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Manhattan, by Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks
In 2016, Woody Allen's 46th feature film "Café Society" was released, which is often translated as "Café Society" in China. The main line of the film is about the love experience between a man and a woman in the United States in the 1930s.
Bobby, a poor boy living in the Bronx, New York, did not want to inherit his father's boring jewelry business. He came to Hollywood alone to seek help from Phil, a wealthy businessman who runs a star agency, and thus met Phil's young secretary, Vonnie. Bobby falls in love with Vonnie, but Vonnie's heart already belongs - her married boss Phil. Phil broke up soon after, and the sad Vonnie was slowly drawn to Bobby's company and comfort. And just as Bobby is tired of the Hollywood ethos and intends to take Vonnie back to New York, Phil divorces his wife and proposes to Vonnie to get back together. Vonnie chose Phil.
After returning to New York alone, Bobby ran the club opened by his gangster brother Ben, and he became a socialite in the middle. In the shop, he met another beautiful and moving "Veronica" (Vonnie is Veronica's nickname). Bobby, who used to be nervous in front of prostitutes, has now captured Veronica's heart with glibness, marrying her and giving birth to a daughter.
One night, Phil and Vonnie came to Bobby's shop. Bobby found that Vonnie had also changed. She was quiet and taciturn, and she kept talking, and her mouth was full of gossip about those rich friends.
Taking advantage of Phil's business hours, Bobby takes Vonnie on a tour of New York. Once they played until the early morning, riding a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park and drinking red wine by the lake in the morning light. With the theme song "Manhattan" as a foil, Vonnie said she now travels (with conditions), and Bobby said he's enjoying his life as a New Yorker watching Broadway and eating Lindy's cheesecake. Of course, they also talked about Vonnie's choice, then couldn't help kissing, and then clicked to the end.
Later, Bobby seized the opportunity to visit Vonnie in Hollywood, and Vonnie euphemistically said not to see each other again. Later, at their respective New Year's parties, after the collective countdown and "A Friendship Is Lasting", amid the cheers and crowds, both of them lost their senses. "Manhattan" sounded again at this moment. The sound of the piano is like an hourglass that is falling back and forth, bit by bit, pulling thoughts to the golden time and space that only oneself - and perhaps the other party - knows; Regret, inch by inch, filled my heart.
This quiet and delicate arrangement of "Manhattan" is based on the famous 1925 Broadway satirical comedy "Garrick Gaieties", composed by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Introducing Bobby growing up while running the club, Woody narrates that he "learnt about life, and how in the end, Rodgers and Hart had it right" is a reference to the song and cites it as an allusion .
So what exactly is this "Manhattan" about? Not surprisingly, it's also the story of a young man and woman in Manhattan. In the lyrics, they don't have the money to go to Nyaragua Falls for their honeymoon (Bobby offered to do it when they propose), and they just see it as saving money; they're going to starve at Child's, a cheap civilian restaurant; they're going to the Coney Island playground. , to roll up the nonsense that he said and eat it.
The author's intentions are almost naked in this context. The couple in the song, they are poor but very happy. Yes, the two are not contradictory.
The name of the movie "café society" originally refers to the social class who often go to cafes, restaurants, and clubs. In the United States after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, dining establishments became places for legal drinking parties again. In addition, the news industry at that time began to use photos to tell stories, so movie stars and business celebrities who like to show their faces in such semi-public occasions. Get active. The club "Les Tropiques" run by Bobby in the film, all seats are decorated with large eye-catching zebra stripes, which is the classic logo of "El Morocco", one of the most prestigious clubs in Manhattan at the same time.
And this flashy era is also the golden age of Hollywood production. Blue Manhattan, golden Hollywood, Bobby and Vonnie have all changed their fates in the times - Vonnie relies on her husband Phil, Bobby relies on her brother Ben's ill-gotten wealth and model agent Rad's contacts and taste - - In the final analysis, it is nothing but climbing dragons and phoenixes. Or it shouldn't be so harsh to judge the comforting dream journey of two lovely characters, but at the time of their glorious reunion, farewell and lovesickness, this sweet and tender jazz played twice, who is it? Think of a pungent irony?
The film also spends a lot of ink on places that are not related to the main line: the introduction of one Bobby family at the beginning, Bobby's brother Ben murdered and overtaken goods and was arrested and sentenced, Bobby and his sister Evelyn had no money to call and had to write letters, Evelyn and his wife Disputes with logging camp security neighbors, Bobby's mother's anger at Ben's dying conversion to Christianity. These idle pens continue to entangle the main thread, and in my opinion, they are all reminding the audience that although some of them have flourished, they have always been Bronx Jews.
At first glance, I thought it was just a sighing romantic tragicomedy; after careful examination, I found this cruel disillusionment. However, every time the melody of "Manhattan" is hummed, there will be a dawn behind the high-rise buildings on the lake in Central Park, and the camera rotates in the New Year's party to close up Bobby's lonely eyes and back. So willingly believe that this song just means a guy from the Bronx, and his beloved girl from Nebraska.
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