本·阿弗萊克：翻身花花公子“沖奧”記

現(xiàn)實熱愛浪子的皈依，特別是那些有才的浪子。

本·阿弗萊克有過年少輕狂的時候，和歌星詹妮弗·洛佩茲的戀情恐怕對于現(xiàn)在的他來說還是一場噩夢。當初的他們肆無忌憚，高調妄為，秀恩愛，秀下限，直到一起合作的電影《鴛鴦綁匪》慘敗才讓這對情侶清醒，之后的故事就是分道揚鑣，各自安生。其實，阿弗萊克有一個不錯的過去，與好友馬特·達蒙合作編寫的《心靈捕手》讓這雙好兄弟在好萊塢一時風頭無兩。但是，比起好友達蒙在演戲道路上的專心致志，阿弗萊克卻顯得力不從心。硬漢不是沒有試過，卻總覺得他臉上的深情憂郁過于多余；文藝清新也嘗過，卻總演不出“文藝骨干”的超然脫俗。于是，蟄伏，有很長一段時間，他讓人覺得，安心在家里做一名盡責的“奶爸”也不失為好選擇。

然而，男人終究是權力的動物。阿弗萊克拿起筆，操起攝像機，真正地實施自己的想法，其第二部導演作《城中大盜》讓人驚艷。第一次，我們看到阿弗萊克在電影這個行業(yè)原來還有看頭，那種老到和細膩讓我們頓悟：多年的蟄伏只為這一天的驚喜。然后，今天，帶著《逃離德黑蘭》，他直指奧斯卡。我不禁驚嘆歲月的“慈悲”，只要耗得起、熬得住，最終你就能放聲大笑。

——Mac

Some actors grow up on camera. Ben Affleck appears to be growing up behind it.

Ten years ago， he was the popculture 1）laughingstock of movies like Pearl Harbor and Gigli， 2）derided for a very public relationship with Jennifer Lopez that sold millions of gossip magazines while inviting untold 3）scorn. He had the 4）swagger of a movie star， but it seemed unearned.

Argo， Afflecks third movie as a director， is a different story in every regard. It is also a glimpse of a more ambitious filmmaker and global citizen than almost everyone has suspected. 5）In retrospect， maybe we shouldnt have been so surprised.

有一些明星在電影鏡頭前成長，而本·阿弗萊克卻似乎是在鏡頭后不斷成長。

十年前，在流行文化界，他因為電影《珍珠港》以及《鴛鴦綁匪》而貽人口實，因為與詹妮弗·洛佩茲的戀情而成為公眾揶揄對象——他們的戀情助長了八卦雜志的銷量，卻給自己招來了道不明的嘲笑。他傲慢狂妄，一副電影明星架子，卻無明星之實。

作為阿弗萊克執(zhí)導的第三部電影作品，《逃離德黑蘭》無論從哪一個角度來看，都是一個不尋常的故事。這個故事也讓我們一窺阿弗萊克的本色：他其實比我們猜測的更具雄心大志以及國際視野?；仡櫷?，或許，我們不應該那么驚訝。

Argo tells a tale so 6）bizarre it has to be true： During the Iranian 7）hostage crisis of 1979-80， six US diplomatic workers hid for months in the home of the Canadian ambassador， ultimately fleeing the country by posing as a Canadian film crew making a nonexistent science-fiction 8）B-movie called Argo.

Affleck plays Tony Mendez， the CIA agent who 9）masterminded the plan， but what is most remarkable about the film is what he does as a director. 10）Impeccably 11）crafted and intensely suspenseful， Argo 12）juggles issues of global politics， governmental secrecy， and media image-making with breathtaking ease. Oscar talk has already begun. Its not 13）unwarranted.

After two highly regarded crime films set in Boston—Gone Baby Gone and The Town—Argo ups the stakes and 14）cements the Cambridge-raised Afflecks new reputation as a filmmaker of talent. At 40， he has， at last， found genuine respect. Yet he is still mentally checking his wallet. Having been through the“15）Bennifer” 16）mill will do that to a man.

《逃離德黑蘭》講述的是一個驚悚得近乎真實的故事：1979年至1980年，在伊朗人質危機期間，六名美國外交官在加拿大駐伊朗大使館躲藏數(shù)月之久，他們通過假扮成一隊加拿大電影工作人員，宣稱正在拍攝一部改編自科幻小說（其實根本不存在）叫做《阿爾戈號》的二流電影，而最終得以逃離伊朗。

阿弗萊克在片中扮演托尼·門德斯——策劃整個計劃的中央情報局探員，但關于這部電影最讓人印象深刻的是，他作為導演對電影的掌控力。手法純熟完美，懸疑重重，緊湊有致，《逃離德黑蘭》把國際政治、政府機密以及媒體形象塑造等各方面話題從容糅合在一起，令人嘆為觀止。競逐奧斯卡的呼聲已起。《逃離德黑蘭》并非沒有摘取桂冠的可能。

在《失蹤的寶貝》以及《城中大盜》這兩部以波士頓為背景的犯罪電影得到高度贊譽之后，《逃離德黑蘭》再下一城，穩(wěn)固了麻省劍橋市出身的阿弗萊克具有導演才華的名聲。年界四十，他終于得到了別人由衷的尊重。然而，精神上他還是不斷反省自我。經過“本妮弗”的洗禮，他更加慎而重之。

It has been a long road. Since 2003—his“17）Annus Horribilis，” Affleck has married 18）Jennifer Garner， become a father， taken less starry acting roles， turned to directing， and done his level best to stay out of the 19）tabloids. The start of his image rehabilitation can be traced to 2007s Gone Baby Gone， his first turn in the directors chair. That he himself did not appear in the movie seemed a fresh note of modesty at the time. More impressive， Affleck brought it all back home with arguably the finest， most pungently specific Boston movie since 1973s The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

A second well-regarded outing 20）in the same vein， 2010s The Town， confirmed Afflecks new seriousness and work ethic for audiences and the film industry alike.

Says Argo screenwriter Chris Terrio of meeting his director for the first time， “It wasnt like being 21）summoned to an audience with the pope. Bens obviously had an innate writing and directing talent from his first film on， but the great thing was that all the other levels of movie stardom went away and you just had this film nerd with zero ego trying to make a good movie.”

Wait， this is Ben Affleck？ Well， yes， this is Ben Affleck， the former Middle Eastern studies major at 22）Occidental College in Los Angeles. “Its a little bit 23）disingenuous to say I was a major， since I didnt actually graduate，”he confesses with a shamefaced grin. “I did three years…I felt like the more educated actor is a better actor， the more educated actor is a better director， and so on. And this is the first time its ever paid off.”

Not unsurprisingly， Argo extends sympathy beyond the 24）beleaguered Americans and semicomic Hollywood crew， casting only the most 25）fanatic of the revolutionaries as 26）villains while taking care to avoid 27）demonizing everyday Iranians.

Affleck is happy to talk about the 28）nuances of making a film set in 1980 Iran at a time when our relationship with that country is more delicate than ever， but he mostly keeps the conversation focused on filmmaking rather than his own political endeavors. Most recently， he has testified before Congress on the horrors of the Congo conflict， endorsed the campaign against Ugandan 29）warlord Joseph Kony， and hosted a Hollywood fund-raiser for Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.

他走了一段漫長的路。自經歷了2003年的“谷底”以后，阿弗萊克與詹妮弗·加納成婚，做了父親，減少出演?？嵫b帥的角色，轉向導演，然后保持水準，佳作不斷，終于不再成為八卦小報的封面人物。他的形象修復工程可以追溯到2007年的電影《失蹤的寶貝》，這是他第一次執(zhí)導的作品。而他自己并沒有參演其中，這在當時來看是一個新信號：謙虛低調。更讓人難以忘懷的是，他的取材背景返回家鄉(xiāng)，用可以說是最好也最尖銳的手法打造波士頓風格的電影——自1973年的電影《線人》以來最好的“波士頓背景電影”。

第二部收到高度贊譽的電影走的也是同樣路線，2010年上映的《城中大盜》，阿弗萊克與從前截然不同的嚴肅風格以及創(chuàng)作理念在觀眾心中以及電影同行中進一步得到鞏固。

《逃離德黑蘭》的編劇克里斯·泰利奧說起自己第一次見到導演時的情形：“完全沒有教皇召集群眾那樣高高在上的姿態(tài)。很明顯，本與生俱來的創(chuàng)作和導演才華從他第一部電影就開始顯現(xiàn)，但最可貴的是，他一點電影明星的架子都沒有，與你共事的只是一個‘電影癡，把‘自我放到最低，只一心想拍好電影?！?/p>

等等，這是本·阿弗萊克？嗯，是的，這就是本·阿弗萊克，那個曾在位于洛杉磯的西方學院研究中東問題的大學生?！罢f我是中東研究專業(yè)畢業(yè)還真有點慚愧，因為我沒有拿到畢業(yè)證，”他坦誠道，咧著嘴不好意思地笑了一下。“我只讀了三年……我感覺一個演員接受的教育越多，他才會成為更好的演員，也能成為更好的導演，諸如此類。這是我第一次感覺到：‘是值得的?！?/p>

出人意料的是，《逃離德黑蘭》的同情之心不僅僅惠及那些遭到圍困的美國人以及近乎荒謬的好萊塢拍攝組，影片只是把狂熱的革命分子設定為反面對象，小心翼翼地避免妖魔化伊朗平民。

阿弗萊克很樂意談論拍攝這部以1980年的伊朗為時代背景的電影的微妙之處，特別是在當下美伊之間的關系敏感到極點之時，但他主要是聊電影創(chuàng)作而非自己在政治上的努力。最近，他就剛果所發(fā)生的沖突所帶來的慘狀在國會發(fā)表演說，支持反烏干達軍閥約瑟夫·科尼的運動，并在好萊塢主持了一個為參議院候選人伊麗莎白·沃倫籌款的活動。

Affleck is prepping a film adaptation of Stephen Kings postapocalyptic novel The Stand that may run to two parts. After that is the 30）James “Whitey” Bulger movie， in which Affleck will direct his old pal Matt Damon in the title role—the biggest project the two have worked on together since their Good Will Hunting breakthrough in 1997.

Beyond that， Affleck is a new father again； he and Garner had their third child， a boy， this year. And he is constantly educating himself about the cinematic past. “I got one of these books， you know， 1000 Movies to See Before You Die，” he says， “and Id better not die soon， because Im not there yet. Drives my wife crazy， because we go to bed and then shes gotta listen to The Battle of Algiers for an hour and a half.”

The swagger？ Its long gone. Asked about his long-term goals， Affleck does not pontificate.

“To keep getting hired，” he says， laughing.

阿弗萊克現(xiàn)在正準備拍一部新電影，改編自史蒂芬·金的末世后小說《末日逼近》，這部電影可能會分成上下部。接著會是拍攝關于“惠泰”詹姆斯·巴爾杰的電影，這部電影將由阿弗萊克執(zhí)導，他的好兄弟馬特·達蒙主演——這是自1997年《心靈捕手》這個重大突破以來兩人再度合作的最大計劃。

除此以外，阿弗萊克又再當父親了：今年他和加納迎來了他們的第三個孩子，是個男孩。而他不斷用電影史來教育自己?！拔矣幸槐灸穷惖臅?，你知道的，什么《去世前1000部要看的電影》，”他說，“我最好別那么早死，因為我還沒被列入書中呢。我的妻子被我逼瘋了，因為我們睡覺前我會給她念《阿爾及爾之戰(zhàn)》一個半小時?！?/p>

過去的狂妄自大？早已成過眼云煙。問及他的長期目標時，阿弗萊克不假思索地說：

“不讓自己失業(yè)，”他說道，放聲大笑。