The Chosen

 

引言撰寫、圖文編輯／ＴＫ

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136分。

在2012年2月以前，這個項目早已經被視為難以超越的里程碑。
這是NBA自1974年以來（或是要算與ABA在1976-1977年合併以來）的
「前五場NBA先發比賽得分最高紀錄」。

而一舉打破，提高這個天花板紀錄的保持人，是一位亞裔華人，叫作林書豪。

這是一位差點就被紐約尼克隊裁掉的球員。


只要你看著本季的林書豪在火箭隊打得有多掙扎，
多需要成長，還多像一位試著完整首次打完一季先發的控球後衛，
這個紀錄就正好對比出，2012年的2月的我們，見證了什麼樣的事件。

我記得之前看到網路上有人打趣著說，
上一季的林書豪，其實是上帝透過他在玩2K12（一種知名的NBA電玩）：
祂想幹嘛就幹嘛，包括做一大堆林書豪在練習時不曾做過的動作（對湖人的禁區大轉身360度切入），
在他最不擅長的攻擊範圍出手（對暴龍砍壓哨三分，那是在他外線進攻時最弱的位置）。

Lin 從被球場警衛擋下來以為是一般民眾不准進去，到成為網路上最熱門的關鍵字搜尋。


 

《Linsanity》的紀錄片導演 Evan Leong 大約從林書豪的大學時期，就開始跟拍他。

最初，他只是想拍攝一部簡單的紀錄片，告訴大家林書豪的故事。
他常說，這一路拍下來，其實也不知道最後結尾會是什麼。
沒想到，他此刻的身份卻成為了許多導演一直以來的夢想。
當去年二月開始，他發現自己原來就身在媒體風暴其中時，激動到說不出話。

影展上，最常有人問他的問題是：「你怎麼知道接下來會發生這些事情？」

他當然不知道。而紀錄片拍著拍著，「奇蹟」就發生了。

註：

比到第五場確定打破NBA史上紀錄以前，其實 Lin 早已經創造令人無法置信的奇蹟。
以下為先發四場時，林書豪與過去NBA傳奇球星（控球後衛）的得分、助攻前三名總合紀錄：

Jeremy Lin 109 pts 33 assists
Isiah Thomas 94 pts 24 assists
Magic Johnson 74 pts 26 assists
John Stockton 37 pts 41 assists



2012年林書豪精選十大好球：

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Youtube 上另一個單位做出來的林書豪故事：

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（外電翻譯兩則，轉錄自ptt Lin板。感謝網友熱心接力翻譯）

Snowstorm can't keep Jeremy Lin from Sundance screening
'Linsanity'Houston Rockets point guard shares his amazing
story in documentary.

日舞影展 大風雪也無法阻止林書豪現身戲院

By Scott D. Pierce | The Salt Lake Tribune

At the height of Linsanity, much was made of the fact that sudden NBA star
Jeremy Lin was sleeping on a teammate's couch. It was true, and it's the one
thing he's corrected since signing a three-year, $25 million contract with the
Houston Rockets last summer.

在林瘋狂時期，最常被人津津樂道的事就是一夕爆紅的NBA球星林書豪睡在隊友的沙發上。
這是真的！而這也是 Lin 在去年夏天獲得火箭隊三年二千五百萬合約後更正的事。

"My biggest purchase was my mattress," Lin said Sunday night at a screening
of the documentary "Linsanity" at Salt Lake City's Rose Wagner Performing
Arts Center. "I don't really have too many nice things. I pretty much dress the
same and live the same.

Lin 在星期天晚上出席鹽城湖日舞影展的 Linsanity 紀錄片放映時表示：「床墊是我最大
的一筆花費。我並沒有擁有很多昂貴的東西。基本上，我的吃穿都沒什麼改變。」

"But my bed is awesome."

「但我的床很讚！」

So is his story. How he overcame doubters and racism to get a shot at the
NBA. How he survived not getting drafted, then overcame getting cut by the
Warriors and the Rockets. How he was down to what would have been his
last game with the Knicks when he went crazy on the court and — in the
space of two weeks — became an international star.

他的故事也很讚！他如何克服質疑者和種族歧視，進入NBA。他如何歷經選秀落選，又接連
被勇士隊和火箭隊揮棄。當他在尼克隊時可能面臨最後一場比賽時心情有多麼低落，而後在
場上他展現了瘋狂。在短短兩個星期內，他變成了國際巨星。

And how his faith kept him humble. How his sudden rise to fame can be
attributed to "definitely, first and foremost, God," he said. "As the
documentary showed, there were too many things that happened in my
life that were beyond my control. And I'll be the first one to admit that."
(He said he's thought about going into the ministry, and hasn't ruled it
out for after basketball.)

他的信仰如何讓他保持謙遜。Lin表示他的名聲快速崛起毫無疑問地是神的功蹟。「正如同
紀錄片裡所呈現的，我的生命裡有太多發生的事是我無法掌控的。而我將會是第一位見證
者。」 （Lin 表示他曾經考慮過要成為神職人員，現在也不排除打完籃球之後會成為神職
人員。）

What nobody could control on Sunday night, the last night of the Sundance
Film Festival, was the weather. The big question was whether Lin, 24,
would make it to the screening at all. The snowstorm left the Rockets
grounded in Grand Junction, Colo., as they were trying to fly to Salt Lake
City for Monday's game against the Utah Jazz.

然而在星期天晚上，也是日舞影展的最後一天，最不可掌控的卻是天候。最大的懸念是
林書能否及時趕上這次放映會。週一將與爵士隊在猶他州鹽湖城比賽的火箭，卻因暴風
雪而班機轉降科羅拉多州的 Grand Junction 市。

Lin slipped into the back of the theater in the final minutes of the 630 p.m.
screening, just in time to take questions from the audience. "If you've
seen the film, you know nothing is going to stop Jeremy Lin — even a
snowstorm," said director Evan Jackson Leong.

在6點30分那場的放映會的最後幾分鐘，林書豪偷偷溜進了戲院後方,剛好可與現場觀眾進
行問答。導演梁伊凡說「如果你看過這部紀錄片，你就知道即便是暴風雪，也無法阻止林
書豪。」

It was just the latest in a string of serendipitous events for Lin and the
filmmakers. Leong first approached the man at the center of "Linsanity"
when Lin was still a college basketball player at Harvard, long before anyone
knew if he'd ever get a shot at the NBA. And Lin wasn't exactly enthusiastic.
"In general, I'm a very private person. I'm very camera shy," he said. "So
I was definitely very against it."

對林書豪和梁伊凡來說,林書豪的即時到場為他們一連串的幸運事蹟又添上了最新一筆。
梁導第一次跟林來瘋紀錄片的主人翁搭上線，是林書豪還在哈佛大學打球的時候，當時連他
能不能進NBA都是未知之事，那時候林書豪這對個企劃也不感興趣。「基本上，我很注重隱
私，在鏡頭前很害羞，所以我其實是很抗拒的」林書豪說。

But Leong persevered, and Lin eventually decided, "If my career goes down
the drain, the worst thing I'll have is some cool footage. It turned into this.
And we had no idea."

但在梁導持續不懈的努力下，林書豪終於點頭「如果我的職業籃球之路最終是前功盡棄，最
起碼我還會有一些很酷的影片留下來。但是這部紀錄片的誕生，絕對是預料之外。」

No one expected that, after years of hard work, Lin would become an
overnight sensation.

"As we kept shooting, we didn't have an ending," Leong said. "And when
he got cut by the Warriors and by the Rockets, we were like, 'Oh, man.' And
last February, he gave us an ending."

在多年的努力後，沒有人預料到會如此這般的開花結果─林書豪一夕之間暴紅。

「當初在拍攝的時候，不知道影片的結尾會是什麼，」梁導說。「當林書豪被金州勇士和休士
頓火箭裁掉時，我們心想：『糟了！』但在去年2月，他給了我們美好的結局。」

原文網址：http//tinyurl.com/b9rszjr

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Sundance: Docu filmmakers hit 'Linsanity' jackpot
Deal nearing on the right place, right-time Sundance docu

日舞影展快報：林來瘋紀錄片尋找發行商一事即將大勢底定

By Josh L. Dickey

When director Evan Leong and his crew first approached Jeremy Lin during his
senior year at Harvard, the hope was to get enough material for a web series
that might interest Asian-Americans, Christians and other fans of the obscure
NBA journeyman.

What they did instead was catch the documentary filmmaker's version of
lightning in a bottle -- and wound up at Sundance with a film that's a
buzzer-beater away from closing a distribution deal.

當導演梁伊凡團隊在向當時在哈佛讀大二的林書豪提出拍片的要求時，他們計劃的是拍一系列
在網路上播放的短片，目標觀眾則是亞裔美國人、基督徒和這位在NBA載浮載沉的球員的球迷
們。

然而在日舞影展公開放映後，因導演的靈光一閃而成就出的這部紀錄片，與發行商的協議只差
臨門一腳了

"We pursued this with Jeremy and his family declined numerous times," said
Brian Yang, a producer on the film. "They just didn't want the attention, and
he's a conservative guy. They really didn't understand, they were like, 'Why
would you want to put a camera on Jeremy? He's just a kid playing baskeball
at Harvard.'"

「當初在追著他們提出拍片計劃時，林書豪和他的家人拒絕我們好多次，」紀錄片製作人
Brian Yang 回憶道。「他們不希望受到關注，而林書豪是個保守謹慎的人。他們完全無法
理解，覺得『你們為何要拍 Jeremy？他不過是個在哈佛打籃球的孩子。』」

When Lin was selected for the NBA, the idea made more sense to the family,
and the filmmakers started tracking Lin during his rookie year with the Golden
State Warriors. During that time, a member of Lin's sports management team
became involved with the filmmaking team, and the player and project became
firmly intertwined.

當林書豪加入NBA後，他的家人才比較能理解拍攝紀錄片的意義為何，攝影團隊從林書豪在
金州勇士的菜鳥球季開始追蹤他的職業籃球生涯，同時林書豪經紀團隊的成員之一也成為攝
影團隊一員，從那時候開始，這名球員和這個紀錄片企劃終於有了深入而密切的合作。

"The idea was to make a modest, simple webisode series," said Yang, "just to
tell his story of what made him who he was."

「我們原始想法是製作一系列簡單真實的影片在網路上播放，讓網友了解林書豪這個人。」
Brain Yang 說。

Then, last February happened.

然後，去年二月那件事發生了。

Having played sparingly and on the verge of being cut by the New York Knicks,
Lin was thrust into a starting role and led a remarkable seven-game winning
streak that generated a global following known as "Linsanity." Suddenly, Lin
was being bombarded with requests from major directors and media outlets
to capture it all -- but the family remained loyal to the ones who'd been with
them all along.

在極少的上場時間與被紐約尼克裁員的危機下，林書豪一夕爆發空降球隊先發並成就了聞名
全球的「Linsanity」經典七連勝。突然間，許多知名導演和媒體平台的拍攝邀約像炸彈般
不斷向林書豪襲來，但是這家人最終還是和一直長期拍攝林書豪的梁伊凡團隊合作。

"Everything changed," Yang said. "We went from making an eight-part
webisode series to a feature-length doc in a real hurry. People were like,
'How did you know this was going to happen?'"

Yang and his fellow producers, many Asian-American basketball fans who
had been tracking Lin since his earliest days at Harvard, knew all along how
lucky they were to have exclusive access during a truly global viral sports
phenomenon.

「計畫完全被顛覆，從八段網路短片一瞬間變成長篇紀錄片，我們老是被問說『你們怎麼
知道這一切會發生？』」Brain Yang 說。

從林書豪在哈佛時期就已經在追蹤他的消息的 Brain Yang 和製作團隊的人（許多都是亞
裔美籍籃球迷），自始至終都知道他們有多幸運可以在這個漫延全球的體育風暴裡能夠獨
家近距離接觸暴風中心。

"There is footage from that period, when he was just getting hounded and
stalked by the media," Yang said. "There are definitely scenes in there where
you're like, 'Wow, that's what this was really like.'"

「我們拍攝到他當時被媒體緊追不捨的情景，」Brain Yang 說，「那些景象你絕對無法
想像！但我可以告訴你， 相信你的眼睛吧！」

原文出處：http://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Jeremy_Lin/M.1359366787.A.56A.html