湯唯王力宏出演好萊塢新片《駭客交鋒》

When the director Michael Mann began work on his new film, “Blackhat,” an international thriller about good and wicked hackers, he wanted to start by researching some technological basics. Really, really elemental stuff. Like: “What’s electricity?”

洛杉磯——導演邁克爾·曼(Michael Mann)的新片《駭客交鋒》(Blackhat)是一部國際背景下的驚悚劇，講述亦正亦邪的黑客們的故事，着手準備時，他想先研究點技術方面的基礎知識。就是最最基本的東西，比如：“電力是什麼？”

“How does it flow?” he wondered. “It’s not linear.”

“它是怎麼流動的？”他想，“它可不是線性的。”

Also, “how does a single transistor work?” he asked. “How do these chips work?”

還有，“單晶體管是怎麼工作的？”他問道。“芯片呢？”

Investigating these and other “dopey fundamentals,” as he put it, was his way into a turbocharged story that stars Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis and Wang Leehom, and aims to bring authentic depictions of cyberterrorism to the multiplex.

他藉由研究諸如此類他所謂“傻瓜基本知識”，來深入這個高速運轉的故事。這部影片由克里斯·海姆斯沃斯(Chris Hemsworth)、維奧拉·戴維斯(Viola Davis)和王力宏等人主演，希望能在多廳影院裏真實地再現網絡恐怖主義。

“The way my mind works, I have to understand the basic building blocks, then I can generate up,” Mr. Mann said in an interview in his quiet production office here. Given the resources, learning the rudiments of technology “is simple,” he added. “Everything else is terribly complex.”

“我的想法是，我得理解最基本的元素，然後才能去構建它們，”曼在自己安靜的製片辦公室裏接受了採訪。以他的資源，學習這些技術基礎知識“很簡單”。他補充說，“其他東西纔是複雜得可怕。”

For Mr. Mann, the writer, director and producer best known for muscular films like “Heat,” “The Insider” “Ali” and “The Last of the Mohicans,” “Blackhat,” which is due Jan. 16, posed challenges unlike anything he’d ever tackled, including how to depict the tedium of coding in dramatic fashion. But at 71, with four Oscar nominations and much critical adulation to his credit, Mr. Mann remains undimmed. Surrounded by Muhammad Ali memorabilia in his office, his footnotable conversation hurtled from Eero Saarinen to Brancusi to the mechanics of a municipal storm drain; at one point, he diagramed how computer bits work.

曼是作家、導演和製作人，以執導《盜火線》(Heat)、《驚爆內幕》(The Insider)、《拳王阿里》(Ali)、《最後的莫西幹人》(The Last of the Mohicans)等強悍的男人片聞名。將在1月16日上映的《駭客交鋒》對於他來說是種挑戰，要處理各種之前從未處理過的東西，比如怎樣用激動人心的方式來展現枯燥的編程過程。但71歲的曼曾四獲奧斯卡提名，在評論界贏得好評無數，他的思路一直都很清晰。他的辦公室裏到處都是拳王阿里的紀念品，他的談話亮點不斷，從伊洛·沙裏寧(Eero Saarinen)到布蘭諾西(Brancusi)，再到暴雨排水道市政工程的結構；甚至還畫圖示意電腦零件是怎麼工作的。

With “Blackhat,” he even attended Comic Con for the first time. And as a filmmaker well-versed in black markets, corruption, the criminal underbelly and the law (Mr. Mann’s credits include “Miami Vice” and numerous prison dramas), the film’s unexpected resonance in the aftermath of the recent cyberattack on Sony served only to highlight his belief that the premise was ripe for exploration.

爲了推廣《駭客交鋒》，他甚至第一次參加了Comic Con動漫大會。作爲電影人，他擅長拍攝黑市、腐敗、地下犯罪和法律（曼還拍過《邁阿密風雲》[Miami Vice]等衆多監獄影片），《駭客交鋒》意外地與最近索尼公司遭黑客攻擊的事件相呼應，這更加凸顯出他的信念：對這類電影進行探索的時機已經成熟。

“It’s almost like there’s an invisible kind of exoskeleton above the layer in which we think our lives take place on planet Earth, that’s made up of interconnectedness and data,” he said. “We’re swimming around in it, and everything is totally porous, vulnerable and accessible. And if it hasn’t been targeted, that’s only because somebody hasn’t bothered to yet.”

“我們在地球中生活的區域之上，彷彿覆蓋着一層隱形的外骨骼，由互聯的數據構成，”他說，“我們就在其中游泳，一切都是可滲透的、脆弱的、可進入的。如果這個題材還沒有被拍攝過，或許只是因爲還沒人願意費這個力氣吧。”

The idea for the film — which, he recalled in his implacably precise manner, he first had on Aug. 8, 2011 — was inspired by Stuxnet, the computer worm that was identified in 2010, after it had struck an Iranian nuclear facility. “Blackhat,” the term for a vicious hacker (“white hat” is a good guy), starts with a malware attack on a Chinese nuclear reactor. Mr. Wang plays the M.I.T.-trained Chinese military official tasked with finding the culprit; Mr. Hemsworth plays his old programming-whiz college roommate, now incarcerated, whose prison sentence is commuted in exchange for helping solve the puzzle. This being a Michael Mann movie, that means using fists as well as keyboards. Car chases, too.

他極爲精確地回憶，這部影片的創意是在2011年8月8日產生的，靈感來自2010年發現的電腦蠕蟲Stuxnet，當時它攻擊了伊朗的核設施。《駭客交鋒》的英文名字“Blackhat”既“黑帽”是指邪惡的黑客，（“白帽”是指好黑客）。在片中，一個“黑帽”用惡意軟件攻擊了中國的核反應堆，王力宏飾演一個麻省理工學院培養的中國軍官，負責找出肇事者，海姆斯沃斯飾演他大學期間的室友，是編程高手，因犯罪入獄，爲了獲得減刑來幫助王解決這個難題。既然這是一部邁克爾·曼的電影，所以除了鍵盤，拳頭也是必不可少的，當然還有追車場面。

Mr. Mann said he had long wanted to make a movie in Asia, bolstered by a recent visit to Indonesia for another project. “Blackhat” is set in Hong Kong, Jakarta and Malaysia. “There’s an explosive energy,” he said of Jakarta, reeling off stats about its population and architecture. He likened Kuala Lumpur to “Islamic Brentwood,” the wealthy Los Angeles enclave. And he was eager to shoot in Hong Kong, partly because of the neon. “I wanted it to be an atmosphere of just intense visual, chromatic, busyness and liveliness,” he said. (He prized his cinematographer, Stuart Dryburgh, a new partner, because of his soft use of light as a counterweight.)

曼說，他早就想在亞洲拍一部電影，近期他又爲另一個計劃去了一趟印度尼西亞。《駭客交鋒》的背景發生在香港、雅加達和馬來西亞。“那裏有一種爆炸般的能量，”他這樣描述雅加達，還一口氣報出那裏的人口和建築統計數據。他把吉隆坡比作“伊斯蘭世界的布倫特伍德”——後者是洛杉磯一塊富庶的城中城。他熱切地希望在香港拍攝，部分是因爲那裏的霓虹燈。“我希望它形成一種氛圍，非常視覺化、五光十色，有繁忙和生機勃勃的感覺，”他說。他還誇讚了自己的攝影師，新搭檔斯圖爾特·德里布(Stuart Dryburgh)，因爲他溫和地處理光線，將之作爲一種平衡力量。

The movie starts with a nearly five-minute dramatization of code speeding through a network, shooting lights and grids, and a reverse internal shot of a keystroke. Mr. Mann wanted to make it as true as possible; he got a 3-D computer model from Qualcomm, the semiconductor maker, to help visualize it. “So the geography is real,” he said. But “if a conductive metal has a surfeit of electrons or no electrons, it does not change color — that’s fiction. I had to present it some way; I didn’t want to do motorcycles on a 3-D grid like ‘Tron.’ ”

影片開頭用僅五分鐘的時間以戲劇化的形式呈現了電腦編碼在網絡上的快速傳播，有光線、網格以及鍵盤背面內部的畫面。曼希望這這一幕儘可能真實，他使用半導體制造商高通公司(Qualcomm)製作的3-D電腦模型來將這一幕變得更加形象。“這些佈局都是真的，”他說。但是“如果一塊傳導金屬過量負載了電子，或上面沒有電子，它就不會變色——這是虛構的。我得把它用某些方式表現出來，我不想像《創戰紀》(Tron)裏那樣，用3-D網格呈現摩托車。”

Capturing the flow of data has bedeviled every filmmaker who’s ever made a movie about programming, said Steve F. Anderson, a film professor at the University of Southern California who studies depictions of technology on screen. “3-D fly-throughs, psychedelic explosions of 1’s and 0’s, an array of monitors and techno music” are all part of what Mr. Anderson calls “Hollywood technological-anxiety films.”

如何捕捉信息流，這令所有拍攝與編程有關的導演都感到頭疼。南加州大學電影教授史蒂夫·F·安德森(Steve F. Anderson)專門研究如何電影中如何呈現技術。“飛過銀幕的3-D效果，數字‘1’與‘0’迷幻地爆炸開來，一系列顯示屏，以及電腦風格的音樂”，這些都是安德森所謂的“好萊塢技術焦慮電影”的組成部分。

“They’re almost universally dystopian, and whenever there’s some great new technology that’s going to solve all our problems, it will invariably go awry and create drama and chaos,” Mr. Anderson explained. Hollywood, he added, “has a love-hate relationship with technology, because it also wants to fetishize it.”

“他們大都是反烏托邦主義者，只要出現什麼偉大的、能解決所有問題的新技術，就總會出錯，造成戲劇性情節和混亂，”安德森解釋。他補充說，好萊塢“對技術有種愛恨交織的態度，因爲好萊塢也想崇拜技術。”

Enter what he calls the superhacker, “someone who can seamlessly traverse the digital world and real world.” (This is in contrast to the other stereotype, “the pudgy, sexually repressed, sedentary, overweight geek.”) Though “The Matrix” set the superhacker standard, a prime example Mr. Anderson noted was Hugh Jackman in the 2001 movie “Swordfish.” In an online archive of hacker clips that Mr. Anderson maintains, there’s Mr. Jackman, sexy in a loose shirt, pounding red wine as he types awkwardly, shouting “Oh yeah!” at his seven oversize monitors.

安德森所謂的超級駭客是指“一個可以無縫隙穿越數碼世界與真實世界的人”（這種人和電影中的另一種老套模式正好相反——也就是那種“矮墩墩、性壓抑、總是坐着、體重超重的書呆子極客”）。《黑客帝國》(The Matrix)爲超級黑客樹立了標準，不過安德森指出，最好的例子還要算休·傑克曼(Hugh Jackman)在2001年的電影《劍魚行動》(Swordfish)裏飾演的角色。安德森維護着一個在線檔案館，裏面都是各種電影中的黑客形象片段，在這個網站上，可以看到傑克曼在該片中飾演的角色，穿着鬆鬆垮垮的襯衣，樣子非常性感，邊喝紅酒邊笨拙地打字，對着七臺超大的顯示器喊“歐耶！”

In “Blackhat,” Mr. Hemsworth, the muscle-bound Australian star of “Thor,” is superhacker incarnate. In real life, he told a Comic Con audience in July, he had to have one of Mr. Mann’s tech experts teach him how to type with more than two fingers.

海姆斯沃斯是一位肌肉發達的澳大利亞演員，曾主演電影《雷神》(Thor)，在《駭客交鋒》裏，他就是一位超級黑客。7月份，他在Comic Con漫展上告訴觀衆們說，現實生活裏，他得讓曼請來的技術專家教他怎麼用十個手指打字，而不是用兩個食指。

To the grumble that few hackers look like Mr. Hemsworth, Mr. Mann invoked another consultant, Stephen Watt, a 7-foot blond weight lifter turned cybercriminal. “They look like everything,” Mr. Mann said. He choose stars who are unfamiliar to American audiences, like Mr. Wang, an American-born pop star in China, and the Chinese actress Tang Wei, who plays his sister, a systems engineer who becomes Mr. Hemsworth’s love interest.

有人抱怨說很少有黑客會長成海姆斯沃斯這個樣子，曼提起自己的一位顧問——斯蒂芬·瓦特(Stephen Watt)，他身高七英尺，是一位金髮的舉重運動員，後來成了網絡犯罪分子。“他們長什麼樣的都有，”曼說。他挑選的都是美國觀衆不熟悉的演員，比如王力宏，他是一個出生在美國的中國流行歌手，還有中國女演員湯唯，在片中飾演王力宏的姊妹，一個系統工程師，海姆斯沃斯愛上了她。

The story was so closely guarded that when Mr. Wang auditioned, he used a “Miami Vice” script, he said. But once he understood the part, its appeal was its atypical “portrayal of the Asian male.” His character speaks Mandarin and perfect English. “That is the exact opposite of every other script I’ve read for an Asian role,” he said.

故事情節被嚴格保密，王力宏說，自己試鏡時，用的還是《邁阿密風雲》的劇本。在搞清楚自己的角色後，這個非典型的“亞洲男性形象”引起了他的興趣。他飾演的角色說普通話，也說一口完美的英語，“這和我看到過的所有亞洲角色的劇本都不同，”他說。

Mr. Mann has his stars read together — “a sneaky way to be rewriting dialogue,” he said. His process, honed early in his career as a TV writer in the 1970s and ’80s, begins with a longhand outline. Once the story takes shape, “I just dictate up the screenplay,” he said, as though channeling different characters and conceiving their lines extemporaneously was no big deal. “I discovered a long time ago, I cannot get it down fast enough,” he added. (For a while, he employed court stenographers.)

曼讓所有演員聚在一起讀劇本——“一種重寫對話的狡猾方式，”他說。他的工作方式是先手寫一份大綱——這是他在事業生涯早期，也就是20世紀70到80年代期間擔任電視劇編劇時形成的。一旦故事成型，“我就口述劇本，”他說，好像刻畫不同角色併爲他們即興創造臺詞根本算不上什麼大事。“很早以前，我發現我沒法足夠快地把它們寫下來，”他補充說（有段時間他還僱用過速記員）。

Mr. Wang, 38, who called for an interview from Taiwan at 3:30 a.m. local time while finishing an album, was impressed with Mr. Mann’s vitality. In their 66-day shoot on 74 locations, “there was not one day that he slept more than four hours,” Mr. Wang said. “He had to have two assistants on rotation to keep up with him.”

38歲的王力宏於當地時間凌晨3：30在臺灣接受了電話採訪，當時他剛剛錄完一張專輯。曼的活力令王力宏印象深刻。在爲期66天的拍片過程中，他們在74個地點進行拍攝，“他每天睡覺從沒超過四小時，”王力宏說，“他得請兩個助理輪班倒，才能跟上他的進度。”

From the start, Mr. Mann has been confident of his instincts. A Chicago native — his favorite time of the year there is January, he said, “because it’s crystal; you see forever” — he moved to London to study film after discovering Stanley Kubrick as an undergraduate. Returning to the United States, he soon developed a crisp visual style. In the interview, he wore a gray shirt that set off his gray-blue eyes in his gray-carpeted office, and spoke in ecstatic detail about the volume of contrasting colors and patterns in Indonesia. (His wife, Summer Mann, is a painter.)

從一開始，曼就很信任自己的直覺。一年中他最喜歡的時間是一月，他說“因爲它清澈透明，你永遠都能看見”。他是芝加哥人，大學時看過斯坦利·庫布裏克(Stanley Kubrick)的電影后就來到倫敦學電影。回到美國後，他發展出一種乾脆爽快的視覺風格。在採訪中，他穿着一件灰色襯衫，襯托他灰藍色的雙眼，他的辦公室裏也鋪着灰色的地毯，他入迷地詳細描述着印度尼西亞的大量對比色和花紋（他的妻子薩莫·曼[Summer Mann]是畫家）。

Mr. Mann’s other hallmark is a fascination with criminals. Asked if he had ever been arrested, he declined to answer, eventually allowing only that he had never been incarcerated “like the people in my movies.” (Let the record show: Michael Mann has never killed a guy.) But he recounted his first time inside a maximum-security prison, where he was working as an uncredited writer on Dustin Hoffman’s 1978 movie “Straight Time,” with awe.

曼的另一個重要特點是對罪犯的迷戀。被問到是否有過遭到逮捕的經歷時，他拒絕回答，最後終於承認，他從未“像我電影裏的那些人那樣”遭到監禁（紀錄顯示，邁克爾·曼從來沒殺過人）。但他回憶自己自己第一次走進一座最高安全級別監獄時的情形，當時他爲達斯汀·霍夫曼(Dustin Hoffman)1978年的電影《暗夜心聲》(Straight Time)擔任不署名編劇，滿心敬畏地到那座監獄裏參觀。

“Folsom was a revelation,” Mr. Mann said. “I thought there’d be draconian guards, gray men.” Instead, “the convicts had a kind of brio and an aggression,” a vibrancy, and they were tuned in to life outside. “The territorial compression of the human spirit,” he said, makes for an intense and unlimited palette.

“福爾鬆監獄對於我來說是一種啓示，”曼說。“我本來覺得那裏肯定會有嚴厲的警衛，都是身穿灰衣的人們。”相反，“罪犯們有一種生機勃勃，有種侵略性，”他們有活力，和外界生活保持着一致。他說“將人類靈魂限制在一個地域之內”，只是造就了一個濃烈豐富的調色板。

The emotions translated to the canvas of cybercrime and code breaking. “I understand,” he said, “because I was a young male, that challenge of, ‘You telling me I can’t get in here?’ You wanna bet?’ ”

這些情感也被繪製在網絡犯罪與破解代碼的畫布之上。“我理解，”他說，“因爲我曾是個年輕的男人，總在挑戰，‘你說我幹不了這個？你想打賭嗎？’”

Though Mr. Mann was eager to make an of-the-moment movie, hacker films typically don’t age well, Mr. Anderson said. (See: that clip of Mr. Jackman.) He suggested that perhaps Hollywood’s narrow, dweebs-or-supermen portrayal may even damage technological literacy. “It doesn’t leave much room for ordinary people who just want to learn to write code,” he said.

儘管曼很渴望拍一部反映當下的電影，但安德森說，黑客電影一般並不成熟（參見傑克曼的電影片段）。他說，好萊塢對黑客的塑造非常狹窄，不是怪人就超級英雄，這甚至也損害到了技術領域。“它沒有爲想學代碼的正常人留下什麼空間，”他說。

For Mr. Mann, who is known to re-edit his movies for DVD and has had final cut for his entire career — “I think it’s a moral right,” he said — concerns like that may come second to auteurism. Asked if he made the film as an entree into the lucrative Asian market, he said no. “I don’t think of the audience; I just think of what’s interesting to me,” he said. His creative blueprint, he added, is “absolutely intuitive and visceral.”

衆所周知，曼在自己的電影推出DVD版的時候，還要再剪輯一次，作爲最終版本，他在整個事業生涯期間都是如此——“我覺得這是理所當然的權利，”他說。對於他來說，上面的種種問題和導演主創論相比都是第二位的。被問到他是否把這部電影當做敲門磚，以圖打入利潤豐厚的亞洲市場，他說並非如此。“我不去考慮觀衆，我只想拍自己感興趣的東西，”他說。他補充說，他的創意藍圖“完全是出於直覺，發自內心的”。

“The way in is usually through the amygdala,” he said, “not the cerebral cortex.”

“通向內心的道路經過扁桃體，而不是經過大腦皮層，”他說。