美第奇家族：翡冷翠名门第一季

一季看完心里五味杂陈也就不自己评论什么了，翻译了一篇Frank Spotnitz的访谈，感觉对于本剧的内涵、人物塑造、接下来几季的计划都说的很清楚，感兴趣的剧友们正好也可以看一下吧~（删掉了一些讲具体拍摄的内容，最后附有原地址）

Variety杂志
MipTV: Frank Spotnitz Talks “Medici: Masters of Florence”
法国戛纳国际电视节：Frank Spotnitz谈《美第奇家族：翡冷翠名门》

Starring Dustin Hoffman as Giovanni de Medici and Richard Madden as his son, Cosimo, co-created by Frank Spotnitz (“The X-Files,” “The Man in the High Castle”) and Nicholas Meyer (“Star Trek II”）and lead produced by Italy’s Lux Vide “Medici” is sold worldwide by Wild Bunch’s newly-created television divison, Wild Bunch TV.
《美第奇家族：翡冷翠名门》是一部Dustin Hoffman （饰乔凡尼•徳•美第奇）与Richard Madden（饰柯西莫•徳•美第奇）主演的电视剧，由Frank Spotnitz（《X档案》， 《高堡奇人》）与Nicholas Meyer（《星际迷航II》）携手创作，意大利Lux Vide公司制片，Wild Bunch公司新组建的电视剧部门负责向国际市场发行。

The series, which will air on RAI last quarter, and has already been renewed for a second season, is shot in the very same places the Medicis knew and frequented near six centuries ago: Costumes, decor, the embroidered cloth on which Cosimo and Contessina de Medici pledge their marriage troth is exquisite; locations – Florence’s Dome, for instance, are stunning. “This is the story of a family which created the future for others,” said Lux Vide CEO Luca Bernabei at Cannes “by giving birth to the middle class”. “We wanted to involve in this project the top creative Italian talent in order to create a world as truthful as possible to the golden age of the Renaissance,” he added.
这部上季度在意大利RAI台播出的电视剧现已获得了第二季的预定，于6个世纪前美第奇家族生活的实地进行拍摄：剧服、背景装饰、柯西莫与孔特西娜立下婚誓时所穿的刺绣服装精美绝伦；拍摄场地，例如佛罗伦萨知名的拱顶，同样美轮美奂。“这是关于一个为他人创造了未来的家族的故事，他们促进了中产阶级的诞生” Lux Vide的CEO Luc Bernabei如是说， “我们想通过本项目与意大利最有创造力的才俊们一起打造一个尽可能还原文艺复兴黄金时期的世界”。

 “Medici: Masters of Florence” also attempts more: To chart the depth of the Medici’s revolution, how in many ways they launched the modern age. Variety talked to Frank Spotnitz at MipTV as he presented a series which lifts the lid on the Renaissance, its glory, revolution, and compromises.
《美第奇家族：翡冷翠名门》的雄心不止于此：它想要刻画美第奇家族发起的变革的深刻历史意义，讲述他们对“现代时期”大门开启所做的贡献。Variety杂志对话Frank Spotnitz，他为法国戛纳国际电视节带来的这部电视剧揭开了文艺复兴时期的面纱，展它的荣耀、演变与妥协。

-I sense that the “Medici: Masters of Florence” is already designed as a story which runs for more than one season, the first focusing on a crucial five years over 1429-34 when a still young Cosimo de Medici succeeds his murdered father as head of the Medici bank and battles to preserve his family’s power in Florence. You still have the rest of Cosimo’s long life and Lorenzo de Medici, his grandson, to go….
-（记者）我认为《美第奇家族：翡冷翠名门》从设计初就注定要分多季展开。第一季集中在1429-1434这关键的五年上，年纪尚轻的柯西莫•徳•美第奇从他被谋杀的父亲手中接过美第奇银行的指挥棒，费尽心机保住家族在佛罗伦萨的地位。柯西莫漫长的一生和他的孙子洛伦佐•徳•美第奇还有许多故事有待挖掘……

When you look at the story of the Medici family, it is incredibly rich and you have many, many chapters of the story that you could choose to tell. Our first challenge in approaching this story was which chapter to tell, and we landed on Cosimo ascending to leadership of the family upon the death of his father, Giovanni. We begin “Medici: Masters of Florence” with the early years of Cosimo’s leadership of the bank, which were critical not just to Florence, but to the Western world because so many ideas about art and commerce were cemented when he took over for his father. The series shows his deep love and respect for art, as was evidenced in his search for a solution to finishing the dome of the Cathedral. He was ultimately able to find an artist with an architectural mind, Brunelleschi, who was able to solve a puzzle that had confounded the Florentines for generations.
-当你去考量美第奇家族的故事时，你会发现它们丰富的不可思议，可讲的故事不胜枚举。我们所面临的第一个挑战就是从中挑选一个章节来讲述，而我们最终确定的“着陆点”就是柯西莫在父亲乔凡尼死后成为家族领导者的片段。《美第奇家族：翡冷翠名门》的展开设定在柯西莫经营家族银行最初的几年，这几年时光对佛罗伦萨，乃至整个西方世界都至关重要，因为关于艺术和商业的诸多新观点都是在这一时期定型的。 通过描述柯西莫对完成圣母百花大教堂拱顶的不懈探索，本剧第一季向观众展现了他对艺术深沉的爱。柯西莫最终也找到了一个有建筑师头脑的艺术家，Brunelleschi，解开了这个困扰了几代佛罗伦萨人的难题。

To frame the first season, we ask a historical ‘what if’: ‘What if Cosimo’s father Giovanni was murdered?’ The truth is, we don’t know how Giovanni died, or at least it’s not in any historical records I could find. It’s entirely possible he was murdered as we know there were attempts on his life. By asserting that he was murdered, it creates a murder mystery for us, and a pretty nifty way of framing all of the antagonists for the Medici family as suspects in Giovanni’s death. It creates a natural interest in the story whether or not you are inherently curious about the Medici family — it becomes a family drama about a son who wants to know who killed his father. That’s the focus of the first season.
为了建构本剧的第一季，我们提出了一个历史上“假如”的问题：“假如，柯西莫的父亲，乔凡尼，是被谋杀的会怎样呢？”事实上，我们并不知道乔凡尼是如何逝世的，至少在我所找到的历史材料中没有相关记录。 但是，我们知道在他生前曾遇到了暗杀，因此他因谋杀而死亦非全无可能。谋杀的设定可以为我们创造一个谜团，很轻松地把美第奇家族的对手们，也就是可能是乔凡尼谋杀者的一众角色架构在一起。 再者，谋杀亦可以创造出一个自然而然的观看兴趣点，不管你本身对美第奇家族的故事感不感兴趣都可能被吸引到——本剧就变成了一个家族剧情片，基本结构是“一个儿子想要找出弑父凶手”。这也就是第一季的中心聚焦点。

For future seasons, we do not feel obligated to move in a straight line. We feel that we could skip to the next best juiciest chapter in the Medici saga as the show continues. There are many chapters of their story that are very interesting, so we have a rich choice of options.
而在接下来几季中，我们觉得并没有必要进行直线性流水账式的叙事，而应该直接跳到下一个美第奇家族史诗中“最有料”的章节。好在有趣的故事多得很，我们的选择也就很广。

-Mexico’s Guillermo Arriaga once said that when you write a movie you think of one word or a phrase that embodies the essence of the movie and try to stick to it and be faithful to it. What could that word or short phrase be for “Medici: Masters of Florence.”
-（记者）墨西哥导演Guillermo Arriaga曾说过，当您创作一部电影的剧本时，您会先设想一个关键词语或者关键句去使电影的精髓具象化，之后您会尽可能跟这个关键词保持一致。那么《美第奇家族：翡冷翠名门》的关键词或关键句是什么呢？

If I had to pick one word, perseverance comes to mind very quickly, as the Medici family is faced with many challenges from society, rivals and the existing power structure. One of the themes for Cosimo is “doing bad in order to do good” and he struggles with this notion and what is the moral cost to doing the right thing. While he is looking out for his family, he also continues to be concerned about the people of Florence and clearly wants to do things to help them. A lot of the characters sacrifice in order to do good.
-若一定要选一个词的话，我首先想到的是“坚持”，因为美第奇家族所面对的是来自于社会、对手和现有的权力结构的重重挑战。柯西莫的主题之一是“为善行恶”，这个概念和“做正确的事所要付出的道德代价”折磨着他的内心。维护家族利益的同时，他也把佛罗伦萨的人民放在心里，想要对他们施以援手。还有很多其他人物同样也为能够“行善”付出了牺牲。

-One of the great debating points of history was what caused the Renaissance, as well as when it began. Answers run from the Bubonic plague to the Fall of Constantinople. What answer(s) does “Medici: Masters of Florence” suggest?
-（记者）历史中最有名的争论点之一就是文艺复兴的起因和起始时间，史学家从腺鼠疫爆发到君士坦丁堡陷落众说纷纭。那么《美第奇家族：翡冷翠名门》所持的观点是什么呢？

In our story the embers of the Renaissance are already glowing by the time Cosimo comes of age. You already have the ancient ruins of Rome being excavated and artists like Donatello traveling from Florence to Rome to study the wisdom of the ancients. We do not assert that Cosimo is single-handedly responsible for the Renaissance, but he is one of the people who recognizes that lost wisdom, and he wants to restore and learn from it. He does that by embracing artists who were considered radical at that time. Being in charge of the bank, he commissions great works, including the finishing of the Duomo in Florence.
在我们的故事里，文艺复兴之火在柯西莫成年时就已经在燃起了。古罗马的遗址已被出土，类似Donatello的艺术家从佛罗伦萨前往罗马去学习古代先贤的智慧。我们并不把柯西莫设定为“一人之力撑起文艺复兴”式的人物，但他是能认辨尘封的智慧的人中一员，他想要还原修复这些智慧，并从中学习，结交当时被认为是“先驱派”的艺术家。 在管理家族银行的同时，他出资委托创造了许多伟大的艺术品，例如佛罗伦萨圣母百花大教堂的拱顶。

The story of the Renaissance really is only beginning in Season 1 of the series, and it comes into full flower two generations later with Lorenzo the Magnificent because he championed the works of great artists like Botticelli, Michelangelo and Da Vinci.
文艺复兴在本剧的第一季只是刚刚起步，要等到柯西莫两代之后的“伟大的洛伦佐”时期才会完全绽放。洛伦佐资助了众多伟大艺术家，如波提切利、米开朗基罗和达芬奇。
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-“Medici: Masters of Florence” will, I suspect, inevitably set out to capture the glory of and extraordinary revolution marked in financing, the arts and science by the Renaissance. How has the series set out to capture this?
-（记者）《美第奇家族：翡冷翠名门》，应该会，我认为，不可避免地描绘到文艺复兴时期在金融、艺术和科学方面巨大革命的荣光，本剧准备怎样做到这一点呢？

Season 1 is really about Cosimo’s journey. In our story we emphasize his love of art and how he used his power and influence as head of the Medici bank to foster the revolutionary art that led to the Renaissance. Season 1 is really the beginning of the revolution and it’s only in future seasons of the series that we would see that revolution truly come to pass.
第一季重心讲的是柯西莫的个人旅程。在故事中，我们着重突出了他对于艺术的热爱，以及他利用美第奇银行舵手的身份去促进文艺复兴先导的艺术革命的方式。第一季设定在这场变革的起步阶段，在接下来的几季终，我们将会看到革命的巨轮驶过。

本文章来源：
http://variety.com/2016/tv/global/frank-spotnitz-medici-richard-madden-dustin-hoffman-1201744736-1201744736/