『散り行く花』
1919年 アメリカ製作
監督：Ｄ・Ｗ・グリフィス
撮影：ビリー・ビッツアー
出演：リリアン・ギッシュ、リチャード・バーセルメス、ドナルド・クリスプ
リチャード・バーセルメスの中国人がパリのオルセー美術館で買った写真集のピエロに似ている。リリアン・ギッシュが可憐。（が、納戸の中で父親の暴力に怯える姿は梅図かずおの恐怖漫画かと・・・）息を引きとる時、人差し指と中指で口角を上げ笑顔をつくる。せつない。少女の亡骸を前に読経し供養してから命を絶つ若者。少女に捧げる純愛、心の葛藤をボクシングの試合と重ねたり。最初と最後に出てくる、夕暮れ時？の洋上のシーンの空がモノクロにもかかわらず、テート・ギャラリーで見たターナーの絵を思い出させた。
で、ヒマだったので字幕を書き取ってみました。見直しとかしてないので、誤字脱字脱行がいぱーいと思われますが、英文を打つ練習ということで。指が動かねー。と、それ以前の問題もいろいろと発覚。
BROKEN BLOSSOMS or The Yellow Man and The Girl
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Lucy,The Girl.....Miss Lillian Gish
The Yellow Man.....Mr.Richard Barthelmess
Courtesy of the Dorothy Gish Company
Buttling Burrows.....Dnald Crisp
His Manager.....Arthur Howard
Evil Eyes.....Edward Peil
The Spyung One.....George Beranger
A Prizefighter.....Norman Selby
It is tale of temple bells, sounding at asunset before the image of Budha:it is a tale of love and lovers; it is a tale of tears.
We may believe there are no Butting Burrows, striking the helpless with brutal whip-out do we not ourselves use the whip of unkind words and leeds? So perhaps, Batting may even carry a messageof a warning.
At the turn-stiles of the East - The bund of a great Chinese treaty port.
Sky-larking American sallors.
the Yellow Man in the Temple of Budddha,before his contemplated journey to a foreign land.
Advice for a young man's conduct in the world - word for word such as a found parent or guardian of our own land would give.
The Yellow Man holds a great dream to take the glorious message of peace to the barbarous Anglo-Saxons,sons of turmoil and strife.
Do not give blows for blows. The Buddha says:"What thou dost not want others to do to thee,do thou not do others."
Just a sociale free fight for the Jackies - but the sensitive Yellow Man shrinks in horror.
The Yellow Man more than ever convinced that the great nations across the sea need the lessons of the gentle Buddha.
The day set for his departure to foreign shores.
Early morning in the Limehouse district of London,some years later.
Now - Limehouse knows him only asa a Chink storekeeper.
The Yellow Man's youthful dreams come to wreck against the sordid realities of life.
Broken bits of his life in his new home.
Chinese, Malays, Lascars, where the Orient squats at the portals of the West.
In this scarlet house of sin, does he ever hear the temple bells?
Fantan, the Goddess of Chance.
The home of Lucy and Battling Burrows.
Fifteen years before one of the Battler's girls thrust into his arms a bundle of white rags -
So Lucy came to Limehouse.
Battling Burrows, an abysmal brute - a gorilla of the jungles of East London - gloating on his victory over the "LimehouseTiger".
The manager's complaint about drink and women puts Bttling in a rage - he cannot take his temper out on him - he saves it for a weaker object.
The Girl.
When not serving asa a punching bag to relieve the Bttler's feelings, the bruised little body may be seen creeping around the docks of Limehouse.
Lucy's surroundings have not been the most cheerfuk. - A married acquaintance has told her -
"Whatever you do, dearle, don't get married."
Warned asa strongly by the ladies of the street against their profession.
In every group there is one, weaker than the rest - the butt of uncouth wit or ill-temper.
Poor Lucy is one of these.
Lucy, as usual, receives the Bttler's pent up brutishness.
"Don't whip me - don't!"
"Please, Daddy! - Don't!"
"Put a smile on yer face, can't yer?"
Poor Lucy, never having cause to smile, uses this pitiful excuse instead.
She has to wait -
- he can't stand poor table manners.
He orders his tes for five o'clock.
"Come on - give us a smile."
"My brother leaves for China tomorrow to convert the heathen."
"I - I widh him luck."
("HELL")
The shopping trip.
(Lucy's mother leaved some silk and ribon for her. )
Enough tin foil might get something extra.
The Yellow Man watched Lucy often. The beauty which all Limehouse missed smote him to the heart.
this cild with tear-aged face -
Evil Eye also watches.
The spirit of Beauty breaks her Blossoms all about his chamber.
The manager horrified to find Btling at it again.
"Wot yer expect me to do-pick violets?"
Lucy's starved heart aches for the flower -
- but not quite enough tin foil.
The manager's protest against Burrow's dissipation sends him home in another rage.
"Tain't five! Tain't five!"
His last meal before taking up training quarters across the river, for his return maych with the Tiger.
The terrible accident.
"Pretend yer did't do it on purpose! I'll learn yer!"
"Don't do it, Daddy! You'll hit me once too often-and then they'll - they'll hang yer!"
"Oh,look! Daddy! Dust on yer boots!"
After dim aeons - dumbly, blindly, she struggles away from her house of suffering.
Rturning from tea and noodles.
With perhaps a whiff of the lilied pipe still in his brain.
The first gentleness she has ever known.
Oh,lily flowers and plum,blossoms! Oh silver streams and dim-starred skies!
The room prepared asa for a princess.
A magical robe treasured from an olden day.
She seems transformed - into the dark chambers of her incredulous, frightened little heart comes warmth, and light.
Blue and yellow silk caressing white skin - her beauty so long hidden shines out like a poem.
He dreams her prattle, her bird-like ways, her sweet self - are all his own.
"What makes you so good to me, Chinky?"
There he brings rays stolen from the lyric moon, and all night long he crouches, holding one grubby little hand.
Breathing in an amber flute to this alabaster cockney girl her love name - White Blossom.
Now there is one, a friend of Battling's, having some business in the Yellow Man's shop.
Change for half a crown.
Across the river, where Bttling is training for his fight before the munition workers, comes the Spying One.
Battling discovers parental rights - A Chink after his kid! He'll learn him!
Above all, Battling hates those not born in the same great country as himself.
The girl moves to go home -
- but decides to wait until tomorrow.
"Wait till I'm through with this fight tinight - I'll get 'em!"
His love remains a pure and holy thing - even his worst foe says this.
He goes to right his Honor - ?
The lowering storm.
"You! With a dirty Chink!"
"'Tain't nothin' wrong! 'Tain't nothin' wrong! I fwll down in the doorway and - it wasn't nothin' wrong!"
"I'll learn yer! I'll learn yer!"
Evil eye investigates.
"Take them things off!"
The cloaking river mist.
Evil Eye gladly bears the news.
"Where is he?"
"Don't Daddy! It wasn't nothin' wrong!"
"Open, I tell yer!"
"Don't, Daddy! - Don't! THEY'LL HANG YER!"
Dying, she gives her last litle smile to the world that has been so unkind.
"Better than last week - Only forty thousand casualties."
As he smiles goodbye to WhiteBlossom, all the tears of the ages rush over his heart.
―The End―
