故事和旋律:电影歌曲中的Leonard Cohen Ⅰ

2016年上半年上帝带走了妖娆的David Bowie,下半年的上帝突然多愁善感起来,于是又召唤走了睿智的Leonard Cohen。于是我们终于失去了内敛而优雅,有着沙哑声线的唱诗人以后,确又无意中得到在飞逝的时光中回味和咀嚼他那些韵味长存的诗歌的机会。

在Cohen的各种版本的身份介绍中,演员,也许是不起眼的一个标签,毕竟他的音乐、诗、小说都已经足够炫目,而各色影视导演们也许没有太多机会和这位深居简出的谪仙在镜头前合作,所以他们用了另一种方式,既是合作,更是一种致敬方式吧:将Cohen的歌曲放在了他们的画面中。继续用他深沉而细腻的唱诗曲来让我们动容。

所以就借着这篇记录来回顾下那些曾在镜头中曾经乍现又惊艳的歌曲,在流逝的镜头中一起再回味下不曾流逝的旋律和感受。


2016 【Pete's Dragon 彼得的龙】

迪斯尼今年暑期档的电影,翻拍自1977年的同名动画歌舞电影,但在新片中歌舞形式彻底不见。独立导演出身的David Lowery感觉缺少童真,而站在完全旁观成人的角度,而且索然无味的去讲了这样一个珠玉在前的故事,甚至选入Cohen老爷子的歌曲作为插曲也显得有些格格不入。不过陪着小孩进电影院的父母们可能会被这样有些冒失的选择当作贴心的加分项了。

曲目:So Long, Marianne

选自 Leonard Cohen 1967年的首张个人专辑【Songs Of Leonard Cohen】

彼时的Cohen33岁,刚从一个备受关注和争议的作家身份放下笔,离开打字机,背起吉他,走进了录音棚没几年,他的声线也还没有磨砺出岁月的沧桑。伴着连绵的吉他扫弦,悠扬的小提琴,还缺少那迷人的深邃魅力,但带着些许亮色的质朴却刚好完美诠释了这首有几分忧伤更多是乐观的民谣。

彼时的Cohen和他的音乐诗,亲近却不滥情,悲伤又透着洞观世情的睿智已经略有体现。

Come over to the window,my little darling,

I'd like to try to read your palm.

I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy

before I let you take me home.

Now so long,Marianne,it's time that we began

to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Well you know that I love to live with you,

but you make me forget so very much.

I forget to pray for the angels

and then the angels forget to pray for us.

Now so long,Marianne,it's time that we began

to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

We met when we were almost young

deep in the green lilac park.

You held on to me like I was a crucifix,

as we went kneeling through the dark.

Oh so long,Marianne,it's time that we began

to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Your letters they all say that you're beside me now.

Then why do I feel alone?

I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web

is fastening my ankle to a stone.

Now so long,Marianne,it's time that we began

to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

For now I need your hidden love.

I'm cold as a new razor blade.

You left when I told you I was curious,

I never said that I was brave.

Oh so long,Marianne,it's time that we began

to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Oh,you are really such a pretty one.

I see you've gone and changed your name again.

And just when I climbed this whole mountainside,

to wash my eyelids in the rain!

Oh so long,Marianne,it's time that we began

to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.


2015【True Detective真探第二季】

HBO出神剧,我现在都还眼巴巴的等着【权力的游戏】第七季,以及这部【真探】的第三季,当然最近口碑爆棚的【西部世界】等到季终也肯定会一头栽进去见识见识。

而【真探】的奇情黑色故事在冷峻的镜头、叙事节奏的渲染下,就像一把黑色的锥子,不动声色的刺入内心,交织在一起的命运,将剧情和感情的冲突涂上了宿命般的黑色无力感。

曲目:Never mind

选自 Leonard Cohen 2014年个人专辑【Popular Problems】

做为片头曲Never mind几乎从一开始就完美的契合了这样的基调:Cohen冷峻深沉的人声有力而节制的在歌唱,冰冷的重拍电子为主的伴奏编曲,而充满印度风情的诡异女声声部又陡然将冷峻推向诡异。而这首2014年的歌曲的歌词更称得上是【真探】的天作之合:There's Truth that lives,And Truth that dies,Never mind......不是无奈的叹息,更是直接的质问,歌曲终了,故事也画上了句号,但是关于真相和真理的探寻却继续。

The war was lost

The treaty signed

I was not caught

I crossed the line

I was not caught

Though many tried

I live among you

Well disguised

I had to leave

My life behind

I dug some graves

You'll never find

The story's told

With facts and lies

I had a name

But never mind

Never mind

Never mind

The war was lost

The treaty signed

There's truth that lives

And truth that dies

I don't know which

So never mind

Your victory

Was so complete

That some among you

Thought to keep

A record of

Our little lives

The clothes we wore

Our spoons our knives

The games of luck

Our soldiers played

The stones we cut

The songs we made

Our law of peace

Which understands

A husband leads

A wife commands

And all of this

Expressions of

The Sweet Indifference

Some call Love

The High Indifference

Some call Fate

But we had Names

More intimate

Names so deep and

Names so true

They're blood to me

They're dust to you

There is no need

That this survive

There's truth that lives

And truth that dies

Never mind

Never mind

I live the life

I left behind

There's truth that lives...

I could not kill

The way you kill

I could not kill

The way you kill

I could not hate

I tried I failed

You turned me in

At least you tried

You side with them

Whom you despise

This was

This swarm of flies

This was once your mouth

This bowl of lies

You serve them well

I'm not surprised

You're of their kin

You're of their kind

Never mind

Never mind

The story's told

With facts and lies

You own the world

So never mind

Never mind

Never mind

I live the life

I left behind

I live it full

I live it wide

Through layers of time

You can't divide

My woman's here

My children too

Their graves are safe

From ghosts like you

In places deep

With roots entwined

I live the life I left behind


2014【Wild 涉足荒野】

2014年一部关于寻找的电影,也是一段关于自我认识的记录。抱歉我不想用“救赎”这样已经太流于表面的词了,我宁愿化一生的时间来认清自己,看清这个世界,抓住一些属于自己的勇气,记住属于这个世界的一些美丽。如同影片最后,身处荒野密林,女主微笑了,嗯,这世界,这生活如何荒芜,也要有这一笑间的芳华。

曲目:Suzanne

选自 Leonard Cohen 1967年的首张个人专辑【Songs Of Leonard Cohen】

这部电影的原声选了很多我喜欢的老歌手、乐队的歌曲,比如Simon & Garfunkel、Bruce Springsteen、Portishead,当然还有就是Cohen老爷子的了,而且是他的首本名曲Suzanne。

爱恋、思慕从音乐响起的瞬间就随着轻柔的吉他,Cohen疏离又温暖的人声中流淌而出。有些爱会随风飘扬,有些爱会落入尘土,有些爱也会湮没在大海,但是Cohen的爱如同幽深的地下暗河,被地壳包围也有种温柔涌动,而不期待为人轻易发现。Cohen在众多场所唱过众多次Suzanne以后,他才吐露Suzanne是他一位友人的妻子,而这种发乎情止乎礼的情愫正是造就这首温柔却不媚俗的情歌的催化剂吧。

suzanne(album version-leonard cohen

suzanne takes you down to her place near the river

you can hear the boats go by

you can spend the night beside her

and you know that she's half crazy

but that's why you want to be there

and she feeds you tea and oranges

that come all the way from china

and just when you mean to tell her

that you have no love to give her

then she gets you on her wavelength

and she lets the river answer

that you've always been her lover

and you want to travel with her

and you want to travel blind

and you know that she will trust you

for you've touched her perfect body with your mind

and jesus was a sailor

when he walked upon the water

and he spent a long time watching

from his lonely wooden tower

and when he knew for certain

only drowning men could see him

he said all men will be sailors then

until the sea shall free them

but he himself was broken

long before the sky would open

forsaken almost human

he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

and you want to travel with him

and you want to travel blind

and you think maybe you'll trust him

for he's touched your perfect body with his mind

now suzanne takes your hand

and she leads you to the river

she is wearing rags and feathers

from salvation army counters

and the sun pours down like honey

on our lady of the harbour

and she shows you where to look

among the garbage and the flowers

there are heroes in the seaweed

there are children in the morning

they are leaning out for love

and they will lean that way forever

while suzanne holds the mirror

and you want to travel with her

and you want to travel blind

and you know that you can trust her

for she's touched your perfect body with her mind



2013【Songs of Anarchy: Volume 3 混乱之子原声选集3】

知道这部FX制作的电视剧很早,但是当时看简介觉着是一部黑帮、家庭伦理混搭题材,大概是当时觉得腻味(同期我应该是在追【大西洋帝国】),所以放着他到2014年第七季全剧终都没去看。不过最近又看到他的另一个译名:无政府之子,又突然来了兴趣,等有时间来填坑吧。

曲目:Come Healing

选自 Leonard Cohen 2012年专辑【Old Ideas】

混乱中如何找寻真实的安稳,没有看剧的我,在弦乐和钢琴陪伴中的圣洁女声旋律缓缓出来之时,却是实实在在的感受到了安稳。而Cohen的低沉嗓音如同一个仁慈的老者用歌声在洗涤伤痛,宽恕着挣扎的痛苦灵魂。简单但走心的旋律,治愈的圣歌温暖着周遭的世界。

O, gather 'round the brokenness

Bring it to me now

The fragrance of those promises

You never dared to vow

The splinters that you carried

The cross you left behind

Come healing of the body

Come healing of the mind

And let the heavens hear it

The penitential hymn

Come healing of the spirit

Come healing of the limb

Leonard:

Behold the gates of mercy

In arbitrary space

And none of us deserving

Of cruelty or the grace

Together:

O, solitude of longing

Where love has been confined

Come healing of the body

Come healing of the mind

O, see the darkness yielding

That tore the light apart

Come healing of the reason

Come healing of the heart


2012【Rampart 堡垒】

2011年出品的电影,阵容非常有吸引力:Woody Harrelson、Steve Buscemi,还有Ben Foster,加上警界黑档案的故事背景,感觉是很火爆的类型片。但是当坐在电脑前过了5分钟以后,就会发现这是一部以文艺片手法演绎的故事。缓慢的节奏,几乎是Harrelson的独角戏,凭借肢体、表情,以及导演的镜头调度,完成了对一个恶警的立体刻画。一段被人偷拍的施暴恶行本身是能成为套路商业片的导火索,在这部电影里却几乎完全的还原了生活:偶有波澜的生活始终推着人生往前行,甚至来不及愤怒或者沮丧。

曲目:Famous Blue Raincoat

选自Leonard Cohen1971年专辑【Songs Of Love And Hate】

这也是一首脍炙人口的经典曲目,而且曾被Joan BaezTori Amos等才华横溢又个性鲜明的女歌手所翻唱。凌晨的纽约,华灯已快熄灭,而曙光也还未至,冷寂而衰弱的气息此刻正浓。轻拨的吉他、Cohen悲伤内敛的嗓音融进了回忆、忏悔,还有无尽的怜悯,还有隐隐的微弱希望藏在其中,令人不忍停止聆听,在一遍遍Cohen的吟唱中,审视自己的滑稽,自己的无力,自己在白日的顽劣和荒唐。

It's four in the morning, the end of December

I'm writing you now just to see if you're better

New York is cold, but I like where I'm living

There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.

I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert

You're living for nothing now,

I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair

She said that you gave it to her

That night that you planned to go clear

Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older

Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder

You'd been to the station to meet every train

And you came home without Lili Marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life

And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth

One more thin gypsy thief

Well I see Jane's awake

She sends her regards.

And what can I tell you my brother, my killer

What can I possibly say?

I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you

I'm glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me

Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes

I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair

She said that you gave it to her

That night that you planned to go clear


2011【The Art of Getting By 家庭作业】

青春,无论是每一场考试,甚至是每一次恋爱都是一次试练。2011年的独立电影【家庭作业】正是这样一部青春记录,虽然缺少浪漫喜剧的元素,却又让人能冷静的回顾属于青春的岁月和呼吸。粗枝大叶的表面下面谁都有一颗敏感的心,何况是最宝贵的少年时光?

曲目:Winter Lady

选自 Leonard Cohen 1967年的首张个人专辑【Songs Of Leonard Cohen】

这首曲子老实说我觉得有些强说愁的感觉,旋律也不是喜欢的韵味:一直觉得他冷但又有几分油滑或者是轻浮。但似乎在这样一部青春文艺片中又恰好能贴合男主的经历。而33岁时Cohen的无奈演绎这样人生经过的青春站台,似乎也是刚好合拍:青春渐远,我将继续渐行。

Trav'ling lady, stay awhile

until the night is over.

I'm just a station on your way,

I know I'm not your lover.

Well I lived with a child of snow

when I was a soldier,

and I fought every man for her

until the nights grew colder.

She used to wear her hair like you

except when she was sleeping,

and then she'd weave it on a loom

of smoke and gold and breathing.

And why are you so quiet now

standing there in the doorway?

You chose your journey long before

you came upon this highway.

Trav'ling lady stay awhile

until the night is over.

I'm just a station on your way,

I know I'm not your lover.


先告一段落,战战兢兢,怕挂一漏万,所以先放上这一部分的网易云音乐歌单,听听老爷子的歌,追忆中再来整理思绪。

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