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Last friend

2008/07/23

我先承認,這部片吸引我的地方是來自於「交想情人夢」的三人組(或者說是雙人組上野樹里和水川麻美),五個年輕新生代演員的演技也很吸引我入戲,不過一集一集看完之後,發現這齣戲可以聊的東西著實不少。




整部戲當中想要探討的性別議題非常多,家庭暴力、性別認同障礙、性恐懼...等,這篇文章裡面也對於劇中跨性別議題的探討和細緻表現有極大的讚賞。這是我覺得目前其他包括台灣在內在連續劇節目製作上還及不上的地方(台灣除去公視不算的話):嘗試對身心障礙以及社會議題等寫實題材進行探討,目前日劇當中已經有相當多類似的主題,包括自閉症、小腦萎縮症。戲中的描述未必和真實情況完全相符合,但是這個眼光在連續劇當中是很有前導性的。

不過除了上述優點以及演員個人的演技之外,大概就沒什麼值得一提的了。在全劇的開頭主題曲裡有對五位主角加註character:


但是只有長澤雅美跟上野樹里在劇中把這個作為人物特徵的特性展現出來,其他的幾個角色都受限於劇情而沒辦法把相性最大化,我覺得很可惜。整個劇情架構在第一集就陸續切入主題,可是中間段的進展步調跟第一集的快速相比又有著極大落差,更別提最終回跟SP整個都被搞爛,我到現在還沒辦法接受最終回是以無釐頭的大逆轉來作收,這個責任必須要歸咎到編劇身上。

聽完日劇主題曲,我特地去找了宇多田的新專輯來聽,聽了幾次之後實在覺得這跟當年她同樣為日劇"Hero"所寫的主題曲"Can you keep a secret"在演唱架構上有很大相像:一開始用簡單的節奏搭配副歌拉出主歌部分,在verse跟verse之間也用合音改寫的一段副歌改編進入歌曲。歌詞的敘述跟劇情也讓人有一定程度的聯想性,據說是她特地為這齣戲寫的,這點的真假還有待商榷,但從歌名、曲風跟歌詞上都跟日劇非常契合,令人不得不佩服她創作的才華。

基本上我非常贊成這篇文章的說法,現在如果還繼續叫她R & B天后的話是太過牽強了,話說我個人從以前也聽不太出來她的歌到底R & B在哪就是。專輯裡面大概只有kiss & cry這首歌的編曲算是比較funk接近靈魂樂的,另外一首她親自譜寫的童歌「我是熊」則讓人感覺到她童心未泯的可愛面,下一首歌「虹色巴士」接得也很巧妙,沒看播放清單會以為是接著上一首「我是熊」的變奏,非常有趣。除此之外,整張專輯還是比較偏向J-Pop一些,很多首歌用了不少電子元素,中板的節奏讓整個編曲流暢而不失於刺耳,這些歌可以讓一個一向不太聽電子樂的人一聽再聽,我覺得整個創作上已經是相當成功了。

最後附上主題曲MTV,順便一提,第一:宇多田變胖了,第二:她在MTV裡的造型跟劇中瑠可還真有幾分相似,不知道是否也是順應連續劇的風潮?


Same part of song as David Tao and Commodores?!

2008/06/28

首先先謝過這位haemogoblin網友,這個回應我之前就想談了。這證明了我聽歌還是聽得不夠多。除了這個以外,回頭來看之前說張學友「和好不如初」有reggae風格,現在覺得也真是會令人貽笑大方的發言。


先看一下這兩首歌曲:





前面是Commodores 1977年的"easy",後面則是陶吉吉的專輯MV。顯然,當時給陶吉吉的「美國R&B的原汁原味」這個評價是應該要修正一番,之前在Boyz II Men的A Journey Through Hitsville USA 專輯當中已經聽出來了,這張專輯也翻唱了The Commodores的"Easy",當時第一個感覺就是「這開頭跟"陶吉吉飛機場的10:30"根本一樣」,上網找了一下,幾乎沒有提到這首歌跟Commodores原曲的相關性,反而是韓國人曹奎燦的翻唱在網上掀起一波討論。

plagiarize跟sample說真的有時很難在定義上作區別,恰巧,陶吉吉在華語歌壇是很喜歡使用sample的歌手,「月亮代表我的心」、「望春風」、「忘不了」都是很經典的代表作。「望春風」跟「飛機場的10:30」更剛好收錄在同一張專輯,誰能相信作出「望春風」的陶吉吉,用這種相較之下近乎低劣的手法把Commodores的歌曲sample到自己另外一首歌?

順便引用一下wiki的定義,sample也是必須要透過法律上規定的版權程序的:
Sampling has been an area of contention from a legal perspective. Early sampling artists simply used portions of other artists' recordings, without permission; once rap and other music incorporating samples began to make significant money, the original artists began to take legal action, claiming copyright infringement. Some sampling artists fought back, claiming their samples were fair use (a legal doctrine in the USA that is not universal). International sampling is governed by agreements such as the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act.

姑且把這個狀況當成sample,從陶吉吉當時發這張專輯對於此事幾乎完全沒有提及的狀況下,這個程序也是很有問題的,不過台灣對於這種版權問題一向都是草率帶過,只是在陶吉吉的才華之下,這個問題更令人失望。

這個case讓我想到之前高中生得獎小說抄襲九把刀的爭議,楊牧有句話說得相當好:「文學作品不應該有雷同的情況,所謂的巧合也是作者本身閱讀廣度不足的缺失。」所有藝術創作者,尤其是已經成名的創作者,都應該抱持這樣的積極心態。

Two Cheers for Steroids?

2008/06/21

The topic is from this article

The controversy of using human steroid has been a few years; it has no common conclusion to this issue in pro-sports. The most popular argument that steroid using is not a nature enhancement for the pro-competition; it violates the "fair principle" of sports. In the article, author made two points: first, set the regulation for the steroid in pro-sports like tobacco and alcohol: restrict for teens and children, but free for adult, second, the steroid may be applicable to horse racing.


Let's imagine it: there is no any steroid regulation for every adult sports player, Barry Bonds may hit more and more homeruns than his career year in coming seasons; Michael Jordan may continue his legend until right now……how amazing like this!

There will be a good chance to see that if opening the restriction of the steroid, but anyone can promise that every sports player could get the same treat for this opening?

It's not only about aspect of sports players, but also many other professions. For a simple example: assuming there are supply and demand in the medicine factories and players, every player want to be the best level of their area, when they make the better performance based on steroid, they have the benefit-risk relationship with factories, so, the worse thing could happen like that: business entity entirely control the result which they want through the drugs, the sports lose their original sprit of competition.

The author also mentioned another viewpoint about steroid application in horse racing, before my opinion, I acknowledge that I don't have any idea about horse racing, but I have some common sense. Anyone would breed his child for drug, make him stronger in short term, but undermine his health, even his life in long term? You must be kidding me. I mean, I don't think there is any difference in horse if we will be convicted by "child abuse" in people. It's a big development to breed a horse, just like raising a child. It takes a lot of work to train the horse, make the rider get familiar to the horse, but it take few time to destroy everything through drug abuse.

It is not simple as something in laws, there are many potential "moral corruptions" beyond steroid using, and morality is fundamental of sports. Before finding a perfect solution to the problems addition to human steroid, we should take a conservative attitude to this issue. I agree the recommendation of professor: put the steroid to the regulation of other drug, maybe it's a better choice to put it to the same level with heroin, cocaine in pro-sport.

A great sport blog

2008/05/18

之前在Rational ecnomics to ban high school from NBA?這篇當中有提到Sports Law Blog這個站,最近幾期的ESPN也有幾篇差不多的主題,他們三月份的10th anniversary有一篇"Will the future of sports have a new address?"今天收到的五月號我還沒拆,封面專題是"Bionic athletes",這些都是非常Sports Law Blog風的主題,我越來越喜歡這些東西了。喜歡研究sports的朋友們真的很建議你們去這個blog挖寶,他給你的是很多比賽內容以外的東西。台灣現在through statistics to sports已經非常普遍了,不過結合其他科學諸如social science、biologics等學科來看相對就少了一些,Junkyard Diary 我覺得是蠻有感覺的其中之一,把sports這個東西做得越來越大是我對自己的期許,希望未來也能有更多blogger投入。

miscellanea

2006/08/30

當初弄了這個Blog的目的並沒有做一個特別限定,主要是以Sixers這支球隊為主。很不巧的是這個Blog開始的時候Sixers已經開始放暑假了,所以篇幅看來有些冷清。但是等到球季開始之後, 我可能也得在軍營中享受我的人生了,要同時兼顧Sixers的消息,是一個蠻遙遠的理想,不過我會盡力的。


在接近九月的暑假尾聲,我會開始一連串的旅行,抒解一下這一年以來的壓力。如果可以的話,會把遊記整理好給放上來,根據過往的經驗,我的遊記只存在於相片和腦海裡,所以也是很不一定的事情。

昨天看了阿根廷對上土耳其的比賽,阿根廷只花了一節半的時間就把世錦賽的八強賽變成了好像大人打小孩的比賽。包括美國隊在內,各國國家隊的情況我並不熟悉,但個人覺得這場比賽雙方的實力差距並沒有帳面上顯示的大,土耳其一開始在兩邊Swing的配合和阿根廷前鋒後衛間的禁區接應可以說是各擅勝場,不過奧運冠軍的確有勝人一籌之處,阿根廷的防守和戰術執行的穩定性都較土耳其佳,所以後來能夠把差距拉開,這點跟上次看到西班牙與塞爾維亞在新加坡的熱身賽頗為類似。這幾支泛歐陸地區的國家在配合上都做得相當不錯,我私心以為,他們在互相交戰的時候可能會有在跟自己對抗的錯覺。有點後悔沒有從頭好好的把這次世錦賽跟完。看到大差距的比分就提不起勁的這種壞習慣要好好改一下,不然就會有知其然而不知其所以然的窘境,搞得文裡充斥著糗爺式的華麗文辭修飾真的是一件非常囧的一件事。

另外一些其他的雜感就不提了,靜坐?王建民封殺媒體?這種事沒有必要浪費筆墨,想多了我都害怕我會成為那些殺不盡的記者政客們。