當“謝耳朵”化身外星人

注：艾美獎共分為兩大獎項，即美國艾美獎和國際艾美獎（國際艾美獎的參賽作品全部來自美國以外的國家）。美國艾美獎是美國電視界的最高獎項，艾美獎的地位如同奧斯卡獎于電影界和格萊美獎于音樂界一樣重要。

Aliens are invading[侵略]， humans are rounded up and heroes are on the run. Yet this end-of-the-world story becomes a heartfelt[真心真意的] adventure in the animated[動畫的] film Home.

Directed by Tim Johnson （Over the Hedge）， the movie （out March 27th， 2015） stars three-time Emmy注winner Jim Parsons as the voice of a purple alien named Oh. Pop singer Rihanna is Oh’s new human friend Tip， and Steve Martin is Captain Smek， leader of the Boov race， who’s trying to find a home for Oh and his fellow Boov after they were run off their own planet.

Cinematic[電影的] alien invasions[入侵] tend toward the dark， yet Home gave Johnson an opportunity to tell the story from a different point of view.

“The attitude[態度] the aliens have is that they’re doing us such a great favor and they will be so good for us primitive[原始的] natives，’ says Johnson.

When Oh and Tip meet， they find they’re both outsiders among their own kind. Oh gets in so much trouble he has to flee[逃跑] his fellow Boov， and 12-year-old Tip is still adjusting[調整] to her new Midwestern home with her mother after growing up in the Caribbean.

Oh promises to help Tip find her mom since all the adults have been taken to a huge theme park the Boov built called Happy Humans Town. “They’ve studied us and know what we want，” says Johnson.

They end up with both of them running for their lives， Parsons says. “It really turns into a very odd[古怪的] buddy road movie. She’s hostile[敵意的] toward him and he considers her basically a savage[未開化的]， and as they go， they realize they have more and more in common.”

Even though Oh looks down at humanity[人類] at first， “you don’t pull away[離開]...because Jim is capable of such great warmth，” Johnson says of the Big Bang Theory star. “You root for[支持] this character to really become a human.”

Home marks Rihanna’s first animated-movie role—and one of just a few acting jobs on her résumé[簡歷]. However， Johnson found she was pouring her soul out in a recording studio.

“The microphone[麥克風] has been her partner her whole career，” says the director， who notes that Rihanna easily found the voice of a girl so close to being a teenager.

“Tip’s had to be very scrappy[愛打架的] and live on her own， so she’s had to be a grown-up. But of course she desperately[拼命地] needs her mom， like every little kid.”

Martin’s Smek is inspired by some of the sillier James Bond villains[壞人]. Still， the alien leader is “a villain you’re rooting to be converted[使轉變] by the end.”

Parsons and Martin had their own unexpected visitor last fall when President Obama took a tour of the DreamWorks animation studio and watched them record a scene.

With Secret Service[特務機關] folk and others “running all over like really intelligent mice，” Parsons says he found it impossible to say anything with the president around. “All the entertainment business things I’ve done， that felt the most like I had entered a movie myself.”

The actor did find him cool in every way， though， with Obama being interested in his little Oh.

“He didn’t seem awkward[尷尬的] at all，” Parsons says. “And I guess that’s good—as the leader， it’s important that you feel pretty at ease[自由自在] with all different types of people and situations.”

外星人正在入侵，人類被包圍了起來，咱們的英雄在逃命。然而，這種世界末日的情節在電影動畫片《家園》中卻變成了一次真心實意的大冒險。

本片（2015年3月27日上映）由蒂姆·約翰遜（《籬笆墻外》導演）執導，三屆艾美獎得主吉姆·帕森斯將為一只名叫歐仔、一身紫色的外星人配音。流行歌手蕾哈娜扮演歐仔新結交的人類朋友小媞，史蒂夫·馬丁則扮演阿布族的領導人史曼將軍--逃離了自己的星球以后，史曼將軍希望能為歐仔和他的族人尋找一個新家園。

在大銀幕上，外星人入侵（地球）的故事往往都比較黑暗，但《家園》讓約翰遜有機會從一個不同的角度講述故事。

“外星人的態度就是，他們覺得自己幫了我們大忙，而且以為自己會對我們這些地球原始居民非常好。”約翰遜說。

歐仔和小媞相遇的時候，他們都發現自己在各自的族群格格不入。歐仔惹了很大麻煩，不得不從阿布族里逃出來；從小在加勒比海長大的12歲小女孩小媞跟著媽媽來到美國中西部的新家，還處在適應期。……