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James Moudy

May 17

Lord of war 台词节选

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every 12 people on the planet. The only question is...how do we arm the other 11?
  在这世界上一共有伍亿伍千万支军火在流通,那就是说每十二个人就有一支枪,唯一的问题是:我们如何让其他十一个人也有枪?
  
  The first time you sell a gun is a lot like the first time you have sex. You have absolutely no idea what you're doing. But it is exciting, and one way or another, it's over way too fast.
  第一次卖枪的感觉,很大程度上就象第一次做爱一样,你根本不知道自己在干嘛,虽然很刺激,但很快就结束了。
  
  Here, I'd been running away from violence my whole life, and I should have been running towards it. It's in our nature. The earliest human skeletons had spearheads in their ribcages.
  我的一生都想远离暴力,但其实我更该接近它才对,这是人类的天性,人类最早遗骸的胸腔中,就有矛头。
  
  -- What, you opening a gun shop?
  -- Already more of those in America than McDonald's.
  -- 怎么,你要开个枪店?
  -- 美国的枪店已经比麦当劳还多了。
  
  Sir, sir, may I interest you in the shoulder-fired SA-7 surface-to-air missile? It's the older Chinese model. Not so effective against modern military aircraft, but deadly if used against a commercial airliner.
  先生,有没兴趣看看肩扛式SA-7地对空导弹,中国造,过时的型号,用在现代军事战机上或许不行,不过打打商业客机,还是挺不错的。
  
  Bullets change governments far surer than votes.
  改朝换代枪杆子要比选票更可靠。
  
  I supplied every army but the Salvation Army. I sold Israeli-made Uzis to Muslims. I sold communist-made bullets to fascists. I even shipped cargo to Afghanistan when they were fighting my fellow Soviets. I never sold to Osama bin Laden. Not on any moral grounds. Back then he was always bouncing checks.
  除了"救世军",我卖武器给任何一支军队,我把以色列造的乌兹冲锋枪卖给回教徒,我把共产主义造的子弹卖给法西斯,我还把军火运到阿富汗,尽管他们在打我的苏联盟军,我从来没卖给过奥萨姆·本·拉登,不是因为道德问题,而是那时他的支票总是跳票。
  
  -- I don't think you're going just to sell Pepsi-Cola. Is this how you want to be remembered?
  -- I don't want to be remembered at all. If I'm being remembered it means I'm dead.
  -- 我不信你回去只是要卖百事可乐,这是你希望被后人纪念的方式吗?
  -- 我根本不希望留名青史,如果是那样,就表示我已经死了。
  
  Since the end of the Cold War the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar and suicidal novelists.
  自从冷战结束后,卡拉什尼可夫(AK-47)成为了苏联主要的出口货物,接着是伏特加酒,鱼子酱和有自杀倾向的诗人。
  
  In the most AIDS infested region of the globe, where one in four is infected, Andre's idea of a joke was to put a young Iman and a young Naomi in my bed and no condom within 100 miles.
  在全球艾滋病最猖獗的地方,四个人中就有一个人感染,安德烈和我开玩笑的方式,就是把两个漂亮的女人放到我床上,而且在方圆一百英里内找不到保险套。
  
  -- Hello, Mr. Yuri.
  -- Hi.
  -- We'd be happy to make you happy.
  -- Uh...I can't. I'd love to, but I can't.
  -- Don't worry. We don't have anything.
  -- Oh. How do you know?
  -- Do we look like it?
  -- What if I have AlDS? Don't you worry?
  -- You worry too much.
  -- Why do you worry about something that can kill you in 10 years when there's so many things that can kill you today?
  -- 你的快乐就是我们的快乐。
  -- 噢...我狠想,但是我不能这么做。
  -- 别担心,我们没有病。
  -- 哦,妳们怎么知道的呢?
  -- 我们看起来像有病吗?
  -- 如果我有艾滋病呢?妳们不担心吗?
  -- 你担心的太多了。
  -- 为什么你现在担心一个十年后才会要你命的病,今天就能要你命的事物比比皆是。
  
  How many car salesmen talk about their work, huh? How many cigarette salesmen? Both their products kill more people every year than mine. At least mine has a safety switch.
  卖车的会告诉你开车有危险?卖香烟的会告诉你吸烟会死?每年他们的商品比我的害死更多人,起码我的商品还有个保险栓呢。
  
  Do you know why I do what I do? I mean, there are more prestigious assignments. Keeping track of nuclear arsenals. You'd think that more critical to world security, but it's not. No, nine out of 10 war victims today are killed with assault rifles and small arms like yours. Those nuclear missiles, they sit in their silos. Your AK-47, that is the real weapon of mass destruction.
  知道为什么我追查你到这里?我能选择其它更荣耀的任务,比方追查核武,你认为那对世界和平更重要?不对!今天十个战争受害者中有九人,是死于攻击性来福枪和小型武器,正如你的商品,那些核飞弹?它们还在发射井里待着呢,你的AK-47才是大规模杀伤性武器。
  
  Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names Liberation-this, Patriotic-that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other. I guess they can't own up to what they usually are -- Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves freedom fighters.
  每一个在非洲的派系,喜欢给自己起一些高尚的名字,解放这个,爱国那个,或者共和或民主什么的,也许他们不知道自己是什么,地球唯一喜欢战争的民族,往往最残忍的暴行都出自声称自己为自由战士的人们。
  
  Let me tell you what's gonna happen. This way you can prepare yourself. Okay. Soon there's gonna be a knock on that door and you will be called outside. In the hall there will be a man who outranks you. First, he'll compliment you on the fine job you've done, that you're making the world a safer place, that you're to receive a commendation and a promotion. And then he's going to tell you that I am to be released. You're going to protest. You'll probably threaten to resign. But in the end I will be released. The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think I'll be convicted. I do rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of those men are the enemies of your enemies. And while the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss, the President of the United States, who ships more merchandise in a day than I do in a year... sometimes it's embarrassing to have his fingerprints on the guns. Sometimes he needs a freelancer like me to supply forces he can't be seen supplying. So... you call me evil. But unfortunately for you, I'm a necessary evil.
  让我来告诉你将会发生什么,这样可以让你有所准备,很快,会有人来敲门,你会被叫到外面去,在过道里,会有一个官阶比你高的人站在那里,首先,他会祝贺你所做的一切,你使世界成为一个和平的地方,你会得到嘉奖或升职,然后他会告诉你,我需要被释放,你会反对,你也许会以辞职来要挟他,但是在最后,我会被释放,我被释放的原因,和你认为我会被判刑的原因是一样的,我和一些世界上称自己为领导人的人打交道,这些人当中有一些人是你的敌人的敌人,世界上最大的军火交易商是你的老板,美国的总统,他一天卖的,比我一年卖的还多,有时,在枪支上找到他的指纹是一件很尴尬的事,有时,他需要像我这样的自由工作者,来支持那些他不方便支持的军队,所以,你称我为恶魔,但不幸的是,对你,我是一个必须要存在的恶魔。
  
  You know who's going to inherit the Earth? Arms dealers. Because everyone else is too busy killing each other.
  你知道谁会继承这个世界?是军火商,因为其他人都在忙着自相残杀而最终灭亡。
  
  WHILE PRIVATE GUNRUNNERS CONTINUE TO THRIVE. THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ARMS SUPPLIERS ARE THE U.S., U.K., RUSSIA, FRANCE AND CHINA. THEY ARE ALSO THE FIVE PERMANENT MEMBERS OF THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL.
  尽管军火走私愈演愈烈,世界上最大的军火供应商却是美、英、俄、法、中,他们同时也是联合国安理会五个常任理事国。
May 01

有关父母的一段话

"现在有些父母,他们本身生活就是不太富裕的,而且家里还有小孩,小孩要上学,还有各方面的开支,而为了把他们的孩子培养成才,他们起早贪黑,什么脏活累活只要能够赚到钱他们几乎都去做了,支撑他们这样辛苦的劳作的信念就是因为他们心中有把他们的孩子抚养大、培养成为一个有用之材(这里的有用我想更多的是能够将来赚到钱吧)的这么一个寄托,但是如果真的等到他们的孩子长大了,但是他们的孩子却辜负了他们的父母的良苦用心,而且反过来还和他们的父母过不去,那么这个时候他们的父母的曾经沉重的寄托如今的结果却是成了这样,失去了寄托的他们很容易就会垮了下去,然后以前看似身体很不错的他们会变得弱不禁风…… "---------摘自: 心中的永远的至爱电影Almost Famous
March 17

最终幻想7:圣童降临

昨天终于看到了,然后就是失望。能够感觉到史克威尔的用心和投入,可是剧情也太没有张力了吧。也不知道是哪方神圣给配的音乐摇的镜头。好歹我也是通过两遍关的FF7准Fans,看了20时分钟没有搞清楚导演要说什么。印象里FF7世界的压抑凄美还在,却得不到精神的震撼。可怜的塞菲罗斯,从复生到复死大概只花了15分钟,还是被Cloud的那把开满了魔晃石槽而没有一点真货的钢板搞定的。唯有眼前一亮的就是Tifa,作为FF7中屈指可数的女人终于能通过现代CG技术实现魔鬼身材和矫健身手了。
 
 
March 16

在德国的头24小时(续)

从进入北京机场开始,更准确地说是走进乘客和送行人员的隔离区开始,我能感觉自己的身体就开始运转起来。一种开始自我生存的感觉,对周边事情特别注意,拿到的吃的不管味道如何都能咽下去,背包绝对不摘下来,需要睡觉马上就能睡着,一旦睁眼很快就能清醒。这种感觉我体会过两次,第一次是非典之后的暑假,帮丹搬家。第二次是去北京学德语,那是我第一次真正独自吃住在另外一个城市。
 
接着上篇说。到了青年旅社,实在想不到好办法感谢那个帮我们的中国学生,只好从包里拿出带来的榨菜,分了一半给他。当时只觉得这个应该算好东西,现在知道是吃一袋少一袋,除了旧金山,没有别的西方国家进口涪陵榨菜。
 
第二天(10月3号)正是德国的国庆节。听人说过西方的星期日是实实在在的休息日,没人做生意。将信将疑的在旧城里走了一圈,发现连麦当劳都关门了……  好在我们带了一整捆的方便面(今麦郎,在德国也是够珍贵的,只在汉堡有卖,就算是康师傅,最近也要到慕尼黑才能找到),带了电磁炉,可以偷偷在房间里煮面吃(煮饭是被禁止的)。还记得有个帖子把出国带方便面的行为誉为无脑短视的典范,事实证明古训更有道理----- 手中有粮,心里不慌
 
然后就开始最为困难的找房战役了。根据已经到这边的人的建议,买报纸看租房启事,到食堂公告板抄租房广告,到黄页里查免费租房服务,上网找租房交流的网站,跟学生宿舍办撒泼不给房子就是不走,最后发现一概没用……  一律没有房子。最可恨的是一个政府福利房办公室,一开始说有房子,还不贵,突然问我是不是德国人,我晕,就我这口拌蒜似的德语还用问。听说是中国人马上告诉我,房子是空着,但是只租德国人,不足外国人。
 
万般无奈,搬出最后的武器:挨家挨户敲。在这边碰到的一个朋友就是用这个法子搞定的住处。虽然如大海捞针一般,但是好在城市不大,第一天就把市中心南边的住户都打扰了一遍,虽然一无所获,却也感觉到德国人的素质和好客。还碰上了一个德国出生的越南人,很热情地帮我们打电话联系、带着我们到各个私立学生宿舍打听。其间在一栋公寓楼里询问时碰上了一个“正点”美女,两个人你来我往聊得不亦乐乎,差不多已经将我们忘了,也不知道有没有促成一段姻缘。
 
前前后后一共在erlangen敲了4天的大街,把市中心整个翻了一遍,终于于6号早上在一条不起眼的胡同里找到了一套空闲的单元,具体的经过已经不属于本文标题所管辖的内容啦,所以现就此打住,回家吃饭去喽