The film Passion： Stubbornness of Middle-aged People

The movie "Enthusiasm", some people say that its street dance theme is very small and suitable for young people to watch; Some people say it’s a comedy, and it’s over with a smile. There is no connotation, but the author finds that there are many middle-aged people watching the movie, singing, dancing, crying and laughing like young people. Middle-aged people and young people watch a hip-hop movie at the same time, but it doesn’t contradict at all.

Talk about it from May Day.

"My last stubbornness and I will never let go. The next stop is heaven. Even if we are disappointed and can’t despair, I and my proud stubbornness will sing loudly in the wind. This time I am crazy about myself. Just this time I and my stubbornness will let me sing loudly."

The theme song of the movie "Enthusiasm" is still ringing in my ears, and it is "Stubborn" of Mayday. This song is included in the album "All Children of God are Dancing" released in May 2005, and it is one of the most popular songs on the album. As a middle-aged person born in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I am not familiar with this song.

The core of Mayday’s creation, "As long as you work hard and keep fighting, you will get ahead one day" and the theme of "Enthusiasm" are highly coincident. Director Dapeng and starring Bo Huang turned out to be Mayday fans. At the Mayday Shenyang concert, they sang this song "Stubborn" with A Xin. When they sang "The direction against the wind is more suitable for flying", the whole audience was full of blood.

In addition to Stubborn, Chen Shuo’s mother also sang Zhang San’s Song in the film, which was accompanied by a scene in which her mother returned to the stage to sing in order to save Chen Shuo’s life. "We want to fly to that distant place to have a look, and the world is still bright. We want to fly to that distant place to have a look, and the world is not so bleak." The film cuts back to the scene in which her mother is working hard outside the restaurant, which is in sharp contrast with herself on the stage. When Chen Shuo arrived, he saw his mother singing, crying and laughing. It turns out that her mother also shines like this.

Although it is a street dance movie, it is accompanied by two lyric songs that middle-aged people love to hear. The middle-aged feelings in it can’t be more obvious.

Question mark, ellipsis and exclamation point

Every middle-aged person has a dream when he is young. Most of them are dull or even greasy after being beaten by society. From the "question mark" of being curious about everything in youth to the "ellipsis" of thinking nothing in middle age, it is a long story.

Ding Lei, a street dance coach, is such a representative. He "calculated" Chen Shuo’s simplicity and "used" Chen Shuo’s love. He was sleek and sophisticated, but at the same time his conscience did not die out, and he still had a hope for the future. We also saw more middle-aged little people in the movie "Enthusiasm". Kevin’s translation, for the sake of high income, is doing a job that he doesn’t like, and he has two faces for employers and outsiders; Chen Shuo’s mother, who runs a small restaurant, takes care of her brother and Chen Shuo alone, and shoulders a home with thin shoulders; Ding Lei’s hair is small and Chen Shuo’s father and friend thank the boss. Although life is not satisfactory, the brotherhood is still there; The owner of the car wash shop has no mercy on the lateness of employees. They are like those familiar faces around us, too ordinary and too greasy. Every character plays a kind of helplessness in life.

The stubbornness of middle-aged people is not obvious, but when an external point touches the long-buried desire in the depths of the soul, it is as enthusiastic as young people. Chen Shuo in the movie "Enthusiasm" is this point. Chen Shuo’s persistence touched the switch of chasing dreams in Ding Lei’s heart, and he seemed to see himself in this young man. Ding Lei gradually accepted Chen Shuo, helped him grow rapidly, dedicated his own unique tricks, and finally even came on the bench in person. With the joint efforts of Ding Lei, Chen Shuo and his teammates, they finally won the national hip-hop competition and became the "exclamation mark" of the world.

Chen Shuo: "You wrote a sentence in the recruitment advertisement, and you will succeed if you keep working hard."

Ding Lei: "Oh, do you believe this?"

Chen Shuo: "I wish I could be an exclamation point myself."

A conversation between the master and the apprentice at the end of the film can be described as a stroke of light, which is worth pondering by every middle-aged person.

"Qingdao Dance King", "China Top Dancer Promotion Ambassador" and Hangzhou Asian Games

With the popularity of street dance, Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games included street dance in the competition. In order to promote this new project, the organizing Committee decided to make a theme film with street dance theme. When receiving this task, everyone in the "Enthusiasm" crew didn’t think about how to shoot it.

On July 25th, director Dapeng went to Wuhan for a roadshow with his creative director, revealing that the casting of the film came before the script creation, that is, "the script was written according to the faces of Bo Huang and YiBo", that is, the leading role came first, and then "Enthusiasm". Su Biao, the screenwriter, admitted frankly that Bo Huang and YiBo gave him a lot of creative inspiration. This is why the audience thinks that the roles of Ding Lei and Chen Shuo are highly matched with those of Bo Huang and YiBo, because they have their shadows on the original roles.

Bo Huang, known as the "Dance King" in Qingdao, worked as a dance teacher for seven years in his early years, and played Ding Leishe on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Evening. YiBo has a persistent love for hip-hop and is awarded the "Top Dancer Promotion Ambassador in China" by China Dance Association because of his dancing skills. His role as the leading role is unanimously recommended by the industry.

Chen Shuo dances a lot. In order to play the role of Chen Shuo well, YiBo stepped up her practice of dance that she was not good at before. The shooting period was in high temperature, and he practiced over and over again until his body was injured and overdrawn. "Enthusiasm" almost unlocked all YiBo’s street dance skills this time. In addition to the amazing head turn, in the final at the end of the film, all the street dance genres were also shown, which set off the atmosphere to the extreme.

In the literary drama, YiBo and Bo Huang performed brilliantly opposite each other in the barbecue shop. YiBo’s expression changed from happy, disappointed to sad, from flashing eyes, red eyes, silent tears to crying aloud. The eruption of feelings was very hierarchical, which deeply touched the audience at the scene and made everyone sigh that his acting skills had reached a new height.

On July 26th, director Dapeng ran a roadshow in Changsha wearing frog clothes and facing the heat, which seemed to be a deduction of Ding Lei in reality. He left a message in Weibo: "For a brave and enthusiastic life that I love in my heart! Live as an exclamation point! Let’s go to see "Enthusiasm". A movie that I worked very hard to make. "

It’s not youth that is warm, it’s us. This summer, stubborn you and I may find our own shadow in "Enthusiasm".