔·希金斯):两种人都做不成更难。
贾斯汀·西米恩:我认为这部电影就是试图承认没有典型的黑人。
麦拉吉:导演贾斯汀·西米恩说《亲爱的白人》是关于四个主角为自己创造的身份与他们真实自我之间的斗争。
西米恩:四个主角每人都从不同的角度抨击同一个问题。类似于这样的想法——我应该弄这样的发型吗?我应该激进吗?我应该守规矩吗?我认为这都是应对白人深层恐惧而产生的各种挣扎。
麦拉吉:他说他是想表现这个有关身份和自我的斗争——一种在校园中普遍存在的经历,如果发生在校园里为数不多的几个黑人学生身上会更加的艰难。西米恩毕业于查普曼大学,一所在南加州有名的白人私立大学,他用亲身经历来构思剧本。
西米恩:当我起初搬进去的时候,我的室友—呃,那个金发碧眼的人坚持认为,你知道吗,他比我像黑人得多,因为他能够跳Crip Walk(一种起源于美国贫困区的街舞)而我不能。
麦拉吉:他说这可能听起来微不足道,但这些事情总是在大学期间或者毕业后发生。在一段时间里经常需要证明你的价值、你黑人的身份会让人感到很压抑。对于西米恩而言,如果人们猜测你是一个暴徒或是好的篮球选手,或是因为你聪明,或者你不会跳最新的舞蹈,而觉得你不像黑人,这些都是一种种族歧视。
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