My name is Jim Henson.

我的名字是吉姆-亨森。

I'm a puppeteer.

我是一個木偶師。

Jim Henson.

Jim Henson.

He was the most prolific puppeteer of all time.

他是有史以來最多產的木偶師。

Yeah, my dad never really wanted to be a Children's entertainer, but the whole industry was trying to say, Jim, stay there in preschool because that's where you belong.

是啊，我爸從來沒有真正想成為一個兒童藝人， 但整個行業試圖說，吉姆，留在那裡在學前班 因為這是你的歸屬。

Hey, just wouldn't take it.

嘿，就是不會接受。

Jim Henson brought together an all star team to create a film that would showcase his creations for an older audience.

吉姆-亨森召集了一個全明星團隊來創作一部為老年觀眾展示自己創作的電影。

The film was called Labyrinth Think, Eighties Eyeliner and Illusions, and it was the biggest box office failure of Jim's career.

這部電影叫《迷宮思維》、《八十年代眼線與幻覺》，是吉姆職業生涯中最大的票房失敗。

So why, 30 years later, is it a major cult classic?

那麼，為什麼30年後，它卻成了一大邪教經典呢？

I believe in you as a puppeteer, you have to learn to focus your whole performance through your hand.

我相信你作為一個木偶人，你要學會通過你的手來集中你的整個表演。

My dad, Jim Hansen, he held Children's entertainment in high esteem, but that was exactly what was making him bristle was that people would look at his Muppets and they'd say, That's so cute.

我的父親，吉姆-漢森，他對兒童娛樂有很高的評價，但這正是讓他感到不滿的地方，人們會看著他的布偶，他們會說："太可愛了。

I bet kids love that.

我打賭孩子們一定很喜歡。

Jim Henson wanted you to know his work wasn't just for kids.

吉姆-亨森想讓你知道他的作品不只是給孩子看的。

Labyrinth is by far the biggest project I've seen from you.

迷宮是迄今為止我看到的你最大的項目。

True, it's one of the biggest things we've tried to do.

沒錯，這是我們努力做的最大的事情之一。

Bringing in George Lucas and Carrie Jones and David Bowie thes very big, heavy hitting talent was something he was excited about at that point when she hadn't really done before.

引進喬治-盧卡斯和卡莉-瓊斯以及大衛-鮑伊這些非常大的重磅人才，是他當時很興奮的事情，而她之前並沒有真正做過。

That movie follows Jennifer Connelly's character, Sarah, through an enchanted labyrinth to rescue her brother from the Goblin King, played by David Bowie, and she finds friends along the way.

那部電影講述的是詹妮弗-康納利的角色莎拉為了從大衛-鮑伊飾演的妖精王手中救出自己的弟弟，穿過一個被施了魔法的迷宮，她在路上找到了朋友。

But that's close enough.

但這已經很接近了。

One of them is named Hoggle.

其中一個叫霍格爾。

I played Hoggle.

我玩的是霍格爾。

The plan was not for me to voice the character, so it's one of the worst kind of British accents ever done.

計劃不是讓我為這個角色配音，所以這是有史以來最差的一種英國口音。

I said.

我說。

Where is it Door?

哪裡是門？

What do Jim's creature shop would innovate in big ways.

吉姆的生物店會有什麼大的創新。

Most Muppets had one or two puppeteers behind them, but in Labyrinth, some characters had eight or nine puppeteers working together to make one characters seamless performance.

大多數布偶背後都有一兩個木偶師，但在《迷宮》中，有些角色有八九個木偶師一起合作，讓一個角色的表演天衣無縫。

It was so technically complicated that we all had to think is one.

這在技術上太複雜了，我們都要想是一。

Hoggle was a complex character.

霍格是個複雜的人物。

He had four puppeteers, motors in his face and an actress named Sheri Wiser inside the outfit, and she was 3 ft two inches tall.

他有四個木偶人，臉上有馬達，衣服裡面還有一個叫謝里-維澤的女演員，她身高3英尺2英寸。

So sherry spaces inside Hagel's mouth, all painted black so that hopefully you can't see her in there.

所以哈格爾嘴裡的雪莉空間，都被塗成了黑色，希望你看不到她在裡面。

But you couldn't see anything unless the mouth was open.

但你什麼也看不到，除非嘴巴張開。

And because of that, that's why ha go makes all the crazy sounds they mix.

正因為如此，所以ha go才會發出所有他們混音的瘋狂聲音。

He's always going to be, Oh, he's always talking to himself.

他總是會，哦，他總是自言自語。

But the truth is, if he didn't do that, how will we keep walking into trees?

但事實上，如果他不這樣做，我們怎麼會一直走到樹上？

The work that the Creature Shop was able to pull off impressed the entire industry, but that wasn't enough to make it a success.

創客店能夠完成的作品給整個行業留下了深刻的印象，但這還不足以讓它成功。

I never really got to fully understand why the movie wasn't successful.

我一直沒能完全理解為什麼這部電影不成功。

The budget of Labyrinth was 25 million, and it only ended up earning half of that in the box office.

迷宮》的預算是2500萬，最後只賺到了一半的票房。

The movie was quickly pulled from theaters.

這部電影很快就被撤出了影院。

It hit my dad real hard.

這對我爸打擊很大。

This was Jim's last feature film that he directed before he died, four years after the film premiered.

這是吉姆去世前執導的最後一部長片，在影片首映四年後。

But after his death, a cult like following started to grow around his fantasy eighties musical.

但在他去世後，圍繞著他的八十年代幻想音樂劇，開始有了一批崇拜者。

Interestingly, I believe the movie made more money every year than the year it was released in the theater, so the movie just got more and more and more popular and successful.

有意思的是，我相信這部電影每年賺的錢都比上映的那一年要多，所以這部電影就這樣越來越受歡迎，越來越成功。

My dad would have gone well, I knew I knew that it would.

我爸爸會好的，我知道我知道會好的。

That labyrinth was gonna work.

那個迷宮會有用的。

Of course it would eventually.

當然最終會的。

So my question for you is our puppets just for kids.

那麼我的問題是我們的木偶只是給孩子看的。

No, Puppets are not just for kids.

不，木偶不只是給孩子們看的。

Puppets air for the kid In all of us, the audience has no baggage.

木偶空氣的孩子 在我們所有人中，觀眾沒有包袱。

When they're watching puppets, they can't make all their assumptions by their accent and age and the color of their skin.

他們在看木偶的時候，不能全憑口音和年齡、膚色來做假設。

Which is really important, because if you could talk to an adult and get past all the assumptions, you can tell them powerful stuff about themselves, and they won't get mad at you.

這真的很重要，因為如果你能和一個成年人交談，並克服所有的假設，你可以告訴他們關於自己的強大的東西，他們不會對你生氣。