Youth Inspirational Movie: "Dancing Out My Life"

Recommended reason: This bittersweet youth story is more like a wonderful fairy tale about dreams becoming reality.

Chinese title: "Dancing Out My Life"

English title: Step up

Director: anne fletcher

Starring: channing tatum, jenna dewan, rachel griffiths

Synopsis: Everyone should have the opportunity to pursue their dreams, but some people only encounter setbacks. He, from Baltimore's bottom society, is humble but defiant, seeking every opportunity to get rid of this unpleasant life desperately, and dancing has become the only stills that can release his soul.

The dream; She is a top ballerina in Baltimore's best performing arts college, and makes unremitting efforts to climb to the palace of dance art every day. There is an unbridgeable gap between their worlds, but nothing can stop the passion collision between these two talented young people-you may think this is a bittersweet youth story, but in fact it is more like a wonderful fairy tale about dreams becoming reality.

All his life, he lived on the streets of a city with difficult environment, but Taylor Gage never gave up his dream because of the hardship of his life. He knew that he was so different that he would leave here one day to start a new life. Taylor, who was forced to work in the community because of destroying the equipment of Maryland Art School, never thought that his fate had changed fundamentally at this moment. When he performed community service in Maryland Art School, he attracted the attention of a girl named Nora. Nora was a beautiful girl and ballet genius in this school, and was preparing for the most influential dance competition in the school, but her partner was unfortunately injured at this moment. Before Nora met Taylor, she was already desperate to find a new partner. She secretly watched Taylor's every move, and found that although his dancing skills were uncut, his strong sense of music and law all indicated that he was a born dancer. Nora gave Taylor this opportunity to be a new partner, but when they started training, the relationship was once tense because of the polarized life background … Taylor and Nora, who both considered giving up, insisted on going through the running-in period for their own purposes. When everything gradually got on track, Taylor and Nora proved to themselves and Nora with the most practical actions that dancing to their heart's content is even more wonderful than imagined.

Don't underestimate that anne fletcher, who is the director for the first time, is a woman, but she is the leading choreographer in Hollywood. You can see her beautiful and busy figure in the studios of more than 20 films, such as Princess on Ice, Catwoman, Forty-year-old Virgin, etc. She is a kind of dance director with great artistic explosive power. (Inspirational film www.lz13.cn) Therefore, this kind of song and dance film that combines youth and dreams is perfect for her, because she has experienced a similar growing environment and is the authority to interpret the inner world of a person who loves dance and pursues all his life. In the film, Taylor has discovered his dance talent, but his environment does not allow this talent to be played normally, because in that "pragmatic" place, "dancing is rich." The brand-new world of Barilan School is a real salvation for him, but first he must prove himself and face the danger of losing his old friends and his old way of life correctly.

It is not difficult for anne fletcher to understand Taylor's story, but finding actors to interpret the role perfectly has broken her brain. Because that person should not only bring realism to this story, but also have excitement to attract the audience. Of course, the necessary dance talent is indispensable. For the sake of the authenticity and vividness of the film itself, Fletcher clearly stated that he refused to use body double or any form of post-dubbing, even if it was just a trivial small shot ... For a film that uses singing and dancing to express the story, this requirement is very difficult. Fortunately, Fletcher has a very strong production team behind it, and finally she won it. In fact, in the films where Fletcher participated in the choreography, she always tried her best to ask the actors to experience the fun brought by dance and music in person, so as to bring the truest side to the characters, and at the same time, she would not break the natural emotional expression because she took turns playing with body double. For this film, Fletcher interviewed many young actors, who not only had strong expressive force, but also reached the professional level in singing and dancing, but their temperament lacked the brawniness in the street … Until the appearance of channing tatum, Fletcher found Jenna Devin, who matched her very well in appearance and dancing skills-whether the two leading actors could achieve emotional interaction became one of the decisive factors for whether this kind of film was good-looking.

Taylor in the film is young, but his character is very complicated: although he is a problem of juvenile, he has extraordinary personality charm; A little rude, but very cute; Speak vitriolic, but very romantic at heart; Although he has not received any professional dance training and is careless, he is a born dancer ... Indeed, it is not easy to find such a person, so there is still a young man named channing tatum in this world. Tatum was born in a small town in Alabama and grew up in a similar environment to Taylor's. Anne fletcher gave Tatum the role with both hands almost at the first sight, because he showed natural domineering and supercilious, which was exactly what other auditees lacked, but what Fletcher needed most. In addition, Tatum is a very talented street dancer, so Fletcher always feels lucky to find him, which also increases her confidence in the film.

There are many similarities between channing tatum and Taylor. Maybe the boys who grew up in that environment have similar personalities and temperament. Most of the time, Taylor is just a big boy who likes dancing, carefree and joking, but occasionally he tortures himself and makes himself physically and mentally exhausted … In fact, boys will experience the emotional transformation that Taylor is experiencing at this age, which is a process of going through adolescence. However, Taylor is the luckiest one among them. He went from being confused to being strong, and his dream finally came true.

Although Tatum has been playing hip-hop for several years, like Taylor, he has never received formal professional guidance. Therefore, before shooting, he needs to receive special training from the choreographer of street dance. Tatum, who always wanted to jump as much as he wanted, found that this process was more difficult than he thought. In particular, he needed to keep repeating the same dance steps, and there were strict rules on the placement of his hands and feet. Tatum, who always twisted his body instinctively, was a little overwhelmed. However, he finally knew that the original hip-hop dance that pursued free wind also had a routine side.

The meeting between Taylor and Nora in the film represents how two different cultures and the world adapt to each other and change each other. They have learned a lot from each other that they never know: Taylor belongs to the kind of person who has dreams but does not actively pursue them, because too many lessons make him deeply realize that whenever he ignites hope, he will always be poured down with a basin of cold water; Nora, on the other hand, is the kind of person who knows what she wants too much and makes every effort and means to get it. She is the kind of competitive person who struggles for her dreams ... After they are linked together, they first touch each other low, then constantly change themselves to adapt to each other. In the end, they all find a completely different self. Jenna Devin, who plays Nora, was also singled out by anne fletcher during the audition. This little girl who started dancing at the age of five has a fresh and clean warm temperament, which makes her stand out from many candidates. Coincidentally, Devin's life coincided with Nora's: "When I was 15 years old, I was as stubborn as Nora, and when it came to dancing, I immediately became one-track-minded. Because the only thing I knew at that time was that I was nothing without dancing.