DVD Talk: 您在表现这个虚构社会的细节方面做了大量的工作。其中,中文符号的出现几乎是贯通整部电影。您是否是想暗示因为我们(美国)的经济太糟糕了,而中国将成为我们的拥有者?您能谈谈您选择采用这些细节暗示而不是进行一场世界博览会来对观众进行教育的原因么?
DVD Talk: You do a very good job at creating this world with very subtle details. Throughout the movie you see Chinese symbols everywhere, which I presume is a sign of how much worse our economy has gotten and that China practically owns us. Can you talk about adding those tiny details instead of hitting us over-the-head with exposition about the state of the world?
Miguel Sapochnik::我们为这部电影做了很多准备工作。在3年的筹备期中,我做了大量的图像、图纸和理念的设计,然后才与本片的美术导演David Sandefur开始进行制作。我们对方案进行了详细的讨论,每天8小时,连续3周几乎都是在讨论这些细节方面的事。很多细节方面的东西就是在这个过程中诞生的。而世界未来的走向以及从现在的状况推断未来的情况是其中我们认为很重要的一件事。
Miguel Sapochnik: There was a lot of preparation. We developed the movie for three years and in that time I put together a huge amount of imagery, drawings, and concept work. Then we started getting into the movie and I started working with the production designer David Sandefur. We talked literally for three weeks, everyday, and eight hours a day about absolutely everything. A lot of things evolved through that. One of the big things, for me, was where the world is going and extrapolating the future based on today's events. The idea that China will own almost everything seemed absolutely natural. It wasn't taking from Blade Runner, it just simply is. It's already happening and we were just trying to confront that and see where it would take us. One of the ideas there was that by the end of the film no one was speaking English. We couldn't do that since we were making a studio movie. So what we ended up doing was trying to turn it into China. The architecture, the designs, and everything was all very Chinese. Those details were very important and I'm glad you noticed them. We didn't want to preach. The whole idea of this movie was not to preach. While we are encapsulating the future and trying to stay true to reality, we weren't rooting ourselves into it. The film is ultimately, while it's a terrible world, I don't think this is really what's going to happen in the future. I just think this is what we're capable of.
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参考资料:
1.《柳叶刀》—Time for a boycott of Chinese science and medicine pertaining to organ transplantation
原文链接:http://www.lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61536-5/fulltext