一言不合就開打？No！《X戰警·天啟》才沒這麼膚淺

導讀：超級英雄之間的大戰近期在銀幕上不斷上演，但能夠戳中觀眾痛點的非《X戰警：天啟》莫屬。除去製作精良的動作場面，生動有趣的故事背景、以及引人入勝的反派角色的設定，《天啟》無疑是《X戰警》系列中最精彩的一部。

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This is turning into the season of superheroes battling other superheroes, but X-Men: Apocalypse is the first one to do it right.

雖然超級英雄大戰的題材近來在銀幕上屢見不鮮，但《X戰警：天啟》才算得上是首部成功之作。

One of the best of the X-Men films, the new entry is full of finely crafted action, all of it in the service of interesting and well-thought-out ideas. Resting on neither formula nor audience goodwill, the X-Men series is going deeper and getting better as it goes along.

作為《X戰警》系列最佳之一，《X戰警：天啟》通過大量製作精良的動作場面展現出了有趣且周密的故事設定。既不形式化，也無一味地迎合觀眾，可見《X戰警》系列已越來越深刻和精彩。

For a little pre-credits sequence, director Bryan Singer re-creates ancient Egypt. The idea at work here is that the Egyptian rulers were actually the first mutants, and that the top ruler–known as Apocalypse–had the ultimate power. By inhabiting the bodies of a series of mutants, he has maintained his youth and acquired multiple abilities.

在電影片頭前，導演布萊恩?辛格重新創造了古埃及的場面。本部的劇情設定中，古埃及統治者實際上是最早的變種人，而其中被稱為「天啟」的最高統治者擁有終極力量。他通過附身在一些變種人身上得以永葆青春並獲得了多種超能力。

Singer illustrates the passage of time from ancient days through the late 20th century by catapulting the viewer through a twisting corridor, in which we see glimpses of the crucifixion, Renaissance art, the rise of Nazism and the emergence of the Cold War. Finally, viewers arrive in the promising era of the 1980s.

辛格展現了從古代到20世紀末的時間線，讓觀眾從一個扭曲旋轉的時間隧道中飛速穿越，一瞥耶穌受難、文藝復興時期的藝術、納粹崛起、冷戰爆發等事件，最後抵達充滿希望的20世紀80年代。

Every action movie needs a villain, but not just any old villain with a vague

desire to take over the world. A villain needs a rationale to explain why he thinks he』s right. He also needs some personal magnetism, so that we can understand why others might follow him. Through the script and through Oscar Isaac』s performance, we get that in Apocalypse.

每一部動作片都需要一個大反派，但並非是那種稀里糊塗一心想要征服世界的老套反派。一個反派角色需要有理有據地解釋清楚為什麼他認為自己的所作所為是正確的，同時他也需要一些個人魅力，我們才能理解為什麼有人願意追隨他。通過《X戰警：天啟》的劇本及奧斯卡?伊薩克的表演，我們就能充分理解「天啟」這個反派角色。

Apocalypse has the idea that the strong should dominate the weak. To his eyes, that means mutants have a natural right to rule humans. But when he arrives in the 1980s, he sees the weak are dominating the strong–to him, the ultimate perversity. So he has only one logical recourse: to figure out a way to destroy absolutely everything and start all over.

「天啟」認為強者應該統治弱小。因而在他眼中，變種人自然有權統治人類。但是當他來到20世紀80年代，卻眼見情況恰恰相反，這對於他來說完全是不正常的。因此只有一種合邏輯的解決方法：想辦法摧毀一切，重新開始。

As in Captain America: Civil War (2016), viewers soon have two teams of individuals, each with what could be called super powers, fighting each other. But Civil War gave people a weak situation in which no one was wrong, little was at stake and the consequences were mild. X-Men: Apocalypse, by contrast, goes for broke. Civilization is at stake, and both sides are trying to kill each other.

在影片《美國隊長3：內戰》（2016）中，觀眾開場沒多久就看到了擁有超能力的兩個陣營劍拔弩張的場面。然而《內戰》中講述的情節缺少說服力，在那種情形下沒有人是錯的，鮮有危急關頭，結局亦顯平淡。相比之下，《X戰警：天啟》就讓人有不得不孤注一擲的感覺。文明危在旦夕，雙方陣營都試圖置對方於死地。

In most superhero movies, trying to kill each other would mean scenes of characters throwing each other around. But X-Men: Apocalypse is smarter than that, with the most important battles taking place inside the minds of Apocalypse and Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X.

絕大多數超級英雄電影中，你死我活的情節意味著將出現狂摔對手的畫面。不過，《X戰警：天啟》更高明，將終極大戰全部設定在「天啟」及「X教授」查爾斯?澤維爾的大腦意念里。

Xavier』s mental capacity to communicate with everyone on the planet seems almost like a metaphor for the internet here. To succeed, tyrants need that final piece, to achieve complete control over communications.

影片中，澤維爾有著可以與地球上的任何人心靈溝通的超能力，似乎是如今互聯網的隱喻。為了成功，獨裁者需要擁有這種能力，通過通訊達到徹底的控制。

The movie』s focus is mainly fixed on Professor X and his rival Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and the evolution of their worldviews. Their stories echo and reverberate. They are the best argument for X-Men: Apocalypse as a thinking person』s action movie.

影片主要聚焦 「X教授」和其對手「萬磁王」（邁克爾?法斯賓德飾）以及兩人世界觀的發展改變。兩人的故事也相互呼應並影響。這兩個角色很好地證明了《X戰警：天啟》是一部有思想的動作片。

本文刊登於《21世紀英文報》1158期V2版

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