Regarding the casting of "Nowhere Boy", it is said that the director Sam Taylor-Wood deliberately looked for actors who did not look like but had good acting skills, "mainly depending on temperament."
In terms of the effect of the film, the director still has a good hand in casting roles. Although pig's feet Aaron Johnson and young John Lennon have quite different facial features, they still look a bit like in the combination of hairstyle and clothing; Xiao Sang and Paul McCartney are very different from appearance to body (the masses have expressed that the body is "too thin" (Especially compared with Aaron Johnson) (also compared with Paul's deity called "Fatty" by his younger brother when he was a teenager)), but after careful consideration, the two have a lot of important things in common-"big eyes" and "dolls" "Face" (Xiao Sang was 18 years old when he was filming, and playing 15 years old is not against harmony) "Very Cute" and "can play guitar/bass" (Xiao Sang is also a bassist in an amateur band).
On the other hand, because it is completely different from the deity, Xiao Sang’s acting skills are easier to reflect. In addition to learning the basic skills of left-handed guitar and singing while twisting, he looks at John’s small eyes, which is not only for "independent and special". The admiration of the old bullshit and the nervousness of "Is he really willing to take me to play?", there is also the teasing of "I am too lazy to reveal your little secret", and a little bit of "Although I am younger than you, I am better than you." The self-confidence of doing well, to a certain extent, is similar to the young Paul in everyone's imagination.
After watching the movie, I was still a little disappointed. I feel that the movie format is slightly smaller. The focus is on John’s dog-blood family ethics drama. Although the early experience of the band has been mentioned (including the encounter with Paul and George), John has become a Mao. The question "The John" was not answered.
And I, who gave the movie 3 stars, became interested in the above questions (well, mainly about how John and Paul fell in love and killed each other), so I found the biography of the Beatles and started to follow the album order seriously. Listen to the music of the Beatles. The Chinese version that can be found in the biography of Beatles, first read "The Beatles-The Only Officially Authorized Biography" (by Hunter Davies, hereinafter referred to as "Heng Edition"), which was due to a congenital defect (it only ended in 1968) Although the author added a lot of forewords and postscripts during the reprint), after reading it, I found "The Beatles: Biography" (by Bob Spitz, hereinafter referred to as "Bao Edition"). As a beginner, the following Let’s talk about the historical materials in these two books.
John and Paul
"Nowhere Boy" is said to be based on John’s half-sister’s memoir "Imagine This: Growing Up with John Lennon", based only on the biographical comparison of John and Paul’s roles.
#個人初遇#
Movie: Paul first saw the Quarrymen in the audience with his hands in his pockets and did not have a guitar, but when he was introduced to John by Ivan Vaughan, he suddenly carried a guitar on his back. The two chatted without a few words, and Paul played and sang. After playing a song "Twenty Flight Rock", it was found that John would not comment, worried that he was too young and he hurriedly said "I can sing Little Richard" and was interrupted by John saying that we still have to rehearse. , And then everyone said goodbye. (By the way, Xiao Sang's passage of Twenty Flight Rock sounds like he sang it himself, but it was actually sung by Sam Bell who played George in the film. The guitar was also talked about by others. Xiao Sang's passage is actually lip-synching + Opponent type = =
Biography: Both biographies mention that Paul brought his own guitar and sang not only "Twenty Flight Rock", but also "Be-Bop-A-Lula", and (as I wish) "Tutti Frutti by Richard" "Good Golly, Miss Molly", "Long Tall Sally", etc., a compilation performance lasting more than ten minutes. ——Singing so many songs, it is impossible to use a right-handed guitar. But he was obviously persuaded by Ivan to go to the bazaar to watch the show on the grounds of "Pick up girls". How could he consciously bring his own guitar?
According to the dictation of Paul's deity (too many dictations, one of the statements), he seems to be "changing the tuning of a guitar on the spot and refitting it into a left-handed guitar"-but suspiciously, he didn't bring it in advance. Wouldn't it be possible to prepare your own tuning tools in advance for your own guitar? In a place like the parish bazaar, it doesn’t look like you will prepare guitar tuning tools, right?
In addition, I saw suspicious sources on the Internet, saying that Paul did not bring his own guitar that day, and did not modify it. He only played "Twenty Flight Rock" with John's right-hand guitar, and then said "I can also play the piano" and played again. Several traditional piano songs. ——Does Paul bring a guitar? This can also be a question! It seems everyone is quite free
By the way, about the song that John was singing when Paul first saw John in the audience, it was "Maggie May" in the movie, but some said it was "Be-Bop-A-Luna" (John), and some said it was. "Come Go With Me" (Paul)... And, the performance of the parish bazaar in the movie seems to be Quarrymen's first stage performance, but in fact Quarrymen was established and performed the previous year (1956).
Also, all the biographies mention that Paul was wearing a white sportswear that day, but in the movie he turned into a white suit and a carnation is missing-is it because Mrs. Sang Skinny doesn't look good in sportswear?
#Paul教John玩琴#
Movie: After the scene of "First Encounter" (7/6, 1957), Paul went to Mimi’s house to find John to practice piano, but from the changes in the clothes of the characters, it can be seen that it was already at least late autumn (Paul wears A bloated coat), just skip it in the middle few months...
Paul teaches John to play the guitar chords of "Blue Moon": This is A, but it should start with D, then E minor. No, it’s B minor, then G, then A, then start from the beginning, B minor to G... …(It’s a short but very loving section, and there is a “big black-rimmed glasses=Buddy Holly Look” stalk inserted in the stitches) The sound of the two disturbed Mimi’s reading and was driven to the porch. Paul was still cheeky. He choked: "The sound is better here, thank you."
Biography: There are different opinions about when Paul agreed to join Quarrymen. Some said it was the second day of the meeting, some said it was a week later, and some said it was Paul who came back from the summer camp, and the person who invited Paul was John himself. Some said it was Ivan Vaughan, some said it was Pete Shotton. All in all, Paul and John got acquainted (to the level of teaching John to play the guitar) after school started in the fall of '57, when John had already graduated from Quarry Bank Middle School and entered the Liverpool School of Art.
Regarding the place where the piano was taught, Heng Ban said that most of them were in Paul's house (after his father went to work), and George was often in George's house after he joined the company, but not in Mimi's house:
...They spend all their time together. They both ran out of school and ran to his house while Paul and his father were out for work, practicing guitar chords, and eating omelets when they were hungry. Paul demonstrated all his chord skills to John. The banjo chords John learned from his mother Julia are useless. Since Paul is left-handed, after he demonstrated to John how to play, John went home and had to look in the mirror to find the correct way, and then practice many times on his own. (After reluctantly agreeing to let George join Quarrymen too) "We often ran out of school and wandered around, and then went to George and his house in the afternoon to pass the time." ... Mimi will definitely not let any unscrupulous teenagers who play rock and roll come into her. House's. Mimi said: "Paul often comes to my house, leaned his bicycle against the fence, looked at me stupidly, and said, hello Mimi, can I go in? I said categorically, of course not, you Don't even think about it."
In Bao's version (and some of Paul's memoirs), there is still a lot of alone time in Mimi's John's bedroom:
The two boys spend some time together almost every day, discussing music topics. Usually, after school or on vacation, John would ask Paul to come to Walton's own house, and the two would hide in John's small bedroom, smoking, and listening to music. Escaped from Aunt Mimi’s surveillance, they would sit on the bed cross-legged and write down the lyrics fragments they wrote down, trying to assemble the complete lyrics of the entire song, or practice a chord together to expand their little standing song Library. "We used to spend hours together listening to the songs of the singers we admired," John recalled. We sat together, so focused and full of enthusiasm. When the record was over, we started to imitate the sound that came out there," Paul said, "just playing indiscriminately"; they tried to use the fewest chords and the simplest. Techniques to imitate these songs.
#Paul的first gig#
Movie: When Paul participated in the Quarrymen performance for the first time, John deliberately left a section for Paul to perform solo. When introducing him to the audience, he half-flattered and half-ridiculously called him "Paul McCharmly". Paul accepted with a flattered face, and then performed confidently. A guitar instrumental piece "Movin' and Groovin'". ( This instrumental piece was discovered in a very early tape (the team's name is also "Beatals") ) Biography: The Henry version has no details about Paul's debut, but the Bao version has a vivid description: Quarrymen did arrange it A "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" dedicated to Paul's talent, and asked him to do a guitar solo in the middle, but when Paul was nervous and messed up, the solo became a noise.
Paul only stepped back silently, trying to make his body disappear into the gap between Hanton and Ryan Gary. John, who was proud of the "quarry man", was stunned at that moment. Generally speaking, such a big accident would have brought him a glance of resentment and disgust on the spot—perhaps worse. "I thought he must be about to get angry," Hanton said. But Paul's pitiful, forgiving look caused him to swallow his anger. "Paul McCartney—how confident, arrogant, and elegant he is usually, and if you want to hate him, you will feel uneasy—but now he is so pitiful. Suddenly, John laughed. Get up, almost peeing on your pants with joy."
# Earliest creation#
The Henry version mentioned that after that failed debut, Paul gave John some of his original songs. The first one was "I Lost My Little Girl" ( John sang a version in 69 , improvised It’s quite tall), "In order not to behave worse than Paul, John immediately started to write his own music." In the movie (and in various records) John’s first original song, which can be called song, is "Hello Little Girl" (what a straightforward and unintended follow-up work!) (In the future, there will be many "singing and harmony works" between the two. For example, according to a speech by an Indian master, Paul wrote the first "Mother Nature's Son" and John wrote The song "Child of Nature" was completely changed in the future to become "Jealous Guy"). The movie was even arranged on the day Julia had a car accident. John happened to play this song at Paul's house while Paul was sitting in the fireplace. While looking at him with a smile (the drag nasal sound that John sings "Little Girllllllll" is really funny), there is a tape recorder (John persuaded the Art Institute to buy and embezzle it for personal use) tape. In an article about film selections by the film's creator (director Sam Taylor-Wood, screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh, music director Ian Neil) , the screenwriter mentioned the scene of "Hello Little Girl",
John's first track, ever written. Imagine being in that room when he played it to Paul for the first time? There's that re-occurring undercurrent of longing and neediness which is fascinating. "This is the first song written out in John's life Just imagine the scene he played to Paul for the first time in the room, how wonderful it would be if he could reproduce the deep desire for love in his heart."
#Julia死亡后#
Movie: At a dull family memorial service (by the way, Julia died on 7/15, 1958, everyone in the movie was wearing thick coats), Paul was playing with Julia’s banjo, and John suddenly became older. He lost his temper, grabbed the piano and threw it away and started running away. Paul chased him out and said, "Do you want to hit me?" John really hit him on the ground with a punch, and saw that Paul was bleeding from the corner of his mouth. , He immediately woke up and began to apologize, pulled Paul up, hugged him and cried out, "I just started to understand her!" Paul, who was unlucky enough, wanted to wipe his blood while comforting John. It didn't take long for Quarrymen to record the demo at his own expense and sing "In Spite of All The Danger". John missed Julia in the song "I'll do anything for you, anything you want me to, if you be true to me".
Biography: It didn't mention the details of "the day of the funeral". The Henry version simply wrote that "Mother John's death brought him closer to Paul, because they now have a common experience." Bao Banzed He believed that although he was accompanied by Paul, John spent a long period of "violent depression" and was depressed until the end of 58. "Even Paul couldn't fill such a vacancy" until his relationship with Cynthia made him regain his confidence.
Compared with the movie where John returned to the house after crying on Paul’s shoulder, he cheered up and shouted, "Don’t cry, we’re going to be rock music!" (and everyone laughed with a snot), John was actually at one point. The band’s affairs were very depressed. At that time, except for the three of them, everyone in the band was almost scattered, and they could no longer be called Quarrymen (because they had nothing to do with Caishihe'an Middle School). The performances were sparse and there was no rehearsal. Passionate, even George once secretly joined another band. It was not until August 1959 that their performance at the Casbah Club allowed them to regain their musical confidence.
Seeing the end of the movie, it’s hard not to be impressed with "In Spite of All The Danger"-the song is pretty good (although Bao's evaluation is "a mediocre doo-wop song"), and the performances and voices of the three little actors are also God restore! Coupled with John’s reminiscence of Julia’s killing scenes, it’s quite abusive-after checking the wiki, this song was not written by John, but by Paul and George (Paul’s memoirs say that he is actually alone. It was written, George just compiled guitar chords, and didn't understand the copyright signature at that time, so he signed the names of him and George), and it was not recorded after Julia's death, exactly three days before her death. ——The director's transfer of flowers and trees has turned a Paul's little love song into John's song of remembrance of his mother...
So I really want to know if Paul's deity has watched the movie, if he saw the end, and checked the related reports (about Sir Paul's evaluation of "Nowhere Boy"). Paul doesn't seem to watch the movie, only the early stage. After reading the script and "I heard I'm OK in it", his concern was- " John never beat me! " [Hahahahaha " The actor who played me is shorter than John ! I'm obviously the same as John." Model, please!" [Hahahahaha [Actually Xiao Sang is not short (179), taller than Paul himself (178), but can't hold Aaron Johnson 180!
Regarding the "slap on the face" scene that the crowd loves to hear, Aaron Johnson made a (evil) opinion: "I guess (Lennon) must have wanted to fight (with McCartney) at the time, didn't it? What if? If the movie wants to express this emotion clearly... his mother passed away so suddenly, he was angry and painful, and he wished to blame everyone and everything around him-then who is more suitable to be beaten by him than Paul?" 【←Hey
#envy#
Between John and Paul, you are jealous of me and I am jealous of your bloody affairs. It is estimated that five days and five nights will not be finished. Jealousy is commonplace for these two, a sort of TRUE LOVE.
Although the two of them don't have many roles in the movie, they are also slightly inked about John's jealousy and Paul. In addition to the small ridicule about Paul's tendency to steal the limelight on stage, and Paul's little dissatisfaction with his backstage life, the point of jealousy lies in John's Oedipus plot with Julia: At the birthday party held by Julia for John, John saw Paul played the song "Love me Tender" against Julia: "For my darlin' I love you, and I always will" ) Julia was very happy to hear it and was moved, and said, "This is for your mother, isn't it?" John choked on the other side, "The fuck has cancer, so what's the reason for you (have to leave me)?" Then Julia got up and left awkwardly. Paul rolled his eyes at him, "Nice."
Soon everyone urged John to give a birthday speech. After the talk, John saw Julia whispering and laughing with Paul again (actually the two should be exchanging jokes about John), so he went to ask Julia "Where is my dad?" Is it?" Then it led to a lot of dog blood.
It may be that even John realized that his mother has the skills to "can flirt with all male creatures" and "can be easily pleased", even though he also knows that Paul is close to Julia just because Julia is his mother. But people are not worthy of the boy, John just inexplicably ate these flying vinegar.
Unlike the shy, sensible, young and mature character in the movie, Paul's deity at that time was also reluctant to be jealous. It’s not mentioned in the movie, but at the same time when the plot happened, John entered the art academy and met an important friend Stuart Sutcliffe (later became the band’s bassist in the early 60s), which caused Paul’s jealousy that lasted for several years (jealous of Stu’s “artist”). "Fan's influence on John) did not end until Stu left the team in 1961.
In the "core circle of friends", the jealous Stu is not alone. The film ends when John is about to leave for Hamburg. In fact, before going to Hamburg (August 1960), they just recruited a poorly skilled but very handsome looking person. The drummer Pete Best, as the band rose to fame later, Pete Best as the most handsome drummer also attracted the attention of a large number of female fans (and this was originally Paul's patent), so Paul had to be jealous! It wasn't until August 62 that they violently kicked Pete out of the team.
The two who had endured the fire of Paul’s jealousy ended up pretty sturdy-Stuart died young not long after, Pete was hit hard by being expelled from the band, and after mixing with some failed bands, he once gave up drumming and lived a life of ordinary people. (Returning to the show business after more than 20 years)——Compared with the Beatles' success in the future, and then look at the ending of the ex players, I can’t help but feel subtle!
Reading all the "jealous" in the book, look back at the chorus lyrics in "In Spite of All The Danger" "I'll look after you like I never done before, I'll keep all the other from knock on your door", it's a little bit of thought and horror.
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