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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