一天一集的节奏，今日撸完《HENRY IV》下集，勉强来谈谈自己的感受。
【其实话说起来，通过影视作品来了解历史程度有限，一来改编者可能融入自身情感，二来观影者对于演员的关注有时候多过了对作品实质内核的认识。所以即便你花再多时间刷论坛刷幕后花絮，也抵不上再好好地去读一读历史。】
看《The Hollow Crown》之前并未读过莎翁的原著，不要说文辞的修炼了，就连基本的历史事件（故事情节）也不知。（其实对于那些我们动辄就拿出来讲的莎翁剧作，哪一本不是我们只知道最为简化的剧情呢？）目前来说，四集里已经看了三集，想必该出现的人物都出现了：Richard II，Gaunt，Henry IV(Bolingbroke)，Henry V(Hal)，Percy，还有Falstaff。
有人说改编得还是有舞台剧的风格，但个人认为并不削减艺术性，反倒有一种中世纪的感觉。亨四上是个人认为改编得最像电影的，在酒馆的几个场景甚至有种让人误入《The Hobbit》片场的错觉，整个115分钟的节奏把握地也很到位（虽然战争场面是弱了点）。人物的个性也不难看出：Hal绝壁是个有脑子的人，而Falstaff绝壁是个没脑子的人，Percy就是个鲁夫（他怎么找到大小姐当老婆的）。
下面想来讲一讲自己对Hal和Falstaff这对人物关系的理解。
从P1一开始Hal混迹酒馆，虽年少不羁，但举手投足间还是有种很noble的感觉。Sir John是个十足的懦夫，打劫一事可以明显看出其为人：先口口声声说Hal是胆小鬼，最后自己被抢走赃款还在酒桌上大肆吹嘘自己以一敌十。被Hal揭穿假话后不知羞耻转身就开始奉承：“By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye! Was it for me to kill the heir-apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince? ”
再有一个场景是Hotspur出逃叛军让老国王焦急万分连夜送信给酒馆的Hal，Hal闻之色变，脑子里应该是想怎么帮父王处理局面，这时Falstaff给了个proposal，说我们来个即兴剧可好啊？在Falstaff假扮国王时，变着法子往自己脸上贴金，Hal虽咧着嘴笑嘻嘻，但他心里已经对Falstaff这个人有数了，在别人看来以为是玩笑的台词里，Hal假扮的国王已经讲出了他的决定，那就是“I do, I will(banish Jack Falstaff).”事实上他最后也做到了。在Sheriff来搜捕Falstaff替其掩饰则是出于Hal本人的责任心，毕竟他本人也参与那次打劫行动。
后来Hal应召入宫，老Henry一巴掌煽醒梦中人（其实Hal本来就醒着，只是这一巴掌更让他明白该是时候割舍过去了）。当他再次回到酒馆时表情明显严肃了许多，不再如之前嬉笑怒骂；作为朋友，他handle了打劫事件并给了Falstaff一个军队职位。而Falstaff的表现是怎样呢？把好好的队伍解散了回去以中饱私囊，找来了一堆乞丐流氓。而这时的Hal已纵马飞奔战场。
P1快结尾时，Hal杀死Percy后发现旧友Falstaff横尸战场（诈死），说的一番话特别让人感动：“I could have better spared a better man.”我相信在这里Hal是真的难过，平日里看到的自私自大、胆小贪婪、流氓放荡的old acquaintance居然为了参与平叛而拼上了老命；他在讲farewell的时候还带着一丝尊敬。而不想Falstaff竟然是而为了保命而诈死，还抢占他人战功邀功封赏。Hal哭笑不得：“For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it the happiest terms I have.”他摇摇头，人的本性哪是这么容易改的。
P2里Hal和Poins两人躲在阁楼夹层里偷听到的Falstaff对Hal的评头论足，对其毫无尊重，甚至没有一点友情，这也更让Hal看到了他的“true color”。其实P2里对Falstaff的描写有些过于冗长，从其拉壮丁、平叛时又是到最后才出来捞现成的战功、听闻Hal登基时呼朋引伴的小人作态等等，其实有的点到为止就可以了，Falstaff的为人已经在P1里交代地差不多了。也可以看得出来P2里Hal明显疏远了那些曾经的companies。
P2结尾时Hal（这时应该是HENRY V了）再次和Falstaff有个一次encounter。他严正地拒绝了Falstaff的谄媚，直接戳穿了其肥肠猪脑为老不尊的丑陋形象，并下令放逐了他；曾经的company也被驱逐于他所划定的范围之外。这么做一是为了reputation，再来他早已看清那些狐朋狗友的嘴脸，P1开头的独白“I know you all”已经完全说明了一切。而愚民Falstaff直到被捕才知道HENRY V从来就不是那个他认识的Hal。好在HENRY V并未恩断义绝，承诺将负担其生活费，只希望Falstaff能回头是岸，也算是尽old acquaintance的最后一点义务。这也让HENRY V的人物形象转变不那么生硬且更加人性。
总的来说，Falstaff完全是咎由自取。而Hal到HENRY V，他褪去了狡黠、稚气、放浪，存留了他一直拥有的机敏、勇敢与高贵。
另外附上Hal和Falstaff的两段独白，可以从中窥见一些人物个性。
Hal:
I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world, that when he please again to be himself, being wanted, he may be more wondered at, by breaking through the foul and ugly mists of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays to sports would be as tedious as to work. But when they seldom come, they wished for come, and nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off and pay the debt I never promised, by how much better than my word I am, by so much shall I falsify men's hopes. And like bright metal on a sullen ground, my reformation, glittering o'er my fault, shall show more goodly and attract more eyes than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I'll so offend to make offence a skill, redeeming time when men think least I will.
Falstaff:
'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? no; or an arm? no; or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon; and so ends my catechism.
（以上仅作为对Henry IV, Part 1&2的一点评述）
HD
