Dewey Finn is a 30-year-old rock singer. He used to have a band of his own, but he didn't have any outstanding works. home.
It's more a mess than a life. When his good friend and girlfriend forced him to pay the rent, he couldn't pay. In order to make his good friend, he decided to play rock with the band and make some money, but he was kicked by the band. go out.
Well, this is another older rock youth who is "underappreciated". If you can't put yourself in the situation and feel the crisis, you can probably imagine the state of being unemployed and unable to find a job in a short time in a big city like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. However, everyone's mentality is different, and Dewey Finn actually doesn't feel anything.
However, things took a turn for the better. A good friend found a job as a substitute teacher. He was not at home that day. Dewey Finn received a call from the school. For the sake of money, he lied that he was a substitute teacher. .
How out of place it is for such a rock-and-roll youth to teach children at school, not to mention how the school allows such a person to enter the school, the point is, this person does not understand anything at all, does not teach classes, just wants to mix Just salary.
Later, when I learned that the students were doing well in music class, I had a selfish idea. Sure enough, I taught them to rock and roll. Even more astonishingly, he perfectly persuaded students to turn a class into a rock band without telling the school and their parents.
I have to say, Dewey Finn is still very good, especially in the division of labor in the band. Who is suitable for talking about guitar, who is suitable for bass, who is suitable for keyboard player, who is suitable for drumming, who is suitable for harmony, who is suitable for lighting engineer, who is suitable for band manager, and who is suitable for carrying instrument And handle the wind, and so on.
You might say, doesn't the school have music classes? It seems that there is no need to learn rock and roll, and is it not worthwhile to waste other studies in order to learn rock and roll? Parents still pay so much money, is the money so easy to earn? What's more, some classmates are simply doing hard work, isn't it too unfair?
Indeed, this division of labor is very risky and unfair, and will inevitably harm the interests of some people. However, that's not the point. Dewey Finn's rock class must be rare in school. This class is not simply to teach vocal music, but to convey the spirit of rock and roll.
That is, stay angry, break any rules or regulations, and say no to the "bosses"!
To a certain extent, this rock class not only taught the students the history of rock and roll, but also allowed them to break the fixed thinking and be the most authentic version of themselves. For example, the gentle keyboard player looks very dull, very bookish, and has no friends. When he was learning rock, he changed himself and got along with other classmates.
The point of this film is also here, that is, we are not pets of life, rock and roll does not need reason and rhythm, in other words, our life should not just follow the rules, we need resistance, but resistance itself does not need formulas .
Some scenes even imitated "The Tide," and "Transcendence" may also have some "School of Rock" shadows. I think life always needs a little rock and roll. Otherwise, how boring life can be, even though anger can sometimes get out of hand and make you feel powerless.
In the end, the band didn't get the bonus, but got a loud applause from the audience, and when our Dewey Finn jumped down, someone finally caught it. Facing the lack of bonuses, Dewey Finn was a little annoyed, but the students turned away and comforted him, saying that rock was not for grades. Obviously, the students have already graduated from this course, have grown, and are better than blue.
The ending of the story is not successful, or even whether it is actually not important, but there is something you want to do. After doing it, the most important thing is to die clearly and transparently.
This movie is "Rock and Roll School", and the actors in it are all real performances, not fake bullets. The middle one is director Richard Linklater, so it seems natural that such a movie would be made. But everyone is more familiar with his "Love in the Trilogy".
From his debut film "Dead Reading is Useless", it seems that he can also see what he wants to express and his views on education.
More than a decade later, the main cast of "School of Rock" reunited to sing the ending song.
Maybe life does not have a perfect ending like the movie, and those actors may not all achieve "success" after more than ten years, but at least they have lived and rocked, and that's enough!
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