拉斯维加斯（2005）（上）

赌场的老板一直不想让自己的钱收到损失
that the casino bosses have always protected is their bankroll.
他们看到一切已经威胁到了自己的钱了
And anything that they see that has threatened it uh,was...was put aside.
又化了十年多的时间
NARRATOR: It would be more than another decade
才彻底废除了这里的种族隔离
before the city was fully desegregated,
黑人才得到了更挣钱的赌场的工作
before African Americans could hold the more lucrative casino positions
才能住到西区以外
or make their homes beyond the West Side.
但是红磨坊协议 后来被公开了
But the Moulin Rouge agreement,as it would come to be known,
强调了一个不可更改的真理：
had underscored an irreducible truth:
拉斯维加斯最关键的颜色
the color that mattered most in Las Vegas
不是黑 或白 而是绿色
was not black or white,but green.
人们称拉斯维加斯是建立在幻想基础上的城市
COOPER: People say that Las Vegas is a town based on fantasy,
我可不这么认为
but I don't think so.
我认为拉斯维加斯 在某种方面
I think Las Vegas is,in some ways,
是美国更正直 最可靠的地方
the more honest and most authentic place in America
因为它处理许多人际关系
because it gets us down to what much of our relationships are about,
不管怎样 就是钱
in any case,which is money,
那是我们在现实世界里不愿意谈论的
and we don't like to talk about that out in the real world.
这里唯一通行的就是金钱
This is a city where the only currency is currency.
这里 如果你有了筹码
It's a place where,as long as you have the chips,
和大家是平等的
you are equal to everybody.
没有人关心你的种族
Nobody cares what your race is,
你的肤色 你的性别 你的性取向
your color,your gender,your sexual orientation.
事实上 他们甚至不关心你是否有犯罪记录
In fact,they don't even care if you have a criminal record.
大家都是一样的 直到你兜里分文不剩
Everybody is the same until you're out of money.
然后一旦你钱输光了 你就只好滚蛋了
Then when you're out of money,you're just out.
在1960年底
NARRATOR: By late 1960,
拉斯维加斯成了华纳兄弟的标志
Las Vegas was so iconic that Warner Brothers was inspired
他们在这里拍了一部主要的影片
to set a major motion picture in town:
一部欢快的传奇故事
a rollicking saga
讲得是500万美元赌场抢劫出错
about a five-million-dollar casino heist gone awry,
在这部拉斯维加斯娱乐电影里扮演三个老兵是
starring three legendary veterans of the Vegas entertainment scene:
弗兰克.辛纳特拉 迪恩.马丁 小山米.戴维斯
Frank Sinatra,Dean Martin and Sammy Davis,Jr.
在结束影片拍摄的那天
When shooting on the film wrapped for the day,
三人组要做个深夜见面会
the trio would make late-night appearances,
连同他们的演出合作明星 乔伊.毕晓普 彼得.劳福德
along with their costars Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford,
见面会是在‘金沙’豪华的大厅举♥行♥
in the luxurious Copa Room at the Sands.
他们把自己的演出称之为‘巅峰’
They called their act the "Summit."
他们的粉丝称他们为‘鼠党’
Their fans called them the "Rat Pack."
这次演出一举成功 断断续续演出了几年
The show was such a hit,that it would run on and off for years.
DEAN MARTIN: ?I kissed her and she kissed me...?
我们去金沙酒店
MAN: We went to the Sands hotel,
那里 每个大款都带上所有的钱
where every business guy with money on the planet
试图走进大门
was trying to get through the door.
每个赶时髦的 夸夸其谈的家伙
Every swinger and do-da-diddy guy,
每一个炫耀自己的家伙
every sporting life character on the face of the Earth
来到拉斯维加斯 占满了这个小城的大大小小的房♥间
was in Las Vegas,taking every room in this small town
为了能得到红磨坊的座席
so they could get a seat at the Rat Pack.
金沙的空气裂开了
And the air in the Sands crackled.
有好戏了
Something was happening.
乐曲是辛纳特拉 狄恩.马丁通过音响演奏的
The music was playing on the P.A.system of Sinatra and Dean Martin
表演的是《红男绿女》等等
doing "Guys and Dolls" and things like that.
魔力 激动
The charisma,the excitement,
大楼里下午的用电难以想象
the electricity in the building in the afternoon was beyond belief.
今天没有比得上的
There is no parallel to it today.
( 击鼓 )
( drum roll )
灯光熄灭
The lights go out.
乐队奏起音乐
The band plays the music,
报幕员说道 欢迎来到金沙演艺大厅
and the announcer says,"Welcome to the Sands Copa Room."
然后 没多说什么 帷幕打开
And then without another word,the curtain opens
弗兰克.西纳特拉走出来
and Frank Sinatra walks out,
狄恩.马丁 萨米.戴维斯 乔伊.毕晓普 彼得.劳福德
Dean Martin,Sammy Davis,Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford
都不用介绍的
with no introduction.
（ 乐队演奏 ）
( band playing snappy intro )
大家好！
DEAN MARTIN ( on recording ): Hi,everybody!
( 马丁大笑 )
( Martin laughs )
大家都是怎么来这里的？
How'd everybody get in our room?
( 观众笑声 )
( audience laughs )
狄恩...
SINATRA: Now,Dean...
他一分钟前就来了 我要他...
MARTIN: He was here a minute ago; I'll get him...
听着 我想说说你的喝酒
SINATRA: Listen,I want to talk to you about your drinking.
怎么啦 我少喝了一杯？
MARTIN: What happened? I miss a round?
不，你没少喝
SINATRA: No,you didn't miss a round.
我想说说你的酒量
I want to talk to you about the amount that you drink.
( 观众大笑 )
( audience laughs )
啊 的的确确 小声点 小萨米.戴维斯
SINATRA: Well,as I live and breathe,Sammy Davis,Jr.
为了这个漂亮的奖品 我要感谢有色人种协进会
MARTIN: I'd like to thank the NAACP for this wonderful trophy...
快把我放下来
DAVIS: Will you put me down!
( 观众大笑 )
( audience laughs )
? Nothin' could be finer than to shack up with a minor...?
?La-di-di-do... ?
( 观众大笑 )
( audience laughs )
他们不是美国最好的
They were not nice America,you know.
我的意思是 他们只是死皮赖脸的装酷
I mean,they were just sort of the dead-end of cool,
死皮赖脸 整个废话
they were the dead-end of all that jazz scene,you know.
他们体现了大意大利贫民区和犹太贫民区的精神
They were sort of the embodiment of these big Italian ghettos and Jewish ghettos.
我的意思是 他们代表了这种文化
I mean,they are the emblematic creatures of this culture
他们不顺从任何人
and they don't,you know...kowtow to no one.
( 乐队演奏 )
( band plays energetic intro )
我想大家来这里
THOMSON: I think people who came here
知道这里受黑帮控制
knew the mob were in control,
西纳特拉和鼠党 将它表演出来
and Sinatra and the Rat Pack,they sort of acted it out,
好像在说
as if to say,
你真的知道这里的情况吗？
"You know what's really going on here,don't you?"
它对常人有几分诱惑
And it was part of the glamour for the ordinary person.
各位 就是他
There he is,folks.
欢迎参加意大利聚会
Welcome to the Sons of Italy banquet.
他们是城里的半傻不傻的家伙
PILEGGI: They were urban half-ass wise guys.
他们在表演节目
They played the game.
他们非常犀利和危险
And they were very sharp and dangerous.
他们酒量很好 和各种各样的女人厮混在一起
They drank too much,they played around with different women.
大家都知道他们对妻子不忠
Everybody knew they were cheating on wives.
这不是唐娜.里德电影节
This was not a Donna Reed film festival.
这帮家伙坏透了
These guys were bad.
重要的是 拉斯维加斯所保证的将是
COOPER: Everything that Vegas promised it would be and said it would be
真正体现了在那几个星期里
really was embodied in those handful of weeks
鼠党每天晚上都在这里演出
when the Rat Pack was here performing every night.
那真是拉斯维加斯厚颜无♥耻♥的巅峰
What it really was was the pinnacle of Vegas cool.
毫无疑问 那真是拉斯维加斯历史上的高♥潮♥
No question that that really was the high-water mark of Las Vegas.
我们有时轻率地将拉斯维加斯作为罪恶之城
We flippantly refer to Las Vegas now and then as Sin City,
然而那是的拉斯维加斯确实是个罪恶之城
but that's when Las Vegas was really Sin City.
（爵士乐）
( no voices,jazz recording playing )
灯光聚焦之处
NARRATOR: Among the scores of luminaries
1960年秋天迷上了‘巅峰’的
who caught the Summit in the winter of 1960
是约翰.肯尼迪 他是马萨诸塞州的一名年轻的参议员
was John F.Kennedy,a young senator from Massachusetts
他最近刚刚宣布参加总统竞选
who had only just recently announced his candidacy for president of the United States.
肯尼迪多年来一直来拉斯维加斯
Kennedy had been coming to Vegas for years,
沉迷于这里丽人 这里危险的味道
bewitched by its beautiful women,its whiff of danger
以及这里无限好时光的承诺
and its promise of a never-ending good time.
你这王八蛋
You son of a gun,
犹太跟屁虫
you got the Jewish vote.
这座城市 一再被有魅力的候选人
NARRATOR: The city,in turn,had claimed the charismatic candidate
当作自己的家乡
as its own.
然而 肯尼迪一旦入住白宫
But once Kennedy reached the White House,
他的政♥府♥将矛头转向拉斯维加斯
his administration would turn on Las Vegas
向这座城市发起历史上最持久的攻击
and launch the most sustained attack on the city in its history.
接下来的问题是
The question then would be
因罪恶之城而出名的地方是否能够幸存下来
whether a place made famous as "Sin City" could survive
如果它进行整顿的话
if it cleaned up its act.
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