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. "It's ten o'clock at night. All the boring people on this planet are wearing slippers and sipping a sip of sherry before bed. But for people who love rock music, come Say, the night has just begun. You're listening to Radio Rock, I'm Kurt, and I'm asking you to join the countdown to All Day and All of the Night, a song by The Kinks It is said that this is the most personal script written by the British screenwriter Richard Curtis (the previous "Mr Bean", "Four Weddings and a Funeral
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, "Notting Hill", "BJ's Single Diary" are all popular comedies), he put his favorite 200 classic rock songs of the 1960s into the iPods of all the actors, and then led them back through time and space. to the crazy sixties. Under the control and manipulation of his usual British humor and chamber comedy, he made a group of rogue DJs use music as a weapon to fight against "partisan parties" and the government, and even went against the trend to promote more old-fashioned jazz. On the sea where the emperor is far away, on a broken ship in the high seas of the British North Sea, this group of rogue DJs recklessly enjoys a utopian free life...
sounds very interesting, especially in the context of the current era, and this year is Woodstock's 40th birthday, although Americans have not been able to organize more lively commemorative activities because of money, but China on the other side of the ocean. However, major media and young literary and artistic people are vigorously commemorating this game of middle-class children. And "Pirate Radio" obviously came at the right time. Although it was in the UK, it was at sea, not a band, let alone a music festival, but a group of hippie DJs with a chaotic lifestyle and enviable men and women. Relationships have the freedom and do whatever they want and irresponsibility that contemporary people most desire. So you might as well be obsessed with it, and there are so many classic old rock and rolls that can be heard, without looking at the picture, just listening to the original soundtrack of the movie once is enough. But is it really so? Is "Pirate Radio" just a look back or a memory? Or is it just a thrill of entertainment brought by a large scale of sensationalism, what kind of modernity metaphor does the rock fairy tale created by "Pirate Radio" have? Or maybe that's what it is, with middle-class self-comfort and mainstream tastes, a narcissism full of vested interests. And Utopia, an already overused word, can be used again.
Utopia freedom
-- who is fighting against whom
. "Pirate Radio" is also Richard Curtis's second film after the "Love Actually" with many clues. More than once: "As a person born in the 1950s, the rock wave of the 60s is absolutely impossible to miss. The official radio station at the time, the BBC, did not want to play rock music, so we had to listen to the independent radio stations. The show - they don't mean to play rock at all. It is with this music that my generation can grow up." So the story is set in 1966, and the British government at that time was very disliked by rock music, so An illegal "pirate radio station" is fighting against the government, playing around the clock rock music that is regarded as a rebellion. And 25 million people - more than half the population of Britain at the time - listened to the station faithfully in private.
Just as these DJs were living a "drunk life and dream death" life at sea, the British Prime Minister and government officials were eyeing this group of outlaws "spreading vulgar commercial rock music", and racking their brains to eliminate them before Christmas. they. Kenneth Branagh plays the stereotypical British official who confronts a group of hippie DJs on the North Sea with his sissy sidekick Tuvat. In the fights that come and go, the authorities are lucky enough to discover the drawbacks of a pirate radio station, amplify it, exaggerate it, criminalize it as an illegal radio station, and resolutely ban it, and people all over England are sadly listening to their favorite radio for the last time, background music. Turned into the sad old song "Doomsday". A few minutes after the music went out, there was unbridled laughter: "Just kidding, guys, let's rock together!" The officials immediately blew their beards and stared with anger, while people from all walks of life in the UK were singing and dancing.
Just like the frivolous tone of the film, this so-called "freedom" and confrontation with the government are also frivolous. It's a kind of "hedgehog" freedom. The deal with the government is even worse than "sit-in", and the freedom here does not extend. When the hull sank, the hooligans were saved, and the shouting was "Long Live Rock and Roll", which was funny like a child's play. The freedom here is not "to have bread and roses", not "to make love and not to fight", but just a group of "middle-class children" who have no worries about food and clothing. Fortunately, this kind of fun can support them to continue to enjoy themselves. Their real enemy is not the government, but advertisers. Just like the situation faced by the record industry and the rock and roll industry later, there are no revolutionary actions, only revolutionary emptiness and imagination, and eventually they are recruited by the government, or they cannot survive at all.
Utopia
of love
——Who is having a relationship with whom . Although
there are only men on board, because the only cook Felicity is still a lesbian (gay), but they do not lack women companion. Although the youngest Carl's only kissing experience was being licked by a horse, he found his true love after searching hard. After a failed sexual experience, he met the woman he liked, only to find that the other party was lying on the fat man. DJ Dave on the bed. No frustrating, though frustrating is useless, no one can just do it, and you're just a little less skilled.
Simple Simon, who firmly believes that "one love is enough", suddenly married the beautiful Eleanor like a jackpot. On the first morning after the wedding night, when he excitedly made tea for the bride At that time, Eleanor said that she liked another sexy DJ Gavin on the boat. When the other party didn't plan to get married, she asked Simon to start. This short 17-hour marriage ended like this. Then, Simon didn't commit suicide. This plot is just a plot. Anyway, the movie is a multi-role show, and everyone is just a part.
In addition to Dave, the fat man in love, the midnight DJ Mark's way of picking up girls made everyone jealous. He didn't have to say a few words, and even when he was hosting the show, he simply made a "WOW" to make countless women. Ecstasy. During an event for enthusiastic listeners to visit the radio station, there were about 200 people gathered on the deck, but after regrouping, there were less than half of them. Finally Quentin opens Mark's room, which is full of naked women. Who doesn't want to have such a courtesy, as long as you have enough physical strength, you can coordinate and not be dragged down by worldly feelings.
Back to Carl, who was expelled from school for drug use, because he was young, he has been puzzled as to why he was sent by his mother to such a corrupt rock and roll ship. He imagined that his godfather, the cool captain Quentin, was his father. Unexpectedly, the scruffy, bearded freak "Silent Bob" was his biological father, and his elegant and noble mother said that "he was charming at the time". If it's just a relationship between men and women, "Pirate Radio" can still make people smile, but the terrible thing is that there are "searching for father" and "searching for roots", and asking "who am I and where do I come from", it seems It's more vexatious. Although there are coincidences inside and outside the play, the more convincing stimulus is the ethics of relationship, not the relationship of ethics.
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。. Utopia day and night rock
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This illegal radio station introduced a lot of rock music like "The Beatles" and "Rolling Stones" to a large number of very enthusiastic listeners, which seemed very rebellious at the time, as well as guitar god Jimi Hendrix, Legendary singers such as psychedelic actress Janice Joplin and soul queen Aretha Franklin. Although these DJs have problems with their lifestyles, they are very loyal rock fans themselves. The head of this group of DJs was originally an American named Kurt. with each of its collaborators. Gavin, who came back from the United States after the "marijuana journey", is better at sensationalizing and creating atmosphere. One mouth is pornographic jokes and sexual innuendos. Many teachers and prospective teachers are good at this. DJ" went to war. In addition, there is Bob, who produces midnight shows, indulges in ballads and drugs, and John, the newscaster, all of whom are the music addicts on this grass band. The innocence is comparable to Gillian and Noriko Sakai.
At the end of the film, when the rock ship was wrecked, the sad and euphemistic background music reverberated throughout the cabin and the whole of England. Every listener was silently praying for the people on the cruise, and the vinyl records washed away by the water were broken. Floating on the water, it seems to indicate to the audience that this is another Titanic-style shipwreck tragedy, and the director also slyly imitated this classic scene: DJ Kurt, who insisted on playing music for everyone to the end, Carl returned to the water. Looking for his father Bob, who is addicted to music like his life, especially the part where he jumps down to get the record back, is really inspiring.
When everyone gathered in the stern to avoid the surging waters, the authorities also categorically rejected the signals of these "rebels" for help. When everyone thought that these lively and lovely guys were going to be buried in the belly of the fish, all of a sudden the sound of chirping sounded everywhere, and there were rescue boats from countless radio fans spontaneously appearing on the sea surface where the fog dissipated. The DJs were rescued by their respective fans, hugging, kissing, cheering, and the enthusiasm melted the icy cold of the North Sea. When the ship sank completely, Kurt, who held on until the end, jumped out of the water with the waves and shouted "Long Live Rock", and everyone followed and chanted "Long Live Rock".
Some people were moved, some people cried, some people laughed, some people were very intoxicated, some people remembered themselves, and some people remembered the raging era, and went crazy to pay homage, I The eyelashes were almost blown off by the wind. In fact, what sank with the ship may be dreams, ideals, youth, ethics, Mood for Love, or evil. If there is anything that will live long, it must not be rock and roll. This short-lived musical form has long completed its historical mission, and the children of the middle class and their remnants worship not the spirit of rock and roll, but sinking. "Thinking about what it was in the past, not remembering some mistakes, dressing up and saying good things..." Let's pretend to dress up, this is the age of dressing up. (superfei also contributed to this article)
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