not that I am harsh, but the legendary status of Footloose in teen movies is indeed mostly established by Kevin Bacon. Whether it is his narrow tie, yellow beetle, burgundy suit jacket in this film, or his famous creation "Kevin Bacon Six Jump" in the following thirty years, American people are talking about it. So the 2011 version of the actor Kenny Wormald was thrown into a more embarrassing situation: in terms of looks, the 27-year-old Wormald (coincidentally, he happened to be born in the same year as the original version) is also considered a Zhou Zheng sign, but said He lacks the shrewdness and evil spirit of Bacon by no means a few. In terms of performance, Wormald, who is a professional dancer, is definitely better than Bacon whose waist is like a willow and his arms are like noodles, and the dance moves he can perform are more complex and exquisite, but Compared with Bacon, who had never received any professional training before shooting but was still able to take off and somersault on the spot, it was inevitable that the audience could not stop the audience from curling their lips and using a "tsk" to sum up all the feelings in their hearts.
Well, in fact, compared to the rough and casual original version, this remake, which has been meticulously crafted in the script, choreography, scene design, and costumes, is still a success, but if you are careful enough to take every famous line from the original version 、 If every stalk is included, this is too lack of originality and is a bit offensive to the critics. However, through the completion of some plots and the rearrangement of some scenes, the problem of the slightly chaotic logic of the original version is basically solved, but some of the intentional pavings in the original version can be considered removed, and the added scenes in some paragraphs are not easy to see. It's like Cliche injected to please the audience, so... the new version of Footloose is no longer what it looked like in the 1980s youth film. As for whether the change is more effective than it was, I am not qualified to evaluate it-when the original version was released, I still Not born yet.
I personally think that Ren McCormack’s personality changes can be regarded as the most intriguing part of the new version-Bacon’s Ren has a lot of David Bowie elements: outrageous but unassuming (At this time, Bowie has already said goodbye to Ziggy Stardust and Thin White Duke. , Maybe it’s not too much to describe it like this?), sensual but not impulsive, thin but not weak, slightly lazy, slightly absent-minded and non-exciting anti-hero temperament, plus Bacon originally has a sharp edge similar to Bowie , Both good and evil looks; and Wormald version of Ren uses more of James Dean's symbols: leather jackets, white T-shirts, frowning brows most of the time, and cruel and unable to bridge the family and growth problems. For me, this is actually a bit difficult to understand: Bowie was the superstar at the time when the original version was released. It is not surprising that teenage films use him as a spiritual idol, but why did you play a rebellious post-war youth fan in 2011? Son? Originally, it was a bit far-fetched to move the background of the film from 1984 to now. After all, young people now have more ways to vent themselves than they were 27 years ago. You don’t have to hold on to dancing. Ren is a character. The drift of the above makes people feel that it is not convincing enough: Ren in the original version is still a basically happy child even though he has left his hometown, while the life experience of Ren in the new version is too unbearable to look back, and it is harder to believe that such a character will be so dedicated. To take advantage of a Senior Prom to prove yourself. When asked about this film more than ten years later, Bacon once said: "During these years, as long as I go to weddings, adult ceremonies, parties, or clubs, there will always be DJs playing the songs from the Footloose soundtrack. Come, and then people will immediately surround me with excitement, clapping and clapping together. It seems that I want me to jump up and down and perform tricks like a well-trained monkey. In the end, I can't bear it, every time this happens. , I would go to the DJ and say, "Dude, give you 20 yuan, please pinch this song." But I actually like the original soundtrack. I think the songs in it are pretty good." So probably This is the true position of Footloose: the American bar culture of booze. But this is also the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the wisdom. Perhaps the new version just wants to express that under the background of the new era, Ren’s behavior has deeper motivations and stronger emotions. Compared with the loose and loose tone of the original version, the new version is undoubtedly a lot more serious. .
The essence of the original version of Footloose is the family drama of the priest’s family, but the new version shifts the focus to Ren and becomes the story of the growth of the youth, which undoubtedly makes the plot more compact, but it is a little regrettable that in general, the character of Ren In addition to becoming heavier, the new version did not develop a new dimension for him, but the newly designed choreography is very worth seeing.
If you really want to watch this film, then I advise you to ignore the IMDB score. The score of this film is terribly low, and even the original score is not in line with its reputation-I don’t know why this score is low, I think it’s probably It’s because there are actually quite a few parts in the film that reflect the dark side of teenagers’ lives, and like the priest in the film, he thinks that the music and dance film for teenagers must be like Grease, and they must be very elegant and beautiful. There are no emotional people; and as someone commented on the original page: "If you think this film is silly and meaningless, it's because you didn't grow up in the 80s."
By the way: Probably the most ingenious plot in the original version is the scene where Ren teaches Willard to dance. Because the actor who plays Willard in the original version does not know how to dance, this is the famous one; and the new version is mixed through Rabbit Hole A familiar Miles Teller was very pleasantly surprised. The ridiculous and lovely simplicity of learning to dance even surpassed the performance of the original actor. This is probably one of the highlights of the new version after I watched the new version and the original.
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