魔鬼诗篇（2005）

他就是没法摆脱自己的幻觉
His delusions would just not go away.
他真的相信厄勒克特拉是邪恶的，包括我
He was convinced that Elektra was evil and that I was evil.
厄勒克特拉之所以很邪恶是因为他们和我绑定在一起
Elektra had to be evil because they were tied to me.
所以这合同肯定没法签了
And so the deal died.
我为他奔走了七年的合同就这么没了
And this was the deal I had been working for seven years for.
我甚至感觉自己活了三十多年就是为了签这玩意
This is the deal I had been working for 30 something years for.
我一辈子都栽里面了
It was what I had been building towards my whole life.
Jeffrey Tartakov其实很像丹尼玫瑰(伍迪艾伦电影里一个勤奋经纪人）
Jeffrey Tartakov is really a lot like Broadway Danny Rose.
你看过那片子没
Have you ever seen that movie?
这家伙喜欢死了那些人的表演
This guy loves his acts.
丫一节表演课没上过
Never took a lesson.
他就是为了把他们捧红而活的
KATHY”. He lives to make them successful.
Jeff就是这样对待Daniel的
And that’s the way Jeff always was with Daniel.
Jeff就很像那种老式的经纪人
Jeff literally was like that old time kind of manager
你听别人说过，在报纸/书上面看过，在电影里出现过
you hear about, and you read about, and people make movies about.
以维护客户的利益为己任
This sort of person who lived for the good of his client.
这男的太适合你的房♥间啦
The man would be perfect for your room.
他真的百分百为Daniel Johnston效力
KATHY: He literally devoted his life 100% to Daniel Johnston,
但努力了这么多年没有任何结果
for all the years where nothing was happening.
而在Daniel事业正要起飞的时候
And then right when Daniel was poised
毕竟有两家国际唱片公♥司♥争相签约他
to get an international bidding war on his career,
Daniel无缘无故地就把他甩了
he just completely dropped him like a hot potato for absolutely no reason.
– 我得做出些改变 – 什么样的改变
– I gotta make a few changes. – What kind of changes?
比方说管理层面
Like management.
你说管理是什么意思，啊？什么意思啊管理
What do you mean “management”? Like, what do you mean “management”?
我这些年老被解雇
I was fired so many times over the years,
特别是在这几个月里
and over these months specifically,
真的很难弄清楚我究竟是不是还在任上
that it’s hard to tell which one actually counted.
所以我依旧在努力协调事情，直到有天有人给我打了一电♥话♥
But I continued trying to work things out, until I received a call one day
一个叫做Tom Gimbel的家伙
from a guy named Tom Gimbel,
他敬告我已经被他取代了，他是Daniel的新经纪人
who informed me that he was Daniel’s new manager.
那一刻我感觉自己是一个彻头彻尾的傻♥逼♥
I felt like a failure at that time.
我感觉我是全世界第一大的傻♥逼♥和二货
I felt like I was the biggest failure and loser in the world.
Daniel和他的新经纪人Tom Gimbel，在1994年2月签约了大西洋唱片
(DANIEL SINGING) I love that girl so much
大西洋唱片在1994年9月20号♥出版了Daniel Johnston的FUN，
I can’t get enough of her love
Crazy love
(TAPE CHEWING) She walks on down the street
只卖♥♥出了5800份
Daniel在1996年6月23号♥就被大西洋唱片解约了
和Daniel住一块真不是一件好受的事
BILL: Living with Dan in the same house is something that is not easy
德州，沃勒
现在
很少能和谐相处
to get along with at times.
我们已经磨合出了一个有点点用的相处模式
We have kind of worked out a system that works a little bit for us.
就是我们早上起床他中午起床
It’s past noon and Dan has been asleep since we got up this morning.
我们大概早上七点起来，趁他还在睡觉
We get up about 7:00 and he’s still sleeping.
可以给我们挤出半天不用和他相处的时间
That gives us that half of the day without Dan.
我们真的很珍惜没有他的时光，因为只要他一起床
And we appreciate that as a relief because the minute he gets up,
他就会吆喝我们给他泡茶，他要吃东西
he’ll want us to make him some tea, he’ll want something to eat,
然后他会一直说我们今天要不要去购物什么的
he’ll want to go… “Are we going shopping today?”
每隔一天他都要去购物
Every other day he wants to go shopping.
我们试着每周带他去些地方
We try to take him somewhere every week.
至少一周带他去次教堂
And we take him to church with us at least once a week.
每周去次商场或者本地的沃尔玛
And we take him to the mall or to a local Wal-Mart once a week.
他的朋友们也会来看他，带他去排练什么的
And then his friends come to see him, and take him to practice.
他现在的乐队一周会排练一次
The band that he’s working with now will practice once a week.
好的，你觉得…你可以再来一次嘛
DANIEL: Yeah, I think… You wanna do it one more time?
把那个…打开吗，好的，现在挺好
Turn the, uh… Okay, that’s good.
试下音，好的
Testing! Okay-
(SINGING) Imagine a world without rock ‘n’ roll
There’d be no
等一下等一下，我都听不见我自己的声音了
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I can’t hear my vocal.
我们两年半前从俄亥俄州搬过来
JASON NIGHTMARE: We moved here from Ohio about two and a half years ago
有天我们沿着这条路在开
and then we were driving down the road one day,
去我住在那边的奶奶家
toward my grandma’s house, who lives here,
然后我们看到有个人在被狗袭击
and we saw this guy being attacked by dogs.
我就跟Bridget说，这人长得好像Daniel Johnston啊
And I told Bridget, “Man, this looks like Daniel Johnston.
我觉得这就是Daniel Johnston
“I think this is Daniel Johnston.”
她脸上一副”这怎么可能是Daniel Johnston”的表情
And she’s like, “Oh, no. That’s not Daniel Johnston.”
所以我们做的就是，停车去营救这个家伙
So we… What we did was, we stopped anyway, you know, to help the guy out.
Bridget从车里出来一脚踢在狗狗脸上
And Bridget got out of the car and she kicked the dog right in the face
把狗赶跑了
and it ran off.
结果Daniel张口就问，你们会弹吉他吗
And then Daniel was like, “Hey, do you guys play guitar?”
Man Obsessed-Daniel Johnston
(SINGING) He’s a man obsessed
He couldn’t be a lover
So now he’s a pest
He played the game
But he failed the test
And now he’s a pest He’s a pest
He’s a pest
他说，我过一阵子来找你们怎样
He said, “Well, how about, um… How about I come over some time?”
我说，好啊，你是Daniel Johnston嘛
And I said, “Yeah, yeah. Are you Daniel Johnston?”
他承认了而且不敢相信我们认识他
He’s like, “Yeah. I’m Daniel Johnston. You know who I am?”
我心里想这可太棒了
And I thought, well, this is amazing, man.
Daniel Johnston在沃勒欸，我之前都不知道他住在哪
Daniel Johnston in Waller. I had no idea that he even lived here.
Man Obsessed-Daniel Johnston
(SINGING) The only way you could get her to look at you is to die
Why don’t you die?
我们拿到了他的电♥话♥号♥码，第二周就打了过去
JASON: We got his number and we called him up the next week
他就来我们家一起录了四首歌♥
and he came over to the house and we recorded four songs with him
不到一小时就录了四首
in, like, one hour.
(SINGING) He’s a man obsessed
He couldn’t be a lover
So now he’s a pest
我们之前一直不知道搬家来沃勒是为什么，你知道吗
We were wondering why we moved to Waller to begin with, you know, we…
现在我知道为什么了
Now we know why we moved to Waller.
你懂吗…就像我们是被上天派遣来的
You know… Because, you know, it was heaven sent.
He’s a pest
He’s a pest
Man obsessed
在我们给他听了Pet Sounds那张专辑后，他开始听沙滩男孩了
Daniel started listening to The Beach Boys, like, after we played Pet Sounds for him.
应该是这样
I think.
他说他从来没听过这张专辑，直到有天晚上我们给他放了
He said he never heard Pet Sounds before, but we played it for him one night
简直给他听呆了
and he was floored by it.
他去买♥♥了沙滩男孩每一张专辑
And so he went out and bought like every Beach Boys record
你都没法想象居然有那么多张
you could possibly imagine.
我不知道Brian Wilson(沙滩男孩主脑)和Daniel是否彼此相像
I don’t know if Brian Wilson and Daniel are very much alike.
但每次我在杂♥志♥上读到Daniel的报道
Every time I read something about Daniel in a magazine or something,
里面都会提及Brian Wilson
it mentions Brian Wilson.
我是真心觉得Daniel比Brian Wilson聪明
I honestly think Daniel is far more brilliant than Brian Wilson is.
当然沙滩男孩的音乐历史性极其重要
Of course the Beach Boys’ music is really far-out,
但，唔，和Daniel Johnston还是不太一样
but, um, it’s not quite Daniel Johnston.
我读过Brian Wilson的自传
I read the story of Brian Wilson that he wrote himself.
他说他爸做生意老偷奸耍滑
And he tells that his father was not a fair manager.
Daniel他爸做生意可不贪小便宜
Bill is a fair manager
也并不只是把钱用在自己身上
and is not after the money for himself.
他照顾着Daniel
He’s after it for Dan.
Brian Wilson有些个人特质
BILL: Brian Wilson had a lot of the similar characteristics
和疾病与Daniel很类似
and infirmities that Dan has.
也和他经历过相同的发展阶段
And he went through the same stages of development that Dan has gone through.
读过他的故事之后，一下子让我想到Daniel之后的处境
And reading his history, it smacks a whole lot of exactly what’s happening to Dan.
我们得吸取教训，可不想让Daniel也踩同一个坑
We’re learning from it. We don’t want to make the same mistakes.
Brian Wilson最后还是过的不错的
He did well actually in the end.
我们想Daniel也能这样
And we’d like Dan to do well, too,
因为他需要
because he needs to.
有次我问我爸
大概我十四岁的时候，我问他最害怕什么事
他说…
我怕我哪天老了
我的孩子不会来照顾我
我觉得这确实挺恐怖的
你知道吗，我会给我爸妈买♥♥栋房♥子
他们不用去担心花销啊什么的
我真的希望我能做到
也许有天吧
他为电影写了新歌♥？
His new songs for the movie?
为什么不在电影里用他之前那些挺受欢迎的歌♥
看他自己的心情啦，他会去演的
lt just depends on when he’s in the mood, he will. (CHUCKLING)
– 是啦，我甚至都不记得我那些老歌♥了 – 对，这是一个原因
– Yeah, I don’t even know my old songs. – Now that’s the thing.
他不记得旋律和歌♥词了
He doesn’t remember the tune and he doesn’t remember the words.
(SINGING) I had a dream about you
You were the queen of quite a few
And I was there but you didn’t care
I didn’t matter somehow
1993年Glass Eye解散的时候，Daniel还被关在精神病院
By the time Glass Eye broke up in 1993, Daniel was still in the mental hospital.
而且关了蛮久，我当时以为
And he’d been there for a long time and I rather thought,
他可能以后真就停止创作了
the possibility existed, sad as it was, that he might never produce anything again.
但他已经录制的一些歌♥曲
And a lot of the music that he had recorded
说实话，在大众听感的评价系统里，那些甚至都算噪音
was, to the general populous, unlistenable.