ordinary people's sugar dream

Devon 2022-10-17 00:49:34

After "Finding Sugar Man" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, our choreographer shared it with you during class. Different from other documentaries, the director sets up suspense, and the process of finding Rodriguez, the little sugar man, is based on the expectations of fans, the feelings of the producers, and the attitude of the boss of the distribution company. Talented musician.
Recently, I flipped out this film and watched it again, and began to think about the state of mind that the teacher shared at that time. Inadvertently mentioned that Chen Xiaoqing, the producer of "A Bite of China", is her mentor and has worked together. If it wasn't for the popularity of foodies, "A Bite of China" was popular in China with its different documentary production standards, who would know him? Woolen cloth. And this teacher, she is also a very talented person. From the lessons she taught us about TV program production, her teaching method is to really exercise our abilities, not just textbooks, but to constantly encourage We innovate to envision a show that can actually be produced. We often say that her ability and her thinking level should not be reconciled to being a university teacher. But the fact is, not everyone can become a household name producer like Chen Xiaoqing all of a sudden, many talented people like our teachers return to ordinary jobs and continue to live.
After watching this movie twice, the most touching point is also this, no matter if it is no one cares after the release of the previous two records, I went to repair the car and became a carpenter. After he was treated like a superstar in South Africa, he returned to the United States and continued his work. He still wanted to return to the original point of his life, because he was just a person who loved music and played the guitar from beginning to end. There are directors, actors, and singers. Life has its ups and downs, and few people are like Zhao Wei, who became popular as soon as they debuted through the Huanzhugege hit. "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was a hit, and the theme song was played thousands of times. Several audience members would pay attention that the singer was Yao Beina, who had extraordinary singing skills. Regardless of Yao Beina's reputation in the industry, whether she has participated in the Spring Festival Gala or not, it is undeniable that most people know her because of the Voice of China and recognize her strength. Most people don't have such an opportunity to become an instant hit, and most people are still doing repetitive and monotonous lives in their ordinary jobs that can no longer be ordinary. There are too many such examples. Zhang Jiayi turned from a splendid pig into an adult with Song Siming in "The Snail", Feng Shaofeng with the Eighth Master in "The Palace", and Xu Zheng with the role of Xu Lang in "Tai 囧". In the same way, maybe he was a little bit unlucky. The album was cold in the United States, he was not materially rich, and his life was embarrassing, but there was a group of his music fans in South Africa, fans who were crazy for him. The thoughts in the lyrics have prompted the young people in South Africa to think and resist, so that his music has been appreciated. This is another kind of luck, at least his talent is recognized. And he himself did not give up his hobby because he could not sell records in the United States. His passion for music has not diminished. This is the most important wealth.
Some time ago I have been thinking about what a dream is. Wang Feng was said to only say one sentence in a good voice, what is your dream, and most people's answer is to fulfill my music dream, get on a bigger stage, and let everyone hear me sing. I'm thinking, if a person really loves music, will he incorporate music into his life, or does he need more people to know him so that he can have the capital to fulfill his music dream? Only when you have money to live can you support you to do what you like to do. Most people can't support themselves by performing arts in the subway like Xidan girls, and most of their families will not support your unstable life, so most of them give up singing, this way The example is heard too much on the draft stage, and maybe you think it's a show, but what a real answer this is.
The touching point of Rodriguez's story is that most people have no choice but to give up their dreams. When they see his life like this, they find their ordinary self like a mirror. We are all ugly ducklings looking forward to and doing it and becoming a white swan one day. The same dream, but the truth is still the truth. In the story, Rodriguez realized our dream in South Africa, and the time for Cinderella's shoes came, there was no pumpkin carriage, and the prince had no follow-up.

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  • Rick Emmerson: What he's demonstrated, very clearly, is that you have a choice. He took all that torment, all that agony, all that confusion and pain, and he transformed it into something beautiful. He's like the silkworm, you know? You take this raw material, and you transform it. You come out with something that wasn't there before. Something beautiful. Something perhaps transcendent. Something perhaps eternal. Insofar as he does that, I think he's representative of the human spirit, of what's possible. That you have a choice "And this has been my choice, to give you Sugar Man". Now, have you done that? Ask yourself.

  • Rick Emmerson: He had this kind of magical quality that all the genuine poets and artists have: to elevate things. To get above the mundane, the prosaic. All the bullshit. All the mediocrity that's everywhere. The artist, the artist is the pioneer.