（改编自真人实事）
（1880年）
（世界由火光照亮）
（机器以人力或蒸汽推动）
（工程师乔治威斯汀豪斯）
（因发明空气煞车系统而致富）
（他认为天然气是工业的未来）
（因而大手笔投资）
（知名的穷发明家汤玛斯爱迪生）
（苦心研发了更好的选择：电力）
（他们的竞争即将开创现代世界）
（西屋空气煞车公司）
（纽泽西州，门洛帕克）
各位 Boys!
希望你们有带钱来 I hope you brought your checkbooks.
（宾州，匹兹堡）
空气煞车为乔治的新事业带来资金 The air brakes pay for George's latest obsession.
藉由改变输送管的大小 By changing the dimensions of his pipes,
乔治能将天然气输送到气井20哩外 George can move natural gas over 20 miles from the well.
快得像子弹 Shooting, like a gun.
这是好还是坏，威斯汀豪斯夫人？ Is that good or bad, Mrs. Westinghouse?
葛拉蒂丝，你女儿好吗？ - How is your daughter, Gladys? - Oh, quite well, thank you.
很好，多谢，她认识了一位金融家 She's met a financier.
你礼服上的珠饰真精致 The beading on your dress is exquisite.
威斯汀豪斯先生，世界报说：爱迪生先生的新电力系统 Mr. Westinghouse, I saw in The World Mr. Edison's new electric system
比天然气便宜多了 is significantly cheaper than gas.
你有因此失眠吗？ Does that keep you up at night?
天下事永远见识不完 There's always more to see.
威灵顿先生夫人，曼内斯堡先生 Mr. and Mrs. Worthington, Mr. Manesberg,
波顿医师夫人，文森牧师，麦考伊先生 Dr. and Mrs. Burton,Reverend Vincent, Mr. McCoy,
佛克先生、佛克夫人，请尽欢 Mr. Faulk, Miss Faulk, enjoy your evening.
爱迪生说他再几个月就能点亮世界 Edison says he's months away from lighting up the world.
真狂，不过相信我，10年后才可能成功 It's impressive, but trust me, it's ten years away from being practical.
报纸不是这样写的 The papers make it sound as though this is something different.
是个奇蹟 A miracle.
仿佛坐上魔毯 As if you started to levitate off the carpet.
我想见见他，你能安排吗？ I'd love to meet him. Could you arrange it?
我们很久没联络 It's been several years--
吃顿晚餐，自在优雅、不打高空 A dinner. Comfortable. Elegant. Substantive.
爱迪生连鞋带都懒得绑，何况参加社交活动 Edison can't be bothered to tie his shoes, let alone attend a social event.
或许吧，但还是试试 Perhaps you're right. But try anyway.
有什麽有趣的事吗？ Anything fascinating?
潘诺亚先生找到划算的房地产交易 Mr. Pennoyer has found a bargain on a Beaux Arts shack in Newport.
亚伯奈夫人的母亲过世 Mrs. Abernathy's mother has passed, and apparently Edison believes
爱迪生相信黑夜将成为过去 it may never be nighttime again.
片名：电流大战
要去见总统兴奋吗？ -兴奋 - Are you excited to meet the President? - Yes.
不要对JP摩根的鼻子说什麽 Don't say a thing about J.P. Morgan's nose.
他的鼻子怎麽了？ -没什麽 - What's wrong with his nose?- Nothing
他的鼻子怎麽了啦？ 很大，超大 - What's wrong with his nose? - It's huge. Huge!
好像有人在他脸上挂了把铁鎚 It's like someone took a hammer and slammed it into his face.
我以为你已经筹到钱了 I thought you already got the money.
只筹到一半 I only got half.
摩根知道你要去吗？ Does Morgan even know that you're coming?
他会投资的…真麻烦 He'll invest as always. I hate this.
你回程要跟… -什麽？ - Mr. Edison, you have dinner with-- - What?
跟威斯汀豪斯吃晚餐，回程途中 Dinner with Westinghouse. On your return.
为什麽谷仓是红色的？ Why are barns red?
好让你在雪地中看得见 Maybe so you can see them in the snow.
因为红漆最便宜 -你的鞋子怎麽了？ - It's 'cause red paint's cheapest. - What happened to your shoes?
摩根会问这个系统的可行性 Morgan will want to know the practicality of your system.
我有钱啊 I have money.
够在曼哈顿买两栋房吗？ Enough for two small buildings in Manhattan?
够 Yes.
-很好 Oh, good.
（华盛顿特区，白宫）
这应该是我的午餐会 This was intended to be my lunch.
总统要求亲眼见识留声机 The President has asked to see the phonograph in person.
我不知道你会来 爱迪生夫人 - I had no idea you'd be here. - Mrs. Edison.
摩根先生，这是我们的孩子 Mr. Morgan. These are our children.
点点和线线你好…我知道你来干嘛 Dot and Dash. Delightful. I know what you're doing.
你缺多少？想败掉我多少钱？ How much are you short? Just how much of my money do you want to wash away?
越多越好 Oh, as very, very much as possible.
他是谁？ 山缪英萨尔 - Who's this? - Samuel Insull.
爱迪生先生的秘书 Mr. Edison's personal secretary.
摩根先生，爱迪生先生 哪位？他也是爱迪生先生 - Mr. Morgan, Mr. Edison. - Which one? He's also Mr. Edison.
总统可以见你们了 The President will see you now.
开始 Now.
匡葛万哥坐在烤面饼树顶上 On top of the Crumpetty Tree the Quangle Wangle sat,
但他的海狸皮帽让你看不见他的脸 but his face you could not see, on account of his beaver hat.
这就是你的声音 This is the sound of your voice.
“匡葛万哥坐在烤面饼树顶上” On top of the Crumpetty Tree the Quangle Wangle sat,
“但他的海狸皮帽…” but his face you could not see,
这是我的声音吗？ - on account of his Beaver Hat. - Is that what I sound like?
我的属下说你拒绝了5百万 My men tell me you're turning down $5 million.
总统先生，感谢你的邀请 I'm grateful for the offer, Mr. President,
但我觉得你追求的科学令人反感 but it's the type of science you're after that I find objectionable.
枪械永远有赚头 - There's always money in guns. - The one device I shall never build
我绝不会发明夺人性命的工具 is that which takes the life of another man.
太野蛮了 It's barbaric.
不过…请看看这个 But... take a look at this.
以曼哈顿第一区打头阵 One square mile of Manhattan, the First District.
我要把它点亮 你已经办到了 - And I'm gonna light it up. - Then you have done it.
瓶中的星星，温暖的光亮 A star in a jar. It's a warm glow.
无臭、无毒 每个灯泡能亮13小时 No smell. No poison. Thirteen hours of light per globe.
比天然气便宜，也更安全。 And it's cheaper than gas. Safer too.
用我的直流电力系统 We bury the wires using my DC current,
这些线路还能带来能源与热气 and those same wires will bring you energy and heat.
我需要两栋房放６部自制电动机 I need two buildings to house six dynamos of my own construction.
连我家都传送不到 This won't even reach my house.
摩根，我会让你有钱到 Morgan, let me make you so rich
你以后回顾会纳闷 that you will look back at this moment and wonder,
“我怎麽曾经穷得像鬼” "Why was I ever so disgustingly poor?"
那里很适合，有渡轮直通华尔街 It's all right there. Ferry to Wall Street.
要是你没看清楚，它环绕纽约时报 In case you missed my scribble, that's a big old circle
《纽约时报》的免费广告 around the New York Times-- free advertising.
15万 -50万 - One hundred fifty. - Half a million.
砸50万下去就到下一个世纪 I'm talking about $500,000, you buy the next century.
更亮、更安全，属于你 Brighter, safer, yours.
听起来很棒，要是我有你的财富… Sounds rather grand to me, Pierpont. If I had your fortune--
恕我直言，您没有 With respect, you don't, Mr. President.
（他的鼻子好像樱桃）
那是什麽？ -这样很不好 - What is that? - That's not very nice.
是摩斯密码 Morse code.
那孩子说什麽？ What did the boy say?
那孩子说什麽？ 如果没别的事 - What did the boy say? - If there's nothing else,
-很荣幸，总统先生。-那男孩说了什么？ - it's been a pleasure, Mr. President. - What did the boy say?
你知道你做了什么吗？ Do you know what you've done?
拒绝永远能要到更多 I always receive more by saying no.
成立曼哈顿办公室，看起来要专业 Set up the Manhattan offices and make them look professional.
怎麽说？ 我不知道，铺地毯… - What does that mean? - Oh, I don't know. Carpets.
我不知道，铺地毯… I don't know. Carpets.
那名称呢？ And the name?
当然是爱迪生电力，先生…为何不做军火？ Edison Electric, of course. Sir, why not build munitions?
5百万很难拒绝 Five million dollars. It's hard to say no to--
不行 No.
爱迪生出品一定管用 If it's Edison, it works.
我不希望是杀人很管用 If it works, I'd strongly prefer it not kill anybody.
好的 Right.
（给点点）
（给线线）
（爱迪生面试问题掀风暴）
（新标准留声机，助听器，电钢琴）
“爱迪生对求职毕业生发出恶评” Thomas Edison has an unfavorable opinion of college graduates seeking employment
“因为他们答不出他的测验题” because they cannot answer his examination questions.
《游唱诗人》是谁谱的曲？ "Who composed Il Trovatore?"
威尔第 Verdi.
音速是多少？ "What is the speed of sound?"
这题有陷阱 Oh, a trick question.
声音的速度会不断变慢 Sound travels at a constantly diminishing rate of speed.
但我相信最快记录，是每秒11463尺 But I believe the fastest rate on record is 11,463 feet per second.
你怎麽会知道？ How do you know all this?
我早上读过了 I read that this morning.
这次不一样 This is different.
我感觉得到 I can feel it.
你从没邀人来过夜 You never requested a house guest before.
是吗？ Really?
Hmm.
先生，再8分钟就到转乘站了 - Eight minutes from the junction, sir. - Hmm?
威斯汀豪斯家晚宴 The Westinghouse dinner.
我们直接回家，他们累了，我今天握的手够多了 We're going home. They're tired. I already shook enough hands today.
法兰克，晚安 Evening, Frank.
乔治 George.
什麽？ Pardon?
不要停车 I'm not stopping.
好的 Right.
也许煞车坏了 Maybe the brakes are busted.
怎麽可能 I doubt that.
纽约那里临时有事 An emergency came up in New York.
别受他影响 Don't let him agitate you.
他就是这样 This is how he is.
在他成名前，我让他住我家地下室 Before he was a wizard, I let him live in my basement.
他不梳洗，我老婆就不准他一起吃饭 My wife wouldn't have him at the table with us unless he cleaned himself.
在我下最后通牒前，他都自己… And boy, given the ultimatum, the man ate alone.
他是怎麽做事的？ How does he work?
你想知道他的诀窍？ 他打造属于他的现实 You want to know his secret? He engineers his own reality,
并且在大海里捞针 and he looks for needles in haystacks.
他怎麽知道大海里有针？ But how does he know there's a needle in the hay to begin with?
他不知道，你也一样 He doesn't. Neither do you.
但他绝不肯落于人后 But he's so determined not to be the second person to find it,
宁愿一点一滴的捞，想不到吧 he'll go stalk by stalk, on a "what-do-you-know."
他倒是有个优点，他可以成为世界首富 I will say one good thing about him: He could be the richest man on earth,
但他一点也不在乎钱 but he doesn't give a damn about money.
那他在乎什麽？ What does he give a damn about?
玛丽，说话 Mary? Talk.
我想测试阻力 我的小发夹呢？ - I just want to test the resistance-- - Where's my barrette?
在你的五斗柜上 什麽是五斗柜 - On top of your bureau. - What's a bureau?
放小发夹的地方 It's what's under your barrette.
你能录音保证帮我搭围篱吗？ Can I get you to promise on here that you'll build me a fence?
地上结冰了，要等融冰 Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw.
快来看，要跑走了 Look, you're missing it!
是个小宝宝，身上还有斑点 It's a baby! Still has her spots!
汤姆，快来看 Tom, come see this.
汤姆…汤姆 Tom? Tom?
你要50万就做个东西让我卖给薛曼将军 You want half a million dollars, make me something with your name on it that I can sell to General Sherman.
不如我不理会你的需求 Counteroffer. How about I don't give you what you want,
而是你来满足我 but you give me everything I want?
我们要大大成功罗 We are gonna be big, big, big!
比大象还大吗？ 谁也阻挡不了大象 - Bigger than an elephant! - And no one stops an elephant!
Whoo!
（纽约）
会成功的 It'll work.
老实说，搞不好不会成功 Look, I've got to be honest. This might not work.
古有明训，如果觉得会跌个狗吃屎 Conventional wisdom has it, if you think you're gonna fall flat on your face,
最好不要当众出丑 better not do it in front of a crowd.
（纽约证交所，1882年9月4日）
今晚，改变可能会发生 Tonight, things could change.
但愿会 I hope they do.
如果发生了 And if they do...
将会发生在那里…还有那里 they'll change there...and there.
我和我的手下用一个玻璃罐 My boys and I caught in a jar
捕捉到过去只会闪现于夜空的东西 what before now has only flashed across the night sky.
要不要打开盖子，看看会怎样 What say we unscrew the lid and see what happens?
准备好了吗？ You ready?
３、２、１ - Three, two... - Two, one!
（西门子电动机）
他为87个客户埋了10万尺铜线 The man has 100,000 feet of copper for 87 customers.
这样不可能有利润 It will never be profitable.
炫耀是有钱人的嗜好 It's a hobby for the rich. Something to show off.
不必如此 It doesn't have to be.
我在洽谈西门子电动机和古基氏变压器的专利 I'm securing patents on the Siemens dynamo and the Gaulard-Gibbs transformer.
变压器？是金属行李箱吧 Transformer? That's more like a metal suitcase.
花了多少钱？ How much did that cost?
爱迪生赌错了 Edison, he picked the wrong horse.
他的电流就像打结的水管 His current is like a hose with a knot in it.
每一哩要有一台发电机 He needs to sell one generator per mile.
你想打造交流电力系统，对马达来说太强力了 You want to build an AC system. That's too powerful for motors.
你先撇开疑虑告诉我 Put doubt out of your mind for one moment and tell me,
你估计一台交流电动机 what distance do you estimate one could get
能供电多远的距离？ with a single alternating dynamo?
几千吧 码？ - A few thousand. - Yards?
-里 嗯-嗯 - Miles. - Mm-hmm.
我们能供电多少房屋？ And how many houses could we reach?
应该是全部，灯泡怎麽办？ I suppose all of them. What about the bulbs?
海勒姆同意授权给我 Hiram's agreed to license me his.
要剽窃也不好好打听，那些灯泡是亮灰色 If you're gonna rip off Edison, rip him off right. They glow bright gray.
我只是想展示给爱迪生看 I just want to do a demonstration for Edison.
找个农村小镇 Somewhere small. Small town. Rural.
让他看到交流电的潜力 And then he'll see alternating is possible,
我们合伙，我们的系统加他的灯泡 and we partner-- our system, his bulbs.
我的看法…从物理学和现实面来说 In my opinion, which I will admit is based solely on physics and reality,
你的想法非常有趣 what you want to do is fun to talk about.
但我不认为办得到 I really don't think it can be done.
为什麽？ -能做他早就做了 - Why? - Because he would've already done it.
巴黎方面认为只有你能与我匹敌 My Paris office seems to think you may be the only man on Earth to rival me.
你愿意替我工作吗？ 非常愿意 - How would you like to work for me? - Very much.
我们扩展到12个城市 ，打造直流电力系统… I'm expanding to 12 cities, building direct-current systems--
直流电 Direct current?
交流电有效率多了 Alternating current is far more efficient.
“滴答滴答…”电压更高 - Hickory, dickory dock... - Higher voltage,
距离更远，电线更少 greater distance. less copper conductors--
它会致命，还会让马达爆掉 It's lethal, and it's too much power for a motor to handle.
起薪1百 I'm going to start you on $100 a month
直到你证明你的身价 until you prove yourself worth more or less.
1百美元？ 解决我无法解决的事，就付你5万 - A hundred dollars? - If you can solve five things I can't,
然后我就得开除你 I'll pay you $50,000, and then I'll have to fire you.
特斯拉先生，欢迎加入爱迪生电力 Mr. Tesla, welcome to Edison Electric.
我们每10天一个小发明 We make a minor invention every ten days
每半年左右一个大发明 and a major one every six months or so.
我猜虽然实验室就在1百码外 I have a suspicion that though your husband's lab is but
有时一定像是在百哩外 a hundred yards from your house, it must seem sometimes like a hundred miles.
错，是百万哩 No, a million.
我也希望他脑袋能冷静一下，但它就是转不停 I've tried to find a way to stop his brain, but it just runs and runs.
他也没办法控制，我只能让他定下心来 It's something he can't control. All I can do is bring him back to center.
听说他被称为全美最差劲老公 I've heard Mr. Edison called "the worst husband in America"
连新婚之夜都睡在实验室 on account of him sleeping in his lab on your wedding night.
我也听过这个故事 I've heard the story myself.
在我们的新婚之夜 Well, on our wedding night,
汤姆和我搭上亚伯尼的… Tom and I left on the Albany, uh...
船 boat.
我们在尼加拉瀑布待了一星期 We spent a week in Niagara Falls.
我当时觉得那一星期的幸福 I thought that one week of happiness would be enough
就足以照亮一辈子 to illuminate an entire lifetime.
他是帅气的发明家，我为他工作 He was a dashing inventor, and I worked for him.
你知道的。我是… You know. I was a...
我是… I-I was a...
Uh--
我是… I-I was a...
什麽？ Yes?
Um...
对不起 I'm sorry.
我负责… I-I operated the...
打电报？ 对！ - Telegraph? - Yes.
打电报 Yes. Telegraph.
请见谅 Forgive me.
他有什麽嗜好吗？ Does he have any hobbies?
你答应带他们去康尼岛 You promised them Coney Island.
至少一起散步 At the very least, a walk.
我保证明天散3次步 We'll go on three walks tomorrow, I promise.
来，你们去拍照吧 Here, why don't you take a picture?
慢一点 Slow down!
是眼睛疲劳引发的神经痛 It's neuralgia, brought on by eye strain.
只要配一副好眼镜就行了 A good pair of spectacles is all that's required.
不行，会很丑 Oh, no. I'll look awful.
不，才不会，不可能 No, no. No, you won't. That's impossible.
确定只有这样？她最近头痛得厉害 Are you sure that's all? She's been having terrible headaches.
我会留一瓶止痛药，直到她的眼睛适应 I'll leave her a vial of laudanum until her eyes adjust.
谢谢 Thank you.
能不能… Can you...
你介意延后收出诊费吗？ Would you mind delaying the bill for this visit?
这个…我儿子想要你的签名 Well, my son would love an autograph.
天哪，真原始 Christ, it's primitive.
这一台多少钱？ How much did this cost?
他不告诉我 这就是我们需要的东西 - He won't tell me. - What we need is here.
爱迪生的电流不能超过一英里，弗兰克 Edison's current can't travel more than one mile, Frank.
它会渐渐消失，要架很多马达 It peters out. He'll have to build so many DC motors
埋一堆铜线，才能供电一座城镇 and bury all his copper just to power one town.
美国会变成发电厂的棋盘 This country will look like a checkerboard of power plants.
但一台交流电动机就能升高电压 But with one AC dynamo, we can step-up the voltage
供电到放眼所见之处 and reach as far as the eye can see.
电线用杆子架起来 We string the wires overhead on poles.
铜线更少，电量更多 Less copper, more electricity.
价格少7成5 We're 75 percent cheaper.
供电系统最重要的就是距离 The only thing that matters here is distance.
（麻州，大巴灵顿）
法兰克，这是你我共同的心血 Frank, this is as much yours as it is mine.
要是你能启动… -这怎麽可以 - I'd be proud if you'd flip the-- - I couldn't possibly.
少荒谬了 -这一刻属于你 - Oh, don't be ridiculous. - No, it belongs to you.
但你投入时间… 乔治，这是你的主意 - But you spent hours-- - George, it was your idea.
你是发动者 You were the instigator.
我们去兜风吧？ Shall we go for a ride?
（大巴灵顿，交流电展示活动）
（1886年3月6日）
致门洛帕克的奇才 "To the Wizard of Menlo Park.
你的煞车似乎出了问题 As it seems your brakes have issues,
我很乐意派车去接你 I would be delighted to send my car to deliver you
前来麻州大巴灵顿 to Great Barrington, Massachusetts...
我成功将电流传送了整整一哩 where I have successfully transmitted current one full mile."
不！ No!
他怎麽会有灯泡？ How did he get the bulbs?
美国最聪明的一群人一片死寂 What a roaring silence from the brightest minds of America.
他用海勒姆的设计，海勒姆是偷我的 - He's using Hiram's design. - Which Hiram stole from me!
告他 -已经告了 法院维持他的专利 - Sue him. - We did. The court upheld his patent.
我是说威斯汀豪斯，找个角度 I'm talking about Westinghouse. Find an angle.
跑一趟巴灵顿亲眼看看 Take a trip to Barrington and see for yourself.
15年心血公然被偷，有人有一丝丝懊恼吗？ Is anyone even slightly irked that 15 years of work
就在你眼皮底下被偷走了？ is being filched from right under your eyes?
下不为例！ Not again!
我在这里打造系统，他到处买专利 I built a system here, and he goes shopping for patents
七拼八凑，来合法窃取我的心血 to cobble together something to legally steal what is mine.
如果灯泡是一场战役，就用电动机逮住他 If the bulbs are a battle, then nail him on the dynamos.
没办法 We can't.
他根本没用直流电 He's not even using direct current, sir.
他用交流电？ He's using alternating?
没把自己烧死，就算是胜利
最后有赢吗？
哈
玛丽？ Mary?
我们应该再喝些茶 Yes, I think we should have some more tea.
派翠西亚 Patricia?
乔治威斯汀豪斯？ George Westinghouse?
有什麽事吗？ 我从爱迪生那里过来 - Can we help you? - I came from Thomas Edison.
他要我每一哩买一台发电机 He wants me to buy one generator per mile.
然后我看到全球报说 And then I saw the piece in The Globe that says
你的电会比爱迪生的省6成6 your electricity would save 66 percent on Edison's.
是计划省下这麽多 Well, it's a proposed saving.
而且不是“我的电” 电就是电 And it's not "my electricity."It's "electricity."
我认为对哥伦布的纳税人来说 I think it makes much more sense for the taxpayers of Columbus
采用西屋电气合理多了 to go with Westinghouse Electric.
我不想竞争，我只想授权我的系统 I don't want to compete. I only intend to license my system.
他的灯泡比较好 为何不竞争？ - He's got the better bulbs. - Why not compete?
他已经知道了，我保证爱迪生知道 By now he knows. Edison knows, I promise you.
那个人不在乎做对，只在乎做到 The man doesn't care about getting it right, just about getting it.
但他没有回覆 But he doesn't respond.
威斯汀豪斯不会有完整的系统 Look, Westinghouse will never have a complete system.
他连缝纫机都发动不了 我能解决这个问题 - He can't even power a sewing machine. - But I can solve that problem.
不像过去改变电流来使用整流子 Instead of again converting the currents to work with a commutator,
我会用两个或更多电源电路 I would pass alternating current differing in phase
分相位传送交流电 through two or more energizing circuits.
你应该去改良直流电动机的整流子 You're supposed to be working on commutators with DC dynamos.
我有啊 Well, I have.
你要求的事我都做到了 但你正在犯错 Look, I have done everything you have asked, but you are making a mistake.
-什麽？ 城市或许适用直流电 - What? - Direct current may be fine for cities
因为建筑物密集，但贵国大多地处空旷 when the buildings are close together, but most of your country is empty spaces.
只有高压电能跨越距离，你没有做长期思考 Only high voltage can span the distance. You are not thinking long-term.
这个技术伸手可及，我可以帮你做个高效马达 This technology is within your grasp. I can build you an efficient motor.
你试过了吗？ Have you tried it?
没有 No.
在我脑海中已经几乎成形 Look, in my head, it is nearly completed.
很多人都声称自己文思泉涌 Men claim to have heads full of sonnets and symphonies,
唯一的问题是写不出来 but their only problem seems to be they can't quite write it down.
让我试试看 -不行因为我不能重来 - Let me try. - No, because I can't start again!
密西根来了订单，记者都在等我 I got orders from Michigan. I got a roomful of press waiting for me.
做你该做的事 Do what you were hired to do.
所以你不会遵守承诺罗？ So, you will not honor your word about the remuneration?
你在说什麽？ -你说5万元 - What are you talking about? - Well, you said $50,000.
你对我的贡献不满意吗？ 我才不会付你5万 - Are you unhappy with my contributions? - I'm not paying you $50,000.
那是玩笑话 That was a joke.
椰子纤维、角屑、钓鱼线 Coconut fibers and horn shavings, and fishing lines
软木、赛璐珞、亚麻 and cork and celluloid and flax
白金、铁、镍、铜、钢 and platinum, iron, nickel, copper, steel.
我们四处搜寻了很多年 We scoured the earth, years and years,
试了成千上万种组合 trying thousands, 10,000 different combinations.
乔治威斯汀豪斯看到我的做法，就戴上了海盗帽 Then George Westinghouse saw how I did it and put on a pirate hat.
每一行都有秃鹰 You get vultures in every venture,
绝不能让他们靠近 but you've just got to keep them away.
所以就是这麽回事 制图师会在地图里放入错误 - So this is just how it works? - Map-makers include mistakes in their work
来防抄袭 to see if anyone else is copying them.
但我不能虚构街道来欺骗全世界 I don't have that luxury. I can't invent streets to lead the world down.
否则我们都会落入黑暗 Otherwise we all end up in the dark.
总之要记住他是怎麽侵权的 Good, and remember, write as much as you can about how he's infringing.
谢谢你，也谢谢你的礼物 Thank you, Mr. Edison, and thanks for this.
我有提到他的系统会致命吗？ Did I mention that his system's lethal?
要是伸手去碰 You reach out and touch
门把或扶手你就会变成电路 a doorknob or a rail, and, well, you become the circuit.
这一点是说… Just to be clear on that point...
你会死 Well, you die.
用直流电，你可以接触到任何东西 With DC current, you can reach out and touch anything
在任何阶段都要徒手 at any stage of the line with your bare hands.
安全、有效，而且冠名爱迪生，所以美观 It's safe. It works. And it bears the name of Edison, so it's pretty.
近来政府一直想要我发明武器 Our government has been trying for some time now to get me to invent a weapon,
但我不会用这个脑袋发明害人的东西 but I won't use this brain to invent anything that hurts people.
你们想要可以去匹兹堡找 For that, you can shop in Pittsburgh.
你是说威斯汀豪斯想害人？ So you say Westinghouse wants to hurt people?
不，我不能这麽说 但你可以说 No. I can't say that. But you can.
（天才指豪绅不老实）
这就是他对你的看法 This is what he thinks of you.
今天就发声明给报纸，驳斥他的指控 Issue a statement to the papers today. Refute his charges.
我不要搅和这件事 I'm not going to engage with this.
我们的系统比较好，这点胜于雄辩 We have the better system. That speaks loudest.
西屋电气公司在9点15分成立了 Westinghouse Electric Company was founded at a quarter past 9:00.
你好，我是乔治威斯汀豪斯 我们有约吗？ Hello. I'm George Westinghouse. Do we have an appointment?
（北达科他州） North Dakota.
纽奥良 New Orleans.
（沃斯堡） Fort Worth.
（苏市） Sioux City.
想听好消息还是好消息？ You want the good news or the good news?
欢呼，孩子们，欢呼 ♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah ♪
（波特兰）
我们倾全力用灯泡里的东西去打他 We've been spending all our time trying to nab him
当我们应该看的时候，玻璃泡里有什么 on what's in the glass bubble when we should've been looking at
但我们应该看的是灯泡的另一头 螺旋底座 is the clear opposite end of the bulb, the corkscrew.
那是我的 -没错 - I own that. - That you do.
他要告你 He's suing you.
这是一场大官司 This is a massive lawsuit.
对方是爱迪生和摩根 This is Edison and Morgan.
我的建议是：你能想出什么办法吗 My advice: Is there any way that you can think of
螺旋底座以外的接头？ to beat gravity other than a corkscrew?
他们设计出一种阻断器来规避 Westinghouse designed a stopper to get around your corkscrew.
他们迟早会普及开来 It's only a matter of time before they're everywhere.
（拉雷多）
（南达科他州）
说真的，我很期待让锯木厂使用电力 To tell you the truth, I am mostly looking forward to using it at the lumber mills.
目前我们只提供电灯 Well, at the moment, we offer only light.
将来会发展到电动机具和设备上 In time, we'll move on to motorized tools and appliances.
什麽时候？我管它电灯多少钱 When? I don't care what light costs.
我家用天然气，我要的是生产力。 我不懂 My home's on gas. I'm after productivity. I don't understand.
爱迪生说工厂可以用电力了 Edison said that electricity can already be used in factories.
他的可以 Well, his can.
（西雅图）
我要看车针动起来 I need to see this needle move.
我一降电压，机器就会爆掉 I can't step the voltage down without blowing the whole thing to pieces.
快点，你一定有所进展 Come on. You must've made some progress.
目前还不行 It's just not ready.
快关掉 Kill it. Kill it!
一定有解决之道 There has to be a solution out there.
（纽约市，1887年）
尼古拉特斯拉电灯公司， 听起来怎样？ The Nikola Tesla Electric Light Company. How does that sound?
什麽时候能生产弧光灯？弧光灯？ - When can you bring arcs to production? - Arc lighting?
说好要抢攻白炽灯、马达和市占率 I believe we agreed to compete for incandescents, motors and distribution.
那个让爱迪生去做 Leave that to Edison.
我在研发更先进的方法超越他 I am working on advanced methods to surpass him.
打败爱迪生？多快？ 只要几年 - To beat Edison? How soon? - Only a few years.
我需要实验室、工程师、材料供应 I need a lab, engineers, supplies.
当然也会有开销 There are, of course, expenses.
你哪来的钱买那身丝绸西装？ Oh, where do you get the cash for those fancy silks?
我的收入随便我花 How I spend my income is my concern.
听着，特斯拉先生，如果你现在需要现金，你应该把你的专利卖给我们。 Look, Mr. Tesla, if you need cash now, you should sell us your patents.
我会收到什麽？ And what would I receive?
股票 Stock.
之后你如果成功，就可以卖掉赚一票 And later, if you succeed, you can sell it for a killing.
意思就是赚大钱 That means a fortune.
我知道什麽是惯用语 我们负担三分之二风险 - Yes, I know what an idiom is. - We'll take on two-thirds of the risk.
你只有专利可卖，这可是好价钱 It's a good price for the only thing you have to sell.
脑充血？这是什麽意思？ Congestion of the brain? What does that even mean?
她的脑袋里有个肿瘤 There's a... an occlusion hidden,
而且在扩大 and it expands.
她会先失去视力 Her eyesight will likely go first,
然后她再无法言语 and then her vocabulary will fall away.
我不能失去她 I can't lose her.
我在研发凸字印刷，我帮她做个字典 Working on a raised alphabet, I'll make her a dictionary.
她会逐渐失去行动力 She'll gradually lose her mobility.
我帮她盖电梯 I'll build her an elevator.
爱迪生先生 Mr. Edison,
尊夫人需要的 what your wife needs...
没有人打造得出来 no man can build.
你明明说我老婆 What my wife needs, according to you,
需要的只是一副眼镜 is a simple pair of spectacles.
一切只能听天由命了 Nature will take its course.
我… I, uh...
我今晚得去纽约 I have to leave for New York tonight.
不能不去 It can't be avoided.
你不在时我会照顾她，不过… I will attend to her while you're away, but...
不要拖太久 don't linger.
俄亥俄州要采用西屋电气 Ohio is going with Westinghouse.
哥伦布，曾斯维尔 曾斯维尔？给他 - Columbus. Zanesville. - Zanesville? Give it to him.
并不好笑 That isn't funny.
是不是成定局要发生了才知道 We don't know something is a pattern till it happens again,
我希望不会 which I sincerely hope it does not.
告诉我，他做对什麽、你做错什麽？ Now, you tell me, what is he doing right that you're doing wrong?
他成功卖出会造成死亡的机器 He is successfully selling machines that will result in the accidental deaths of human beings.
死人在哪里？ - And where are these deaths? - Where are these deaths?
你现在换系统就等着背杀人罪 Why don't we switch now,and then you get to shoulder the inevitable suits of manslaughter.
我觉得没有人死，是因为它没有你想的那麽危险 I think that people aren't dying because it's not as dangerous as you wish it were.
他的成本赢我们，但只是暂时的优势 All right, he's beating us on costs, but that is a temporary advantage.
给我时间，我会让我们的电便宜到 You give me enough time, I'll make ours so cheap
有钱人才会点蜡烛玩 that only the rich will burn candles.
各城镇会先选西屋，我不是银行 And until then, you bleed cities to Westinghouse. I'm not a bank.
你就是银行 That is exactly what you are.
这种事通电话就好，何必浪费时间 We could've had this conversation by telephone instead of you wasting my time.
我想见的人就要来，面对面谈才对 When I want to see someone, he comes. Eye to eye. That's how it works.
不，这样才对 No. Here's how it works.
我创造奇蹟，你继续提供源源不绝的资金 I build miracles, and you continue to give me as much goddamn money as I want.
我又败掉一座城镇了吗？ Oh, what? Did I squander another town?
好啦，我失去什麽了？ All right, what did I lose?
（我…）
（我爱…）
（我爱你）
说话 Say something.
你能录音保证帮我搭围篱吗？ Can I get you to promise on here that you'll build me a fence?
地上结冰了，要等融冰 Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw.
快来看，要跑走了 Look! You're missing it!
说话 Say something.
你能录音保证帮我搭围篱吗？ Can I get you to promise on here that you'll build me a fence?
地上结冰了，要等融冰 Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw.
快来看，要跑走了 Look! You're missing it!
（芝加哥要举办世界博览会） （电力将点亮会场）
不行，要照协议研发我的马达 No. Now we move on to my motor, as agreed--
听着，我们不…我们不要什麽马达 Look, we don't-- we don't want any of that.
你的弧光灯卖不出去 The arcs you built aren't selling anymore.
我们无法跟爱迪生或威斯汀豪斯竞争 We can't compete with Edison and Westinghouse!
那我就带走我的专利，祝两位倒大楣 Then I will take my patents and wish you both a great misfortune.
你的专利？ 对，我的专利 - Your patents? - Yes. My patents.
先生，需要什麽吗？ Can I get you anything, sir?
时光机器 A time machine.
要是找到，我会回到这一刻交给你 Well, if I ever find one, I'll travel back to this moment and give it to you.
你看过提案了吗？ Did you read over the proposal?
我才不拿仅剩的资源去照亮游乐会 I'm not diverting what I've got left of my resources in lighting up a fair.
那不只是游乐会 It's much more than a fair, sir. A third of this country
全国三分之一的人都会去芝加哥见证…一座光之城市 will get on trains to Chicago to try and see this City of Light.
每扇窗户、每盏街灯
每一扇窗户，每盏路灯，一块牌子上写着 Every window, every streetlamp, a sign that says,
“比赛结束了，我们赢了。” "The race is over, and we won."
何必拿仅剩的钱跑遍全国展示电力 Why spend your final dollars traveling this country to show everyone your electricity when they're all
反正他们都会去同一个地方看 traveling to the same place to try to see it anyway?
因为一年后就会拆掉 Because in a year, they'll rip it down.
在3千万人看过后，是的 Only after 30 million people have seen it, yes.
威斯汀豪斯要去投标 Westinghouse is placing a bid.
好帽子，看起来很贵 Nice hat. Looks expensive.
替你工作前就有了，爱迪生先生 I owned this before I worked for you, Mr. Edison.
你没在工作吧，他还在用我的灯泡 I don't think you are working for me. He's still using my bulbs.
他的专利权没问题 His patents are in order.
你要我的建议？ Do you want my advice?
你一直说威斯汀豪斯的电流会电死人 You keep saying Westinghouse's current will kill people,
与其等证据，你何不提供？ so in lieu of evidence, why don't you provide it?
这麽做是因为…等我们的系统完成一定会管用 We're doing this because when we have a complete system,
而且会冠名爱迪生 it works, and it's Edison.
可怜的东西 Poor bastard.
反正它也要被屠宰了，它不会痛苦对吧？ Well, he was gonna be slaughtered anyway. He's not going to feel any pain, right?
3千伏特高压电，瞬间结束 At 3,000 volts, it'll be over before it begins.
所以不必担心 So there's nothing to worry about?
但他们是记者，你要打起精神来 But these are reporters, so you might want to liven up a little bit.
欢迎来到门洛帕克 Welcome to Menlo Park.
早上很冷，感谢大家前来 Thank you for coming out on this cold morning.
很高兴又见面了 -早安 - Good to see you again. - Good morning.
索斯维克布朗 -幸会 - I'm Southwick Brown. - A pleasure.
大家往后退一点 Now you, uh, you might all want to stand back a little bit.
贾斯身上接了威斯汀豪斯制造的电流 Gus is being connected to the same current that Westinghouse uses from his generator.
但目前还没创造出电击死的专用词 But there's no word yet coined to define death by electricity,
我请教字典编辑，得到的回答 so I asked the men who write the dictionaries, and I heard back
有电毙、电火化、电葬 "electro-dite," "electro-cremate" and "dyna-mort."
就像新式断头台以发明者吉约丹为名 But just as Joe Guillotine got his name on his invention,
我们怎能剥夺电击死发明者 how could we rob the rightful inventor of death by electricity
应得的荣耀 of his due credit?
请各位以恭敬的心看我们“威斯汀豪斯”这匹马 I ask you to please be respectful as we Westinghouse this horse.
（危险）
爱迪生先生，索斯维克布朗，极刑委员会 Mr. Edison, Southwick Brown, Capital Punishment Commission.
你一定读过东北部的绞刑问题 You've read, no doubt, of the botched hangings throughout the Northeast.
（纽约州，水牛城） 死刑犯不是窒息而死 The prisoners either choke to death...
就是残暴地断头 ...or are violently decapitated.
那个景象很不人道 The spectacle is inhumane.
但是那匹马死得那麽平静，简直称得上… But the horse-- his death was so calm, you could call it...
诗意 poetic.
纽约州长在我个人推荐下 The governor of New York, upon my personal recommendation,
想研发用电的死刑刑具 would like to explore a death device which uses electricity on a human being.
将合约交托给你将是我们的荣幸 It would be our honor to award you the contract.
如果没别的事，幸会了 你说什麽？ - If nothing else, a pleasure. - I beg your pardon?
以正义伪装杀人之实很荒唐 To kill a human being under the guise of justice is-- is cockeyed.
马和人有很大的差别 There's a big difference between a horse and a person.
上帝慈悲的将我们带来人世 God humanely brings us into this world.
你为何要拒绝首开先河… Why would you reject the opportunity to be the first man
让我们以人道的方式死去？ to humanely take us out of it?
（死亡电流）
（以电行刑必将成功）
（爱迪生实验室的动物实验）
威廉 William.
我杀了我老婆 I killed my wife.
（威廉凯姆勒将第一个接受电刑）
我正在转动把手 I'm turning the handle.
也许还有别的步骤 Maybe there's more to it than that.
要是搞错，你就不会知道我在乱玩 If I'm doing it wrong, you'll never know I was fooling around
你的留声机或唱机 with your phonograph or gramophone,
不管你最后叫它什麽 whatever you end up calling it.
这到底是什麽东西？ And what is this thing really?
今天的玛丽在对明天的汤姆说话 Today's Mary is speaking to tomorrow's Thomas.
或者像你说的 Or from where you sit,
今天的汤姆在听昨天的玛丽说话 today's Tom is listening to yesterday's Mary.
不知道还有什麽功能 I wonder what else you can do with it.
特斯拉先生 Mr. Tesla,
我儿子和他的白痴朋友说你不想做弧光灯了 my son and his idiot friend tell me you don't want to make arc lights anymore.
真的吗？ Is that true?
别看他，看我，我是主要股东 Don't look at him, look at me. I'm your primary shareholder.
不是，我已经完成弧光灯计画 No. I already completed the arc light project.
完成？你只做了一个城市，纽泽西州的罗韦 Completed? You covered one city: Rahway, New Jersey.
真是的，目标大一点，像是费城 For the love of God, think bigger. Philadelphia.
为城市设计弧光灯是你唯一的工作 You design arc lights to outfit cities. That was your only job.
不对，我的交流电马达 我们说好… No. My AC motor. Okay? We agreed--
-我从来没答应什麽 你在这个办公室里说… - No, I never agreed to anything. - In this office, you said--
Uh!
蓝恩，你出去等一下 Lane, could you wait outside for a moment?
抱歉，你不知道你要被开除了吗？ I'm sorry. Don't you realize you're being fired here?
不…拜托让我完成我的构想 No. Please, let me work through what I have in my head.
我会让你成为全世界最大的电力公司 I will make you the greatest provider of electrical power in the world.
比爱迪生更棒 Better than Edison.
我快完成了，只差几个月 I'm-I'm so close. Just a few months.
你就像从外星球降临一样 You drop in here like you're from Neptune,
仿佛对未来很有远见 like you got a great vision of the future
只有你自己懂 -请不要乱碰 - that no one understands but you. - No, please don't touch.
你只是个移民 But you're just an immigrant.
满脑子想法，想找人施舍，你不是爱迪生 Head full of notions, looking for a handout. You're not Edison.
爱迪生只有一个，所以他才红，你这种人满地都是 There's only one Edison. That's why he's in. There's millions of you.
好高骛远，看不见推动世事的真正力量 Big ideas, but you can't see the real force that moves things.
不是直流交流，不是电流 And it's not AC/DC, it's not currents.
而是金流 It's currency.
那是我唯一感兴趣的动力 And that's the only motor I'm interested in.
这些专利属于特斯拉电灯公司 These patents belong to the Tesla Electric Light Company.
现在是联合电气制造公司 This is now the Union Electric and Manufacturing Company,
我拥有这里的一切 and I own everything in this office.
专利、设计、工程师，都是我的 Patents, designs, engineers, all mine.
不会再有东西冠名特斯拉 Never going to be anything named Tesla ever again.
带着你的想法滚回家吧 You take your notions and go back where you came from.
他不断攻城掠地 He's snapping up town after town.
猫、狗、绵羊、11匹马 大家还需要看到什麽？ Cats, dogs, sheep, 11 horses- - What more do people need to see?
但没有人真的被交流电电死 The problem is, no one's actually dying from alternating,
除了你的猫狗羊和11匹马 apart from your cats, dogs, sheep and 11 horses.
先生，我知道我只是秘书 有话直说 - Sir, I realize I'm only your secretary-- - Just say it.
发售留声机，你可以自己赚钱 Bring the phonograph to market. You can make your own money.
还需要多加改进 那就改进，先生 - No, it needs too many improvements. - Make them. sir.
贝尔在剽窃你了 -声留机？他只是把名字颠倒 - Bell is ripping you off. - Graphophone? He just switched the name.
请问哪一家店能买到你的？那我就放过他 Direct me to a store where I can buy yours, and I won't give him the business.
有人提出很丰厚的合约 You have a real offer on the table here.
50万元 收下吧，你需要这笔钱 Half a million dollars. Sir, take the money. You need it.
贝尔剽窃过你的电话 If Bell ripped you off with the telephone,
就会再剽窃你的“声留机” he'll do it again with the graphophone.
你是不是故意说错？ Did you just misspeak intentionally?
你想拿下芝加哥吗？ Do you want Chicago?
（1890年） 准备好了 All right, I'm ready.
（爱迪生留声机）
一球1元？ A dollar a ball?
你是做什麽的？ So, what's your trade?
发明家专替白痴解决问题 Inventor. I fix problems for idiots.
想像不需要速记员的口述 Imagine dictation without the aid of a stenographer.
为盲人朗读的留声书 Phonographic books that will speak to blind people.
音乐的重现、会说话的玩具 Reproduction of music. Talking toys.
会报时的时钟 Clocks that will announce the time.
频临灭亡语言的保存 The preservation of dying languages.
演讲技巧指导 Teaching of elocution.
你耍诈 对…没有 - You hustled us. - Yes. No.
我不是大老远来输的 I didn't come all this way to lose.
捕捉心爱之人最后的遗言 The final capturing of the dying words of your loved ones.
玛丽有只小小羊，毛色白如雪 Mary had a little lamb, his fleece was white as snow,
无论玛丽到哪里，小羊紧跟随 and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
要不是不可能，就是我没有我想的厉害 Well, it's either not possible, or I'm not the engineer I thought I was.
他跑遍全国，把猫电焦 And he's traveling around the country, cooking up cats.
乔治，他玩脏的，你也可以 George, he's playing dirty. You can too.
Mm.
你知道吗，我小时候，我父亲... You know, when I was a boy, my father...
拿了一根树枝要打我 tried to whip me with a branch.
才打一下，树枝就断成３截 But after the first hit, it broke into three little pieces.
我们看着地上碎裂的枝条 And we just stood there, looking at this shattered stick on the ground.
然后我发现墙上挂了一条皮鞭 And then I noticed there was a leather strap hanging on the wall,
我就指着皮鞭说 so I pointed to it and said,
“你看，那个比较好” "Look. That's the better one."
结果他就不打了 And he stopped.
我挨得了揍，但我无法忍受工艺不精 I can take a beating, but I have no patience for shoddy craftsmanship.
你在芝加哥的展示将会有一台马达 You are gonna have a working motor sitting next to your display in Chicago
我会和门洛帕克的奇才一起排除万难 come hell, high water, or the Wizard of Menlo Park.
晚安了朋友 -晚安 - Good night, Frank. - Good night.
（法兰克林雷诺波普意外被电死）
你承认爱迪生说得对吗？ So you admit Edison was right?
我们会记得法兰克林波普 We will remember Franklin Pope...
他无畏的奉献推动我们向前 for his fearless dedication to moving us forward.
他总是努力去突破盲点，挑战… He tried to see what was hiding in plain sight.
今天我… Today, I am...
不但沉痛，更是愤怒 filled less with grief than anger,
因为这件事完全可以避免 because what happened could've been avoided.
接下来的话，你们都听清楚了 Hear me now as you have never heard me before.
在我有生之年 As I breathe...
只要威斯汀豪斯还在业界 as long as Westinghouse stays in business...
就会有更多人丧命 more people will die.
（使用交流电必死无疑）
请节哀 My condolences.
听来他不只是一名员工 Sounds like he was more than just an employee.
他叫什麽，法兰克林波普多？ What was his name? Franklin Popes?
只有波普 Pope. Just one.
-真可惜。 -嗯。 - It's a shame. - Mm.
不过我是来帮忙的 But I'm here to help.
我知道你… Now, I know that you, uh,
希望爱迪生闭嘴 you wish Edison to quiet down.
让我合并你们的公司，收拾残局 So let me combine your companies. Let me clean up the mess.
你真的认为西屋电气值5百万？ You really think Westinghouse Electric is worth $5 million?
出的高价就是代表了价值 The value of something is the highest number someone else is willing to pay.
但有8百人会丢了生计 But 800 men will lose their livelihoods.
我会留下你的员工 I will keep your workers.
但不保证原来的周休2日 I will not make the same promise for your five-day work week.
Mm.
看来你愿意接受 Seems like you're amenable.
Mm.
（爱迪生电灯公司）
你会用什麽电流？ Which current will you use?
看爱迪生的选择吧 Whichever Edison selects, I suppose.
荒谬 Absurdity.
你觉得我荒谬 You think I'm being absurd?
没错 Yes, I do.
我们扩张过度了，玛格丽特 We're overextended, Marguerite.
卖掉并不丢脸 There's no shame in selling.
我一直追求跟爱迪生合作 What I was always after was to partner with Edison...
现在终于有机会了 and I have the chance to do that now.
我们没有马达就是个无解的困境，办不到的 We have no motor, so we're a train into a mountainside anyway. It's impossible.
我以为你的字典里没有“办不到” I thought "impossible" wasn't a word in your vocabulary.
我要把西屋电气拆伙 I am dissolving Westinghouse Electric.
这麽做能保住其他摇摇欲坠的公司 The proceeds will go to preserve our other failing enterprises,
时间会改正爱迪生的错误 and time itself will mend Edison's mistakes.
你不是随波逐流、改变航程的船长 You are not a captain who changes his course with the sea.
我们又不在航程上 We are not on a course!
我们快溺死了 We're drowning!
这整件事让我们损失一大笔钱 This whole thing is costing us a fortune!
你又不在乎钱 一大笔钱 - You don't care about money. - A fortune!
当初你跑业务，我寄住你父母家 I lived in your parents' house while you went door-to-door.
你想被世人冠上莫虚有的恶名吗？ Do you want people saying you stand for everything you don't?
拿你的姓当动词？ Using your last name as a verb?
你建议我该怎麽纠正这一点？ Well, how exactly do you suggest I correct that, dear?
我有你，我有法兰克 I have you, and I had Frank.
没错 That's it.
我爱那个家伙 I loved the man.
这是个明理的商业决定 This is really nothing but a sensible business decision.
乔治 -就这样 - George... - That's all.
就这样了 That's all.
随你怎麽批评乔治威斯汀豪斯，但他绝对是好人 Say what you will about George Westinghouse, he sure is nice.
你进入美利监邦联的领土了 You've crossed into territory for the Confederacy.
不，你应该搞错了 No, I, uh, I think you're mistaken.
根据我的地图… According to my map here...
尽管为失去同僚而哀痛，进步不能被不幸打倒 Though I mourn the loss of my colleague, misfortune does not trump progress.
（爱迪生电灯公司）
爱迪生在每样东西刻上名字 Now, it seems to me that Mr. Edison puts his name on everything
因为他恐惧被遗忘 because he's terrified of being forgotten.
想被记住，简单，刺杀总统就好 If you want to be remembered, it's simple: shoot a president.
但如果想留下对后世的影响 But if you prefer to have what I call a legacy,
就让世界变得比原先更好 you leave the world a better place than you found it.
汤玛斯阿尔瓦爱迪生是个江湖术士 Thomas Alva Edison is a charlatan
利用平民老百姓的恐惧 who preys on the fears of the common man
因为我的系统比较好 because I have the better system.
就因为我的系统比较好，西屋电气将不会倒下 And because I do have the better system, Westinghouse Electric shall endure.
祝福大家 Good day.
威斯汀豪斯宣示主权了，他不会放弃 Westinghouse has taken the lead. He's not going away.
而我虽然欣赏你的灯，我也是你的客户 And while I appreciate your lights, Mr. Edison, I'm also your customer.
要是有我需要的东西上门 If something comes to my door and offers me something that I need
比我现有的东西好又便宜 that is better than what I have now, at a cheaper price,
我不请他进门就是傻瓜 why, I'd be a fool not to invite him in for tea.
这是最后通牒吗 -应该算威胁 - Is this an ultimatum? - More of a threat.
你如果仍坚持主打恐惧 If you maintain that fear is the best strategy,
那你最好加紧努力 then you'd better hurry up and try harder.
时间到了 Time's up.
……又帅又聪明的男人 ...man who was handsome and clever
…做了个有曲柄和杠杆的盒子 built a box with a crank and a lever
来储存他老婆的声音，不过这个选择很不智 to store his wife's voice, though he made a poor choice,
因为以后她就能永远取笑他 because now she can tease him forever.
我就算想阻止也没办法 I couldn't stop it if I wanted to,
我也不想 which I don't,
我认为这是一份了不起的赐礼 because I-- I think it's a remarkable gift.
水牛城那个人将会被电死 Electricity will kill that man in Buffalo.
我们不知道电压要多高 We don't know the voltage.
太高他会烧起来，太低又死不了 Too much, and he ignites. Too little, and he's still alive.
我们只缺你的建议 All we need is your advice.
多少才人道？电极要安在哪里？ How much is humane? Where to put the electrode?
做为交换我将答应一件你想要的事 And in exchange, I will promise you something that I know you want.
做为正式用来杀人的电流 I will put the Westinghouse name right out front
我会把威斯汀豪斯的名字摆出来 as the official electricity used to kill human beings.
甚至可以把电椅送去世博展览 I even think we can get this chair on display at the Chicago World's Fair.
这是未来 The future.
我的名字不能被牵连进去 My name must never be associated with this.
我没有提供任何谘询 I did not provide any consultation, and you will advertise
你要宣传西屋是最佳杀人手段 that Westinghouse is the best way to take a human life.
你保证提供协助？ You guarantee your assistance?
你问问题，我会回答 You ask a question, and I'll reply.
信要烧掉 Burn the correspondence.
那当然 Absolutely.
安乐椅和蓝色扶手椅 Fauteuils and blue painted bergere.
上星期就卖掉三组 I sold three sets of these last week alone.
这是经典圆木条靠背椅 Oh, uh, this is your classic spindle back.
这是木框靠背椅 Oh, yes. And these are framed cockpen.
很受欢迎 Quite popular.
要正襟危坐啊 Oh, deportment style.
你要4张、6张、8张还是12张 Would you like four, six, eight, 12?
一张就好 Just one.
布朗先生，整个装置包括一个固定引擎 Mr. Brown, the apparatus consists of a stationary engine,
能产生3千伏特高压电的西屋电动机 a Westinghouse alternating dynamo capable of generating 3,000 volts
有靠头的木椅，绑人的皮带和可调整的电极 wood chair with headrest, binding straps and adjustable electrodes.
烧掉，TAE（注：爱迪生全名缩写） Burn. TAE.
电压计、电流计和控制电流的配电盘 The voltmeter, ammeter and switchboard controlling the current
应放置在行刑室以供监测 should be located in the execution room for monitoring.
烧掉，TAE Burn. TAE.
发动机室以电子讯号传讯 The dynamo room is communicated by electric signals. Burn. TAE.
最有效的机器由西屋制造，烧掉，TAE The most effective machines manufactured by Westinghouse... Burn. TAE.
费用上…核定款项3600元，你的努力… I authorize payment of $3,600 for your efforts.
烧掉，TAE Burn. TAE.
唯一可以反对“西屋电气”的论点 The only argument which can be urged against "Westinghousing"
能指称这是残酷刑罚并加以反对 on the score of cruel punishment is that
就是电极接触点可能会烧焦 the flesh may burn at the points of contact,
以及在不切断电源的情况下，电流的大小 and the amount of current which can be given without such mutilation
还不知道 is not yet known.
烧掉，TAE Burn. TAE.
（西屋电气制造公司，终结残酷）
对想竞标世博会的人来说 For someone who's trying to compete for the World's Fair,
这个死亡陷阱可不妙 this death-trap business doesn't look good.
我知道，不就是爱迪生又想污蔑我 Yeah, I know. It's just Edison trying to smear me, as usual.
你能证明吗？ -不能 - Can you prove it? - No.
但我在想，也许我能阻止 But I was thinking maybe I could stop it.
你是指我 You mean me?
如果你要我建议，不要雇请我，把钱省下来 You want my advice? Don't hire me. Save your money.
但我认识一个人，能决定爱迪生是否与那张死刑椅有关 But I do know a man who could determine whether Edison has an exploitable connection with the death chair.
我是想以法律手段阻止他 No, I was thinking we could stop him via legal means.
你要我把爱迪生告上法庭？ 不 - You want me to put Edison on trial? - No.
是椅子本身，宪法第八修正案 The chair itself. The Eighth Amendment.
所以我要找个杀人犯 So I'm to get an ax murderer
他坦承他杀了他的妻子 who readily admits he slaughtered his wife
争取…高院认可吗？ a what-- a sustainment?
这是要展现爱迪生的真面目 This is about showing,what kind of a man is Thomas Edison?
不要牵扯到我的名字 You just keep my name out of it.
尊夫人知道你要花这笔钱吗？ Does your wife know you're paying for this?
这是她的主意 It was her idea.
（凯姆勒案）
（发明家爱迪生将出庭作证）
电刑为什麽不残忍？有比较人道？ What precisely makes electricity not cruel and not inhumane?
电流的速度之快 The velocity of the current is so great
大脑会瞬间瘫痪 that the brain is instantaneously paralyzed.
被电死了 The subject is dead
神经才开始传导惊吓 before the nerves can communicate any shock.
你又没证据怎麽知道？ How can you know if you haven't proof?
我用伦敦动物园的大猩猩测试过 I tested it...on a gorilla from London Zoo.
这和现有的电灯公司有关联吗？ Are you connected in any way with any of the electric lighting companies?
没有 No, sir.
检方传汤玛斯阿尔瓦爱迪生 The State calls Thomas Alva Edison.
请说明一下 Will you explain generally
你的直流电 the difference between your continuous current
和威斯汀豪斯先生的交流电的不同 and Mr. Westinghouse's alternating electricity?
直流电就像水流过管线 A continuous current flows like water through a pipe,
交流电则是双向流动 and alternating current flows in both directions.
水，听起来不危险嘛 Water. That doesn't sound so dangerous.
直到你溺水 Not until you drown.
为什麽不用威斯汀豪斯先生的电流 Why don't you use Mr. Westinghouse's current?
我不喜欢 -你觉得它危险 - I don't like it. - You think it's dangerous.
-是的 Yes, I do.
要是拿这个 Suppose you took this...
邪恶的西屋电流 wicked Westinghouse current...
用在凯姆勒先生身上 the one that is going to be used on Mr. Kemmler here...
通电个5、6分钟 now, suppose you kept it up for five or six minutes.
电压1500伏特 At 1,500 volts,
他多久会开始感受到热度？ how long would it take before he would feel the heat?
体温会比正常升高 Well, the temperature might rise
比正常值高出四、五度 four or five degrees above normal
并持续升高，直到他变木乃伊 and continue until he was mummified.
而这样不会令他痛苦不堪？ And this wouldn't cause considerable pain?
不会的 你怎麽知道？ - It would not. - How do you know?
因为我亲自观察到了这种电流 Because I personally observed such electricity
用来处死一匹重达一千磅的马 being used to execute a thousand-pound horse.
马有感到痛苦吗？ 如果有，它也没提 - And did the horse feel pain? - If he did, he didn't mention it.
爱迪生先生，你和威斯汀豪斯先生 Now, Mr. Edison, there is a great degree of feeling
彼此间有心结？ between you and Mr. Westinghouse.
我没有不喜欢威斯汀豪斯先生 I do not dislike Mr. Westinghouse.
你们两人在竞争，不是吗？ There is a contest between you two, isn't there?
那不是重点 That is not what this is about.
我身为不带感情的科学家 I've been asked as a dispassionate scientist
被找来回答用电行刑的问题 to advise on the simple question of whether death by electricity
是否触犯第八修正案说的残酷逾常 is a violation of the Eighth Amendment and is cruel and unusual.
我的专家看法是，唯一人道的死刑 In my expert opinion, the only humane method of execution
就是西屋交流电 is Westinghouse alternating current.
法官大人，证人知道超过30安培的… Your Honor, Mr. Edison knows that any current over 30 amperes--
是毫安培 要打断别人，至少要讲对 Milliamperes. If you're gonna interrupt, do so in the proper denominations.
多谢法官大人 Oh, thank you, Your Honor.
我的荣幸 It's my honor.
好了，听到这里就够了 All right, that's all I need to hear.
你们两个小鬼想干嘛？ What do you two lowlifes want, huh?
爱迪生先生 Mr. Edison. Mr. Edison.
-怎样？ Huh?
现在看-- Now look--
我以为你会在我有机会之前离开 I thought you were gonna leave before I had a chance.
爱迪生先生，可以帮我签名吗？ 当然 - Mr. Edison, can I get your autograph? - Uh, yeah, sure, I--
威廉，麻烦一下 William, do you mind?
警告你一声，有个东西永远能压倒正义 I should warn you, there's one thing that always beats justice.
金钱？ Money?
名气 Fame.
那是新款陆军左轮枪吗？ Oh, is that a New Model Army revolver?
真是一把好枪 What a lovely machine that is.
你知道它的原理吗？ 要我示范吗？ - Do you know how it works? - You want me to show you?
我不是指开枪，而是它怎麽运作 Oh, I didn't mean how it fires. I simply meant how it works.
那个装置很棒，你应该看看 It's quite a device. You should have a look.
它的弹膛设计 You see, they designed the cylinder so the hammer
让击锤不必留在空膛室里 doesn't have to sit in an empty chamber.
我可以亲自示范 So I could shoot you six times instead of five.
嗯，我想 Well, I suppose.
他们作证都说了谎 They both lied on the stand.
但你如果要开这一枪，现在就是最后时机 If you're gonna take your shot, now is the last time to fire.
有时必须违反规则来得到对的结果 Sometimes we have to work outside of the rules to get what's right.
要是不必那麽做就好了 It would be nice if we didn't have to.
可不是吗 Wouldn't it?
你并不会变得像他 - This doesn't make you like him. - Mm.
你怎麽决定？ So, what will it be?
（1891年）
我听力差的耳朵觉得很动听 In my bad ear, it sounded extraordinary.
爸 Father...
你好 Hello.
整个装置包括一个固定引擎 The apparatus consists of a stationary engine,
西屋交流发电机 a Westinghouse alternating dynamo
能产生3千伏特高压电的 capable of generating 3,000 volts.
带头枕的木椅 Wood chair with headrest.
你从哪里弄到的？ 我要寄给报纸 - Where did you get that? - I'm sending them to the paper.
那些信是偷来的。 不能刊出来 Those letters are stolen. You can't publish them.
为什麽不行？ 因为那是私人信件 - Why not? - Because they're private correspondences.
爱迪生先生，想评论我的公司 Mr. Edison, if you say something about me or my company again,
请你说真话 I would ask that you tell the truth.
做人要有格调 That would be the decent thing to do.
不是吗？ Wouldn't it?
（爱迪生幕后操盘交流电刑计画）
怎麽没把信烧掉？ 那可是汤玛斯爱迪生的来信 - Why didn't you burn the letters? - They were from Thomas Edison.
我觉得你不明白这把椅子是什么东西 I don't think you appreciate that this chair is something
值得你自豪并供人留念 to be proud of and remembered for.
我根本不知道要用多少电 I don't even know how much electricity you need to use.
你说1500伏特 我是说我认为 - You said 1,500 volts. - I said I think 1,500 volts.
但如果体内的水分蒸发光，他可能会烧起来 But if all the water in his body evaporates, then he may ignite.
那就降低电量 那就是慢慢把他烤死 - So we lower the amount. - Then you slowly roast him to death.
听着，你一定要听我说，你要做的事是错的 Listen. You must listen to me. What you're going to do is wrong.
你说这件事无可避免，别人也会去做 Now you said that it's inevitable and somebody else will do it.
但别人会去做不代表你要 But just because somebody else is gonna do it doesn't mean that you have to.
州政府感谢你的专业建议 The State thanks you for your expert opinion and your help.
怎样？ What?
我没资格多嘴 -快说 - It's not my place to say. - Say it.
你说你绝不会发明杀人器具 You said you'd never build a device that would kill anyone.
我创造奇蹟，结果被抢走 I make something impossible, and they rip it away from me,
于是我重新来过，结果又被抢走 so I do it again and they do it again.
一次、又一次 And again. And again.
这跟别的事不一样 This isn't like everything else.
这就是一切 This is everything else.
我们的未来不是用砖块铺设的，而是用铜线 Our future is not gonna be paved with bricks but with copper.
自动化、运输、通讯，掌控电流的人 Automation, transportation, communication, and the man that controls that current
就能掌控未来！ controls that future.
但你知道威斯汀豪斯是对的 But you know Westinghouse is right.
你并非真心相信 You don't actually believe that a few accidents
几场意外就能毁掉他的电流 rule out the viability of his current.
你只是不想输 -我只是凸显出 - You just don't want to lose. - I have merely amplified
没人认真看待的事 what no one else was willing to take seriously.
你是用一辆12吨重的火车去辗他 No, what you did was run him over with a 12-ton train.
他好好做煞车系统就好 Oh, well, he's the one that's supposed to only make brakes,
那么，这该怪谁呢？ so, who's to blame here?
今晚换系统，你还能赢 Switch tonight, and you win.
他的电流会杀死人 His current kills people.
那都是你说的 Only because you said it will!
我除非不再抱怨院子有秃鹰 Listen, I either stop complaining about the scavengers in my garden
否则只能筑一道高墙，让别人连爬都不敢爬 or build a wall so damn high that people will never even dare to scale it.
你是我认识最聪明的人 You are the smartest man I know.
除了凭空创造出奇蹟 Beyond building miracles out of thin air,
我最佩服你的原则 I was most impressed by your principles.
白炽灯不是你发明的，只是大家以为是你 You didn't invent the incandescent. People just think you did.
欢迎认清伟大发明诞生的现实 Let me welcome you to the reality of how things come into existence.
我们都有贡献，就是这样 We all contribute. That's what invention is.
盐巴、谷物、温度、用心 The salt. The grain. The heat. The heart.
但只有一个人让面包发起来 But only one man makes the bread rise.
这个人结合一切 That's the one that puts it all together
让这个面包美味到人们愿意 and makes it taste so damn good that people will go out there
付出辛苦赚的钱来买 and hand over their hard-won dollars to buy it.
爱迪生先生，我真的希望你成功 Mr. Edison, I want you to succeed. I do.
但你今晚必须变换系统，否则将沦为马戏团团长 But you have to switch tonight, or you'll die as PT Barnum
而非艾萨克牛顿爵士 rather than Sir Isaac Newton.
（哥伦比亚学院，1891年5月20日）
各位或许对他不熟悉 Though he may be unfamiliar to you,
但他的研究展现对电机的了解 his studies have demonstrated an understanding of electrical matters
算上在座各位，我也觉得前所未见 unlike anyone I have ever known, with respect to the assembled.
各位先生、女士，尼古拉特斯拉 Gentlemen and lady, Nikola Tesla.
直接切入重点 Straight to our ultimate question
能或不能 yes or no--
交流电能不能运转马达？ can alternating currents operate a motor?
能 Yes.
任何打造交流电力系统的人 Now anyone who builds an alternating system
都能做到爱迪生做的事，成本只要三分之一 will be able to do what Edison can for only a third of the cost.
我的多相系统如图二，电枢线圈 In figure two of my polyphase system, the armature coils
的位置比较前面 are shown in a more advanced position.
2A是对应的磁位 2-A illustrates the corresponding magnetic condition...
一台同步马达…线圈加上转子… Synchronous motor obtained by winding a laminated ring provided with pole projections...
这种电磁感应是理想的 The induction is of an ideal character,
可以永远维持最大活动 being always maintained at its maximum action.
特斯拉先生，你有做出这部马达来测试理论吗 Mr. Tesla, have you actually built the motor to test your theories?
这不是理论…没有，我没有 But they are not theories. No, I have not built it.
但这能证明你的看法 But that would prove your beliefs.
那不是信仰，对我来说绝对无关紧要 But they are not beliefs, and it is absolutely immaterial to me
不管我在脑子里或工厂里运转 whether I run the motor in my mind or in a shop,
我已经用想像完成它，非常完美 for I have built it already in my imagination, and it is perfect.
你是认真的吗？ 几乎永远都是 - Are you serious? - Almost always.
你好，我是乔治威斯汀豪斯 Hello. I'm George Westinghouse.
乔治威斯汀豪斯 - George Westinghouse? - Mm-hmm.
用压缩机压缩空气储存 An engine that compresses air into a tank
再用轫管送到每节车厢的煞车缸 which is taken via pipe to each brake on the train,
让它们能同步运作 allowing them to operate simultaneously.
聪明的设计 Smart design.
谢谢 Thank you.
请坐 Please.
我觉得整个房间倾斜了2度 I think this entire room is slanted two degrees.
非常感谢你抽出时间 I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to meet with me.
跟我见面…你要去哪里？ Are-Are you going somewhere?
Oh.
（电磁马达）
就是这个 那是尼加拉瀑布 - This is it? - It's Niagara Falls.
是 Yeah.
从学生时代起我就想像 And ever since my school days, I have pictured in my imagination
一个大轮子转出闪电 a big wheel spinning out lightning.
你知道我刚来这个国家时替爱迪生先生工作吗？ Did you know that when I first came to this country, I worked for Mr. Edison?
我不知道 喝茶？ - I did not. - Tea?
好啊 Sure.
我一晚修好他两台直流发电机 I fixed two of his DC generators in one night,
他说我是个“厉害角色” and he called me a damn good man.
那他为什麽要亏待我？ So, why did he not treat me that way?
我辞职，自己开公司结果被骗 I quit. Tried my own company and was deceived.
我是谁？一个移民 Who was I? Some immigrant.
我接下唯一能找到的工作：挖沟渠 So I took the only job I could find: digging a ditch.
大家笑我的贵重衣服，但一天下来，我赚到2元 The men laughed at my fine clothes, but at the end of the day, I had $2.
那个沟渠要做什麽用？ What was the ditch to be used for?
爱迪生电子 Edison Electric.
我仿佛在自掘坟墓 It felt like digging my own grave.
爱迪生先生如果成功，会让一切倒退到无法挽回 If Mr. Edison succeeds, he will set us back so far, we may never recover.
博览会一定要用交流电 The Fair must be alternating.
一定要用我的马达 It must be my motor.
全世界把芝加哥当成一个象征 I have watched as the world talks of Chicago as a symbol,
一座光之城市 a City of Light.
在你有生之年，所有城市都将有电灯 All cities will have light in your lifetime,
但是开发尼加拉瀑布的能量才能看见未来 but harnessing the power of Niagara, that is to see our future.
瀑布？我是来谈芝加哥的 The Falls? I'm here to talk about Chicago.
超越芝加哥 Think beyond Chicago.
能源是基本需求，像食物空气和水 Energy is as fundamental as food, as water, as air.
你不能说只有有钱的人才能吃饭或呼吸 You can-- You cannot say that only those with money can eat or can breathe.
是的，尼加拉瀑布将点亮东岸 Yes, the Falls will light up the Eastern Seaboard.
是的，当中有暴利可图，让我不免起了点渴望 Yes, there is a great fortune to be made, and I covet a very nice walking stick
我在63街和麦迪逊看到了，但尼亚加拉会证明能源与利益或许能切割 I saw on 63rd and Madison, but Niagara is the proof that one day we may detach power from profit.
那才是真正的胜利 - That is how you truly win. - Mm.
我怎麽知道你不会骗我？ 你不会知道 - How do I know you will not cheat me? - Well, you don't.
但事实就是，我需要你的马达 But the fact is, Mr. Tesla, I need your motor.
我或许能点亮博览会，但还是转动不了机器 I may be able to light up the Fair, but I still can't move a machine.
如果我们今天不能达成协议，我的公司就死定了 If we cannot reach an agreement today, my company will die
就在你的酒店房间里 right here in your hotel room.
但如果它真的消失了，你利用尼亚加拉大瀑布能量的梦想也会破灭 But if it does perish, so might your dream of harnessing power from Niagara.
所以，一言为定吗？ So, do we have a deal?
我要5千 Five thousand.
1千 One thousand.
Yeah.
我付你2.5元… I'll give you $2.50...
每一马力 per horsepower.
我不是天才，但算下来应该有几百万 I'm no genius myself, but that should be millions.
我有荣幸请你吃饭吗？ May I treat you to dinner at Delmonico's?
特斯拉先生，该走了 All right, Mr. Tesla, time to go.
我才不离开你的倾斜房间 他一个多月没付房钱了 - No, I will not leave your slanted room. - He hasn't paid his bill in over a month.
让他今年都住这要多少钱？ Well, how much would it cost to keep him here for the year?
天然气公司要裁员3百人 I need to shed 300 men from the gas company.
无路可退了 There's no way around it.
那就照原薪资调到电气公司去 So we pay their salaries and move them to the electricity.
不能一直这麽做 We can't keep doing this.
要是赢了，就不必了 If we win, we won't have to.
真理站在你这边 You have truth on your side.
无论如何，你永远会光明正大 And whatever happens, you'll know you never did anything but play fair.
我偷了爱迪生跟死刑椅有关的信 I stole the letters linking Edison to the death chair.
我把信交给报社来报复他 I gave them to the papers to smudge him.
我知道你对我很失望 I know you're disappointed in me.
（芝加哥，1892年）
这是什麽东西 What am I looking at here?
80尺的高塔装满1万6千颗爱迪生灯泡 An 80-foot tall tower covered with 16,000 Edison bulbs,
顶端是8尺的灯塔 topped with an eight-foot lighthouse.
这向世界表明，我们是胜利者 That signals to the world that we are the victors.
否则，人们怎么知道我们赢了? Otherwise, how will people know that we won?
这是在造神吧 It's an idol.
那只是形象 It's a... signature.
你将得到爱迪生首次送出的东西 And you'll get something that no one's ever received from Thomas Edison before.
是什麽？ -一个道歉 - Oh, yes? What's that? - An apology.
我承认这个开销…比预期多 I admit that spending has been, well, more than anticipated,
但我们必须这样做 but now, more than ever, it's important you must push through.
不管威斯汀豪斯出价多少，我们…你都必须压过他 Whatever Westinghouse is bidding for the Fair, we... you must bid more.
我必须 I must.
必须 "Must."
尼古拉特斯拉是谁？ Who's Nikola Tesla?
他怎样？ What about him?
他在哥伦比亚大学做了一个演讲 Well, he gave a talk at Columbia.
听说那个塞尔维亚人要帮威斯汀豪斯做一台多相马达 Word is, the Serb is building Westinghouse a polyphase motor.
灯光与动力都是你的强项，他或许也行 Light and power. You can do both. He now may as well.
谁知道他们要花多长时间才能建立起一个有效的模型 Who even knows how long it'll take them to build a functioning model--
今天早上，你又让出…我看看 As of this morning, you have ceded, I have here,
9个城市给西屋， nine more cities to Westinghouse.
所以…接下来会这样 So, here's what's happening.
我要把爱迪生电力跟几家小公司合并 I am merging Edison Electric with some of the other ankle-biters.
你出局了 You are out.
知道原因吗？ You know why.
我很乐意告诉你，如果你要让这一刻变得更不愉快的话 And I'm happy to tell you, if you require this moment to be even more unpleasant.
你会收到股票 You will receive stock,
也会保留住一席董事会席位 and you will retain a seat on the board.
谁要提案？你吗？ Who's gonna present? You?
当然不是 现在才告诉我？ - Good God, no. - You tell me now?
我特地来，想当面告诉你 I was here. I thought you deserved to hear it face-to-face.
才怪，你只是想浪费我的时间 No, you didn't. You just wanted to waste my time
叫我替孩子们签名 and get me to sign autographs for children.
公司要叫什麽名字？ 你只在意这个？ - What are you going to call it then? - That's your concern?
一定要是爱迪生电力 Edison Electric. It has to be.
爱迪生和电是同义词… Edison and electricity are synonymous, Morgan. The bulb--
我不会让新公司挂一个失败者的名字 I do not attach a losing name to a fledgling enterprise.
流出的那些信，让你信用荡然无存 Now that your letters have leaked, you've lost credibility.
所以是什麽？ -名字吗？ - So, what is it? - The name?
对！他妈的名字啦 Yes, the goddamn name!
合同上只写了通用电气，我会再想想 The contract just says General Electric, but I'll think of something.
可以更有创意点 I can be creative too.
Yeah.
英萨尔先生？ Mr. Insull.
我们谈一下 A moment.
他会保留你的名字，但你不能有动作 He said they'd keep your name attached as long as you didn't pursue action
或对媒体发表合并的负评 or speak negatively to the press about the merger.
他给你什麽条件？ What did he offer you?
告诉我 副总裁，但我拒绝了 - Tell me. - Vice president, but I turned it down.
你应该接受 -为什麽？ - You should take it. - Why?
交流电的传输电压是多少？ Alternating current-- what's the transmission voltage?
2万3千伏特 230,000 volts.
1200小时灯泡的灯丝是？ What's the filament on a 12,000-hour lamp?
碳化竹丝 我早餐吃什麽？ - Carbonized Japanese bamboo. - What do I eat for breakfast?
派 那你惊讶什麽？ - Pie. - So, what's the surprise?
他当然需要你 ，你就是我，只是有人性 Of course he needs you. You're me, but a human being.
你看看四周少了谁？ Look around the room.
—嗯?——谁失踪了? - Hmm? - Who's missing?
爱迪生通用电气公司请进 Edison General Electric Company, please.
通用电气 General Electric?
爱迪生通用电气公司 -是 - Edison General Electric Company. - Yes.
Ah!
小屁孩一个 He's 12.
英萨尔先生？这几位是委员会成员 Mr. Insull, these are the committee members of...
听清楚了，关注灯的品质 Listen closely. Focus on the quality of the light.
管他法院怎麽说 I don't care what the courts say.
威斯汀豪斯剽窃了我的灯泡 Westinghouse ripped off my bulbs,
好消息是他学得很差 and the good news for you is he did a terrible job.
灯泡都装在户外，寿命大约2小时 They are outdoor bulbs, so they have a life of about two hours.
你就主打更换时间 So focus on the replacement time.
大谈我们的优越性，讲得仿佛天下无敌 Talk about the superiority of ours, as if there's no competition.
使用“水准”、“最纯正” Use terms like "standard," "purest,"
“最美丽的灯光”这些用词 "the most beautiful light," et cetera.
观察他们是哪一种人 其实只有两种 Find out what kind of men they are. There are really only two types.
第一种自认为很实际私底下是梦想家 The first believe themselves to be practical, but they're secret dreamers.
这种人会愿意冒险 They're the ones who'll take the risks.
第二种会满面笑容、谢谢你的介绍 The second, well, they'll smile and thank you for the show,
但只为自己的荷包打算 but they'll vote with their wallets.
除非威斯汀豪斯把身家全押下去 Unless Westinghouse is mortgaging everything he's worth on this bid,
否则你有摩根和金融界撑腰 Morgan has you in good stead with the money men.
你只需要凝视梦想家的眼睛 So your only real job is to look the dreamers in the eye
保证会有魔法 and promise them magic.
把我刚说的电路理论练习说一遍 Now, explain back to me everything that you remember about a parallel
但不要用我用的字眼 and series of electric circuits using none of the words I just said.
我虽然年轻，却是这方面的专家 Though I am young, I am an expert in these matters,
只有爱迪生先生本人能与我匹敌 rivaled only really by Mr. Edison himself.
各位要是选择西屋，那麽… Should you choose Westinghouse, then...
是的确实有可能 then yes, there is a possibility
你会把2800万人的生命置于危险之中。 you'll be putting in jeopardy the lives of 28 million people.
西屋就算只犯最微小的错误 Even if Westinghouse were to make even the smallest of errors,
当然是无意的 unintentional, of course,
来视察的政治人物、家庭主妇 a visiting politician, a wife,
甚至7岁小女孩都可能靠在灯杆上 even a seven-year-old girl may lean against a lamppost
立刻就被电死 and be struck dead immediately.
就是这麽回事 There you have it.
威斯汀豪斯先生的电会致命 Mr. Westinghouse's brand of electricity is fatal.
谢谢你，英萨尔先生 Thank you, Mr. Insull.
要说清楚的是 Just to be clear, sir,
任何电流超过2百毫安培都可能致命 any electrical current over 200 milliamperes can be deadly.
连你们的也是吗？ Even yours?
威斯汀豪斯先生这几位是地面和建筑物委员会的成员 Mr. Westinghouse, these are the committee members of grounds and buildings:
查尔斯许瓦伯、奎格坎能 Charles Schwab, Craig Cannon,
当然还有克里格市长 当然 - Mayor Cregier, of course. - Oh, of course.
芝加哥每日新闻的维多劳森 Victor Lawson of the Chicago Daily News,
和崔伊法官大人 and the Honorable Judge Tree.
我是丹尼尔伯南 I'm Daniel Burnham.
请将说明时间控制在一小时内 Respectfully, we ask that you please keep your remarks to one hour.
没必要 That won't be necessary.
请参考 -谢谢 - Here you go. Sir. - Thank you.
Hmm.
我的标案 My bid.
这些是你全部的数字？ These are all your figures?
是的，独立估价 Yes, sir. Independent estimates.
在进入棘手部分之前 Before we, uh, get into the messy business,
我们先问一个最简单的问题 let us begin with this most general question:
我们为什麽应该让西屋电气 拿下世博会的合约？ Why should we grant Westinghouse Electric the contract for the World's Fair?
我猜是因为我们的系统效能好很多 Well, I guess because our system works significantly better,
而且… and, uh...
因为我们的系统便宜很多 because our system is significantly cheaper.
许瓦伯先生，西金波森先生、坎能先生 Mr. Schwab, Mr. Higinbotham, Mr. Cannon,
克里格市长，劳森先生、崔伊法官 Mayor Cregier, Mr. Lawson, Judge Tree,
以及伯南先生 and Mr. Burnham,
非常感谢你们的聆听 thank you very much for your time and your consideration.
从财务面看，就选划算的 Financially, it's clear. We just take the better bid.
西屋的系统有危险 -是可能有危险 - Look, Westinghouse is dangerous. - Potentially dangerous.
你家报纸都这麽说了 You even printed it in your own paper.
交流电要被用来杀水牛城那个人 Alternating will be used to kill that man in Buffalo.
他们都有电灯对吧？ They both light up lights, right?
威斯汀豪斯能省钱，汤玛斯爱迪生有名气 Westinghouse saves us some money. Thomas Edison sells tickets.
真想拿来翻翻看 What I wouldn't give to flip through that.
那是通往未来的手册对吧？ It's like a handbook to the future, isn't it?
要过半数才行 你不是有通用的股票吗？ - We need a clear majority, gentlemen. - Don't you have stock in GE?
又没有关联 That's irrelevant.
从来没有人像你这样帮过我 No one has ever done what you have done for me.
事物的价值不在于别人的开价 The value of something isn't what someone's willing to pay,
而在于它所做的贡献 but the value of something is what it contributes.
等再次投完票，伯南，你今晚就可以通知赢家 When we vote again, Burnham, you can telephone the winner tonight.
你真的出生在雷暴中吗？ Is it true you were born during a lightning storm?
真的 It is true.
好，告诉我手册里的一件事 All right. Tell me one thing in that book.
你和爱迪生先生一直在系统的两端 Look, you and Mr. Edison, you spend all your time on either end of the system,
电动机、电灯 the dynamos and the lamps.
但两者之间的东西呢？ But what about what is in between?
你说电线吗？ - The wires? - Mm.
需要有吗？ Do we need them?
问题是，尽管雷明登的枪很优秀 The problem is, despite all the advantages of the Remington...
也无法挽回你让火药弄湿的事实 it doesn't fix the fact that you just dampened the gunpowder.
这是什麽？ What's this?
耳朵有留声机，眼睛有这个 This is gonna do for the eye what the phonograph did for the ear.
点点？ Dot?
再敲 Again.
再敲 Again!
（芝加哥世界博览会，1893年）
（西屋电气）
（西屋）
（特斯拉）
（哥伦布纪念博览会）
你有什麽遗言吗？ Do you have any final words?
我相信我将前往更好的地方 I believe I'm going to a better place.
再见了，威廉 Goodbye, William.
从今天起，人类文明更进步了 We live in a higher civilization...from this day.
（特斯拉多相系统）
（格外残忍）
惨不忍赌，比绞刑还糟糕 "An awful spectacle, far worse than hanging.
（一次没死，又执行第二、第三次）
乔治威斯汀豪斯：不如用斧头 George Westinghouse: 'They would have done better with an ax.'
滋滋作响，滚滚浓烟 Sizzling sound. A billow of smoke
室内满是烧焦味 that filled the room with the odor of burning hair.
至少它发生在一个杀人犯身上 Well, at least it happened to a murderer.
起码他们不会再用它杀人了 At least they'll never use it again to kill anyone.
不久这些人都会有电灯 Soon all these people will have electric light,
根本不会有人记得这回事 and no one will even remember it ever happened.
我的点子多到不行 I have books so full of ideas
要花好几辈子才能完成 it would take me more than 12 lifetimes to execute them.
博览会和瀑布让给那家伙吧 So let the man have his fair and waterfall.
不管它的价值是什么 Well, for what's it's worth,
我都宁可跟随你而非威斯汀豪斯 I'd much rather have worked for you than Westinghouse any day.
为什麽？ Why is that?
否则哪有乐趣，对吧？ Well, I wouldn't have had as much fun, would I?
参观很多地方了吗？ Have you seen much of the fair?
迈布里奇的演讲、小埃及、肚皮舞娘？ - A Muybridge lecture, Little Egypt. - Oh, the dancer.
你看过了？ -没有 - You saw her? - No.
她… 有空去看一下 Well, she was-- If you get the time.
Hmm.
你不觉得围墙是个独特设计吗？ Don't you think a fence is a unique creation?
邻居盖围墙，瞬间一道变两道 Your neighbor puts one up, and suddenly one becomes two.
你也有了围墙，只有个问题 You also have a fence. There's only one problem.
你看，围墙一边的一个人设计了它 You see, one person on one side of the fence designed it,
一边的人搭建了它 one person on one side built it,
一个人付了钱 and one person paid for it,
另一个人却得到漂亮的免费围墙 and yet the other person receives a fine, free fence.
我没有窃取你的主意 I didn't take your ideas.
爱迪生先生？ Mr. Edison?
没问题 Sure.
谢谢你 Thank you.
有一件事我很好奇 一定有很多件 - I was wondering about one thing. - Oh, I'm sure there were many.
我本来想再次邀你吃晚餐 I was gonna invite you to dinner again,
不过现在问也一样 but I suppose now is as good a time as any.
你想知道13小时灯泡的事？ You want to know what was in the 13-hour bulb?
我知道它的原理 我知道你知道 - I know how it works. - Yeah, I know you do.
我只好奇那是什麽感觉 I only wondered what it felt like.
什麽？ -那个灯泡 - Pardon? - The bulb.
当你知道成功了 When you knew.
那一刻是什麽感觉 What was the feeling in that moment?
我说不上来 I can't tell you. I mean...
不可能形容得出来，因为根本就不可能 It's impossible to describe the feeling because it was impossible.
钻研多年、上万种灯丝 Years of work. Ten thousand different filaments.
当丝材装进去，我们照样下注 When the thread went in the bulb, as usual,
发电机开始运转 we placed our bets and the generator sputtered to life
灯泡亮起来，我们预期会再次失败 and the ball began to glow, we didn't expect anything but another failure.
然后开始不一样了 Then something started to happen.
我们最好的灯丝只撑了10分钟 See, our best filament only lasted ten minutes,
而这次侥幸来到20分钟 and this fluke was rounding 20,
大家开始七嘴八舌 so people started to chatter.
30分钟、40分钟、1小时、2小时 And 30 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour, two hours.
大家开始大叫 Then people started to shout.
要记得，我们从未撑过10分钟 And remember, we hadn't got past ten minutes.
小子们都沸腾了、激动不已 The boys were climbing up the walls, tearing their hair out, and...
因为根本就不可能 because it was impossible.
7小时、8小时、9小时 Seven hours. Eight hours. Nine.
满10小时的时候一片安静 We were silent when we hit ten.
我们围着发亮的灯泡 Just sat around that glowing bubble,
沉醉于自己的魔法，盯着它看 drunk on our own magic, staring at it like it...
好像它是弹奏莫札特的圣婴 I don't know, like it was the baby Jesus playing Mozart.
13小时后，玻璃破掉，我就知道 After 13 and a half hours, the glass cracked, and I knew it.
从此世界将会不同 The world would never be the same.
我正在研发非常创新的东西 I'm working on something now, something so new that...
世人将忘记我的名字曾经与电共存 people will forget that my name was ever associated with electricity.
你确定你知道是什麽吗？ I wonder if you know what it is yet.
我认为解决之道是 You know, I think the solution is...
平分围墙的费用 to divide the cost of the fence.
或是根本不盖围墙 Or you cannot build a fence at all.
院子就会变成两倍大 Your garden would be twice as big.
不是吗，汤姆？ Wouldn't it, Tom?
如果没别的事，幸会了 If nothing else, a pleasure.
祝你参观愉快，乔治 Enjoy the fair, George.
我们盖纪念碑对未来说：我们曾在这里 We build monuments to speak to the future, to say, "We were here.
我们存活过 We have lived."
真正的遗产并不是高耸天际的建筑 A true legacy isn't what we build up to the heavens
或石头上的镌刻 or carve deep into stone.
岩石会粉碎 Rocks will crumble,
纸张会脆化 paper disintegrates,
骨头会化为粉末 and bone turns to powder.
唯有不属于物质范围 Only that which isn't in the physical realm
又能双向交流者得永恒 and reaches in both directions can be eternal.
就是我们的创见 Our ideas.
这才是我们该留下的珍宝 They are what we leave behind.
也是推动我们前进的力量 And only they are what can push us forward.
（尼古拉特斯拉与乔治威斯汀豪斯）
（利用尼加拉瀑布建造了发电所）
（为空前的大规模配电奠定基础）
（由于无法运用其才智稳定获利）
（特斯拉最终负债累累）
（独自死于纽约客酒店3227号房）
（1911年，美国电机工程师协会）
（将其最高荣誉颁发给乔治威斯汀豪斯）
（亦即爱迪生奖章）
（在过世之前）
（威斯汀豪斯将个人文件全部销毁）
（希望世人只记得他的作为）
（输掉电流大战以后，汤玛斯爱迪生）
（以活动电影放映机获得专利）
（创造出一个全新产业：电影）
（在他过世时）
（全美国熄灯1分钟向他致敬）