蓋爾·加朵：2017年度神奇女俠

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在以色列小姐選美比賽中，她獲得冠軍，踏入模特界。之后，中斷了自己的模特事業(yè)，在以色列國防軍服役兩年，服完兵役又去學習法律課程。雖然參加邦德女郎試鏡未果，但她在電影《速度與激情》系列電影中成功搶鏡。她就是《蝙蝠俠大戰(zhàn)超人：正義黎明》中神奇女俠的扮演者蓋爾·加朵。2017年，她主演的《神奇女俠》上映，讓她成為人們談論的焦點?，F在讓我們走近蓋爾·加朵，了解一下這位電影和生活中的神奇女俠。

Even at five years old， Gal Gadot wouldnt be ignored. Her mother often tells the story of one family get-together that ran into the night， long after Gal had been put to bed. Hearing the party move to the rooftop terrace， she slipped out of bed and pottered1） up， only for no one to notice her. So she did what any normal future Hollywood superstar would do. She grabbed a hose and sprayed everyone with water， yelling， “Its meeee！ Look at meeee！” Gadots been bursting out of the background ever since. In the Fast & Furious franchise she regularly upstaged and out-stunted the rest of the glowering beefcakes as ex- Mossad weapons expert and drug runner Gisele. And even when the foreground featured Bats and Supers battering seven shades of supershit out of each other， Gadot was no-violet in last years Batman V Superman： Dawn Of Justice either. She was right there， front and centre， a sword-flinging， movie-stealing wonder of a Wonder Woman—her debut appearance in the iconic role.

So Gadot is the best hope yet to become the first female superhero with the power to smash her way through the cinematic glass ceiling. While The Avengers are giving the misfit supergang genre depths and dichotomies2） wed never imagined and Deadpool3） and Logan4） are bringing ultraviolent wit and intense adult drama respectively to solo movies， female superheroes have remained largely underused and underdressed. Even when faced with such show-stealers as Margot Robbies Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad or Scarlett Johanssons Black Widow， studios are reluctant to risk another Catwoman or Tank Girl5）—dumper-bound movies all. But Gadots steely6）， immortal Amazonian warrior princess， fronting her own movie this week， looks set7） to become the first solo superfemale icon， and to hell with the queasy online debate about her body shape. “You cant please them all，” Gal says， “and for me， being an actress， my responsibility is not to pay too much attention to all the noise around me but to pay attention to the script， to the director， Zack [Snyder， Batman V Superman director] and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can. I can only do my best.”

If iconic comics publisher DC were after hardass glamour， they found the right woman. Voted Miss Israel at 18， Gadot broke off from an early career as one of Israels highest-earning models to spend two years doing military service in the Israel Defense Force， as all Israelis must. “Youve got to give back to the state，” she explained to Glamour in March. “You give two or three years， and its not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.”

She also learned weapon skills and combat techniques that， while fairly useless during the quieter bits of her post-service law course， certainly prepared her for Hollywood. Eight thousand miles away， an LA casting director spotted her modelling card on her agencys wall and called her in to audition to be a Bond girl in Quantum Of Solace； Olga Kurylenko got that role， but Gadot did land the part in Fast & Furious， performing all her own stunts over three films and rising archly above the drooling bikini fodder scenes. Thriller roles followed in Ariel Vromens Criminal and the star-smattered8） Triple 9， but it was one hush-hush9） screen test around the same time that would turn Gadot into a one-woman army and all-round superhuman feminist icon.

“They wouldnt say what [the role was]，” she explains. “So of course I was intrigued and I did the audition and Zack was there and it was great. Two weeks later … Zack called me and he was saying， ‘Well， Im not sure if you have it in Israel， but did you ever hear about Wonder Woman？ I think I went dead for a few good seconds， came back to life， and then tried to pull off my best voice saying， ‘Wonder Woman， yeah， of course.”

The significance of the part isnt lost on Gadot. Wonder Woman getting her own movie doesnt just reflect the current wave of actresses demanding equality in pay and standing within the rigid Hollywood blockbuster system， shes also the original whip-cracking heroine—one weve been waiting to see kick the superhero genre in the codpiece10） for decades.

“Its a huge honour to be the one who got this amazing opportunity to tell such an important story，” she says. “I have a four-year-old daughter and she adores princesses. At the same time， she would tell me， ‘The princess， shes so weak； she falls asleep， the prince will come and save her and kiss her and hes the hero. So Im so happy to be the one thats going to tell the Wonder Woman story. Its such an important story to tell and Im grateful for it， but I also think that its so important for girls and boys to have a strong female superhero to look up to. The more the merrier， and theres plenty of room for women to come. Im very， very happy to be a part of that.”

“For [Batman V Superman] it was important for me that we show how independent she is，” she told Glamour. “Shes not relying on a man and shes not there because of a love story. Shes not there to serve someone else. She has so many strengths and powers， but at the end of the day shes a woman with a lot of emotional intelligence. Shes loving—thats her strength. I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think its a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say lets own who we are and use it as a strength.” Gal even channelled musics very own Wonder Woman during the audition to land the part. “I decided to put on Beyoncé，” she told W magazine in April. “‘Who run the world？ Girls！11） I just started to dance， and I let my anxiety go. Thank you， Beyoncé！” So she didnt try to emulate12） the classic 70s TV series13）？ “No， I was too young to watch the Lynda Carter TV show—I was minus five. But after they cast me， I did watch a couple of episodes. I think that Lynda Carter was a magnificent Wonder Woman and certainly big shoes to fit into. When they cast me for this movie， Zack and everyone had a very clear vision on who Wonder Woman should be， what her story is and how they want to tell it. All I had to do was give my own notes and inputs and just embody everything and be her.”

Wonder Woman is set during World War I， and finds our heroine teaming up with the Allied forces. Directed by Patty Jenkins， who made the staggering Monster in 2003， it sets out to give Wonder Woman a rounded emotional resonance so long missing from most superheroine roles.

“Im lucky in that Ive worked with men who have a lot of respect for women，” she told Entertainment Weekly. “But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different … When Patty and I had our creative conversations about the character， we realised that Diana [Prince， Wonder Womans secret identity] can still be a normal woman—one with very high values， but still a woman. She can be sensitive. Shes smart and independent and emotional. She can be confused. She can lose her confidence. She can have confidence.

“I feel like Diana is really accessible. Its very easy to relate to her. She has the heart of a human so she can be emotional； shes curious， shes compassionate， she loves people. And then she has the powers of a goddess. I want to be her. And in Wonder Woman， she has this naivety in her. It isnt stupid， its magical. I would want to be naive like that again … Shes a young idealist whos been taught that the world is very simple： Its black or white， bad or good. Its how she was raised. Theres something charming about the simplistic way in which she sees the world. But once she falls in love and starts her journey with Steve Trevor [Chris Pine]， he educates her about the complexity of mankind. Theres no such thing as only good and bad， black or white. Its complicated.”

Having pumped copious iron to film Wonder Woman in the freezing cold London winter—and somehow found time to have her second child between shoots （in last Novembers reshoots they had to green-screen out her five-month baby bump）—Gadot is clearly something of a real-life Wonder Woman herself. But with predictions of a $75 million opening weekend and Batman V Superman sequel Justice League due later this year， shes yet to fully grasp just how big a deal shes about to become—not just in the DC universe， but in the real one， too.

“Its happening and Im kind of still in denial，” she says. “Im so busy working that I have absolutely no time to sit down and enjoy the ride. Im enjoying everything， but I think itll take me some time before I can really understand whats going on.” Gal Gadot： the next superhero superstar or theres just no Justice.

即便只有五歲的時候，蓋爾·加朵就已經不容被人忽視了。她的媽媽經常說那次家庭聚會的事，聚會一直持續(xù)到晚上，那時蓋爾已經被放上床哄睡了。聽到大家都去了樓頂露臺，她滑下床，躡手躡腳走了上來，只為沒人會注意到她。于是她做了每一個未來好萊塢巨星通常都會做的事。她抓起軟管，朝每個人噴水，大聲喊道：“我在這里！看我！！”從那以后，加朵就沖出背景之外，一直站在顯眼的位置了。在《速度與激情》系列電影里，她扮演的是吉賽爾，前摩薩德武器專家兼毒梟，一如既往地搶了那些怒目而視的肌肉男們的鏡。在去年上映的《蝙蝠俠大戰(zhàn)超人：正義黎明》中，雖然最風光的鏡頭都是蝙蝠俠和超人們大打出手，但影片中的加朵也不是個羞答答的女性。她就在那里，站在臺前，站在舞臺中心，舞刀弄劍，極其搶鏡，即便作為神奇女俠也可算是傳奇了。那還是她頭一次扮演這個傳奇角色。

所以加朵是目前最有希望成為第一個沖破電影行業(yè)玻璃天花板的女性超級英雄?！稄统鹫呗撁恕纷尣蝗肓鞯某藞F體有了我們想象不到的深度和區(qū)分度，死侍和羅根分別給獨角電影帶來了超暴力智慧和緊湊的成人劇情，但女性超級英雄仍然沒有得到充分展示，穿著也過于單薄。即便是瑪歌特·羅比在《自殺小隊》中扮演的哈利·奎恩和斯嘉麗·約翰遜扮演的黑寡婦都很搶鏡，但電影公司不是很情愿冒險去打造出另一部《貓女》或《坦克女郎》——這些都是最后被觀眾冷落的電影。但加朵扮演的亞馬遜公主是女戰(zhàn)士，堅毅、擁有神力，這周（原文發(fā)表于6月2日）就在自己的電影中成為主角，看起來將要成為第一個獨一的女性超級偶像，讓網上討論她體型的惡心言論見鬼去吧?！澳悴荒苋偹腥耍鄙w爾說道，“對我來說，作為一個演員，我的責任不是過多地關注周圍的各種煩擾，而是把關注點放在劇本上，和扎克[·施耐德，《蝙蝠俠大戰(zhàn)超人》的導演]協(xié)作好，保護好我的角色，盡我最大努力演繹她的故事。我只能盡我所能?！?/p>

如果偶像級的漫畫公司DC追求的是一種強悍的魅力，那他們真是找對人了。加朵18歲就票選成為以色列小姐，成為以色列收入最高的模特之一，但她為了履行以色列人的義務中斷了自己早期的事業(yè)，在以色列國防軍服役兩年?！氨仨氁仞亣?，”加朵在3月份的《魅力》雜志中說道：“你拿出兩三年，而這不是為了你自己。你放棄自由，學會了自律，學會了尊重?！?/p>

加朵還學會了使用武器的技法和格斗術，這些對她退役后那段靜謐的日子里學習的法律課程一點用都沒有，卻無疑為她的好萊塢事業(yè)做了準備。八千英里之外，一位洛杉磯的好萊塢選角導演在加朵經紀人公司的墻上注意到了加朵身為模特的名片，于是打電話讓她去為《量子危機》中的邦德女郎試鏡。歐嘉·柯瑞蘭寇拿下了這個角色，但加朵出演了《速度與激情》，在三季中親自表演了自己所有的特技鏡頭，遠遠超越了那個穿著比基尼、引人垂涎的花瓶角色。之后她出演了阿里爾·佛羅門執(zhí)導的《超腦48小時》和眾星云集的《紅色警戒999》中更刺激的角色，然而讓加朵成為“一個女人就是一個軍團”和獨當一面的超人女性偶像的，卻是同一時期的一次秘密試鏡。

“他們不愿說[是什么角色]，”她解釋道，“所以我當然會很好奇，我完成試演，扎克在那里，感覺很好。兩周之后……扎克打來電話問：‘我不知道在以色列有沒有，但你聽說過《神奇女俠》嗎？我想有那么幾秒鐘，我大腦一片空白，回過神之后，我努力平靜下來說：‘《神奇女俠》，當然，我知道。”

加朵沒有讓這個角色的重要意義丟失。神奇女俠有了自己的電影，這不僅反映了當下女演員在僵化的好萊塢巨片體系中要求薪資和地位平等的浪潮，也反映了神奇女俠還是一個揮舞鞭子的厲害的原創(chuàng)女主角——我們等著看她踢向超級英雄們的致命部位已經等了幾十年。

“能得到這樣好的機會，演這樣一個人，講述如此重要的故事，對我來說是巨大的榮幸，”她說，“我有個四歲的女兒，她很喜歡公主。但同時，她會告訴我。‘公主太軟弱了，她睡著了，王子會過來救她，吻她，王子才是英雄。所以，我很高興能成為神奇女俠故事的講述者，要講的這個故事很重要，我也很感謝這個故事。我想重要的是男孩女孩們要有可以崇拜的女性超級英雄，而且越多越好。女性還有很大的進步空間，我很高興能貢獻自己的一分力量?！?/p>

“在《蝙蝠俠大戰(zhàn)超人》中，我們要展示出她是有多獨立，這對我很重要，”加朵在《魅力》雜志中說，“她不依靠任何男人，她不是為愛情故事來的，她來這里不為任何人服務。她有很多優(yōu)勢和能力。但說到底她是個情商很高的女人。她愛別人——這是她的力量。我認為女性是令人驚嘆的，因為她們能夠表現自己的感受。我也欽佩能夠做到這點的女人。我認為女人為了讓自己看起來堅強而掩蓋自己的感情是不對的。讓我們承認自己，并把它當成一種力量?！睘榱四孟陆巧?，蓋爾在試鏡時甚至效仿真正的音樂界神奇女俠?！拔覜Q定演唱碧昂絲的歌，”加朵在4月份對《W》雜志說?！啊l主宰著世界？姑娘們！我開始跳舞，也就不緊張了。謝謝你，碧昂斯！”所以她不嘗試重現20世紀70年代的經典電視劇了嗎？“不，我年紀太小，沒看琳達·卡特演的電視劇——那部劇播完五年后我才出生（編者注：《神奇女俠》電視劇播出時間為1975～1979）。但他們定下讓我出演之后，我確實去看了幾集。我認為琳達·卡特是一位偉大的神奇女俠，當然是難以企及的。但他們選我演這部電影時，每個人，包括扎克，心里都很清楚神奇女俠應該是什么樣的，她的故事是什么樣的，他們想要以何種方式講述這個故事。我要做的就是注入自己的理解和情感，體現所有的特質，成為神奇女俠?！?/p>

《神奇女俠》的背景設定在一戰(zhàn)，我們的女主角與協(xié)約國合作。該電影由派蒂·杰金斯導演（2003年執(zhí)導了震驚世人的《女魔頭》），影片設定讓神奇女俠是個豐滿的、能引發(fā)情感共鳴的人物，這種特質在大多超級女英雄身上已經很久都看不到了。

“我很幸運，和我一起工作的男士都很尊重女性，”她對《娛樂周刊》說，“但和女性一起工作的經歷是完全不同的，感覺交流方式有所不同……當帕蒂和我討論角色扮演時，我們意識到戴安娜[公主，神奇女俠的秘密身份]也是一個普通女人——有高尚的價值觀，但終究是女人。她可以很敏感。她聰明，獨立，感情豐富。她也會迷茫困惑。她可能失去信心，也可以充滿自信?！?

“我感覺戴安娜并不是高高在上的，很容易就能和她聯系在一起。她有一顆平常人的心，所以她會多愁善感；她好奇，有同情心，愛人類。同時她還有女神的力量。我想成為她。她在《神奇女俠》中有幼稚的一面。這不是愚蠢，而是神奇。我也想重新變幼稚，如她一般……她是個年輕的理想主義者，她接受的教育告訴她世界非常簡單：非黑即白，非善即惡。戴安娜就是這樣被養(yǎng)大的。她那簡單化的看世界的方式自有一種迷人之處。不過，當她和史蒂夫·特雷弗（克里斯·派恩飾）墜入愛河，開始她的旅程之后，史蒂夫告訴了她人類有多么復雜。沒有什么是非善即惡，非黑即白的。一切都是復雜的?！?/p>

為了拍攝《神奇女俠》，加朵在倫敦酷寒的冬季做了大量的舉重訓練，她甚至在拍攝間隙懷了第二個寶寶（去年11月補拍期間，他們不得不用綠屏特效來遮住她五個月的孕肚），她顯然就是現實生活中的神奇女俠。不過，據推測，《神奇女俠》上映的那個周末的票房就會達到7500萬美元，《蝙蝠俠大戰(zhàn)超人》的續(xù)篇《正義聯盟》下半年也將上映，加朵還有待充分領會她自己將變得多么大牌——不僅在DC公司的漫畫世界成了大拿，在現實世界中也是如此。

“這一切在發(fā)生，可我還是有點接受不了，”她說，“我工作太忙，完全沒有時間坐下來享受這個過程。我享受這一切。但我想我可能還需要些時間去真正理解發(fā)生了些什么?！鄙w爾·加朵即將成為下一個飾演英雄人物的超級巨星，否則，就沒有《正義聯盟》。

1. potter [?p?t?（r）] vi. 閑逛；慢條斯理地做事

2. dichotomy [da??k?t?mi] n. 二分法；一分為二，對分

3. Deadpool：死侍，美國漫威漫畫旗下的反英雄。本名韋德·溫斯頓·威爾遜（Wade Winston Wilson），擁有不死之身和超強的自愈能力，還有一個可以令自身瞬間移動的腰帶。

4. Logan：羅根，指金剛狼，美國漫威漫畫旗下超級英雄。本名詹姆斯·羅根·豪利特（James “Logan” Howlett），他擁有延緩衰老和極強的自愈能力，雙手還可以伸出骨爪。

5. Catwoman or Tank Girl：這兩部電影分別以女超級英雄貓女和坦克女郎為主角。

6. steely [?sti?li] adj. 堅毅的，堅定的，鋼鐵般的

7. set [set] adj. 很有可能的，即將發(fā)生的

8. smatter [&apos；sm?t?] vt. 涉獵

9. hush-hush：極秘密的

10. codpiece [?k?d?pi?s] n. （15至16世紀遮蓋男褲前開口處的）遮袋，下體蓋片

11. 這句話是美國流行歌手碧昂斯唱的一首歌中的歌詞。

12. emulate [?emj?le?t] vt. 模仿

13. 70s TV series：指20世紀70年代由演員琳達·卡特（Lynda Carter）主演的美劇《神奇女俠》。該劇改編自同名漫畫，主要講述了神力女超人的故事。