180802 〈映画〉ギレルモ・デル・トロ監督 受賞スピーチ(2018)
追記（200714）
削除記事の再掲（一部訂正済み）、三つ目。
この年のアカデミー賞授賞式は、自分にとって心の支えとなるものだった。ノミネートされている作品も俳優陣も式のパフォーマンスも、どれも素晴らしくて授賞式の映像を何度も見直した。『シェイプ・オブ・ウォーター』の多部門受賞はもちろん嬉しかったけど、個人的には作品賞（もしくは脚本賞）は『スリー・ビルボード』がとってくれたらいいな…と期待していた。いずれにせよ、雰囲気は全然違うけど、どちらも人への眼差しと「希望」の描き方が好きな作品。
授賞式はただでさえ縮小化が進んでいるようだし、コロナ以後はさらに簡素なものになるのかな。司会を据えて数時間ぶっ続けで行うような授賞式は、今後見られないかもしれない。あと、好きなものを好きって言えるの、やっぱり大事だな。以前と比べると少しは上達してるかな、そうだといいな。
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以前「これまで好きだったものがどうでもいいと感じられたら、嗜好の変化と決めつけず、自分が精神的に疲れていないか疑ったほうがいい」という趣旨のツイートを見かけた。とても心当たりのある内容だったので、それ以来自分の疲労度を測る一つのバロメーターとして、「好きなものをためらいなく好きと言えるか」と自分に問いかけるようになった。
この尺度を用いれば、映画をつまらないと感じたら、わたしはすぐさま休まなければならないことになる。話題としては周回遅れになるけれど、改めてここに記録を残しておきたい。
2018年の映画賞レースを席巻した『シェイプ・オブ・ウォーター』、その監督であるギレルモ・デル・トロ氏の各種授賞式でのスピーチがとても心に残るものだった。私はごく平凡な映画ファンだけど、自分の映画に対する愛と敬意を忘れないでいるために、彼のスピーチをこれからも心に留めておきたい。ここでは彼自身が語った言葉を引用しようと思う（太字は個人的に特に印象深かったところ）。
ギレルモ・デル・トロ監督のさらなる活躍を心から祈って。
１．ゴールデン・グローブ 監督賞（2018.1.7）
Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection and they allow and embody the possibility of failing and live.
For 25 years, I have handcrafted very strange little tales made of motion, color, life, and shadow. And in many of these instances, in three precise instances, these strange stories, these fables, have saved my life – once with “Devil’s Backbone,” once with “Pan’s Labyrinth,” and now with “Shape of Water,” because, as directors, these things are not just entries in a filmography – we have made a deal with a particularly inefficient devil that trades three years of our lives for one entry on IMDb. And these things are biography, and they are life. And I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Fox Serchlight.
[Slow music plays]
And I wouldn't be here -- lower the music, guys, one second.
[Laughter and applause]
[Chuckles]
It's taken 25 years. Give me a minute.
[Chuckles]
Give me a minute.
[Cheers and applause continue]
[Music continues]
I wouldn't be here without my cast, my crew...
…and I want to mention a few fantastic women sitting at this table – Sharon, Nancy, Octavia, Sally, Kimmy, and Vanessa – without whom I wouldn’t be here.
[Cheers and applause]
I thank you.
My monsters thank you.
And somewhere, Lon Chaney is smiling upon all of us.
Thank you very much.
（Guillermo del Toro Wins Best Director at the 2018 Golden Globesより、字幕の一部を抜粋）
２．アカデミー 監督賞（2018.3.4）
“I am an immigrant like [fellow Mexican directors] Alfonso [Cuarón] and Alejandro [G. Iñárritu], my compadres. Like Gael [García Bernal], like Salma [Hayek] and like many, many of you.
In the last 25 years I've been living in a country all of our own. Part of it is here, part of it is in Europe, part of it is everywhere. Because I think that the greatest thing our art does and our industry does is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper.
The place I like to live the most is at Fox Searchlight because in 2014, they came to listen to a mad pitch with some drawings and the story and a maquette. And they believed that a fairy tale about an amphibian god and mute woman done in the style of Douglas Sirk, and a musical and a thriller was a sure bet.
I want to thank the people that have come with me all the way: Kimmy, Robert, Gary, Wayne and George. And my kids. And I wanna say, like Jimmy Cagney said once, ‘My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my brothers and sisters thank you. And I thank you very much.’”
（Guillermo del Toro’s speech for director celebrated the power of filmmakingより）
３．アカデミー 作品賞（2018.3.4）
“Growing up in Mexico as a kid, I was a big admirer of foreign films, from films like ET or Willy Wyler or Douglas Sirk or Frank Capra; and a few weeks ago, Steven Spielberg said, “If you find yourself there, if you find yourself in the podium, remember that you are part of a legacy, that you’re part of a world of filmmakers and be proud of it.” I’m very, very proud.
I want to dedicate this to every young filmmaker, the youth that is showing us how things are done, really they are, in every country in the world. I was a kid enamored with movies. Growing up in Mexico, I thought this could never happen. It happened and I want to tell you, everyone that is dreaming of a parable of using genre of fantasy to tell the stories about the things that are real in the world today, you can do it. This is a door. Kick it open and come in.”
（Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscars 2018 Acceptance Speech (Transcript)より）
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