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特约撰稿：《黑暗天使》镜头下的巴黎
Guest Article: Paris through the Angel of Darkness Lens
2024年5月3日
May 3, 2024
你走进了一间昏暗的房间，只有一盏台灯发出微弱的光线。几乎整面墙都被照片、纸张和随贴便条占据，其间穿插着细线，如同经典黑色侦探小说的传统布置。在所有这些研究工作的上方，挂着一块牌子，上面写着“古墓丽影：黑暗天使”。“很高兴你来了，”我微笑着对你说，“这款游戏一直激励着我。它成为了我生活的重要部分，是我选择职业和人生动力的源头，还帮助我找到了许多好朋友。2023年——这款游戏发行后的整整20年——我进行了自己的调查，走访了故事开始的城市：巴黎。此行的目的是寻找游戏中创建关卡时所使用的真实参考资料。我的起点是巴黎贫民区街道的名称，以及开发文件中提到的地址和地图。我邀请你加入这个案件。”说完这些话，文章的作者将照片摊开在你面前的桌子上。
You entered a dark room illuminated by the dim light of a desk lamp. Almost the entire wall was occupied by photos and sheets of paper and attached notes, between which threads were strung in the best traditions of noir detectives. Above all this research work was a plaque with the inscription “Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness". “I'm glad you came in,” I told you, smiling. “I've been inspired by this game all my life. It became a significant part of my life, became the reason for choosing a profession and life motivation, and helped me find great friends. In 2023 – exactly 20 years after the release of the game – I carried out my own investigation, visiting the city where it all started: Paris. The purpose of my journey was to find real references that were used in the game when the levels were created. The starting point was the names of streets in the Paris ghetto, and the addresses and maps that are in the development files. I suggest that you take part in this case.” With these words, the author of the article spread out photos on the table in front of you.
巴黎贫民区
PARISIAN GHETTOS
我手机里保存的第一个地址是玛格特·卡维尔的家。我走到正确的街道，从头到尾走了一遍，还查看了邻近的街区。实际上，根据圣苏尔皮斯广场的位置，第六栋房子也是最后一栋，它紧挨着圣苏尔皮斯天主教堂和同名的广场。那天，当我在附近跑来跑去寻找正确地址时，广场上正在举办一场复古展览。这条街上的房子底层都是品牌服装店。总的来说，我认为这里并不像游戏中的场景。抱歉，玛格特，我们没法交谈了……
The first address that was saved on my phone was the house of Margot Carvier. I got to the right street and walked around it from beginning to end, looking into the neighbouring blocks. In reality, according to Place St Sulpice, the sixth house is also the last one; it is adjacent to the Catholic church of Église Saint-Sulpice and the square of the same name. That day, when I was running around the neighbourhood looking for the right address, there was a vintage exhibition in the square. Branded clothing stores are located on the ground floors of the houses along this street. All in all, I don't think it looks like a place from the game. Sorry, Margot, we won't be able to talk…
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当劳拉去公园见伯纳德时，我们可以看到一个非常独特的新艺术风格地铁入口。巴黎地铁已经开通116年，而那时正是新艺术风格的鼎盛时期。建筑师埃克托尔·吉马德参与了地铁入口的设计。每个地铁站入口都是相同的绿色，意在模仿青铜的铜绿，并用吉马德自己设计的字体标有“Métropolitain”字样。
When Lara goes to the park to meet Bernard, we can see a very unusual Art Nouveau subway entrance. The Paris metro opened 116 years ago, and Art Nouveau was at its peak at that time. Architect Hector Guimard was involved in the creation of entrances to the metro. Each entrance to the station had the same green colour, which was supposed to resemble a bronze patina, and a sign with the word Métropolitain in a font designed by Guimard himself.
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圣·埃卡德教堂
ST. AICARD'S CHURCH
根据游戏设定，公园旁边有一座教堂，里面设立了一个拳击俱乐部。这样的组合在现实中很难找到，但我在视觉上找到了与卢浮宫附近的圣日耳曼奥塞尔教堂相似的地方。圣日耳曼奥塞尔教堂是晚期或“火焰哥特式”建筑的纪念碑，以其建筑形式的精致和丰富的装饰而著称。教堂内部有文艺复兴时期最著名的彩色玻璃窗玫瑰窗。那里的管风琴声音如此美妙，让我流连忘返。
According to the game, there was a church next to the park, in which a boxing club was set up. Such a combination is quite difficult to find in reality, but visually I found similarities with Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, located near the Louvre. Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois is a monument of late or "flaming Gothic"; it is notable for the sophistication of architectural forms and abundance of ornamentation. Inside the church is the most famous stained-glass rose of the Renaissance period. There was such a wonderful organ sound that I didn't want to leave.
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圣·埃卡德墓地
ST. AICARD'S GRAVEYARD
幸运的是，这次没有狗。我可以写不止一篇文章来赞美巴黎墓地的美丽，但所有参考都可以在世界上最著名的墓地之一找到：拉雪兹神父公墓，它已成为哥特式雕塑的博物馆。东部公墓（建于1804年，官方名称为拉雪兹神父公墓）在其存在的最初几年里并不受逝者亲属的欢迎。于是，人们决定将某些著名法国人物的遗骸迁往该公墓。至今已发现莫里哀、巴尔扎克、马塞尔·普鲁斯特、吉姆·莫里森、伊迪丝·琵雅芙、涅斯托尔·马赫诺、奥斯卡·王尔德、弗雷德里克·肖邦等不同时代众多名人的坟墓，这一营销策略也取得了成功。
Fortunately, there were no dogs this time. I could write more than one article about the beauty of Parisian cemeteries, but all references can be found at one of the most famous cemeteries in the world: Père Lachaise, which has become a museum of Gothic sculpture. The Eastern Cemetery (opened in 1804, and the official name of Pere Lachaise), was not popular with the relatives of the deceased during the first years of its existence. It was then decided to relocate the remains of certain famous French figures to the cemetery. Graves of Moliere, Balzac, Marcel Proust, Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Nestor Makhno, Oscar Wilde, Frédéric Chopin, and many other famous people of various eras have been found to date, and this marketing ploy has paid off.
奇怪的是，墓地给我留下的印象比经典景点还要深刻。雕像、乌鸦、各种坟墓、蜘蛛网和覆盖墓碑的青苔；这里带给我一种令人惊奇的平静和舒适感。
Strangely enough, the cemetery made a greater impression on me than the classic sights. Statues, crows, crypts of all kinds, cobwebs, and moss that engulfed the tombstones; an amazing feeling of calm and comfort visited me here.
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巴黎街道布局
STREET PLAN OF PARIS
游戏中的巴黎地图与现实毫无关系。我逛遍了附近的卢浮宫地区，探索了新桥和艺术桥，我可以自信地说，这些地点和街道名称是从巴黎各地借来的，与特定地点无关。当然，你可以在游戏中找到很多用于游戏素材的相似事物，但大多数情况下，《古墓丽影：黑暗天使》中的巴黎地图和街道只是开发者对这座美丽城市的艺术表现。
The game map of Paris has nothing to do with reality. I went around the entire nearby Louvre area, exploring the bridges of the Neuf and the Arts, and I can say with confidence that the places and street names are borrowed from all over Paris and have nothing to do with a specific place. Of course, you can find a lot of similar things that were used in game assets, but for the most part, the map and streets of Paris from TRAOD are just the developers’ artistic representation of this wonderful city.
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概念艺术：詹姆斯·肯尼
Concept art by James Kenny
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卢浮宫美术馆
LOUVRE GALLERIES
我敢打赌，我在这儿发现了许多巧合！卢浮宫是世界上最受欢迎的博物馆，游戏中也有多个关卡是围绕它展开的。
You bet I found a lot of coincidences here! The Louvre is the most popular museum in the world and a place to which several levels are dedicated in the game.
劳拉通过下水道潜入卢浮宫，使用炸药炸开一条通道。关卡开始于一楼。这里有一个展览，专门介绍卢浮宫的历史——特别是中世纪堡垒部分保存完好的城墙，劳拉一进博物馆就能看到。
Lara sneaks into the Louvre through the sewer system, using explosives to create a passage. The beginning of the level is on the ground floor. Here, there is an exhibition dedicated to the history of the Louvre – in particular, the partially preserved walls of the mediaeval fortress, which Lara sees as soon as she enters the museum.
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概念艺术：詹姆斯·肯尼
Concept art by James Kenny
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在真实的卢浮宫中，大多数展厅几乎不可能进行潜行，也不可能从后面悄悄接近（你好，特伦特！）；木地板会发出明显的吱嘎声。大多数门都是用钥匙打开的，少数情况下用卡打开，所以你不太可能抓住一个粗心的守卫并从他那里拿到通行证打开所有门。
Stealth in the real Louvre is hardly possible in most halls, nor is stealthy sneaking up from behind (hello, Trent!); the parquet floors creak quite noticeably. Most doors are opened with a key, or in rare cases with a card, so it is unlikely that you will be able to catch an inattentive guard and get a pass from him to open all the doors.
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那么，没有达芬奇的《蒙娜丽莎》你能去哪儿呢？这幅画究竟是谁的肖像画，至今仍没有明确的答案。在《黑暗天使》中开发者在纹理中隐藏了一个明显的彩蛋，即彼得·康奈利的脸。需要澄清的是，现实中的《蒙娜丽莎》看起来与游戏中不同吗？
Well, where can you go without Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa? There is still no clear answer to the question of whose portrait this is. In the case of the Angel of Darkness, the developers hid a noticeable Easter egg in the shape of Peter Connelly's face in the texture. Is it worth clarifying that the Mona Lisa looks different in real life?
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分析真实博物馆和游戏中展厅的视觉效果，我可以肯定地说，游戏中的卢浮宫所包含的内容甚至不及真实卢浮宫的万分之一。《黑暗天使》的走廊类似于德农馆内部雕塑展厅的一部分，但它们并不是直接复制的。我花了大约五个小时粗略地参观了卢浮宫，前两个小时过后我的头脑才刚刚开始适应各种形式的艺术作品。
Analysing the visuals of the halls in the real museum and in the game, I can safely say that the gaming Louvre did not contain even a thousandth of what you can see in the real Louvre. The corridors of Angel of Darkness are similar to part of the halls of sculptures inside the Denon Wing; however, they are not a direct copy. I spent about five hours on a cursory inspection of the Louvre, the first two of which my head was just getting used to so many works of art in all possible forms.
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我认为很多人不知道，在游戏中，劳拉和特伦特见面的画廊旁边，有一个小房间，里面有一个长着羊头的斯芬克斯雕像。如果你使用飞行模式或其他技术来分析环境，你可以看到它。在现实中，类似的展厅里有一座斯芬克斯雕像，它是1825年在塔尼斯的阿蒙神庙废墟中发现的。它的头是一个普通人的头，附近也没有带玻璃展柜的画廊。
I don't think many people know that, in the game, next to the gallery where Lara and Trent meet, is a small room in which there is a sphinx with a goat's head. You can see it if you use flight mode or other techniques to analyse the environment. In reality, the similar hall contains a statue of the Sphinx, found in 1825 among the ruins of the temple of Amun in Tanis. His head is an ordinary man’s and there are no galleries with glass cases nearby.
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完全沉浸其中不应有任何例外！
There should be no exceptions in full immersion!
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四季大厅
HALL OF SEASONS
许多人记得四季大厅是因为与暗黑兄弟的战斗，这场战斗发生在一个小房间里。房间里有几座雕像，它们围成一圈，手持画作，周围环绕着熔岩边界。中央是支撑棺材的人物雕像，棺材上刻有拉丁铭文。大厅的墙壁和柱子由人骨制成。当我参观巴黎地下墓穴时，我想起了这个地方。
The Hall of Seasons is remembered by many for the battle with Brother Obscura, which takes place in a small room. There are several statues holding paintings in a circle, around which is a border of lava. In the centre are figures supporting a coffin with an inscription in Latin. The walls and columns of the hall are made of human bones. It was this place I remembered when I visited the Catacombs of Paris.
地下墓穴是一个由地下隧道和人工洞穴组成的网络。18世纪末，巴黎墓地的严重拥挤迫使法国首都当局将消毒后的骨骼运送到位于城市街道下方的废弃采石场。到1860年，已有六百万人的遗骸被移至地下墓穴。特别检查部门的员工确保骨骼和头骨被整齐地堆叠起来，组织成地下画廊，并竖立纪念碑。
The catacombs are a network of underground tunnels and artificial caves. At the end of the eighteenth century, the monstrous congestion of Paris’ cemeteries forced the authorities of the French capital to export disinfected bones to abandoned quarries located under the city streets. By 1860, the remains of six million people had been moved to the catacombs. Employees of the special inspection ensured that the bones and skulls were stacked neatly, organised into underground galleries and erected monuments.
作为一个无所畏惧的地下爱好者，我没有错过亲眼目睹这座由骨骼建成的城市的机会——这一幕与其说是可怕，不如说是悲伤。
As a fearless lover of everything underground, I did not miss the opportunity to see with my own eyes a city built of bones – a sight not so much frightening as sad.
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结语
INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION
你正在看一堆铺在桌子上的照片。“我没有太多时间进行调查——在巴黎只有五天的时间太短了，但我希望你会感兴趣。”作者把所有文件放进一个文件夹，并温柔地笑了笑。“感谢你读到最后。只要有人对这个话题感兴趣，故事就不会被遗忘，所有角色都会在我们心中活着。珍惜激励你的东西并付诸行动——这是实现你所有梦想的唯一途径。”
You were looking at a bunch of photos spread out on the table. “I didn't have much time to investigate – only five days in Paris is terribly short, but I hope you were interested.” The author put all the files in a folder and smiled gently. “Thank you for reading to the end. As long as there are those who are interested in this topic, the story is not forgotten and all the characters are alive in us. Appreciate what motivates you and act – this is the only way to realise everything you dream of.”
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特邀嘉宾文章和封面图片由劳拉·蒂托娃提供
Guest Article and header image by Lara Titova
校对：珍妮·米尔沃德
Proofreader: Jenni Milward
本文是探索《黑暗天使》中地点的调查系列的最后一章，你可以在这里阅读：
This article is the final chapter of the investigative series exploring locales through the lens of Angel of Darkness, which you can read here:
· 通过《黑暗天使》的镜头看布拉格
Prague through the Angel of Darkness Lens
· 通过《黑暗天使》的镜头看卡帕多奇亚
Cappadocia through the Angel of Darkness Lens
