Whitney Houston was the first to be famous for popular music in the world, but he also achieved great success on the road of movies, leaving his contemporaries such as Celine Dion and Mariah Carey far behind. In 1992, Whitney set foot in the film world for the first time, co-starring with Kevin Costner in "Bodyguard". The film earned $410.9 million in box office revenue worldwide, and 34 million film soundtrack records were sold, making it the largest-selling film soundtrack album in the 1990s and the most successful film soundtrack album in history. The film’s theme song "I will always love you" became the time The most popular golden song in the music world has won Whitney Houston numerous honors including the Grammy Awards.
One of the important reasons for the great success of the film is the uniqueness of the theme. The film learns from each other's strengths, integrates the advantages of the main creative team, combines thrills, action with romance, and love, and uses a lot of space to describe the family relationship in the world. Love also exposes the dark side of humanity's ruthlessness. The film tells us: everyone is afraid of things, so we know to cherish them for fear of losing them.
From the threatening letter-the pervert who broke into the house-the performance accident-the intimidation phone-the motorboat explosion-the Oscar shooting, the film is foreshadowed one step at a time, setting a climax to promote the development of the plot, and the feelings of the hero and heroine are also this time and time again. The intersection of the two continues to heat up. One is an iron-blooded professional bodyguard, and the other is a popular singer queen. They have all experienced love and have a deeper understanding of fate and life. They are mutually exclusive, but they appreciate each other in contact, and develop a good impression of each other. Developed into passionate love. When we sighed and said that they were not able to be together in the end, we also admired the profession of "bodyguard" spontaneously. "Work is work and life is life". This is a manifestation of professional ethics and the American society at that time. True portrayal. I classify this choice as a sense of mission. Instead, I feel that classic love is often fleeting, but as long as you have it, you shouldn’t care whether it lasts forever.
It is worth mentioning that the performance of the two superstars in the film has won unanimous praise from the industry. Kevin Costner is an actor, director, and screenwriter. The tough guy in "Bodyguard" is both calm and wise and without losing the breath of life. In order to protect the children of the actress’s family, he even jumped into the cold water without sacrificing himself. At the same time, Whitney Houston appeared in her true colors, interpreting a noble, stubborn, but kind hearted, love-hungry popular song incisively and vividly. The director placed a passionate and sincere love on two characters with different skin colors, and responded positively to his understanding of race and ethnicity. He won praise from a large number of audiences and was also one of the important factors in the work's recognition.
In this life, I will always love you. The background of the story takes place in a country that has already led the world in social, economic, and political development. We should understand and accept this ending. People always have such beautiful longings for things happening, but the disappointment in the end is often equal to or greater than expectations. Just like Frank is always tormented in rationality and sensibility, work and life in the film, in fact, to some extent, it alludes to a certain symbol of this type of era. In front of such a symbol, we should be ashamed, we all love ourselves more than love.
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