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英文學映象 ◎木麻黃
文字．影像．啟示錄
同為說故事的藝術，電影向來喜歡從小說中提領靈感或商機；無
數經典作品當然是改編劇本的寶庫，而當代暢銷小說或話題之作
，更是片商最愛，但文字與影像畢竟是南轅北轍的兩種敘事語言
，編劇如何在壓縮後留住原著質地？導演如何利用影像再度「說
服」觀眾／讀者一次？講白一點──電影將文學移形換位一場後
，到底是成功或失敗？
文學改編電影前十名出列
近來，英國《衛報》便做了一項「最佳五十小說改編電影」大調
查，先由《衛報》組織的評審團經過火力全開的論辯後，從歐美
影史無數小說改編的電影作品中，擬出一份短名單，再將這份列
有五十部電影的短名單，交由讀者票選名次。
結果終於在六月初底定，首選為美國作家哈波．李作品改編而成
的《梅崗城故事》（To Kill a Mockingbird）。這本講述美國南方
小鎮風土人事的長篇小說，是哈波．李的處女作，也是她一生唯
一一部作品，出版後旋即獲得普立茲獎，而改編而成的電影亦獲
得奧斯卡最佳編劇等多項肯定，在文學史與影史中無疑都是經典
大作。
第二名《飛越杜鵑窩》，原著為美國小說家肯．凱希（Ken Kesey）
的同名小說，囊括當屆奧斯卡八座獎項，凱希本人對電影的改編
卻頗有不滿。由科幻大師菲利浦．迪克（Phillip K. Dick）的作品
《Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep？》改編而成的《銀翼殺手》
則拿下第三名。
前十名裡，由法蘭西斯．柯波拉執導的就占了兩部：分別為第四
名的《教父》與第七名的《現代啟示錄》（改編自康拉德《黑暗之心》）。
《教父》有目共睹的巨大成功，或可歸功於柯波拉與原著普佐
的密切合作，柯波拉甚至罕見地將《教父》全名定為「馬里歐
．普佐之教父」（Mario Puzo's Godfather），藉此向原著小說致
意。第五名《長日將盡》為日裔英籍小說家石黑一雄的同名作
品，第六名為英國小說家拜瑞．漢司（Barry Hines）的《凱斯》
（Kes）。
第八名為從史蒂芬．金《四季奇譚》中選摘改編的《刺激一九
九五》；美國推理大師艾羅依（James Ellroy）的《鐵面特警隊
》（L.A.Confidential），原著本身是絕佳的推理小說，電影更完
美重現了五○年代的美國時代氣氛，獲第九名；而去年橫掃國際
影壇，由李安執導，安妮．普露原著改編的《斷背山》則獲第十
名。
（第十一至第五十名之詳細排序，可參考《衛報》網站專文：
arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1788064,00.html）
心頭好與遺珠憾大對抗
排序結果或者難以讓各有心頭好的讀者／觀眾個個滿意，但這
份短名單引起的爭論更大。在《衛報》部落格上，不斷有讀者
提出質疑：需要湊這種十大百大的熱鬧嗎？票選原則到底是「
改編得好」或「以文學作品改編而成中，最好的電影」？短名
單中不乏大師名作，但令人有憾的遺珠更多。而《大白鯊》、
《萬惡城市》、《巧克力冒險工廠》等從通俗或兒童文學改編
而來的電影，又是在何種標準下從眾多同類作品間殺出重圍？
最常被提起的，則是為何完全沒有非英語系的電影入選？是英
國人的「文化沙文主義」作祟嗎？但同為英語系電影，某些原
著與電影均有一定口碑與名氣的作品，也連入場券都拿不到。
例如《魔戒》、《哈利波特》、《亂世佳人》、《時時刻刻》
等。
誰來決定這啟示？
《衛報》並未詳陳這份名單的評審原則，唯一能確定的是，小
說改編電影，永遠會是影評、觀眾、讀者眾聲喧譁的話題。接
下來一年裡，預期還有幾部矚目的改編作品即將面世，如徐四
金《香水》、彼得．梅爾《戀戀酒鄉》，胡賽尼去年一炮而紅
的《追風箏的孩子》，則正在改拍作業中，文字與影音長路無
盡的愛怨競合，大約也是二十世紀的「現代啟示錄」之一吧！
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假設上帝無限偉大，那麼祂的能力必然不受拘束，
而且祂絕不會讓自己的傑作-世界-自生自滅。
因此世界同樣也是無限偉大。
但假使世界真的無限偉大，上帝的存在便是多餘。
from 安伯托.艾可~《L'isola Del Giorno Prima 昨日之島》
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香水.追風箏的孩子.少年Pi的奇幻漂流~一定要去看的啦!!
我把剩下的PO一下好了~
11. A Clockwork Orange 發條橘子
Stanley Kubrick (1971)
Adapted by Kubrick from the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange was Kubrick's stylised take on Burgess's dystopian fable,
famously yanked from circulation after it was accused of sparking copycat
violence. If the film inevitably labours to match the linguistic gymnastics
of the book, it is largely faithful to its malign, playful spirit. Kubrick
cuts Burgess loose only at the end. Where the novel finished on a note of
hope, the film bows out with a cynical cackle, installing the thuggish Alex
(Malcolm McDowell) as the stooge of a corrupt and brutal establishment.
XB
12. Doctor Zhivago
David Lean (1965)
Adapted by Robert Bolt from the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak
At almost three hours and 20 minutes, this is one of cinema's mighty and
high-minded epics, for which Bolt won a best adapted screenplay Oscar. Julie
Christie and Omar Sharif were the great lovers, whose romance unfolds against
the background of the Russian revolution. It did rip-roaring business but had
some sniffy notices in its day, mainly on account of an allegedly
sentimentalised view of Pasternak's interpretation of history, and also
because of Lean's fondness for vast, intricate and beautiful sets. But his
movie is remarkable for effortlessly making something from the pen of a
Russian Nobel Laureate into a popular entertainment for western audiences.
PB
13. The Maltese Falcon
John Huston (1941)
Adapted by Huston from the 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett
The notion that Sam Spade, the tough gumshoe, could exist independently of
lisping, tightly wound Humphrey Bogart is now quite inconceivable - a tribute
both to Bogart's imperishable charisma and this confident adaptation by
Huston, who was directing his first movie. The Maltese Falcon is a dark and
involved noir, featuring Mary Astor as the heroine, who will play off Peter
Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and Bogart himself. It doesn't get harder-boiled
than this, especially when Bogart snarls to Astor: "I hope they don't hang
you, precious, by that sweet neck." Spade's surname has the unforgiving
hardness of a gravedigger's shovel.
PB
14. Fight Club 鬥陣俱樂部
David Fincher (1999)
Adapted by Jim Uhls from the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk
After being beaten up by yob campers, Palahniuk sat down, licked his wounds
and bashed out a dark satire of white-collar machismo. Fincher took that
blueprint and ran with it. His Fight Club is flashy and furious, a big-budget
studio picture that bites the hand that feeds it, offering a crash-course in
the dubious relationship between consumer culture and male identity. At times
Fincher seems half in love with the world he is attacking. Perversely, that
only makes the film that bit richer and more intriguing.
XB
15. The English Patient
Anthony Minghella (1996)
Adapted by Minghella from the 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje
The huge and involved novel by Ondaatje, about the mystery of a critically
burned plane crash victim in the second world war, was turned by Minghella
into a big, heartfelt epic that managed to retain its sense of narrative
complexity, along with a surging romantic theme. Ralph Fiennes starred as the
"English patient" - actually a Hungarian explorer - with Kristin Scott Thomas
and Juliette Binoche. The movie became a massive talking point, but its
bubble was pricked by an essay from Frederick Forsyth in the Spectator,
brusquely pointing out a string of plot holes and absurdities, including the
fact that a monastery was shown having double beds. ("Those naughty
Cistercians!").
PB
16. Brighton Rock
John Boulting (1947)
Adapted by Graham Greene and Terence Rattigan from the 1938 novel by Greene
You can practically smell the sea and taste the vinegar in this bracing tale
of switchblades and rosary beads on the south coast of England. Brighton Rock
is a film where the elements gel beautifully. Greene helped write the
stiletto-sharp script, Boulting's direction has a tough, tawdry glamour and
Richard Attenborough is genuinely good (and bizarrely scary) as the
psychopathic boy criminal, Pinkie Brown. The preposterous final scene with
the stuck record was added at the insistence of the British censors.
XB
17. Trainspotting
Danny Boyle (1996)
Adapted by John Hodge from the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh
Welsh's picaresque tale of Edinburgh junkies was a cult favourite with
readers in the early 1990s. Boyle's stylish screen treatment - his follow-up
to Shallow Grave, which was also scripted by Hodge, a former hospital doctor
- weeded out various subplots and supporting characters, drafted in a cast of
bright young things (Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller) and struck gold at the
UK box office. These days it's hard not to view Trainspotting as a film of
its time; the emblematic picture for the Cool Britannia era that flourished
for a brief spell between the second and third Oasis albums.
XB
18. Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock (1940)
Adapted by Philip MacDonald from the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier
This was the novel that made Du Maurier's name, a classically English mystery
influenced by Jane Eyre and Northanger Abbey. Wealthy and glamorous widower
Max de Winter (Laurence Olivier) marries the unnamed young heroine (Joan
Fontaine) and takes her back to his magnificent Cornish estate, Manderley,
where she is oppressed by the creepy housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Judith
Anderson) and the memory of the first Mrs de Winter. The themes of marital
menace and sinister secrets appealed to Hitchcock, who turned his first
Hollywood movie into a classic. But the Hollywood codes of the day demanded
that key plot events had to be changed: what was a murder in the novel is
accidental in the movie, and there is a comeuppance for Mrs Danvers that Du
Maurier did not imagine. The adapter was the English-born MacDonald, a
prolific and ingenious author of crime fiction who moved to Hollywood in the
1930s to write screenplays.
PB
19. Oliver Twist 孤雛淚
David Lean (1948)
Adapted by Lean and Stanley Haynes from the 1838 novel by Charles Dickens
Dickens's tearjerker has been tackled by everyone from Carol Reed to Clive
Donner to Roman Polanski. But Lean's 1948 version is still the one to beat;
an operatic saga of abandonment and salvation, played out in the Victorian
slums (lovingly recreated in the studio) and showcasing a cast of grotesques.
At the time, opinion was split about Alec Guinness's flamboyant depiction of
Fagin. His performance resulted in the film being banned in both Israel (for
its perceived anti-semitism) and Egypt (for apparently making the character
too sympathetic).
XB
20. Schindler's List 辛德勒名單
Steven Spielberg (1993)
Adapted by Steven Zaillian from the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas
Keneally
Keneally's original novel was called Schindler's List in the United States,
and the book was renamed everywhere after the movie came out with this title.
The award of the Booker prize to the novel was controversial at the time,
with many considering that docu-fiction should be ineligible. However, this
was not a problem in the movie world, which has a well-understood tradition
of fictional features being "based on a true story": the tale of Oskar
Schindler, the black-marketeer and profiteer who saved more than 1,000 Jewish
factory workers from the Nazi death camps. This was a thoroughly deserved
triumph for Spielberg, whose seriousness and passion for the subject were
unquestioned. Schindler's dark side was upstaged in the movie by a chilling
performance from Ralph Fiennes as the SS officer - the role that made his
name.
PB
The next 30
21. The Railway Children
dir: Lionel Jeffries (1970)
adapted from E Nesbit
22. Breakfast at Tiffany's 第凡內早餐 (主題曲Moon River超有名)
dir: Blake Edwards (1961)
adapted from Truman Capote
23. Dangerous Liaisons
dir: Stephen Frears (1988)
adapted from Choderlos de Laclos
24 Orlando
dir: Sally Potter (1992)
adapted from Virginia Woolf
25 Empire of the Sun 太陽帝國 (異色小說 "超速性追緝" 作者.亦有電影版)
dir: Steven Spielberg (1987)
adapted from JG Ballard
26 Goodfellas
dir: Martin Scorsese (1990)
adapted from Nicholas Pileggi
27. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
dir: Ronald Neame (1969)
adapted from Muriel Spark
28. The Talented Mr Ripley 天才雷普利 (聰明的瑞普利先生)
dir: Anthony Minghella (1999)
adapted from Patricia Highsmith
29. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
dir: Martin Ritt (1965)
adapted from John le Carre
30. Lord of the Flies 蒼蠅王 (我超恨這部片及原著.孩子王版大逃殺)
dir: Peter Brook (1963)
adapted from William Golding
31. Pride and Prejudice 傲慢與偏見
dir: Joe Wright (2005)
adapted from Jane Austen
32. Sin City 萬惡城市 (這是漫畫改編的)
dir: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino (2005)
adapted from Frank Miller
33. The Vanishing
dir: George Sluizer (1993)
adapted from Tim Krabbe
34. Jaws 大白鯊
dir: Steven Spielberg (1975)
adapted from Peter Benchley
35. Watership Down
dir: Martin Rosen (1978)
adapted from Richard Adams
36. Nineteen Eighty-Four 一九八四 (動物農莊 作者)
dir: Michael Radford (1984)
adapted from George Orwell
37. The French Lieutenant's Woman 法國中尉的女人 (經典犯罪純文學
蝴蝶春夢 作者 符傲思.原著有三種結局.電影版由2005年諾貝爾文學獎得主改編為劇本)
dir: Karel Reisz (1981)
adapted from John Fowles
38. Catch-22
dir: Mike Nichols (1970)
adapted from Joseph Heller
39. Lolita 蘿莉塔 (蘿莉控的始祖喲~)
dir: Stanley Kubrick (1962)
adapted from Vladimir Nabokov
40. Tess
dir: Roman Polanski (1979)
adapted from Thomas Hardy
41. Get Shorty
dir: Barry Sonnenfeld (1995)
adapted from Elmore Leonard
42. The Jungle Book
dir: Wolfgang Reitherman (1967)
adapted from Rudyard Kipling
43. Alice
dir: Jan Svankmajer (1988)
adapted from Lewis Carroll
44. American Psycho 美國殺人魔
dir: Mary Harron (2000)
adapted from Bret Easton Ellis
45. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 巧克力冒險工廠 (查理與巧克力工廠)
童年時的喜愛書單之一
dir: Tim Burton (2005)
adapted from Roald Dahl
46. Devil in a Blue Dress
dir: Carl Franklin (1995)
adapted from Walter Mosley
47. Goldfinger 007 金手指
dir: Guy Hamilton (1964)
adapted from Ian Fleming
48. The Day of the Triffids
dir: Steve Sekely (1962)
adapted from John Wyndham
49. The Hound of the Baskervilles
dir: Sidney Lanfield (1939)
adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle
50. The Outsiders
dir: Francis Ford Coppola (1983)
adapted from SE Hinton
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