下面我们来赏析一下S4ep01里 DE就这删除的两段记忆对质的对话,为什么叫赏析呢,因为我太佩服给D写台词的编剧了。这场戏的台词写得非常棒,分别回指了S2ep20,S2ep21,S3ep22,S2ep08,我还是要把英文录在这里,方便对照之前的剧集。 E: You were going to kill him. D: Yep, the guy just won’t die. E: It was my choice to save him, why aren’t you seeing that? D: It was so hard to keep track of all your choices lately, Elena. E: I remember everything. One of highlights of my transition, remembering everything that you compelled me to forget, like how you and I met first, you are a stranger that told me you wanted me to get everything I wanted from life. Damon, why didn’t you tell me? D: Would have It made it difference? E: (silence) D: I didn’t think so. E: You asked me to make a choice, so I did it, if you’re going to be mad, take it out on me, not on Stefan, on Matt or anyone else, me. D: Are we done here? E: If it had been you at the bridge last night, and not Stefan, and I begged you to save Matt D: I would’ve saved you, in a heartbeat, no question E: So as I thought, and Matt would be dead, because you couldn’t let go. Matt would be dead. D:But you wouldn’t be. You would've gotten to grow up and had the life that you wanted, the life that you deserved. And I know I didn’t used to get that but I do now, and I wanted it for you, Elena. I would've gladly given it to you, and let matt die. Because I am that selfish. But you knew that already. First night we met isn’t all that you remember.
还记得下面这个场景吗, 出自S2ep21 背景音乐是凄美的Skinny Love,旁白是Uncle John的那封信,在那一幕戏之前,我从未觉得Uncle John的声音那么迷人,他的信中有这样一句话“For me, it’s the end; for you, a chance to grow old and someday do a better job with your own child than I did with mine” (于我,此刻即是终点,而你却有机会成大成人,有朝一日成为母亲,并做得比我出色)。D这S4ep01这一幕里说的“But you wouldn’t be. You would've gotten to grow up and had the life that you wanted, the life that you deserved.”(可你不会死,你就有机会长大,过你想要的生活,过你应该过的生活。)与Uncle John信里的这句话是相照应的。
D的“Because I am that selfish. But you knew that already. First night we met isn’t all that you remember.”(因为我就是那样的自私,可你不是已经知道了吗?我删除的记忆可不只有初次相遇的那个晚上。)有力地反驳了E对他“couldn’t let go”(就因为你不肯放手)的指责。这句话里的that selfish是回指S2ep08那个场表白的两句话“because what I am about to say is probably the most selfish thing I’ve ever said in my life”(因为我要说的,可能是我这辈子说的最自私的一番话)和“and because I love you, I can’t be selfish with you”(正因为我爱你,我不能对你做出自私事)。