Bob Dylan 與 朝倉總里

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政治題材一向不討好，請大家不要先入為主認為情節必會沉悶俗套。
事實上它比同期的劇都要精采吸引，不但節奏明快有張力，每集加插有輕鬆幽默的元素，演員們亦富個人魅力。
劇中木村拓哉飾演朝倉總里，是最年輕的日相。與其象報道說木村燙鬈髮戴黑框眼鏡扮形象老土來切合原來的小學教師身份，不如說正因為朝倉視Bob Dylan為偶像，而他要仿效的正是60年代Bob Dylan獨有的搖滾形象標誌。
其實在朝倉老家和首相官邸都可見Bob Dylan的海布和黒膠。


除打扮造型外，細心觀察朝倉總里的人物索造，似乎亦處處充滿着Bob Dylan的影子:
他們都有才華而反映敏捷，有超然的洞察力和判斷力，引導人們向往真實。
朝倉在政壇改朝換代；Dylan當年亦顛覆民謠歌曲史，開啟了一場民謠搖滾革命。
朝倉可以背誦出鄰國的貿易條件；Dylan的記憶力相當驚人。
厲害的是他們的演說答辨都具說服力，令記者們來不及反應，使群眾打從心底的屈服。
朝倉令政治長老們從狹隘的政治鬥爭中醒來；Dylan帶領音樂人和樂迷走進更寬廣的音樂及文化領域。
朝倉有憐憫心及從民眾角度思考問題，富批判性地探討進步社會的方式；Dylan雖否認他寫的是抗議歌曲，他的歌詞一直在聲討社會現象的新聞事件中遊走。
更為重要的是他們都坦率而真摯，處事模式∕作品具傋人民關懷，遭受抗議抨擊時依然品質堅定，忠於自己。

這些不知是否脚本編者的Bob Dylan情意結，他有意成全一個Dylan似的日本首相。
CHANGE的故事主題是一個普通單純而有理想的小學老師邁步變成總理大臣，改變陳腐體制，並嘗試推動停滯保守不前的日本政治。這個變革要起步，誰都無法抵檔的大勢Bob Dylan早在64年發行的專輯"The Times They Are A-Changin"一曲中說明了。

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
copyright©1963 by Bob Dylan，我最崇拜的音樂家。