香港居民被錯誤的電影海報激怒

Do you notice anything out of place in this movie poster for the upcoming Sci-Fi flick, “Arrival”?

大家覺得這張即將上映的科幻電影《降臨》的海報有什麼奇怪的嗎？

Hint: The answer is not the massive alien spaceship hovering over Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour -- though, admittedly, it’s not every day you’d see one of those. Rather, the problem lies in the tallest building pictured, at the very right of the poster.

提示：這海報的問題不在於懸浮在香港維多利亞港上的巨型外星飛碟，雖然他們的確很顯眼，這張海報的問題其實是圖右邊上最高的那座建築。

That distinctive landmark is known as the Oriental Pearl tower. It’s very famous. It’s very iconic. And it stands tall in the Chinese city of Shanghai, not Hong Kong.

那座特別的建築是東方明珠塔，一處非常著名且標誌性的景觀。但它實際應該位於中國上海，而不是香港。

So, how did the structure end up in a poster of Hong Kong?

所以，一個上海建築，怎麼就上了香港的海報呢？

“Arrival,” like countless other big movie blockbusters, is about an alien invasion of Earth. However, it’s unique in that it centers around a female linguist -- played by Amy Adams -- who is sent into the mysterious alien spacecrafts which have touched down in cities around the globe, in an attempt to decipher the aliens’ language and, thus, communicate with them.

《降臨》就像其他的熱門電影一樣，是關於外星人對地球的入侵。但是，它的特別之處在於一位女性語言學家（由Amy Adams扮演）被派往停在全球各大城市的飛碟上，試圖解析外星人的語言並試圖最終和他們溝通。

Paramount Pictures began marketing the sci-fi drama this summer by releasing 12 posters, showing the alien ships hovering over different, recognizable locations around the world, with the slogan, “Why are they here?”

派拉蒙影業在暑假開始就開始了他們的市場宣傳，發出了12張飛船停在不同大城市上的海報，還加上一句口號“它們想幹什麼？”

Angry Facebook and Twitter users who spotted the out-of-place skyscraper immediately took to social media, using the evergreen geopolitical hashtag #HongKongIsNotChina, to accuse the poster’s creator of pushing its own political agenda.

憤怒的香港臉書和推特用戶立即將此變成了熱門社會話題，他們用慣常的政治口號#香港不是中國，來指責發行商宣揚私人的政治理念。

Now, the studio is blaming the error in this particular poster on the third-party vendor who made it.

現在，電影工作室將指責推到了設計海報的第三方發行商頭上。

The movie studio, for its part, has now deleted the controversial image from the film’s official Facebook page, hoping the social media storm will simply blow over. In the meantime, they’ve pinned the “Arrival” trailer to the top of their page with the caption, “Language is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.“

電影工作室已經從他們的臉書主頁上刪除了這幅有爭議的圖片，希望可以讓這場風暴冷靜下來。同時，他們將《降臨》的預告片擺上了首頁，上面的說明是“語言是一場衝突中雙方最先使用的武器。”

On the contrary, in this conflict at least, imagery was the first weapon drawn.

然而實際上，在這場衝突中，圖片纔是那個最先使用的武器。