第一次知道这首歌是在六年前高一时买的《网友世界》杂志附送的光盘上听到的，熟悉宫崎骏的朋友应该对这首歌曲很熟悉吧，1995年，宫崎骏为C&A的新作歌曲On Your Mark制作了这一部长六分多钟的Music Movie，我看到的就是这个。当时只顾着欣赏movie了，没怎么注意music（这也说明了音乐和电影融合的很好），直到反复看了好多遍movie后，才注意到这首歌，感觉歌手演唱时的感情很投入，很有感染力。
这个音乐电影的基本剧情是这样的，在一个被核辐射（通过片中的核标志可以看出）所威胁的世界（貌似日本很关注科技的负面作用，经常以此为题材拍摄灾难片），人们都躲进了地底苟延残喘。两位主人公是负责安全的警察，在一次歼灭邪教组织中发现了一个活着的天使，不知道怎么回事，政府将她送进了实验室，两位主人公或许是同情、或许是厌倦了这种生活，决定营救这个天使，在躲避了各种追捕后，终于重返阳关灿烂的地面，天使也重返蓝天。
看似很俗的剧情，如果是一部剧场电影的话，我认为会很一般，但是它是作为一首歌的MV的，而且与歌词也很贴切（这部音乐电影是宫崎骏对歌词的理解），而且大部分人在看到最后一刻的蓝天绿草时，心情都是为之一跃的。
“On Your Mark” is a song by the Japanese rock duo Chage & Aska. At their request, animator Hayao Miyazaki produced a music video for the song. The music video was created in 1995, is entirely animated, has no dialogue, and runs for about six and a half minutes. The song was used in advertisements for NEC.
Synopsis
The narrative is told in a nonlinear fashion. This is likely inspired by the lyrics[1]. Just as the song describes, the two men do not give up in their efforts to rescue the winged girl, no matter how many times they fail.
The video begins with shots of a peaceful but vacant village, overgrown with weeds, with the enormous concrete sarcophagus of a covered-over nuclear reactor in the background.
As the music picks up, the scene changes to a nighttime military-style police raid on a religious group. Futuristic flying troop transports crash through the windows of a tower topped by the neon slogan “God Is Watching You,” and anti-terrorist policemen exchange gunfire and grenades with people whose hoods depict an enormous eye, similar to those of the Dorok priests in Miyazaki’s Nausicaa manga. The police are victorious; as they sort through the bodies of apparent mass suicide victims, two of them find what appears to be a girl, lying unconscious, with large feathered wings on her back.
The scene changes again, now to bright daylight and blue sky. Two men are driving an old Alfa Romeo down an empty road. One of them helps the girl up; she spreads her wings; he holds her hands as she gains confidence. With a nudge she is airborne, but she seems hesitant and afraid as he lets go.
The scene changes back to the discovery of the girl in the tower (bypassing the original sequence of the raid leading up to this point). Only at this point are the two men revealed to be the two from the vehicle in the previous sequence. The two men carefully carry her out and offer her something to drink, and are encouraged when she sips. But a team of scientists wearing radiation suits arrives and quickly whisks the girl away after placing her into a sterile container.
The two men are shown relaxing later, but thinking about the girl and looking somewhat morose–haunted by the fate this girl will suffer. The two hatch a plan – we see them working on various aspects of this, then the pair wearing radiation suits and breaking into a laboratory and rescuing the girl. This triggers the lab’s alarms, and we see the three of them escaping in an armored truck. They drive along a narrow suspended roadway over what appears to be a domed city built in a crater. Police craft pursue them, and one of them collides with the roadway and destroys it, sending the truck plummeting. The winged girl refuses to let go of the hands of her rescuers, and so the three of them presumably fall to their deaths.
A brief montage of previous shots follows: the discovery of the girl, the girl flying through a blue sky, the two men rescuing the girl from the laboratory and stealing the truck, the truck plummeting amidst the wreckage of the roadway. But this time, the truck fires stabilising thrusters and makes a short flight into the side of an apartment tower. The men and the girl escape; they are seen in their sports car racing through a dark tunnel underneath signs which bear radiation symbols and read (in kanji) “Beware Of Sunlight” and “Survival Not Guaranteed”, then finally they emerge into daylight, passing through a field of nuclear cooling towers and past a sign which reads “Extreme Danger.” Besides the green fields and trees, there are no other signs of life. This lush vegetation however hints that the radioactivity may have subsided long ago, allowing nature to take over.
As the car speeds down the road, one of the men helps the girl up, and she spreads her wings and gives them a grateful smile; he kisses her hand, and she is gone drifting upward into the sky. Briefly, a major urban cityscape is seen beyond the trees. From a bird’s-eye view, we see the shape of the car veering off the road and slowing to a stop in the grass. Hayao Miyazaki implies that the two policemen might not be able to return to their old life, however; whether this is due to the authorities being on their trail or because of potential radioactive poisoning is unknown.
Analysis
The video was inspired in part by the Chernobyl accident of 1986, in which a damaged reactor had to be covered with concrete and the surrounding area evacuated. The two men are meant to look like the singers Chage and Aska themselves. One of the men (wearing a naval cap) is depicted as brave and caring, while the other (wearing a helmet and dark goggles; apparently Chage as implied by the text on his coffee mug) is depicted as being somewhat goofy, but warm-hearted. This kind of pairing is common to anime.
The winged girl bears close resemblance to the princess from another Miyazaki film, Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind.
There is another version of this video which, instead of having “On Your Mark” as backing music, has the English version of the song – “Castles In The Air”, which is available on Chage & Aska’s English-language album One Voice: The Songs of Chage & Aska.
Lyrics：
そして仆らは いつもの笑颜と姿で
埃にまみれた服を払った
この手を离せば 音さえたてない
落ちていくコインは 二度と帰らない
君と仆 并んで
夜明けを追い抜いてみたい 自転车
On Your Mark いつも走りだせば
流行の风邪にやられた
On Your Mark 仆らがそれでも止めないのは
梦の斜面见上げて 行けそうな気がするから
そして仆らは 心の小さな空き地で
互いに振り落とした 言叶の夕立
答えを出さない それが答えのような
针の消えた时计の 文字を読むような
君と仆 全てを
认めてしまうにはまだ 若すぎる
On Your Mark いつも走りだせば
流行の风邪にやられた
On Your Mark 仆らがこれを无くせないのは
梦の心臓めがけて 仆らと呼び合うため
そして仆らは
On Your Mark いつも走りだせば
流行の风邪にやられた
On Your Mark 仆らがそれでも止めないのは
梦の斜面见上げて 行けそうな気がするから
On Your Mark いつも走りだせば
流行の风邪にやられた
On Your Mark 仆らがこれを无くせないのは
梦の心臓めがけて 仆らと呼び合うため
Oh… そして仆らは
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这篇文章发表于 星期五, 七月 11th, 2008 16:38 ，归类于 日语音乐. | 625次浏览
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