2005版的PRIDE & PREJUDICE,一段微妙的精彩的对白:
第28幕,正好4人,两男两女
Lizzie (Elisabeth Bennet)
Caroline Bingley
Mr.Darcy
Mr.Bingley
模仿对话时,可能要特别注意Caroline Bingley的尖酸刻薄,Elisabeth Bennet的机敏俏皮.
Scene 28 INT.DRAWING ROOM - NETHERFIELD - EVENING.
[Lizzie is reading a book.Darcy is writing a letter.Bingley is sat nervously.Caroline,obviously bored,wanders the room looking for distraction.She looks over Darcy's shoulder.]
CAROLINE:You write uncommonly fast,Mr Darcy.
DARCY:(without looking up) You are mistaken.I write rather slowly.
[Caroline lingers,annoyingly.]
CAROLINE:How many letters you must have occasion to write,Mr Darcy.Letters of business too.How odious I should think them!
DARCY:It is fortunate,then,that they fall to my lot instead of yours.
CAROLINE:Please tell your sister that I long to see her.
DARCY:I have already told her once,by your desire.
Lizzie looks across from her book.
CAROLINE:I do dote on her,I was quite in raptures at her beautiful little design for a table.
DARCY:Perhaps you will give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again.At present I have not enough room to do them justice.
[Mr Bingley now pacing anxiously around the room.]
BINGLEY:It's amazing,how young ladies have the patience to be so accomplished.
CAROLINE:What do you mean,Charles?
BINGLEY:They all paint tables,and embroider cushions and play the piano.I never heard of a young lady,but people say she is accomplished.
DARCY:The word is indeed applied too liberally.I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen women,in all my acquaintance,that are truly accomplished.
CAROLINE:Nor I,to be sure!
LIZZIE:Goodness!You must comprehend a great deal in the idea.
DARCY:I do.
CAROLINE:Absolutely.She must have a thorough knowledge of music,singing,drawing,dancing and the modern languages,to deserve the word.And something in her air and manner of walking.
DARCY:And of course she must improve her mind by extensive reading.
[Lizzie closes her book.]
LIZZIE:I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished w6men.I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
DARCY:Are you so severe on your own sex?
LIZZIE:I never saw such a woman.She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold.
[Pause.Darcy goes back to his letter.Caroline picks up a book.Pauses.Puts it down.She walks over to Lizzie.]
CAROLINE:Miss Bennet,let us take a turn about the room.
Lizzie,surprised,gets up.
[Caroline links her arm and they start walking up and down.]
CAROLINE:(cont'd) It's refreshing,is it not,after sitting so long in one attitude?
LIZZIE:And it's a small kind of accomplishment,I suppose.
[Darcy meets Lizzie's eye,briefly.He doesn't know how to cope with the idea that she's laughing at him.Caroline turns to Darcy.]
CAROLINE:Mr Darcy,will you join us?
DARCY:(shakes his head) You can only have two motives,Caroline,and I would interfere with either.
CAROLINE:(to Lizzie,archly) What can he mean?
LIZZIE:Our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask nothing about it.
CAROLINE:(to Darcy) Please tell us!
DARCY:Either you are in each other's confidence and have secret affairs to discuss,or you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage by walking.If the first,I should get in your way.If the second,I can admire you much better from here.
CAROLINE:Oh,shocking!How shall we punish him for such a speech?
LIZZIE:We could always laugh at him.
CAROLINE:Oh no,Mr Darcy is not to be teased!LIZZIE:Are you too proud,Mr Darcy?And would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?
DARCY:That I couldn't say.
LIZZIE:Because we're doing our best to find a fault in you.
DARCY:Maybe,it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others,or their offences against myself.My good opinion,once lost,is lost forever.
LIZZIE:Oh dear,I cannot tease you about that.What a shame,for I dearly love to laugh.
CAROLINE:(small smile) A family trait I think.
[Lizzie smiles,sweetly.Caroline glances at Darcy,expecting to have triumphed,but he's just looking put-out.]
