fever pitch

　　　　　　Fever Pitch (1997)

アーセナルの熱狂的サポーター、ニック・ホーンビーのベストセラー自伝作品をも

とにしたロマンティックコメディー。

30代半ばの英語教師ポール。アーセナルへ熱中するあまり恋も人生もどうもうまくいかない。

そんないい歳だっていうのに大人になりきれない男のジレンマをコリンが楽しそうに演じてい

ます。コリンにとっては「高慢と偏見」の後に撮った、久々の銀幕主演作。上流階級の役柄が

多いコリンが、珍しくミドルクラスの人間を演じているのもポイント。近い将来、日本で公開

されることを願って、ここではストーリー紹介はパスします。

「公開まで待てない！」方は、せめて本＆CDで雰囲気だけでも味わって。

＜ Fever Pitch お買い物リスト＞

Fever Pitch the Screenplay

著者：ニック・ホーンビー（Nick Hornby）

発行：Indigo　ISBN＃0575400846

映画Fever Pitchの脚本。映画のフォトも数点あり。製作過程、音楽、キャスティングについて

語るイントロダクションは、映画と音楽とフットボールが大好きな仲間が楽しんで

映画を作っている、まるで大学の映画部のような現場の雰囲気が伝わってきて楽しい。

コリンの愛すべき素顔を垣間見ることも。





Fever Pitch

著者：ニック・ホーンビー（Nick Hornby）

発行： Penguin, ISBN#0-14-023729-1またはIndigo, ISBN# 0-0575-40015-3

英国で大ベストセラーとなったホーンビーの処女作。アーセナルの熱狂的サポータ

ーである著者が、サポーターであるがゆえにチームの出来不出来に振り回される人生を

ユーモアいっぱいとペーソス少々加えて日記形式に綴った自伝。






Fever Pitch the Soundtrack

発行：blanco y negro, #WE833/0630-18453-2/LC4281

フットボールと同じくらいポップミュージックを愛するホーンビーが、

自ら映画のために選曲。The Whoなど1968年から72年までのヒット曲と、

リサ・スタンスフィールドら89年前後のヒット曲がちょっぴりノスタルジック。

曲の合間にコリンのセリフが入っているのがニクイ！




以上の３点は日本の大型書店およびCD店で購入・注文可能です。スクリーンプレイ

に関しては、東京新宿の紀伊国屋書店の店頭にありました（98年９月現在）。

もちろん、 Amazon 他、インターネットを通じて海外から取り寄せるのも可能。




なお、イギリス英語やフットボール用語に馴染みのない方はこちらにアクセスしましょう

コリンとフットボールをこよなく愛するオーストラリア人Clareが懇切丁寧に解説してくれま

す。うれしいことに、ニックへの独占インタビュー（！）や映画関連記事のリンクも満載。



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＜おまけ＞

サントラに収録されているコリンのセリフ集！

"Anthropologists have always had a hard time with football. The trouble is, 
you can only see what's on the outside. But there is an inside,
believe it or not. We all have our reasons for loving things the way we do."



Paul(Colin): I'll bet you any money you like that you're not playing First
Division football when you're fifty.
Steve(Mark Strong): It's the smoking.
Paul: It's not the smoking, Steve. It's the crapness.



"Why is it that adults aren't supposed to go mad about anything? You've
got to keep a lid on it. And if you don't then people are apparently
entitled to say what they like. You haven't grown up. You're a moron.
Your conversation is trivial and boorish. You can't express your emotional
needs, you can't relate to your children and you die lonely and miserable.
But, you know, what the hell. Every cloud has a silver lining."



"It's not easy to become a football fan. It takes years. But if you put in
the hours you're welcomed, without question, into a new family. Except, in
this family, you care about the same people and hope for the same things.
And what's childish about that?"



"Football has meant too much to me, and come to represent too many things.
See, after a while it all gets mixed up in your head, and you can't
remember whether life's shit because Arsenal are shit or the other way
around. I've been to watch too many games, and spent too much money, and
fretted about Arsenal when I should have been fretting about something
else. I've asked too much of the people I love. OK, I accept all that.
But, I don't know, perhaps it's something you can't understand unless you
belong. What about this? Three minutes to go and you're two-one up in a
semi-final and you look around and you see all those thousands of faces
contorted with fear and hope and worry, everyone lost, everything else gone
out of their heads...Then the whistle blows, and everyone goes spare, and
just for those few minutes you're at the centre of the whole world. And
the fact that you care so much, that the noise you have made has been such
a crucial part of it all, is what makes it special. Because you've been
every bit as important as the players, and if you hadn't been there, then
who'd be bothered about football, really? And the great thing is that it
comes round again and again. There's always another season. You lose the
Cup Final in May, well there's the third round to look forward to in
January. And what's wrong with that? It's actually pretty comforting, if
you think about it. But every now and then - not very often, but it
happens - you catch a glimpse of a world that doesn't work like that - a
world that doesn't stop in May and begin again in August. There's some
stuff that just never comes back, and some stuff that just won't go away,
and some stuff that you can't ignore even if you wanted to."



"When I think back to the twenty-six of May 1989 now, it's impossible to
explain what happened to either of us - all three of us, if you count the
team. But I do know this. Something happened between me and Arsenal that
night. It was as if I jumped on to the shoulders of the team, and they
carried me into the light that had suddenly shone down on all of us. And
the lift they gave me enabled me to part company from them, in some ways.
We still see each other all the time, and I still love them and hate them
all the same time, but I have my own life now, and my own successes and
failures aren't necessarily linked up with theirs. And that's got to be a
good thing. I suppose."

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