“They tried to stop me from hearing the music.But when I'm alone....it builds up from inside me.
And I think if I could learn how to play it... ....they might hear me. They would know I was theirs....and find me."
"Sometimes the world tries to knock it out of you. But I believe in music... .the way that some people believe in fairy tales.I like to imagine that what I hear came from my mother and father.Maybe the notes I hear.......are the same ones they heard the night they met.Maybe that's how they found each other. Maybe that's how they'll find me."
Simple words, simple story.but strong affection.
Amazing, marveling, inspirating, stimulating...I did't know what word was precise to express my feeling after seeing the movie.
All in all, I was moved! definitely moved! By the music, by the music of natural love and the gift like instinct.
The music is round us .all you have to do is listen.
(Written by Chengdu Chuanshi on April 28, 2008 at 12:34:34)
◎Translation August
Rush ◎Title August Rush
◎Year 2007
◎Country USA
◎Category Story/Music ◎
Language English ◎
Subtitles English/Spanish/ French .com/title/tt0426931/ ◎File format XviD + AC3 ◎Video size 800 x 336 (2.38:1) ◎File size 1CD 50 x 30MB ◎Duration 01:53:36
◎Director Kirsten Sheridan
◎Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers.....Louis ConnellyKeri
Russell...Lyla NovacekFreddie
Highmore... ..August RushRobin
Williams..... WizardWilliam
Sadler.....Thomas
Terrence Dashon Howard.....Richard Jeffries
Jamia Simone Nash . ....Hope
Aaron Staton .....Nick
Robert Aberdeen .....Businessman
Henry Caplan .....Bill
Andrew Ginsburg .....Stock Broker
Lisa Maris .....Social Worker
Tyler McGuckin . ....Peter
Rob Pedini.....Louis' friend
Leon G. Thomas III.....Arthur
Alex O'Loughlin.....Marshall
Jamie O'Keefe.....Steve
◎Introduction Behind the
love at first sight , there are often endless bitter fruits and countless waiting... 12 years A few days ago, on a beautiful moonlit night in Washington Square, Laila Novacek, a cellist who had been overprotected by her father since she was a child, hoped to breathe a sigh of relief from her breathless tightness and ran. On the roof, she encounters Louis Connery, a handsome and charismatic Irish singer with a guitar on her back. In the lingering melody of "Moon Palace Dance" played by street singers, Laila and Louis meet and fall in love quickly. Music has become a common language they can share. The emotional bond between them is real and undeniable. Unfortunately, it was short-lived.
After a night of romance and confusion, Laila's father insists and even forces her to go ahead with the concert despite her constant protests, preventing her from fulfilling her promise to meet Louis. If people who love each other care too much about each other, it is easy to have misunderstandings. Louis is frustrated that the love of Laila, who is excellent and has a wealthy family, is not as deep as he imagined. Because of the heartbreak, he lost his courage. Unable to continue writing and playing guitar, he eventually gave up music and left this sad place. And Laila, also lost the love of her life, a few months later, a car accident also took away her unborn baby.
More than 10 years have passed in the blink of an eye. Laila and Louis, who don't know the truth, have been living in their own regrets and sadness. They don't know that Laila's child did not die, but was secretly sent away by her father. Now that little boy named August Rush is 11 years old, he is not only brave and lively, but also has extraordinary talent - any sound that happens around him, when it reaches his ears, it becomes With a beautiful melody, as long as he stands in the wheat field, he can even turn the rustling sound of the breeze swept across the wheat ears into a grand symphony. It is obvious that August is a natural composer and conductor. Although raised as an orphan, August was convinced that his parents were still alive and that they needed him as much as he desperately wanted them.
Determined to find his parents, August left the orphanage and came to New York alone, but lost his way on the streets of New York. At this time, August was attracted by a child playing on the street, and followed him to an abandoned Fillmore East Theater. He found that there were many others like him in this temporary shelter. The same homeless children are protected by a mysterious man known as the "Wizard". That night, Auguste picked up the guitar for the first time, and he improvised a song for everyone.
A little boy who has never been musically trained can release such a passionate melody, which surprised the "Wizard", so he designed a series of performance plans for August... August did not There was something wrong with the "Wizard" approach, because he believed that his parents lived somewhere in the city and that if they heard his music, they would find him. At that time, August did not know that the "search" he was looking forward to had already begun.
Laila's father finally told her the truth, it turned out that the baby she thought had died is still alive... Laila went crazy to find social worker Richard Jeffreys, hoping that he could help her find her lost 11 years. son. And Louis, who had gone far away, returned to the place where they first met because he still couldn't forget about Laila.
Laila, Louis and August, although they were forced to separate because of the helplessness and deceit of life, but the connection established between them through love and music has never been broken, and they will find each other eventually, because only In this way, their lives may be complete.
One- sentence comment: How
could such a terrible film be in the top ten at the box office? You may wonder if you are dazzled.
——The "New York Post"
film does have flaws, but from the perspective of a musician, the wonderful emotions conveyed by rhythm and rhythm can cover everything.
- "The Hollywood Reporter"
Not only is this a bad movie, it's so aggressive and absurd that it's hilarious. — Behind the scenes
at the Los Angeles Times :
[About Children]
A "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" made the humble Freddie Highmore in "Finding Neverland" quickly become one of the hottest child stars, and then respectively in "A Good Year" " and "Arthur and His Mini-Kingdom" had a very good performance, but even Highmore himself said that from TV to film, he has never experienced "change" like this "August Love". huge role.
When Freddie Highmore played the role of August Rush, the biggest challenge he faced was how to grasp the essence of music at a young age, especially as a native of London, England. City boy, how can we understand the state of mind of an orphan living in rural America like August? "This movie was really the biggest test I've ever had, especially as a British kid of my standard trying to do all the dialogue in American English, and playing guitar in a lot of the scenes, of course," said Heimer. , including conducting the ensemble... Maybe it's easier to just make the guitar with your hands and then do the dubbing, and I don't see a difference, but I really want to be able to actually play it because I I don't even know what I'm doing, how can I convey emotion to the audience through the image?"
Let 15-year-old Freddie Highmore, who speaks in a standard London accent, act entirely in an American accent. A film does sound a little incredible, but Haimo said that the process of learning a language is actually quite interesting: "Before the official start of filming, they hired a pronunciation teacher for me. Since then, I have I forced myself to pronounce every word in an American accent, whether I was filming or not, and I didn't even go home during that time, so I pretended that I was an orphan with no home. Practical results. When learning becomes an environment and eventually a habit, plus we're filming on the ground in New York, surrounded by Americans, that's the best refresher."
Freddie Highmore is the smallest main actor in the film, but he has to learn the most. In addition to correcting his accent, he also has to practice the guitar. Although Highmore imagines everything as a kind of fun, It will inevitably be more difficult, he said: "The music aspect is more troublesome, and I can't make a surprise attack. I have pre-trained guitar lessons for 6 months, of course, mainly focusing on the few songs I will play in the movie. Now let me sell a little bit, I just want to say that I have really achieved good results, and the scenes related to the guitar are all done by me."
If you watch the film carefully, you will find one of the small Details, August, who is not musical but is called by music, "created" a string-strike style when he first picked up the guitar, Freddie Highmore said when he talked about it. : "The first thing I want to say is that I didn't invent this method, I learned it from a guitarist named Michael Hedges, and he used it very well. Although August is a musical genius, he doesn't know what E major or G major is, so he can only make these sounds in ways that others can't imagine--here using 'hit'. String', I think it is very suitable."
[About parents]
As musicians who fell in love at first sight, Laila Novacek and Louis Connery were forced to separate because of worldly circumstances, leaving no trace of heartbreak. And the talented musical boy they shared together became the only bond that allowed them to find each other again. So do Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Kelly Russell, who play August's parents, also believe in a fairytale "love at first sight"? Meyers has always been positive: "I believe it, because I've had a similar experience. Of course, that was many years ago, and I don't have much contact with that girl now. In my opinion, That feeling is not like being struck by lightning as described in the book, but more like a sick chest tightness. I think Louis and Laila in the film are because they feel similar depression and pessimism to each other. Will resolutely walk into love. They look at each other as if they see their own reflections in the water: one from high society, the other in the lowest slums." Russell's addition is full of fatalism: "I think everything is fate, when you have a child with someone, it's fate; when you hate or love someone, it's fate, so you're destined to be bound by this person for the rest of your life."
Since the film contains There is a lot of magic in the film, so it is inevitable to worry about whether the modern audience in 2007 will accept it completely, Carrie Russell said: "Actually, I personally like this type of film very much, I especially enjoy that feeling, It's just imagining that there is something special around us that guides and protects us. Of course, I was worried, but after the film's previews, a lot of adult male audience members came up to me and said, 'I never I've seen such an emotional film.' All the worries seemed to be irrelevant at that moment."
Perhaps because of her motherhood, Carrie Russell is particularly able to understand the mysterious connection that exists only between mother and child in the film: "It is the last thing that can be denied, as long as the mother I can feel it. I once went to see Finding Nemo with my husband and I couldn't help crying when I saw Nemo couldn't find his dad...I know this, some people might think I'm a little crazy, but I just can't control myself, because I was a mother at the time, so I can understand the pain of being separated from my children. Although it is very hard to take care of children, I hardly even have time to sleep, But watching them start laughing at you, or getting to know you, is the best moment.”
Trivia:
• The role of Louis Connery was meant to be the legendary British singer James Morrison. came to play, but he was too focused on his music, so he declined.
• Before Kelly Russell, Liv Tyler and Claire Dennis were rumored to play Leila Novacek.
• "The Witcher" played by Robin Williams, inspired by U2's lead singer, rock star Bono.
Snapshots:
• Guitar that never needs tuning: Desperate for the loss of Lyra, Louis didn't pick up his guitar for 11 years. When he decided to play it again, he took the guitar out of the box, plucked every string, and the sound was so perfect that it doesn't make sense at all. If you've ever played a guitar, you should know that even if it's only been left for a month, the guitar will go out of tune and need to be re-tuned. However, Lewis in front of the camera took the guitar out of the guitar case and started playing directly. .
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