Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waitin’ for me
My lover stands on golden sands
And watches the ships that go sailin’.
Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watchin’ for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms I’d go sailin’.
It's far beyond the stars
It's near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon.
We'll meet beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailin'.
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon
We'll meet … I know we'll meet … beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before.
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailin'.
No more sailin' …
So long sailin' …
Bye, bye sailin'...
Move on out, captain …
So long, ensign …
Finding Nimo(海底总动员)是我家闺女们常看的片子,结尾的那首Somewhere beyond the sea她们也能哼哼几句。前年有部也是表现歌星生活的传记片,名字就叫 Beyond the Sea,编剧导演和主演是奥斯卡得主Kevin Spacey 。影片的主人公Bobby Darin出身贫寒,小时候即患有心脏病,在母亲的鼓励下开始走上歌舞之路。其实他一直认作母亲的女人是他的外祖母,他是个私生子,其亲生母亲一直被他当做姐姐。婚姻生活也比较离奇,他的妻子Sandra Dee 是童星出身,其母为挣钱谎报了她的年龄,她嫁人的时候才16岁。为了和死亡争夺时间,Bobby Darin拼命工作,到处演唱、拍电影,曾经获得奥斯卡的提名,37岁就离开了人世。Beyond the Sea不是他最早演唱,但他的版本比较有名。
在影片中Kevin Spacey 亲自演唱,有评论说比原唱还要好。没听过原唱,不好比较,不过感觉比Walk the Line那两位主演唱得要好得多。不过Kevin Spacey演出时 的年纪比Bobby Darin去世时还大8岁,看他和小姑娘谈恋爱我觉得很不舒服。作为编导还算称职,这是他导演的第二部作品,不知他是否会向前发展。
有意思的是,贝托鲁齐的The Dreamers(戏梦人生)也以那首歌曲为主旋律,歌曲在影片中反复播放,令我怀疑这首歌曲原来就是法文的,从听者的感觉来看,法文版的演唱更自然顺畅。感谢万能的GOOGLE,我今天找到了源头。果真如此。
请看英语版填词人Jack Lawrence 的叙述:
http://www.jacklawrencesongwriter.com/home.html
The Story Behind The Song
As with all of Trenet's songs this one was originally published by Raoul Breton in France with the title "La Mer" (The Sea). This was also the title of a lovely concert piece by Debussy. In previous years I had met M. & Mme. Breton on their New York visits and written English lyrics to their French hits. I never did direct translations; for one thing, my high school French was inadequate.
But I truly felt doing a literal translation was hardly creative so I would play the French song over and over until it became part of me. Then and only then would I start creating my lyric. In the past I had written lyrics to a couple of Trenet's French hits and when we finally met on one of his trips to the U.S. he complimented me on my work.
The Bretons came to my home in New York in '46 with recordings of "La Mer" and said that Trenet would like me to do the English lyric. I loved the unusual melody he had written but was not intrigued with his French lyric, which told about the different moods of the sea, and how they affected him.
Also, most of the recordings that had been made were somber and symphonic in feeling. I decided that my lyric would tell a different story — a romantic tale of a sea-faring lover and a land-locked lover waiting on a golden shore for his return.
I would like to quote from an article by Will Friedwald that appeared in the 2002 music issue of Vanity Fair. He wrote:
"Lawrence's words to "Beyond The Sea" constitute a lyric of the highest order. He started by adding that one word: beyond, and that drove the entire song. In the song's middle section Lawrence goes beyond "beyond" by using the word as the linchpin of a series of phrases, each with a slightly different meaning. "Beyond a star... Beyond the moon... Beyond a doubt" The word star arrives on an accidental C-sharp, which charges the phrase with unexpected oomph and gives the word an especially starry feeling. Changing the title, paradoxically, allowed Lawrence to remain phonetically faithful, at least, to Trenet's original: in Trenet's text each 8 bar "A" section begins with the words "La Mer"; in Lawrence's version each of these sections commences with "Somewhere" so that the English lyric has the same sonic feel as the original."
Thank you, Will, for the clarity of your explanation. It's so nice to know that the workings of one's mind are being appreciated by experts.
Let me continue with more of Will's article:
"For all the craftsmanship of Lawrence and Trenet, "Beyond The Sea" was not an instant hit in America. The early recordings were surprisingly heavy. Benny Goodman recorded it with a string orchestra in 1947 and Tex Beneke cut it with his Glenn Miller orchestra. (An air check survives of Beneke playing it with Ronnie Deauville, a crooner who was almost impossible to distinguish from the young Sinatra. This track has been circulated by collectors as a Miller-Sinatra recording). For ten years or so the song lay dormant."
One day at the publisher's offices I ran into a new young singer with a distinctive style. He was brash and a bit cocky but rather refreshing and his name was Bobby Darin. He didn't hesitate to tell everyone that someday he would be as popular as Sinatra. I gave him a copy of "Beyond The Sea" and asked him what he thought of it. He said he liked some of the recordings he'd heard but he felt the song lacked a definite beat. A few months later he sent me his latest album and there was "Mack The Knife" and "Beyond The Sea" done to a crisp with an infectious toe-tapping beat and Bobby's inimitable delivery. Everyone in the business will agree that Bobby Darin's version turned those two songs into mega-hits.
Through the years, after his untimely death, there has been repeated talk of one of the big studios filming THE BOBBY DARIN STORY. Recently, Kevin Spacey announced that for years he has been eager to star in that role. Some say he may be a bit long in the tooth to play that youngster but let's wait and see. After all, he's an Oscar winner.
oscar 有好几部人物传记电影,这也是其中一部。虽然有Kevin Spacey这样的大人物来演,然而这部片子本身真的没有ray来的震撼。
感觉起来就是一个充满野心的男人的演艺历程,一直不认输,一直认为自己会赢,改了自己的名字,出了自己想要的专辑,娶了自己想要的妻子,然后经历人生的低潮,然后重新振作,想从政,然后发现自己原来是私生子,自己一直以为的姐姐是自己的妈妈,自己一直以为的妈妈和爸爸其实是外公外婆~~~
然而这个故事对猫来讲还是不够震撼,可能太太太正常的美国化了吧~~~~
“I have worn the country's colors in a thousand different ways; I have won the game of life upon the table which it plays; I'm a sun without a setting and a tear without regretting; I'm a mind full of forgetting but I am, most of all, I am."---Bobby Darin
because of the movie, just google Bobby's brief introduction, the boy got rheumatic fever as a kid and didn't expect to make it through his twenties,he was very upfront, a positive guy,knew clearly what he wanted and just went straight for it, what he said:I've got a lot to do in a short period of time and I'm going to accomplish it.
I admire this kind of person, always knows clearly what he want and just go streight for it. Think it over by myself: what do you want? and what are you going to accomplish. Saying is easier than doing, thinking is also easier, what you need is ACTION!
By the way, i like one of the lines: memory just like moonlight, you get what you want.
在中央6套看到了这部片子。吸引我的不是Kevin也不是四五十年代好莱坞的怀旧气息,而完完全全是Kevin在影片里表演的Bobby Darin的音乐。
其实何必拍片,直接出张翻唱唱片得了= =|||这部之后,KS基本是向认真演电影的生涯说再见了。
对于人物塑造失败,但是史派西还是很有魅力的
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我喜欢!喜欢那样的音乐 喜欢那时侯的美国 喜欢怀旧 喜欢爵士 乡村...
Somewhere Beyond The Sea
故事性和趣味性都一般。是因为传记片的缘故么?Spacey叔叔倒是过瘾了。
我对音乐穿插的电影向来没有抵抗力~怎么说呢~这片子教会我某种生命的意义。
编剧导演和主演奥斯卡得主Kevin Spacey ,唱歌对百老汇摸打了许多年的Kevin轻而易举啊!喜欢歌舞片,轻松!
戏骨先生
基本上就是凯文·史派西的个人秀,戏王唱的真不错,纸牌屋里随口唱了几句pretty polly,真该多唱几句。★★★
为了证明自己能歌善舞,您真是豁出去了,妆浓的直逼许建国.
凯文史派西囡耐你
越看下去越好看~love kevin
名字还是翻译成“飞跃海洋”更好
Kevin你这拍舞台剧呢|||| 他当不了电影导演,但是歌唱得真销魂,那首The Curtains Fall啊啊啊啊啊迷死人了!必须要OST!
音乐很赞 但是还是觉得有那么点乏味
网上对这部电影以及原型介绍甚少 没法了解凯文是怎么练就这身技艺的 但不是谁都能像那几个大神一样 又编又导又演还能拿奖的
good
差点意思......
励志片 爱情片 反战片