納尼亞片段—亞斯藍的眼淚

正在重看（說重翻可能比較恰當）納尼亞系列，舊版新版看一看，最後還是決定要對照一下英文版。電影剛看完不久，的確感覺若不再看一下原著，有很多地方可能會一頭霧水。但我想有很大一部份的原因，還是因為「那頭獅子」。

整個納里亞系列，其實都環繞著獅王亞斯藍，C.S.Lewis非常仔細的描寫每個不同的角色（人，或動物）在遇到亞斯藍後，如何跟他互動，同時受他影響、改變。亞斯藍的每一個舉動、反應，都同時象徵了公義、憐憫、慈愛、救贖、恩典等種種豐富的形象，甚至是他的名字本身，都帶有力量，會對聽到的人的內心造成影響。

失去這個關鍵環節的影響、推動力，以及跟亞斯藍這個「他者」的互動，每個人在行為上的改變就會變的很難以理解。比如看到亞斯藍在對愛德蒙講話時，感覺好像是就只是一隻長成獅子樣子的老師，在對學生訓話。

只是要在電影裡面，靠動畫表現出來一隻獅子的喜怒哀樂，還有人從獅子身上所感受的力量、情感，實在是困難度很高。（我也覺得導演其實有盡力想要做出來了）

下面這一段，是納尼亞系列第一部《魔法師的外甥》裡，讓我印象最深刻的一個片段。至今我還沒有找到另一個片段，可以把那種他者對痛苦的憐憫、感同身受，表達得如此深刻。

亞斯藍的眼淚

現在狄里哥站在獅王亞斯藍面前，他把女巫帶進了納尼亞，讓邪惡入侵了這個世界，獅王必須讓他自己承擔之前造成的錯誤，做出彌補。狄里哥的心情很複雜，他對自己所造成的傷害感到愧疚，在獅王的公義面前感覺敬畏，想到自己深愛、病重著的母親，如今只剩下這個剛剛誕生的納尼亞裡，可能有大人所講的青春國度（the land of youth）裡的果子，是能讓母親復原的最後希望，狄里哥又好著急......

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"Son of Adam," said Aslan. "Are you ready to undo the wrong that you have done to my sweet country of Narnia on the very day of its birth?"

"Well, I don't see what I can do," said Digory. "You see, the Queen ran away and -"

"I asked, are you ready?" said the Lion.

「亞當的兒子，」亞斯藍說，「你已經準備好要去彌補，你在我這美好納尼亞王國誕生之日對他造成的傷害了嗎？」
「呃，我不曉得我能做什麼，」狄里哥說，「你也知道，女王已經跑走了，而且——」
「我問的是，你準備好了嗎？」獅子說。

"Yes," said Digory. He had had for a second some wild idea of saying "I'll try to help you if you'll promise to help my Mother," but he realized in time that the Lion was not at all the sort of person one could try to make bargains with.

「是的。」狄里哥說。他在那一瞬間腦中閃現出一個瘋狂的念頭，而他差點開口說：「你要是答應救我母親，我就會想辦法幫你。」幸好他即使醒悟，他知道獅子並不是那種可以談條件的人。

But when he had said "Yes," he thought of his Mother, and he thought of the great hopes he had had, and how they were all dying away, and a lump came in his throat and tears in his eyes, and he blurted out:
"But please, please - won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?" Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself.

但就在他說出「是的」時，他心裡不禁想到了他的母親，同時也想到，他曾經懷抱的美好希望，此刻以完全化成泡影，因此他忍不住喉頭一哽，眼泛淚光，不假思索地衝口而出：

「可是拜託，求求你—你能不能—你可不可以給我一些能治好我母親的東西？」在這之前，他一直低頭望著獅子的大腳與巨爪，但現在他在絕望中抬起頭來，凝視他的面孔。他看到了這輩子最令他震驚的一幅畫面。那張黃褐色的師臉俯下來貼在他面前，而（不可思議地）獅子的眼中盈滿了巨大閃亮的眼淚。跟狄哥里自己的眼淚比起來，它們是顯得如此巨大晶亮，因此在那一剎那，他不禁感到，獅子為他母親所感到的傷心難過，甚至比他自己還要更深幾分。