职业美人鱼：美丽背后（2023）

也是胖人鱼协会的创始人
and the founder of the Society of Fat Mermaids,
‪这是一个包容一切体型的社群 ‪旨在赞美胖人的身体
which is a size-inclusive community designed to celebrate fat bodies.
‪通常 当我出现在人鱼站时 ‪大家看到我都会很兴奋
Normally when I'm in a merspace, people are really excited to see me.
‪大家都好美!
Everybody's so pretty!
‪人们见到我时会哭 ‪这种情况并不罕见
Like, it's not uncommon for people to cry when they meet me.
‪不好意思...
Excuse me...
‪你是谢莫尼克吗?
Are you Chè Monique?
‪是的
I am.
‪我的家人跟我说 ‪根本没有胖人鱼这回事
My family told me that there was no such thing as a fat mermaid.
‪我们知道事实并非如此
We know that's not true.
‪我知道!
I know!
‪我在抖音和“照片墙”上关注了你 ‪见到你我觉得好荣幸
I follow you on TikTok, Instagram. It's an honor to meet you.
‪谢谢!
Oh, thank you!
‪你让我得以坦然地接纳了自己
You just make it okay for me to be me.
‪因此我非常爱你 我能抱抱你吗?
Oh. - And I love you for that. Can I hug you?
‪当然啦!太谢谢你了!
Absolutely! Thank you so much!
‪-谢谢 ‪-你真贴心
Thank you. - You're so sweet.
‪我拍了很多 ‪我称之为“人鱼动力”的视频
I do a lot of, like, what I call mertivational videos,
‪我也许会在抖音上说...
where I might go on TikTok and be like...
‪我爱你们大家
I love you all.
‪我热爱无私奉献的我们
I... love how dedicated we all are
‪努力让这个大码世界
to making the larger world
‪让我们的人鱼天地 ‪成为一个安全且奇妙的地方
and our merworld a safe and magical place for each other.
‪这些人鱼演出付出非常多的努力
These merjobs require so much of you.
‪从训练到体能要求
Like, from training to just, like, the physical demand.
‪我一直在练习美人鱼俯卧撑
And I've been working on, like, my mermaid push-ups,
‪练习三头肌撑体 ‪做我能做的各种练习
doing tricep dips, and doing everything I can,
‪因为我很想加入“碧海妖姬”
because I would love to join the Circus Siren Pod.
‪(碧海妖姬)
They are like this elite mermaid performance troupe.
‪她们是一个精英美人鱼剧团
‪总的来说 她们挺吓人的
As a whole, they're intimidating.
我会说她们是一群坏女孩美人鱼
I used to call them the mean girl mermaids.
‪后来我想:“如果我想成为其中一员 ‪那我最好还是别这么说她们了”
I decided, "If I'm going to be one, I'd better stop calling them that."
‪她们用某种方式维护着她们的形象
They kinda just protect their brand in a way,
‪而她们形象中的一部分 ‪就是独特与精英
and part of their brand is that they are, like, exclusive and elite.
‪不过 她们实至名归
But, like, they kind of are.
‪(摩迦娜艾尔巴 碧海妖姬创始人)
‪我一直非常反对“精英”这个概念
I've always really railed against the concept of being elite,
‪但不管我是否愿意 ‪它似乎还是出现了
and yet it seems to have happened anyway. Whether I want it or not.
‪我认为 让我们与众不同的地方 ‪就是我们真的非常在意艺术形式
I think what makes us different is just that we really care about the art form
‪以及我们为这个领域 ‪带来的艺术性和杰出技能
and what artistry and magic we're putting into the world.
‪我的表演更倾向于打造出一个世界
My performers are more about creating a world
‪在那里 公众想要成为美人鱼的愿望
the public's not gonna get to experience anywhere else
‪能够得到前所未有的满足
than about the personal wish fulfillment of being mermaids.
‪人鱼表演对体能的要求非常高
The reality of mermaiding is it's really physically demanding,
‪需要多年的训练才能胜任
and it takes years of training to do this properly.
‪在专业的人鱼表演中
When you mermaid professionally,
‪尾鳍和水会给你很大压力
you are weighed down by the tail and the water.
‪你会无法呼吸
You are unable to breathe.
‪在水下 你看不见也听不到
You are blind underwater. You're deaf underwater.
‪而你的任务 ‪就是表现得怡然自得 如梦似幻
And your job is to make it look easy and magical.
‪-我觉得你做得非常好 ‪-谢谢
I thought that was pretty excellent. - Well, thank you.
‪大部分从事职业人鱼表演的人
Most people who get into professional mermaiding are working
‪都额外还有一到两份工作 ‪来支撑人鱼表演事业的必要所需
one to two other jobs to support just the entry ramp into mermaiding.
‪(美人鱼谢莫尼克 ‪胖人鱼协会创始人)
‪海贝的问候!
Shello!
‪-哦 妈妈
Oh, Mother.
海贝的问候
Shello. Shello.
‪我们每隔几年才会有一次选拔
It's only every couple of years that we actually do auditions.
‪如果我有工作能提供 我会把他们 ‪全雇了 我希望人人都能体验这个梦
If I had the work, I'd hire all of them. I want everyone to live this dream,
‪但我的客户只有这么多 ‪水箱只有这几个
but I only have so many clients and so many tanks to fill.
‪好了 欢迎大家来参加试演!
All right, welcome to our auditions!
‪恭喜大家走到了这一步 ‪我们一共有54位申请人
Congratulations on making it this far. There were 54 applicants,
‪而受邀的只有在座不足20位的大家
uh, and less than 20 of you got invited to audition.
‪所以竞争已经十分激烈
It was already some fierce competition,
‪我非常期待能看看你们的表现
and I'm really excited to see what all you guys can do.
‪谁知道我们公♥司♥的首要规则?
Who knows the first rule of my company?
‪-没有死亡的美人鱼 ‪-没有死亡的美人鱼
No dead mermaids. - No dead mermaids.
‪上半场会非常费劲
The first half is gonna be a lot of just exertion,
‪老实说 我会让大家费点力气
and, I'm going to be honest, to wear you out a bit.
‪我们做的事非常困难
What we do is pretty hard.
‪我希望看到 ‪我们有这个耐力能胜任这一表演
I want to see that we've got the endurance built up to get through it.
‪好了 各位 穿好你们的尾鳍下水吧
All right, guys, you can go ahead and get in your tail, and get in the pool.
‪大家都到深水区 我们要踩水
Everybody in the deep end. We're treading water.
‪这是我做过的 ‪最危险、最困难的一种艺术形式
This is one of the most dangerous, difficult art forms I've ever done.
‪我们待会儿要这样做 ‪后翻触底 水下返回
Here's what we're gonna be doing this time. Backflip down the wall,
‪开始吧
underwater return. All right, let's see it.
‪我们表演的难度 我们所在的深度
At the level we're doing, the depths we're doing it at,
‪这些都需大量的技巧和训练
it takes an incredible amount of skill, an incredible amount of training.
‪这是一个较长的组合动作 ‪三种技巧的组合
This is a longer combination. It's a three-skill combination.
‪我要大家在深水区 做一个铅笔直潜
What I want is from the deep end,
‪垂直入水
gonna do a pencil dive down, so vertical entry,
‪接着做一个前翻 ‪然后在浮出水面时完成转体动作
then I want a front flip and barrel roll as you surface.
‪好的 在浮出水面时 ‪把你们的手放在泳池边
All right, when you surface, you're gonna put your hands on the side of the pool,
‪撑起身体 然后臀部坐到泳池边上
and you're gonna lift up and get your butt on the side of the pool.
‪另一边 非常好 谢谢 二号♥
Other side. Very nice. Thank you so much, number two.
‪好的
All right.
‪谢谢你
Thank you.
‪你们可以去脱掉尾鳍 ‪擦干身体 暖和一下了
You can go ahead and de-tail, dry off, warm up.
‪我们会一起讨论一下观察结果
We're gonna meet and discuss our observations.
‪我会建议练习一下举重
I would suggest maybe doing weightlifting or something else
锻炼肌肉并增强耐力
to build the muscle and the endurance.
‪我认为主要需要力量训练和打磨动作
I think it's mostly just strength-building and polish.
‪你的仰泳加后翻返回稍微有点僵硬
Your backstroke-backflip-return was a little rough.
‪你最终还是成功了
Okay. - You got through it.
‪是我的脸撞到墙那段吗?
Wait. Is that the time I hit my face against the wall?
‪那是另外一段
No, that was a different time. - Okay.
‪最大的问题是能否把你自己撑出水面
The biggest concern is being able to lift yourself out of the pool.
‪这个动作就是力量加练习而已 ‪但对我们来说 这事关我们的安全
It's a strength and practice thing, but for us, it's a safety thing
‪因为你得能够 ‪靠自己的力量从水箱里出来
'cause you have to be able to get out of the tank under your own power.
‪美人鱼尾鳍现在仍是小作坊制♥作♥
Mermaid tail-making is still very much a cottage industry.
‪大家对自己的尾鳍制♥作♥人会非常忠诚
And people get very loyal to their tail-makers.
‪甚至有表演队 全队人都只用
There's even entire performance pods where they specifically only ever use
‪某个特定的尾鳍制♥作♥人 ‪那就是他们装扮的一部分
this tail-maker or that tail-maker, and that's part of their look.
‪目前最大的三家公♥司♥是 ‪人鱼贝拉、人鱼王国、人鱼裁缝师
Three of the bigger companies out there are Merbella, MerNation, and Mertailor.
‪“人鱼裁缝师”其实 ‪是我早期的灵感来源之一
And Mertailor was actually one of my earlier inspirations.
‪我记得在我购买♥♥我的第一条尾鳍之前
I remember before I bought my first mermaid tail,
‪我看着“人鱼裁缝师”的照片 ‪心里想着:
looking at Mertailor's photos and being like,
‪“总有一天 ‪我会有钱买♥♥得起那样的尾鳍
"One day... One day I will afford that kind of tail,
‪我会去找那位艺术家 ‪我会买♥♥到属于我的尾鳍”
and I will go to that artist, and I'm going to get my tail."
‪我是埃里克杜莎姆 ‪大家也会叫我人鱼裁缝师
I am Eric Ducharme. Also known as the Mertailor.
‪(佛罗里达州勒坎托 ‪人鱼裁缝师总部)
‪我想成为全球最大的尾鳍制♥造♥商
I would love to be the biggest tail-maker in the entire world.
‪我有种在开创这个产业的感觉
I feel there's a sense of creating the industry.
‪我想看到“人鱼裁缝师”成为业界翘楚
And I want to see Mertailor on top.
‪然后大家会说:“哇 人鱼裁缝师
And be like, "Wow, Mertailor."
‪人鱼尾鳍 人鱼裁缝师”
"Mermaid tail, Mertailor. Mermaid tail, Mertailor."
‪我想看到这一天
I want to see that.
‪(维奇瓦奇)
‪我永远都不会忘记 ‪我第一次去维奇瓦奇
I will never forget my first visit to Weeki Wachee.
‪我当时坐在水下剧场里
I was sitting in the underwater theater.
‪湛蓝的色调缓缓渗入
The hues of blue just started trickling in,
‪突然之间...
and all of a sudden...
‪那一刻我被深深地吸引住了
I just was so captivated at that moment.
‪然后一个迷人的美人鱼游了过来 ‪她停下来 向大家飞吻
And then this enchanting mermaid just swam by and stopped, blew a kiss,
‪接着 出现了更多的美人鱼
and then more mermaids appear.
‪那是一段令人难以忘怀的时刻
And that was the ta-da moment.
‪在那一刻
That was the moment where
‪我变成了人鱼裁缝师
I became the Mertailor.
‪我迷恋上了维奇瓦奇泉
I was obsessed with Weeki Wachee Springs.
‪我希望一直待在那里
I wanted to be there all the time.
‪在我很小的时候 ‪美人鱼就成为了我的整个人生
Mermaids became my entire life at a really young age.
‪从小到大 埃里克经历过许多挑战