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Alex Gibney's "Musk" puts Elon Musk on edge, opening nationwide this week

Alex Gibney's "Musk" puts Elon Musk on edge, opening nationwide this week

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October 12th, 2026

Alex Gibney's "Musk" puts Elon Musk on edge, opening nationwide this week

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On the eve of the documentary "Musk"'s public release, Elon Musk had bestowed a slew of nicknames upon its producer, Alex Gibney.

在纪录片《马斯克》公映前夕,埃隆·马斯克曾为制片人亚历克斯·吉布尼冠以诸多绰号。

The documentary is currently screening at select theaters in New York and Los Angeles, and will expand nationwide on Friday.

该纪录片目前正在纽约与洛杉矶的特定影院放映,并将于周五扩展至全国范围。

In recent weeks, Musk has repeatedly posted on X, denouncing Gibney as an "idiot," a "terrible person," a "shill for the far left," and a "tin-foil-hat lunatic" with "zero credibility."

近数周以来,马斯克在X上屡屡发帖,将吉布尼斥为“白痴”、“可怕的人”、“极左翼的托儿”,以及“零可信度”的“锡箔帽疯子”。

Yet as early as three years ago, the moment the documentary was first announced, he had already branded it a "hit piece."

而早在三年前这部纪录片甫一宣布之际,他便已将其定性为“抹黑作品”。

Following its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last month, Musk wrote that dog excrement was "more deserving of respect than Gibney."

上月于威尼斯电影节首映之后,马斯克写道,狗粪“比吉布尼更值得尊重”。

According to reports, the trillionaire has yet to watch the film, nor has he responded to journalists' requests for comment regarding the aforementioned remarks.

据报道,这位万亿富翁迄今尚未观看该片,亦未就上述评论回应记者的置评请求。

Yet what this documentary confronts is far more than a mere war of words involving Musk.

然而,这部纪录片所直面的远非马斯克的口舌之争那么简单。

The film's distributor, Bleecker Street, was unable to place paid advertisements on several mainstream social media platforms.

影片发行商Bleecker Street在数个主流社交媒体平台上均无法投放付费广告。

As of September 25, YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and X had all, without exception, turned it down.

截至9月25日,YouTube、Meta、TikTok和X无一例外地予以拒绝。

YouTube (which had previously made the trailer available through its usual channels) and Meta subsequently reversed course, saying the material in question had been flagged as "political content."

YouTube(该平台此前曾通过常规渠道提供预告片)和Meta随后转变了立场,称相关内容被标记为“政治内容”。

There are also those who fret over whether, in the wake of the Skydance merger — the new entertainment behemoth forged by Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — "Musk" will actually make its way onto HBO as originally planned.

亦有人忧心,在天舞合并(即派拉蒙收购华纳兄弟探索公司后缔造的新娱乐巨擘)之后,《马斯克》究竟能否如原定计划般登陆HBO。

Larry Ellison, the father of chief executive David Ellison, enjoys a particularly close friendship with Musk.

首席执行官大卫·埃里森之父拉里·埃里森与马斯克交谊甚笃。

"Could Musk call Larry or David and say, you know, don't air this documentary? Sure," Gibney said in an interview with reporters.

“马斯克能否致电拉里或大卫,说,你知道,别放这部纪录片?可以,”吉布尼在接受记者采访时说。

"That's the world we live in now, especially in a political realm that has become so transactional... It's pay-to-play, quite literally."

“我们如今就生活在那个世界里,尤其是在政治领域变得如此交易化的世界里……这简直是付费参与。”

Musk's camp has likewise issued threats of litigation.

马斯克阵营亦已发出诉讼威胁。

Gibney, however, has been just as proactive in response: not only does he post regularly on his own X account, but he has also enlisted a recently created handle, @muskfilmfacts, to vigorously rebut false narratives while underscoring the suspicion that content is being suppressed.

然而,吉布尼同样在积极应对:他不仅在自己的X账户上定期发帖,还借助一个新近创建的@muskfilmfacts账户,积极驳斥虚假叙事,同时强调内容遭到压制的嫌疑。

In a recent post on X, Gibney wrote that his film "tells the story of a 'free-speech absolutist' who is threatening litigation in an attempt to stop the film from being seen."

近日,吉布尼在X上写道,他的电影“讲述的是一个‘言论自由绝对主义者’,他威胁要提起诉讼,试图阻止这部电影被看到。”

From making the Scientology documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, the Oscar winner came to understand that the most effective way to fight back is, quite simply, "not to let them into your head."

这位奥斯卡奖得主从制作山达基教纪录片《拨开迷雾:山达基教与信仰囚笼》中领悟到,最有效的反击之道莫过于“不让他们进入你的头脑”。

"We also have at our disposal a truly exceptional lawyer," he said.

“我们麾下还坐拥一位极为出类拔萃的律师,”他说道。

"The reason for that, naturally, is that we subject such material to exceedingly rigorous scrutiny."

“究其缘由,自然在于,我们会对这些内容予以极为审慎的审查。”

Gibney devoted nearly four years to honing this film, which unfolds as a panoramic portrait of the world's richest man's power and influence, chronicling his trajectory from his nascent beginnings in Silicon Valley to the ascent of SpaceX, Tesla, and DOGE—the Department of Government Efficiency, helmed by Musk, which over the past year has undertaken a sweeping overhaul of the federal workforce.

吉布尼耗费近四载光阴雕琢此片,呈现出一幅描摹全球首富权力与影响力的全景画卷,记述其自硅谷发轫之初至SpaceX、特斯拉及DOGE的崛起历程——DOGE乃马斯克执掌的政府效率部,于去年对联邦劳动力体系实施了全面整顿。

This nearly four-hour-long film encompasses on-camera interviews with members of Musk's family—among them his father, Errol Musk, his first wife, and the mother of another of his children—and further includes interviews with journalists, business associates, former friends, colleagues, and government officials.

这部时长近四小时的影片,囊括了对马斯克家族成员的镜头采访——其父埃罗尔·马斯克、其第一任妻子以及他另一个孩子的母亲均在其中——此外还涵盖了对记者、商业伙伴、昔日友人、同事及政府官员的访谈。

The project morphed into what Gibney described as "a story that spiraled out of control"; he was in the midst of finalizing a two-hour cut when Musk came out in support of Donald Trump following the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024.

这个项目演变成了一则“失控的故事”,吉布尼如是说;当马斯克于2024年宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒市暗杀未遂事件之后表态支持唐纳德·特朗普之际,他正着手完成一个两小时的剪辑版本。

HBO's leadership, for its part, encouraged Gibney to press ahead with the project.

HBO领导层则鼓励吉布尼将此事继续推进下去。

"I embarked on making this film because it concerns the exercise of power in the 21st century," Gibney said.

“我之所以着手拍摄这部影片,是因为它关涉21世纪的权力运作,”吉布尼说道。

"At the time, I did not truly foresee that he would accumulate a kind of shadow-presidential power... yet that is precisely what he did, and so we were compelled to follow the evolution of this narrative."

“彼时我并未真切地预见到,他竟会累积起一种影子总统般的权力……然而那恰恰是他所为之事,因此我们不得不追随这一叙事的演进。”

Musk declined to be interviewed, so Gibney and his team resorted to a somewhat unorthodox expedient: they fabricated a computer-generated Musk and had him hold forth straight into the camera.

马斯克未接受采访,于是吉布尼及其团队采取了一种略显非传统的手段:他们打造了一个计算机生成的马斯克,令其径直面对镜头侃侃而谈。

The figure may be a visual effect, at once endearing and faintly uncanny, yet its voice and everything it utters are authentically Musk's, lifted directly from recordings of his interviews and public appearances.

这一影像或许是一种视觉效果,既令人心生好感又略带诡异之感,但其声音及所言内容皆出自马斯克本人,直接撷取自他在采访与公开露面中的录音。

Gibney's team enlisted artificial intelligence to help synchronise his words with the movement of his lips.

吉布尼的团队借助人工智能来协助实现其话语与口型的同步。

Ever since the film began screening for media outlets and festival audiences, a major point of contention that has emerged between Musk and his devotees has revolved around "space lasers" and the 2024 United States presidential election.

自影片开始面向媒体及电影节观众放映以来,马斯克及其拥趸之间浮现的一大症结,便与“太空激光”以及2024年美国总统选举息息相关。

The source of this information is a text-message exchange between Musk and Ashley St. Clair, the latter being the mother of one of Musk's children, who furnished the aforementioned material.

信息来源系马斯克与阿什利·圣克莱尔之间的短信往来,后者身为马斯克某位子女的母亲,提供了上述材料。

In a message to her, Musk wrote that he was optimistic about Trump's chances of winning, and stated that he "currently has 10,000 lasers deployed in space."

马斯克在致其的信函中写道,他对特朗普的胜算持乐观态度,并称他“此刻在太空中部署有10,000个激光器。”

Its inclusion in the documentary has undoubtedly furnished Musk's supporters and his lawyers with grounds to assail the film, enabling them to direct their fire at a baseless conspiracy theory alleging that SpaceX's Starlink satellites meddled in the election.

将其纳入纪录片,无疑为马斯克的支持者及其律师提供了攻讦这部电影的口实,使其得以将矛头指向一则关于SpaceX的Starlink卫星干预选举的毫无根据的阴谋论。

Yet neither the film itself nor St. Clair has ever advanced any such claim.

然而,无论是影片本身还是圣克莱尔,均未曾提出过此类主张。

All the film does is present his text messages, leaving the power of judgment to the audience.

影片所做的,不过是呈示他的短信,将评判的权力交予观众。

St. Clair also furnished an audio recording in which Jared Birchall, an aide to Musk, sought to negotiate a confidentiality agreement with her, one that would have made child support contingent upon her giving birth to the child they had conceived together.

圣克莱尔另提供了一段录音,内容系马斯克的助理贾里德·伯查尔试图与她磋商一份保密协议,而抚养费将以该协议为前提,于她诞下二人之子嗣之后给付。

She claims that she turned down approximately $40 million in order to preserve her right to speak freely.

她声称,自己为保有自由发声之权利,拒绝了约4000万美元。

Against the backdrop of distraction having become the norm in contemporary life, Gibney advocates synthesizing information into narrative, arguing that this approach is highly beneficial.

在当代生活中注意力涣散已成常态的背景下,吉布尼主张将信息整合为叙事,认为此举颇具裨益。

He is likewise unstinting in his praise for the work of the journalists on whom they drew.

他亦不吝赞誉他们所借鉴的记者们的工作。

The film's running time may well exceed the bounds of conventional cinema, yet its narrative is utterly compelling.

影片的时长或许会逾越常规电影的界限,但其叙事却引人入胜。

He candidly admits that during the first 45 minutes, "you can't help but feel your heart in your throat on Elon's behalf."

他坦言,在最初的45分钟里,“你会不由自主地替埃隆捏一把汗。”

He strove to send those rockets into the firmament.

他力图将那几枚火箭送入苍穹。

Three times he met with failure.

三度折戟。

It was not until the pivotal fourth launch that you finally beheld the magnificent spectacle of those reusable rockets.

直至关键的第四次发射,你方才目睹那些可重复使用火箭的恢弘画面。

This is Elon's zenith," he remarked.

此乃埃隆的巅峰之境,”他说道。

"Yet immediately thereafter, you cannot help but ask: what on earth happened?

“然而紧接着,你不得不追问:究竟发生了什么?

Gibney says a six-hour version exists, but they ultimately pared it down to the most urgent material, including questions about the US citizens' data Musk collected during his tenure at DOGE.

吉布尼称,尚存一个长达六小时的版本,但他们最终将其剪辑至最为紧迫的信息,其中涵盖有关马斯克在DOGE任职期间所收集的美国公民数据的问题。

"My hope is that people will examine certain elements of what we present in the film and then delve further into them," he said.

“我寄望于人们会审视我们在影片中所呈现的某些内容,继而进一步深入探究,”他表示。

"Should Congress, one might ask, investigate the data and where it has gone?

“试问,国会是否应当对数据以及数据的去向展开调查?

Is it sitting on hard drives at SpaceX or Tesla?"

它是否正存于SpaceX或特斯拉的硬盘之中?”

As for whom he surmises the audience might consist of, he expects far more than just those who harbor skepticism toward Musk.

至于他臆测观众可能由何许人构成,他期望的远不止是那些对马斯克持怀疑态度的人。

"If you are caught up in a cult that reveres him as its supreme leader, then perhaps, much like Scientologists, you will denounce this film without even having seen it," Gibney said.

“倘若你身陷某个邪教组织,将其奉为至高无上的领袖,那么或许正如山达基教信徒那般,你会在未观影的情况下便对这部影片加以抨击,”吉布尼说道。

"However, if you harbor a genuine curiosity about this man, even if you feel a certain fondness for and admiration of his achievements, I would still urge you to go and see it."

“然而,若你对这个人怀有探究之心,即便你对他的成就抱有些许喜爱与钦佩之情,我仍希望你前去观看。”

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