Yesterday All my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday
I went to see this movie and it was a great experience. Laughed to tears, moved to tears. Maybe it's because I haven't watched "Charlotte Trouble", but watching this movie is pure joy and emotion.
In fact, I was not a bug fan before watching the movie. The Beatles were too far away from me. Ashamed to say, the first time I heard a Beatles song was Stefanie Sun's cover of "hey Jude". The Beatles were popular in the 60s and 70s, and they were in Liverpool, England, and it was hard for me to relate to both. Their songs are not the "big rock" that I like, but they feel a little old-fashioned because they are too old. This led me to never understand the worship and deification of the Beatles by Europeans and Americans. Last year at the ACL Music Festival, Paul McCartney came, and I didn't even bother to watch it. Even he stayed in the hotel where I was staying, so I didn't feel particularly excited. Until I was brought to a world without the Beatles by the movie, when Jack with missing teeth sang the melody of "Yesterday", imagine hearing this song for the first time, and the Beatles were in another world far away, directly affected by the music Moved to tears.
The protagonist Jack is an unhappy little guy. His parents immigrated to the UK from India. He likes music but is not a genius. He usually sings some songs that no one pays attention to in bars. Very few. Most of the time Jack is doing errands in the supermarket and is oppressed by the supermarket manager. Fortunately, he has three or five goofy friends, especially Ellie, a laughing girl with frizzy hair most of the time. Ellie himself is a school teacher, but in his spare time he acts as Jack's manager, fan and driver, accompanying Jack in various places to sing songs that no one listens to and applaud him. But the setbacks in music finally made Jack discouraged, and Jack decided to give up his music dream and switch to a "serious" job.
Change happens overnight. At night, when Jack rode his bike home, there was a sudden power outage around the world. Jack was hit by a bus in the dark. Waking up in the hospital, Jack was lying in bed with a mouth and two missing front teeth. Ellie came to see him, restrained his smile and said, "Dear Jack, I'm so sorry, everyone would have sympathized with you, but unfortunately because of your teeth, everyone might just laugh at you." Sure enough, Jack was discharged from the hospital to see friends, sand sculpture friends Their first reaction was to raise their phone and take a selfie with Jack with his missing teeth. Jack laughed at himself, "I'm like a rebellious bunny now." When I heard this, the drink in my mouth almost spit out with laughter.
The day he was discharged from the hospital happened to be Jack's birthday, and Ellie gave Jack a guitar, still wanting him to stick to his music dream. Jack picks up the guitar and decides to play a song to save face, so he plays the Beatles' Yesterday. In the faint sunshine, three or five friends were sitting by the river, and Jack sang about yesterday's troubles written by the legendary band decades ago. Unbeknownst to Jack, the world has changed after a blackout, a parallel world without the Beatles. Ellie was in tears and thought it was written by herself, and asked moved: "Why did you write this?" Jack's black question mark face, this was written by the Beatles, everyone "Who?", Jack was shocked "The Beatles? Paul McCartney?". One of the sand sculpture friends also added fuel to the fire, "The songs are good, but they are still incomparable with Coldplay." Jack felt that either the world was crazy or he was crazy, and his expression at that time was as follows. In fact, most of the time in the film Jack's expression is as follows.
Jack thought that his friends were stupid, until he suddenly felt blessed and went home and searched for The Beatles. The result that came up on google was actually an introduction to the beetle, an insect in nature. Jack didn't give up, and continued to search for Lennon, McCartney and others, but found nothing. Jack experienced a subversive few days. He recalled the songs and lyrics of the Beatles crazily. He couldn't recall some places, and he always wanted to sing all the time. The family thought he was crazy. Not only the Beatles, but Jack accidentally discovered that there is no Coca-Cola or cigarettes in this world.
He went to the bar where he usually sang and sang the Beatles' Summer Song. The audience still didn't respond, only Ellie thought the song was great, and Jack couldn't understand it. Fortunately, a little record manager heard it and asked Jack if he would like to record with him. Jack was overjoyed, feeling that his chance had finally come. Before going out, Jack's Indian parents knew that their son had been shutting himself in the room to write songs, so they asked him to play a song. Jack started to play Let it be, but he sang it from the beginning several times, and it was the third sentence. Before he finished singing, he was interrupted by various trivial matters of his parents. Jack stubbornly sang it again. Dad said that he had just listened to this passage, so you can continue singing. This time, even the cowardly Jack couldn't help but get angry: "This is Let it be! You are the first people in the world to hear it, it's like Leonardo da Vinci painting the Mona Lisa right in front of you. , but you don't care!" Jack's parents were also speechless, thinking that their son was really crazy, and compared the broken song he wrote to Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Again, this part is still laughing to the point of tears.
Jack's real turning point came when Huang's boss, Ed Sheeran, heard the songs he recorded at the little record manager and thought it was too good, so he drove to Jack overnight. When Boss Huang entered the house, Jack's mother opened the door and said happily, "Jack! Your friend has come to find you. He looks very nice." Boss Huang was speechless. The two were chatting in Jack's kitchen. Boss Huang invited Jack to warm up his concert tour, and Jack readily agreed. In the middle Jack's father went into the kitchen to get some things, saw Boss Huang, and said, "Wow you look like that Ed Sheeran." Boss Huang said calmly: "I am Ed Sheeran." Dad laughed and patted Boss Huang The shoulder went out. Boss Huang was speechless, and Jack was embarrassed.
Since then, the process of opening Jack has begun. Boss Huang's agent felt that he had discovered a gold mine and decided to pack Jack well. Jack became more and more famous, but Boss Huang refused to accept it. Whoever wrote better than Jack wrote songs on the spot. Of course, Boss Huang's songs were good, but when Jack came up with another Beatles song, Boss Huang resigned and was shocked. people.
But Jack is not happy, even if there is applause and flowers around, he is always afraid that everyone will eventually find out that he is just a shameful copycat, and he and Ellie are getting farther and farther. Ellie is still a teacher in her hometown, and Jack is already an international superstar. Ellie felt that she and Jack were no longer in the same world, and left with a heartbreak.
After a concert, two people found Jack, both of them were middle-aged, one was a British woman and the other was an ordinary middle-aged Russian man. Jack found these two men stalking him a lot, and I, as a viewer, thought they were going to assassinate Jack, just like they did with Lennon. But in fact, these two people found Jack just to thank them. It turns out that they also remember the Beatles, but they can't sing and don't remember the lyrics. They thanked Jack for giving the Beatles to the world. They said, "The world is a lot better with the Beatles." One language, and he finally found two people who could speak English.
The two told Jack that Lennon was still alive, and Jack visited the old Lennon who lived alone by the sea. In this world, Lennon did not write songs, and lived to be very old, still lean and shrewd, very wise. After meeting with Lennon, Jack decided to return the truth to the world. At a concert, he sang all the songs that made the audience crazy. At the end of the concert, he walked to the front of the stage, Ellie's face appeared on the big screen, and Jack said goodbye to Ellie and told everyone the story of the Beatles.
At the end of the film, of course, Happy Ending, Jack returns to teach at Ellie's school, teaching the children to sing the Beatles. Jack tells Ellie about Harry Potter in the last scene, Ellie asks who it is, Jack is surprised at first, then shakes his head and smiles and says nothing.
Forget the passage I saw when it was said that only a small number of people in the world can influence the process of human beings and improve human society, and the remaining people are only born to reproduce. If this sentence is true, then the Beatles are one of the people who have influenced human culture, not only the invention of electric light wheat and a series of things that make people live better, but also the cultural heritage that is left over . After watching a short video, Paul McCartney was recognized by fans on the street. A large number of middle-aged male fans took Paul's hand and wept, saying that my brother was named after you, my father's funeral your song on the top. The songs of the Beatles are the kind of faint sadness, but they are positive, which makes people very comfortable to listen to. The songs written by a few young guys contain a lot of life philosophy and have influenced generations. When this cultural heritage is collectively forgotten, Jack, an ordinary young man, took on the responsibility of introducing the Beatles music to the world alone, and this setting alone makes people feel moved.
Why the Beatles, because others don't have that kind of influence. The Beatles are the only band that has been around for 40 years, a band in the 1960s and a Billboard number one in the 1990s. He used to be as brilliant as Elvis, but now few people listen to his songs, which shows that Elvis' songs are time-sensitive, while the Beatles are more immortal. Losing the Beatles is more human than losing Elvis. Loss. Imagine how dull this world would be without "A Dream of Red Mansions" or without Shakespeare, not to mention the writers who were influenced by "A Dream of Red Mansions" and Shakespeare would not exist at all. Human beings live not only for survival and reproduction, but also because of the stars of this civilization, allowing us to enjoy more fun than animals, allowing us to explore the depth of our souls in addition to three meals a day.
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