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Thursday, Oct. 06, 2011 1:16 p.m.

Struck by the cover drawing of Laura Marling's new album that I saw on the underground these days. Just found that she was the girl who broke up with the singer from Noah and the Whale.

一星期內在Barbican分別看了LSO及BBC Symphony Orchestra現場配樂的1928年英國默片Underground。

聽LSO上半場不算專心，這是我聽古典音樂時的常態，與其說是欣賞音樂，不如說古典音樂造就一個思考的場景。奇怪的是這次腦海不斷浮出許多塵封多年的往事，的確是不受控地自記憶的海底浮出，而非由我主動探尋。下半場，鋼琴開始奏起時，眼眶竟然滲淚。

Underground，1928年，Antony Asquith導演，BFI花了18個月修復，Neil Brand重新配樂。故事：於發電廠工作的壞男人某日在地鐵看中shopgirl美女，美女卻鍾情於壞人朋友－地鐵職員。壞人利用愚忠的前女友設非禮局陷害地鐵職員，企圖令職員失業兼拆散鴛鴦。前女友發現自己被利用卻無法令壞人回心轉意，憤然與地鐵職員硬闖發電廠找壞人算帳，一輪混戰後前女友被殺，停電，地鐵停駛，兩男從發電廠打到地電站，最後壞人被制服。

- 四位主角分別是地鐵職員、售貨員、發電廠工人、裁縫，都是working class，初期的電影確是平民娛樂

- 除了車門跟電梯，地鐵列車與車站跟今時今日沒有大分別

- 電影中出現一個「step off with your right foot」指示牌，據Q&A session解釋是因為早期電梯finished at an angle，不用右腳踏出便會跘倒，而這也是搭電梯要靠右的原因。

- 拍拖場景為Chelsea Embankment，發電廠是同樣位於Chelsea的Lots Road Power Station。電影點出地鐵與發電廠密不可分的關係，而兩者都是當年倫敦引以為傲的建設，有趣。

- 女子看起來很Art Deco，也不像英國人，而演女主角的演員Elissa Landi事實上真的是奧地利人。

- 作曲家Neil Brand說，當年的默片不可能每一齣都有度身訂造的配樂，通常用「罐頭」音樂。


Synopsis from screenrush: Asquith's working-class love story is one of the great British silent feature films. It's also one of the great films about the capital � a journey through the Underground (many of the scenes were filmed at Waterloo) via old London boozers and open-topped buses to a climactic chase through Lots Road power station that magnificently reveals the smoking roofscape of the coal-fuelled city.

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