The only thing I know about foreign pop music is from my high school roommate, a girl who likes foreign pop music. She is a fan of Michael Jackson and knows pop music like the back of the hand. You probably know a black singer like Aaron Neville who has a good voice and can sing the sound of nature.
Most of the black people have singing talents. They seem to like singing and dancing, and they have passionate and unrestrained characters. This film brings the singing talents of black singers into full play.
This movie gave me an unexpected understanding of American music in the 1960s. Three black girls chased their singing dreams. Effie played by Jennifer Hudson was full of personality, proud and stubborn, with a high-pitched singing voice and high self-esteem. Anse's sisterly feud with her boyfriend for the lead singer position is very attractive.
Seeing Jamie Fu. Fox felt familiar, and suddenly realized that South Korea's Cha Tae Hyun looked a lot like him. The agent Curtis played by Jamie Foxx is business-minded, good at management and hype, and Effie took the lead. It's unclear. The conflict between Effie and her agent shows a conflict between personal will and business interests. When Effie's personality became an obstacle to the development of the group, Effie was excluded from the game.
Between personal will and safeguarding the interests of the group, Effie has learned a painful life lesson. She always feels that her voice is the best, but she is always suppressed. The beautiful and well-behaved Beyonce is placed as the lead singer, and the abandoned Ai Fei was both unemployed and lovelorn. She was excluded from the chorus group and quit, and became the most disappointed person.
In fact, just as everyone sang "We are a family" in the movie, Effie cares about whether she is the lead singer or not, but only when they are grouped together can they be a complete group. When one person puts too much emphasis on his own interests And when you ignore and forget others, you are bound to be abandoned by others.
Effie's stubbornness and persistence made herself frustrated, while the well-behaved girl Beyonce was sought after by her agent Curtis, who became more and more authoritarian to control the singer according to her own ideas, and Curtis's business strategy favored her. It made them popular and made them into commodities in the hands of brokers. It seems that their dreams have come true and they have gained fame and fortune, but at the same time, they have also surrendered their freedom and dignity, but are only tools arranged by brokers to make profits That's it.
Managers are in business, they focus on how to make money, not what songs are really good songs, and they don't respect the personal ideas of singers. The contradiction between girls and managers is actually whether to be themselves or to be themselves. The result of catering to the trend and blindly catering to the market is to lose self and become a commodity, and the price of insisting on self is that Effie has been suppressed for more than ten years and is unhappy, or, like the singer played by Eddie Murphy, is being used. After that, it lost its use value and was abandoned.
I think this is the best musical I've ever seen. Jennifer Hudson's Effie is the most impressive. She is a person who strives to be herself. When everyone wants to sharpen their heads and be famous, she became a People who are out of place and hinder the development of the chorus group, but as time goes by, people will find that Effie is actually independent and does not succumb to the power and domineering of the agent, which is her strength and weakness. , she paid a heavy price for this and was suppressed for many years. Under the unspoken rule that the agent decides his own destiny, insisting on oneself means being suppressed and abandoned.
Two girls, one stubborn and the other well-behaved, their characters lead to the different fates of the two. Effie's life is ups and downs, which makes people sigh with emotion.
In real life, some people are proud and some are disappointed. How many people like Effie can get ahead? Most of them are suppressed, and it is not uncommon for them to live in obscurity. After all, most of the time, there are many talented people, but few Bole who can appreciate the talent.
The film is wonderful and can be called the black Hollywood version of "Stage Sisters". The Hong Kong drama "I Have a Date with Spring" also has similarities with it.
Although the background of the story is different, my country's "Sisters on the Stage" also tells about the joys and sorrows of opera actors. Different views on their careers determine their different directions. There is nothing wrong with treating their work as a profitable business, but it is easy Being reduced to a profit-making tool, different views on careers also represent different outlooks on life. It is completely different whether you are trapped in material things and desires and cannot extricate yourself, or treat your career as a career worth pursuing.
Chasing dreams makes life less miserable. Effie, played by Jennifer Hudson, finally sang a song about dreams with her sisters. Can you remember what it was you wanted in the first place to chase your dreams?
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