职业美人鱼：美丽背后（2023）

Growing up, Eric had a lot of challenges.
‪我是一个非常有艺术细胞的孩子
I was a very artistic child.
‪我们很早就发现埃里克有抽动症
We realized early on that Eric had Tourette's syndrome.
‪同学们都非常粗鲁、 ‪残忍♥、喜欢评头论足
Classmates were very rude, cruel, judgmental.
‪我没有太多朋友 我会远离人群
I didn't have a lot of friends. I just stayed away from people.
‪在大约四、五岁时
By about four or five,
‪他用某种布料把自己的腿裹了起来
he was wrapping his legs up with fabric of some sort.
‪后来变成了塑料袋和胶带
Then it became plastic bags and tape.
‪随着时间的推移
As the years went by,
‪我通过去剧场
I started to get to know the mermaids
‪和美人鱼们聊天 渐渐开始了解她们
through standing in the theater and talking to them.
‪她们会说:“埃里克又来了”
It's like, "Oh, Eric's here again."
‪他总是和我们这些 ‪年长于他的女孩子在一起
He was always hanging out with us older girls.
‪这非常令人愉快 我们全然接纳了他
And it was sweet, and we certainly took him in.
‪我们编排演出的时候 他都会在场
He'd be there when we were choreographing all of our numbers.
‪我真的很想要一个尾鳍
And I really wanted a tail. I really wanted a tail.
‪我遇到了芭芭拉温斯 ‪她是美人鱼女王
I met Barbara Wynns. She was the mermaid queen.
‪第一次和埃里克见面时 ‪我正坐在剧场的后台
The first time I met Eric, I was sitting in the back of the theater.
‪他走到我身边坐下 然后说:
He walks up beside me and he's sitting there going,
‪“芭芭拉小姐 能给我一个尾鳍吗?” ‪我说:“什么?”
"Miss Barbara, can I have a tail?" And I'm like, "What?"
‪我记得当时 ‪有一个没有拉链的坏掉的尾鳍
And I remember there was a destroyed tail that had no zipper.
‪我走去废料堆 ‪把它拿出来 然后我说:
I went to the scrap piles, grabbed it out, and I said,
‪“把它放进你的背包里 ‪永远不要把它带回这里”
"Put this in your backpack. And don't you ever bring it back."
‪我兴奋异常
And I was just beyond thrilled.
‪我把它带回家 把它修补好 ‪然后它变成了一个真正的尾鳍
Brought it home, fixed it up, and that became the tail.
‪一切就是这样开始的
That's just how it started.
‪在我有能力制♥作♥尾鳍后 ‪我会把它们带去给姑娘们
When I had the ability to sew and make tails,
I would bring them for the girls.
‪她们会在表演时穿上它们
They would put on the tails and wear them during the show,
‪然后她们会再把它们还给我
and they would bring them back to me.
‪16岁时 我得到了一个 ‪在水下剧院当演员的职位
Then at 16, I was offered a position in the underwater theater to be a performer.
‪这是闻所未闻的 因为你必须满18岁
That was unheard of because you had to be 18 years old
‪才能成为维奇瓦奇的演员
to be a performer at Weeki Wachee.
‪我知道 我见证了这个男孩的成长
I know I've watched this boy just evolve.
‪看到这份才华得以绽放
And see this brilliance come out,
‪看到在他的控制之下 ‪他的身体能够变得多么平和
and to see how calm his body gets when he's in control.
‪他的身体和他的抽动症 ‪全都处于他的控制之中
He's totally in command of his body and of the Tourette's.
‪你根本不会知道他的病
You-- You would never know.
‪(美人鱼晶晶)
‪在我很小的时候 ‪我就开始研究
At a very young age, I started doing research on
我该如何开启这条道路
how do I start this path.
‪我要如何成为一名维奇瓦奇美人鱼?
How do I become a Weeki Wachee mermaid?
‪于是我直接给他们发了邮件
So, I emailed them directly.
‪他们没有回复我
They never replied to me.
‪最终 它不再局限于维奇瓦奇
And ultimately, eventually, it evolved past just Weeki Wachee.
‪它变得更像是一条 ‪我梦寐以求的个人职业道路
It became more of a personal career path that I dream of.
‪-嘿! ‪-嘿 谢谢你过来
Hey! - Hey. Thank you so much for doing this.
‪非常乐意
Yeah, totally.
‪好了 这是你的海盗帽
Okay, so here's your pirate hat.
‪这是你的海盗战利品袋
I have your little bag of pirate loot here.
‪一些金币
Some doubloons.
‪孩子们靠近你时 你可以送给他们
You can give that away to kids freely if they approach you.
哦 - 哦，等等
Oh! - Oh, wait.
‪- 把手断了 ‪-该死!
The handle just snapped off. - Dang it!
‪这会给我们造成很多困难
That's gonna make it really hard.
‪身为一个在阿肯色州的美人鱼
As a mermaid in Arkansas,
‪我在这里真的没有多少工作机会
there's really just not much work here for me.
‪但只要我努力探寻
But whenever I really put myself out there,
‪我也能得到一些派对演出机会
I can get party gigs.
‪但这些并不足以维生
But they don't really pay the bills.
‪这就是棘手的地方 我们来晚了
This is where it gets tricky. We've arrived a little late,
‪我看到已经有小孩在那里 ‪我真的不想让他们看到
and I'm already seeing kids, and I really don't like them to see me
‪我穿上尾鳍前的样子
before I get my tail on.
‪这边!
Over here!
‪你可以用绳子把拉链拉上
So you can pull the zipper up by using the string.
‪拉链拉到顶以后
Once the zipper is all the way to the top,
‪你要把这个塞回尾鳍里 好吗?
you want to tuck... this back into the tail, okay?
‪好的
Okay.
‪好了
All right.
‪绳子在这里
I got the string right here.
‪给
Here.
‪我帮你
Here.
‪-糟糕 它坏了? ‪-是的
Oh no, did it break? - Yeah.
‪为什么今天所有东西都坏了? 想想办法
Why is everything breaking today? I'll figure it out.
它从拉链上脱出来了
No, like, it came off the zipper
‪拉链有一边脱出来了
Like, um, the zipper broke on one side.
别说话了
Shut up
‪不是吧 ‪-真的
No, like, seriously.
‪不可能
No... way.
‪这修不了了
There's no way to fix that.
‪你在逗我吗?
Are you kidding me right now?
‪你家离这里只有15分钟路程
You live 15 minutes away.
‪我可以去你家重新拿一条过来
I can run home... run to your place and grab another one.
‪你需要我家的钥匙
You're gonna need my house key.
‪天啊 太可怕了
Oh my God. This is horrible. - Okay, here. I'll run, real quick.
‪行 我快去快回 马上回来
I'll be back.
‪我想知道她在做什么
I don't know what she's doing.
嗯…
Um...
‪她看起来好像压力很大
It looks like she's kind of stressed out.
‪美人鱼守则第一千条 ‪一百万条 无数条
Mermaid lesson one thousand, one million, gazillion.
‪有偿演出时一定要带条备用的尾鳍
Always bring an extra tail to a paid gig.
‪每次都是
Always.
‪-美人鱼! ‪-我发现了另一个
Mermaid, mermaid, mermaid! - I found another one.
‪天啊 孩子们都要走了
Oh my gosh. All these kids are gonna leave.
‪要在美人鱼出场前离开了
They're gonna leave before the mermaid comes out.
‪它坏了 我没法穿它 ‪没有尾鳍我不可能出去
It's broken. I can't... I can't wear it. And I can't go out there without the tail.
‪没有尾鳍 我只是一个 ‪戴着假发穿着紧身裤的女孩子
Without the tail, I'm just a girl in a wig and some leggings.
‪我一直想成为美人鱼
I always wanted to be a mermaid.
‪虽然我的成长经历并不容易
Though it wasn't easy for me growing up.
‪我妈妈和爸爸 ‪在我还是个小宝宝时就离婚了
My mom and dad divorced when I was just a baby,
‪我很小的时候 我爸爸就进了监狱
and my dad went into prison when I was pretty young.
‪这个世界的重量可以非常沉重
The weight of the world can be so intense.
‪你知道 日常生活
You know, day-to-day life,
‪而美人鱼晶晶就是逃离这一切的依托
and Mermaid Sparkles is an escape from all that.
‪它真的让我觉得 我在某种程度上 ‪为这个世界带来了一些改变
It really makes me feel like I'm making a difference in the world somehow.
‪我感觉自己有了目标
I feel like I have purpose.
‪我感觉自己仿佛是一束光
I feel like a ray of sunshine.
‪美人鱼!
Mermaid, mermaid, mermaid!
‪好了
All right.
‪天啊 谢天谢地
Oh my God. Thank God. Thank God.
‪来吧
Here we go.
‪大家准备好 ‪迎接美人鱼晶晶出来了吗?
Alrighty, y'all, are we ready to see Sparkles the Mermaid come out?
‪你们得确保她能听到你们哦 ‪她能听到你们的声音吗?
Y'all got to make sure she can hear you. Can she hear you? Come on!
‪一定要让她听到你们的声音 好了
Make sure she can hear you. There we go.
‪好了
All right.
‪-小心 ‪-好的
Careful. - Yep.
‪蹲下
Duck.
‪蹲下来 好了
Duck down. There we go.
‪海贝的问候!
Shello!
‪你看起来更漂亮了!
You look even prettier!
‪天呐!谢谢!
Oh my goodness! Thank you!
‪大家准备好游泳了吗?
Well, are we ready to swim?
‪好了!
Yeah!
你知道珍珠是在蛤蜊中生长的吗？
Do you know pearls are made in clams?
‪当我看到孩子们的笑容时
When I see all the children's smiling faces
‪看到他们的眼睛绽放出光芒 ‪这真的是一种特别的体验
and just the way their eyes light up, it really is a special experience.
‪不过特别的体验也不能当饭吃
Special experiences don't pay the bills though.
‪所以如果我想成为 ‪一个职业美人鱼 想追求这一目标
So if I really want to be a professional mermaid and pursue this,
‪我可能得搬家了
I may just... have to move.
‪(阿肯色州小石城)
‪(佛罗里达州维奇瓦奇)
‪维奇瓦奇当时的经济状况非常糟糕
Weeki Wachee was really having a hard time financially.
‪后来州政♥府♥介入并收♥购♥了它