1 音樂安排得非常出色（雖然開頭的死亡鏡頭用貝五有點窠臼）
2 Oldman太出彩了，遠超出預期值
3 歡樂頌的處理真是妙不可言，一瞬間忽然想到了2001 Space Odessey最后的星孩，于是想起老庫也喜歡貝多芬，然后又忽然想到了蘇魯支和尼采。。。兩百年過去，誰又能說清貝九究竟講了一個什么樣的事情？只有星空和童年的回答能真的令人信服

至于那幾段狗血。。。就當欣賞一下華美的服裝和場景吧

2008-04-18 23:45:37

今晚看了1994年的電影Immortal Beloved. 電影的故事由貝多芬去世后留下的收信人是“不朽的情人”的情書展開。

看完電影后的唯一的感受是: 歲月流逝, 唯有藝術和愛情永存!

多年前看過羅曼羅蘭的《貝多芬傳》, 依稀還記得書的結尾: 一個不幸的人，貧窮，殘疾，孤獨，由痛苦造成的人，世界不給他歡樂，他卻創(chuàng)造了歡樂來給予世界！他用他的苦難來鑄成歡樂，好似他用那句豪語來說明的，——那是可以總結他一生，可以成為一切英勇心靈的箴言的： “用痛苦換來的歡樂”

The Origin of the Letters
July 6, in the morning
My angel, my all, my very self - Only a few words today and at that with pencil (with yours) - Not till tomorrow will my lodgings be definitely determined upon - what a useless waste of time - Why this deep sorrow when necessity speaks - can our love endure except through sacrifices, through not demanding everything from one another; can you change the fact that you are not wholly mine, I not wholly thine - Oh God, look out into the beauties of nature and comfort your heart with that which must be - Love demands everything and that very justly - thus it is to me with you, and you with me. But you forget so easily that I must live for me and for you; if we were wholly united you would feel the pain of it as little as I - My journey was a fearful one: I did not reach here until 4 o'clock yesterday morning. Lacking horses the postcoach chose another route, but what an awful one; at the stage before the last I was warned not to travel at night; I was made fearful of the forest, but that only made me the more eager - and I was wrong. The coach must needs break down on the wretched road, a bottomless mud road. Without such postilions as I had with me I should have remained stuck in the road. Esterhazy, traveling the usual road here, had the same fate with eight horses that I had with four - yet I got some pleasure out of it, as I always do when I successfully overcome difficulties - Now a quick change to things internal from things external. We shall surely see each other soon; moreover, today I cannot share with you the thoughts I have had during these last few days touching my own life - If our hearts were always close together, I would have none of these. My heart is full of so many things to say to you - ah - there are moments when I feel that speech amounts to nothing at all - Cheer up - remain my true, my only treasure, my all as I am yours. The gods must send us the rest, what for us must and shall be-
Your faithful Ludwig

Evening, Monday, July 6
You are suffering, my dearest creature - only now have I learned that letters must be posted very early in the morning on Mondays - Thursdays - the only day on which the mail-coach goes from here to K. - You are suffering - Ah, wherever I am, you are with me - I will arrange it with you and me that I can live with you. What a life!!!! thus!!!! without you - pursued by the goodness of mankind hither and thither - which I as little want to deserve as I deserve it - Humility of man towards man - it pains me - and when I consider myself in relation to the universe, what am I and what is He - whom we call the greatest - and yet - herein lies the divine in man - I weep when I reflect that you will probably not receive the first report from me until Saturday - Much as you love me - I love you more - But do not ever conceal yourself from me - good night - As I am taking the baths I must go to bed - Oh God - so near! so far! Is not our love truly a heavenly structure, and also as firm as the vault of Heaven? -

Good morning, on July 7
Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, not and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us - I can only live wholly with you or not at all - Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the lands of spirits - Yes unhappily it must be so - You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never - Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. And yet my life in V[ienna] is now a wretched life - Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - at my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in out connection? My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes everyday - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the l[etter] at once. - Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve out purpose to live together - Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. -Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of you beloved.

ever thine
ever mine L.
ever ours

幾個片段講述他的所愛，女學生茱莉亞，他的弟弟，紅顏知己安娜，沒有天分的小卡爾，還有他的弟媳?；蛟S那份不朽的愛并非特指某一個女人或者男人，它流淌在貝多芬的生命線里，最終歸入的大海的只是他的愛本身。
 
本片對貝多芬的塑造有些靦腆匆忙，無法將一個鮮活完好的貝多芬直觀地展現(xiàn)給觀眾，足夠飽滿卻有裂縫，還好沒有破碎掉。而我看到的這位音樂巨匠，首先是一個從未停止過愛的人。
 
可惜的是，他表達愛的方式有時太過鋒利，他的心也太敏感，而在當時的世界上，還沒有誰能夠完全理解他這個被造物者用純粹的愛與音樂鍛造出來的人。他的靈魂深處有一片只屬于他與音樂繆斯的凈土，誰能夠看見并欣賞這片凈土而又不打擾它的話，或許便能理解他了吧。
淚點很多。加里奧德曼的溫柔眼神總是小心翼翼，目光清澈，生怕觸疼了每一片風景。我印象中的貝多芬總是憤怒，怒斥命運與傷痛，他的貝多芬卻更像一個將傷痛內(nèi)化成無限激情的人，而非向外的反抗，顯然，他那時常與周遭的沖突也不是憤世嫉俗似的。他的愛很純凈，沒有怨恨，無論他吼得多大聲，怎樣伸長手臂去扼住命運的咽喉，我也看不到怨恨。
 
經(jīng)典片段：歡樂頌，少年貝多芬奔跑在夜晚的樹林里，前方是自由，他躺在湖面，仰望星空，整個宇宙充滿激昂的寧靜。
那一刻，他的靈魂已經(jīng)找到了歸宿。

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前些日子在看《Immortal Beloved》，是部藝術化的傳記/傳記化的關于貝多芬的電影，從他的朋友兼秘書根據(jù)在他秘密抽屜里的幾封信按圖索驥出發(fā)，半回憶地講述貝多芬的（愛情）故事。這幾封信在電影中的發(fā)現(xiàn)處是他的辦公桌，而 Anne Baker 寫的貝多芬傳中說的則是他的櫥柜中的秘密抽屜。不過這只是電影于史實諸多差別中的一個，我有點不想一一詳述，我要說的是那些信，人們在稱呼它們時將它們叫做“Immortal Beloved”，按照德語愿意翻譯的話應該是“Eternal Beloved”才是，不過我并非語言學家亦非打破沙鍋者，不做深究。

這幾封信的非同尋常在它們的發(fā)現(xiàn)地就可循端倪。在貝多芬不怎么走運的愛情生涯里頭，盡管也曾經(jīng)對幾位姑娘吃果果表露愛意甚至要了洗禮證明以便結婚之需，但女方極少或者說沒有對他的愛有過感覺，她們更多是感到被追捧感到榮耀，按照現(xiàn)在通俗的話說，她們覺得貝多芬是個很厲害的好哥哥/很乖張的怪書塾。那首獻給愛里斯，即是這段時間的即興創(chuàng)作，收錄在編外作品中。所以很少能在 Antonie Brentano 出現(xiàn)之前的信件中看到那份熾熱的愛戀，在電影中貝多芬的欽慕對象改成了他的弟弟的妻子，比傳記中勾引已婚婦女（Antonie 在維也納首次遇到貝多芬是因她的父親病重與她的丈夫 Franz Brentano 回來照顧家父，他們在她十八歲的時候就在她父親的撮合下結婚了，F(xiàn)ranz 是法蘭克福的富商）還要勁暴還要不倫，而電影里頭的弟弟則是現(xiàn)實中貝多芬諸位弟弟的合體，肺結核的 Carl 和被貝多芬認為自降身份的另外一個弟弟，等等，或許是我看得不夠仔細。不管情節(jié)如何，這都是導演的安排，而 Gary Oldman，即是這個 Leon 中演怪書塾警察那位，演繹的更怪書塾貝多芬，深情地在信中吃果果地表露自己的愛意：“Can our love endure without sacrifices, without our demanding everything from one another; can you alter the fact that you are not wholly mine, that I an not wholly yours? ... However much you love me -- my love for you is even greater.”

在貝多芬的日記中，罕有直書不朽的愛人，貝多芬在提到她時往往稱她為 T. （因為 Antonie 的昵稱是 Toni），如果你真的很閑很有偷窺欲想去看貝多芬的日記，你會看到這樣的句子：“With regard to T. there is nothing else but leave it to God, never go there where one could do wrong out of weakness.”和“be as good as possible towards T.; her devotion deserves never to be forgotten.” 看著這幾句覺得味道不對？那是因為貝多芬在他一生中少數(shù)的幾次愛的人終于愛回他的情況下決定放棄與她在一起，因為她已婚，也因為她的丈夫也是他的好朋友。囧，好錯綜的情感。有野史或者說猜測說，Antonie 的第六個孩子是與貝多芬生下的，這也解釋了為何貝多芬決定放棄與她在一起時是如此的痛苦。

貝多芬在言及放棄的時候的理由是害怕婚姻可能會影響到他的創(chuàng)作源泉。
當前日志信息