8 years after shark attack, Bethany Hamilton's story of faith and perseverance hits theaters. For Bethany Hamilton, it's all about God and surfing. That's how it was when a shark ripped off her arm as she lolled on a surfboard off the shores of Kauai in 2003, and that's how it is now as the cinematic version of her story, “Soul Surfer,” opens in theaters nationwide.

在遭鯊魚攻擊8年後，講述貝莎妮．漢米爾頓信念和毅力的故事搬上大銀幕。對貝莎妮．漢米爾頓來說，這只是一則上帝和衝浪的故事。2003年，當她在夏威夷可愛島外海懶洋洋躺在衝浪板上，一隻手臂被鯊魚扯斷時如此；今天當她的故事改拍成電影《靈魂衝浪人》（暫譯），在全美各地上演時依然如此。

He continues to just guide me and lead my every step, because even though the shark attack was scary and crazy, but I think all of this is just as hard to deal with, you know?” says the 21-year-old, who became an instant celebrity after the attack. “Having a movie made about your life — you've just really got to be on top of it and remember what you are here to do.”

「祂只是繼續指引和帶領我跨出每一步，因為即使鯊魚攻擊十分恐怖，令人抓狂，但我想這一切更難處理，你知道我的意思嗎？」她今年已經21歲，在遭到鯊吻後一夕成名。「以你的生命歷程改拍成電影，你一定要真的登峰造極，並記住自己在這裡做什麼。」

What Hamilton is here to do is spread the word about God — and shred some serious waves. The youngest in a family of surfers, Hamilton was 13 when she and her best friend, Alana Blanchard, went out with Alana's dad for a surf session on Halloween morning. Hamilton was waiting for waves and dangling her left arm （with its yellow plastic digital watch）into the water when, in a split-second blur of gray, a 14-foot tiger shark lurched from the depths and tore off her arm just below the shoulder.

漢米爾頓要做的是散播上帝的福音，並繼續用心乘風破浪。出生於衝浪家庭的漢米爾頓，和摯友阿拉娜．布蘭查德，在一個萬聖節早上跟著阿拉娜的父親一起去上衝浪課，當時她才13歲。漢米爾頓正在等浪頭，她左手臂上戴著黃色塑膠數字表在水中晃來晃去。這時，一片模糊的灰色霎時閃過，一頭14呎長的虎鯊從海洋深處突然衝出，齊肩扯斷她的手臂。

Alana's quick-thinking father made a tourniquet from a surfboard leash. Hamilton's board, with a big shark bite on one side, became a stretcher. By the time she reached the hospital, she'd lost more than half her blood.

阿拉娜的父親急中生智，立刻用衝浪板皮帶當止血帶。漢米爾頓那個一側已被鯊魚咬了一大口的衝浪板，則做成擔架。當她被送到醫院時，身上已經失血逾半。

The attack made headlines across the globe. But even more miraculous than her survival was her determination to return to the sport she loved. A month after the attack, she was back out on her surfboard. Six months later, she won fifth place in a national surf competition. Today she is one of the top surfers in the world.

這次攻擊成為世界各地頭條新聞。但比她死裡逃生更神奇的是她決心重拾她最喜愛的衝浪運動。遭鯊吻1個月後，她重新站上衝浪板。半年後，她贏得全美衝浪比賽第5名，今天她已是世界頂尖衝浪好手之一。

“After the shark attack is when I trusted in God the most,” Hamilton says from a Los Angeles hotel suite, where she is promoting “Soul Surfer.” “In the movie, they share that one verse: ‘For I know the plans that I have for you, says the Lord, plans of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.’ And that was true. Right after the hospital （youth pastor） Sarah Hill shared that with me and it just encouraged me to know that God loves me ... and it's inspired me to just keep living and loving and enjoying life.”

「遭到鯊魚攻擊之後，反倒是我最信靠上帝的時刻。」漢米爾頓在洛杉磯一家酒店套房如是說，她到當地為《靈魂衝浪人》打片。「在影片中，他們共享一句詩文：『耶和華說：我知道我向你們所懷的意念是賜平安的意念，不是降災禍的意念，要叫你們末後有指望。』（譯注：典出《耶利米 29:11》）的確如此，剛出院時，年輕牧師莎拉．希爾和我共享這句話，它鼓勵我知道神愛我……這也啟發我要繼續活著、愛人並享受生活。」

“Soul Surfer” is based on Hamilton's 2004 book of the same name. While God and Jesus Christ are present on practically every page of Hamilton's book （she dedicates it to “Jesus Christ, my family and the Blanchard family”）, faith takes a backseat to surfing in the film. Director and co-writer Sean McNamara says he aimed to show Hamilton's devotion to Christianity through the character of Sarah Hill, played by singer Carrie Underwood in her big-screen debut.

《靈魂衝浪手》是以漢米爾頓2004年同名著作為經緯。在漢米爾頓的書中，上帝和耶穌基督幾乎出現在每一頁上，她把這本書獻給「耶穌基督、我的家人和布蘭查德家人」。但在影片中，比起衝浪，信仰已退居第二位。導演兼共同編劇麥納馬拉說，他主要透過莎拉．希爾這個角色來呈現漢米爾頓對基督教的虔誠信仰，莎拉．希爾是由歌手凱莉．安德伍飾演，這是她躍登大銀幕的處女作。

“When it came time to the religious part of her life, I portrayed a lot of that with her youth minister,” McNamara says. Hamilton says she's happy with how her faith comes through in the film, even if it's “maybe not exactly how my personal strength is in Jesus Christ. I didn't want it to be preachy. I just wanted it to be natural because that's what it is in my life. I just hope it will encourage people, whether they believe in God or not, to press on through their hard times and see that good can come out of bad circumstances.”

麥納馬拉說：「在處理她生命中的宗教環節時，很多是透過她那位年輕的牧師來呈現。」漢米爾頓說，她很高興影片中她信仰那塊有表現出來，即使「我個人的力量也許不完全來自信靠耶穌基督。我不希望影片太說教。我只希望它自然呈現，因為在我真實的生命中就是如此。我只希望能鼓勵大家，不管信不信神，一定要熬過困難的時刻，繼續前進，看看是否能從艱困的環境中結出善果來。」

Hamilton also shares her inspirational message through her website, where she blogs about health, surfing and God. She says all people can tap into their own strength and cultivate their own faith. “Asking God into your heart is basically the first step,” she says.

漢米爾頓也透過她網站上有關健康、衝浪和上帝的部落格，分享鼓舞人心的信息。她說，所有人都能發掘自己的力量，培養自己的信仰。她說：「請求上帝進入你心中，基本上是第一步。」

Actress Anna Sophia Robb, who plays Hamilton in the film, says Hamilton's story is about “the tenacity of the human spirit,” Robb says. “She never gave up. She always kept going for it. People can take that whether they are fighting cancer, whether they lose an arm or a limb, or a family member or even a job or anything. Bethany is an incredibly special — it takes a special person to have that strength — but also she is just a person. She's not a superhero. We all have this strength within ourselves.”

女主角安娜索菲亞蘿柏在片中飾演漢米爾頓，她說，漢米爾頓的故事在講「人類堅韌的精神。她從不輕言放棄。她總是繼續朝標竿邁進。人們不管遭遇抗癌，或失去一隻手臂或下肢，或痛失家庭成員，甚至失業等橫逆，都可以逆來順受。貝莎妮是個令人難以置信的特殊個案，它需要一個特別的人才能有那種力量，但她也只是一個血肉之軀。她不是什麼超級英雄。我們內心都有這股力量。」

In this file photo, after the shark attack, Bethany Hamilton was back out on her surfboard. Today she is one of the top surfers in the world.

在這張檔案照中，遭鯊吻後的貝莎妮重新站上衝浪板，今天她已是世界頂尖衝浪好手之一。

圖／法新社