[US Entertainment] Best Director

Who is Davidoff?

Could it be a newcomer with an unknown reputation?

The audience who saw the cast and crew on the poster had this doubt.

Naturally, everyone selectively ignored this line.This is also the effect that Prairie wants, seeking audiences who simply love Jacqueline, not limited by fame.

Johnny is an American, he studied art design in France, and he is also a veteran movie buff, he goes to the cinema almost four times a week, and this week is no exception.

Johnny walked to the ticket counter and started chatting with the familiar ticket sales lady.

"Hey honey, is there any good movie coming out this week?"

In fact, Johnny didn't want to know the answer to this question at all, because he had already done enough homework on the movies released this week before coming to the cinema, and the top four movies on Rotten Tomatoes this week would be his list of movies to watch.

The ticket sales lady also knew this, Johnny was already a regular customer, and she knew that what Johnny said was just a habitual inquiry.

The ticket sales lady blinked and said playfully, "Oh, honey, I know you already have the answer in your heart, just tell me what movie you want to see, maybe I can help you choose a good seat."

Johnny pretended to be meaningful and elongated his tone, "Well...I want to—"

As soon as the phrase "Untouchable" was about to be spoken, Johnny glanced at a poster in the corner of the theater. The poster was black and seamlessly connected with the black wall, so he hadn't seen it before.

Very strange.

The usual posters always like to make themselves more conspicuous, don't they?

And this one—

Johnny narrowed his eyes.

This one is pure black, and the music has a woman's side profile, but it is always hazy, as if in a room, only the graceful jawline of the woman can be seen vaguely.

Who is she?

Which rookie actor?

Johnny holding the question decided to look down to find the answer, he looked to the corner of the poster.

Then he saw—

Starring Elgar ?Director David Dorff ?

Obvious pseudonym.

Johnny raised his eyebrows with interest, and asked the ticket sales lady.

"What's the name of this movie?"

The ticket sales lady followed Johnny's gaze to look at the poster in that corner, "Oh, you said that one, that's the poster just delivered today, it seems to be called "Elgar's Rhapsody."

"Elgar Rhapsody?"

If he remembered correctly, the actor's name was Elgar just now, so...Johnny raised his eyebrows with interest.

"That's all for now, do you have a ticket?" Johnny made a final decision.

"Are you sure? Don't you usually only watch the top four movies on Rotten Tomatoes?" the ticket sales lady asked in disbelief.

"You also said it's usual." Johnny blinked, "Please choose a good position for me."

The ticket sales lady gave Johnny a strange look, then opened the interface of "Elgar Rhapsody", muttering, "Okay, okay, how about seven rows and eight seats?"

"It will be all right."

Half an hour later, Johnny took the movie ticket and entered the theater. It was the afternoon with the most visitors, but the movie theater of "Elgar Rhapsody" was very quiet, with only a few sparse audiences. Sit in two rows.And most of them are actually old people, sitting on the seats with white sideburns and crutches.

Johnny found his seat, beside him was an old man in a hat.

The movie starts quickly, with a cello piece first.

Sad and hoarse, like a sad song before leaving.

Then came a figure from the back, the back of a woman with long golden hair.

The swan-like neck and thin back fluctuate with the music.

Then came a large-scale close-up of the woman's hand holding the bow, her closed eyes, and her elegantly pursed lips.

Almost as soon as the first bipolar shot started, Johnny knew who it was—in the movie circle, people who like to use the so-called "typical error" bipolar shot, and it is not embarrassing except for Prairie Si Crane Who else?

But if it was Pryris, why did she use an alias?

We must know that for art fans, the name of Preris means must-see, which means that they are willing to go to the theater twice and thrice, but the alias of Davidoff in this movie... ....

Before Johnny could finish his thoughts, Johnny was stunned when a frontal shot of a heroine appeared... Is that actress Keira Knightley?

Are you kidding me?

When did Keira Knightley change her temperament?

Johnny looked at Keira on the screen. His impression of Keira was still that of Keira playing Elizabeth Bennett in "Pride and Prejudice", that Miss England like a gentle breeze in June, and now— —

Keira was wearing a gray dress, sitting on a chair and playing the cello, her introverted and deep temperament was like the eternally gloomy sky in France.

Johnny is a veteran fan of literature and art. He has seen all of Prairie's movies, and even went to the theater six times when "Sagan" was released. Now, this movie called "Elgar Rhapsody", Kay La Knightley's character seems to be in the same style as Sagan?Or is this movie in the same style as "Sagan"?

If this is the case, although Johnny also feels that "Elgar Rhapsody" is a good movie after watching it so far, but it is too uninnovative, like another version of "Sagan". However, it seems that the narrative rhythm is not as clear as "Sagan", and the color picture is not as beautiful as "Sagan".......

Johnny unconsciously raised higher standards for this film after discovering that David Dorff was Praris.

Even though "Elgar Rhapsody" is still excellent, this ordinary excellence and being able to watch it can no longer satisfy him. On the one hand, he looks forward to seeing a masterpiece like "Sagan", on the other hand, he doesn't think he can. There is no movie better than "Sagan", even if the director of the two is the same person.

But the fact is that good people will always be better.

Even though "Elgar Rhapsody" looks similar to "Sagan", after reading it, Johnny found that it is not. If "Sagan" is a poem of melancholy Yeats, then "Elgar Plus Rhapsody" is a gray death song.

Sagan and Jacqueline are different. Sagan is undisciplined, exaggerated, but can't hide his melancholy, but what about Jacqueline?

She seems to be nothing, reserved and shy, devoting herself wholeheartedly to the cello career.

The cello is her life, and Elgar is her destiny.

When the most famous "Elgar Cello Concerto" resounded through the theater, most of the moviegoers cried, and Johnny also cried.

Even if he doesn't know the piano or Jacqueline, but to show a person's life in front of the audience and let the audience experience all the emotions of a person, this is the charm of the movie, isn't it?

At the end of the film, there is a scene of Jacqueline lying on the bed.

Jacqueline, who has multiple sclerosis and can no longer play the cello, lies in bed with a cello student by her side.

After a brief hustle and bustle, the students left, and the room returned to calm.

The house was playing Jacqueline's favorite Schumann piece.

When she was famous, most of what she played was what the listeners liked to hear, but when she could no longer pick up the bow, she was able to accompany her favorite repertoire every day.

At the end of the film, it was Jacqueline's funeral. Daniel, who had formed a new family in another country, walked to Jacqueline's coffin, took a last look, and played Schumann's repertoire for her.

The film ended up on that vinyl record.

The ending song is a song played by Jacqueline and her friends during her lifetime.

Jacqueline's life is gray and blue, but at the same time golden fireworks are burning.

Johnny likes this feeling, Jacqueline's life always reminds him of those dreamers.

Pure art needs to pay a price, just like those masters in the history of art.

On this doomed and difficult road,

And now, it's all over.

Until the last note disappeared, he sat on his seat, just like other audiences in this venue, he didn't know what he was expecting, he could only roughly feel that he seemed to be waiting for something.

However, at the end of the last subtitle, he did not see the easter egg.

It's really over.

Johnny got up and left the theater.

I habitually went to the counter next to the ticket sales lady and asked for a comment form.

Fill it out and put it in the mailbox.

"How's the movie?" asked the ticket sales lady.

Johnny thought about it for a while, but didn't answer, just said, "You'll find out after you go and see."

The ticket sales lady raised her eyebrows, and just as she was about to continue asking, she saw a group of old gentlemen coming out, and the direction of the old gentlemen clearly pointed to the movie - "Volga Rhapsody".

The old gentlemen walked to the counter, asked for a viewing form, filled it out, handed it to the ticket sales lady, and then left.

This was the first time that the ticket sales lady saw so many old people coming together, and they all asked to come after watching the same movie to fill out the movie evaluation form.

The curious ticket sales lady glanced at the evaluation form in her hand. The names on it were written——Ross, Newing, Parr, Kerman...

The strange name seems somewhat familiar.

After glancing at the watches, the ticket sales lady put them in the mailbox.

What she didn't know was that those seemingly strange and somewhat familiar names came from the best musicians of this century, they were - Rostropovich, Menuhin, Perlman and Zuker Man.