昔日美少年,坎坷冲“奥”路

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  自19岁获得奥斯卡提名,23岁凭《泰坦尼克号》成为“万人迷”之后,李奥纳多·迪卡普里奥(中国粉丝爱称“小李子”)一直牟足了力气努力着:与名导合作,与名角搭档,不惜打破自己的偶像气质,不断磨练自己的演技,平均每隔一两年便奉上一部上乘之作。如今的他早已名利兼收,唯一的遗憾和欠缺或许就是那一尊小金人的肯定吧!
  于是,小李子为一圆缺憾,仅2013年一年便献上了两部大制作——2013年5月推出的名著改编片《了不起的盖茨比》,以及第五次与名导马丁·斯科塞斯合作、2013年圣诞节期间上映的根据同名小说改编的电影《华尔街之狼》,使得2013年名符其实地成为了他的高产年。尽管这两部影片收获的评论皆是毁誉参半,但小李子的冲“奥”之作《华尔街之狼》还是顶着激烈的争议为其在今年1月13日斩获了一个金球奖影帝。
  小李子身怀雄心壮志,多年冲“奥”却始终未能如愿,但其努力和进步却是有目共睹的,或许一直少了那么点儿运气的他还能在今年捧回一尊小金人也未可知。其实,无论小李子最终能否夺得奥斯卡影帝,对于观众来说,都不是最重要的。最重要的是小李子为我们又带来了一场饕殄盛宴,有没有那尊小金人,他都在我们心里……
  You knew Leonardo DiCaprio was a movie star the first time you saw him on-screen. And he keeps getting better because he watches the way his co-stars work—and he learns. Now, Leonardo DiCaprio is a year away from 40, though he still retains the same boyish air and enthusiasm that marked him from Titanic onward. But over the 2)intervening 16 years, he’s thinned down enough that he has a leaner, tighter, more constricted face that can, in the right role, represent someone who’s 3)downright nasty.
  Leo 4)dons sharp suits and 5)nifty ties to step into the (no doubt 6)alligator-skin) loafers of 7)Jordan Belfort, the real-life brokerage maestro whose dramatic brushes with the law also inspired the 2000 film Boiler Room. But you can’t escape the feeling DiCaprio thinks a Scorsese film is his best chance of bagging an Oscar; he got a nom for The Aviator in 2005,but has never made it all the way. He’ll be gunning like mad for this one, as DiCaprio’s dark side is once again unleashed. And The Wolf of Wall Street, based on Belfort’s book of the same name, is the right movie; a 8)scabrous, manic, deliberately excessive, terrifying, and hilarious film, and possibly the best collaboration between DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese to date.
  Scorsese and DiCaprio recently sat down for a joint interview to discuss their latest film. On the surface, they 9)exude the dynamic of master and pupil. But they’re on more equal footing, bonded by a desire to make movies like those from the ’70s that DiCaprio grew up admiring and Scorsese actually made. In the last 13 years, Scorsese has made only one fictional film (Hugo) that didn’t star DiCaprio.


  “Over the years, it’s been about learning more, fine-tuning the instruments together, so to speak, and discovering more from each other in the process,” says Scorsese. They co-produced The Wolf of Wall Street, which Warner Bros. turned down in 2008 before it was reborn with 10)Paramount Pictures. Ironically, Scorsese was tipped off to DiCaprio’s talent from the actor he’s most associated with: 11)Robert De Niro. After De Niro made 1993’s This Boy’s Life, he recommended an 18-year-old DiCaprio to Scorsese. That would spark a pairing that has grown to rival De Niro’s own with Scorsese(eight films).   DiCaprio was in his mid-20s when he sought out a part in Scorsese’s bloody New York tale, Gangs of New York. The 12)Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, followed, a movie that DiCaprio (who landed his first lead actor Oscar nomination) suggested to Scorsese. Then came the Boston crime flick The Departed (earning Scorsese his first directing Academy Award) and the ’50s noir Shutter Island.
  The Wolf of Wall Street, written by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire), is adapted from Jordan Belfort’s memoir about his heady rise from a Long Island 13)penny stock trader to a wealthy stock 14)swindler presiding over the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont. Schooled by an early boss (Matthew McConaughey) on the “15)fairy dust” that is high finance, Belfort recklessly 16)plunders his clients’ pockets to make himself rich and to finance a parade of prostitutes, cocaine and 17)Quaaludes. DiCaprio calls the movie “a biography of a scumbag.” “It has to be seen. It has to be experienced,” says Scorsese. “If it raises the 18)ire of some people, that might be a good thing because it makes you think about it.”


  Though DiCaprio has spent much of his post-Titanic career taking on iconic, somewhat stiff roles like J. Edgar Hoover, Jay Gatsby and Howard Hughes, his performance as Belfort is wildly uninhibited—more like he was in 19)Woody Allen’s Celebrity. In scenes in front of hundreds of cheering extras playing 20)sycophant employees, DiCaprio identified with Belfort’s swelling ego. He felt, he says, “like a rock star.”
  “Jordan’s character had been brewing in me for a while,” says DiCaprio. “I had been thinking about this for six years, so I knew something was going to come out. Some beast was going to come out. I just didn’t know what it was going to be.”
  The arc of the movie will recall for many Scorsese’s Goodfellas. It could be that Scorsese identifies with the 21)voracious appetites of Belfort and Henry Hill because he shares it, only his taste is for movies. He paraphrases 22)Frank Capra: “Film is a disease and the only 23)antidote is more film.” Though Scorsese remains an unusually prolific filmmaker, he signals an acceptance that his time is waning: “Who knows? You may have a couple of minutes left. You may have 20 years left. I want to do so much, and when you get to this vantage point, there’s not much time left.” Scorsese compares new films to a diet of 24)Big Macs being served to young people like his teenage daughter. “It’s not cinema anymore,” he says. “It’s a blockbuster.”


  For now, he and DiCaprio (their career together will be honored by the National Board of Review) hope to work together again, continuing to 25)evade industry pressures as a duo. Says the Los Angeles-native DiCaprio: “I’ve been given an opportunity to finance movies based on my name and what am I going to do with that? ... It’s an opportunity that I’d feel like an idiot to 26)squander.” Unlike the business of Wall Street, the results aren’t “fairy dust.”
  “Good, bad or indifferent, we’re trying to make something so we can sit here and talk about it,” says Scorsese. “If you’re taking money from here and here and nothing comes out, what is it for? What are you creating?”


  第一眼在大银幕上见到李奥纳多·迪卡普里奥,你就知道他是个电影明星。他的演技一直在进步,因为他总在观察与其搭档的明星们的表演方式,总是留心学习。如今,尽管李奥纳多·迪卡普里奥差一岁就将步入不惑之年,不过,从《泰坦尼克号》至今,他那份独特的孩子气和热忱依旧未变。但在这16年间,他已经瘦了许多,他的脸庞变得更瘦削、紧致,更加肃敛,只要有合适的角色,足以让他去演绎某个彻头彻尾的大反角。
  李奥穿着时尚西服,俏皮领带,踏着(毫无疑问是鳄鱼皮的)优雅便鞋,演绎乔丹·贝尔福特——这位现实世界里的经纪大鳄总是戏剧化地打着法律的擦边球,同时也是2000年另一电影《抢钱大作战》的故事主人公。但你难免会觉得,迪卡普里奥将斯科塞斯的电影视为其囊获奥斯卡大奖的最好机会;他于2005年因《飞行家》获得过一次提名,但却始终无缘奖项。当迪卡普里奥的阴暗面又一次被释放出来时,他将会像疯了一样地去冲击这项大奖。而基于贝尔福特同名小说的电影《华尔街之狼》正是那部合适的电影;一部放荡的、狂躁的、蓄意过态、可怕且滑稽的电影,或许还是迪卡普里奥和导演马丁·斯科塞斯自联手合作以来的最佳成果。
  最近,斯科塞斯和迪卡普里奥坐在一起参加了一次访谈,讨论他们的这部最新电影。表面上,他俩之间流露出一股师徒态势,但实际上他们的地位更加平等,他们想将电影拍摄成上世纪70年代的风格,这种愿望将他们紧紧联系在了一起。迪卡普里奥从小便钦慕这种风格,而斯科塞斯实际上一直在身体力行。在过去的13年里,斯科塞斯所拍摄的电影中,仅有一部科幻片——《雨果》,没有让迪卡普里奥参演。
  “在过去的数年里,我们一直想更进一步学习,打比方说,一起细调音准,并且在这一过程中进一步了解对方,”斯科塞斯说。他们联合制作了《华尔街之狼》,这一计划曾于2008年被华纳兄弟娱乐公司拒绝,之后又在派拉蒙影业公司的支持下重启。讽刺的是,关于迪卡普里奥的天分,是曾经与斯科塞斯合作得最多的演员罗伯特·德·尼罗向他透露的。在德·尼罗于1993年拍摄了《男孩的生活》之后,他就向斯科塞斯推荐了当时年仅18岁的迪卡普里奥,从此激发了一段可与“德·尼罗和斯科塞斯”的搭档关系(八部电影)相媲美的合作历程。
  迪卡普里奥二十五岁左右在斯科塞斯的血腥纽约故事——《纽约黑帮》中寻获一席之地。接下来是霍华德·休斯的传记片——《飞行家》,这部电影是迪卡普里奥(令其第一次获得了奥斯卡最佳男主角提名)向斯科塞斯提议的。接着便是波士顿犯罪片《无间道风云》(为斯科塞斯赢得其第一个奥斯卡最佳导演奖)和那部上世纪50年代的黑色电影《禁闭岛》。


  由特伦斯·温特(电视剧《大西洋帝国》的编剧)执笔的《华尔街之狼》改编自乔丹·贝尔福特的回忆录,讲述了其从一名来自于长岛的低价股交易人到成为一个富有的股票骗子,并担任斯特拉顿·奥克蒙特经纪公司主席那令人炫目的发家史。得到前老板(马修·麦康纳饰演)传授的心经,贝尔福特利用可谓“魔法生金”的复杂融资手段,不计后果地从其客户的口袋里捞钱让自己发家致富,并豢养了一堆妓女,滥用可卡因和安眠酮。迪卡普里奥将这部电影称作“一个卑鄙小人的传记”。“大家应该去看,去感受,”斯科塞斯说。“如果戳到了某些人的怒点,这也许会是件好事,因为电影让你开始思考。”
  尽管迪卡普里奥在拍完《泰坦尼克号》后,其大部分事业都用于接拍一些经典而略为僵化的人物角色,如J·埃德加·胡佛,杰伊·盖茨比和霍华德·休斯,但他对于贝尔福特的演绎则相当狂放不拘——更像他曾在伍迪·艾伦的电影《名人百态》中所演绎的风格。在某些场景中,在上千名由兴高采烈的临时演员所扮演的谄媚雇员面前,迪卡普里奥一脸贝尔福特的自负。他觉得自己,他说:“就像一名摇滚巨星。”

  “乔丹的角色在我心里酝酿了一段时间,”迪卡普里奥说。“我已经为这一角色思考了六年,所以我知道有些东西将会爆发出来。某只野兽即将呼之欲出。只是我不知道那将会是个什么样子。”


  这部片子的高潮会让我们想起斯科塞斯的电影《好家伙》。有可能是因为斯科塞斯也认同贝尔福特和亨利·希尔的饥渴欲望,只不过他的嗜好是在电影上。他曾这样诠释弗兰克·卡普拉的观点:“电影是一种病,而唯一的解药是更多的电影。”尽管斯科塞斯作为电影制作人保持着非同寻常的高产,但他也承认自己的时代正在衰落:“谁知道呢?你也许还能红上几分钟。你也许还能红上20年。我还有太多的事情想做,但当你到达这个制高点时,剩下的时间却不多了。”斯科塞斯将如今的一些新电影比作一顿麦当劳巨无霸套餐,是为像他那处于青春期的女儿那样的年轻人所打造的。“那不再是电影了,”他说。“只是些赚钱大片。”
  如今,他和迪卡普里奥(他们的合作将会受到国家评论协会的青睐)希望能够再次合作,继续组队避开行业压力。洛杉矶出身的迪卡普里奥说:“我已经得到机会以我自己的名义为一些电影融资,那么我将会为此做些什么呢?……如果我浪费这个机会,我会觉得自己像个白痴。”与华尔街的生意不同,它的结局并不会如“仙尘”散落般轻易。
  “好的、坏的或是不置可否的,我们在努力做出些成果,以便能在这里谈论,”斯科塞斯说。“如果你从这里那里到处筹钱却毫无产出,那是图个什么呢?你在创造什么呢?”
  小资料
  “小李子”的不完全冲奥之路(及好片推荐)
  关于奥斯卡,貌似一直有着那么一条规律,那就是:越在乎,越得不到。小李子为了捧得一尊小金人,近乎努力打拼二十年。他增过肥,蓄过须,为创造新的角色不惜丢弃偶像包袱;他只接大导演、大制作,野心全部原原本本地写在脸上。数次被奥斯卡提名却无一次得到垂青,而昔日合作的导演及演员搭档却屡屡获奖。2013年的《华尔街之狼》中,小李子奉上了尺度最大、最为癫狂的表演,也许他欠缺的并非实力与机会,只是差了那么一丁点运气?

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