贾斯汀·比伯：永不言败

但又透着一丝嫉妒和艳羡的意味。
希望那些心智不成熟的成年人自重。自爱。尊重。原谅。









最后，如果连一个花季少女你们都不放过，那简直就是连人性的性都不知道怎么写！

Today I just feeled a little down, so I opened the verycd and saw the movie<never say never>in the first place.I thought I might need some cheer up at that moment so I clicked the movie.
I found out it was just an autobiography of Justin Bieber. Actually I was not so interested to watch the movie through cause I'm not into Justin at all. But anyway I still finished watching it.
I've heard of this name for a long time but never knew him. So I searched Justin Bieber in Baidu. To me, the movie doesn't have any function of encouraging me. He is just a 17 year old lucky boy or maybe he does have some talents. And I admit he gets a beautiful voice.
There are some sentences in this movie I like:
1) Keep playing and always follow your dream
2)You gave up normal, this is your new normal
3)There are moments you come across all your life, there's always that moment when you have to let go
4)It went naturally, but naturally doesn't mean easy.There's work that goes into that.And you have to do the footwork.

    上个周末，我在家看了一部电影，片子是世界尽头读书会共享的《贾斯汀•比伯：永不言败》，这部传记片让我对这位加拿大歌坛小金童的生平有了全面的了解。应该说，这个出生于1994年的少年之所以成功，原因和《一万小时天才原理》完全相同——激情、一万小时精深练习、伯乐——三个条件缺一不可。他2-3岁就表现出音乐天赋，进入妈妈朋友的乐队，从打架子鼓开始了自己的艺术生涯。其后，他在街头卖艺，在剧院参加比赛，慢慢成长。一个偶然促使他意外崛起——他妈妈把他的几段演唱视频上传到YouTube上，被一个经纪人无意中发现，力劝他去美国发展。就这样，在伯乐的帮助下，他开始了风靡世界的旅程。
    片中有6个细节让我印象深刻：
    1、贾斯汀•比伯从12岁开始去美国发展，他在经纪人和助理的陪伴下，穿梭于一座座城市，在一个个公园、电台里演唱。一天工作结束之后，他就回到自己的“房车”上，简单吃点东西，然后在睡眠中行驶向下一个陌生的城市。一个十几岁的孩子，不能上学，不能随心所欲地玩耍，不能和同龄人在一起聊天，甚至在卫生间化妆时，歌唱老师也会督促他继续练习，连上卫生间都不能松懈。全世界只看到了他在台上的无限风光，谁又知道他在台下的种种艰辛。
    2、距离贾斯汀•比伯在纽约麦迪逊花园广场的演唱会只有9天了，为了减压，他回到加拿大老家，在家中休养。第二天起床后，他把被子一蹬，跳起来准备和几个哥们出门去逛街，却被妈妈喊住：“儿子，把房间收拾好再出去好吗？”母亲的潜台词是：“管你是什么天皇巨星，在家里你就得有做儿子的样子，你得尽自己的义务，我不会因为你在事业上取得成功就骄纵你。”多么可敬的母亲，她的存在，让贾斯汀不至于迷失自己。这就是中西教育的差距。
    3、贾斯汀•比伯在纽约麦迪逊花园广场的演唱会当天上午，医生为了保护他那刚刚消肿的声带，给他调配了一大瓶营养液。贾斯汀喝了一口，皱眉说：“这味道像恐龙尿！”助理劝他：“你必须靠这东西保持活力。”贾斯汀反驳：“我今年16岁，活力无穷！”助理再劝：“你不会永远是16岁。”贾斯汀不再说话，拿起营养液一饮而尽。一个听得进劝的少年，不是一般的少年。至少我在他这个年纪的时候，可是油盐不进，逆反得很啊，呵呵。
    4、贾斯汀每次演唱会都会自己掏腰包买20多张门票，让助理们在演唱会门口寻找那些买不到票的粉丝，出其不意地给他们一个惊喜。这种做法花费不高，却深得歌迷爱戴，是一种笼络人心的有效技巧。
    5、每次演唱会上，贾斯汀的助理都会在现场随机选择一位“不再孤单女孩”，邀请她到舞台上坐在一把椅子上，然后由贾斯汀献花、献歌，把她当女友一般宠爱。把那些相貌平凡的女孩们感动得泪流满面，从此成为贾斯汀的死忠分子。
    没有人可以随随便便成功，《永不言败》是一部很有意思的偶像励志片。

NYT的这篇评论有典型的成人调侃论调，言语没有太过于harsh（还是我口味太重？），但至少也能让人看得会心一笑。转载过来大家一同欢乐欢乐。



Jon M. Chu’s “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” is billed as a concert documentary, but fewer than half of its 105 minutes are devoted to Mr. Bieber onstage. That was the right choice, because he’s more engaging as a star than he’s ever likely to be as a performer.

You don’t necessarily want to talk about sex when discussing someone whose fans are mostly adolescent girls, but Justin Bieber is nothing if not an old-fashioned, carefully constructed sex symbol, somewhere between a more knowing Donny Osmond and a less insinuating Elvis Presley. When the little girls understand you, music and personality are beside the point.

Mr. Chu is certainly aware of this, given the close-up attention he lavishes on the priceless combination of eyes, hair and jawline, of smile, vocal timbre and self-confidence that have carried the waifish — but fit! — Mr. Bieber to pop-culture Valhalla.

And while “Never Say Never” is an approved biography and marketing tool, in which the 16-year-old Mr. Bieber showcases his winsomeness and humility alongside his modest talents as a singer and dancer, Mr. Chu recognizes that the most compelling visual in this story is all those screaming girls.

So he points the camera 180 degrees away from the star a fair bit of the time, and that view introduces a queasy note of apprehension into the otherwise wholesome picture. Occasionally you see a fan whose senses are particularly deranged by her love for Mr. Bieber, and you hope that his security team has her picture on file.

Mr. Chu, who has experience in both 3-D filmmaking and stage spectacles (he directed the “Step Up” sequels), toes the company line the rest of the time, splicing together home movies from Mr. Bieber’s prefame years and shooting numerous boring segments with his handlers and coaches. It should be noted that the film’s producers include Mr. Bieber and his manager, Scooter Braun, a 29-year-old whose inflections and intensity recall the young Rob Morrow.

The concert scenes are perfunctory, shot in the usual manner with the 3-D cameras gliding back and forth at knee level. A duet between Mr. Bieber and Miley Cyrus, just 16 months older, serves as a cautionary example of how quickly a child star can begin to look middle aged and irrelevant. Several appearances with Usher, on the other hand, demonstrate what it means to own the stage. Next to Usher, his mentor, Mr. Bieber just fades away.

In the film’s best and weirdest shot, Mr. Chu zooms in close as Mr. Bieber flings his head back and forth in slow motion, waving his famously floppy hair in a moment that’s both hilarious and creepy, especially when you’re watching in 3-D.

At 70 or 80 minutes, reduced to crazy fans, backstage atmosphere and home-movie footage of Mr. Bieber playing hockey and pounding the drums, “Never Say Never” could have been entirely satisfying. At 105 minutes it’s exhausting, even though it has been expertly cut together.

Mr. Bieber is amiable company, but on screen, at least, he also projects the opacity of the single-minded and self-assured — the quality that, along with good looks and competent management, makes him such an ideal repository for other people’s dreams. Everyone involved in “Never Say Never” is working overtime to prove that he is, as one of them puts it, “just a regular kid who had a dream,” while everything about the movie screams the opposite.


原评论地址 http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/movies/11justin.html?ref=movies