拉斯维加斯（2005）（上）

The next one we did,we quadrupled our money.
我只是不断地说着 我知道我♥干♥这行
And I just kept saying,"I know I can do this."
我能够满足...我将百万元的房♥子卖♥♥给的对象
I see right now...I sell million-dollar houses to people
在10年前 就像我一样
who,ten years ago,were just like me.
在这个社会和这种环境中
And in this community and in this kind of environment,
给了我们这样的梦想
it's given us that dream.
对我们来说 其它地方是做不到的
I never could have done this-- for us-- any place else.
音乐将我们带到这里 我们在这里站住了脚跟
And music brought us here-- and here we are.
行啊 姑娘！
All right,girl!
噢 耶！噢 耶！
Oh,yeah,oh,yeah,oh,yeah...
如果有人说过
WOMAN: If somebody would have ever said
我的女儿到拉斯维加斯的圣母大教堂去
my daughter would go to Our Lady of Las Vegas
也就是说她的出身证明上
or that on her birth certificate
写着生于拉斯维加斯
it would say "Las Vegas,"
我最疯狂的梦想里永远都不会那么想的
I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that,
因为你会认为这里是罪恶之城
because you think it's Sin City.
我们第一次在这里安家
When we first decided to get off the road
抚育我们的孩子
and raise our baby here,
我说 我们怎么能够生活在拉斯维加斯啊
I said,"How can we live in Las Vegas?
我们是在养育小女儿啊
We're raising a little girl."
他说 你知道什么啊 我有个愿景
He says,"You know what? I have a vision
我们能够在这里扎根的
"that we can have our life here
我们可以住在这里 但不是它的一员
and we can be in it but not of it."
( 音乐结束 大人们喝彩 )
( music ends,adults cheer )
这就是周末的夜晚
That's it,that's a Saturday night.
1950年秋天
NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER: Fall of 1950--
激烈的国际战争
a fierce international war
分♥裂♥了一个叫做朝鲜的小国家
rips through a small country called Korea.
俄♥国♥已经成功地爆♥炸♥了原♥子♥弹♥
Russia has successfully detonated an atomic bomb.
现在比以前更
Now more than ever before,
需要发展和生产更多的
we need to develop and produce a greater number
甚至更强大的核武器了
and possibly even more powerful atomic weapons.
像所有的新概念和新武器一样
And like all new ideas and weapons,
新的核弹必须先要进行实验
new atomic bombs must first be tested.
然而在那里实验呢？
But where?
就在1951年1月27日黎明前
NARRATOR: Just before dawn on January 27,1951,
一道耀眼的白光照亮了拉斯维加斯的天空
a blinding white flash lit up the Las Vegas sky.
几分钟后 巨大的爆♥炸♥
Minutes later,there was a thundering blast
留下一条碎玻璃
that left a trail of broken glass
从弗里蒙特大街到脱衣舞厅
from Fremont Street clear out to the Strip.
在内华达的核爆♥炸♥实验开始了
Atomic bomb testing at the Nevada proving facility had begun.
...1， 起爆！
MAN: ...one,T-zero.
在接下来的12年里 120个核装置-
Over the next 12 years,120 nuclear devices--
平均每五个星期一个-
an average of one every five weeks--
将在莫哈韦沙漠里引爆
would be detonated aboveground in the Mojave Desert,
距离拉斯维加斯市中心仅65英里
just 65 miles from downtown Las Vegas.
‘我们的名声已经被赌博 离婚以及不好的娱乐所美化
"We have glorified gambling,divorces and doubtful pleasures
要先于国家的其它地方’
to get our name before the rest of the country,"
拉斯维加斯太阳报的出版人 汉克.格林斯潘这样写道
wrote Las Vegas Sun publisher Hank Greenspun.
现在 我们能够成为我们国家如今
"Now we can become part
所从事的最重要的工作的一部分
"of the most important work carried on by our country today.
我们找到了自己作为一个社区存在的理由了
We have found a reason for our existence as a community."
原♥子♥弹♥在这里实验的计划
TITUS: Having the atomic testing program here
为我们提供了一定的合理性
gave us a certain amount of legitimacy.
在这之前 我们只是沙漠里的一个污点
Up until that point,we were just a spot in the desert,
卖♥♥淫 赌博
we were prostitution,we were gambling.
突然我们受益于冷战
Suddenly we were helping to win the Cold War,
我认为人们可以抓住机遇
and I think people could grab a hold of that
因为那时推进民♥主♥的好事
because it was a good thing to do for democracy.
在‘原子’一词在整个国家出现时
NARRATOR: At a moment when the word "atomic" was cropping up on signs all over the country,
童子军在努力获得‘原子能’价值徽章时
when Boy Scouts were laboring to earn their "atomic energy" merit badges
好莱坞在制♥作♥有关核间谍的影片时
and Hollywood was putting out films about nuclear espionage,
拉斯维加斯所具有的独特的区别是
Las Vegas had the singular distinction
作为美国唯一的城市
of being the only city in America
处于爆♥炸♥点的前沿阵地
with a front row seat at ground zero.
在拉斯维加斯的宣传机器的手中
In the hands of Las Vegas's publicity machine,
核毁灭的恐惧现在成为了奇观
the specter of nuclear annihilation now became spectacle.
商会发布了一系列的新闻稿
The Chamber of Commerce put out a series of press releases
把爆♥炸♥作为娱乐来推销
promoting the explosions as entertainment,
捣鼓出时新的射击日历牌
churned out up-to-date shot calendars
来帮助游客安排旅程
to help tourists schedule their trips
安排路线图
and distributed road maps that highlighted
突出围绕试验场的最佳观察点
the best vantage points around the test site.
同时 赌场主办最终在黎明前爆♥炸♥的‘原♥子♥弹♥派对’
Casinos,meanwhile,hosted "bomb parties"that culminated with a predawn blast,
为宾客提供接送服务
and offered limousine service to guests
尽可能地靠近爆♥炸♥点
hong to get as close to ground zero as possible.
炸♥弹♥在黎明前爆♥炸♥ 美妙的壮观
THOMSON: The bombs went off at dawn-- wonderful spectacle.
人们爬上屋顶
People would go up to the roofs
他们想要看的高兴
and they'd watch with glee.
这是娱乐的一部分
It was part of the entertainment.
确实是表演的一部分
It was definitely part of a show.
提起蘑菇云
TITUS: If you think about the mushroom cloud,
非常的强劲 非常性感 非常恐怖
it's a very powerful,very sexy,very scary concept.
因此它正好适合旅游业
And so it fits right in with tourism.
风险 知道吗 赌博就是处处存在着风险
Risk,you know,gambling is all about risk,
因此你就需要蘑菇云
so you take that mushroom cloud
你会将它作为选美大赛的竞赛者的
and you pin it on a beauty pageant contestant.
甚至一些赌场会打包野餐
Or even some of the casinos would pack picnic lunches
让你出去观察蘑菇云
for you to go out and watch the mushroom cloud.
我想我要是那时在这里的话 我会这么做的
I would have done it if I'd been here at that time.
还有比这更令人兴奋的吗？
What could be more exciting than that?
这是沃尔特.克朗凯 这是新闻界的大人物
CRONKITE: This is Walter Cronkite and this is Newsmen's Nob,
在内华达州拉斯维加斯以北大约75英里处
some 75 miles north of Las Vegas,Nevada.
炸♥弹♥将在300英尺高的塔上爆♥炸♥
The bomb will be exploded from a tower 300 feet high,
此时 上千名战士将在壕沟里
and this time,some thousand troops will be in trenches
距离核装置爆♥炸♥的塔只有两英里
only some two miles from the tower where the atomic device goes off.
...3，2，1，
MAN: ...three,two,one,
引爆
zero.
我父亲常把我们当作孩子
GREENSPUN: My father used to take us as kids.
我们常爬上查尔斯顿山
We used to go up to Mount Charleston.
我记得观看那些蘑菇云的情景
And I remember watching these mushroom clouds.
几分钟后 那些微粒-
And a number of minutes later,these particles--
那些细小的粒子-
these pink particles--
就降到我们的头上 就是尘埃
would just settle over us,this dust.
而且都有放射性 放射尘
And that was all radioactive,you know,fallout.
我们都相信政♥府♥说的 那是安全的
We all took the government's word that it was safe.
政♥府♥在骗我们
The government lied to us.
随着时间的推移 有了抗♥议♥的呼声
NARRATOR: As the decade wore on,there would be pockets of protest,
在1963年 禁止核试验条约
and in 1963,the Limited Test Ban Treaty
最终结束了大气层里的核爆♥炸♥
would finally put an end to the atmospheric detonations.
然而现在 任何拉斯维加斯藏有核弹的顾虑
But for now,any misgivings Las Vegans harbored
都将很容易被抛之脑后
about the bombs were easily brushed aside.
城市不断成长
The town was growing.
旅游业欣欣向荣
Tourism was booming.
每当在沙漠上空绽放时
And every time a radioactive cloud bloomed over the desert,
拉斯维加斯又一次制♥造♥着新闻
Las Vegas again made the news.
拉斯维加斯发了 因为它不得不发
TITUS: Las Vegas succeeds because it has to.
当你身处逆境时 你就必须去创造
When you deal with adversity,you've got to be creative.
我的意思是 它很脆弱 很严酷
I mean,it's brittle and it's brutal,
但是你要成功 就没什么能阻止你
but if you make it,boy,there's no stopping you.
这是个很美国的事情
It's a very American thing.
这是绝对平等的概念
It's that very kind of egalitarian notion
人人都可以发大财
everybody can strike it rich.
我想那是件吸引人的事
I think that's one of the things that's appealing--
具有美国梦的吸引力
it appeals to that American dream.
拉斯维加斯美妙的事情
WOMAN: The lovely thing about Vegas
就是舞♥女♥可以长♥期♥生活在这里
is a dancer can have a long life here.
歌♥舞秀 提供了工作保证
The show Jubilee,it offers job security
是其它地方所看不到的
that you don't usually get in shows in other places.
在这里已经有23个年头了
It's been going on for 23 years.
只要有身材 外形好