英文译名:Let the bullets fly

让子弹飞,先不论题材情节好坏,内容深刻幽默与否,光是姜文、周润发、葛优三巨头往台上一站,票房不飚飞起来也难。姜文对此也自我揶揄:“以前别人说一个电影‘不优不发’或者说‘不发不优’,那我们这个片子里又有(葛)优又有(周润)发,我都不敢想能卖多少了。” 今年12月16日上映传闻5天票房破两亿。

片名:让子弹飞直译为:let the bullets fly, 来源于片中的台词,分别由三个男主在不同的场合说出,简洁明了,有意思有力度。这部片子类型定义为喜剧、动作片,英文可称为 comedy, action movie, 也有外国影评为comedy thriller,即喜剧惊悚片

北洋军阀时期的川西传奇

该片讲述的是上世纪初北洋军阀时期,发生在川西的传奇故事,改编自马识途的小说《夜谭十记》中的《盗官记》一章。

让我们来看看外国人是怎么介绍这部片子以及其中的角色吧:

Set during the tumultuous Warlord Era of the early 20th Century, when control of the country fluctuated between a number of feuding military cliques, notorious bandit Pocky Zhang (Jiang Wen) marches into the remote Goose Town posing as their newly installed governor.

上世纪初军阀时期英文:tumultuous Warlord Era of the early 20th Century。

改编为:adapt。改编成电影可以说be adapted into movie,改编自小说可以说 be adapted from a novel.

扮演黄四郎的周润发

对老外来说,在加勒比海盗中一度现身的周润发是看点之一。在片中扮演鹅城的地头蛇黄四郎,只手遮天。

外国评论:

local mobster Huang (Chow Yun Fat), who has built a comfortable life for himself in his fortified citadel overlooking the town.

Local mobster就是所说的地头蛇啦。

扮演张麻子的姜文

姜文扮演山头土匪张麻子,打劫了前去鹅城赴任的马邦德,并带着手下进鹅城,冒充马邦德上任县长。

外国评论:

Pocky Zhang is a complex criminal, and oceans apart from the weasely Tang, whose life he so effortlessly commandeers.

其中Pocky Zhang 便是张麻子的英文译名,oceans apart from: 在这里可以解释为天壤之别。Oceans 在习语中作大量,很多解释,如oceans of sth. 很多事情。

扮演马邦德的葛优

葛优片中的汤师爷,也就是马邦德,为了保命谎称自己是县长的汤师爷,并给张麻子出主意让他冒充县长。

外国评论:

Tang (Ge You), a small-time hustler from whom Zhang steals the idea for this scam。

A career con artist who has never spoken an honest word in his life and is happy even to relinquish his own wife for a fast buck.

A small-time hustler:下三流的骗子。small-time有三流的,微不足道的意思,举个例子:He went from being a small-time hood to a mafia kingpin.他从不成气候的小太保慢慢混到黑手党的头儿。

扮演马夫人的刘嘉玲

刘嘉玲扮演片中原先汤师爷的老婆,后被张麻子诱拐,却乐得其所。

外国评论:

Tang's wife (Carina Lau). She doesn't seem too bothered by her abduction however, as becoming Governor's wife fits in nicely with her own aspirations for wealth and power, regardless of whom she must marry to do so.

Fits in nicely with 便是与...相符合啦!

黑色幽默让子弹飞

让子弹飞这部片子,不同的人嚼出不同的味道。对大多数人来说,就是黑色幽默,就是好笑,就是笑过后还能回味。下面是片子中的一些经典台词:

要有风,要有肉;要有火锅,要有雾;要有美女,要有驴!

如果你活着,早晚都会死;如果你死了,你就永远活着。

张麻子给师爷一分钟时间,让他说出钱在哪儿。师爷吓得直哭。张麻子说:“哭也算时间哦!”

世界上本没有路,有了腿便有了路。

大哥,你还不了解我吗。。。我。。我一向都是被动。。
大哥,你还不了解我吗,我做事从来不留活口
大哥,你不会怀疑我吧。。。我到现在都还。。。俗称处男
大哥,如果是我的话。。。。那么趴在桌子上的就会是她丈夫了!!
张麻子此时感叹到:看来各位兄弟都是身怀绝技的人啊。。。。

虽然不懂中文的外国人体味不到戏中的各种幽默,但也被逗乐了:

the script is littered with pitch-black humour throughout. While this does mean that audience members reliant on subtitles are not always privy to the intricacies of Jiang's witty wordplay, there are still plenty of laughs to be had, even as they veer close to the borders of bad taste.

Pitch-black humour 就是黑色幽默; Privy to 本意为私下知情的,秘密参与的,文中可以解释为察觉到。