Among the various movie genres, I will choose a music movie as my favorite one.
Good movies have a synergy effect with good musics.
I would like to recommend the next three music movies that you would love.
#La La Land(2016)
La La Land is one of the masterpiece of music movies. It has a great story, production and acting which is a blessing to music and movie lovers. The stories of Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), who guide each other in the cities of the stars, have a sweet but also a bitter taste. This wonderful movie will make you fall in love with it. Their dancing and singing in the beautiful city of Los Angeles will keep make you smile. La La Land is where sorrow, joy, frustration and passion coexist with the life of dreamers.
LA LA LAND
Synopsis: While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
Director: Damien Chazelle
Writer: Damien Chazelle
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie Dewitt …
LA LA LAND Official Trailer
#Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again(2018)
The movie, which looks into the brilliant youth of young Dona (Lilly James), is just exciting as you watch it. From the stage of lovely Donna and her friends to the song sung by Donna’s men, the eyes and ears are pleasant enough throughout the running time. Especially, Lily James’ great singing will make you happy.
Synopsis: Five years after the events of Mamma Mia!(2008), Sophie prepares for the grand reopening of the Hotel Bella Donna as she learns more about her mother’s past.
Director: OI Parker
Writers: OI Parker, Richard Curtis
Stars: Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep…
MAMMA MIA! 2 Official Trailer
#Begin Again(2013)
This movie is well known with a song named ‘Lost Stars’. Both Adam Levine’s version and Keira Knightley’s one are great. Actors perform subtle and their musics make the movie more touching.
Synopsis: A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter, new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
Stars: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine…
Begin Again Official Trailer
Thanks for reading this posting, and wish you enjoyed it! 🙂
The next movie that we want to talk about is… PARASITE!
PARASITE
Gisaengchung, Joon-ho Bong, 2019
Parasite(Gisaengchung, director; Joonho Bong), a black comedy about a family of clever scammers from South Korea’s underclass, won the Palme d’Or top prize at Cannes. It has played to critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival.
the director, Joon-ho Bong
The film is a black comedy, tragic social
commentary, suspense thriller and brutal bloodbath all rolled into one, and Bong
has become a director who is a genre all of his own.
In Parasite, as well as his previous films
Okja, Snowpiercer and The Host, Bong swiftly switches its tone, so that a
light-hearted comedy becomes a devastating tragedy at a moment’s notice.
This movie connotes a lot and gives us much
things to think about.
Let’s look at this movie deeply.
※Caution: Don’t read this article if you don’t want spoilers※
#Synopsis
Parasite is a family tragicomedy between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim(Ki-taek) family.
Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads to the Park family home for an interview. Arriving at the house of Mr. Park, the owner of a global IT firm, Ki-woo meets Mrs.Park(Yeon-kyo), the beautiful young lady of the house. But following this first meeting between the two families, an unstoppable string of mishaps lies in wait.
#Plan
You will find a word
“plan” a lot in the movie. PLAN is one of the most important mediums in
the movie.
First of all, it all starts with a plan of Ki-woo. Afterwards, Ki-jeong and their mother make thorough plans. But it started to have some problems with the plan from the middle of the movie. Then, his father Ki-taek tells his son that he has a plan. At that time, Ki-woo believed his father, but then Ki-taek changed his mind. He says there’s a no-plan. Ki-taek says that even if you plan something, nothing will work out as it planned. This is a metaphor for the rich Park family and the poor Kim family. Including Mr.Park, who is a president of a big company, Park’s family always lives with a plan. On the other hand, Kim’s family who have no jobs and no plans live without any plans. As Ki-woo came in to Park’s house, his life seems to be with some plans, but eventually his plan ends in vain. The ending of the movie shows with a huge plan of Ki-woo. However, it’s just a plan of the lower class which could not come true..
#Up and Down
From the
beginning to the ending, the movie is a metaphor for the upper and lower classes.
Director Bong is
good at making this comparison. In his previous film ‘Snowpiercer’ he covered
the gap between the rich and the poor on the train. Also, In the other film ‘Okja’,
there was a proper comparison between the warmth of the mountain girl and the
coldness of the city. Anyway, the movie ‘Parasite’ shows the rich at the top
and the poor on the bottom.
The rich’s house,
which is on the hill and even goes up the stairs in the house, and the poor’s
basement where they can see the outside when look up through the window from
underground.
Mr.Park who has
fled to a hilltop house to escape from the heavy rain, and Ki-taek who need to
go into the down stairs where the heavy rain stays.
And another group of low-class people hiding underground.
#The Meaning of the title ‘Parasite’
When I first heard about the parasite, I thought it would be a bizarre or a mystery movie about worms. But, in fact, the movie title means people who live like parasite. In the movie, Kim’s family go into Park’s house one by one, and live their lives parasitic. At the beginning of the movie, it shows an insect called camel cricket, which hairworms live in it as a parasite. Discovering a camel cricket shows a meaning of the title ‘parasite’.
#Smell
Smell is often
mentioned in the movie. The smell can be seen as the perspective to the lower
class. Mr. Park says the the driver Ki-taek smells like a dried radish. And
Da-song says that Kim’s family smells the same.
At this point,
the movie wants to say that people judge the others by their smell; class. At
the latter part of the movie, Mrs. Park(Yeon-kyo) pinched her nose when she smelled
Ki-taek who wore vintage clothes because of the flood. It’s an ironic scene while
Yeon-kyo lifting her legs up in the car and heading it to Ki-taek’s head, but
also pinching her nose. Moreover, when Mr. park talks about Ki-taek that he’s
all good, but he doesn’t smell good, it makes Ki-taek feel very bad.
Eventually, the
movie evaluates people by their smell and rank them by the smell – The smell of
the rich, the smell of the poor.
At the end of the
movie, Gi-taek realized that himself is judged by the smell.
When a husband of a housekeeper is dead, Mr. Park just pinched his nose at him and only cared about his son, even though he saw Ki-jeong is dying. At this point, Ki-taek clearly recognized what ‘smell’ represents, and ran to Mr. Park with a knife.
#Indian
Park’s son, Da-song played the role of an Indian since he started to play the Cup Scout. In this movie, the meaning of the Indian is a metaphorical representation of the family Park who were taken away things from their land, and Kim’s family can be seen as the Europeans who drove the Indians away. Also, Da-song’s Indian tent is another symbol that contrast the rich and the poor, whereas Da-song’s Indian tent is rain-proof and Kim’s house is swept away by rain.
Bong, a director of Parasite, before said that he wants to make people think hundreds of things. After watched this movie, I had thousands of thoughts in my head, and Bong’s wish seemed to be come true to many people, including me.
My review is not an answer for the movie. If you have another opinion, pleas freely share your nice ideas and comment it. Thanks for reading my posting 🙂
Hello! welcome to Movieroom 🙂 I think that people all over the world know Aladdin which is based on the One Thousand and One Nights. In 1992, Aladdin was released by Walt Disney Pictures and became the highest-grossing film of 1992 with an earn $504 million in worldwide box office revenue.
Aladdin, 1992
On may in 2019, New Aladdin has been released. It was remade by Guy Ritchie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1992 animated film of the same name. Mena Massoud played the role of Aladdin, Will Smith played the role of Genie and Naomi Scott played the role of Jasmine.
Aladdin, 2019
As of June 16, 2019, Aladdin has grossed $264 million in the United States and Canada, and $463 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $727 million, against a production budget of $183 million.
I watched Aladdin with my friend who is really big fan of it so she already knew it’s story and all the songs. On the contrary, all I knew about Aladdin was that rubbing a magic lamp would grant Aladdin a wish. Anyway, both I, who didn’t know Aladdin well, and the friend who is a big fan of Aladdin, were really satisfied with it!
So, I’m going to list 4 reasons why many people, including myself fell in love with this live- action movie. And I am positive that you will too.
#1. Perfect Computer-Graphic and lots of things to see
From the vast desert embodied in sophisticated CG to mysterious caves filled with plenty of treasures, and the colorful costumes of characters, there is a lot of things to see. It immerses us in the movie.
This image released by Disney shows Mena Massoud as Aladdin in Disney.Cute Abu is also a computer graphic work.
Also, it was a movie full of songs and dances, I enjoyed watching the exciting songs, dances and CG scenes that made them more colorful. Especially, I was impressed with the song “Friend Like Me,” a song about Genie appears out of the lamp. It’s really fancy. The characters’ last partying scenes after the film was over also were scenes of joy like musical films.
#2. Will Smith, who did a good job playing Genie.
Robin Williams
When Disney announced that will smith had been cast for Genie, some people were unsure of Will Smith as Genie. They criticized everything from his blue coloration to his style is not fitting what Robin Williams did in 1992. Will Smith has admitted he “started off fearful” taking on the role of the Genie after Robin Williams.
Will Smith who played the role of Genie
But, Contrary to people’s concerns, he succeeded in creating a perfectly Will Smith-style genie.
Will Smith adds his own humor to the role and makes it distinctly his style, appealing to audience. Will Smith Genie has the same songs Robin Williams’ Genie had, “Friend Like Me” and “Prince Ali”. Each of those songs is full of the verbally dexterous lyrics. But Smith’s take on each song is more rap-infused. It is more modernized, and it gives people greater enjoyment. “I started playing with the hip-hop flavor and then the Genie was really born in my mind from the music” he said.
#3. Not that Jasmine in 1992
Naomi Scott who played the role of Jasmine
Jasmine in the Aladdin 1992
Some people who watched Aladdin in 2019 say the name of the movie should change to Jasmine. It means Jasmine might provide huge impression to audience than Aladdin. Actually, Jasmine in the original animated film was of course, smart and possessed a strong sense of self-worth princess who did not want to be a prize to be won by other princes.
2019 Jasmine is portrayed as a stronger, more pivotal female character who focused on her achievement and goals. She doesn’t want to marry a Sultan but be the Sultan herself. She is a progressively minded person who longs to steer her country in the right direction and vies to be Agrabah’s first female Sultan, a feat she eventually achieves, not Aladdin.
Disney has long been criticized for putting together conservative values that claim to be “saved by the prince” in its works. Jasmine in 2019 Aladdin shows their efforts toward keeping pace with the trend of the times in recent years, presenting works featuring self-reliance princess.
#4. Soundtrack remakes and additions
The classic songs that you are looking forward to (“A Whole New World,” “Friend Like Me,” etc.) are all here. But these songs are not just a copy of the original but something different with original version. Some lyrics have been changed, and the arrangements are modernized with the occasional hip-hop influence. This little change not only brings back memories of the original Aladdin, but also gives the audience freshness.
There is also an entirely new song “Speechless” written by Pasek and Paul, who won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “City of Stars” in La La Land. It is loved as much as the existing songs. I think this song played the most important role in showing Jasmine, who changed from the original.
“Written in stone/ Every rule every word/ Centuries old and unbending/ Stay in your place/ Better seen and not heard/ But now that story is ending/ Cause I/ I cannot start to crumble/ So come on and try/ Try to shut me and cut me down” “I won’t be silenced/ You can’t keep me quiet/ Won’t tremble when you try it/ All I know is I won’t go speechless”
As you can see by the lyrics, speechless is written with lyrics that are necessary to show the changed Jasmine.
So far, I introduced 4 reasons why people love the new Aladdin live-action remake. If you have not watched new Aladdin yet, I hope this posting makes you go to the cinema and watch Aladdin. I’m sure you can experience to watch great combination of animation, film and musical by watching Aladdin. Thank you for reading our blog and we’re always waiting to your comments:) Have a nice day!
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