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peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Colin Firth
Colin Firth 公开读诗的场合不多,但架不住他天生一副读了很多诗的样子,而且一些细节透露,费斯的诗歌品味确实不俗。
费斯最近一次公开读诗是2010年,在 BBC 主办的一场纪念英国剧作家、导演 Harold Pinter 的朗诵会上。他读了一首品特的 Paris,声音沉静克制,但藏不住声带深处汹涌的暗流。
Paris
BY Harold Pinter
The curtain white in folds,
She walks two steps and turns,
The curtain still, the light
Staggers in her eyes.
The lamps are golden.
Afternoon leans, silently.
She dances in my life.
The white day burns.
上面提到的让男人哭泣的诗歌精选集,费斯也参与了。全书100首诗歌,绝大多数都来自于英美二国的白人男性作家,费斯另辟蹊径,推荐了一首来自加拿大的年轻女诗人 Emily Zinnemann 的作品,让书评人直呼“品味不凡”。
Regarding the Home of One’s Childhood, One Could
BY Emily Zinnemann
Forget the plum tree,
forget its black-skinned plums;
Also the weight
of their leaning as they leaned
over starry hedges;
Also the hedges,
the dew that turned them starry;
The wet-bellied pups who slunk there
trailing ludicrous pedigrees;
Even the eyes
of birds
glittering
in the branches;
even the branches.
Colin Firth 在
Genius
中的扮相
去年,费斯又在观众心目中加深了他文人的印象。在和裘德•洛合演的电影
Genius
(天才捕手) 中,他扮演的著名文学编辑 Maxwell Perkins. Perkins 是文学圈知名的伯乐,F. Scott Fitzgerald 和 Ernest Hemingway 都是拜他的慧眼相识才有了日后的声名显赫。
Benedict Cumberbatch