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Gregory Peck
格利高里·派克
The movie studio wanted Rock Hudson to play Atticus Finch. Fate decreed otherwise. Gregory Peck got the role of the small town Southern lawyer in the 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird. The hero of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize winning novel had been a man much like her father and when the author met the actor on the first day of shooting, she noted“Gregory，you’ve got a little potbelly just like my daddy.” The star replied, “Harper, that’s great acting.”
制片廠打算讓羅克·赫德森飾演阿提庫斯·芬奇。可冥冥中卻偏偏另有安排。格利高里·派克獲得了那個角色，在1962年的影片《殺死一只知更鳥》中扮演南方小鎮的律師。這是哈珀·李獲普利策獎的小說中的主人公，非常像她的父親；影片開拍的第一天，作者與演員相遇時，她說道：“格利高里，你恰好和我父親一樣有點大腹便便。”那明星回答說，“哈珀，那才是真正的表演。”
From his early days as the most gorgeous man in pictures in Spellbound and Duel in the Sun to his long prime with a Mount Rushmore visage and the voice of Yahweh on a good day, Peck was the sonorous pitchman for movie humanism. He showed how a strong man could also be a gentle man. He counseled ethnic tolerance of Jews in Gentleman's Agreement and blacks in Mockingbird. As a crusading attorney who is also a gentle single dad to his two young kids. Peck made rectitude appear robust.
派克從早期影片《愛德華醫生》和《陽光下的決斗》中的帥哥，到漫長的全盛期中他那仿佛在晴空下的拉什莫爾石像的面孔和耶和華般的聲音，都表現出他是宣揚電影人文主義的嘹亮歌手。他表明一個健壯的人也可以是一個溫柔的人。他提倡種族寬容：在《君子協定》中寬容猶太人，在《殺死一只知更鳥》中寬容黑人。作為進行圣戰的律師和兩個年幼孩子的單身好父親，派克使正義堅不可摧。
Peck wasn’t just an icon. He was an actor, a smart one. He picked hit properties in a wide variety of genres.
派克不僅僅是一個偶像。他是一個演員，一個聰明的演員。他在范圍廣泛的樣式中選擇了最受歡迎的那些。
Winners and losers are all too clearly defined in today’s movies. Peck’s best films always found thoughtful shades of gray. Atticus has taken on the case of a black man accused of raping a white woman -- a perilous assignment in an Alabama town in the 1930s. He argues his case brilliantly demolishes the opposition convinces each member of the movie audience... and loses. But Atticus has shown courage in the fight.
今天的影片中勝敗涇渭分明。在派克的最佳影片中總能看到發人深省的灰色影子。阿提庫斯接手了一樁黑人男子被控強奸白人女子的案子——這在20世紀30年代的亞拉巴馬小鎮乃是一項要命的差事。他辯護精彩, 駁倒了對方，令影片的每一個觀眾心服口服…可他敗訴了。但阿提庫斯在戰斗中表現出了勇氣。
It’s dangerous to confuse an actor with his movie roles. But by all accounts the reel and the real Gregory Peck were close kin. He was a model of probity, a loyal friend to colleagues in distress, a father confessor to the Hollywood community. He chaired the National Society of This the American Academy of That. He was laden with official honors Lyndon Johnson gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom Richard Nixon put him on his Enemies List. Peck received perhaps his sweetest laurel when the reclusive Lee said “Gregory Peck was a beautiful man. Atticus Finch gave him the opportunity to play himself.”
把演員與其影片中的角色混為一談是危險的。但人們說銀幕上的格利高里·派克和現實中的格利高里·派克 十分相近。他是正直的表率，患難中的真交，好萊塢社區的告解神甫。他不是這個全國什么什么協會的會長，就是那個美國什么什么學院的主席。他被官方榮譽壓得喘不過氣來：林登·約翰遜授予他總統自由獎章；理查德·尼克松把他列在了敵對者名單上。隱居的李說，“格利高里·派克是個帥男子。阿提庫斯·芬奇給了他扮演自己的機會。”這也許是派克獲得的最甜蜜的桂冠。
But who will play the Gregory Peck hero now that noble is for wimps and the best place to find integrity is in Webster’s? The masculine delicacy that Peck represented is gone from films no star has filled his mold. Movie actors don’t have the voice or posture or temperament for it. Maybe America can’t believe in it.
但是，既然高尚已經用在了懦弱之人的身上，尋找操守的最佳地方只有在韋氏詞典里，那么，誰又將扮演格利高里·派克式的主人公呢？派克代表的男性典雅已經從電影中消失了；任何明星都無法勝任他的那種類型。 電影演員不具備他那種聲音、儀態和氣質。也許美國不可能相信這種類型。
