The film is called Anvil! The Story of Anvil, the Chinese translation is particularly bluffing - metal spirit, the translation is not good. I think most metal music just doesn't seem to be spiritual, it just makes people feel spiritual. Most of the articles that imply the spirit of rock and roll can only repeat Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Sex Pistols and so on, and never mention the big names of metal music. The reason is probably that metal music is a mass sports activity with low IQ from the root? The big-name bands in the heavy metal era often do not fight against war, protest, either left or right. They stand on the stage and make noises, pretend to be ghosts, kill rabbits, play with snakes, spit fire, and throw raw meat. The mindless "kill you", "I'm a ghost", "fuck you so much", the force is too low, Wenqing's obscenity rock spirit must not be brought to play with them.
Fortunately, this film vividly demonstrated the brilliance of heavy metal in the early 1980s. The lead singer of this band, ANVIL, stood on the stage at the very beginning, squinting and strumming with a dildo. Teeth gnashing, wearing a corset and black lace on his hands, his expression is like a smile but not a smile. Under the stage, there is a tsunami, and a group of short-legged Japanese girls appear to faint at any time. In Japan, in 1984, the band performed together with Scorpions (scorpions), Whitesnake (white snakes), and Bon Jovi, the idol of thousands of girls, who were extremely important in the history of metal music. In the early 1980s, in the last golden age of Hair Metal, the Four Heavenly Kings of Thrash first appeared, and young people all over the world seemed to be keen to engage in this mass sports activity that does not require brains. At that time, POGO did not seem to have formed a specific pattern as it is today. Music fans didn't shake their heads very much, just kept waving their arms and jumping twice from time to time.
The atmosphere of the metal scene is different from other music scenes. It requires you to fully devote yourself to it. It requires you to worship those long-haired and indomitable people on the stage as gods. Heavier and heavier, RIFF suddenly Stop, the sharp guitar runs out SOLO, and your physical pleasure is played by these musicians at your fingertips. After singing a song, I wanted to be dissatisfied, and I raised my head and shouted "Brilliant". In fact, the subtext was "Give it to me, I want it."
The word ROCK STAR seems to be an image in the Western world of being complacent, intoxicated, and invincible. (Guoyao has formed an inexplicable subconscious that is not real rock and roll.) TO BE A ROCK STAR is by no means a holy, lofty, rebellious, brave, free and great dream, but TO BE A ROCK STAR is the same as heavy metal, its essence Simple for no reason - JUST SO COOL.
SO COOL? Thirty years after the film, the lead singer of ANVIL stayed at the children's catering center to prepare meals for the children in the school. The drummer with excellent drum skills back then became a decorator. SO SAD. But in fact, it is also normal. As a band from the pre-THRASH era, their music seems to still stay on the heavy metal routine of the 1980s after 30 years, and now even THRASH has gradually disappeared. At present, only a band like METALICA has the ability to perform global tours, where there are tens of thousands of people and a lot of money. It seems that other old bands can only release one album in a few years, and they are called "Old Cannons", shouting "Brilliant", and shouting "Rock and Roll is not dead". What's more, the band ANVIL is located in Canada and did not gain enough popularity in the 1980s.
Suddenly one day, a Czech old Guoer devoted himself to the band's guitarist, and even arranged a European tour for this old band, which was established for 30 years, catering for children and decorating for the villagers. They reappeared at the rock music festival, and when they saw the old guns who performed together back then, they excitedly ran over to call each other's names at the home court, but it was a pity that others had long forgotten this once tepid band. On tour, this band is really good at memorizing. Wherever the train is late, the boss will not give money if the performance is late and the performance is over. The boss will not pay for the meal. There is no publicity for the performance. Others kept telling them "your agent is an idiot", and looking at this Czech fruit whose English was worse than mine, these uncles said embarrassingly "we don't have an agent". They thought they were back in the '80s, with the awesome metal gods, they thought they'd get thousands of people at the show, they thought they'd be contacted by a record company, and they thought their chance was finally here When it arrives, they will also think, "We work so hard, why can't we succeed?"
When they return to their homes exhausted and look back at this very unprofessional tour, it is simply a green tea bitch riding Tibet, a green tea bitch can Purify the mind, but thirty years old metal cannon can't do it. They were a little dejected, but they didn't blame Czech Guoer at all. Guoer and the guitarist were married, and ANVIL sang at the wedding. The family members at the banquet had their eyes blurred in the face of such a strong sense of disobedience. Come on, these guys over fifty even started sending samples around again, planning to record their thirteenth album. Thirteen Zhang, the lead singer's wife (relative? Can't remember) said: "A band for 30 years, released 13 albums, and can only perform for 100 people, I think this is a joke."
At this point, I don't want to say more about the plot of the movie, because I really want to recommend this movie, this movie is the best movie about rock music I've ever seen. The lead singer of ANVIL is a very sincere and charismatic person. I have never seen a heterosexual man express his love to his beloved man so strongly. Emotion, the kind of howling and crying because the other party is angry and aggrieved. The helplessness, helplessness and sadness shown in this film are extremely real and touching, such as "Why do I still fail to get into the university when I do the test every day". In order to release his own album, he walked off the stage and said "Do you know Amway?" In this way, "sunglasses like Keanu Reeves" are sold. At the end of the film, ANVIL went to Japan to perform again, the place that gave them their ROCK STAR dream 30 years ago, the Japanese devils are too much to buy the account of the ghosts, most of them must have never heard of this band, but the old guns are The old gun, the big fingertips rubbed together, and the small Japanese climaxed again and again.
In fact, ANVIL's performance in Japan is not the end of the film. The release of the film itself is the end. The film itself is almost a Cinderella fairy tale. When the director was fifteen years old, he came to find the metal god in his heart, and ANVIL The members hung out together, and finally got tired of HAIR METAL one day, and grew into an excellent filmmaker in the future. I looked back on the time I had in my mind when I was coexisting with God, looked back for my former idols, and took pictures of their experiences. into a movie. This film was broadcast, ANVIL is really popular, and when they go to Japan, some people will know them. I searched on Weibo and found that they started to tour Singapore with METALICA again, and found that the domestic metal band was very excited to post a photo with ANVIL on Weibo. They are bound to be regarded as role models by the world's second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, fifth-rate, and nasty rock bands.
I suddenly remembered one time I was watching a performance of Suffocation at VOX, which is a relatively prominent metal band in China. They were 20 minutes late (not even 20 minutes was late), and they apologized when they came on stage. There was no warm-up band at that performance. After the performance was full, I almost broke my neck. At the end of the performance, the lead singer said to give Everyone on their last album. It was drizzling outside, the barbecue stall was still open, and the smoke was still thick. The lead singer handed us the albums one by one, and I then looked down. The packaging was rather rough, just like ANVIL's own one-piece-five self-released album. The lead singer patted me on the shoulder and said, "Go back and be careful." I looked up at him, at this "God" whom I worshipped from the audience.
ANVIL performed in Japan, and I have also seen Japanese bands perform in Wuhan. Pop punk, the guitar player is not too young, a typical devil looks, wearing a pair of green socks, no shoes. They tried their best throughout the whole show and even sang LOLI POP. We circled around and worshipped the "God" from Eastern Ying. I don't know what kind of work he is engaged in in Japan, and I don't know if they can support themselves by making music in Japan, where the music market is healthy. I don't know if they came to the unfamiliar city of Wuhan and walked into the narrow door of VOX from the barbecue stall and sushi stall.
I just watched VOX's September performance schedule. On the 26th, there is a tour of the "French Melody Hardcore Group", and the ticket price is only 40 yuan. How many people can there be, I haven't been there for a long time, but I guess it won't be more than 200 people. I hope they can really "fire" and become BIG ROCK STAR; if not, I hope that one day their fans will shoot an excellent documentary for them, although they have not been on the same stage with BON JOVI; if not, then I hope They can play happily for fifty, thirty or even ten people.
I guess the dreams and ideals of most people in the world are not so noble and great. I hate people who always talk about their ideals being blocked and underappreciated. It seems that if the world does not allow his ideals to be realized, it is like all human beings are committing crimes. But I think it's a beautiful thing to keep encouraging yourself, getting on the road, hindering, and re-inspiring yourself when you are fifty years old, not only for the bystanders, but also for themselves. thing. These things are irrational at all, very stupid and naive, so stupid that they have nowhere to live, and they almost fought for a little money. It seems that only a fairy tale ending like this movie can save the humble and helpless reality. But in the end, it is beautiful, it is not self-righteous, or it is self-righteous at the same time to face it calmly.
Not everyone is smart, so cute and cute maybe also beautiful? I'm also hypocritical. Hey, let me first say that rock music is just a form of music, and it doesn't have much independent spiritual connotation, but with these people, Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die. Just never die, even if It's not a big deal.
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