The pride and power of representation in film | Jon M. Chu

譯者: 易帆 余 審譯者: Helen Chang

The Silicon Valley and the internet gave me superpowers,

矽谷和網際網路給予了我超能力、

tools to go to battle with,

能帶上戰場的工具、

a suit to take bullets with

一件防彈衣，

and a giant signal in the sky that told me when it was time to fight.

以及天外飛來的巨大訊號， 通知我該是戰鬥的時候了。

Now, I can't actually prove any of this.

以上這些，我都無法真的證實。

I am not a "scientist,"

我不是「科學家」，

I don't have "facts."

我沒有「事實」。

In fact, my Rotten Tomato score is running around 50 percent right now,

事實上，我的爛蕃茄 分數目前大約是 50%，

so I'm not sure why they let me in.

所以我不確定他們為何會邀請我來。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

But if we're talking about colliding with a power

但，如果我們要談的是

與比我們更強大的力量迸出火花，

that's bigger than us,

then I'm in the right place,

那我就來對地方了，

because this last year,

因為，去年，

I had an interesting year with a movie called "Crazy Rich Asians" that I did --

我執導的電影《瘋狂亞洲富豪》 讓我有了很有意思的一年——

(Applause and cheers)

（掌聲及歡呼）

Thank you, thank you.

謝謝，謝謝。

And if we're talking about connection specifically today,

如果今天我們很明確的是要談連結，

then I know my story is only possible

那麼我想，我的故事之所以會發生，

because of a collection of connections that happened throughout my life,

唯一有可能的就是 我這一生所積累的連結。

and so hopefully by telling a little bit of my story,

我希望透過我的小故事，

it will help someone else find their path a little sooner than I did.

能幫助一些人可以 比我更快地找到自己的路。

My story begins when I opened the holy book for the first time ...

我的故事始於我第一次翻開聖經……

The holy book of gadgets, of course, "Sharper Image."

科技小玩意兒的聖經，

對，沒錯就是《尖端印象》。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

Yes, those who know.

有人知道。

It was a magical magazine of dreams

它是本有關於夢想的魔法雜誌，

and had things in there that you knew could not possibly exist,

那裡有你知道不可能存在的東西，

but it was right there.

但偏偏就有，

You could order it -- come in the mail.

你可以訂貨——用郵購。

And some things that probably should have never existed,

其中有些可能不存在會比較好，

like "Gregory," a lifelike, portable mannequin

比如「葛雷高利」， 逼真的可攜式假人，

who deters crime by his strong, masculine appearance.

以強悍的男子氣概來阻止犯罪。

This is a real --

這是真的——

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

This is a real thing, by the way.

順道一提，這是真的。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

But my eyes were set on the Sima Video Ed/it 2.

但我的目光離不開 Sima Video Ed/it 2。

This thing was so cool at the age of 10.

對十歲小孩來說，這東西超酷。

You could connect all your VHS players together

你可以連結所有的錄影帶放影機，

and cut something together,

一起做剪輯，

so I called my parents and convinced them to buy this for me.

所以我打電話給我父母， 說服他們買給我。

But before I get into that,

但，進入這個主題前，

先讓我簡單跟各位 介紹一下我的父母。

let me give you a little rundown about my parents.

They came to the United States when they were young,

他們在年輕時來到美國，

they're from Taiwan and China

他們分別來自台灣與中國，

and they settled in Los Altos, California --

他們在加州的洛思阿圖斯定居——

the Silicon Valley before the Silicon Valley --

那是矽谷之前的矽谷——

and they started a restaurant called Chef Chu's.

他們開了一家餐廳， 叫做朱主廚的餐廳。

50 years later, today, they still work at the restaurant,

五十年後的現在， 他們還在餐廳工作，

they're still there,

他們還在那裡，

and I grew up there, so it was great.

我在那裡長大，所以這很棒。

Talk about connection -- this place was a hub of connection.

談到連結——

這地方就是社區連結的中心。

People coming there to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, business deals,

大家去那裡慶祝生日、 紀念日、談生意、

eating, drinking --

吃吃喝喝——

connection.

建立人脈。

And I got to grow up in that environment.

我在那個環境中長大。

And my parents always said America is the greatest place in the world.

我父母總是說美國 是世界上最棒的地方。

You can --

你可以——

如果你熱愛某樣事物，

if you love anything, you can work hard and you can accomplish anything you want.

你可以努力實現你想要的任何夢想。

So, they raised five all-American kids.

所以，他們在美國生了五個小孩。

I am the youngest --

我是最小的——

you can see I'm the one with the eyes closed there --

各位可以看到，我是眼睛 閉起來的那一個——

and they named actually my sister and I, Jennifer and Jonathan,

他們把我姐姐和我命名為 珍妮佛和強納森，

after Jennifer and Jonathan Hart from that TV show "Hart to Hart."

來自電視節目《龍鳳神探》的 珍妮佛和強納森·哈特。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

So that's how much they loved America, apparently.

所以，很明顯， 他們就是那麼愛美國。

And they thought that we were The Kennedys --

他們認為我們是 《甘迺迪家族》——

my mom specifically --

特別是我媽——

so she dressed us up all the time like each other

她總是把我們的穿搭弄得很像彼此，

and she put us in etiquette classes and ballroom dance classes,

她還送我們去上 禮儀課和交際舞課，

made sure that we had the right dental plan --

確保我們有正確的牙科方案——

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

This is a real picture of me. That is not fake.

這真的是我的照片，不是偽造的。

Thank God for that one.

感謝老天。

And I was in charge of the video camera every time we went on vacations,

我們去渡假時， 攝影機都是由我負責，

so I would collect all these videos and had nothing to do with it.

我收集了一堆影片， 但不能拿它們來做什麼。

Thus, the Sima Video Ed/it 2.

因此，Sima Video Ed/it 2。

I convinced them to get it for me,

我說服他們幫我買，

and I spent all night trying to wrangle all the VCRs

我花了整晚的時間

試著把我兄弟姐妹房間中的 所有放影機連結起來，

from my brother's and sister's room, tangled in wires,

全都串在一起，

and now I had something to show them.

然後就有東西可以給他們看了。

So I brought them into the living room one night,

一天晚上，我把他們帶到客廳，

it was probably 1991, somewhere around there,

可能是 1991 年左右，

and I sit them down in the living room --

我請他們在客廳坐下——

my heart was pounding, my breaths were deep --

我的心跳得很快，呼吸很深——

sort of like right now --

有點像現在——

and I pressed play

我按下「播放」，

and something extraordinary happened actually.

接著，發生了令人難忘的事。

They cried.

他們哭了。

And cried.

不斷哭著。

They cried not because it was the most amazing home video edit ever --

他們哭泣的原因，並非因為 那是史上最棒的家庭影片——

although it was pretty good --

雖然那影片真的不賴——

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

but because they saw our family as a normal family that fit in

而是因為他們看到 我們這個平凡的家庭，

呈現在眼前的螢幕上毫不突兀，

and belonged on the screen in front of them,

just like the movies that they worshipped and the TV shows that they named us after.

如同他們崇拜的電影 和我們被命名的電視節目一樣。

I remember as the youngest of these five kids

身為五個孩子中最年幼的一個，

feeling heard for the first time.

我記得這是我初次感覺被聽見了。

There was this place where all these things in my head

就是這個地方， 一個能把我腦中的東西

could go into the great, electric somewhere-out-there and exist and escape,

迸出火花並讓我獲得慰藉的地方，

and I knew from this moment on,

我從這一刻起就知道，

我餘生都想要做這件事，

I wanted to do this for the rest of my life,

不論能不能靠它賺錢。

whether I was going to get paid for it or not.

我有了熱情，現在我需要工具，

So I had this passion and now I needed some tools,

and my dad went to work.

而我爸爸去工作了。

He continued to brag about my home video editing skills

他繼續在朱主廚的餐廳裡

to the customers at Chef Chu's,

向客人炫耀我的家庭影片編輯技能，

and luckily this is the Silicon Valley,

幸運的是，這是矽谷，

so they're working on stuff, hardware and software --

很多人在做硬體和軟體——

these are all engineers.

到處都是工程師。

And they offered to give me things for digital video editing.

他們提供我一些 數位影片編輯的東西。

This is like the mid-'90s, early '90's,

時間大約是九○年代中期或初期，

where this stuff didn't exist for kids like me.

像我這樣的孩子應該 還不曾見過這種東西。

So I'd get this beta software and hardware from places like HP and Sun

所以，我從像 HP及 Sun 這些公司，

and Russell Brown at Adobe.

還有 Adobe 的羅素·布朗那裡 取得測試版軟體和硬體。

And I had no manual,

我沒有說明書，

so I'd figure it out and I fell in love with it even more.

我自己研究出來， 此後便深愛上這件事。

I went to USC School of Cinematic Arts and started to go there,

然後我去南加州大學的 電影藝術學院就讀，

and my mom and dad would always call me randomly and remind me

爸媽總是會隨時想到就打電話給我，

提醒我我必須要製作 和華人傳統有關的電影。

that I've got to do movies about my Chinese heritage.

That China was going to be a huge market for movies one day.

將有一天，中國會是電影的大市場。

I was like, "Yeah right, guys".

我回：「嗯，好的，兩位。」

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

Always listen to your parents.

一定要聽父母的話。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

I wanted to be Zemeckis, Lucas and Spielberg.

我想要成為辛密克斯、 盧卡斯、史匹伯。

The last thing I wanted to talk about was my own cultural identity,

我最不想談的就是自己的文化身份、

my ethnicity.

我的種族。

And honestly, I had no one else to talk --

但老實說，我沒有人可以談——

there was no one at school that I could really open up to,

在學校，沒人能讓我真的打開心房，

就算我打開心房了，我要說什麼？

and even if I did, like, what would I say?

So I ignored it and I moved on with my life.

所以我就忽略了這件事， 繼續過我的人生。

Cut to 15 years later,

跳到十五年後，

I made it in Hollywood.

我進了好萊塢。

I got discovered by Spielberg,

我被史匹伯發掘，

I worked with The Rock and Bruce Willis and Justin Bieber.

我參與《絕地任務》， 和布魯斯威利及小賈斯汀共事過。

I even came to the TED stage to present my dance company LXD,

我甚至把我的舞蹈公司 LXD 帶上了 TED 的舞台，

and it was great.

那很棒。

And then a couple years ago,

接著，幾年前，

I felt a little bit lost, creatively.

我在創意上有點迷惘了。

The engine was going down a little bit,

引擎的轉速略微下降，

and I got a sign ...

我聽到一個聲音……

I heard from voices from the sky ...

來自天空的聲音……

or more it was like, birds.

或者，比較像是鳥兒。

OK, fine, it was Twitter.

好啦，是推特。

And Twitter --

推特——

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

It was Constance Wu on Twitter,

是推特上的吳恬敏、

it was Daniel Dae Kim,

金大賢、

it was Jenny Yang, who's here today,

珍妮楊，她今天也在現場，

it was Alan Yang --

艾倫楊——

all of these people who were writing their frustrations

他們當時在上面寫出他們在好萊塢

with representation in Hollywood.

表演上遇到的挫折。

And it really hit me.

對我像是當頭棒喝。

I thought these things but never really registered --

我有想過這些事， 但從來沒有特別留意。

I was really focused on --

我的焦點都放在——

and I felt lucky to be working,

我很幸運能工作，

and so then I realized --

那時，我明白到——

yeah, what is wrong with Hollywood?

是啊，好萊塢是怎麼搞的？

Why aren't they doing this?

他們為什麼不這麼做？

And then I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I am Hollywood.

接著，我看著鏡中的自己， 才意識到我是好萊塢人。

I literally --

我真的——

I popped my collar before I came out here,

我上台之前還把領子翻起來，

that's how Hollywood I am.

我就是這麼好萊塢化。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

Is it still up? OK, good.

領子還立著嗎？好，很好。

(Applause)

（掌聲）

For all these years I felt I had been given so much,

這些年來，我覺得我得到好多，

and what was I giving back to the film business that I loved?

而我回報了什麼 給我熱愛的電影產業？

I felt lucky to be here,

我很幸運能在這裡，

but at this moment, I realized that I was not just lucky to be here,

但，此刻，我了解到， 我不只是很幸運能在這裡，

I had the right to be here.

我有權利在這裡。

No, I earned the right to be here.

不，我爭取到在這裡的權利。

All those sleepless nights, all those parties I missed on Fridays,

所有那些熬夜的夜晚， 所有我錯過的週五夜晚派對，

every friend and girlfriend I lost because I was editing --

我因為在做剪接而失去的 每個男女生朋友——

I earned the right to be here not just to have a voice but to say something,

我爭取到在這裡的權利，

不只站在這裡的權利，還有發言權，

and say something important,

說些重要的話。

and I had, actually, the power --

其實，我有能力——

the superpower to change things if I really, really wanted to.

我有如果真心想要 就可以改變現狀的超能力。

When you try to tell stories about yourself

當你嘗試說出你自己的故事，

and people who look like you and look like your family,

說出那些外表像你 和你家人的人的故事，

這很恐怖，

it can be scary,

所有的孤獨感都回來了。

and all those feelings of being alone came back.

但，網路告訴我——

But the internet is what told me --

sent the sign that there was going to be a whole army waiting for me

發出訊號跟我說， 會有一支軍隊在等著我，

to support me and to love me for it.

支持我，愛著我。

And so I found Kevin Kwan's amazing novel "Crazy Rich Asians,"

所以，我找到關凱文很棒的 《瘋狂亞洲富豪》小說，

我們便開始著手。

and we went to work.

We put this movie together.

我們促成了這部電影。

All-Asian cast --

所有演員都是亞裔——

the first all-Asian cast in 25 years with a contemporary story --

二十五年來第一部純亞裔 卡司的現代故事電影——

(Applause and cheers)

（掌聲及歡呼）

But when we started it was not a guarantee at all.

但，當我們開始時， 完全沒有任何保證。

There was no comp for this kind of movie.

沒有這類的電影。

Every time we did surveys and stuff,

每當我們做調查之類的，

the audiences weren't going to show up.

觀眾不會出席。

In fact, even in our test screenings

事實上，就連我們的試映，

where you give free tickets to people to watch your movie,

給民眾免費的票來看你的電影，

we had a one to 25 ratio,

也只有二十五分之一的比率，

meaning after 25 asks, only one person said yes,

意思是，問了二十五個人， 才有一個人說要來，

which is super low for these types of things.

對試映來說，這個比率超低。

Asian people who knew the book didn't trust Hollywood at all,

知道這本書的亞洲人 完全不信任好萊塢；

Asian people who didn't know the book thought the title was offensive

不知道這本書的亞洲人 覺得電影名稱很侮辱人，

and other people who weren't Asian just didn't think it was for them.

其他非亞裔的人，不覺得 這是給他們看的電影。

So we were pretty screwed.

所以我們很慘。

Luckily, Warner Brothers didn't turn away from us.

幸運的是華納兄弟沒放棄我們。

But then the electric somewhere struck again,

而且某處又迸出火花了，

and this army of Asian-American writers, reporters, bloggers,

這支亞裔美國人的陣容 有作家、記者、部落客，

who over the years had worked their way up through their respective publications,

多年來，他們在我不知情的情況下，

不斷累積發佈各自的作品，

went to work, unbeknownst to me.

And they started to post things.

他們開始張貼訊息。

Also, some tech founders out here started to post stuff on social media,

還有一些科技創辦人開始 在社群媒體上張貼訊息，

write stuff about us in articles in the "LA Times,"

寫一些關於我們的文章， 刊在《洛杉磯時報》、

in "The Hollywood Reporter" and "Entertainment Weekly."

《好萊塢報導》及《娛樂週刊》上。

It was like this grassroots uprising of making ourselves news.

發揮草根精神，一步一腳印地 讓我們上了新聞版面。

What an amazing thing to witness.

能見證此事真的很神奇。

And the swell of support turned into this conversation online

越來越多的支持，造就了線上

亞裔美國人之間的對談，

between all these Asian Americans

where we could actually debate and discuss

我們能在對談中，實際地辯論、討論

what stories we wanted to tell,

我們想要說什麼故事，

what stories should be told or not,

那些故事可以說，那些不該說，

what kind of --

哪種——

are we allowed to make fun of ourselves?

我們可以自嘲嗎？

What about casting? What are we allowed to do?

演員卡司呢？我們能怎麼做？

And we didn't agree -- and we still don't,

會有不認同，一直沒共識，

but that wasn't the point.

但那不是重點。

The point was the conversation was happening.

重點是開始對談了。

And this conversation stream became an infrastructure.

這些對話內容變成了基礎。

It took all these different groups that were trying to achieve the same thing

把不同族群但有相同目標的人

and put us all together in this connective tissue.

凝聚團結在一起。

And again, not perfect,

雖然當下仍不完美，至少是個開端，

but the start of how we determine our own representation on the big screen.

決定了我們在大螢幕上 如何展現自己身分的樣貌。

It became more physical when I went to the movie theater.

身處電影院時 我的感受變得更加深刻。

I'll never forget going -- opening weekend,

我永遠忘不了電影首映的那個週末，

and I went into the theater, and it's not just Asians --

我到了電影院，看到不只有亞裔

all types of people --

還有各族群的人。

and I go in and sit down,

我坐在我的位置，

and people laughed, people cried,

而其他觀眾在他們的位置上 隨者劇情，或哭或笑。

and when I went into the lobby,

當我進到電影院大廳，

people stayed.

看見觀眾們還在現場逗留，

It's like they didn't want to leave.

似乎不想離開。

They just hugged each other,

他們擁抱彼此，

high-fived each other, took selfies,

擊掌，自拍，

they debated it, they laughed about it.

討論劇情，或為裡頭的情節發笑。

All these different things.

這些種種，

I had such an intimate relationship with this movie,

使得我與這部片產生了親近的情感，

but I didn't understand when we were making it

在製片過程中，我並不知道 作品會帶給觀眾怎樣的感受，

what we were making until it was happening --

直到電影上映我才發現，

that it was the same thing that my parents felt when they watched our family videos

這部電影給觀眾的感受

就像我爸媽那天在客廳 看家族錄影時感覺到的一樣。

in that living room that day.

Seeing us on the screen has a power to it,

看到我們呈現在螢幕上很振奮人心，

and the only way I can describe it is pride.

我只能以自豪來形容。

I have always understood this word intellectually --

我以前只能由字面理解自豪，

I've probably talked about this word,

以前也許提起過這個詞，

but to actually feel pride --

但真實且切身為某件事 感到自豪是不一樣的，

and those of you who have felt it know --

曾經感到自豪的人 都知道那是什麼感覺。

it's like you just want to like, touch everybody and grab and run around.

那種感覺讓你想要觸碰每一個人， 抓著他們到處奔馳。

It's like a very --

那是種難以形容的感覺，

I can't explain --

it's just a very physical feeling,

真的是種切身的感受，

all because of a long pattern of connection.

全都由於我們彼此長久以來的連結。

Film was a gift given to me,

電影對我來說是一份禮物，

and through the years I've learned a lot of things.

多年來，透過電影我學到許多東西。

You can plan, you can write scripts, you can do your storyboards,

你學會如何規劃製片、寫劇本， 也可以製作故事板，

but at a certain point,

但到了某個程度，

your movie will speak back to you,

你的電影會回應你，

and it's your job to listen.

而你應該好好聆聽。

It's this living organism and it sort of presents itself,

電影是活的，它自己會說話，

so you better catch it before it slips through your hands,

所以當靈感來臨時，你最好抓緊它，

我認為這正是製作電影 最令人感到興奮的過程。

and that's the most exciting part about making movies.

When I look at life, it's not that different actually.

回顧人生，其實無甚差異。

各種微小的連結、

I've been led through these sort of breadcrumbs of connections

through people, through circumstances,

遇見的人、遇見的事、

through luck.

一路來的機緣造化，成就現在的你。

And it changed when I realized that once you start listening

我發現，當你開始傾聽人生的反饋，

to the silent beats and the messy noises around you,

無論是無聲的節奏或嘈雜的噪音，

you realize that there's this beautiful symphony already written for you.

你會發現人生早已為你 譜好美妙的協奏曲，

A direct line to your destiny.

為你開拓了一條你命定的路，

Your superpower.

給予你超能力。

Now, film was a gift given to me,

電影對我來說是份禮物，

sort of spurred on by my parents and supported by my community.

我受到父母的啟蒙， 獲得社群的支持。

I got to be who I wanted to be when I needed to be it.

我在對的時機變成了我想要成為的人。

My mom posted something on Facebook the other day,

有一天我媽在臉書上貼文，

which is usually a really bad thing to say out loud --

我媽有臉書帳號 這件事通常不太適合張揚，

scary, she should not have a Facebook, but --

她不該有臉書帳號的，這超可怕。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

She posted this thing, and it was a meme,

她貼了一張梗圖，

you know, one of those funny things,

那種好笑的梗圖，

and it said, "You can't change someone who doesn't want to change,

那張圖說：「也許你沒辦法 改變那些不想改變自己的人，

但千萬不要低估你在這個人心中 植入『改變』這個想法的力量。」

but never underestimate the power of planting a seed."

And as I was doing the finishing touches on this talk,

當我在潤飾今天的講稿，

我發現我生命中強大的連結，

I realized that all the powerful connections in my life

were through generosity and kindness and love and hope.

全都來自他人的慷慨、 善意、愛和希望。

So when I think about my movies "Crazy Rich Asians" and "In the Heights"

所以，當我在構思電影 《瘋狂亞洲富豪》

which I'm working on right now --

和現正製作的《華盛頓高地》時，

(Applause and cheers)

（掌聲與歡呼）

Yes, it's a good one.

對，這部片也很棒，

All I want to do is show joy and hope in them,

我只想在電影裡展現喜悅和希望，

because I refuse to believe that our best days are behind us,

因為我絕不相信好日子已經過完了，

but in fact, around the corner.

反而其實正在不遠處。

Because you see love --

因為你能看到愛——

love is the superpower that was given to me.

賦予我超能力的就是愛，

Love is the superpower that was passed onto me.

愛是傳給我的超能力——

Love is the only thing that can stop a speeding bullet

只有愛能夠阻擋飛速的子彈，

before it even exits the chamber.

在子彈射出前，愛就能擋住它。

Love is the only thing that can leap over a building

愛也是唯一能夠越過空間限制，

and have a whole community look up into the sky,

讓整個社群的人望向天空，

join hands,

手牽手，

and have the courage to face something that's impossibly bigger than themselves.

充滿勇氣去面對 眼前看似無法克服的困難。

So I have a challenge for myself and for anyone here.

我挑戰自己和在場的各位，

As you're working on your thing,

無論你在工作、

on your company,

在職場上，

and you're forging this thing to life, and you're making the impossible possible,

當你在為你的人生付出， 在化不可能為可能時，

let's just not forget to be kind to each other,

不要忘記對彼此溫柔，

because I believe that is the most powerful form of connection

因為我相信愛， 是我們能給這個星球

we can give to this planet.

最有力的連結。

In fact, our future depends on it.

事實上，我們的未來 取決於我們對彼此的愛。

Thank you.

謝謝。

(Applause and cheers)

（掌聲與歡呼）

Thank you.

謝謝。

(Applause)

（掌聲）