Life is beautiful because of you

Makayla 2022-03-25 09:01:15

The title is translated very well. Actor Richard Dreyfuss was nominated for Best Actor at the 68th Academy Awards for this film. A high school music teacher, with his thirty years of music teaching, helped clarinet girls who lacked self-confidence to get out of their inferiority complex, taught black boys how to play drums, and sent away a class of graduates, while his son was born deaf and mute.
The first half of the film is a little dull, until the teacher is middle-aged, and the relationship with his family has a rift, and the hazy temptation entangles around him. Life seems to have stalled and the plot becomes intense and clear. The teacher resolved all the contradictions one by one with his beloved music, and sang for his son for the first time.
The film spans not only decades of the protagonist's life, but also three decades of American musical and social history (the Martin Luther King speeches, the assassination of Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the death of John Lennon). When the teacher retired on the day, the students held a farewell concert for him to express the highest respect to him, and the female governor delivered a speech:
"His success is more meaningful than fame and fortune, look at everyone around you, who has Influenced by you, and because of you, we have all become better people. We are your symphony orchestra, we are the notes and melody of your work, we are the movement of your life.
" The little girl with the sound.
ps. The deaf and mute son of adulthood is so handsome!

After watching the movie, I listened to all John Lennon songs.
John Lennon's "beautiful boy" sung by father for his deaf son Soundtrack: KBeautiful Boy [Darling Boy]

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  • Principal Jacobs: Mr. Holland, it has come to my attention that you are teaching the students rock and roll.

    Glenn Holland: Is this a problem?

    Vice Principal Gene Wolters: Is this a problem? Yes, I think so. Our only job is to teach. We cannot teach and the students cannot learn if there is no discipline.

    Glenn Holland: Uh... I'm sorry, uh, what exactly is your point, Gene?

    Vice Principal Gene Wolters: My point is rock and roll, by its very nature, leads to a breakdown in discipline.

    Glenn Holland: Well, what would you like me to do? Deny that rock and roll exists?

    Vice Principal Gene Wolters: What I am... What we are saying is that you should be pushing the classics. Brahms, Mozart, Stravinsky.

    Glenn Holland: Stravinsky was the music of the Russian Revolution, if you want to talk about a breakdown in discipline.

    Vice Principal Gene Wolters: You are deliberately exaggerating.

    Glenn Holland: How about the Kingston Trio, Gene? How about Sing Along with Mitch?

    Vice Principal Gene Wolters: Oh, please!

    Principal Jacobs: Just a minute, gentlemen. Mr. Holland, I do not want to interfere in the curriculum of any teacher. But next week, I have a meeting with the school board. And there are people in this community who believe that rock and roll is a message sent from the devil himself. Now when that issue comes up, what can I tell them?

    Glenn Holland: Mrs. Jacobs, you tell them that I am teaching music, and that I will use anything from Beethoven to Billie Holiday to rock and roll, if I think it'll help me teach a student to love music.

  • Bill Meister: [pulling Glenn out of the lunch line] Teachers don't wait.

    Glenn Holland: Pardon me?

    Bill Meister: High school is not a democracy. Teachers don't wait. Bill Meister, phys ed.

    Glenn Holland: Glenn Holland. Music teacher.

    Bill Meister: Hi.

    [Bill hands Glenn a plate of cafeteria food]

    Bill Meister: There you go.

    Glenn Holland: Oh, my God. What is this?

    Bill Meister: It's Monday. It's turkey Spam surprise. You could mortar walls with it. Word of advice: always bring a bag lunch.

    Glenn Holland: Where's yours?

    Bill Meister: I ate it in second period.