本·阿弗莱克：翻身花花公子“冲奥”记

现实热爱浪子的皈依，特别是那些有才的浪子。

本·阿弗莱克有过年少轻狂的时候，和歌星詹妮弗·洛佩兹的恋情恐怕对于现在的他来说还是一场噩梦。当初的他们肆无忌惮，高调妄为，秀恩爱，秀下限，直到一起合作的电影《鸳鸯绑匪》惨败才让这对情侣清醒，之后的故事就是分道扬镳，各自安生。其实，阿弗莱克有一个不错的过去，与好友马特·达蒙合作编写的《心灵捕手》让这双好兄弟在好莱坞一时风头无两。但是，比起好友达蒙在演戏道路上的专心致志，阿弗莱克却显得力不从心。硬汉不是没有试过，却总觉得他脸上的深情忧郁过于多余；文艺清新也尝过，却总演不出“文艺骨干”的超然脱俗。于是，蛰伏，有很长一段时间，他让人觉得，安心在家里做一名尽责的“奶爸”也不失为好选择。

然而，男人终究是权力的动物。阿弗莱克拿起笔，操起摄像机，真正地实施自己的想法，其第二部导演作《城中大盗》让人惊艳。第一次，我们看到阿弗莱克在电影这个行业原来还有看头，那种老到和细腻让我们顿悟：多年的蛰伏只为这一天的惊喜。然后，今天，带着《逃离德黑兰》，他直指奥斯卡。我不禁惊叹岁月的“慈悲”，只要耗得起、熬得住，最终你就能放声大笑。

——Mac

Some actors grow up on camera. Ben Affleck appears to be growing up behind it.

Ten years ago， he was the popculture 1）laughingstock of movies like Pearl Harbor and Gigli， 2）derided for a very public relationship with Jennifer Lopez that sold millions of gossip magazines while inviting untold 3）scorn. He had the 4）swagger of a movie star， but it seemed unearned.

Argo， Afflecks third movie as a director， is a different story in every regard. It is also a glimpse of a more ambitious filmmaker and global citizen than almost everyone has suspected. 5）In retrospect， maybe we shouldnt have been so surprised.

有一些明星在电影镜头前成长，而本·阿弗莱克却似乎是在镜头后不断成长。

十年前，在流行文化界，他因为电影《珍珠港》以及《鸳鸯绑匪》而贻人口实，因为与詹妮弗·洛佩兹的恋情而成为公众揶揄对象——他们的恋情助长了八卦杂志的销量，却给自己招来了道不明的嘲笑。他傲慢狂妄，一副电影明星架子，却无明星之实。

作为阿弗莱克执导的第三部电影作品，《逃离德黑兰》无论从哪一个角度来看，都是一个不寻常的故事。这个故事也让我们一窥阿弗莱克的本色：他其实比我们猜测的更具雄心大志以及国际视野。回顾往事，或许，我们不应该那么惊讶。

Argo tells a tale so 6）bizarre it has to be true： During the Iranian 7）hostage crisis of 1979-80， six US diplomatic workers hid for months in the home of the Canadian ambassador， ultimately fleeing the country by posing as a Canadian film crew making a nonexistent science-fiction 8）B-movie called Argo.

Affleck plays Tony Mendez， the CIA agent who 9）masterminded the plan， but what is most remarkable about the film is what he does as a director. 10）Impeccably 11）crafted and intensely suspenseful， Argo 12）juggles issues of global politics， governmental secrecy， and media image-making with breathtaking ease. Oscar talk has already begun. Its not 13）unwarranted.

After two highly regarded crime films set in Boston—Gone Baby Gone and The Town—Argo ups the stakes and 14）cements the Cambridge-raised Afflecks new reputation as a filmmaker of talent. At 40， he has， at last， found genuine respect. Yet he is still mentally checking his wallet. Having been through the“15）Bennifer” 16）mill will do that to a man.

《逃离德黑兰》讲述的是一个惊悚得近乎真实的故事：1979年至1980年，在伊朗人质危机期间，六名美国外交官在加拿大驻伊朗大使馆躲藏数月之久，他们通过假扮成一队加拿大电影工作人员，宣称正在拍摄一部改编自科幻小说（其实根本不存在）叫做《阿尔戈号》的二流电影，而最终得以逃离伊朗。

阿弗莱克在片中扮演托尼·门德斯——策划整个计划的中央情报局探员，但关于这部电影最让人印象深刻的是，他作为导演对电影的掌控力。手法纯熟完美，悬疑重重，紧凑有致，《逃离德黑兰》把国际政治、政府机密以及媒体形象塑造等各方面话题从容糅合在一起，令人叹为观止。竞逐奥斯卡的呼声已起。《逃离德黑兰》并非没有摘取桂冠的可能。

在《失踪的宝贝》以及《城中大盗》这两部以波士顿为背景的犯罪电影得到高度赞誉之后，《逃离德黑兰》再下一城，稳固了麻省剑桥市出身的阿弗莱克具有导演才华的名声。年界四十，他终于得到了别人由衷的尊重。然而，精神上他还是不断反省自我。经过“本妮弗”的洗礼，他更加慎而重之。

It has been a long road. Since 2003—his“17）Annus Horribilis，” Affleck has married 18）Jennifer Garner， become a father， taken less starry acting roles， turned to directing， and done his level best to stay out of the 19）tabloids. The start of his image rehabilitation can be traced to 2007s Gone Baby Gone， his first turn in the directors chair. That he himself did not appear in the movie seemed a fresh note of modesty at the time. More impressive， Affleck brought it all back home with arguably the finest， most pungently specific Boston movie since 1973s The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

A second well-regarded outing 20）in the same vein， 2010s The Town， confirmed Afflecks new seriousness and work ethic for audiences and the film industry alike.

Says Argo screenwriter Chris Terrio of meeting his director for the first time， “It wasnt like being 21）summoned to an audience with the pope. Bens obviously had an innate writing and directing talent from his first film on， but the great thing was that all the other levels of movie stardom went away and you just had this film nerd with zero ego trying to make a good movie.”

Wait， this is Ben Affleck？ Well， yes， this is Ben Affleck， the former Middle Eastern studies major at 22）Occidental College in Los Angeles. “Its a little bit 23）disingenuous to say I was a major， since I didnt actually graduate，”he confesses with a shamefaced grin. “I did three years…I felt like the more educated actor is a better actor， the more educated actor is a better director， and so on. And this is the first time its ever paid off.”

Not unsurprisingly， Argo extends sympathy beyond the 24）beleaguered Americans and semicomic Hollywood crew， casting only the most 25）fanatic of the revolutionaries as 26）villains while taking care to avoid 27）demonizing everyday Iranians.

Affleck is happy to talk about the 28）nuances of making a film set in 1980 Iran at a time when our relationship with that country is more delicate than ever， but he mostly keeps the conversation focused on filmmaking rather than his own political endeavors. Most recently， he has testified before Congress on the horrors of the Congo conflict， endorsed the campaign against Ugandan 29）warlord Joseph Kony， and hosted a Hollywood fund-raiser for Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.

他走了一段漫长的路。自经历了2003年的“谷底”以后，阿弗莱克与詹妮弗·加纳成婚，做了父亲，减少出演耍酷装帅的角色，转向导演，然后保持水准，佳作不断，终于不再成为八卦小报的封面人物。他的形象修复工程可以追溯到2007年的电影《失踪的宝贝》，这是他第一次执导的作品。而他自己并没有参演其中，这在当时来看是一个新信号：谦虚低调。更让人难以忘怀的是，他的取材背景返回家乡，用可以说是最好也最尖锐的手法打造波士顿风格的电影——自1973年的电影《线人》以来最好的“波士顿背景电影”。

第二部收到高度赞誉的电影走的也是同样路线，2010年上映的《城中大盗》，阿弗莱克与从前截然不同的严肃风格以及创作理念在观众心中以及电影同行中进一步得到巩固。

《逃离德黑兰》的编剧克里斯·泰利奥说起自己第一次见到导演时的情形：“完全没有教皇召集群众那样高高在上的姿态。很明显，本与生俱来的创作和导演才华从他第一部电影就开始显现，但最可贵的是，他一点电影明星的架子都没有，与你共事的只是一个‘电影痴，把‘自我放到最低，只一心想拍好电影。”

等等，这是本·阿弗莱克？嗯，是的，这就是本·阿弗莱克，那个曾在位于洛杉矶的西方学院研究中东问题的大学生。“说我是中东研究专业毕业还真有点惭愧，因为我没有拿到毕业证，”他坦诚道，咧着嘴不好意思地笑了一下。“我只读了三年……我感觉一个演员接受的教育越多，他才会成为更好的演员，也能成为更好的导演，诸如此类。这是我第一次感觉到：‘是值得的。”

出人意料的是，《逃离德黑兰》的同情之心不仅仅惠及那些遭到围困的美国人以及近乎荒谬的好莱坞拍摄组，影片只是把狂热的革命分子设定为反面对象，小心翼翼地避免妖魔化伊朗平民。

阿弗莱克很乐意谈论拍摄这部以1980年的伊朗为时代背景的电影的微妙之处，特别是在当下美伊之间的关系敏感到极点之时，但他主要是聊电影创作而非自己在政治上的努力。最近，他就刚果所发生的冲突所带来的惨状在国会发表演说，支持反乌干达军阀约瑟夫·科尼的运动，并在好莱坞主持了一个为参议院候选人伊丽莎白·沃伦筹款的活动。

Affleck is prepping a film adaptation of Stephen Kings postapocalyptic novel The Stand that may run to two parts. After that is the 30）James “Whitey” Bulger movie， in which Affleck will direct his old pal Matt Damon in the title role—the biggest project the two have worked on together since their Good Will Hunting breakthrough in 1997.

Beyond that， Affleck is a new father again； he and Garner had their third child， a boy， this year. And he is constantly educating himself about the cinematic past. “I got one of these books， you know， 1000 Movies to See Before You Die，” he says， “and Id better not die soon， because Im not there yet. Drives my wife crazy， because we go to bed and then shes gotta listen to The Battle of Algiers for an hour and a half.”

The swagger？ Its long gone. Asked about his long-term goals， Affleck does not pontificate.

“To keep getting hired，” he says， laughing.

阿弗莱克现在正准备拍一部新电影，改编自史蒂芬·金的末世后小说《末日逼近》，这部电影可能会分成上下部。接着会是拍摄关于“惠泰”詹姆斯·巴尔杰的电影，这部电影将由阿弗莱克执导，他的好兄弟马特·达蒙主演——这是自1997年《心灵捕手》这个重大突破以来两人再度合作的最大计划。

除此以外，阿弗莱克又再当父亲了：今年他和加纳迎来了他们的第三个孩子，是个男孩。而他不断用电影史来教育自己。“我有一本那类的书，你知道的，什么《去世前1000部要看的电影》，”他说，“我最好别那么早死，因为我还没被列入书中呢。我的妻子被我逼疯了，因为我们睡觉前我会给她念《阿尔及尔之战》一个半小时。”

过去的狂妄自大？早已成过眼云烟。问及他的长期目标时，阿弗莱克不假思索地说：

“不让自己失业，”他说道，放声大笑。