Three films that influenced me
影響我的三部電影
When I was a kid, I wasn’t interested in the cinema at all. I was crazy about the theatre, and I dreamed of going to see Shakespeare in Stratford. I wanted to be in the theatre; that was my only ambition.
當我還是個孩子的時候,我對電影一點都不感興趣。我對戲劇很著迷,我夢想去斯特拉特福德看莎士比亞。我想待在劇院里;這是我唯一的抱負。
I saw the classic Italian film Bicycle Thieves in the late 1950s, when I was in my late teens. At that time, I had left school and was heading towards an unsuccessful career as an actor and theatre director. The film had a big effect on me. It made me realise that cinema could be about ordinary people and their everyday dilemmas rather than just stars, riches, or silly adventures. I began to see cinema in another light beyond the usual Hollywood nonsense.
在20世紀50年代末,那個我的少年時代即將結束的時候,我觀看了那部經典的意大利影片《偷自行車的人》。那時候,我已經離開學校,正要走上那條最終失敗的當演員和戲劇導演之路。這部電影對我影響很大。它讓我意識到,電影可以是關于普通人和他們的日常困境,而不僅僅是明星、財富或愚蠢的冒險。我開始用另一種眼光看待電影,而不是通常的好萊塢式的胡言亂語。