When the movie and dance meet, there will be an incredible chemical reaction: dazzling choreography and lighting, exquisite stage background, or hot or elegant dance, the screen is so the dancers on the stage rotating constantly and their delicate dance moves lit up, appearing to be a colorful, interesting and full of fun. Often, the dance in the movie represents not only the dazzling dance movements in people's vision, but also portrays a kind of life posture: healthy and positive spirit of struggle, to dance to convey feelings, express the complex and changing emotions or narrate the life story. Dance has a magical artistic charm, in the movie, it has a high degree of entertainment ornamental and highlight the double role of artistic achievement; another way of saying, dance and the screen after the perfect inlay fusion, with can be lyrical and narrative dual role, is a vivid image of the image content. That is why the dance theater theme of the film has always been enduring.
The theme of the film is also closely related to the type and form of dance. For example, in recent years, Hollywood movies about dance are mostly about youth inspiration, life struggle, and love. At this time, the type of dance in the film will appear: in the young people have been prevalent in the HIP-HOP for the cultural background of the street dance, this dance from the black culture fully presents the youth of the youth's vigor and vitality, youth and dreams, which is the theme of the film interlocked, through the dance metaphor. Very often, in a movie with the theme of dance drama, its music and dance elements will occupy a heavier role and proportion compared to the characterization and storyline. In the dance and music show to develop the story plot and complete the psychological depiction of the characters is usually the expression of this theme of the film. The audience can not only enjoy the beautiful music and moving dance and can straighten out the storyline development of the pulse. For example: Spanish documentary film & lt; Salome & gt;, this by "Spain's most creative director" reputation of the stage master Carlos Saura shot the film, the whole film is about "Spain's national essence of dance" flamenco The whole movie is about the dance performance of "Flamenco", the national dance of Spain, including the professional rehearsal of the dancers, the director's pre-design of the stage background lighting, sound effects and scene scheduling, the editing and production of the dance and other documentary content, which may make the plot seem a bit boring. But on the other hand, if it is purely for the sake of appreciating the visual beauty and spiritual shock brought by the art of dance, this movie is a classic model.
Believe in destiny, what's yours is yours, and what's not yours is not yours.
Tyler is a white orphan who, from time to time, was adopted into a black family with a black mom and several black siblings. Whether in an orphanage or in an adoptive family, Tyler knew enough to know that it would be nice to have someone who could provide basic food, shelter, and schooling while he was under the age of eighteen. "It's better not to have anything"; he didn't have the power to want, they had the power not to give. And what is wanted "if it's gone, it didn't happen, it doesn't matter." That means no hope, no disappointment.
Tyler and the two brothers of similar age in the family always play together, bubble disco, fights, car theft, exuberant hormones, suffocating youth, no place to emanate the dynamic energy, can only be released through a series of collision. Street gangs are people with considerable physical strength and destructive power. Men need to fight and nations need to go to war to cultivate their wildness and bloodlust, and to maintain the physical and mental strength to split everything. In order to help his brother Skinny Monkey against the big gangster PJ , Tyler's brick broke a window pane at the Maryland School of Art, and the court ruled that Tyler had to pay for 200 hours of community labor. This brick is the introduction to Tyler's life, and a new world opens up before his eyes that he has never seen before.
Maryland is a top school that specializes in regulating, nurturing, and inspiring the ability to compose, play, dance, sculpt, and more - another door through which youth can burst forth. In order for Tyler to find the vibrato of his soul, the heavens have left him with little heart and no dreams for 16 or 17 years; in order to prevent Tyler's vigor from running wild and destroying himself like a skinny monkey; the heavens have handed Tyler a brick.
Tyler dangling through the halls of the art school, cleaning the glass, carpet vacuuming, scrubbing the floor ...... through these jobs, Tyler invariably will be the various disciplines to understand a circle, and then found the closest to their souls dance. Tyler's no desire, calm and transcendent is interpreted by others as empty-eyed, other people's empty-eyed because too have, his empty-eyed because too do not have, two different things. God still quietly opened the door for Tyler to open the window, first let him discover the dance elf Nora; then let Nora unexpectedly found him in front of his brother's spontaneous car dance; then let Nora's partner Andrew sprained his foot, Nora had to fail to pick a new partner, had to accept Tyler's audition; and then let Nora's boyfriend, Brett, in time to get out of the way, Tyler reasonably intervene. Brett hides the abandonment of his longtime hitchhiker, Burroughs, in order to fight for his own chance to move up the ladder. Nora travels majestically to accuse Brett, takes advantage of the situation to give up Brett, and proceeds to break up for Tyler's heart and soul for the right reasons. The heavens have plucked the two teens in front of them in a small way. First, Taylor couldn't quite give up her brother, delaying rehearsal by an hour. Nora and her cadre of elites ignored him scornfully as a result, and naturally Tyler didn't have to insist that it wasn't his business to "quit without discussing it" when "you don't really need me anyway." Dance was just coming into focus for Taylor, and what necessity, what significance, there was to dance competitions, Taylor hadn't realized at all. Tyler began to just out of the psychology of helping Nora a little, think dance like scrubbing the floor as simple, others can not do he can do, just walk over to help a hand. Now forget about not having to do it, no big deal, Tyler's world is still the same. "Make stupid decisions every day" is not much more than one more, and not much less.
Both Nora and Tyler can take this opportunity to reflect on each other and themselves. Nora needs to think about honoring Tyler's talent, and Tyler needs to introspect on the appeal and value of dance. There are things that only the two of them can understand, hold up, echo, and emanate in a million ways. And then the step that is taken is not of the nature of a replacement, not the notion of a favor. Dance needs their heartfelt love, and only by considering dance as life, as something living, can they lend their talents and efforts to create brilliant artistic images and show moving artistic souls.
"You must be the reason for my existence." You, in the larger sense, are the dance. Nora and Taylor must go through the path of dance to make the most powerful chapter of their lives. Dance is their face, the trajectory of their lives, and it is only here that they can shine; dance is the mirror under their bright light, the thing through which the heavens lend them to transmit their divinity. You, in a small sense, are Nora facing Taylor, and Taylor facing Nora. Regardless of who is noble and who is low, they are imperfect and must borrow each other's impulses to accomplish a new round of elevation. They are each other a door, acceptance is incredible, acceptance after a complete change, is even more incredible and beautiful.
Dance scenes of this and that are often in Nora's head, and it's easy for her to articulate the parts of herself that she can do. But the dance is not individual, and often needs to be provoked by the opponents, echoed by the group, to be even more gorgeous. That's when Taylor came, Taylor from the instinctive, uncut, uncontaminated dance, bring Nora fresh air and breath, Taylor's creativity is another natural outpouring, Taylor's ability to launch is also Nora did not have, in someone else's school, Taylor actually pulled more than a dozen partner dancers overnight, *** with facilitate Nora's dream.
The wine is mellow, the dance is in full swing, the injured ex-partner Andrew returned. Nora does not know the left and right to choose, Tyler accidentally fell into the dream, can only be sober exit. The two brothers who happen to be hanging out together make a serious protest to his indifference, "Don't care about our friendship, let us off the hook." Tyler returns once again to the basketball court of his brothers, to the disco where the youths get into trouble. And in a very short time, Tyler saw the idle skinny monkey die under the snatch.
Tyler misses the days of sweating and sweating for the dance, exhausted but hearty and incredibly full and happy. He misses his brother's words of encouragement on the basketball court: "I want to be better, to do better, for my mom, for Skinny Monkey." Tyler is no longer stubborn, no longer stubborn, no longer afraid to want, he finally "know what I want", and have the confidence and courage to want, to meet the challenge, to realize the dream.
In the first few minutes of the dance competition, Tyler returned to Nora and began to fight for the first time in his life. Nora wanted to insist on gas, but had to respect the powerful appeal of Taylor's dance, dance according to the way Taylor left before the hot on the field, shocked the whole audience. The power of love is the best trigger for the power of dance.
Nora's dream came true, and Taylor's dream came when it should have. That's true of dance, that's true of life, and that's true of love.
As it turns out, high choreography doesn't mean high directing, and one of the selling points of Dance My Life is that it's the first time that renowned choreographer Anne Fletcher has directed a dance-themed movie. Theoretically, she is a dance expert, so it's easy to direct a dance movie.
This is the first time I've seen a movie about a dance, and I've never seen a movie about a dance.
In many dance movies, the type of dance is also a symbol of class, such as ballet and social dance, which usually represent middle-class fun, and the wild and free street dance, which is often more closely associated with delinquent teenagers, and Dance My Life is not immune to this, with Nora, the heroine of a good family, being a senior student at the ballet school, and Tyler, the hero, being a typical delinquent. He's never taken dance lessons, but he's a street dancer.
Well, I don't need to tell you any more than anyone familiar with this kind of subject matter can guess that these two people are going to come together for some reason to learn each other's steps and, unsurprisingly, fall in love. Then there must be a big performance or competition, and before the competition they must fall out, but then at the last minute before the competition starts they must get back together and partner up again to wow the audience.
It doesn't really matter, every genre of movie has its own inherent tropes that are created to show the main selling point of the genre. The common trope in dance movies exists mainly to facilitate the protagonists to show different styles of dance at the beginning, then they start to approach each other and the styles of dance become fused, and the final hand in hand is to show the results of completely different styles of dance steps after fusion. There are a lot of dance movies that play this routine to perfection, such as Breakin' (breakdancing), which is a representative of the breakdancing trend that has taken place in mainland China.
The plot is simple, it does not matter, the dance is the focus, just like the soup cabbage, ordinary cabbage poured with carefully refined soup, only to become delicious, dance movies, simple plot is sold through the streets of the cabbage, the dance is the exclusive refining of the soup, soup, if the soup is not at home, then the dish has become a bland and tasteless cabbage boiled in plain water.
"Dance My Life" is the most dissatisfied is that it is in vain free of a famous choreographer as a director, but the dance is not the flavor of the soup, in addition to the last dance can be seen, the other dance choreography has no new ideas. The heroine Nora studied ballet, but most of the time she just move her arms, spinning a few rounds, as well as and the male partner with a more thrilling lifting, but there is not a ballet dancer identity and temperament of the impressive complete dance, on the contrary, Taylor's street dance boy temperament of the film is not spared, gave him a lot of opportunities to perform.
Nora and Tyler **** dance on a harbor-side balcony, getting closer and closer in the backlighting, showing nothing more than a teenage boy and girl's natural admiration for each other - if this were an ordinary romance, it would be passable. But this is a dance movie, in this movie genre, dance is a silent dialogue, if the director just like other types of movies to use light, music and atmosphere rendering to narrate the story instead of letting the dance speak, it is very regrettable. The body language and choreography of the male and female leads in this sequence leaves no impression, and the expressiveness of the dance language is weak in many other scenes, at least not as passionate and emotionally charged as several of the dances in Leading the Way.
The only watchable final dance of "Dance My Life" is actually a bit unbalanced in terms of choreographic weighting as well, with the focus squarely on Taylor - perhaps to illustrate that dance finally gives a jaded delinquent something to aspire to? But the plot makes it clear from the start that this performance is what's crucial to Nora's dancing career, and it's okay to highlight Taylor, you can't cut corners on Nora. The acting agent sitting offstage was actually able to see Nora's level of skill in a performance that was so poorly executed (it's not uncommon to admire Taylor), and then invited her to work for his company. Maybe the professionals had a good eye, but for most of the average moviegoer, it was too difficult to be amazed by Nora's dancing skills in this performance, and the persuasion was too weak.
Why I live
For my love
My favorites
Only infinite passion
can lead to great creations
A film that's far more educational
than it is cinematic
It's not really that well shot
It's just telling you the truth
A truth. p> A truth
"Don't stop me, I have the right to follow my dreams"
"Don't tell me I can't, ANYTHING is POSSIBLE!"
The movie depicts human nature, dreams, and the current state of society is depicted, and the casting of the film, with a collaboration of whites and blacks as the film's actors, somehow seems to be partly a metaphor for the ugly white man. Dance throughout the beginning and end of the film, whether it is elegant ballet, or hot street dance, cha-cha-cha, jazz, and finally in the end of the film into one, is it a sign of the diversity of the American nation?
The memory of the beautiful camera stays in the sunset on the beach of the two hot dance, the sun's afterglow spread on their bodies seems to should be "this dance should only be on the sky, on earth can have a few people heard", the scene rarely switch, long lens record, just pull the tracking shot of the panning lens, the language is superfluous, background music, the scene frame, the change of location, the relationship between the two The change of the position, the change of the relationship between the two, the delicate dance, in the dance, when Taylor lifted up Nora, Nora forgot to open her hands, seems to embrace their own dreams, their own tomorrow, the back of the two people y by the sea and the sea oats record, witnessed.
That beautiful light, inevitably reminds people of Iwai Shunji's old movie "Flowers and Alice", Alice's section of the Debussy soundtrack floating through the ballet. The same aesthetic, the same for the dream, the difference is the difference between two people chasing and one person running.
The sea, always a symbol of freedom, is a source of inspiration, is a collection of all the good things, let a person forget the real world of all kinds of unsatisfactory, temporarily to the dream to find. The dance is life, but also their own future.
Love, friendship, affection, all need to adhere to the faith to uphold and care, need tolerance and understanding to support, we, two people, two hearts, must have the same firm dream, because there is the same future, the fidelity of the dance, the same is also the fidelity of love, the love of the dance, the same is also the love of life, only love, only love. ......
The long road is long, it is inevitable that on the way to do experience a lot of things, do a lot of wrong choices, or even now still doubt that today's choices are also like the past, but, more worthy to think about and celebrate the hope is that, in their lifetime and know what they are suitable for, what they like and have the courage to pick up and work hard and persistent for it! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that!