Name: 乘客，重新安排 (Passengers, Rearranged)
Uploaded: 2025-05-23T05:41:36.000Z
Duration: 8 min 50 s

Here's a question for aspiring screenwriters.

這裡有一個問題要問有抱負的編劇。

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Is it possible to make the movie Passengers better with some relatively minor changes?

是否有可能通過一些相對較小的改動，讓電影《乘客》變得更好？

You know, I don't think this is a really bad film.

你知道，我不認為這是一部真正的爛片。

After hearing reviews from friends and online, I sort of expected it to be, but I think that feeling was mostly disappointed expectation.

聽了朋友和網上的評論後，我有點期待它是這樣的，但我覺得這種感覺主要是失望的期待。

After the interstellar spaceship Avalon malfunctions, Chris Pratt wakes up from hypersleep 90 years before he's supposed to, 90 years before anyone else on the ship.

星際飛船阿瓦隆號發生故障後，克里斯-普拉特比他應該醒來的時間早了 90 年，比飛船上的其他人也早了 90 年。

He tries to do all of these things and fails.

他試圖做所有這些事情，但都失敗了。

As a year passes, he grows increasingly sad and hopeless.

一年過去了，他變得越來越悲傷和絕望。

So eventually he decides to wake up another passenger, Jennifer Lawrence, condemning her to the same fate, essentially death, in order to give himself some more company.

是以，他最終決定喚醒另一位乘客詹妮弗-勞倫斯，讓她遭受同樣的命運，即死亡，以便給自己多一些陪伴。

他表現得好像這又是一個故障。

She finds out the truth, gets really mad, and then the ship begins to really malfunction.

她發現了真相，非常生氣，然後飛船就真的開始出故障了。

So Pratt sacrifices himself to save it, but in the end, she saves him.

於是，普拉特犧牲了自己來拯救它，但最終，她救了他。

They fall in love again and spend the rest of their lives alone on the ship, happily ever after.

他們再次墜入愛河，獨自在船上度過了幸福的餘生。

哦，勞倫斯-菲什伯恩也參演了。

但你要知道，數一數自己的福氣。

It's way better than what Oscar-nominated actor Andy Garcia got.

這比獲得奧斯卡提名的演員安迪-加西亞（Andy Garcia）得到的要好得多。

So you can break this plot up into five basic turning points.

是以，你可以把這個情節抽成五個基本轉捩點。

The most acute tension in the film happens between parts two and three, when Jennifer starts to fall in love with Chris, but doesn't yet know the truth.

影片最緊張的部分發生在第二和第三部分之間，珍妮弗開始愛上克里斯，但還不知道真相。

We know the truth is coming, there's a little dramatic irony there, and so we wait with increasing anxiety until it does.

我們知道真相即將到來，這有點戲劇性的諷刺意味，所以我們懷著越來越焦慮的心情等待著它的到來。

And when it does, predictably, Jennifer freaks out, predictably, and we feel a little sadness, predictably.

可以預見的是，當它發生時，珍妮弗會抓狂，可以預見的是，我們會感到一絲悲傷，可以預見的是。

At this point, exactly an hour into the movie, the script has sort of written itself into a corner.

此時，電影剛開始一個小時，劇本就把自己寫進了一個角落。

Because Pratt is the real main character, because we spend 30 minutes alone with him at the start of the film and see everything through his eyes, there's really only two paths to take regarding the central relationship.

因為普拉特才是真正的主角，因為我們在影片開始時與他單獨相處了 30 分鐘，通過他的眼睛看到了一切，所以關於這段核心關係，其實只有兩條路可走。

In both ways, he finds absolution for the sin he committed, because you're not going to be able to turn him bad, not a character like this, not unless you have five seasons to do it.

在這兩種方式中，他都為自己犯下的罪過找到了赦免，因為你不可能把他變壞，除非你有五季的時間來做這件事。

And yes, I know there are some allusions to The Shining here, but The Shining spent pretty much no time at all endearing us to the character of Jack Torrance.

是的，我知道這裡有一些《閃靈》的典故，但《閃靈》幾乎沒有花任何時間讓我們喜歡上傑克-託倫斯這個角色。

Passengers spends the whole first act endearing us to the lovable, scrappy Chris Pratt.

乘客》的整個第一幕都讓我們喜歡上了可愛、潦倒的克里斯-普拉特。

It's clear the creators, or the studio, were intent on this being a love story, so they chose to go with the schmaltzy ending.

很明顯，創作者或製片方都希望這是一個愛情故事，所以他們選擇了這樣一個肉麻的結局。

The last 45 minutes would have been the same, a movie pretty much devoid of real tension or suspense, which requires a completely new plot device in the third act, the total malfunction of the ship, to juice the ending with some adrenaline.

最後的 45 分鐘也會是這樣，電影幾乎沒有真正的緊張感和懸念，這就需要在第三幕採用全新的情節設置--飛船完全失靈，為結尾註入一些腎上腺素。

You know, a couple weeks ago I was watching Chris Stuckman and Doug Walker's joint review of Passengers, and Walker said something interesting.

幾周前，我在看克里斯-斯塔克曼和道格-沃克對《乘客》的聯合評論，沃克說了一些有趣的話。

If they told this in a different order, it wouldn't have been ten times more interesting.

如果他們換個順序講，也不會有趣十倍。

The thing I began to wonder is, what if you rearranged the movie so that Jennifer Lawrence was the point of view character, not Chris Pratt?

我開始想，如果重新安排電影，讓詹妮弗-勞倫斯（Jennifer Lawrence）而不是克里斯-普拉特（Chris Pratt）成為主角，會怎麼樣呢？

What if the film began with her experience?

如果影片以她的經歷為開頭呢？

Well, I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I re-edited the existing footage to see what would happen to the story.

我無法停止思考，於是重新剪輯了現有的鏡頭，看看故事會發生什麼變化。

You just spent 120 years in suspended animation.

你剛剛度過了 120 年的休眠期。

你是乘客還是機組人員？  乘客。

When I made this change, and just watched from there, some interesting things started to happen.

當我做出這一改變，並從那裡開始觀察時，一些有趣的事情開始發生了。

First of all, the first act changes its tone entirely.

首先，第一幕完全改變了基調。

With the original first act, you're wandering around the ship with Chris Pratt.

在最初的第一幕中，你和克里斯-普拉特一起在飛船上四處遊蕩。

You learn cool things, you see him come to terms with the situation, have fun, get depressed, and finally reach the ethical dilemma that's meant to animate the movie.

你會學到很酷的東西，你會看到他接受現實，享受樂趣，感到沮喪，並最終陷入道德困境，而這正是這部電影的靈魂所在。

What you see is what you get here, which makes for a somewhat passive viewing experience.

在這裡，你看到的就是你得到的，這讓你的觀賞體驗有些被動。

It's an amusing sequence, but that's mostly down to cool production design and Pratt's always charming performance.

這是一個有趣的片段，但這主要歸功於酷炫的製作設計和普拉特一貫迷人的表演。

Guess I am gonna die of old age on this ship.

看來，我是要老死在這艘船上了。

But in the new first act, the story is infused from the start with mystery.

但在新的第一幕中，故事從一開始就充滿了神祕色彩。

When I made the editing changes, I was genuinely surprised by just how creepy Pratt's character is when you take away his point of view.

當我進行剪輯修改時，我真的很驚訝，當你去掉普拉特的視角時，他的角色是多麼令人毛骨悚然。

We don't know whether to trust him or not, believe him or not, and that makes the audience's experience an active one in every moment.

我們不知道該不該相信他，該不該相信他，這使得觀眾的體驗在每一時刻都是積極的。

As he leads Jennifer around the ship, locations become crime scenes where the viewer tries to figure out what's happening.

在他帶領詹妮弗環遊飛船的過程中，各個地點都變成了犯罪現場，觀眾試圖弄清到底發生了什麼。

This, of course, by the way, is what makes Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris so great.

當然，這也是安德烈-塔爾夫斯基的《索拉里斯》的偉大之處。

So much has happened on Solaris by the time the lead character arrives that he and the audience have to piece the fragments together themselves.

當主角到達時，《索拉里斯》中已經發生了太多的事情，以至於他和觀眾不得不自己將這些碎片拼湊起來。

我的意思是，看看他有多令人毛骨悚然。

I actually think that Pratt's performance takes on more dimensions from this angle.

實際上，我認為從這個角度看，普拉特的表演更加立體。

You're not always forced to see him as sympathetic, so his darker side comes out in greater relief.

你並不總是被迫把他看成一個值得同情的人，是以他的陰暗面就會更加明顯。

More important than that, the dark choice that sits at the heart of this film hits with greater impact when seen for the first time from Lawrence's perspective because we feel the cruelty as she feels it.

更重要的是，當我們第一次從勞倫斯的視角來觀看這部影片時，影片核心的黑暗抉擇會給我們帶來更大的衝擊，因為我們感受到了她所感受到的殘酷。

So now we're at the point where the original story hits that dead end.

所以，現在我們正處在原故事的死衚衕裡。

But with this new edit, you have some more options to play with.

不過，有了這個新編輯，您就有了更多的選擇。

Namely, with this configuration, you could actually turn Pratt into the villain the original film suggests but can't follow through on and make passengers into the thriller horror film that so many critics wanted to see.

也就是說，有了這樣的配置，你就可以真正把普拉特變成原版電影中提出但無法實現的反派角色，把乘客變成眾多影評人希望看到的驚悚恐怖片。

You could even cut back in that whole first section of Chris's time alone on the ship but put it after the revelation.

你甚至可以刪掉克里斯獨自在船上的第一部分，把它放在啟示之後。

Without the need to justify his good guy-ness, you could show a deeper, more desperate side to his loneliness.

不需要為他的好人身份辯解，你可以展現他孤獨中更深刻、更絕望的一面。

Something that I think actually would make him more sympathetic in the end and the choice he makes more agonizing.

我認為這實際上會讓他最終更值得同情，也會讓他做出的選擇更加痛苦。

Of course, this simple cut and paste doesn't solve every problem in this script.

當然，這種簡單的剪切和粘貼並不能解決腳本中的所有問題。

The ending, for example, is still an issue.

I think you'd want to remove the malfunction McGuffin, but it might be just as trite to close the story in true horror fashion.

我覺得你應該去掉 "麥克格芬故障 "這一情節，但以真正的恐怖方式結束故事也未嘗不可。

It could be cool to give it a Twilight Zone ending as Peter Scretta at Slashfilm suggested and have Pratt die and Lawrence get so lonely that she begins to contemplate the same horrible choice.

如果能像 Slashfilm 的 Peter Scretta 所建議的那樣，給它一個《陰陽魔界》的結局，讓普拉特死去，讓勞倫斯變得如此孤獨，以至於她開始考慮同樣可怕的選擇，那就很酷了。

Brainstorming like this is obviously really fun and much easier than actually writing a movie and making one.

這樣的頭腦風暴顯然非常有趣，而且比真正寫一部電影、拍一部電影要容易得多。

For all its faults, Passengers is a big budget movie with a completely original script and that should be celebrated because it's a dying breed.

儘管《乘客》有很多缺點，但它是一部擁有完全原創劇本的大製作電影，這一點值得稱讚，因為這種電影已經奄奄一息了。

But a film like this is a good opportunity for would-be screenwriters to think about story.

不過，這樣一部電影對未來的編劇來說是一個思考故事的好機會。

Because you can learn just as much from films that don't work as you can from those that do.

因為你能從失敗的電影中學到的東西和從成功的電影中學到的東西一樣多。

Hey everybody, thank you so much for watching.

大家好，非常感謝你們的收看。

This episode was brought to you by Dollar Shave Club.

本期節目由 Dollar Shave Club 為您帶來。

You might have noticed that I have a beard.

你可能已經注意到我留鬍子了。