香港才子的英文程度

郭都人

香港陶（曹）姓才子又有嚴重露餡之作，全文如下：

一九四二年，不但中國河南旱災，這年的十一月，「北非諜影」在美國首映。

今年是「北非諜影」七十歲，英國的報刊影評人，把「北非諜影」最後一句對白，選為電影史上最令人難忘的收場台詞（The best closing-line）。

戲中的堪富利保加，也就是「歷士咖啡店」的老闆，在機場送別了舊情人脫險，對德佔區的法裔警察局長說的一句話：「路易，我感到這是一段美好的友誼開始。」（Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.）

戲的結局，主角放走了納粹追捕的要犯，還有警察頭子的幫助。兩人走上了不歸路，從此只有投奔地下游擊隊。堪富利保加與警察頭子的背影雙雙走向霧夜，彼此都是明白人，事已至此，心照不宣，這句台詞以後七十年深受讚賞，因為機智而世故，男主角的道義之心、愛國之情，皆在微妙的暗示之中。

但縱使英雄有淚不輕彈，這句台詞，也是傷心處的獨白。以前的情人在戰火中重逢，她有了老公，但情繫舊愛，她的丈夫是自己的情敵，但他又是地下抗納粹的愛國人士。兩人在關了燈的咖啡店短叙，說起往日的時光。「至少我們將永遠擁有巴黎」，有這樣一位無私的情人，為了成全人類的和平大業，甘於犧牲自己。

他埋葬了舊日的愛情，卻得到了另一段友誼。拭拂了心頭的淚痕，走上人生的另一條路。「我感到這是另一段美好友誼的開始」，男主角的淒苦，只觀眾知道，只那個警察局長不知道。在所有的戲裏，只這句話，牽動了三代觀眾的心靈。

「北非諜影」七十歲了。戲裏的人，寫戲的編劇家、導演、燈光師、攝影師，都已化為塵土，但他們留下了動人的光影，與其中流閃不朽的高尚的品格、純真的情感，這是一支偉大的團隊，他們向後世交了一張滿分的人生考卷。

參考文章：香港才子的羅馬軍事史 香港才子的戴高樂神話 香港才子的關公戰秦瓊

參考文章：香港才子的泰國笑話 香港才子的英國王室史 香港第一才子露餡 

香港陶（曹）姓才子要么不知道發生在中華民國三十一年（1942，壬午，藏族的水馬年）的最重要歷史事件是美國的中途島「六四」大捷，要么認為相應的日本中途島「六四」慘敗是極其丟臉的事，不消提。

於是，「北非諜影」成為香港第若干才子的主題。

問題是，他的英文程度很不管用。儘管慣於誇誇其談，相信香港才子無法應付缺乏中文字幕的「英語」經典電影。

不妨先參考互聯網關於「北非諜影」的論述： 

Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.

Rick Blaine's past is very sketchy, and we never know his previous occupation or why he cannot return to his home country, the U.S. In 1935 he fought the facists in Spain and in 1936 ran guns to Ethiopia, always on the "good" side. In Paris frequents the cafe "La Belle Aurore", run by a man he calls "Frenchy", and during this period he met Ilsa Lund, the love of his life. When the Germans marched into Paris he and Ilsa, along with Rick's trusted friend and piano player Sam, planned to run away to Marseillaise, but Ilsa left him stranded on the train station with only a note saying, "I cannot go with you or ever see you again. You must not ask why. Just believe that I love you. Go, my darling, and God bless you. Ilsa."

During this time (early December 1941) Rick sets up a cafe ("Rick's Cafe Americaine") in Casablanca, Morocco with Sam as his piano player. This cafe attracts the likes of refugees, Gestapo officers, pickpockets, and Resistance fighters. Heartbroken over losing Ilsa, Rick is turned from a passionate, political man to a cynical, neutral wreck who maintains short relationships and has no respect for women, as seen by his handling of current girlfriend Yvonne. His neutral political stance and his friendship with shady police officer Renault keep him out of trouble. When Rick stumbles into possession of letters of transit (thief Ugarte asked Rick to keep them for a short period of time but Ugarte was arrested shortly thereafter), which are signed by Charles de Gaulle and allow anybody to write their own ticket out of Casablanca without any question, his life is sent into a tailspin. Right as Ugarte is taken out of his cafe, in walk Resistance fighter Victor Lazlo....and his wife Ilsa. When Ilsa tries to explain everything, Rick won't listen to her and drunkenly denounces her as a whore. After Rick has heard the whole story, (Ilsa married Lazlo in secret; when he was taken to a concentration camp and presumed to be dead, Ilsa was hopeless until she met and fell in love with Rick. However, when it was revealed that Lazlo was still alive, Ilsa decided to stay with him--if she told Rick he would never have left Paris and jeopardized his life), Rick overcomes his heartbreak and, after much resistance, agrees to help get Lazlo out so that he can continue his work. Rick lets Ilsa believe that Lazlo will leave alone and she will stay with Rick; at the same time he lets Renault believe the same, and that this would be the perfect opportunity for Renault to arrest Lazlo on a legitimate charge. But while Renault is about to arrest Lazlo, Rick pulls out a gun and all 4 make it to the airport. It is here that Rick sacrifices his great love for something bigger and more important; he manipulates Ilsa into boarding a plane to Lisbon with her husband by telling her that she would be arrested if she stayed, that she would eventually regret it, that no matter what they will always remember their brief time in Paris. Lazlo and Ilsa safely board the plane and after Rick bravely shoots to death the evil Gestapo officer Major Strasser, the previously shady Renault and privately passionate Rick decide to fly to Brazzaville to join in the good fight, begining a beautiful friendship.

顯而易見，香港陶（曹）姓才子才子的「北非諜影」劇情結局的描述，基本上是獨家原創的另類天方夜譚，與美國主流社會的認識大相徑庭。

最露餡的是，「從此只有投奔地下游擊隊」之說。

陶（曹）姓才子大概以為 Free French Garrison就是「地下游擊隊」，也聽不懂布拉薩維爾（Brazzaville）的涵義，遑論其潛台詞，怪不得出了如斯大洋相。

須知道，布拉薩維爾是剛果共和國首都，與剛果民主共和國隔剛果河相望。

辛亥革命之前一年，法國設立法屬赤道非洲，包括現在的剛果共和國、加蓬、乍得、中非共和國，定布拉薩維爾為首府。第二次世界大戰中，法屬赤道非洲當局支持戴高樂將軍，中華民國二十九年至三十二年，布拉薩維爾更是自由法國的象徵性首都。

因此，布拉薩維爾當時代表法國的武裝自由區，正是「北非諜影」電影劇情的最理想、最振奮人心的終結地點。陶（曹）姓才子限於「英語」水平、歷史知識、正氣赤字，當然不能寫出像樣的影評。

其實，才子日前在南洋極重要政府所控制的特殊中文網站發表關於「林肯」影片的評論，進一步暴露了他的三大毛病，慘不忍睹：低劣的「英語」水平、 貧乏的歷史知識、嚴重的正氣赤字。如果繼續諱疾忌醫，他的病情行將惡化，掩蓋無從，甚至致命。此是後話。

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圖一，「北非諜影」
圖二，自由法國旗幟
圖三，法屬赤道非洲