Some have translated this film into "Floating Lives of Music", but it sounds very old and has a grayish feeling, just like the tunes of "Ping Zong Xia Movie Record" and "Ice River Washing Sword Record". So I still like the "Happy Summer Bay" translated by Taiwanese. It sounds very happy, reminiscent of summer, dancing to music on the radio, the joy of sweating and drinking beer, South American laziness, and scratching. A warm blue sky, a bright blue sea. You just need to know that "Xiawana" refers to Havana, the capital of Cuba, that beautiful place that Americans can only dream of.
Wim Wenders' passion for music and impeccable taste can be seen in his film music. In this film, he came to Havana and visited a group of Cuban folk music Yuansu with bronze skin and pale hair. Since the United States isolated Cuba from the world, these musicians and their charming Cuban music have never appeared in front of the world, but in the constant sea breeze and tropical sun, like those on the streets of Havana that were once noble and magnificent, they are now colored The peeling old buildings are as beautiful every year alone, and they grow old year after year.
The beginning of the film is absolutely stunning: Clouds roll up a thousand piles of snow, Atlantic waves hit the embankment of Havana Promenade, and an old-fashioned black car passes through splashing waves. An old-fashioned trailer tricycle shuttles through the movie-like street with beautiful faded buildings on both sides, and the middle-aged man with glasses and riding a motorcycle is Ry Cooder, the musician who has worked on Wim Wenders movie music many times. He played the lonely and bloody guitar song in "Paris, Texas".
Because of this movie and the music album of the same name, not only let the world re-recognize and love the wonderful Cuban music, but also let the Cuban musicians who have been over sixty years old and even almost rare have the opportunity to play in Amsterdam and New York in the same year. They performed their first and last "international performance" in the Neji Concert Hall.
"Buena Vista Social Club" was a membership club where these musicians in the heyday of the 1940s often gathered together, and the filming of this movie was exactly 50 years after the club closed. See the dusty guitars in the club in the third video? When he got it 50 years later, he was still a treasured sword, and Qin Se knew each other. Although music has its own independent charm, it is even more touching that these old artists who make music come alive, they are so old, but their music is still so young, although I did not understand a single lyrics, but I heard The love for life is flowing there, overflowing with love for life. On the stage in the video, they are as innocent and naughty as children, and as proud and confident as young boys. With unrestrained performance and free life, you can see the brilliance in their lives, even if this is the last brilliance. In the years following the success of this movie and the music album of the same name, the main old artists have passed away in their 80s to 90s.
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