Sure enough, Hugh Grant is now the outdated singer Alex. What he faces is not popularity and sales, but a singer from the 1980s who can only appear on stage by winning a boxing match. He appeared as a nostalgic object, running around in small When he encountered the opportunity to write a song for the new generation of popular star Cora, so that he could become famous again, this positive former star, with the great efforts of his agent, decided to seize the opportunity. this opportunity. Sofia was a writer he accidentally met, and Alex asked her for her help, so a relationship was born because of co-writing and composing songs. The plot of the whole story is simple, and there are not many conflicts in the hearts of the characters, at least it does not make people feel very out of place, such as being very moved or very entangled. However, three of the characters' characteristics are still very clear.
Alex obeys reality, but it has to be said that he is positive, admits to reality and is willing to change himself. Although the accommodation of Cora's idea was out of selfishness and use, and to satisfy his wish to be turned over, he did not "hypocritically" oppose Cora's idea in order to respect the insistence on music itself, all he wanted was to start over. As in a conversation he had with Sofia in a coffee shop, Sofia asked him: What would you do if someone you admire said your composition was terrible? Alex said: "It's going to be depressed, maybe a few months, but then I'll find a lyricist and write a song about how depressed I am, and then I'll make it, make a lot of money, and then I'm not depressed anymore If you just let yourself do nothing, indulge yourself, and let sadness swallow you, until you become a wreck of your feelings, like a walking dead..." The whole paragraph is very cute and inspirational.
Judging from the difference of 7 years from the 38-year-old big sister, Sofia is 31 years old, the age of a mature woman. But that doesn't mean she doesn't have her own fairytale idea of a certain belief. She couldn't accept that Cora made grandstanding changes to songs in order to cater to fans and compete for No. 1 on the charts. Alex thinks she's someone who "sees things as fairy tales and gets very frustrated if they don't get the fairy tale ending". "She's always being herself." Alex's casual comment was exactly what Sofia was like.
The characteristics of the character Cora represent a typical example of commercialization and marketization in the entertainment industry. The mentally immature Lori uses some special signs to express herself. When Alex said at the beginning, "I rarely see such a young man of faith", I almost felt "different" by Cora. fascinated by things and temperaments. How amazing a Westerner who believes in Buddhism should be! At the end of the film, Alex broke the news to Sofia that Cora always thought that the Dalai Lama was a camel, which made people laugh and laugh. Alex's line "she's still a very romantic person" makes people see Cora's childish side.
It is worth mentioning that, from the film, I can see how a complete song is made. When I was a child, I always wondered whether a song had words or music first, until I saw a talk-like program on TV and interviewed a pair of songwriters, and I said "not necessarily"! You can have the lyrics and then write the music, or you can have the music to fill in the lyrics first. The cooperation between Alex and Sofia was produced in the alternation of words and songs, so it is necessary for Sofia to sit at the piano and listen repeatedly, picking up her big book in the room, on the road, and in the coffee shop. Sometimes it's a word, sometimes it's a sentence. Alex and Sofia are especially charming in this scene where the two are at work at the same time. I like to see Sofia keep pressing the pen when she is thinking, as if she is a child who can't do her homework. And when Alex played, recorded different instruments in the room, and finally synthesized a demo on the computer, the talent and temperament of the musician was so fascinating! Not a singer who can only sing, but a musician who can write songs and understand musical instruments. Therefore, in my mind, I have always felt that the people who make the band are closer to the music than the average singer.
The others are nothing, the most praiseworthy is the song "Way back into love", which is very nice. And when you see the process of its release in the film (of course, this song may not be the real release), you will also understand many details, such as the meaning of words such as "shadow", "corner of the soul" and "compromise". I think the BT Chinese subtitles of the version I'm watching have a good translation of this song.
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