总统之路

My fellow countrymen, on this occasion, the oath I have taken before you and before God is not mine alone, but ours together. We are one nation and one people. Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one citizen, but upon all citizens.This is the majesty and the meaning of this moment.For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own.Even now, a rocket moves toward Mars. It reminds us that the world will not be the same for our children, or even for ourselves in a short span of years. The next man to stand here will look out on a scene different from our own, because ours is a time of change-- rapid and fantastic change bearing the secrets of nature, multiplying the nations, placing in uncertain hands new weapons for mastery and destruction, shaking old values, and uprooting old ways.Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.THE AMERICAN COVENANTThey came here--the exile and the stranger, brave but frightened-- to find a place where a man could be his own man. They made a covenant with this land. Conceived in justice, written in liberty, bound in union, it was meant one day to inspire the hopes of all mankind; and it binds us still. If we keep its terms, we shall flourish.

JUSTICE AND CHANGEFirst, justice was the promise that all who made the journey would share in the fruits of the land.In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write.For the more than 30 years that I have served this Nation, I have believed that this injustice to our people, this waste of our resources, was our real enemy. For 30 years or more, with the resources I have had, I have vigilantly fought against it. I have learned, and I know, that it will not surrender easily.But change has given us new weapons. Before this generation of Americans is finished, this enemy will not only retreat--it will be conquered.Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying,"His color is not mine," or"His beliefs are strange and different," in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this Nation.

LIBERTY AND CHANGELiberty was the second article of our covenant. It was self- government. It was our Bill of Rights. But it was more. America would be a place where each man could be proud to be himself: stretching his talents, rejoicing in his work, important in the life of his neighbors and his nation.This has become more difficult in a world where change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men. We must work to provide the knowledge and the surroundings which can enlarge the possibilities of every citizen.The American covenant called on us to help show the way for the liberation of man. And that is today our goal. Thus, if as a nation there is much outside our control, as a people no stranger is outside our hope.Change has brought new meaning to that old mission. We can never again stand aside, prideful in isolation. Terrific dangers and troubles that we once called"foreign" now constantly live among us. If American lives must end, and American treasure be spilled, in countries we barely know, that is the price that change has demanded of conviction and of our enduring covenant.Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions.How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.Our Nation's course is abundantly clear. We aspire to nothing that belongs to others. We seek no dominion over our fellow man. but man's dominion over tyranny and misery.But more is required. Men want to be a part of a common enterprise--a cause greater than themselves. Each of us must find a way to advance the purpose of the Nation, thus finding new purpose for ourselves. Without this, we shall become a nation of strangers.

UNION AND CHANGEThe third article was union. To those who were small and few against the wilderness, the success of liberty demanded the strength of union. Two centuries of change have made this true again.No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all. We have discovered that every child who learns, every man who finds work, every sick body that is made whole--like a candle added to an altar--brightens the hope of all the faithful.So let us reject any among us who seek to reopen old wounds and to rekindle old hatreds. They stand in the way of a seeking nation.Let us now join reason to faith and action to experience, to transform our unity of interest into a unity of purpose. For the hour and the day and the time are here to achieve progress without strife, to achieve change without hatred--not without difference of opinion, but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for generations.

THE AMERICAN BELIEFUnder this covenant of justice, liberty, and union we have become a nation--prosperous, great, and mighty. And we have kept our freedom. But we have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit.I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming--always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again--but always trying and always gaining.In each generation, with toil and tears, we have had to earn our heritage again.If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in ourselves.Our enemies have always made the same mistake. In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again.For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say"Farewell." Is a new world coming? We welcome it--and we will bend it to the hopes of man.

To these trusted public servants and to my family and those close friends of mine who have followed me down a long, winding road, and to all the people of this Union and the world, I will repeat today what I said on that sorrowful day in November 1963:"I will lead and I will do the best I can."But you must look within your own hearts to the old promises and to the old dream. They will lead you best of all.For myself, I ask only, in the words of an ancient leader:"Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?"

文/Omiear电影《一路到底》作为美国历任总统林登·约翰逊的个人传记片，对历史有着完美的剖析和展现。影片植根于历史，其人设和情节都恰到好处的与之有着契合感，且对政治斗争的还原和表达更是影片最引以为傲的地方。影片作为艾美奖的提名作品，抛开有意图式的表现，总的来说其本着对历史的崇敬之感便成就了这部怀揣过往的诚意之作。就影片而言，高度还原的历史是其不容否定的地方，但过重于真实使得影片剧情的气氛变得不可调控，既沉闷又压抑，无法与观众之间形成强烈的情感互动，本应是一条奔流不息的长河，只因难以阻挡的水土流失使之最终只有那干涸的河床。传记类电影的成功与否就在于导演对作品的整体气氛是否有着高超的调节手法，而不是一味的只求故事性，丧失电影的艺术感。人设塑造的成功，加之布莱恩·科兰斯顿精湛的表演技巧，使得总统这一形象变得惟妙惟肖，无论是其身上的政治魅力，还是做事风格和方式，这些细节的细腻呈现和表达，不得不说在如此沉闷的气氛下，其为影片增添了不少亮点。植根植本，电影《一路到底》可以说是一部成功的作品，除了那令观众抓狂的气氛之外，真实的故事剧情，以及演员的高超表演，都无不令观众为之称赞，作为百老汇舞台剧所改编的作品，加之布莱恩·科兰斯顿的二度总统梦，使得影片最终成为一部不可多得的传记类电影。个人评分：7.5未经允许，禁止转载！更多文章与交流，请关注公众号：movieyingdian

有意思的是，豆瓣7.1分，不高不低，但如果你对1960年代美国政治博弈感兴趣，这部《总统之路》绝对布莱恩·克兰斯顿的表演简直封神——他在百老汇凭同一角色拿了托尼奖，电影版继续演，那种浑然天成的政客感，每一个眼神都是戏。影片最狠的一点是，它没把约翰逊塑造成伟光正英雄。你看他为了拉票，可以跟南方议员称兄道弟，转头又跟马丁·路德·金讨价还价。那种“权力不靠理想，靠交易”的赤裸，让所谓的民权法案通过过程变得像一场强烈视觉冲击的密室游戏。但这也导致一些观众觉得“戏剧冲突平淡”——我反而觉得，这才是真实的政治，哪来那么多英雄时刻？克兰斯顿拿过演员工会奖最佳男演员，实至名归。他把约翰逊的焦虑、控制欲和偶尔的脆弱揉成一团，尤其是深夜独白那段，你能看到权力背后的人性裂痕。安东尼·麦凯演的金，冷静得像一把手术刀，两人在电话里的对峙戏，比任何动作片都紧张。当然，这也是部有门槛的片子。如果你对民权法案的历史不熟，可能会觉得节奏慢。但如果你懂那段历史，会惊叹于编剧如何把国会里的钩心斗角拍出悬疑感。金球奖提名和艾美奖提名不是白给的——这片子就是政治剧的教科书，缺点只是太认真了，娱乐性稍弱。但对我来说，这种“不娱乐”反而是优点。