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For this Book Club, only Icons Need Apply
這部《讀書俱樂部》，只有偶像需要申請
By Susanna Schrobsdorf
文/蘇珊娜·施羅布斯多夫
CANDICE BERGEN IS PROBABLY ONLY HALF kidding when she says that Book Club,
坎迪斯·伯根說《讀書俱樂部》，就是她與簡·方達、黛安·基頓和瑪麗·斯汀伯根主演的新電影，
the new movie in which she stars with Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton and Mary Steenburgen, is about “glamorous geezers having sex.”
講的是“一群妖艷古怪的老太太的性生活”的故事時，她可能只是在半開玩笑。
Sure, the plot revolves around four older women reading Fifty Shades of Grey,
電影的情節的確是圍繞四個老年姐妹團閱讀《五十度灰》的故事展開的，
and that does precipitate a little over-70 sex (and a lot of talking about it).
閱讀也確實為這群平均年齡在70歲以上的姐妹的性生活(以及很多關于這事兒的討論)助攻了。
But the male love interests here (Richard Dreyfuss, Don Johnson, Andy Garcia and Craig T. Nelson)
但她們在影片中的愛戀對象(理查德·德萊弗斯、唐·約翰遜、安迪·加西亞和克雷格·納爾遜)
are supporting players—comic foils for funny, sexy women.
都只是配角——是這個有趣又性感的姐妹團的喜劇性襯托。
There’s plenty of over the top romance, and most of the expected boxes get checked.
影片中還有很多夸張的浪漫情節，連大多數“出乎意料的盒子”都被選中了。
(Almost everyone couples up in the end.)
(最后幾乎所有人都成雙成對了。)
The heart of the story, though, is about friendship—both on screen and off.
故事的核心也是友情（而非愛情）——貫穿熒幕內外的友情。
From the minute these four women walk into the garden at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills for tea and tiny macarons,
從這四個女人走進比弗利山莊四季酒店的花園，開始喝茶，吃馬卡龍的那一刻起，
it’s obvious they really like one another.
我們便能明顯地感覺到，她們彼此都很投緣。
This is the first time any of them have worked together,
盡管這部戲對她們中的任何一位來說都是初次合作，
but it seems as if they, like their characters, have known one another for ages.
她們還是給了觀眾一種她們和電影里一樣彼此都已經相識已久的印象。
Or so we want to believe.
至少，我們愿意相信是這樣。
With people who have been so famous for so long,
于那些久負盛名的人，
the lines between the individuals and their roles inevitably blur.
個人和他們的角色之間的界限不可避免地會被模糊掉。
That’s especially true with this movie.
在這部電影中尤其如此。
The production budget was so small that some of the clothing the actors wear is their own,
由于制作預算實在太少，有些演員穿都是她們自己的衣服，
from Keaton’s wide belts to Fonda’s slim pantsuits.
基頓的寬腰帶，方達的西裝都是如此。
Co-producers and writers Erin Simms and Bill Holderman (who also directed)
聯合制片人兼編劇艾琳·西姆斯和比爾·霍德曼（后者還兼任了這部影片的導演）
wrote one character with Keaton in mind and revised another for Fonda, after she deemed the original script too simplistic.
在寫某個角色的時候會從基頓身上找靈感，在方達覺得原來的劇本過于簡單之后，還為她修改了另一個角色。
The filmmakers were also advised to cast younger “older” women—all the leads but Steenburgen are over 70.
電影制作人還被建議選“年長的”女性中間相對不那么年長的演員——影片中除了斯汀伯根，所有的主演年齡都在70歲以上。
They wisely declined and ended up with a roster of icons with four Oscars and six Emmys between them.
但他們都明智地拒絕了，最終一舉斬獲了四項奧斯卡獎和六項艾美獎。
Despite all that talent, they had to finance the film independently before it was acquired for distribution.
盡管他們是那么的才華橫溢，但在影片發行之前，他們也還是要靠自己來給影片籌措資金。
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