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[TinySparrow]

Автор оригинала: Малышка
У меня маленький воросик, све говорят о его огромном росте и мне стало интересно, а в см. сколько

6' 2" (1.88 м) - не такой уж огромный, но и не хоббит, конечно :-)
В такую погоду даже из дома выходить не хочется, брр!

[Малышка]

TinySparrow, согласна.... погода жуть, я ко всему еще и заболела ....

[Targhis]

Всем доброе утро!
А в Питере погода отличная, вдобавок только что прочитала перевод интервью Trading Faces - замечательно, такое весеннее настроение.

Могу предложить свои услуги по переводу интервью, вывешенных здесь на форуме. Не имею возможности искать по сайтам, а вот то, что будет здесь, могла бы переводить довольно быстро.

Обе части интервью для Тамары уже разобрали? Или стоит попробовать?

[Little Viper]

Джерри очень трогателен оказывается
Он, кстати, вообще мужчина внушительный:D а не только его нос:-))

[Journalist]

Джерри очень трогателен оказывается Он, кстати, вообще мужчина внушительный а не только его нос:-))

Кто бы сомневался! :D За это и ценим.

Могу предложить свои услуги по переводу интервью, вывешенных здесь на форуме. Не имею возможности искать по сайтам, а вот то, что будет здесь, могла бы переводить довольно быстро.

Я сейчас по сусекам поскребу, найду и вывешу какую-нибудь интервьюшку. Переводите на здоровье.
Эх, молодцы вы, девчата! Ваш энтузиазм поистине бесценен.

[Journalist]

Вот, например.


Gerard Butler to discuss Dear Frankie

Dear Frankie tells the story of a mother who hires a stranger to pose as her son's long lost father. The real father was an abuser from whom she has run away and hid her child. She does so to perpetuate the myth she has created for her son through letters she has forged over the years.

Actress Emily Mortimer, who plays the mother, felt the film addressed parents' eternal dilemma in a dramatic way. "I think that that's a choice that actually mothers and fathers make a lot," she said. "We, usually to a much lesser degree, find ourselves in the position of keeping the brutal truth from our children for as long as is humanly possible. And we do it in lots of different ways.

It's as simple as not wanting to let them know that Father Christmas isn't real, you know. Things like that, and it's interesting because I think it raises a really good question as to how long that sort of state of innocence should carry on, and whether or not in some ways we're just protecting ourselves more than anything else. It's for the sentimental notion or nostalgic notion of our own innocence, and loss of it, that we want to save our children from the truth, which actually they can probably handle much better than we give them credit for."

Therefore, Mortimer ultimately disagrees with her character's actions in the film. "I think probably she shouldn't have, but then people behave, thank God, not perfectly, and that's the point of [movies]. You watch other people sort of screwing up and feel better about your own screw ups. And I do know of a lot of people in my life who have lied to their children about big things, for a long time. And as I say, I think it is an error often, because very often, children are much more sophisticated and able to cope with the gray areas of life, than we give them credit for. Or than we are, you know. They can cope with honesty better than we can."

Gerard Butler plays the stranger, and he addressed the social issue of lying to kids with a bit of humor. "I love it when you ask me to comment on society and life and politics," Butler said. "I'm an actor. But I'm going to do it anyway. I can't you're believe you're making me do it. This sick, sick woman who was already misleading this child who was deaf and mute, and the last thing he needs is his mother making up stories. No. I completely understood that lie because she did it and I kind of felt that that was the difference between me and The Stranger because I thought it was more interesting to play The Stranger as a person who when he hears the story he thinks, 'This is the most insane story I've ever heard. How did this happen?' But with me, I completely understand. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to mothers having been brought up by a single mother who had three children and she did it on her own. But I think that this is one of the beautiful things about this movie. What people do to help others that they love, and it might not be the perfect thing, but it's the best thing that they know how to do at that time. There's a lot of that going on in this movie. There are different characters all with their own kind of wounded souls in a way, trying to help each other, and they don't always go about it in the best way, and everyone has a different view on how to help. But at the end of the day it leaves you feeling, despite the fact that I've never known anyone who can feel so melancholy, but at the same time feel so uplifting and that's what it does. It's uplifting because in some ways there's a kind of triumph of the human spirit. Everyone is trying their best."

The Stranger bonds with Frankie over the course of two days in what begins as a business transaction for the Stranger, according to Butler. "I always thought that The Stranger was a bit of a loner to be honest, but when you come back into town you have friends that you would see. He very much keeps himself to himself though. He's not necessarily comfortable around people and he's especially not very comfortable with little kids. His father probably wasn't very comfortable with him. He didn't have that close connection with his own parents, especially his dad. I couldn't help thinking that in all of those first moments he was thinking, 'What am I doing here? I really wish that I wasn't going through this.' And what I found interesting was that when he brought the present to the boy, I don't think that he did that out of goodness. It's just that if he was going to do a job he was going to do it well because at the end of the day what you realize is that here's a man of integrity and when he knew that he had that job to do, he said, 'Well, I've got to read these letters.' And when he read the letters he thought, 'Well, I better make this convincing and what's going to make it convincing is if I buy this little boy a book about sea life because then he'll buy it more.' I couldn't help thinking about like, I mean imagine you standing there and the little kid walks in and he looks at you, it's like trying to get into a club with someone else's ID, and someone goes, 'That's not you.' And to me, that's the most humiliating experience on the planet, when you're caught in a bare face lie to someone. I think that freaks me out more than it freaks out most people. I've just always had a problem with that. I'm not saying that I don't lie. I do. But it's just that when you know it's a public situation that you can be found out in, where someone could say, 'You're lying.' If the boy said, 'That's not my dad,' what would I do? Would I say, 'No. I am.' Or 'No. You're right. I'm just kidding. Goodbye.' So I felt that one of the main things in his mind was, 'I just better get this right. I have to make sure that this is as convincing as possible.' And then suddenly I'm there and I really don't kind of want to be there, and I have to connect. But as an audience, when you watch little Frankie and what is wonderful about little Frankie is that he's not someone that you'd necessarily feel sorry for. He's not written in that way. He's a spunky little kid. He doesn't feel sorry for himself. He enjoys his life. He's smart. He's no one's fool. That's what I get as well. I suddenly see this little kid and I start thinking about what a life he's had, and actually where the mother is coming from and what she'll have to become involved in. He thinks, 'You know what, give a bit of yourself here.' I think that I identify as well with what happens to him, The Stranger. It's a beautiful plot point. It's a beautiful piece of writing. It's a lovely relationship and it was just there."

Since the audience learns nothing about The Stranger's past in the film, Butler had no backstory of his own to go on. "I kind of just used myself. I have so many connections with the story. If there's one thing that I can do as an actor is I can connect strongly with my characters. It's one of the reasons that I chose them. In some ways, I have some similar history to what Frankie had. I spent many years without my dad not knowing where he was or whether he was alive and there are many facets of my character that are like The Stranger. So you focus more on them. But at the same time, I think that it's more complicated than saying, 'I'm just blank.' Or that I would create a whole back story. This isn't for everyone, but I think that for me what was so fascinating about The Stranger was that the less you knew about the guy the better. The fact that you just had no idea of who he was, where he came from left you thinking, 'What is he going to do? How is going to act?' So I guess it was a bit of both which is kind of a strange answer, but that's what worked for me."

Mortimer had a bit more work to do as Frankie's mother. Particularly, since he was deaf, she had to convincingly speak sign language. "I learned what I had to, for the part. But I would love to investigate it more, I think it's an amazing language, an amazing way of communicating. And there was something just so there and present, and it's incredibly sort of visceral, talking to someone who's deaf. And you really feel, you've got just their full attention, and it's all incredibly intense and wonderful. And I think that signing is a very direct way of communicating, and I'm very taken by that whole deaf world. But I didn't, I'm ashamed to say, I didn't have enough time to really, I mean it's a big thing, it's like learning a whole language. So I didn't get to the bottom of it."

11 Mar 2005 by Auraine

[Малышка]

Для тех кому не хватает солнышка

[Little Viper]

Journalist молодец, без работы народ не оставляешь:-))
Я бы взялась, но знаю, что времени не будет, поэтому бессмысленно

[Journalist]

Journalist молодец, без работы народ не оставляешь:-)) Я бы взялась, но знаю, что времени не будет, поэтому бессмысленно

Так люди сами рвутся в бой! Я вот тоже подумываю над тем, чтобы парочку текстов перевести и скинуть сюда.
Как у тебя время и желание для перевода появятся - свистни. Специально для тебя что-нибудь интересное найду.

А вообще, совместный труд, как говорил незабвенный кот Матроскин, объединяет. :D

[Journalist]

Еще одно.

By Thomas Chau in New York City

Scottish actor Gerard Butler walks into the NYC press room with the kind sense of humor you’d imagine coming from a jolly ol’ Scot. And after all, he’s got plenty to be pleased about.

With two major action films opening this year, including Richard Donner’s “Timeline” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life,” Butler finds himself more busy than ever. He also is shooting a true-life soccer film in Saint Louis, Missouri, and is prepping for his role as The Phantom in Joel Schumacher’s “The Phantom of the Opera.”

In Jan de Bont's "Tomb Radier: The Cradle of Life," he plays Terry Sheridan, a rogue former British agent who is enlisted by Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) to protect the Cradle of Life from a madman named Dr. Jonathan Reiss. Reiss is seeking to discover the location of the Cradle of Life, which is home to Pandora’s Box; a mythological legend which unleashes pain and fury to the world once its open.

Butler graciously sat down in NYC for a roundtable discussion and entertained reporters with several jokes here and there.

Jan told us he shot four endings for the movie…are you in some of the other endings?

I’m in every ending. (Laughter erupts) Otherwise, the movie wouldn’t make sense! (More laughter)

Was bulking up for the movie a physical manifestation of your character or was it a chore to sort of get to that?

It was both because I often think that the technical training and the physical training you have to do for parts takes you along the way towards establishing the character. I think often, the guys who train you are in the kind of field you’re pretending to play in. I’m doing a soccer movie right now and I have a goal-keeping coach and he’s insane. He stands next to me, and is like, (in a gruff voice) “It’s your box! It’s your box!” and I’m looking at him like, “Alright now, calm down.” But I was already baked for the movie. I did “Timeline” and I got pumped up a lot for that. But for this, I had to do a lot of boxing and kickboxing.

What about your love scene with Angelina? Was it pre-choreographed?

If you’ve seen the scene, then you [only] see part of it because part of it is this kind of fighting involved, and slapping my wrist. You got to choreograph that, otherwise, you got nothing but a broken wrist. But then, there’s part of the scene where it’s like “Just let it go, go for it. Release your passions,” which we were building up for a long time, in terms of our characters. It’s a very hot, passionate, steamy scene.

These films are very action-oriented. How hard is it for you to read the script and then visualize what the words are describing?

I think one of the things you learn, as an actor, in terms of a studio movie where someone is a master like Jan. He really has an incredible look. [Working] with Jan is to realize, “I don’t know shit.” Whatever way I think a scene might be, it’s very liable to be very, very different. I can just focus on my personality. I can throw whatever ideas about how something might look good, but it’s definitely coming from my personally. Even having worked on that movie for seven months, there were so many things that surprised me when I watched it. I didn’t realize those locations were going to be captured like that. I really thought he took such great advantage of those locations.

Would you say that Scottish actors have become hotter properties in recent years?

Yeah, they are and I think there are a lot of reasons for that. Some people would say that Scottish actors are “en vogue” at the moment. I think that’s crap because half the time, they have to do other accents. Why would you say, “Let’s take this guy because he’s Scottish!” I’m sure, at the end of the day, a studio here would rather put an American in a role if they could. It’s more of a gamble to put somebody who’s Scottish. But also, accents are interesting and the world is becoming a smaller place in terms of that and I think the Americans are far more broad-minded than the British. It’s tough for an American to star in a British movie unless they’re a huge star. America is much more the land of the opportunity. And also, I think a lot of great actors have come out of there to prove their worth: Ewan McGregor, Alan Cumming, Robert Carlyle, Ian Bannon, Sean Connery, Brian Cox. You still have to fight for the job, I don’t think you get it just because your country is “en vogue.”

“Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life” opens in theaters July 25th.

[Journalist]

И еще одно.
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He’s currently one of the hottest talents in Hollywood, having just landed one of the most sought after roles in screen history.
Yet Scottish actor Gerard Butler is still virtually unrecognised in Britain.
“I always say that I’ve never been more successful and less recognized,” he says with a self-deprecating laugh. “It’s true I can walk down most streets in this country and people haven’t got a clue who I am.”
Butler, however, had better make the most of his anonymity because that’s about to change for good. The Glasgow-born star has beaten off fierce competition to land the lead role in the eagerly-awaited screen version of Phantom Of The Opera.
It’s bound to make Butler a household name. But the down-to-earth actor is taking the prospect of impending international stardom firmly in his stride.
“It’s not something that’s keeping me awake at night,” he explains. “I’m not really thinking about that side of things. I’m just thinking about the hard work I’ve got to do. I like to be kept on my toes.
“Maybe when I’ve finished the work I might start thinking that all eyes will be upon me,” he adds smiling.
You can bet plenty of those watching closely will be female, but the star, who is currently single, laughs nervously at the suggestion that he’s a sex symbol.
“The only people that tell me that are journalists,” he laughs.
Part of the reason he isn’t quaking in his boots about the awesome challenge facing him is that Butler came close to self-destructing in his youth. Now he says he feels like he’s been given a second chance - and one he’s determined not to blow.
“Basically that whole period of my life happened because I was going down completely the wrong road,” he explains. “I knew deep down law wasn’t for me and I felt stuck. So I behaved outgoing and crazy, but that wasn’t me either. I was insecure and unstable.
Before acting, Butler spent years drifting aimlessly, drinking heavily and often spending the night in police cells even though he had a law degree from Glasgow University.
“I wasn’t doing what I wanted to in life but I didn’t know how to change it. It was a big lesson in life, because once I ended up doing what I wanted the heavy drinking and the crazy behaviour stopped.
“I absolutely love what I do now and I don’t take any of it for granted.
“I’m exactly where I was trying to get to during those mad years. That’s why I never have any worries about going off the rails like other actors do - I’ve already been there, done that,” he laughs.
Butler’s acting break is worthy of a film script itself.
After being sacked by his Edinburgh law firm, he moved down to London and took up a number of dead-end jobs until a chance meeting with esteemed actor and director Stephen Berkoff in a cafe changed his life.
“He asked me if I was an actor. I told him I wasn’t but I wanted to be and the next thing I know he’d offered me a role in his production of Coriolanus,” recalls Butler.
Since that fortuitous meeting, the talented star hasn’t looked back.
He worked steadily in British theatre and made his big screen debut in 1997 as Billy Connolly’s younger brother in the Oscar-winning movie Mrs Brown.
But it’s across the pond where Butler has had the biggest impact. He played the title role in Attila The Hun, a big budget mini-series shot for American television, starred as Dracula in Wes Craven’s movie of the same name and this summer appeared alongside Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft Tomb Raider.
He’s just been reunited with his Mrs Brown co-star and fellow Scot, Connolly, for his latest film Timeline. The pair appear together in the big screen adaptation of Michael Crichton’s best-selling novel and Butler says he’d forgotten just what a blast the veteran comic is.
“He is such a great guy. I could sit and listen to him all day, it’s just like getting a free stand-up gig,” he laughs.
In the film, Butler plays an archaeologist who, along with a team of students, find themselves travelling back to 14th century France with the aid of a time machine.
The physically gruelling role meant that Butler had to go into training for more than seven months so as to become an expert swordsman.
“It was intense,” he says. “I had to learn the longbow, horseback riding and duel fighting but Attila The Hun stood me in good stead.
“That was one of the toughest things I’ve had to do physically, so this was quite easy in comparison.”
Despite relishing the physical challenges, Butler says he hasn’t deliberately looked for action man roles.
“I think that’s what people have seen me in, but I like a bit of everything. I’ve just shot a Scottish movie with Emily Mortimer which was completely different to the action stuff but which I absolutely loved doing.”
And though he might be experiencing the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, it’s clear his Scottish homeland is very much where the heart is.
“I get back as often as I can,” he says. “I have family and friends there and they keep me down to earth. I enjoy LA and am thrilled that I’m getting the work out there, but it’s great to come back to people who really know you.
“I had my birthday recently and I wasn’t going to do anything but all my mates persuaded me and it turned out to be the best night. Me, surrounded by all my old mates from home. You can’t beat that.

[Targhis]

Спасибо. Пойду займусь переводом.

[Vita]

Ууух, девочки, как нас совместная работа сплотила однако:D Я готова к сотрудничеству, так что если TinySparrow не против, то можем вместе подумать

ЛаЛуна, прошу прощения за то, что не прислала переводы - так получилось У меня, в принципе, пока только одно нормальное интервью есть, а ещё перевод транскрипта второго шоу Лено. Правда, работаю потихоньку над ещё одним интервью (там Джерри отвечает на вопросы, поступившие на его сайт). Так что, конечно, отправлю, прямо сейчас! И ещё: ЛаЛуна, не подскажите, где "Цветы Харрисона" (кстати, в русском прокате фильм называется "Спасти Харрисона") качаете? Тоже хочу

[Vita]

Итак, ЛаЛуна, отправила вам то, что есть у меня уже готового, как только закончу текущую работу - скину вам следующий перевод.

Journalist, чую, ты нас без работы не оставишь:D Я пока больше ничего не беру - с этим-то не знаю, когда рассчитаюсь... А ответ на один вопрос вообще, наверно, не возьмусь переводить - у меня пальцы отсохнут такое написать... Мистер Батлер поиздевался над поклонниками, отвечая на вопрос о суевериях :D

Однако, если с переводом "не горит", то оставьте для меня статью про "Дорогого Фрэнки" - обожаю переводить интервью или статьи, где Батлер говорит об этой работе...

[Малышка]

Vita, Я сейчас перевожу статью о "Дорогом Френки", но если ты очень хочешь ее перевести, то я ее тебе оставлю!!!!