Name: 【TED】丹-貝爾：美國死氣沉沉的商場內幕(Inside America's dead shopping malls | 丹-貝爾) (【TED】Dan Bell: Inside America's dead shopping malls (Inside America's dead shopping malls | Dan Bell))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:31:17.000Z
Duration: 11 min 54 s

I have produced what I call "The Dead Mall Series,"

32 short films and counting about dead malls.

我製作了一個短片影集； 稱為「商場廢墟實錄」。

Now, for those of you who are not familiar with what a dead mall is,

紀錄下來的廢棄商場影片， 算起來有 32 支。

對於不太了解甚麼是 商場廢墟的各位，

So it either has few shops and fewer shoppers,

or it's abandoned and crumbling into ruin.

它們不是裡面沒幾家商店， 就是門口羅雀；

要不然就是被棄置， 慢慢變成廢墟的商場。

潘尼沒生意了。 (美國平價連鎖百貨)。

我從 2015 年早期， 開始錄製這些影集，

after going through kind of a dark period in my life

where I just didn't want to create films anymore.

So in 2015, I decided to make a short film about the Owings Mills Mall.

直到 2015 年，我想替 歐溫斯商場錄一支紀錄片，

歐溫斯購物商場 在 1986 開始營業。

I should know because I was there on opening day.

我應該沒記錯， 因為開幕那天我在現場。

along with every other family in Baltimore,

抵達時，車子繞了大約 45 分鐘；

所以你們可想而知今天 盛況已難重現。

我十幾歲時的第一個商場工作，

是在一家「赫爾門運動世界」 運動器材店打工。

My first mall job that I had as a teenager

was at a sporting goods store called Herman's World of Sports.

赫爾門運動世界… （唱廣告歌）

後來我又在一家女士鞋店工作；

Yeah, so I worked in a lady's shoe store.

但我不是做「零售藝術」的材料，

and not being one who was very fond of the retail arts --

我幾乎做到哪裡就被炒到哪裡。

其實我只是跟朋友在商場沒事閒晃。

你們就像這樣， 「我的天！這是甚麼鬼演講啊？」

Everyone's like, "Oh my God, what kind of talk is this?"

在商場閒晃很有趣， 但有的時候也很憋，

像是晚上跟一個 40 歲失業、 成天泡商場的傢伙合抽一支菸，

Hanging out at the mall could be fun, but it could be really lame, too,

like sharing a cigarette with a 40-year-old unemployed mall rat

在那領最低工資工作的休息時間裡。

who has put on black lipstick for the night

while you're on your break from your crappy minimum wage job.

歐溫斯購物商場已經被清空了，

The last time I was there, it was in the evening,

剛好是他們決定歇業的三天前。

and it was about three days before they closed the mall for good.

他們從未對外宣布歇業的事情，

they never announced the mall was closing,

當時心中已經有種不祥的預兆，

but you had this sort of feeling, this ominous feeling,

似乎有甚麼重大事情要發生的感覺，

好像已經走到窮途末路的感覺。

走過商場令人感到很毛骨悚然。

It was a very creepy walk through the mall.

所以當我開始錄製 「商場廢墟實錄」時，

So when I started producing "The Dead Mall Series,"

and while I thought they were interesting,

坦白說，我並不知道 其他人會有熱情，

frankly I didn't think others would share the enthusiasm

將這種死氣沉沉、 郁悶的東西分享出去，

because a lot of people started to comment.

「天啊！那是我小時候常去的商場，

basically like, "Oh my God, that's the mall from my childhood.

And then I would get comments from people who were like,

「我家附近有家購物商場要關了， 你們應該來拍點影片。」

"There's a dead mall in my town. You should come and film it."

所以我開始遊歷中大西洋地區，

So I started to travel around the mid-Atlantic region

It was kind of always hard to get into the ones that were abandoned,

他們總是做些詭異的事； 好像快要死掉似的。

they always do this weird thing -- like the dead malls.

to make it appear like things are on the up-and-up.

你看到的是一家裡面沒東西的商店，

像歐溫斯購物商場， 把門用防水布蓋起來。

So at Owings Mills, for example, they put this tarp over the gate.

And then there's a guy standing next to her, with, like,

【TED】丹-貝爾：美國死氣沉沉的商場內幕(Inside America's dead shopping malls | 丹-貝爾) (【TED】Dan Bell: Inside America's dead shopping malls (Inside America's dead shopping malls | Dan Bell))

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