現(xiàn)代版莎劇短片：米蘭達的信

電影“米蘭達的信”是永恒的莎士比亞活動制作的第五部電影短片，講述了母女深情，也是莎士比亞作品中很少涉獵的主題。

電影取材于莎翁作品《暴風雨》，在美麗的南德文郡海灘拍攝，拉菲?卡西迪在片中飾演米蘭達，安－瑪莉?杜芙演繹母親一角。

女導演特麗薩?格里菲斯（Theresa Griffiths）分享了她拍攝“米蘭達的信”的心得。

近來，評論界多有提及女性導演太少這一現(xiàn)象。（作為女性導演，）之前我強烈地希望為“永恒的莎士比亞”貢獻自己的一份力，至少，嘗試去面對這一問題。這個關(guān)于母女情、關(guān)于少女感受的故事，顯然，不僅僅是為女性導演或女性觀眾而拍，也來源于我自己的親身經(jīng)歷。

我開始回想莎士比亞的戲劇作品及其作品中的女性角色。作為一個母親，我首先想到的是莎翁對于母親角色的刻畫。我的發(fā)現(xiàn)令我十分驚訝——因為莎翁的作品中極為缺乏關(guān)于母親的描寫。整部《李爾王》中，李爾王的幾個女兒沒有母親；奧菲莉婭（《哈姆雷特》女主角）也沒有，《暴風雨》中的米蘭達也是，而《暴風雨》還是我最喜歡的戲劇作品之一。

不曾陪伴孩子的左右，未曾見證他們的成長，想必是天下父母最恐怖的夢魘。這種煎熬是難以想象的。當然，通過簡單的谷歌搜索能找到太多頁關(guān)于這種痛苦描寫，在博客里，新聞故事里，數(shù)不勝數(shù)。閱讀這些所有，使我沉浸在這樣的故事之中，劇本的靈感隨之而來。《米蘭達的信》就是從這里開始……

Miranda's Letter; a story inspired by 'The Tempest'

The fifth film in our Shakespeare Lives series, Miranda’s Letter, is a tale about mother-daughter relationships, or more often the lack thereof in Shakespeare's work.

Inspired by 'The Tempest' and filmed on the beautiful South Devon coast, the film stars Raffey Cassidy as Miranda, and Anne-Marie Duff as the mother.

Director Theresa Griffiths shared the following about what inspire her to make 'Miranda's Letter';

There has been much written recently about the lack of women directors. I felt strongly that I wanted to bring something to Shakespeare Lives which, in a small way, tried to address this. A story about motherhood and a young girl’s experience is, of course, not exclusively one for a female director or audience, but it springs from my own experiences.

I started to think about Shakespeare’s work and the female characters in his plays and then, as a mother myself, I began to think about his portrayal of motherhood. It was then that it struck me – there are a lot of missing mums in Shakespeare’s plays. King Lear’s daughters have no mother within the play, neither does Ophelia and neither does Miranda in The Tempest, one of my favourite plays.

Not to be there for your child, not to see them grow, must be every parent’s worst nightmare. It is impossible to imagine the anguish it must cause. Of course, a simple Google search turns up pages of just such pain, there for all to witness in blogs and newspaper stories. I simply absorbed this story from what I read and the script just followed. This is where Miranda's Letter began.....

（來源：英國使館文化教育處，編輯：Helen）