in the name of dreams

Jamarcus 2022-09-26 15:57:19

The story begins with a perfect combination. A chorus of three black girls, Effie, the lead singer who is fat and not pretty but can sing well, Tina, who has a great figure but has no distinctive voice, someone who is average in all but essential in view of the needs of the plot. Their strength is outstanding, and the young man who wrote songs for them is also very talented. Unfortunately, they are not born at the same time, and the only way out in front of them is to become a popular black singer. The guy who motivated them was a Cadillac businessman, and he was bound to break into the record business. In the face of setbacks but the depression of dreams is not enough to make people fear, shrewd businessmen use all means to support these people to rise quickly. The girls who were overjoyed by the dream to come true were still intoxicated, and the businessman became the hero in their hearts who helped them so generously.

The fat girl Effie is the victim of this myth. At the exit of her dream, she is swelled by love and the success she sees to come. The businessman feeds her with honey like a hard-working little bee and then stabs her upside down. one time. According to the needs of the market, he wants to push Tina, who is beautiful and more suitable for the public, as the lead singer. Effie must accept the fact that everyone believes that the businessman's abacus must be correct. Let a person who can sing to cover up her talent on the stage and become a small supporting role who doesn't care who is or is not. Effie is not happy with tough women, just because she is not beautiful, love and career It was about handing over to someone, and the woman endured a few times in her temperament, but finally broke out. However, this woman who could stand on the stage and demanded love like her life was ruthlessly abandoned by everyone because of excessive accusations. These inexplicable entanglements are the only fate they have obtained in the process of enduring the bottom line and struggling with various interests. , which seems to stop abruptly after the explosion reaches its apex. This one stops, that one starts. Such small reincarnations may be picked up again in the future, but never now.

Tina was finally praised as a famous woman, that is the world of business people. The businessman married her and regarded her as a work of art, a work of art that was created by him and required careful maintenance and huge potential for value preservation and appreciation. It's a pity that he knows how to make the best use of the artwork, but the artwork doesn't. She needs to be understood, what deep down she wants to express and not others want to see. Maybe she was held up so high by him, but she wanted to taste the things that ordinary women have, maybe children, maybe freedom, but Effie has all these. Effie, who is a mother, still sings in a small karaoke hall, but it is easy to be independent, but difficult to be self-reliant. When she comes up with a record, she is suppressed by businessmen. In the end, this group of people whose youth is gone and their dreams are not dead united again, and the conflicts with the businessmen became more and more intense. And at the climax of every contradiction, there is always someone who is abandoned, this time it is the turn of the omnipotent businessman.

Everyone has a dream, maybe the businessman's dream is to create a brilliant record kingdom, compared with those dream girls or dream boys who want to sing and be themselves, maybe it's just because everyone's dreams are incompatible. The businessman may also be a role model for countless people who are eager to succeed, although he is not really annoying at all. Sometimes, it's not easy to find something like the big right and wrong in the movie, the truth is good and the beautiful fight the fake and ugly, especially in this indifferent age where there are so many hypocritical tolerance and indifferent, but inflated selfish desires and self-expression are actually disguised so close.

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Dreamgirls quotes

  • Lorrell Robinson: It doesn't take a whiz to know that only a desperate man would drop his pants in living color on national television!

  • Curtis Taylor Jr.: Who was the first artist to sing "Hound Dog"?

    C.C. White: Elvis Presley.

    Curtis Taylor Jr.: Big Mama Thorton. She had the number-one single on the R&B charts, but the white stations wouldn't play it, because to them it was just another race record.