翻譯練習：Jeremy Renner / Esquire Magazine 201208 封面故事《III》

原文網址兼圖源出處：Esquire雜誌網站

這張照片給我的感覺就是四個字：桀傲不馴。
這什麼衣衫不整的樣子和桀傲不馴的眼神，Renner的眼神一直都很有個性。
訴說「我是個角色」的霸氣。XD

Esquire 雜誌八月號，封面故事，零參。
plus，原文網址裡頭有張歷年重大作品圖示譜(？)，不同風貌的劇照大頭排下來我覺得滿奇妙。


Each Time Slightly Bigger, Slightly Braver


How Jeremy Renner got here




《III》


Renner finally moved out of that apartment when, later that year, he signed his first contract for a studio movie, S.W.A.T., a pure testosterone shove. At the time, he had $200 to his name, but he took that contract to a bank, and along with an actor friend named Kristoffer Winters, he pooled enough money to buy a house in Nichols Canyon. "I hated paying rent," Renner says. "It was just money going out the window." He and Winters did some work on the house, which was a cool 1960s modernist place; they found they had a shared knack for the remodel. Many people admired the house. After only a few months, some people admired it so much that they offered Renner and Winters $900,000 for a house in which they had invested $659,000. They had made more in a few months than they had made in their entire lives.

那年稍晚，Renner簽了他第一份與商業製片公司的合約：電影《S.W.A.T.》，一部走純硬漢路線，描述男人間的激情碰撞的作品；這片約讓他終於能離開那棟公寓。


當時他名下的財產只有$200美金，他帶著合約書，和他的演員朋友Kristoffer Winters一起走到銀行櫃檯前，兩人想盡辦法湊齊足夠的錢，然後在Nichols Canyon買了棟房子。「我討厭付錢租房子。」Renner說：「就像把錢白白丟出窗外去一樣。」


他和Winters重新裝潢了房子，採1960年代的現代主義設計風格；他們發現自己在房屋設計這方面做得還滿得心應手的，成果也大受好評。很多人喜歡他們的設計。幾個月後生意上門，有人告訴他們因為太喜歡這棟房子，願意出$900,000美金買下。他們的投資成本是$659,000美金，獲利豐厚，幾個月內就賺到一生中看過最多的錢。


*對不起，因為我不喜歡SWAT所以我來亂了。不過可以想像一下蓋房子的Gamble...
*所以本來是設計給自己住的？竟然？！應該不大可能，只是個修辭法吧？
  聽說Winters是真的滿厲害的設計師…



Which meant that they bought another house. And then another house. And then a condo in the Granville Towers. And then another house. Driving around today, Renner points to house after house — he calls them structures — that he fixed up either alone or with Winters. Since 2002, they've bought and sold more than fifteen houses, each time slightly bigger, each time slightly braver. They've often lived in their temporary, torn-up structures, without plumbing or power, trying to squeeze out a few more dollars. "I can tell you every Starbucks that had a bathroom around here," Renner says.

這代表他們有買下一棟的房子的資金了。於是再一棟房子，再來是Granville Towers的一間公寓，下一個又是一棟房子。今天我們的跑車好萊塢之旅中，Renner一一對我指出他裝修過的房子－－他用的詞是「建築作品」－－他自己一個人獨立完成的作品，他和Winter合作完成的作品。2002年到現在，他們的翻修作品加起來超過15棟，每經歷過一棟作品，就多累積一分經驗；多一分經驗，每一次就多投注一分大膽，多增加一分挑戰的規模。


他們常常會暫住在未完工的「建築作品」工地裡，沒有水，沒有電，經濟考量：能多省幾塊錢是幾塊錢。「我摸熟了這一帶所有的星巴克，我可以告訴你哪幾間有開放廁所。」Renner說。


*Renner本人也是很厲害的設計師ww；而且我就說他對他的作品像對小孩ww，plus靠星巴克過活最後變成星巴克通的設計師。XDD
*幹，這句竟然是這樣用的！(被打中XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
*我總覺得星巴克在他的故事裡就像7-11一樣的存在：我可以告訴你哪間7-11有廁所喔w (你克制



He stops outside a Greek Revival beauty in West Hollywood, mostly obscured by a towering row of ficus. He and Winters planted them; instant ficus forests, craned in, are one of their signatures. "That is an amazing hedge," Renner says, admiring its recent growth. He and Winters bought the house, which they dubbed Hemingway House, for $1.55 million in 2008. About a year later — in the midst of a historic real estate crash in California — they sold it for more than $4 million. They are not hobbyists; they are expert at this. "I will never be in the stock market," Renner says. "It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things. If I'm all-in on a structure, at least I can sleep in the damn thing."

他在西好萊塢一間希臘復古風的房子前停車，前院一排高聳茂密的榕樹，樹蔭遮蔽住大半的房子。這排榕樹是他和Winters種的；他們買現成的榕樹，用吊車吊過來前院種，這排榕樹林是他們的標籤之一。「長得不錯，漂亮的樹籬。」看著茂密生長的枝葉，Renner說。這棟房子他和Winters取名叫「海明威大宅(Hemingway House)」，2008年花了$1,550,000美金購入。一年以後－－正好碰上加州房地產暴跌到史上新低的時刻－－以超過$4,000,000美金的價錢賣出，非常漂亮的價格。這兩個人之於他們的房地產事業，並不是什麼玩票性質的業餘愛好者，他們是真材實料的箇中高手。


「我永遠不會把錢用在投資股票上。」Renner說：「那只是賭博遊戲而已。是的，我是那種會賭一把的人，但如果要叫我賭，我會把錢投在具體的東西上。如果要我把手上的籌碼全砸進去，至少砸給眼前這棟建築，我他媽的還可以睡在裡面。」


*……可以睡在裡面就好的意思嗎？XD
*那樣種樹很貴的……而且還得在對的時機也得很小心照顧不然很容易養不活QAQ
 不過你要從小棵的養大…||||||  大概也是不可能的事。
  我只是想說種那一排養活了很厲害……！



Meanwhile, he continued the same kind of slow, interlocking build of his acting career. Supporting roles came first. He was cheap and good. Then he played the lead in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker — she'd liked him in Dahmer — for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. (He was renovating a condo at the time, his mattress on the floor, zipped up behind plastic. He was worried about plaster dust getting on his tuxedo.) He was reportedly paid only $65,000 for that part — he's getting $5 million for The Bourne Legacy — but his success with the houses had made money a secondary concern. He found himself in a rare, blessed spot. "I always wanted to make good decisions," he says. Now Renner never had to take a part because he was desperate. Instead, he found his cinematic wheelhouse, and he stayed in it: intense, sweaty, morally ambiguous roles, drifting occasionally into mean little bastard territory. Action didn't hurt. And off he went, one of the few fortunate actors who could draw his trajectory with a ruler, getting another Oscar nomination for The Town, which led to Mission: Impossible and then his joining The Avengers and now, finally, his carrying The Bourne Legacy. Rung by logical rung, all the way to the top of the ladder.

另一方面，他的演藝事業發展近似於他的建築事業：一步一步緩慢往上爬，但每一步每一步間緊密關聯，環環相扣。從配角開始：他的工資便宜，演技又出色，簡而言之很好用。接著主角，Kathryn Bigelow執導的《The Hurt Locker》－－她相當欣賞他在《Dahmer》裡的表現－－這角色為他贏得他的第一次奧斯卡提名。(當時他的建築翻修項目是一間公寓，於是他晚上在地板上舖個床墊睡覺，早上把床墊收起來放在塑膠板後頭。睡覺不成問題，他當時怕的是工地的石膏粉塵弄髒他的燕尾服。) 報導說他這個角色領到的片酬只有$65,000美元－－同樣是主角，現在《The Bourne Legacy》給他的片酬是$5,000,000美元－－不過當時房屋事業的成功帶來的經濟支援，讓他可以不用太擔心片酬；這點，他將之視為難得的恩賜。「我一直都希望自己能做正確的選擇。」他說。


於是Renner從來不用面對經濟上被逼入絕境而不得不接下某個角色的情況。相反的，他確立了自己的電影發展方向，並且一直堅持自己的格調：他的選擇多半是衝突性高，動作場面多，沒有明確的道德立場，亦正亦邪的角色－－偶爾會不小心發展成煞氣十足的混帳反派。往動作電影發展不是什麼壞事。而他，非常幸運的，碰上有本事把他一把拉上大舞台的演員：《The Town》為他再贏一次奧斯卡提名，也為他贏得參演《Mission:Impossible》的機會，MI之後則是《The Avengers》；然後現在，終於，他一肩擔起系列大作的票房：Bourne第四集續作《The Bourne Legacy》，一步一步循序漸進，攀上梯子的頂端。



He stops the Porsche once again, outside yet another house that he and Winters renovated: Sturges House — Charlie Chaplin was supposedly married in its living room — rises above another wall of ficus. Renner lived in the house until relatively recently, when he started hearing the vans filled with tourists shouting on the other side of the trees, when people started sliding strange packages under his gate. He could feel his reality changing, the specter of Milo the cat looming large. "I couldn't even take my garbage out anymore," he says. "It bummed me out." A bizarre confrontation with a mobile, militant yoga class was one of the final straws. "Look, man, I don't come onto your porch and start doing deep lunges," Renner told them. "Get the fuck out of here." But he knew what was coming. He put up his house for rent and moved into the Four Seasons, and only yesterday he bought another house, a retreat, hidden back up in the canyons. He hasn't taken possession, except in his head. Now he wants to go see the future.

他再度停下保時捷，我們跟前是另一棟他和Winters翻修的房子：Sturges宅邸－－據說卓別林(Charlie Chaplin)的婚禮就在客廳裡舉行－－前院同樣，標幟性的一排榕樹樹籬，宅邸就靜靜佇立在樹籬後。在最近情況改變之前，這裡是Renner的落腳處，直到他開始聽到載滿觀光客的遊覽車停在門口，遊客的尖叫聲從樹籬那端不斷傳過來。開始看到五花八門的奇怪包裹從門縫被推進來。他明顯感受到情況不一樣了，Milo事件的陰影像幽靈一樣逐漸在身邊浮現，並且放大了數倍。「我甚至連出門倒個垃圾都做不到。」他說：「這會把我逼瘋。」


壓垮他忍耐極限的最後幾根稻草，其中之一是：一名詭異的加州當地人和他的移動式戰鬥瑜珈課。「聽著，老兄，我不會去你家門口拉筋站弓箭步做伸展操。」Renner跟這群人說：「給我滾出去。」不過他同時也理解到接下來事情會變成什麼樣。他毅然決然把房子出租，行李收一收搬到四季旅館去住，然後就在昨天，他買了棟新房子。地點位於峽谷附近，離群索居，與世隔絕。他還沒正式拿到所有權狀，不過已經認定這就是他的未來據點了。轉向往峽谷的方向，現在他打算去看看這個「未來」。



It's another 1960s house, 1964 to be exact. Flat roofs, sharp angles, square shoulders. Airy, with lots of glass. Renner walks around it, pressing his face against those windows. It's a very cool house. It's not hard to see what he sees, or at least what he sees in it today. It's harder to know what he sees it will be. "This will probably be my home forever," Renner says. It's remarkably intact, and he says he's going to try to preserve most of its character. The former owner — who died recently — lived in this house a long time, and he had taken care of it. "I want to do good by this guy," Renner says, admiring the huge brick fireplace that will soon be his. "A lot of people like to tear shit down here, and it breaks my heart. This town's already so transient."

這是一棟建於1960年，正確一點說是1964年的房子。平屋頂，銳利的斜角線條，對稱平均分配的房子格局，就像個正方形。通風很好，裝了很多玻璃。Renner繞著房子走了一圈，臉貼上玻璃窗往裡頭看。這是讓我覺得非常酷的一棟房子，而跟在他身後，不用費太多工夫就能分享他的視野，看到房子裡頭的模樣－－至少知道現在長什麼樣子；至於以後會被他改裝成什麼樣子，想知道這個就困難多了。


「這大概會是我待一輩子的家了。」Renner說。屋況出乎意料的良好，他告訴我他打算盡可能保存這屋子的特色。前任屋主－－不久前過世了－－在這裡住了很長一段時間，而Renner接手處理了他的後事。「我想跟這個人說聲『再見』。」Renner說，對屋外那個巨大的磚製煙囪(很快就會是他的了)展現出高度興趣，他非常喜愛這個設計。「這裡的居民都喜歡拆東西，拆成一片亂七八糟的廢墟，這讓我很感傷。這個小鎮能保留下來的東西已經夠少了。」


*你說這男人很保護他的隱私嗎？保護到過頭的地步嗎？你看他跟記者分享的東西XD 和記者分享也就等於和成千上萬個讀者分享啊？還不是帶人家去看了。他其實一直都無所不談也很大方，就只是討厭「被打擾」而已。


*我覺得他是個好愛家好愛家的男人。一面希望他身邊有誰陪伴，但一面又覺得不可能，有的時候我錯覺他把「愛情」投注在他的居所上了。


The former owner's belongings are still in the house. It looks almost like a museum, like a time capsule. In the office, there are dozens of faded framed pictures of the man and all the places he had been, a permanent record of his existence: There he is in front of the Kremlin; there he is in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. And above his desk, where he could always see it, there is a map of the world on the wall.

前任屋主的物品還擺在房子裡。這讓房子看上去像個博物館，像從古早時代保留至今的時光膠囊。辦公室裡布滿幾十張裱框的照片，照片已經泛黃褪色，照片裡是屋主和他曾去過的地方：他曾經存在過的永久紀錄。站在克林姆宮前，站在比薩斜塔前，等等等。最後，一幅大大的世界地圖掛在辦公桌正對面，這樣桌子的主人一抬頭就可以在牆上看到全世界。




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嚴禁不知會我轉走。


推廣我很歡迎，但是不要不告訴我，不附出處，無斷轉載。
所有我要求的，也不過就是告訴我一聲而已。請維持最基本的尊重。



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如果你想寫篇以Jeremy Renner本人為主角的小說，或者應該說傳記？建議研究一下這個記者。他的修辭優美，文字又充滿故事性。其實是強者。XD
雖然我恨死他的形容詞啊啊啊啊啊啊啊


以下不小心寫太長，請慎重決定要不要往下拉…|||


蓋一棟房子真的，重重困難。錢是用燒的。
換言之賭得很大。超乎你想像的大。而且一個決定下去定生死。你能想像屋頂只要多斜了幾度角之後十年二十年你的走廊都會每逢下雨必漏水嗎？能想像一個管線接錯得發抖整個冬天只有冷水然後得花個幾十萬「救回來」嗎？

building a house is like making a movie, 沒有絕對正確的蓋法，但過程中有成千上百條錯誤的道路。

原文我有點忘了是什麼，但這句話直直打中我，沒有體會過「蓋房子」是怎麼一回事的人是說不出這樣的話的。一切辛酸血淚過後，那些折磨的痛苦給你的心得。


我曾經在這裡碰上一個從城市來這裡的老板娘，她在台北有兩間餐廳。風評很好，裝潢雅緻。人好有氣質，講話溫溫柔柔的。而像許多的尋夢人，她求助無門了不得不咬咬牙碰碰運氣過來請教：你們當初碰上這些問題的時候，是怎麼辦的？


講一講她眼中帶淚。「真的是心碎」，她很直接的用了「心碎」這樣的字。看到自己的房子最後變成這樣。好想，好想放棄。難過的碰都不想再去碰。


這東西並不只是「敢賭」，還要「夠堅持」；要有足夠的信念。


啊，夢想。



我印象深刻的另一件事是最後她擁抱了我，彷彿看到「我的存在」就是很讓她感動的一件事。「這裡有年輕人真是太振奮人心了。」


我愣了一下，那一刻也覺得很想跟她一起哭。(喂)


標題竟然是用在這一段，我開始想要這本雜誌了。並不是因為人家說他西裝這系列看久了像Brandt…啊哈哈。




經營起自己的事業何嘗不是如此？那是一種態度。一步，一步，穩紮穩打。你一點一滴慢慢進步，但這進步或許微小到你自己都感覺不出來，所以叫做Slightly。

你只能相信經歷過這些，你會更加成長一點。


或許這男人的走紅也是這麼一回事。他根本還來不及回頭去看，能回頭看的時候，突然，就已經走到這麼高的地方來了。


Renner是個會給你感覺「很近」的人，他和他的故事，你會相信他做到的，你也能做到；他的魄力會感染你，你不是覺得羨慕或感嘆上天真是不公平啊資源都集中給某某，而是在他的笑容中，希望自己也能像這傢伙一樣帥氣。


我從來沒有喜歡哪個明星喜歡到這種程度的。
用不著見到他本人什麼的，他的故事和他的存在，他的句子。他的視角。這樣就夠好了。


在他身上或許找到自己的情感投射，然後，希望在自己身上找到像他一樣的力量。
認識這樣的存活方式，真好。


謝謝你一直這麼努力。


thank you for being there. just being there is enough for me.


幹，後記為什麼寫這麼長orz


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還有這篇訪談是在保時捷裡出生的，好想下這個副標。

Esquire雜誌八月號封面故事：保時捷裡的45分鐘回憶－－和Jeremy Renner開跑車晃遍好萊塢。記者you lucky one，可以聽他這樣一路訴說自己的成長過程，可以當他的乘客……而且這樣看回去還是他開車來接你！！！！ 然後帶你去玩啊啊啊！！！(人家沒去玩啦