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第 2 课:'Dreamgirls': Major Contender for Oscars?
《追梦女郎》奥斯卡的主要竞争者 -2

Effie sings the song to Curtis, played by Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx. 埃菲把奥斯卡得主 吉米阿·福克斯演奏的 歌唱给了柯蒂斯。

Jamie Foxx : Man, when Jennifer Hudson sings that song and they have the camera on me first and they're telling me to hold it together because I'm supposed to be mean ...I'm [choking up], you know …. It just blows you away and there is no way you can get away from that. So we did it about six or seven times for me to get myself together, but she was singing it along with the track every time. People on the cameras were wiping their eyes. It was incredible. 吉米阿 · 福克斯说:“当 詹尼弗·胡孙唱这首歌的时候,人们第一次将镜头对准了我,他们告诉我要团结,因为我总是很吝啬。我 …… [ 停顿 ], 你知道的 …… . 它就那样将你驱散,你却没有办法逃离。所以他们告诉了我六七次。但是她每次都循规蹈矩的唱。电视上的人还都抹眼泪,简直难以置信。”

Co-starring as Deena: real life pop music star Beyonce Knowles, who says her own group "Destiny's Child" was inspired by the original stage version of Dreamgirls. 至于 联合主演明星 迪安娜 ,现实生活流行歌曲明星毕昂斯 · 路勒斯说她自己的组合 " 命运之子 " 的灵感正是来源于《追梦女郎》的原著。

Beyonce Knowles : I knew that this would be important, I knew this would be historic, I knew this would be relevant ...and I knew Deena is not written as the strong singer, she is not written as the powerhouse. She is actually not even the star. It's an ensemble cast, but I didn't care because I just wanted to be a part of something so wonderful. 毕昂斯 · 路勒斯: “ 我知道这很重要,我知道这将是历史性的,我知道这是息息相关的。 迪安娜 不是走红的歌手,她不是万能的,事实上她甚至算不上明星。这是一项全体演出,但是我不在乎,我只想成为这个美妙集体的一部分。”

The ensemble features Eddie Murphy as a James Brown-inspired character, a soul singer named James "Thunder" Early; and Murphy says he, too, is a longtime fan of the play. 该剧成员之一,艾迪·墨菲,扮演一个受詹姆士·布朗启发的角色:灵魂乐歌手詹姆士 “ 雷 ” 厄尔利。墨菲说他自己也是该剧的忠实戏迷。

Murphy : You kind bring me what you mean approach it new because a play is totally different from a movie, so I wasn't trying to borrow from what I had seen. 墨菲: “ 你不能这么说,因为戏剧和电影是完全不同的,所以我不会尝试借鉴我所看到的。 ”

Director Bill Condon also wrote the screen adaptation and says there are changes - for instance, moving the group's hometown from the play's Chicago to Detroit in the movie - but most important, Condon says it had to work as a film. 导演比尔·康顿参与了该剧剧本的改编,他说有些变化,例如该组合的家乡在戏剧里是芝加哥,在电影里改为了底特律。但最重要的是,它还得是电影。

Condon : I think for people who don't like musicals, the worst thing that can happen is a song starts and they think 'oh God, now I have to sit and wait until the song ends and the story picks up again.' That's something I was intent about not doing in this movie. 康顿: “ 我考虑到那些不喜欢音乐喜剧的人,最糟糕的情况不过是音乐一响起,他们就想:哦上帝啊!我得坐下来等这歌结束,直到故事再次开始。我不会在电影里加入这些东西。 ”

Dreamgirls also features Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Anika Noni Rose ...and, of course, the music by Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger with an additional song co-written by star Beyonce. 《追梦女郎》同时成就了丹尼·柯罗尔 , 基思·罗滨逊 和 安尼卡·罗尼·柔斯,当然也包括汤姆·艾仁写的一首音乐以及一首亨利·克雷捷和毕昂斯合作完成的附加曲目。