纽约时报 黑道家族如何影响美国---以不为人知的方式(1)

 

 

    In August, Michael Imperioli and his band, Zopa, played a show at the Mercury Lounge in Lower Manhattan.

    今年8月，迈克尔·因佩里奥利和他的乐队Zopa在曼哈顿下城的水星酒吧举行了一场演出。

    It was a Saturday night, and the concert was sold out.

    那是一个星期六的晚上，音乐会的票已经卖光了。

    Looking over the crowd, Imperioli—the actor best known for playing Christopher Moltisanti on “The Sopranos” —saw a sea of youngish Sopranos fans.

    迈克尔·因佩里奥利因在 <黑道家族> 中扮演克里斯托弗·莫尔蒂桑提而出名,他环顾人群，看到了成群的年轻<黑道家族>粉丝。

    Some were even dressed up like Christopher’s girlfriend, Adriana La Cerva, who favored form-fitting cheetah¹ and tiger prints.

    有些人甚至模仿克里斯托弗的女友阿德里亚娜·拉·塞尔瓦，她喜欢合身的猎豹和老虎图案。

    “I don’t know what they were expecting,” Imperioli told me later.

    “我不知道他们在期待什么，”因佩里奥利后来告诉我。

    The concert had nothing to do with “The Sopranos”; it was a benefit for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a trans rights organization.

    这场音乐会与 <黑道家族> 无关; 这是西尔维娅·里维拉法律项目的一个慈善活动，这是一个变性权利组织。

    Imperioli, like just about everyone with a significant role on “The Sopranos,” had his life completely upended by it.

    和<黑道家族>中所有重要角色一样，因佩里奥利的生活也被这部剧彻底颠覆了。

    When he took the job, he was a successful character actor当他接受这份工作时，他是一个成功的名不见经传的特色配角---he played Spider in “Goodfellas,” the gofer kid Joe Pesci’s character kills for no good reason---他在 好家伙 中扮演蜘蛛，而乔·佩西饰演打杂小子无缘无故杀人---and was in the process of writing the screenplay for “Summer of Sam,” which he went on to make with Spike² Lee.

    ---当时他正在为 <山姆的夏天> 写剧本，后来他和斯派克·李一起拍了这部电影。

    But then “The Sopranos” happened, and for the next decade he portrayed³ Christopher, the troubled, moody⁴ and impatient heir apparent to Tony Soprano’s crime family.

    但后来 <黑道家族> 上映了，在接下来的十年里，他扮演了克里斯托弗，一个麻烦缠身、喜怒无常、不耐烦的托尼·索普拉诺犯罪家族的继承人。

    Imperioli’s post- “Sopranos” career has been a successful one, but he has never fully⁵ escaped the show’s gravity.

    因佩里奥利的后 <黑道家族>生涯是成功的，但他从来没有完全逃脱这部剧的影响。

    In the years after its finale, he would still travel around with a handful of cast members to do spots at casinos: James Gandolfini, Steve Schirripa, Tony Sirico and Steven Van Zandt.

    在 <黑道家族>大结局之后的几年里，他仍然会和几位演员，詹姆斯·甘多菲尼、史蒂夫·希里帕、托尼·西里科和史蒂文·范·赞特，在赌场里表演。

    "We’d go to, like, Vegas,” he said.

    “我们会去拉斯维加斯，”他说。

    “We’d go to Atlantic City, we’d go to Foxwoods,” and on down to “Tahoe and Reno,” stuff like that.

    “我们会去大西洋城，我们会去福克斯伍兹”然后去“塔霍和里诺”之类的地方。

    They’d be the entertainment for the night, telling stories from behind the scenes of the legendary⁶ show.

    他们会成为当晚的娱乐节目，讲述传奇表演背后的故事。

    These were “high roller events” and “very Rat Pack” — and fun, he says. “ ‘The Sopranos’ was a perfect casino draw.”

    他说，这些都是“豪赌活动”，“非常像鼠帮”，而且很有趣。<黑道家族> 是一个完美的赌场平局。”

    “We always had our audience that grew up with us,” Imperioli said.

    “我们总是遇到和我们一起成长的观众，”因佩里奥利说。

    “They watched it when it first aired.

    “第一次播出的时候他们就观看了。

    They had, you know, pasta and pizza parties on Sunday night, and they grew older with us.”

    你知道，他们会在周日晚上举办意大利面和披萨派对，他们和我们一起变老。”

    The die-hards within this group were the sorts of guys you might have met at the Silver Legacy⁷ in Reno: guys who love mob movies and think mobsters are cool, guys who know the manager at the casino.

    这个群体中的顽固分子就是你可能在雷诺的“银色遗产”见过的那种人:他们喜欢黑帮电影，认为黑帮很酷，他们认识赌场的经理。

    But then something changed.

    但后来事情发生了变化。

    Around 2019, Imperioli joined Instagram and discovered “all these fan sites and meme sites” dedicated⁸ to the show, and all these young people who’d made their avatar image a picture of Christopher in a neck brace⁹.

    2019年左右，因佩里奥利注册了Instagram，发现“所有这些粉丝网站和表情包网站”都是关于这部剧的，所有这些年轻人都把克里斯托弗戴着颈托的头像作为自己的头像。

    He also noticed that people in their 20s and 30s were coming up to him asking for selfies.

    他还注意到20多岁和30多岁的人向他要自拍。

    Just over that last week in August, he told me, he saw three people with “Sopranos” tattoos¹⁰.

    就在8月的最后一周，他告诉我，他看到三个人身上有 <黑道家族> 的纹身。

1 cheetah   

n.(动物)猎豹

参考例句：

• The cheetah is generally credited as the world's fastest animal.猎豹被公认是世界上跑得最快的动物。
• The distribution of the cheetah ranges from Africa to Central Asia.印度豹的足迹遍及从非洲到中亚的广大地区。

2 spike   

n.长钉，钉鞋；v.以大钉钉牢，使...失效

参考例句：

• The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
• They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。

3 portrayed   

v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 )；描述；描绘；描画

参考例句：

• Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中，他始终把自己说成是受害者。
• The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 moody   

adj.心情不稳的，易怒的，喜怒无常的

参考例句：

• He relapsed into a moody silence.他又重新陷于忧郁的沉默中。
• I'd never marry that girl.She's so moody.我决不会和那女孩结婚的。她太易怒了。

5 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

6 legendary   

adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）

参考例句：

• Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
• Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。

7 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

8 dedicated   

adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的

参考例句：

• He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
• His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

9 brace   

n. 支柱,曲柄,大括号; v. 绷紧,顶住,(为困难或坏事)做准备

参考例句：

• My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth. 我的女儿得戴牙套以矫正牙齿。
• You had better brace yourself for some bad news. 有些坏消息,你最好做好准备。

10 tattoos   

n.文身( tattoo的名词复数 )；归营鼓；军队夜间表演操；连续有节奏的敲击声v.刺青，文身( tattoo的第三人称单数 )；连续有节奏地敲击；作连续有节奏的敲击

参考例句：

• His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的胳膊上刺满了花纹。
• His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的双臂刺满了纹身。 来自《简明英汉词典》