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這篇文章請轉走，大家幫忙翻譯，離真相近了一大步(2009-10-31 17:15:13)
以上標題應該是NIKKI起的,不要入k.數
這個是一個歌迷抓了個機會和M的工作人員進行了私下對話，這個工作人員和M工作了20多年，也在電影裡出現了，他講了很多內幕，但是不允許講出他的姓名，因為他們和AEG/SONY有合同隻許說TII的好話。我沒時間翻譯這麼長的文章，但是我看了內容可信而且有許多內幕，大家幫忙翻譯一下，轉到論壇上
"Yeasterday I had the amazing chance to speak to someone who worked on This Is It. This person has worked with Michael in the past, I've seen him before on TV close to Michael, and I also saw him in... the movie and his name appears at the end.
He gave me the ok to share with you what he told me, however with the condition that I would name provide his name. He is under contract with AEG/Sony and is only allowed to officially talk good about the movie and the concert. As he told me "hey, I also gotta pay my bills, so I have to do what they say."
However, at the same time he told me to "share with fans what I said, because it is important that some things are known."
He has great respect and admiration for Michael and has known him for over 20 years.
Here's the most important things he told me:
- Michael has always been a very sweet, humble person, since the first time they met 20 years ago, however he noticed that during these rehearsals, he looked even more humble than usual, to the point that he actually felt Michael was incredibly insecure this time around, he saw him very vulnerable and everyone automatically tried to make him feel ok, everyone wanted to bring the spark in him that old Michael Jackson had. According to this person a combination of the 2005 trial and the long absence from the spotlight made Michael feel very insecure.
-Michael did not get along at all with Randy Phillips. Everyone knew it, even Phillips knew it. Phillips had a very arrogant way of dealing with Michael, he was terrified that Michael would not get ready for the shows and AEG would lose a lot of money. According to this person, Phillips made it clear to several people that these concerts had to happen, no matter what, because he "had to personally convince everyone at AEG that this was a good deal" therefore his job was at risk if anything went wrong. On many occasions Phillips would go to Michael's house with Ortega and Travis Payne whenever Michael would not show up. At times they would come back with him, at times no. The official explanations to the crew was "Michael is not feeling well today," "Michael rehearsed at home" or "Michael is rehearsing with his vocal coach."
At first the crew believed it, but after a few weeks everyone started realizing something was up because even though Ortega and Payne would say everything was fine, it was obvious that they were very frustrated and nervous, and there were several heated discussions between Ortega, Phillips and Payne, but what exactly was being discussed was not clear since they always made sure they would be far enough for anyone to hear. During these conversations one of them would always be on a cellphone, and then the would pass it aroud to themselves. This person believes they were talking to Michael.
Michael, and this is shown in the movie, did not want to wear the ear monitors. As this person told me, "look at any footage from Michael in concerts in the past, and you will never find him wearing ear monitors, he did not like them, did not need them." According to him, Ortega got upset at one time at Michael, and in front of everyone told him "you have to undrstand that here you do not have an option, you have to wear them, this is going to be a closed arena, not an open stadium, and the sound is different." He said his tone was very nasty and everyone was shocked, especially since Michael looked very upset, but mostly hurt, by it.
Interestingly, yesterday Karen Faye wrote on her facebook that Michael always complained to her that he did not like ear monitors, and asked her to tell Ortega. According to her, she did and Ortega told her "well, he has to wear them!"
This is very interesting. According to this person, there was absolutely no way the concert was going to be ready for opening night on July 13th, and everyone kenw it. He asked me the following "when you saw the movie, you do realize right that they had to show the best scenes, the best performances, right ?" I said "yes, of course" to which he replied "so do you realize that what you have seen, most of it came from June 24th, 23rd and 22nd ? Based on what you saw, did it feel as if everything was going to be ready in 2 weeks ?" He said that Michael did not have his clothes ready, and that there was "pathetic" feeling around from different stylists that were trying to come up with ideas. But nothing was ready, no clothes, not even for the dancers. Michael wanted Michael Bush, but Travis Payne brought in that Zaldy guy, and AEG was behind Zaldy, rather than Michael Bush.
The opening number for the concert was only done on the computer, just like we saw in the movie. It was never rehearsed, and the robot that Michael would have come out from was not ever ready. Also the closing of the show was just a concept.
He also confirmed that they never had a full rehearsal. In other words, they never practiced the whole concert, it would always be a few songs on several days, but it was never put all together, therefore they were laso very concerned that once everything was gonna put together, it would take much longer that the 2 hours originally planned. This was going to be a huge problem for AEG and the O2 arena, because of an agreement they had with time. Also, Michael did not want to have long shows, for obvious reasons.
Also, they never reharsed with implementing the videos for Smooth, Thriller and Earth as we saw in the movie, those were edited in the movie, but they never rehearsed using them, and it was still unclear how they would be used with the songs, especially Smooth Criminal.
For the most part, Michael looked well, however this person did unfortunately confirm to me that there were days that something was "wrong" and everybody knew it. He worked with Michael in the past and Michael never wore sunglasses while rehearsing the dark like that, especially since Michael in the past would always want to see how the lights looked and for that reason did not like using shades. But he said "don't expect them to talk about it on tv of course, same with me, I won't and I can't." He said that at first everybody thought Michael was just eccentric and stuff, especially the dancers, they were just excited to see him, but he said for those who knew him for many years, including him, started realizing alarming signs.
However, he said, this just shows how vulnerable Michael was and he does not like how people associate this behavior with something negative. He said "he went through so much poor thing, I perfectly understand why this was happening." Oh and btw, he said that some of the crew members started checking TMZ with their IPHONES to find out whether or not Michael had seen Dr. Klein during the day. It would usually warn them on what to expect when he showed up.
Michael had fun when performing, it appeared as if it was what he needed, however off stage Michael did no look happy, he rarely interacted with the crew, other than Karen Faye and at times with Michael Bush. According to this person, Michael stayed as far as he could from Ortega, Payne and Phillips off stage, because he always felt he was being chased by them to do more, perform more and give more. He said that the crew in general felt Ortega was being too demanding, especially when it was obvious nothing was ready on time. But they mostly felt Ortega was being pressured by Phillips, and that it was Phillips who was just going crazy because was in a position of losing everything with these shows.
The day after the news came out that some fans claimed Michael told them he did not want to do 50 concerts, everyone was instructed not to talk to anybody from the media, not to let in anyone who was not authorized to attend rehearsals, especially fans. When Michael came in that day, the atmosphere was tense and he did not look happy at all. Before working that day, Phillips and Ortega met with Michael and, interestingly, with his bodyguards. They spoke for about 20 minutes, but once again this person could not hear what was being said. However everyone had the feeling Michael indeed did not want to do 50 shows and believed Michael did talk to those fans.
This is pretty much it. This guy said that it is a shame that Michael died while being extremely stressed out. He said that a lot of pressure was put on Michael, but the truth is that the concerts were not going to be ready not because of him, but because the there was simply not enough time to acocmplish all they had planned. He said he is sure Michael would have been 100% ready by July 13th, because "he did those songs hundreds of times before during his career, he knew exaclty what to do" but everything else around was not ready.
He also says he personally felt Michael sometimes did not show up because he knew things were moving slowly and sort of felt disappointed. He was a perfectionist, and when things were obviosuly not going in the right direction, he would get frustrated and sort of lose interest, instead of becoming upset at someone. Yet they made him believe it was him, that things were moving slowly because of him. But this person told me that Michael had nothing to do with all the technical stuff, like lightings, fireworks etc, therefore it was not his fault, but he was the easy target.
According to him, if the concerts were not goint to be ready, it would have been easier for AEG to blame it on Michael, than blame themsleves and their lack of timing skills.
Once again, do not ask me for his name, I will never tell, not even via PM. He was brutally honest with me and I will honor his request.
A lot of things make sense now, especially the concerts not being ready based on what we saw in the movie. No way in two weeks they were going to be ready. Also, he said, don't forget that a lot of days would have been lost during the move to London and setting up the stage there and get adjusted to the arena.
This is very sad, especially to think that Michael was somehow made feel responsible for this.
K:他說的是真的，這不就是我一直在告訴你們的嗎？但是我不覺得恐懼來自沒有准備好演出，我們總是可以改編和整合演出，事實上M在KO不在的時候就是這麼做的，人們是怕M會在百萬觀眾眼前倒下。我的想法是如果他在演出之前倒下然后把責任推給醫生要比在百萬觀眾面前發生這個悲劇好收場的多。
我在發給管理層的信裡也這麼寫了我的擔憂，我試圖阻止這些演出。
以下兩篇是內地綱友的翻譯
“昨天我得到了一個神奇的機會與一名在THIS IS IT工作的人員交談, 這人在過往與MICHAEL一起工作, 我曾在電視上看到他和MICHAEL很親近, 而我也在電影最後的名單裏看到他(的名字).”
他准許我分享我和他所談到的, 但是環境不容許我透露他的名字, 他與AEG/SONY有合約並隻充許在正式場合中談論電影/演唱會的好的部分. "嘿, 我收了他們的錢, 所以我得做他們所說的."
但同時他告訴我 “和歌迷分享我所說的, 因有些很重要的事需被人知道”
他非常尊敬讚賞那個與他認識超過20年的MICHAEL
這是他告訴我最重要的事:
MICHAEL常時是一位甜美, 謙遜的人, 自從他們在20年前第一次相遇(就知道), 但他注意到在這採排期間, MJ比起平日還要謙讓, 這一次他確實感到MJ是令人難以置信地不安, MJ看起來非常脆弱, 但所有人都自動性地嘗試令MJ覺得沒有問題, 所有人都想帶出老MJ所擁有的光芒. 但這仍讓經歷過2005年的審判加上長期沒有露面的MJ感到十分不安。
MJ沒有和RP相處(不太了解這句), 所有人都知道, RP也知道, RP在和MJ相處時非常傲慢, 他擔心MJ沒有準備好表演, 那AEG就要損失很多錢. 根據這個人說的, RP讓數個人清楚了解到這演唱會會發生什麼, 不管怎樣, 因為他 “親自說服了AEG的各位的一個好提議”(應該是他說服AEG給MJ開演唱會) 因此他的工作如果出錯會是非常冒險的. 在很多時MJ沒出現的時候 RP 就會與Ortega 跟 Travis Payne去MJ的房子. 有時他們會與MJ一起回來, 有時沒有. 他們的官方式解釋是“MJ今天不舒服”，“MJ在家排練”或“MJ在與他的聲樂教練排練。”
----先譯了少許...但譯得不好請高手來補救,
我繼續努力一下..
感謝樓上的親們! 有看到不太好地方的朋友們也請幫忙糾正! 謝謝~
再譯了一些...不好的地方請再指教
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起初團隊都相信(他們說)的, 然而過了數週後每個人都意識到了發生什麼事, 即使Ortega 與 Payne 說所有一切事情都很好, 但是明顯地他們(團隊)很沮喪和擔憂, 而在Ortega, Phillips 和 Payne之間有過數次激烈的討論, 但不清楚他們到底在討論什麼，因為他們總是遠遠地討論(確定)不讓人聽到。他們常時在手機上交談，然後將訊息在他們圈子內傳遞。這個(員工)人認為他們在談論MJ。
在電影裏你看到MJ並不想配帶耳麥, 這個人(員工)告訴我 “看看過往任何來自MJ演唱會的鏡頭, 你永遠不會找到MJ戴著耳麥，MJ不喜歡他們(耳麥)，不需要他們。” 據他所說，Ortega有一次煩厭地對著MJ,並在所有人面前告訴他：“你必須明白, 在這你沒有選擇，你必須戴著他們(耳麥)，這裏是一個封閉的舞台，而不是一個開放式體育場，聲音是不同的。” 他說他(Ortega)的語氣很讓人討厭,(這對話)讓大家都感到震驚，特別是MJ顯得非常失落，主要是由那個所做成的傷害。(應該是指這件事讓MJ不快而非耳麥讓MJ不快?)
有趣的是，昨天K說她的FACEBOOK，MJ總是向她投訴說他不喜歡耳麥，並請她告訴Ortega。據她所說，她說了, 而Ortega告訴她說：“好，他戴上了！”
-----今天才去看電影...看到有好多幕MJ都隻讓耳麥吊在耳旁...原來內幕還有這些故事...好難過....
繼續再翻一些...請高手們來幫忙指正
香港綱友 faattim 的翻譯
這非常有趣.根據這個人所說,演唱會根本就沒有可能在7月13日開幕,而且每個人都知道. 他問我:”當你看這套電影時,你應該清楚明白他們在展示最好的一幕,最好的表演,對嗎?”我說:”對,當然了.”他回答說:”那麼你清楚知道你在看些甚麼嗎?大多數的鏡頭都來自6月24日,23日和22日?根據你看到的你覺得有可能所有事情都能在兩星期內準備好嗎?”他說米高並未準備好他的演出服.而且有一種很差勁的感覺圍繞著,不同的設計師都在嘗試想出新的意見.但所有的東西還沒準備好. 沒有服裝,甚至舞者也沒有演出服.米高想MICHAEL BUSH替他設計衣服,但Travis Payne 把 Zaldy帶進來,而且AEG在Zaldy背後撐腰,而不是MICHAEL BUSH.
開幕的數字只在電腦上做了,就如我們在電影中看到的. 它並沒有被綵排,而且帶MICHAEL出來的機械人也並未準備好.還有,演唱會的結尾還只是一個概念.
他還證實他們根本就沒有一個完整的綵排.也就是說,他們從沒有練習過整個演唱會, 它只是在幾日內綵排了一些歌,但它從沒有被放在一起,因此他們擔心如果把所有東西放在一起時,會超過了預定的2小時.這會是AEG和O2要面對的一個大問題,因為他們在時間限制上有協議.而且,米高不希望一個長時間的表演,原因很明顯.
而且,他們從未綵排過整個SMOOTH CRIMINA, THRILLE和EARTH SONY
的錄像,如電影中所見的,那些在電影中剪輯過的,但他們從不用它們來綵排,而且它還是很不清晰怎樣去配合這些歌,由其是SMOOTH CRIMINAL.
他還說他個人認為米高有時並不露面是因為米高知道事情完成得很慢而且對某些感到失望.他是完美主義者,當事情明顯不是按正確方向走時,他會灰心和失去興趣,而非對別人發火.然而,他們使他相信是因為他,事情才會完成得慢.但這個人告訴我米高沒有參與那些技術人員的工作,如燈光,煙火等,因此這不是米高的問題,但他卻是最容易責怪的目標.
根據他所說,如果演唱會並沒有準備好,這會令AEG責怪米高比責怪他們自己和缺乏時間技巧更容易.
謝謝翻譯的綱友和NIKKI
