离巨星二十英尺

第一次真正注意到伴唱是在《我是歌手》第一季的舞台上，到最后一集导演还将伴唱们请上台邀请他们演唱，其实平时人们很少在唱片或者音乐会现场注意到这些伴唱歌手们，幸好有这部电影，能让我们近距离接触到这些站在巨星二十英尺以外的人。
他们拥有不逊于很多主唱的才华，有着对音乐更加炙热的感情，却只能在聚光灯边缘徘徊；这个行业早期，没有像他们这样的黑人姑娘，而是清一色的白人姑娘，面对各种质疑，他们用令人刮目相看的音色为自己争得了一席之地；当他们终于摆脱伴唱的束缚开始单独发片时，市场却并不买张，二十英尺的距离似乎是道永远跨不过去的鸿沟，横亘在他们面前。
伴唱也许是世界上最让人纠结的工作，你需要天生的音乐才华与嗓音，但同时你要学会如何去隐藏和掩盖它，去迎合别人的声音。曾经他们也很有名——当然是作为伴唱来说，影片里的伴唱都有一定江湖地位，他们的人生尚且如此波折，那些不那么知名伴唱的命运可想而知。在生活的压力面前，他们中有些人还在坚持，有些人已经放弃，有些人放弃后又重新拾起，成就了一段传奇。
琳达就是这个传奇，她是取代白人姑娘作为伴唱的人，也是后来推出音乐节去给别人打扫房间的人，也是40岁重新开始唱歌的人，更是后来入选摇滚音乐名人堂的人，她成功的跨过了那二十英尺的距离，却用了超过半生的时间。如果没有对音乐的坚持和热爱，没有每天重复的努力以及强大的内心作为支撑，很难跨过那看似并不遥远的二十英尺。
当然还有些人反而在二十英尺外更加舒服自在，丽莎在伴唱届无人不知，她的歌声宛如一片羽毛，轻轻一吹，乘风而起，轻盈而落。她是滚石的伴唱，有人问她为什么不往前走？她回答说她喜欢这样，自由自在，可以惬意的在人群当中昂首挺胸的走过。
还有曾经被迈克尔杰克逊定为巡回演唱会伴唱的朱迪斯，在排练过程中迈克尔不幸离世，她却在葬礼的直播上被大家认识并接受，开始了迈过二十英尺的第一步。正如她自己所说，她虽然已经足够有名，却还没有大牌到推掉所有伴唱工作的地步，挣扎、质疑、阻力时时刻刻都在伴随着他们，第一步可能就已经耗费了一个人十几年的光阴。
想要跨过这距离巨星的二十英尺，其实无关公平，这从来都不是公平的游戏，也无关天分，是境遇，是命运，是运气，唯有强者能够驾驭。但是要想成为强者，你需要自律，需要重复的练习，需要专注于歌声，把灵魂倾注于歌曲，当机会来临时，才能跨过那道鸿沟，不至于一脚踏空，掉进万劫不复的深渊。
这像极了中国人说的修行，不过人生本身就是一次漫长的修行，不是吗？

2006年，东东枪在一篇文章里提到郭德纲的北漂生活。那是郭德纲第三次进京。没钱，吃什么呢？自个儿买一捆大葱，还有点酱，回家后在锅里放水直接下面，再放酱进去，煮出一锅糨子一样的东西，天天拿葱蘸那锅糨子吃。出行呢？天天骑自行车去上班，自行车坏了只好开始坐公车，坐公车前会仔细算计怎样倒车才能省下五毛钱一块钱。结果有一天散了夜戏，末班车没赶上，又没钱打车。只好走回去。多年后郭德纲回忆说，身上仅有的两块钱买了包子充饥。有一段路正在修桥挖大坑，身上只有一块手表，拦住出租车司机想以表换车费，结果人家没理他。只好继续走。当时的大桥，光走车不走人，人只能扶着栏杆在边上走，一边走一边心里就坚持不住，眼泪哗哗的。自己念叨天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤。想着有一天这是日后的吹嘘资本。

    看过这篇文章后，听郭德纲的相声，脑子里偶尔会浮现一个在深夜只有大卡车奔驰的马路上不断走路的人，还边哭边念叨。

    可是看完《离巨星20英尺》后便开始想，这个世界上还有多少人，其实根本没有机会对着世人诉说想当年如何艰辛。就算他们有机会向世人展示他们的才华与努力，人们看过后抒发下情绪，也会瞬间把他遗忘。

    所以当看完《离巨星20英尺》后，记住的仍然是滚石乐队的主唱米克·贾格尔的笑脸、埃尔顿·约翰的背影，迈克尔·杰克逊的天王魅力还有惠特尼·休斯顿的名字，虽然他们这些巨星在这部讲述和音歌手的纪录片里，只是背景板，但是巨星光环仍存在。这便是这个世界不公平却无法改变的地方，看上去离巨星，可是有时候就是永远还有20英尺无法跨越。

    有时想啊这便是现实，或许相对于巨星，他们是影子中的人。可是靠着巨星如此近，唱的歌曲能被那么多人听到也算是一种成功吧。
不过这片对我而言，最感兴趣的还是串起来的音乐。真好听。

PS开头的音乐十分熟悉。后来想起来，情色片露露情史里好像用过。不知道记对没

看离巨星二十尺的时候，不自觉就想到小米的广告"我们的时代“，只是后者讲述的是年轻的力争上游，而后者讲述的是梦想的颠沛流离
最让人难过的不是从未成名，而是努力已经达到耗尽精力的地步，但是基于纯粹音乐在推广中与商业运作难分难离的本质，没有人能接触这些作品而站起来喝彩和鼓掌
那样的念头总会涌进每一个独处时分吧“如果我没有一点点这样的天赋，如果我不知道这样的自己，如果有一个人告诉我我办不到…………是不是会少很多这样独自寂寥低沉的黑夜呢”
或许有些原因和理由从来就不能被解析透彻而被质疑，它只是存在而只能被接受

那些在空荡荡的走廊里盘着腿思考的人啊，那些在黄昏的阳台上看着夕阳死去的人啊，那些在书架间长久站立后换个姿势的人啊，不要轻易让那些一闪而过的念头打败你的所有热情和动力，无声的背景音乐一直在生活中流淌缭绕着每一份喜悦与惊讶、哀伤和忧患，所有的所作所为不是无人注视而他们终将有目共睹，告诉自己" I've got a dream to remember"

还不是take a bow的时候，你，准备好了么

Now it's your time

记住，那一句” Anyway, I made it"里的过去时态将会是一生的骄傲


喜欢的话————
Marble Jones: When a woman doesn't know who she is and she settles for less, check out your worth, because you're worth more than that

Merry Clayton: and I just stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful and just do the work

Claudia Lennear: It's been a regret that I didn't just hang in there, especially when I see my contemporaries progressing in their musical lives
I never said it wasn't for me, never. If I did, I was lying to myself. It's always been for me, always.
Just do it, maybe that's one way to get rid of that gnawing once for all

Tata Vega: Opportunity's knocking, open the door, get going, kiddo

Wonder: A lot of it is based on so many other things that have nothing to do with music, but you know, at the end of the day ,it's up to you to perfect that gift that you've been given

PS: Twenty Feet from Stardom 离巨星二十尺，或许”二十尺外是巨星“
        特别喜欢Lisa Fischer的声音，she's singing a feather and I’m the feather then.

Access
  I think the most successful aspect of “Twenty Feet from Stardom” is its choice of subject: back-up singers. Like Morgan Neville said in class that there are so little was known about them, no books, no films. This film "is not the last word, it's the first word." The idea comes from producer of this terrific film, Gil Freisen, who used to be President of A&M Records. Gil went to see a Leonard Cohen concert in 2009 and was touched by the way Leonard Cohen let his back-up singer shine on stage. He ended up spend the whole concert watching these back-up singers and decided to make a film about them. Morgan Neville said: “Gil was the ultimate back-up singer. He spent his career making people stars and never taking credit himself.” It’s very said that Gil past away from complications due to leukemia before the film premiered. Morgan also identify with back-up singers. He said: “I made films about other people forever and have labored for twenty years doing this” (Comingsoon.com). Not only Gil and Morgan, lots of us are back-up singers. Finding a subject that is barely touched and is important to be covered is so hard nowadays.
        
Editing
   I love the opening animation where they covered the singer’s head with colorful dots letting us to notice that there are a lot more on stage besides them. The New York Times named it “A Dot Tribute for Singers of ‘Doo do Doo’” (New York Times).
   I feel that Morgan is more like an editor instead of a director. He had a few editors but the structure of the film is totally his idea. Managing such a large amount of interviews, archives must be hard but he presents us a clear thesis. Morgan said: “I wanted to find a group of singers whose experiences echoed each other, but they came from different generations, they had different reactions to their experiences, and they connected with certain hit songs or certain big moments in music history.” It only took him ten months to cut the film because he is an organized person. I remember him sharing his way of organizing and labeling materials in class. He sees those materials from a higher perspective.
   He is very focused. He mentioned: “I made the decision that I wasn’t going to talk about girl groups and I wasn’t going to talk about Nashville, I wasn’t going to talk about the expatriated backup singers in England. I wanted it to be about these African-American voices that came into popular music and changed something”(Filmmaker Magazine). The film turned out to be exactly how he wanted it to be.
   He is very calm and he is not attached to footages or his subjects. He said: “The hardest part of making this film was opening it and eliminating things from it that I thought couldn’t make the film and I had to come to a definition of what backup singers I was going to talk about in this film.” It is hard to do but he did a wonderful job.
    I think he also balanced the stage scenes and real life scenes well. It’s not only a story about back-up singers because of the specific group he chooses “African American women”. There is a scene when Lisa is driving. She starts to talk about family and relationship, imaging a different life with kids. It really hit me. It says a lot about these back-singers lives as woman.

Gift
  Morgan was asked about why didn’t he make a narrative film. He said: “Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don’t have to adhere to the rules of what’s possible. When you’re making something up, you have to say, “Well, this is what would happen here,” but in reality, stuff happens that seems impossible. I feel like there’s randomness in real life that too many Hollywood movies just shave off”（Collider）.
   I really like what he said. He kept the randomness in his film, the randomness that makes the film authentic.

86届奥斯卡最佳纪录长片提名音乐电影《离巨星二十英尺》， BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN、STING、MICK JAGGER、STEVIE WONDER等传奇参演，讲述了音乐产业里坚持梦想，在成功和怀才不遇的人生境遇中坚持不懈的那些故事。

比《寻找小糖人》更打动人心的纪录片，MICK JAGGER回忆了跟伴唱歌手的工作片段，聊了他们之间的八卦，STING、BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN和STEVIE WONDER聊的更多的是更深层次的，作为歌手的追求、对于成功究竟是什么的探讨。

中英双语字幕观看：
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本以为是强调 要成功不能光有天赋重要的还有环境和机遇 虽然这样可能更苦情更感人但这样就太常规了。主角各个都天赋异禀，但是选择的路和现在的处境都不大相同。
我想这片的重点是“你怎么处理自己的天赋？一切都在于你自己。“重要的是个人的选择。
抛弃名利单纯为音乐活的Lisa Fischer太牛了！
ps：两老爷子年轻时候真是帅cry啊！！

这片严重混淆事实，好几个人都出过个人专辑，只不过是没红或者没有大红而已.片中darlene love也是有过top 1 single的,而且都进摇滚名人堂了,另一位也得过格莱美的.这已经比大部分歌手都幸运了,难道歌手只要没像滚石,springsteen一样出名就都算被埋没了,那天底下绝大部分歌手都别活了.