康净淳
发表于7分钟前回复 :故事从孟买的小孩Anil(后来的Jimmy)讲起,Jimmy和艺人Raju(Rajesh Khanna扮演)在街头以吉他和鼓为乐器演出。按照印度影片的传统套路,Anil与富家小女孩Rita(丽达)交上了“朋友”,很显然地,这是不能被允许的,在一次约会时被小女孩的父亲Mr. Oberoi撞见,这位父亲理所当然地痛打了Anil和母亲,最终造成了Anil一家的背井离乡…,Anil发誓要报仇,他选择的武器就是---Disco!若干年后,Sammy(Oberoi的儿子)由于种种原因成为了印度最出名的舞蹈明星,但他胡作非为、生活腐败的本性使得经纪人DavidBrown非常的不满,他开始尝试寻找Sam的替代者。Jimmy(以前的Anil)的机会终于出现了,由于模仿约翰.屈夫塔在Saturday NightFever形象的成功,Jimmy成为Brown的合适人选。Jimmy在夜总会演出自然遭到Sam的嫉恨,他让姐姐Rita去搞破坏,但Rita也被Jimmy的出色演技所折服。影片在印度获得巨大成功,相对宏大的场面,华丽的服饰,激烈的打斗,甚至一些Disco道具等均在印度甚至亚洲引发了新一轮Disco热潮。Jimmy的扮演者Mithun也是一夜成名!公平的讲,电影中的Disco音乐歌曲(Bappi Lahiri制作)也是它成功的基础,Bappi Lahiri是印度著名的音乐人,除了印度音乐以外,他也改编了一些西方的舞曲音乐,如one way ticket等。因为这部电影,使得Bappi Lahiri在中国获得极大的声誉,他自己说还在中国获得了一个什么音乐方面的金奖。《吉米,来吧》选自印度电影《迪斯科舞星》听过这首歌的人很多,随着这首曲子劲舞的人更是不计其数,然而知道这首歌出自电影《迪斯科舞星》的人却寥寥无几。这部影片虽不太出名,却是印度电影音乐在进入80年代后与国际流行音乐合流的一个小标志。西方的一些评论虽然对这部影片评价不高,但也不得不承认它是印度历史上最好的迪斯科影片,某种程度上可以和Saturday Night Fever媲美。Saturday Night Fever被认为是Disco音乐的开山之作,比吉斯Bee Gees的演唱以及John Travolta的演出为这部影片奠定了历史地位,所以能与这部电影比较,无论是褒或贬,都是一种荣誉。也正是因为Disco Dancer这部电影,使得印度能够在Disco音乐领域有了一席之地。当然,即使是在流行音乐范畴内,Disco音乐似乎也难登大雅之堂,况且Disco Dancer中也直接借鉴了不少欧美舞曲音乐的元素,所以不被西方音乐人士看好也再所难免。尽管如此,Disco音乐爱好者特别是中国的爱好者还是不应该错过。
金昌贤
发表于8分钟前回复 :A witty, exhilarating and mind-expanding exploration of the word of our times - data - with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. Following in the footsteps of BBC Four's previous gleefully nerdy, award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats, Tails you Win - The Science of Chance and The Joy of Logic, this new high-tech romp reveals exactly what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry also tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution.For Hannah Fry, the joy of data is all about spotting patterns. She's Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at UCL as well as being the presenter of the BBC series Trainspotting Live and City in the Sky, and she sees data as the essential bridge between two universes - the tangible, noisy, messy world that we see and experience, and the clean, ordered, elegant world of maths, where everything can be captured beautifully with equations.Along the way the film reveals the connection between Scrabble scores and online movie streaming, explains why a herd of Wiltshire dairy cows are wearing pedometers, and uncovers the remarkable network map of Wikipedia. What's the mystery link between 'marmalade' and 'One Direction'?The Joy of Data also hails the giant contribution of Claude Shannon, the American mathematician and electrical engineer who, in an attempt to solve the problem of noisy telephone lines, devised a way to digitise all information. It was Shannon, father of the 'bit', who singlehandedly launched the 'information age'. Meanwhile, the green lawns of Britain's National Physical Laboratory host a race between its young apprentices in order to demonstrate how and why data moves quickly and successfully around modern data networks. It's all thanks to the brilliant technique first invented there in the 1960s by Welshman Donald Davies - packet switching - without which there would be no internet as we know it.But what of the future, big data and artificial intelligence? Should we be worried by the pace of change, and what our own data could and should be used for? Ultimately, Fry concludes, data has empowered all of us. We must have machines at our side if we're to find patterns in the modern-day data deluge. But, Fry believes, regardless of AI and machine learning, it will always take us to find the meaning in them.