Director Clint Wright is a very interesting person. Earlier, I was engaged in oil drilling work, but because I like novels and movies, I decided to start film work. As an independent director, he often writes, directs and even starred in himself.
As a director with an old literary youth temperament, he always likes to focus his lens on rebellious young people and give rare sympathy and understanding. Therefore, in Klin Wright's movies, life is always full of unrealistic beauty. Young and energetic young people and a group of friends, music, beer and afternoon sun will make people very envious.
Audiences familiar with this director know that his films generally have simple plots and a lot of dialogue, which is represented by the "Love in" trilogy. Can be described as a typical chattering film. The shooting time of the three movies was 9 years apart, and the stories in the movies were also 9 years apart.
Reality and story have reached a certain degree of consistency in his films, which makes people fall into the illusion that it is not clear whether this is a story or a movie. Therefore, this consistency in time makes people feel the same as a documentary when watching his movies.
The first film was released in 1995. Jesse and Selena met for the first time. They fell in love at first sight, but they parted in a hurry. The second film was released in 2004. When they met again nine years later, both people have their own problems in life; The third part was released in 2013. Nine years later, the two who entered the middle age finally lived together. Their passion was no longer. Although life was not good, it was extremely real.
The director seems to particularly like to use this kind of illusion in time. In his other movie "Boyhood", Clint Wright spent twelve years filming the growth of a child from six to eighteen years old, and then showed it in a short three-hour movie. come out. The little boy watching the movie slowly and naturally grows into a big boy. Every audience can feel the passing of time.
At the end of the movie "Boyhood", the actor drove out of town to go to college. And at the beginning of this latest movie, "Everything Has His Youth", it is also the protagonist Jack who drives the car and listens to music to report to the university.
The two films are connected so well before and after that, that when I saw the first act, I had an illusion. It seemed that the boy in "Boyhood" was on his way to school, accidentally crossing back to the 80s, and then There is a story about this movie.
Like most of his previous movies, the story of a movie can always be summed up in one sentence, without the complexity of the plot. For example, the "Love Is in" trilogy spans 18 years, and it is just a story of two people meeting each other and knowing each other in love; "Boyhood" spans 12 years, it is nothing more than a story of a little boy growing up; In just five days and four nights, I told a bitter and sweet entrance story of a college freshman.
Director Clint Wright once said that this movie was based on his own university life as a prototype. In the director's view, college entrance is a special period in everyone's life. Leaving the family, all of a sudden no bondage, you want to know who you are. And this process of finding oneself usually happens at parties.
Therefore, during the five days and four nights in the movie, there will be a party every night, from the Disco bar to the country bar, then to the rock scene, and finally a makeup party for the acting department. Correspondingly, every day of the story basically starts in the afternoon.
I believe that no morning is the common experience of every college student in the world. At least for me in college, every day starts at noon and ends at midnight.
The director also thinks that during this period of time, you will play with some funny, weird, but kind-hearted people, and they will become your friends. It feels good. You seem to have absorbed their energy and spirit, that is a very good state.
So the director set up a group of baseball players with their own characteristics in the movie. They drink and chat together to play some weird games with their own defined rules, and they also talk about weird topics in sports matches.
In short, this group of people will be the most important group of people in the actor's upcoming college life, just as the friends everyone knew when he was in college may be the best friends of his life.
Of course, there is always love in a beautiful story. The first meeting at the beginning of the movie, a love letter in the middle, then an interesting call, a party, and finally a conversation in the lake. Their love is very simple and direct, but it is so beautiful that it is enviable. They talked about Whitman's poetry, the essence of rock music, and even the belief in life.
Therefore, the theme of this movie is very simple, it is nothing more than the two major themes of college life: friendship between college students and love between lovers. Although there were too many characters in the whole movie, and the director failed to portray them, I basically didn't know anyone except the heroes and heroines.
But the simple beauty of the movie made me very excited. Perhaps in terms of party culture, our college life is not as exciting as theirs, but we also have our own college age. This youthful passion and simple beauty is always universal in the world.
In addition, there is a very important element in the movie, and that is the accurate use of music. As a director who was born in the 1960s and went to college in the 1980s, it seems that music is what brings everyone together.
So Linklater himself has a great taste in music, and always has high demands on the music in movies. In the movie "Everything Has His Youth", there are various styles of American pop music of the 1980s.
First of all, the title of the movie "Everybody Wants Some!!" in English is "Everybody Wants Some!!", which comes from a song of the same name by the important metal band Van Halen in the 1970s, and this song is also Appeared in the movie.
At the beginning of the movie, the music that the protagonist Jack listened to when he drove to school was "My Sharona" by The Knack, a classic American rock band in the 70s and 80s. Advocating the charming taste of rock and freedom.
Then, various classic rock bands and their classic songs appeared in the movie, including Pink Floyd, Patti Smith, Blondie, Queen, The Cars, Dire Straits, Blondie, Foreigner and so on.
So, for a fan of classic rock music-especially rock music from the 1960s and 70s-watching this movie may not care about the plot, but which band and song will appear next. .
At the end of the movie, after a long night of talk, the hero and the heroine officially started to class, reluctantly saying goodbye in front of the teaching building. Then the baseball teammates showed up and joked with each other. Then the professor wrote on the blackboard: Frontiers are where you find them. However, the male lead fell asleep.
"Good Times Roll" by The Cars sounded:
Let the good times roll
Let them knock you around
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Attached is a list of all the music in the movie and my own NetEase Cloud Music Playlist:
http://music.163.com/#/m/playlist?id=416850305&userid=20585393
"My Sharona" — The Knack
"Gold" — John Stewart ft. Stevie Nicks
"Driver's Seat" — Sniff'n' The Tears
"Rapper's Delight" — Sugar Hill Gang
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"I'm Bad (I'm Nationwide)" — ZZ Top
"Take Your Time, Do It Right" — SOS Band
"Let's Get Serious" — Jermaine Jackson
"Shake Your Groove Thing" — Peaches & Herb
"Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)" — Parliament
"Driving Me Backwards" — Brian Eno
"Lookin' For Love" — Johnny Lee
"Miss Broadway" — Belle Epoque
"All Night Long" — Joe Walsh
"Sleep Dirt" — Frank Zappa
"Heart Of Glass" — Blondie
"Urgent" — Foreigner
"Romeo's Tune" — Steve Forbert
"Ladies Night" — Kool & The Gang
"Bad Girls" — Donna Summer
"Good Times"— Chic
"Drivin' My Life Away" — Eddie Rabbitt
"Cotton-Eyed Joe" — Beau Smith
"Every 1's A Winner" — Hot Chocolate
"Fearless" — Pink Floyd
"Another One Bites The Dust" — Queen
"Alternative Ulster" — Stiff Little Fingers
"Frat Cars" — Riverboat Gamblers
"Gilligan's Island" — Riverboat Gamblers
"Heartbreaker" — Pat Benatar
"Everybody Wants Some!" — Van Halen
"Ain't Talkin''Bout Love" — Van Halen
"Treat Me Right" — Pat Benatar
"Because the Night" — Patti Smith Group
"Whip It" — Devo
"Rough Boys "— Pete Townshend
"Maybe I'm a Fool" — Eddie Money
"Cars" — Gary Numan
"Pop Muzik" — M
"Minimum Wage" — The BusBoys
"Third Uncle" — Brian Eno
"No Judy" — Standing Waves
"Hand In Hand" — Dire Straits
"Good Times Roll" — The Cars
"Cherokee ChaChow" — The TWITA Boys
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