It's annoying to hold a party, and the beginning of "Midsummer" is a lot of money, and punks are so united.
Show you what it means to sit in a row and watch rock and roll, no swaying, no heart-to-heart, let you feel the feeling of being suffocated by the power of the wild in your body, let you know that the power is not only rock music, but also under the stage without using your toes. The audience beat in their shoes, watch them sweat, watch them hold their breath, and then rush out of the room to quietly go home to listen to Victor Choi.
In the summer of 2019, a variety show "Summer of the Band" pierced the sky and landed in the green screen frame of iQIYI. It was new, or never existed, and with a sense of being unable to The sense of alienation in control, everyone watched with relish, a ferocious force suddenly burst out in the silence, this force came from a group of middle-aged people, a group of bands with mass foundation and performance experience, novelty and sincerity, programs and traffic, Contradictions and renderings, as the audience and the musicians on the screen play together, watch the short stories, listen to the monologues and shout. The show has finished the finals, the midsummer is coming to an end, and the musicians and the audience will return to their respective lives.
What I want to talk about today is not "Summer of the Band", but the 2018 Russian rock biopic "Midsummer" Leto .
The film was intercepted from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, and recorded the history of the fortune of the former Soviet rock star Viktor Cui Ви́ктор Ро́бертович Цой.
Victor Choi is known as the godfather of Russian rock, with long black hair and descendants of Korean immigrants. Victor was expelled from school for playing rock at the age of 15. At the age of 17, he wrote songs and started performing underground. Later, he met Mike, the rock singer of Zoopark, on the train. Mike is very prestigious in the rock circle. He appreciates Victor and helps him to promote and form a band. Victor created his own style with his criticism of society and songs with rich connotations. At that time, the government was transformed and the country opened up. Due to the media coverage of rock, Victor gradually became popular and became a rock star. He is the rock hero of Russia.
In addition to playing music, Victor is also a boiler room worker , his life has not changed because of being a rock star, people like him more because of this, and he sings to express his real life. The rock star died in a car accident on August 15, 1990, at the age of 28.
There are three people in the "Midsummer" movie, Victor, Mike and Mike's wife Natasha. The three admire each other. Mike and his wife discovered Victor's treasure and helped him grow rapidly, and the relationship between the three has been It's not just as simple as love, at least in the movie, both Mike and Natasha nourished Victor. Correspondingly, Victor composed the shocking music and brought the power of rock and roll to the people and the world.
"Midsummer" has two points, one is the social state of Russia in the early 1980s, and the other is the music in it. You will see a lot of deja vu, or the same things that make you laugh and laugh. There are two kinds of music in the movie, one is British and American rock music in the 1970s and 1980s, and the Soviet Union in the 1980s is also full of a large number of lovers of The Beatles, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Joy Divison, T. The young men of Rex, the underground band who idolize the great rock bands, talk, sing, and compose their own songs.
Another kind of music is original Russian rock music, those songs "Junkyard", "Sloth", "Girl in Eighth Grade", "One Tree" are simply masterpieces, the lyrics are well written, very good MV .
There are also a few cover songs, starting from the Psycho Killer of TalkingHeads on the train, the whole senses are all mobilized. The latter surreal expressions include the Iggy Pop's Passenger sung by Victor and Natasha on the tram together . Mike sang "Rock Star" in the Leningrad club, and the audience was loyal to the whole audience. Hey, then the glasses guy held up the sign, and none of this happened.
The special thing about "Midsummer" is that it interacts with the audience in front of the screen, and wants the audience to be integrated as if they were on the scene. This movie has already made people lose their minds. They don't want to think about any plot characters. They just want to be a fool listening to music and watch Victor and Natasha sing while walking on the road.
There is a scene in the movie where Victor and the band members are creating a conversation, we are neither punk nor rock, so what are we? At the beginning, the Chinese New Pants Band, whose style changed from punk to new wave, began to use synthesizers a lot, and then began to add low-octave high-octave singing. In Victor's Kino band, Oleg was recruited to serve as a soldier. There was no drummer. The band recorded the drums in advance with a synthesizer, and each took the stage with a guitar.
When the waves hit, I didn't follow them, I simply became a fish that leaped over the waves, made songs, and sang them. In the movie, Victor said that the future will be a new wave world, and it feels that the world will be unified, and the world will belong to the group of people who love music after all.
After Victor started using synthesizers in the movie, Jack disagreed, thinking it was disco, not rock, and Victor asked back, is disco really that bad? David Bowie also wrote about disco. Victor is a boiler worker. In the movie, he is also a woodworker. He is very good at making wood objects, but he is the best songwriter. He can write "Eighth Grade Girls" in one morning. History likes to record it all, Victor went on to become a rock star, and China New Pants became a rock band with a sense of the times.
Summer is over.
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