AKing(400.经济学人-To be a king-6)

AKing(400.经济学人-To be a king-6)

Yet the fictitious role of T’Challa and his kingdom of Wakanda engaged him even more.


This was a work of recovery, the celebration of a severed African past that belonged to all black people.


Every part of it had to be properly done. It was he who insisted the cast spoke Xhosa, with its clicks and smacks.


He found it beautiful and rhythmical, like ancient music. He helped devise the salute, which reminded him of tomb effigies of the pharaohs. (In 2016 he had played Thoth in “Gods of Egypt”, the one face of African descent among them, taking the part only because, without him, there would have been none.)


For close combat, he studied Zulu stick fighting and Dambe boxing from west Africa.


Costumes, sets and moves fused together different aspects of the continent he loved, a mixing and reconnection that went to his own roots: almost the moment he got the part, he had his DNA tested and found he was Yoruba from Nigeria and Limba from Sierra Leone.


Last, he reinforced the film’s relevance by making T’Challa a peacemaker in the Mandela mould while his nemesis Killmonger, his abandoned cousin, was inspired by Malcolm X.


That echoed a conversation he had long had with himself: forbearance, or violence.



这是《经济学人》2020年9月刊的一篇文章'To be a king'第6段,共8句。


1、

{'fictitious':'虚构'}

然而,T'Challa和他的瓦坎达王国这个虚构的角色更吸引他。


2、

这是一个关乎复兴的工作,一个与过去的非洲人民割裂的庆祝,这是属于所有黑色皮肤的人民。


3、

{'smacks':'拍打'}

{'cast':'全体演员'}

每一部分都完成的恰到好处。他坚持全体演员说科萨语,并伴随着击打。


科萨语(Xhosa)是非洲南部科萨族所使用的语言,也是南非共和国的官方语言之一。属尼日尔-刚果语系、班图语族。在南非,科萨语是使用人口分布最广的一种语言,在使用人口的数量上,它仅次于祖鲁语,位居第二。


4、

{'rhythmical':'有节奏的'}

{'salute':'赞颂,敬礼'}

{'tomb':'墓穴'}

{'effigies':'雕像'}

{'pharaohs':'法老'}

查德维克·博斯曼发觉这是优美又富有律动的,就像是古代的音乐。他帮助设计了一种赞礼,这让他想到了墓穴的法老雕像。(2016年他出演《神战:权力之眼》中的托特神的原因仅仅是因为,如果没有他,影片中就不会有非洲裔面孔。)

《神战:权力之眼》(Gods of Egypt)是由美国顶峰娱乐公司出品的冒险奇幻片,该片改编自埃及神话,讲述了一个凡人窃贼贝克帮助埃及天神荷鲁斯完成复仇并逆袭成为明君的故事。影片于2016年2月26日在美国上映,2016年3月11日在中国大陆上映 。


5、


对于近身搏斗,他从南非西部学习了祖鲁棍法(Zulu stick fighting)和达比拳术(Dambe boxing)。

达比(DAMBE BOXING)这个单词最早引用自西非地区的豪萨族,在豪萨语中,达比即为“单手拳击”。


6、

{'Costumes':'服装(尤指戏装)'}

{'continent':'洲'}

融合了他喜欢的不同地区的服装,道具和动作,这形成了自己独特的风格:差不多就在他接这个角色时候,他已经做了DNA检测并且发现自己是尼日利亚的约鲁巴(Yoruba)以及塞拉利昂(Sierra Leone)的林姆巴混血。

塞拉利昂共和国(The Republic of Sierra Leone),简称塞拉利昂。位于西非大西洋岸,北部及东部被几内亚包围、东南与利比里亚接壤,首都弗里敦。塞拉利昂是世界最不发达国家之一,人民生活水平低下,曾经是欧洲奴隶的供应来源地。


7、

{'reinforced':'加强'}

{'mould':'模型'}

最后,他强化了影片的关联性,将T'Challa塑造成曼德拉似的和平缔造者,而他的仇人Killmonger,他被遗弃的表弟则是受到马尔科姆X的启发。


8、

{'forbearance':'宽容、克制'}

这回应了长期与自己内心的交流:宽容还是暴力。


--总结--


【词汇部分】

{'fictitious':'虚构'}

{'smacks':'拍打'}

{'cast':'全体演员'}

{'rhythmical':'有节奏的'}

{'salute':'赞颂,敬礼'}

{'tomb':'墓穴'}

{'effigies':'雕像'}

{'pharaohs':'法老'}

{'Costumes':'服装(尤指戏装)'}

{'continent':'洲'}

{'reinforced':'加强'}

{'mould':'模型'}

{'forbearance':'宽容、克制'}

AKing(400.经济学人-To be a king-6)