1970年に出版され、『2001年…』の貴重な資料、証言集として名著の名を欲しいままにしていた『THE MAKING OF KUBRICK 2001』が、38年(!)の時を経て、やっと邦訳されたのが本書だ。「全訳ではない」とか、「時期が遅すぎる」との批判はあるが、当時の資料、図版、写真、証言、論評はやはり貴重で、名著であるのは今も変わりない。
オープニングに続けてのハートマン先任軍曹による新兵罵倒シーンの全セリフと、その邦訳です。訳は映画監督の原田眞人氏、出典は『フルメタル・ジャケット』DVD版字幕から採録しました。リズミカルで含蓄・示唆に富んだ麗しき罵倒語の数々をお楽しみください(笑。 <HARTMAN> I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir!" Do you maggots understand that? 訓練教官のハートマン先任(ガナリー)軍曹である 話し掛けられた時以外口を開くな 口でクソたれる前と後に“サー”と言え 分かったか ウジ虫ども <RECRUITS> Sir, yes, sir! <HARTMAN> Bullshit! I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair. ふざけるな!大声出せ! タマ落としたか! <RECRUITS> Sir, yes, sir! <HARTMAN> If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon, you will be a minister of death, praying for war. But until that day you are pukes! You're the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings! You are nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit! 貴様ら雌豚が おれの訓練に生き残れたら 各人が兵器となる 戦争に祈りをささげる死の司祭だ その日まではウジ虫だ! 地球上で最下等の生命体だ 貴様らは人間ではない 両生動物のクソをか...
"What happens at the end of the film must tap the subconscious for its power. To do this one must bypass words and move into the world of dreams and mythology. This is why the literal clarity one has become so used to is not there. But what is there has visceral clarity. It is for this reason that people are responding so emotionally. The film is getting to them in a way they are not used to. Obviously, in making the film we had to have some specifics in order to design, build and shoot. This has no value to the viewer even if he thinks otherwise."Here is what we used for planning:"In the Jupiter orbit, Keir Dullea is swept into a star- gate. Hurtled through fragmented regions of time and space, he enters into another dimension where the laws of nature as we know them no longer apply. In the unseen presence of godlike entities, beings of pure energy who have evolved beyond matter, he finds himself in what might be described as a human zoo, created from his own dreams and...