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.
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http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/movies/11justin.html?ref=movies这部纪录片包含了他以前在街头卖艺的视频,对着usher面试的视频,还有如何把第一场演唱会定在了麦迪逊花园的过程,从网络红人变成了名副其实的大明星,为了声带保护只能听老师的话不能吃油炸食品,台下对粉丝的亲和力以及和自己的经纪人等工作人员打成一片,还有从小住在外公外婆加拿大多伦多的家里以及附近的童年玩伴,在俘获了少女们的心的同时也失去了以前的自由的时间,全面的展现了他的成长
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.
网友的嫉妒心里是真的很无聊,他们往往不是真的讨厌一个人,或者往往不是真的针对哪个人,而仅仅是没有事情干,拿一个人来泄愤而已。
一个人的才华,往往不是由别人的指指点点而改变的。
我建议有的人可以先了解Justin Bieber,再进行评论,Justin Bieber红遍世界的歌不是只有baby而已,他的歌和他的人都在成长。
im Belieber forever.
强烈支持碧波儿持外卡杀入本届奥斯卡最佳女主角奖争夺中
好! = =
瓦擦!这要励志励馁门子志。这是馁个无良的人翻他的名字啊,简直就是天后的感觉!碧波儿。。。我去可以吐一缸了
小JB你是最棒的!我知道天后非你莫属!
没必要拿IMDB上1.2分,豆瓣上4.5分的评价来说事儿,就是个纪录片,讲Justin Bieber怎么成名的。he's just a cool kid, and worked hard to make his dream come true.
打一星的人有毛病吧,为何说这个人是女的?男女不分么?十四岁出道的少年有这种声音和外形是再正常不过的事情吧,难道你们这些人都没看过外国小男孩的长相?明明是男的,与春哥比,春哥曾哥之流明显都是屎吧。理解不能,我只能认为打一星的豆瓣者应该都是Loser吧,除此之外没有其他解释。
cute
矮油,关于著名流行小天王嘉斯婷·碧波儿的纪录片:如何成长为JB,或者:JB是如何成长的。
就冲着逼宝儿把Billboard变成了一个人!!!!!!!!!!!
凭良心说,JBDIVA演技,明年的奥斯卡最佳女主不给她给谁!!!!!!!
一个童星而已.. 你们至于么........ 好吧 其实我也只是嫉妒她和Usher在一起..
太欢乐了 你们这是要闹哪样
做点小事,让别人感激一辈子~
谁说男人不能当影后?
还好呀~就纪录片嘛~呵呵
我是当励志片看的,很不谦虚的讲《永不言败》拍的早了点。
一天,14岁的女儿一放学回家,就带着一个年级差不多的小男生就钻进了自己的房间,关上了房门,不久,母亲就听到了房间里传来:oh,baby,baby,baby,no的声音。母亲很惊讶,连忙敲开了门,问:你们在干吗?,女儿说:我们在做爱。母亲长舒一口气说:哦,那就好,我还以为你们在听justin bieber呢~
不带任何对JB的态度,这个片拍的首先就不好,太乱。看他小时候看来确实是挺可爱挺有天分的,各位饥渴的姐姐妹妹们表现的太明显了,公司也越来越往装X路线包装他,那个什么DR.BIEBER……看他能不能再红一年
短发女孩也可以性感和可爱
It went naturally,but naturally doesn't mean easy!!!