拉斯维加斯（2005）（上）

最多的一天证婚了86对
86 is the most I've done in a day.
*ELVIS: Viva Las Vegas... *
我曾经在一个全是裸体参与者的舞台上 见证过一次婚姻
OFFICIANT: I did one wedding onstage in a total nude joint.
我曾经在一个晚上为一个男人和他的摩托车证过婚
I did a commitment ceremony one night for a man and his motorcycle.
有一天来了一位夫人
I had a lady come in one day,
两个随从跟着来的 他们都是精心打扮
had a couple of attendants with her,were all dressed up.
她想嫁给自己
She wanted to marry herself.
我留意到你们一个是生活在新奥尔良
I notice that one of you lives in New Orleans
一个是生活在梅泰里
and one lives in Metairie.
梅泰里 对
Metairie,yeah.
梅泰里? 真的?
Metairie? Mm-hmm.
你们中的一个将要移居
Are one of you going to move
还是你去...
or are you going to...
啊 是他过来
Yeah,he's coming.
...那你感到高兴吗?
...or are you going to be happy?
我们将搬到一起住的
We going to move together.
(笑声)
( chuckles )
(风琴演奏'新娘来了')
( "Here Comes the Bride" plays on organ )
证婚礼堂是项生意
OFFICIANT: The wedding chapels are a business.
过来 伙计
Right there,guys.
我想有些牧师
OFFICIANT: I think that some of the ministers
在市里证婚混淆了牧师的职责
that do weddings in this town confuse that with a ministry,
然而我是注重效力的
but I roll with the punches.
人们想怎样 对我来说都无所谓的
Whaever these people want is okay with me.
杰金 你承认 戈尔丁 为自己的合法妻子吗?
Jürgen,do you take Goudrin to be your lawful wedded wife?
(翻译成德语)
( translating into German )
承认
Yes,I do.
戈尔丁 你承认 杰金 为自己的合法丈夫吗
Goudrin,do you take Jürgen to be your lawful wedded husband?
承认
Yes.
用内华达州授予我的权力
By the powers vested in me by the state of Nevada,
我宣布你们成为夫妻
I pronounce you husband and wife.
你要在那里举办婚礼?
You got a wedding down there?
好的
Okay.
好的 别让他们离开
All right,hold onto them.
我马上就到
I'll be there as quick as I can.
我认为结婚是件大事
OFFICIANT: I think marriage is great.
请下注 女士们 先生们
MAN: Place your bets,ladies and gentlemen.
英国作家萨默塞特.毛姆
NARRATOR: The British writer Somerset Maugham
曾经描述蒙特卡洛
once described Monte Carlo,
那个法国里维埃拉的迷人的赌博度假胜地
the glamorous gambling resort on the French Riviera,
为'阴暗的人呆的阳光灿烂的地方'
as "a sunny place for shady people."
在上世纪40年代早期
By the early 1940s,
拉斯维加斯也有同样的说法
the same might have been said of Las Vegas.
所谓的运动生涯的人们的第一拨大潮
The first big wave of so-called sporting life characters
在1938年又回来了
had arrived back in 1938,
之前具有改革意识的洛杉矶市长 将他们赶出了洛杉矶
after a reform-minded mayor ran them out of Los Angeles.
便当的短途旅程 从天使之城出发
An easy day-trip from the City of Angels,
拉斯维加斯显然
Las Vegas had become the obvious destination
是大量的非法赌博玩家
for the scores of illegal gambling operators
扑克老千和逃犯的目的地
and card sharks and dirty cops on the lam.
他们被吸引到这里 是因为他们有技能
MOEHRING: They gravitated to the city because they had the expertise.
他们比当地的乡巴佬懂得多
They knew more than many of the local yokels
当地人只能经营小的场子
who were running the small casinos
如何让客户高兴 如何送些免费票
of how to make customers happy,how to give comps,
就是这么点东西
when to do it.
他们把真正的专业的赌场经营
And they brought a real expertise in casino management
带到了拉斯维加斯
to Las Vegas.
现在来了一位拉斯维加斯黑社会的
NARRATOR: Now came one of the more infamous denizens
臭名昭著的人物
of L.A.'s underworld,
短小精悍的 反复无常的歹徒
a dapper and often volatile mobster
是本杰明的《豪情四海》里的西格尔的原型
by the name of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.
是知名的辛迪加这个全国犯罪组织的
A key player in the national crime organization
关键人物
known as the syndicate,
西格尔 36岁时 被认为是
Siegel,at 36,was arguably
他那个时代最畸形的企业家
one of the most crooked entrepreneurs of his time.
他在30年代 大部分时间是在好莱坞度过的
He'd spent most of the 1930s in Hollywood,
看管拉斯维加斯那日进50万美元的赌马业
overseeing L.A.'s half-a-million-dollar-a-day bookmaking enterprise
厌倦了制片主管和电影明星围在自己身边
and palling around with studio executives and movie stars on the side.
但是到了内华达州成为了联邦中唯一一个州
But when Nevada became the only state in the Union
赌马合法化后
to legalize the racewire,
一种在全国各地的场外下注点
a service that relayed thoroughbred racing results
转播赛马结果的服务
to off-track bookies across the country,
辛迪加的老板迈耶.兰斯基将西格尔派去
syndicate boss Meyer Lansky sent Siegel to take over the action
接手拉斯维加斯的业务
in Las Vegas.
毕斯.西格尔在1941年到拉斯维加斯上任
MOEHRING: Bugsy Siegel was sent up to Las Vegas in 1941
带上缪·赛奎去干掉 詹姆斯·拉根
with Moe Sedway to eliminate James Ragan
他拥有的一条赛马道 黑帮控制不了
who owned a racewire here that the mob did not control.
这帮家伙来后 开出了一条与之竞争的赛马道
These guys came here and they created a rival racewire.
他们费用较低
They charged lower prices
最后他们通过下毒搞掉了Ragan
and eventually they got rid of Ragan by poisoning him.
一旦除掉了拉根 西格尔对于黑帮来说
Once they had eliminated Ragan,it was obvious to Siegel
在这里具有明显的潜力
that there were real possibilities here for the mob.
拉斯维加斯基本上还是个偏僻的小镇
NARRATOR: Las Vegas was still basically a one-horse town--
一个车站 一排俗气的赌窟
a train depot and a row of gaudy gambling joints
四周包围着数千英亩的尚待开♥发♥的沙漠
surrounded by thousands of acres of undeveloped desert.
但有充分的理由相信
But there was every reason to believe
这个地方在奔向繁荣
the place was headed for a spectacular boom.
最近两个新的防御设施安家在
Two new defense installations had been recently situated
城镇的郊外
on the outskirts of town,
两者带来了几千人
which together had brought thousands of people
他们的薪水纳入了拉斯维加斯的势力范围
and their payrolls into Las Vegas's orbit.
现在国家处于战胜时期
And now that the country was at war,
大批热切的夫妇
hordes of impatient couples
早已蜂拥越过边界来到内华达
were already stampeding over the border into Nevada,
这里的州法允许结婚
where state law allowed them to tie the knot
无需回家等待抽血化验报告
without waiting for the blood tests,required back home.
由于拉斯维加斯也上演闪电式离婚
Since Las Vegas also performed quickie divorces,
已经被排名为
and already ranked
全国抛弃配偶的顶级场所之一
as one of the country's top spots to dump a spouse,
西格尔出现在弗里蒙特街的赌场里
Siegel figured the casinos on Fremont Street
这里很快就成了工地
would soon be packed to the rafters.
‘如果辛迪加想取得有利地位
"If the syndicate wanted to get in on the ground floor,"
他告诉兰斯基 ‘现在是时候了’
he told Lansky,"now was the time."
在接下来的几年里 带着兰斯基的祝福
Over the next several years,with Lansky's blessing,
西格尔将黑帮的资金投资到弗里蒙特街的
Siegel sank mob money into a handful of gambling halls
一批赌场里
on Fremont Street,
那是在1945年彻底买♥♥下艾尔蔻苔斯之前
before buying the El Cortez outright in 1945.
出面的老板只是挂挂名的
The official owner was a front man.
在他背后有本投资者的花名册
Behind him was a roster of investors
念起来就像黑帮的名人录
that read like a Who's Who of organized crime--
他们从现金抽头中按股份分配收益
men who got their share of the profits from cash skimmed off the top.
抽头不交税 不记账
COOPER: There's no taxes on a skim and there's no bookkeeping on a skim.
这是你的预付资金
It is your up-front money.
一旦黑帮控制了赌场中的一个
When the mob controlled one of these casinos,
他们用上自己的探子 负责监督
they had their operatives who would effectively supervise
清点♥金♥钱的所谓的清点室
what's called the hard-count room,which is where you'd count up the money
你知道如果鲍勃或乔这种家伙
and you knew that if Bob or Joe was the guy
真的带着袋子或箱子
who would come in literally with a sack or with a box
装上钱走出房♥间...
and pick up some money and walk out the door...
啊 谁都不会注意的
Well,nobody saw anything.
大量金钱从这些地方流出来
It was a lot of money came out of those places.
要知道
You would know,
有人在负责分配
there were people who had the breakdown of how much--
这去了芝加哥 这去了密尔沃基 这在这里
this goes to Chicago,this goes to Milwaukee,this goes here.
要知道每分钱都有去处
You knew to the penny where that money was going
都有人得到它
and who was getting it.
计谋如此简单 如此有利可图
NARRATOR: The scheme was so simple and so profitable
西格尔很快就推动辛迪加
that Siegel was soon pushing the syndicate
作出了一个更大的投资
to make a more sizable investment,
这次是个新开♥发♥
this time in a risky new development
市中心大约3英里的冒险