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Christina Ricci has been acting most of her life after making her movie debut at age 10 opposite Cher and Winona Ryder in "Mermaids." But aside from the occasional project, such as "Sleepy Hollow," "The Man Who Cried," TV's "Pan Am" and now "Bel Ami," the new adaptation of Guy De Maupassant's 1885 novel, she rarely has had the opportunity to play in period pieces. That's a shame, because she loves them.

"I think what's so interesting with period stuff is that the second you put on the costume and the makeup and everything, you immediately lose a sense of yourself, and that can be incredibly helpful," the 32-year-old actress says during a recent phone call. "In some ways, it makes a performance easier. I'm one of those people who likes to get in costume and likes to play with hair and makeup and just completely get lost in a world that's make-believe. I think it's more fun."

"Fun" might not be a word one normally associates with De Maupassant's story of Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson), a poor boy from Normandy who lands in Victorian-era Paris after military service in Algeria. Georges is a climber who uses a tabloid newspaper and a bevy of society beauties to facilitate his rise to the top. Among the women he seduces is Clotilde de Marelle, the lonely wife and mother Ricci portrays.

克里斯汀娜·里奇（Christina Ricci）年齡不大，資歷卻頗豐。她10歲時就首次登上熒屏，與雪兒（Cher）、薇諾娜·瑞德（Winona Ryder）合作電影《美人魚》（Mermaids，另有譯作《浪漫俏佳人》、《風情媽咪俏女兒》，譯者注）。但這么多年來克里斯汀娜演過的歷史題材作品只有寥寥可數(shù)的幾部，如《斷頭谷》（Sleepy Hollow）、《縱情四?！罚═he Man Who Cried）、劇集《泛美航空》（Pan Am）以及如今這部改編自莫泊桑小說的《漂亮朋友》（Bel Ami）。這實在是有些遺憾，因為她很愛歷史片。

“我覺得演這類電影或劇集的有趣之處就在于，一旦你穿上戲服化上妝一切準備就緒，你就會立即忘掉現(xiàn)實中的自己，這確實對表演大有幫助，”這位32歲的女演員在近期一次電話采訪中表示，“在某種程度上，這些元素都讓人更容易入戲。我就屬于那種喜歡那種感覺的人：那些舊時的戲服、假發(fā)、妝容等等都讓我徹底融入了情節(jié)中，認為那就是我所存在的世界。這能帶給我很多樂趣。”

“樂趣”這一詞通常不會被用于形容莫泊桑的作品《漂亮朋友》。故事的主角喬治·杜洛瓦（Georges Duroy）是個來自諾曼底的貧窮男孩，于阿爾及利亞服役的生涯結(jié)束后來到維多利亞時期的巴黎。喬治憑借自己漂亮的外貌引誘上流社會的女人們，以達到自己向上爬的目的?？死锼雇∧仍谄邪缪荼粏讨我T的名媛之一：克洛蒂爾德·馬萊爾夫人（Clotilde de Marelle）。

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"In the book, she's much more sort of greedy, a little slovenly, kind of a grotesque character in a way. She and Georges keep coming back to each other because they're two of a kind," Ricci says.

"They changed that (for the film). I think they wanted him to have somebody the audience could really empathize with and have somebody who gets dragged in, who was fairly normal and just kind of innocent in the whole thing. To see that person deal with someone like this I feel helps the audience connect, especially when the main character is such an antihero."

The way screenwriter Rachel Bennette transformed Clotilde from a kind of female counterpart to Georges to someone far more innocent intrigued Ricci. This was a character she sensed might be bored in her gilded cage and lonely with a husband often away, but who is nevertheless basically content.

"I just thought that it was interesting to play one of those rare people who really has had a happy life," she says. "This is really the first time that she experiences unhappiness. It's because of Georges, and we get to see that.

"Why does she keep going back to him?" she adds. "I realized that she's probably very, very naive. She's almost like a teenage girl in her first relationship, not realizing that this person who hurt you so badly is not going to change. If you've always been sheltered and this is your first encounter with someone who's dysfunctional or a relationship that is unhealthy, you don't have the sort of wherewithal to just end it. You kind of keep going back a little bit."

“原著中的克洛蒂爾德（比電影版）更貪婪、有點懶散，可以說還有些可笑。她和喬治分分合合多次只因為他們根本是同一種人?！笨死锼雇∧日f。

“但在電影里這一角色的形象有些改變。我覺得編劇是希望在喬治的女人們中有一個能夠讓觀眾感同身受的存在，她是一個被無辜卷入的局外人，一個普普通通的女人?？寺宓贍柕伦鳛榕杂^者見證喬治的所作所為，這種視角能夠給觀眾一些共鳴感，尤其當主角是個令人反感的人物時?！?/p>

正是劇作家蕾切爾·貝奈特（Rachel Bennette）對克洛蒂爾德一角所做的改編讓克里斯汀娜產(chǎn)生了興趣。由此，她感受到這一角色光鮮的生活和孤寂的內(nèi)心。

“我覺得扮演這樣一個過著人人羨慕的生活的女人很有趣，”她表示，“她年輕美貌有名有利，初嘗悲傷的滋味是因為喬治，在片中你會看到這些的?！?/p>

“為什么她會一次次重回喬治的懷抱？我想大概是因為她很傻很天真。她就像個第一次戀愛的十幾歲女孩，根本沒有意識到那個曾傷害她的男人永遠都是本性難移。如果你是那種沒受過挫折的溫室花朵，當你第一次遇見某個不值得的人或某段不健康的感情，你根本沒有能力去果斷地結(jié)束這一切。你會念念不忘，再一次一次吃回頭草?！?/p>

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Directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod are longtime theater veterans who make the jump to film with "Bel Ami," and Ricci credits a habit they carried from their stage work with helping her and Pattinson develop their characters' relationship. Not every film allows for much preparation, but rehearsals were extensive on "Bel Ami." For the two actors, it was a chance to define their characters and their relationship and also to get to know one another, crucial to the way Clotilde and Georges' relationship begins, almost in fun during a game between the two and Clotilde's young daughter.

"It's got to be light and fun and silly," Ricci says of that scene. "It was great that we got to spend so much time at rehearsal, because we just developed that silly, goofing-around relationship.

導(dǎo)演德克蘭·多納蘭（Declan Donnellan）與尼克·奧曼羅（Nick Ormerod）都是資深的戲劇導(dǎo)演，《漂亮朋友》是他們首次執(zhí)導(dǎo)的電影?？死锼雇∧缺硎?，她確信兩位導(dǎo)演執(zhí)導(dǎo)舞臺劇時形成的風格大大幫助了她和男主角羅伯特·帕丁森（Robert Pattinson）的對手戲進入佳境。并不是每部電影都有足夠的時間來給演員熱身，《漂亮朋友》正式拍攝前卻有過大量的彩排。對于兩位演員來說，這是各自揣摩角色和彼此磨合的大好時機。戲中克洛蒂爾德和喬治的關(guān)系開端、兩人與克洛蒂爾德的小女兒嬉戲的情節(jié)都因此而醞釀得更加自然圓熟。

“那個情節(jié)是輕松愉快又有點傻的，”克里斯汀娜談到那場戲時表示，“能夠事先花足夠的時間彩排才能找對感覺，因為那場戲多少有點像在隱喻喬治和克洛蒂爾德之間的關(guān)系：有點傻，又很胡鬧?！?/p>