Nate Fick on Generation Kill / AI Cast singing Xmas song

謝謝神奇的好風，總是在view count還沒幾個人的時候，就發現這麼棒的video。XD 既然昨天晚上都寫出來了，就不要浪費好了。關於Generation Kill的部分從08:40開始。

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My wife likes to say that it was my 13 year-old alter ego playing my character, but you know, I think Generation Kill was pretty good. It was good in a sense of it captured the feel pretty well. The intangibles. Captured the dialogue very well. As uncomfortable as it was for me to sit in the living room at home and see this played out.

But a few things you need to keep in mind. One is that it was told from a perspective of a Sgt. on a Recon team. The Sgt.'s perspective was my team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us. And there is some truth through that in any organization. We're all sort of provincial in our view, and I think if you're watching Generation Kill, you gotta just recognize it out front.
 

And then, also, it is a producer's take on a journalist's take on reality. So, it's abstracted out a couple of lyrics. We don't go through our lives with a nicely narrative arc; we don't reach this emotional crescendo every day. So, it's a little bit been modified for Hollywood. That's it. I think it captured some of the visceral aspects of fighting a war pretty well.

不負責任翻譯：

我太太喜歡開玩笑說是13歲的另一個我在演那個角色。我覺得GK其實很棒，棒的地方在於它把當時那種氛圍和無形的東西掌握的很好，對話也很精準，精準到讓我坐在家客廳裡看到這些演出時都會覺得不太自在。

但是有些地方可能要請觀眾記住，這個故事是站在一位Recon Sgt.的角度來描寫的，這位Sgt.的觀點是，我的小隊是最好的，這個排不錯，但是這個連很糟糕，至於這個偵察營基本上是很積極地想要殺掉我們的。在任何一個組織中總是有些真相，而我們多少都會有點小心眼(provincial 學到一個字)，身為一個觀眾你必須意識到這點。

同時這是一位製作人根據一個記者描寫的事實所呈現出來的看法，所以它是被片段擷取出來的。我們生命的心路歷程不是這麼有故事性，也不是每天都會達到情緒激動的高點 (crushendo 這要有學音樂的人才會知道吧，又學一個字)。所以其實GK是已經被好萊塢化的，但是我覺得它對於戰爭的那種發自內心的觀點(visceral aspects of fighting a war)掌握的還不錯。

My wife likes to say that it was my 13 year-old alter ego playing my character. 第一點，Fick會跟他老婆一起看GK耶。第二點，Fick果然對Stark Sands看起來很嫩這件事怨念相當深啊。XDDD

The Sgt.'s perspective was my team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us. 只能說的重點也畫得太精準了點。XDD

這應該是第一次親口聽到Fick說出對GK的感想，GK粉小哈有點太high了。之前他很少發表和GK有關的意見，DVD花絮和首映也都不見他的身影，所以這影片真是太珍貴了。

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Do You Hear What I Hear by American Idiot Cast
from CAROLS FOR A CURE 2010: VOLUME 12

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Boardway Cares好像每年都會請當季演出的音樂劇cast參加聖誕合輯的錄音，收入會捐給慈善機構。今年當然也不例外，已經是第12年了。AI Cast也參加了錄音，提供了一首Do You Hear What I Hear。影片裡的AI Cast幾乎都到了，可是卻沒看到兩大要角John Gallagher Jr.和Michael Esper，奇怪～是因為這樣這兩位才沒獨唱嗎？XD

之前只聽過片段，聽到一點點SS獨唱的部分，可是就被卡掉了，超怨恨，沒想到還是有其他不怕死好心人分享。



前奏還故意用得Wake Me Up When September Ends一模一樣，算是對Green Day致敬嗎？:P 獨唱者有Alysha Umphress、Tony Vincent、Declan Bennet和Stark Sands。相信少爺粉們都聽得出來SS獨唱是哪段吧，聽不出來的解答在這邊：Declan –> Stark –> Tony –> Alysha

好美的一首歌，和聲寫得很漂亮，AI Cast唱這樣的歌也是可以唱得很棒呢。