Jerry Seinfeld became a billionaire thanks to a long-running television comedy that showed the chaotic lives of four people living in New York.
So it might seem odd that the 53-year-old Seinfeld star chose the highly-organized world of bees as the setting for his first effort at animated movie-making in Bee Movie, which will be released on Nov. 30 in Taiwan.
Seinfeld says he got the idea for Bee Movie after seeing a documentary about bees.
"They seem so utopian - their social structure, their corporate structure. They're so organized and focused. And that just made me laugh.
"That's a funny setting for a comedy, a perfect society where everyone knows their place. Because life is not like that."
The hero of Seinfeld's film is a bee named Barry, who discovers that humans are stealing honey for profit. Outraged, Barry launches and wins a lawsuit against mankind, with terrible consequences for the environment.
For Seinfeld, the project posed a series of challenges, such as waiting months for a punch line to be realized, as opposed to the rapid-fire immediacy of stand-up comedy.
"It was really hard to get my brain to slow down that much and just wait. There was one joke in the film that I didn't see until the night of the premiere. And I wrote it four years ago."
Seinfeld said he likes working on a wide range of projects, but stand-up comedy is still what he likes best.
"I never feel as right as I do when I'm on stage in a night club, performing. I always have a feeling inside that feels like 'This is what I am supposed to do,'" he said.(AFP)
傑利.盛菲德因為一部長壽電視喜劇成了億萬富翁,這部影集主要描述四個人在紐約的混亂生活。
主演《歡樂單身派對》的盛菲德在五十三歲時,選擇以分工縝密的蜜蜂社會作為他動畫片初體驗的主題。乍看之下,這個選擇似乎有點古怪。《蜂電影》將在十一月三十日在台灣上映。
盛菲德說,他是在看過一部關於蜜蜂的紀錄片後,有了製作這部電影的想法。
「牠們過著烏托邦似的生活─牠們的社會結構和分工組織都這麼有系統而專注。那著實令我發笑。」
「那很適合作為喜劇片的題材,在那裡,每個成員都知道自己的角色和職責,但人類真實的生活卻不是那樣。」
本片主人翁叫做貝瑞,當牠發現人類為了獲利而偷取牠們的蜂蜜時,怒不可遏。牠以嚴重破壞生態環境的罪名,對人類提起訴訟,最後獲勝。
對盛菲德來說,這部電影為他帶來一連串的挑戰,例如他必須等待數月之久,才能看到一個笑點被作成動畫,這和他所熟悉的單人脫口秀那種連珠砲式的直接表演形式大相逕庭。
「要我的腦袋放到那麼慢的速度甚至枯等實在是很困難。電影中有一個笑點,我一直到電影首映會那晚才看到。那是我四年前寫的東西。」
盛菲德說,他樂於挑戰各種形式的工作,但是脫口秀永遠是他的最愛。
「當我在夜總會的舞台上演出時,我感到最自在。我常感到『我就是天生吃這行飯的』,」他說。
(法新社/翻譯:袁星塵)
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