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小李子都崇拜的金发美少年!21岁成为最年轻的威尼斯影帝,23岁却永远地离开了...

阿代尔 沪江英语 2023-04-10

刚刚过去的8月23日,是曾出演过《伴我同行》、《我自己的爱达荷》等影片的美国演员瑞凡·菲尼克斯(River Phoenix)的生日。
如果他还活着,今年他应该是52岁了。而在29年前的一个夜晚,正当红的他去世了。

Few movie stars of the early 1990s were as beloved as River Phoenix. Famous for his acting talent as well as his good looks, Phoenix seemed like he was destined for greatness. 20世纪90年代初,很少有电影明星像瑞凡·菲尼克斯那样受人喜爱。菲尼克斯因表演天赋和英俊的外表而闻名,他似乎注定要成为不平凡的人物。
Sadly, hard drugs and Hollywood nightlife shattered that dream — and led to his death on October 31, 1993, at age 23.不幸的是,烈性毒品和好莱坞的夜生活打破了这个梦想——并导致他于1993年10月31日去世,年仅23岁。

直到现在,他的粉丝们每年还是会自发地纪念他;跟他合作后成为好友的基努·里维斯也依旧把他放在心里很重要的位置。All these decades later, Keanu Reeves still fondly remembers his friend and loathes to let him go. Reeves, still thinks of Phoenix as still being around in the present.几十年过去了,基努·里维斯仍然深情地回忆着他的朋友,不愿相信他已离开的现实。基努·里维斯觉得菲尼克斯现在仍然还在。

Even at that River Phoenix left behind a formidable filmography and also a successful career in television. 即使是如此早逝,瑞凡·菲尼克斯还是留下了数量惊人的电影作品,在电视方面也很成功。
Born in Madras, Oregon in 1970 to John Lee Bottom and Arlyn Phoenix, he began his career from commercials before being spotted by a noted casting director and getting into his true calling: films.他1970年出生于俄勒冈州的马德拉斯,父亲是约翰·李·波顿(John Lee Bottom),母亲是艾琳·菲尼克斯(Arlyn Phoenix),他的职业生涯从广告开始,后来被一位著名的选角导演看中,开始了他真正的事业:电影。

River Phoenix's second film was 1986's 'Stand by Me', an adaptation of Stephen King's novella 'The Body'.瑞凡·菲尼克斯的第二部电影是1986年的《伴我同行》,改编自斯蒂芬·金的长篇小说《尸体》。
他早早展露的表演天赋令导演赞不绝口。
“When River came in to audition, it was obvious that he was an amazing, amazing talent. He could play instruments, he was so bright and brilliant, he could do anything, really.” says Rob Reiner, who directed Phoenix in Stand By Me.《伴我同行》的导演 罗伯·莱纳说,“当瑞凡来试镜时,很明显,他是一个令人惊叹的天才。他可以演奏乐器,他是如此聪明和出色,他可以做任何事情,真的。” (拍这部戏时,菲尼克斯15岁,脸上还带着婴儿肥和稚气。

导演莱纳当时让瑞凡想想他生活中对他很重要的一个成年人让他感到失望的时刻,瑞凡点点头走到一边去想了一会,再回来的时候就哭了。于是这试镜片段就是用在电影里的镜头。
He never told me what he thought about – I assumed maybe one of his parents, but I don’t know. And when I watch the movie now, when he disappears at the end, it’s just very, very sad,” says Reiner.雷纳说:“他从未告诉我他在想什么——我猜想也许是他的父母之一,但我不知道。我现在看这部电影时,当他在结尾处消失时,这一幕就是非常、非常悲伤。” 
The movie that marked his rise to fame and critical acclaim was Sidney Lumet's 'Running on Empty'. He received a National Board of Review Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category.标志着他成名和获得好评的电影是西德尼·吕美特的《 不设限通缉》(又名《一事无成》)。他获得了国家评论协会奖的最佳男配角奖。

这部戏是1988年的作品,18岁的菲尼克斯在剧中真的是美少年。

For 'Running on Empty', Phoenix also scored an Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category. He was only the sixth-youngest nominee in the history of Academy Awards.凭借 《不设限通缉》 ,菲尼克斯还获得了奥斯卡最佳男配角的提名。他是奥斯卡历史上第六位最年轻的提名者。

瑞凡·菲尼克斯还在史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格1989年的电影《夺宝奇兵3》中扮演了少年时代的印第安纳·琼斯。

1990年瑞凡·菲尼克斯和基努·里维斯合作拍了喜剧片《我真的爱死你》(I Love You to Death)。这部剧最然知名度不太高,却是瑞凡和基努两个人友谊的开端。
1991年,瑞凡·菲尼克斯在《我自己的爱达荷》中,与基努·里维斯再度搭档。但这部剧的拍摄并不顺利,菲尼克斯的经纪人起初并不想让他接拍“街头性工作者”这样的角色,是导演让基努·里维斯亲自上门给瑞凡送剧本打动了他。

So Reeves did what any actor would do — he hopped on a motorcycle, in his home city of Toronto and rode 1,300 miles to Florida where Phoenix's family had a ranch. Once he got there, he showed the Phoenix the script. Only after Reeves promised that he would also do the movie did Phoenix agree to co-star.所以里维斯做了任何演员都会做的事——跳上一辆摩托车,从他的家乡多伦多骑行1300英里到佛罗里达州菲尼克斯家的一个牧场。一到那里,他就给菲尼克斯看了剧本。菲尼克斯在里维斯承诺他也会拍这部电影之后,才同意共同出演这部电影。

The two went on to make the movie and become close friends. The same motorcycle also made an appearance in the film.两人继续拍摄电影并成为了亲密的朋友。同一辆摩托车(即基努·里维斯给菲尼克斯送剧本时骑的那辆摩托车)也在影片中亮相。

《我自己的爱达荷》这部电影大获成功,菲尼克斯凭借这部电影中的表现获得了威尼斯国际电影节最佳男演员奖。

片中基努和瑞凡两个人的情谊也让观众一直嗑CP到今天,中国粉丝更是称呼两人为“山谷风和凤凰河”(基努·里维斯和瑞凡·菲尼克斯的英文名意译)。
稍加留意你一定会发现,菲尼克斯出演的总是有着复杂的家庭背景、负重前行的人物:比如在《伴我同行》中,他的角色痛恨被家庭声誉定义;《 不设限通缉》 讲的是一个孤独的少年被困在与社会脱节的生活中;在《我的私人爱达荷》中,他饰演的迈克是一个寻找母亲的街头流浪者。
而这些角色,与瑞凡·菲尼克斯的真实经历竟然高度相似。

Back in the 1980s, it was known that Phoenix had an eccentric childhood. His parents, John and Arlyn were travelling counter-cultural hippies and when River was only three, the family joined the Children of God, a Christian cult that believed, among other things, that sex without boundaries was a form of love.众所周知, 在20世纪80年代,菲尼克斯有一个古怪的童年。他的父母约翰和艾琳是旅途中的反主流文化嬉皮士,当瑞凡只有三岁时,他们全家加入了一个名为“上帝之子”的基督教邪教,这个教相信没有边界的性是一种爱的形式,另外还信一些其他的东西。

The family moved from Venezuela to Mexico to Puerto Rico to spread the word of the cult, and Phoenix was sent out as a child to busk to raise money for food.为了传播邪教,他们全家从委内瑞拉搬到墨西哥,再搬到波多黎各,菲尼克斯在小时候就被派去卖唱,以筹集买食物的钱。

或许是从小这样居无定所的生活挖掘了菲尼克斯的表演天赋,但另一方面,也让他的童年比别的孩子多了一份苦涩和责任。
From an extremely young age, Phoenix felt as if he, not his father, had to support the family. River said in that last year: "I have to make one more movie to put away enough money so my youngest sister can go to college.”从很小的时候起,菲尼克斯就觉得似乎是他,而不是他的父亲,必须支持起这个家庭。"瑞凡在他生命的最后那一年说过,“我需要再拍一部电影,就能攒够钱让我最小的妹妹上大学。” 
At the time, his parents and four siblings were entirely dependent on River’s success. Meanwhile, he also wanted to ensure that his younger siblings were able to get the education that he was never able to receive. Little did the world know how much pressure he was putting on himself.当时,他的父母和四个兄弟姐妹完全依赖于瑞凡的成功。他还想确保他的弟弟妹妹能够获得他从未受过的教育。全世界都不知道他给自己带来多大的压力。

后来菲尼克斯的妈妈也回忆说,他非常感性,曾经说过“如果不是明星就好了,很想能像普通人一样生活”。

可能是源于不快乐的童年和压力,另外也受好莱坞明星那种自由的生活方式影响,菲尼克斯对可卡因和海洛因产生了依赖。
这样一个关心家人、并且热衷宣传环保的人,却唯独不知道怎样对自己好。想起来令人心痛。
最终,在1993年10月30日的夜晚,悲剧发生了。


On the night of 30 October 1993, River Phoenix, his girlfriend, the actor Samantha Mathis, and his siblings Joaquin) and Rain, walked into the Viper Room, the LA club owned by Johnny Depp. He was at The Viper Room when the drugs in his system got to be too much.1993年10月30日晚,瑞凡·菲尼克斯、他的女友、演员萨曼莎·玛西丝以及他的弟弟妹妹杰昆和瑞恩,走进了约翰尼·德普拥有的洛杉矶俱乐部蝮蛇夜店。他在蝮蛇夜店的时候已经吸食了过量的毒品。 
He was helped outside and began to have seizures. People transported him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he was declared dead in the early hours of October 31, 1993. 他被扶到外面,开始痉挛发作。人们将他送到西达赛奈医疗中心,1993年10月31日凌晨,他被宣布死亡。
而这一天,另一位未来的巨星莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥还与菲尼克斯也有着戏剧性的擦肩而过,两人差点就见上面,但最终没有见到。

后来小李子带着遗憾回忆说:
“And one night, at a party in Silver Lake, I saw him walk up a flight of stairs.  I’d never met him — always wanted to meet him, always wanted to just have an encounter with him — and he was walking toward me and I kind of froze,” DiCaprio continues. “And then the crowd got in my way, and I looked back and he was gone.”“有一天晚上,在银湖的一个聚会上,我看到他走上一段楼梯。我从来没有见过他——而我一直想见到他,一直想和他相遇——他朝我走来,我有点愣住了,”迪卡普里奥继续说。“然后人群挡住了我的路,我回头一看,他已经走了。”


第二天,小李子就在报纸上看到了瑞凡·菲尼克斯离世的消息。
小李子说,与瑞凡·菲尼克斯错过的一面之缘就好像是他在自己眼前凭空消失了一样,事后很久都感到非常失落,照耀自己前行的星光一下子熄灭了。
后来一代又一代美少年影星出现,大家也还是没有忘记瑞凡·菲尼克斯。他的才华和美貌,终究是无法被替代的。

今日词汇


destined  /ˈdestɪnd/ adj. 指定的,预定的;前往的,被送往的;(命中)注定的,肯定的loathe /ləʊð/ vt. 讨厌,厌恶formidable /fəˈmɪdəb(ə)l/ adj.可怕的; 令人敬畏的motorcycle /ˈməʊtəsaɪk(ə)l/ n. 摩托车seizure /ˈsiːʒə(r)/ n. 夺取,控制;扣押,没收;(疾病的)突然发作
本文部分图片来自外网,如有侵权,请联系删除。英文部分摘自The Guardian: The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his deathGrunge: The Truth About Keanu Reeves' Friendship With River Phoenix
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