Cherie was only 15 years old at the time, and Qiao An was still far from 18 years old. In terms of timbre, they are no different from mature women, but the tone of voice can still only be the same as that of children. Children born in the United States and raised under the banner of Stars and Stripes are by no means carefree. It is true that they will not be trafficked into black brick kilns to burn charcoal, nor can they dig coal in black mines, but life is not easy. Cherie comes from a family that cannot be said to be perfect. Her father is an alcoholic, and her mother is about to remarry to Indonesia. She can only support each other with her twin sister. Qiao An is like a girl who grew up alone. We don't know her family status, and she didn't explain much in the movie. Qiao Ann is obsessed with music. The teacher said that girls shouldn't play electric guitars. She still persistently connected the loudspeaker to express her disobedience with a loud noise.
The music producer Kim organized the two of them and several other girls together, and the band "Escape" was born. Cherie is the lead singer, and Qiao Ann is the lead guitarist and backing vocal. Kim's training for the band can be described as cruel. These little girls have to learn to withstand all kinds of harassment from the audience, and they have to learn to stand up, that is to roar or wailing like male rock singers, and closely focus on three themes: sex , Violence and rebellion. To sum it up in today's popular Chinese, the essence is to sing with the lower body. The scheming Kim and a group of innocent and immature girls are bound together through a common goal. They all hope to achieve success through rock and roll and revolutionize the rock world like the Beatles.
Unfortunately, it is difficult for the "Escape" band to create a coordinated overall image, and they cannot become the desired girly Beatles. On the one hand, women's involvement in rock and roll undoubtedly has epoch-making significance to break the barrier of gender. On the other hand, they had to develop their sexual charm in depth, repeatedly emphasizing their identity as the object of sexual fantasy. Cherie was chosen as the lead singer first because her image fits the popular culture's expectations of sex symbols such as blonde girls. They hope to subvert the tradition, and the methods that can be used actually strengthen the tradition. Kim simply said that the band has nothing to do with women's liberation, only with women's hormones. The banners played by the "fleeing" girls are "No Bra", "Bad Girl" and "Bad Girl". "Jailbait" (Jailbait) refers to girls who are underage but are already sexually seduced. They can easily make some grown-ups uneasy, such as the great director Polanski more than 30 years ago. Once an adult deviates, the result can only be prison.
The most famous song of the band was handwritten by Kim and Cherie. It is called "Cherry Bomb" (Cherry Bomb). The most popular one is
Hey street boy what's your style
Your dead end dreams don't make you smile
I 'll give ya something to live for
Have ya, grab ya til your sore
Kim completely ignores the actual age of these little girls. The lyrics he figured out contain some sex-related verbs, the core is girls on the street Unconcealed teasing of the opposite sex. When Cherie auditioned, she would naturally have psychological barriers. At this time, the more mature Qiao An said, it doesn't matter, it's just a song. Cherie is played by Dakota Fanning, a child star. She happened to be 15 years old during the filming, and she was the same age as the role. Kristen Stewart, who became popular with "Twilight", played Joanne, she was 19 years old. Like the character, Stewart has black hair.
This movie is based on Cherie's memoirs. In real life, there is a relationship of same-sex love between her and Qiao Ann. During the day and night, they both sang loudly and occasionally kissed each other. The United States has strict restrictions on what minors can do on the screen. They can wear boys’ clothes to look cool, they can wear tight underwear and mesh stockings to simulate maturity, or they can rub the original neat T-shirts and use the words "sex pistol". Spray to the chest, but no director is willing to take the legal risk of spreading child pornography directly to shoot sex scenes. The closeness details of Qiao An and Cherie are more like a MV, the camera drifts left and right, the colors alternate between cold and warm, the picture changes between virtual and real, and a chandelier that shakes like a pendulum that is completely out of control further strengthens the chaos. The background music uses a male singer's singing, not the runaway band's own music. I have a killer app called "Soundhound" installed on my iPhone. As long as I hear sweet music, I am interested and able to figure out the ins and outs. The song "I Want to Be Your Dog" by The Stooges is selected in the movie. The lyrics are mainly "feel your hand", which is far better than the "grab" and "pinch" in "Cherry Bomb". "Live" comes softly. Qiao Ann took off the shoes Cherie had been wearing after the calm and calm the next morning. It was a pair of roller skates. They did not grow up.
The success and collapse of the band are the same as meteors, coming and going fast. Cherie failed to overcome the temptation of drugs and alcohol. Her music career had just begun and was over. After all, she could not anchor herself in the adult world. Qiao An's pursuit is much more persistent and more self-restraining, and she finally succeeded. After the "Escape" band was disbanded, Qiao Ann started anew and became the lead singer in a new band. Her lead singer "I Love Rock and Roll" appeared at the end of the movie. This song once ranked first on the pop music charts for 7 consecutive weeks and became a famous song in the history of rock and roll. It was 1982, three years after the disbanding of The Runaways.
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