Shenandoah – 今生情重
一部很老套的西部片(1965)，但是很经典。比较吸引我的是其中的几段对话：
1、山姆向珍妮的父亲提亲（关于爱和喜欢）：
Sam: I’ve, uh, wanted to talk to you for a long time, sir, but–
Well, come to the straight of the matter, sir, I–
I wanna ask for your daughter’s hand.
Sir: You mean, you wanna marry her, Sam?
Sam: Yes, sir.
Sir: Why?
Sam: Sir?
Sir: Why do you wanna marry her?
Sam: Well, I, I love her. Mr. Anderson.
Sir: Well, that’s not good enough, Sam.
Sam: I beg your pardon?
Sir: Do you like her?
Sam: Well, I just said–
Sir: No, no, you said you loved her.
There’s some difference between loving and liking.
When I married Jennie’s mother, I didn’t love her.
I liked her.
I liked her a whole lot.
I liked Martha for at least three years after we were married, and then one day it just dawned on me I loved her.
I still do.
I still do.
You see, Sam, when you love a woman without liking her, the night can be long and cold, and contempt comes up with the sun, and–
Do you understand all this I’m telling you?
Sam: Yes, Sir.
Sir: Well?
Sam: Oh, well, I… I like Jennie, sir. I’ve always liked her.
Sir: All right, then, you be good to her.
Because if you don’t, it’s between you and me, boy.
Sam: Well then, you have no objection, sir?
Sir: I didn’t say that.
Sam: Oh.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
2、结婚前夜，珍妮的父亲和山姆谈心（男人对女人的困惑）：
Sir: It’s no easy job, Sam, taking care of a woman.
Sam: No, sir.
Sir: Mm-hmm.
Yep.
They expect things they never ask for.
And when they don’t get them, they ask you why.
Sometimes they don’t ask.
And they just go ahead and punish you for not doing something… you didn’t know you were supposed to do in the first place.
Sam: What for instance, sir?
Sir: That’s a very difficult question to answer, Sam. You’re never quite sure.
It’s just that it’s sort of you might say… relative.
Sam: Relative to what, sir?
Sir: To how they’re feeling at the moment.
Sam: And how’s that?
Sir: You never know.
Sam: Uh, I don’t believe I really understand what you’re trying to tell me, sir.
Sir: I know, I know. I never understood it myself.
I never understood it.
It’s just one of those things, Sam.
It’s around. You just don’t ever see it.
Now suppose–
Suppose Jennie started to cry one day.
You don’t know what she’s crying about, so you ask her why.
Do you follow me, Sam?
Sam: Yes, sir.
Sir: You ask her, and she won’t tell you.
And that’s when you ask her… what it was you did caused her to cry.
She still won’t tell you.
And that’s when you start to get angry.
But don’t get angry , Sam.
She won’t tell you why she’s crying because she doesn’t know.
Women are like that, Sam.
And it’s exasperating. It’s, it’s… mmmph!
But don’t let it make you angry. No.
When she gets like that, just walk up and hug her a little bit.
Because that’s all they really want… when they’re like that, Sam.
A little loving.
You understand me, don’t you?
Sam: No, sir.
Sir: You don’t, huh?
3、结婚前夜，珍妮的嫂子和珍妮谈心（女人对男人的困惑）：
Ann: There’s something else you must remember.
Husbands like to be alone once a while.
Jen: Why?
Ann: You never know why.
But I can always tell you when James wants to be alone.
A mood comes over him.
I can always see it in his eyes before it gets there.
I don’t know where the mood comes from or why, but that’s when i leave him alone.
It seems sometimes things get so thick around a man…
that he comes to feel that everything is closing in on him.
That’s when he wants to be left alone.
You understand, don’t you?
Jen: No.
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