In 2007, there were quite a few music-related films. In terms of documentaries describing the careers of legends in the history of popular music, there were "Life of Roses" about Little Lark, "I'm Not Present" about Bob Dylan, and about the lead singer of Joy Division who gave up halfway. Control by Ian Curtis. And the light comedy that breaks through the shackles of specific characters, first "K Song Lover", followed by "Difficult Love Solo". Of course, you have to admit that this official Chinese translation of the business card is really vulgar, and I would prefer to call it "Once".
"Once" is a wonderful film. Although it was launched in 2006 and has a high score on IMDB, it was not introduced to the Chinese literary and artistic youth circle until the summer of 2007, and by the end of the year, its popularity had far exceeded the literary film itself. . If we talk about the outline of the storyline itself, "Once" can be said to be quite old-fashioned. The encounter between the flower girl and the wandering singer is no longer an overnight thing, and the two straight lines intersect for a short time and then brush away. The flaws are beautiful. The ending also makes sense. But this movie is really popular, and he has received enthusiastic praise from netizens without hesitation in the film with the same music theme. If there is one professional term to describe him, it is "phenomenal".
As a music-themed film, "Once" itself is like a complete music video, and the graininess and free state of the shots are just right. In fact, the songs in the film also come from the previous album "The Swell Season" that the hero and heroine collaborated on. The combination of British veteran Glen Hansard and Czech up-and-coming talent Marketa Irglova has a unique advantage. Glen Hansard is from Ireland, the seductive, lively green color that has always been endowed with various half-messenger-era Celts, the ancient harp, the enduring folk song "Green Sleeves" and along with "Brave" "Heart" is a Scottish bagpipe floating in the air, and also includes U2, Cranberries, Sinead O'connor and other steadfast anti-war fighters. The voice and appearance of Glen Hansard, the protagonist of the film, also resembles that of Damien Rice, a popular folk talent at the moment. He never lacks angry accusations in his guitar playing. Even an audience unfamiliar with him is receptive. As for the heroine Marketa Irglova, a friend said that she looks a bit like Keren Ann, a talented French folk singer. She comes from the Czech Republic, an international background where war and art are flying together, and Milan Kundera's words also make people preconceived about it. She has a good impression. When she played the piano for the first time, it was Mendelssohn's Ballad of Venice. In fact, I don't know if it would be more appropriate to arrange her to play Dvorak.
Damien Rice wrote "Unplayed Piano" in 2005, which described Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi guarding her dictatorship after her piano broke. The government did not allow anyone to come to her house to repair her. After Mr. Rice found out, he asked his old partner Lisa Hannigan to write the song. There's an indescribable connection that makes me associate "Once" with this song. Apart from the similarities between their musical styles, it should be more that they convey the same enthusiasm for different things. In fact, you can also give "Once" a similar subtitle, called "Untouched Love" (the Chinese translation is too vulgar), the hero and heroine do not even kiss in the ambiguous scene of an hour and a half, the most "passionate" dialogue It's just a prevarication in embarrassing laughter, showing the charm of the film in many details. In my opinion, the popularity of "Once" is also due to the first sex and then falling in love, as well as the 2008 Chinese New Year Hong Kong entertainment circle Edison continuous shooting incident. Powerful mockery. Yes, we are not young anymore. It’s long past the youthful era when we walked side by side with the girl we liked on the laughing road and our hearts were pounding all the time, but when I saw two people in the film, one was carrying a guitar and the other Don't you bring back some heartwarming memories of lugging an old-fashioned vacuum cleaner like a dog walk?
In the clips about rock music, we most often see alcohol, cocaine, and women. Zuo Xiaozuju once said that the reason why Chinese rock music has not been able to survive is because there is no sex after the performance. I know that the drunkard's meaning in his sentence is not for alcohol, but for the commercialization of rock music after the flesh and blood is incorporated into the national entertainment system, but I also asked the wild on the stage about this sentence itself. Xie Tianxiao, who is polite and gentle on the extensive stage. He said that we should not be influenced by too many Western rock music culture, such as movies and the like (such as "The Gate"), music can actually not have too much connection with sex, it can be more pure. And "Once" is pure in that regard, pure enough to be a textbook example. Even though the male protagonist once revealed sexual hints, when the words came to his lips, even he felt how lewd, shameless and shameless he was. If Jim Morrison represents all the by-products of rock and roll related to the poets and artists who are the epitome of San Francisco surrounded by the Beats in the 1960s, then "Once" represents the ideal, free proletarian warrior In the current materialistic age of virgin sinful ONS long live, there is only a romantic atmosphere left. This long-lost revolutionary emotion has contributed to why this film is so popular.
Similarly, "Once" once again perfectly exemplifies a successful example of the all-round chain development of film and television music in the entertainment industry. If Damien Rice did not show his face in "Stealing Heart", it was only in the initial stage, then the deep integration of "Once" is quite layered, such as the movie's theme song "Falling Slowly" and the studio's song that made the recording engineer feel Their impressive "When Your Mind's Made Up", with some arrangement tweaks, was included on Glen Hansard's band The Frames' sixth album "The Cost" in 2007, and it couldn't be better means of promotion.
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