chestnut girl的部落格

看了【通靈感應】(Hereafter)
的朋友，不知心底會否存疑，為何在眾多文人當中，麥迪文飾演的一角，如此鍾情狄更斯
(Charles Dickens)？

栗子妹在推敲這個問題時，最先想到的解釋是，狄更斯的著作，跟電影主題吻合。但不，狄更斯云云作品中，「生死」這個主題並不明顯！

看似最合理的解釋解不通，那就從另一角度推敲──會否導演跟英國旅遊局有協議，透過電影宣傳狄更斯故居？可奇連伊士活並非商業味濃的導演呀……

想來想去也想不通，便上網碰碰運氣，結果找到以下一段對答 (資料來源)：

問：I'm
interested in the Dickens connection, because it's never made very literal what
the connection is between Dickens and the story. [Damon's character listens to
Dickens stories read aloud on tape, and at the end of the film attends a
reading by Derek Jacobi at the London
Book Fair].

答：I
don't know why I did that except for the fact that I love it. And I thought it
indicates great loneliness, and it indicates great vulnerability. The soothing
tones of a Dickens story, if that is your friend and that's what you take to
bed with you. (不太覺得狄更斯的故事能安撫人心喎~) I thought that says so much about the character,
without saying it about the character. There's a lovely moment where we see
Derek Jacobi reading at the end of the movie, and it cuts to Matt's face
wreathed in smiles. And I thought, oh, that's so sweet. (那組鏡頭真的頗動人) What a surprise. I love the Dickens part. I don't
know why, it just says so much about the character.

說了一大通，原來編劇純粹憑感覺……