Director Marc Lawrence, who has always been rooted in romantic comedies, has long wondered if he wanted to explore the inner workings of a musician's mind in a movie, and so "Karaoke Lover" was born. However, when talking about his own unknown musical road, Lawrence can not help but let out a sigh of sadness: "Although I have their own band, but a very bad musician, this kind of interest in the formation of the band, the nature of the ticket is relatively large, but one thing is certain, I am very obsessed with the process of songwriting. It's a good thing that I ended up making a movie about musicians, because if I had aimed it at screenwriters, there's no guarantee that it wouldn't have been about my own life, and it would have seemed like I was using the movie as a way of spitting in the audience's face. But whether it's musicians or screenwriters, their creative process is the same, and it's an area I know very well, not to mention that it also has another favorite of mine in it: music." To make the film's emotional and musical interactions between the fledgling songwriting duo Alex and Sophie more realistic and believable, Mark Lawrence examined several legendary duos in music history, such as Elton John and Bernie Taupin: "In many famous musical partnerships In many famous musical partnerships, one person usually composes the music and the other writes the lyrics, and it's very rare for someone to write the lyrics and music all by themselves. Although there are only two people, there are still conflicts and contradictions in the creative process, and they take on special roles, but a complete song is accomplished with the cooperation of the two people. ...... There are already many comedic elements to be explored in such a combination."
And musicians, in the hands of Mark Lawrence, should also have different backgrounds, so the duo in "Karaoke Lover" has an unusual story behind each of them: Alex was once a member of a famous band that was popular for a while, and his partner went solo and achieved more in the music industry, but Alex's name is being drowned by the flood of time. Little by little, Alex's name is being drowned out by the flood of time, and he is reduced to a third-rate singer with a residency at a small, local amusement park. Luckily, fate didn't abandon him, and Carole Coleman, lead singer of today's biggest pop group, Girls, asked Alex to write songs for her next album. ...... Lawrence sees this turn of events as an opportunity in Alex's life: "Carole Coleman is a bit like Britney Spears, a pop music sensation, and she wanted Alex to write a couple's duet song that they would **** together. Caro was only responsible for titling the song "Finding Love," and it was up to Alex to do the rest - not only would the song be included on the new album as a hit, Caro would also sing the song with Alex on stage at Madison Square Garden ...... "The reason why Caro, who was in the midst of her career, chose the The reason why Caro chose the over-the-top Alex was because of a childhood dream, and it can be said that Alex was her "mentor" who guided her into the music industry. She naively thought that Alex was just on a hiatus. For Alex, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get back into pop music.
While he was once the Prince Charming of millions of teenage girls, and while he sang some of the biggest pop songs of the 1980s, Alex has never written a song before. ...... Composing a song is not a problem for him, but he's not very good at using words. Plus, he didn't have much time left to squander, knowing that there were other musicians out there stealing his hard-earned job.
The good news is that he's joined by Sophie Fisher ...... Sophie has just gone through an emotional sea change. The former literature senior has lost her creative juices after being cheated on by her boyfriend and is considering giving up her beloved writing career. However, Lawrence had a different take on the character, "She proved to be a natural songwriter." Sophie and Alex meet serendipitously, as a lost Sophie is asked by a friend to go to Alex's apartment to water the plants and flowers, a fateful meeting that changes both lives.
Mark Lawrence says the two protagonists in the movie have both just experienced misfortune: "They're both doing a monotonous job that doesn't suit them, and they're both in a rut. They've lost faith that they can still create something beautiful and meaningful. Two lost souls come together and **** together to create a song that shows the world exactly what they're trying to tell each other." Imagine two complete strangers, suddenly locked in the same room, this way of getting to know each other is compulsive. They are constantly creating, arguing, walking, eating, writing, re-writing, trying to hold a good song hard ...... When two people **** together and go through a creative fruit, it always develops an ineffable intimacy in the end.
About the music: For director Mark Lawrence, the most challenging part of filming "Karaoke Lover" was also the most exhilarating: "I wrote the script, I picked the actors, and then I did everything a director is supposed to do. But I will admit that the movie also contained an element that was beyond my control, and that was the music. We got together and listened to countless songs in the hope that we could pick and choose the right style of music for the movie. First of all, I wanted the songs that appear in Karaoke Lover to be melodic and unforgettable, and the lyrics to be idiosyncratic ...... It was difficult to choose because the lyrics here largely take the place of the character's dialog, helping the actors to engage in a kind of emotional lyricism, and also rounding out the overall story. "
Mark Lawrence's first picks were songs that belonged to Alex Fletcher. Because he had been a red-hot pop star, songs sung by him naturally represented a genre. Lawrence found that the songs of the 80s were perfect for Alex's style: "In the movie, the 80s also happened to be the peak of Alex's music career, so the style of music here coincided with the character design, clearly expressing what the man was once like." In a way, the Alex of that time was a bit shallow - which is the overall impression that many people ascribe to '80s pop music, which was mostly assembly line work, with simple melodies that were similar and easy to remember. Obviously, Lawrence describes the music of that era with more than a touch of cynicism in it, but it's the only way to punctuate the laugh-out-loud comedic elements from the realistic portrayals.
ACTORS SAY ABOUT THE MUSIC: Drew Barrymore, who plays Sophie, was unusually excited about it: "I love the music of the '80s, they're so sweet and lovely, and whenever I go out dancing, I always say to the musicians, 'Can you play some old '80s songs?' There's a whole movie this time around, but it's a real treat for me."
In order to create a masterpiece of Alex's former band that would also represent his sound signature, Mark Lawrence turned to one of the wizards of today's American rock and folk music scene - Adam Schlesinger, one of the principal musicians of the Fountains of Wayne, Inc. also Lawrence's favorite choir. Schlesinger wrote the theme song for the Tom Hanks film That Thing You Do, and the first song in the movie, "Finding Love," in which Alex and Sophie collaborate, is by him.
A middle-aged singer in the doldrums of his career, even a bottleneck that he can never get through, and a young literary woman who has just suffered an emotional trauma that has left a heavy shadow on her literary work. The important thing is that they all have their own talents, musically as well as literarily; so, give them a chance to develop their talents, put them together, and what will happen is perhaps self-evidently a near-perfect ending.
Rather than a love story, this movie is about the birth of a moving, sad, but hopeful love song and the love story behind it. Way back into love"; how many possibilities will there be for a propositional title, perhaps, apart from the talent, experience and state of mind of the songwriter and lyricist, it has more to do with the love story behind the song.
As the movie says, the melody is like meeting someone for the first time, and it's totally just a physical attraction, like sex; and then you start to understand and eventually fall in love with that person, and that's where the lyrics come in. Their story, what kind of people they really are again, the union of two people made incredible by the fact that they love each other.
That's a novel way to describe a love song, and it illustrates the relationship between the melody and the lyrics of a song, and the impact that the combination of the two can have on us. What kind of love song is perfect? It's like when two people meet and go through all the process of a love story, but it still gives us a perfect feeling and the two of them still have that perfect feeling, that's what makes it perfect. According to this logic, Alex and Andonsky's collaboration is more like a one-night stand, while his melodic and lyrical collaboration with Sophie is the embodiment of this perfect love. The chances of such a perfect love story occurring are as rare as finding something that can be called immortal in music, and it can only happen with two people who are perfectly suited to each other and who love each other dearly, and who must be allowed to meet and be given the opportunity and time to get to know each other, to understand each other, and ultimately, to fall in love with each other.
Alex and Sophie, both of whom desperately want to finish this hit song to get rid of the gloom and doom in their respective lives. Alex, who went from being the lead singer and songwriter of a popular pop band to languishing in the aftermath of the band's demise and failing to write a single song for a decade, desperately needs to create a song that will blow him away and win over the masses in order to get back into the spotlight; while Sophie, who fell in love with her mentor and was emotionally toyed with, has been strongly criticized and beaten up as a fictional prototype for her mentor's new novel, and has been vilified. Sophie, who fell in love with her tutor and had her feelings toyed with, was strongly criticized as the prototype of her tutor's new novel, and was vilified as "a literature-obsessed schoolgirl who seduced a good writer and exploited his connections to get her own book published; a good imitator who imitates the styles of many famous writers, but who is just a copycat of someone else's literature, a writer who imitates with no insight". ...... "She desperately needed to use his words to prove her worth and get out of the emotional and creative haze of her career.
When a middle-aged male singer meets a hot youthful idol, he gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; and when a middle-aged male singer meets a young literary woman, when the notes meet the words, when the man meets the woman, and when the valley meets the haze, the sparks that collide out of all of this are beautiful enough to shock all of the hearts that have not yet been silenced and have been ready to be touched. The heart is ready to be touched.
An unquestionable love story, an unoriginal success in business. The movie ends with Alex in love and Sophie in a new life.
Opportunity comes only to those who are prepared for it; such a thesis is obviously a bit heavy-handed here. I'm more concerned with the words, the long and painful process of producing them, like childbirth. Perhaps the birth of a musical note is just as difficult and painful, but it is still much more abstract than words. So when Alex sits at his piano or busies himself in his small studio correcting his music one by one, the look of concentration and seriousness also makes me sigh; but Sophie sinks into the sofa and plays with the ballpoint pen in her hand, or keeps walking around to revise her lyrics that have not yet come out of the draft, perhaps it brings me more feelings.
When a young literary woman meets a down-and-out middle-aged singer, the movie is frivolous because of the light-hearted and laughter-filled scenes it brings to us. However, this is a frivolous movie, but not frivolous, through the surface of the movie floating in the light, whispering is a sincere and low emotion and desire. All will be happy, Carla gets the music that will transform her style as her new album; Alex gets a perfect lover and partner and a way out of a career slump; and Sophie gets out of her emotional haze and finds her place in literature.
This is a win-win movie. All the people in the movie are happy, and the moviegoers are happy and moved. For a commercial movie, that's pretty good. And perhaps my favorite part of the movie is the soundtrack, especially the song "Don't Write Me Off" that Alex wrote when he was at his lowest point thinking he would lose Sophie for good, which to my ears sounds far more melodic than the movie's hit song "Way back into love". Maybe it's the whispered sadness; maybe it's the tragedy of what someone once told me is always the best and most moving. This is still a romantic love movie full of romantic mood; defending my already very fragile but still pure dreams about music, words and love.
All loves must go through the same misunderstandings and quarrels, longings and despairs; all careers will face the same troughs and peaks; however, no matter what kind of situation we are facing, the best thing is that this movie promises us a kind of immortal hope and the light of ultimate happiness. This may also explain why I am so enamored with this movie.
The movie, which ended on a most romantic note, at least gave me a sense of unattainable, yet approachable happiness. Holding on to the purity of the music and the way the notes shine the brightest when they meet the words. Instead of saying that the adaptation destroys the purity of the music and goes against the soul of the lyrics, it's more convincing to say that it's just an attempt to win back the woman you love. But whatever the argument, the movie gives us joy and music; and a vision of purity.
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One is the best British lover, one is the standard American sweetheart; a flower charm several times seduced chubby silly Brigitte Jones ("BJ's Bachelor Diary"), a number of times together with Adam Sandler dominated the Valentine's Day; Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore, the pair of good relations with the handsome men and women, this time to choose the Feb. 14, 2007 **Spectrum of love songs, naturally, is determined to partner sniper Valentine's Day box office champion idea.
The two middle-aged sweethearts on the screen snuggle up to the piano and make love to each other, but the lines and the romance all rely on the director and screenwriter Mark Lawrence to write the picture. This gentleman franchise comedy romance, before the "Queen of Spice" series to fight hundreds of millions of dollars, and after the Hugh Grant with the "intimate lover", although the new film is missing the old partner, box office magic Sandra Bullock, but think to be in the Valentine's Day romance, the ability to absorb money will only increase.
Romantic comedies always need a few supporting characters with strong personalities to steal the show, and the supporting cast of "Karaoke Lover" includes mostly familiar faces from the comedy genre. Kristen Johnston (the TV series "ER") becomes the unintelligent light bulb between a handsome man and a beautiful woman, a woman who has been in love with the male lead for 20 years; Brad Garrett, who won an Emmy for best supporting actor for the evergreen comedy "Everybody Loves Raymond," plays Alex's manager and is about to make another funny move; and the new generation of actresses, Haley Bennett, who is a great singer-songwriter and a great actress, will be in a great role again in the future, so she's going to be a great actress in the future. The movie will be a pop idol in the future.