What is the secret of the magic of music? Perhaps no one knows this, but what is not to be disagreed is that the power of music lies in its ability to leak into areas of spirit and pain that no one has reached, so these musical notes blunt amputated pieces, and to break the broken parts, and the delight of scars, before it all blends What – may seem incomprehensible – is within a perfectly perfect painting, whose idealism lies in its power stemming from sheer fragile experiences and defeats in advance.
A painting may not be completely healing, but its owners certainly do not return after being so fragmented.
And from time to time it is wonderful to find ourselves in the presence of dramatic musical artwork, combining a world of captivating tales and charming music. In this article, we will review 10 post-2000 music movies, the link between which are all worthy of celebration and reflection, and we will address them from the newest to the oldest.
8 – La La Land 2016
La La Land is the first movie to be on this list, how not, which caused a sensation at the time of its release, and broke a lot of records as the movie nominated for 14 Oscars, a precedent in terms of musical movies, where the most musical movie nominated for the Oscar – in absolute – Mary Poppins had a total of 13 nominations.
La La Land won six Oscars, seven Golden Globe awards – seven out of seven nominations – and five BAFTA awards – out of 11 nominations – as well as a 156th place in the IMDB list of 250 best movies in movie history, earning more than $ 426 million. Out of a budget of only $ 30 million.
It is an American movie in the spirit of the sixties, combining music, parade and romantic dreams that are deplorable and encouraging openness to love. The work is a story, screenplay, and dialogue by Damien Shazel, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, and the movie’s most fascinating soundtrack was written by Justin Horowitz.
The movie tells of Sebastian, a jazz player who once dreamed of owning his own jazz club, but is currently facing difficulties as his employer refuses to let him play his music and instead calls him to play foolish clichés, and when Sebastian refuses to be fired.
There is Mia, the waitress who left her country and went to Los Angeles in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous actress to begin to follow the auditions perhaps one might discover. Between the stumbling blocks of the heroes and their constant and desperate attempts to achieve their dreams, they meet several times and then over time, emotional feelings arise between them, and they begin to support each other to reach them, but things that seem joyous and promising at first begin to crumble when life is broken.
7 – Sing Street 2016
A joint Irish-American-British movie, written and directed by John Carney, the movie is the closest biography of its maker and is a collective action starring a group of young people including Verdia Walsh Biello, Kelly Thornton, and Lucy Boynton. The movie has succeeded in achieving both critical and public success. The movie was nominated for several awards, the most famous of which was the Golden Globe Award for Best Musical or Comedy, as well as several important festivals, most notably the Sundance International movie Festival.
Set in Dublin, Ireland, in 1985, the hero’s family is on the verge of bankruptcy, as well as suffering from family problems that lead to separation of the father and mother, while family problems cause children to feel unstable or belonging, prompting each of them to search for themselves in a non-traditional way embraced Only material problems lead Conor, the hero out of his own school, into a low-cost church school.
There, Connor feels lonely, but soon he meets Ravenna, the exotic girl he wants to recognize. He convinces her to act in a video clip of his own song, and when she agrees, he has to create a band already and write songs and compose, to begin his journey in the search for those who believe in him. One of the school’s outcasts, the
fun of it, is that they quickly succeed in their quest driven by their passion for music.
The movie was characterized by the attention of the director of the details of that time period of colors and fashion and everything that accompanied the beginning of the era of video clip, along with the scenario and dialogue that is interesting to reflect on, while the songs, although they may not suit some artistic tastes, but came to express that era, and won the love of fans of this genre From singing even that the songs of the movie were compiled and released her own album.
6 – 2013 Begin Again
American movie, written and directed by John Carney, starring Marc Ravalo and Keira Knightley and singer Adam Lavin in his debut movie work, and the movie nominated for a single Oscar, Oscar’s best original song, for the song, Lost Stars.
The movie has been well received by critics and the public, and although it has a budget of only $ 8 million, it has managed to earn $ 63.5 million, a good figure for the average music revenue. The movie was characterized by its stunning cinematography, as most of the scenes came out in the arms of nature, an idea inspired by the director of the movie A Star Is Born.
The soundtrack of Greg Alexander was so good that she would hang on to the conscience after the movie was finished. Although Keira Knightley was not a singer at all, she was able to play the songs professionally and smoothly, especially since the songs were well used dramatically and engaged between the events.
The story is about Greta, a songwriter who travels to New York to support her lover as he prepares for his album. It is a coincidence that a music producer listens to her while she sings somewhere the night before she returns home. To be marketed later.
5 – Inside Llewyn Davis 2013
The Quinn Brothers: Joel David Quinn and Ethan Jesse Quinn are important names for cinema enthusiasts because they are known for their unprecedented and often black comedy ideas. Interested in the calculations of the material gain or what awaits them from Hollywood, they work hard on writing, directing, and sometimes even production and montage to get the work out with the ultimate imprint and a resounding technical success.
Inside Llewyn Davis is a joint US-British-French movie that has been nominated for several important awards, including two Oscars, three Golden Globes and three BAFTA awards. The movie is written and directed by the Quinn brothers but is different from most of their previous works.
The music is set in the early sixties, where he tells of Lewin Davis, a rising singer who makes his footsteps in the music world, who suddenly finds himself alone when his partner commits suicide by singing. Others love the public but are different from songs that touch the soul and are warm and sad and likes to sing it, which puts him in a dilemma between abandoning his principles for matter, or to remain on his convictions only offer the art that he believes in and threaten the course of his life!
4 – 2012 Les Misérables
A British-American movie, based on a musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the novel of the Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, directed by Tom Huber, and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redman, and Helena Bonham Carter.
The movie attracted attention at the time of its release, to achieve artistic success culminating in winning three Oscars from 8 nominations, 3 Golden Globe awards from 4 nominations, 4 BAFTA awards from 9 nominations, and on the level of revenue, the movie achieved $ 441 million out of a budget not exceeding 61 Million dollars.
Although the novel was presented through many works of art in different languages and multiple visions, this movie was a resounding success and an enormous acclaim from critics not only because of the well-known story but also because of the well-chosen director of the cast, at the top of the acclaimed was Anne Hathaway. She cut her hair for her few scenes in the movie, and despite her short role, she performed it as if he had written for her from the beginning, expressing her character well-deservedly, both through performance and songs, to win him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Critics also praised Hugh Jackman’s performance. Oscar nomination Personal n played.
3 – 2008 Mamma Mia!
A British-American-Swedish movie whose story may seem very ordinary as it tells about a girl about to marry, that girl does not know who her real father is among three lovers and her mother fell in love with them in a close time, which drives the bride to invite three of them to attend her wedding in order to Her real father is next to her on such a day, but she invites them without telling them why.
Despite the simplicity of the idea, the songs of the movie, all of which came to ABBA, were interesting to be performed by an artist the size and abilities of Meryl Streep shared by performances and songs by other stars who have always been known for seriousness such as Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Scarguard, giving many reasons to go to the cinema to find out How did this happen! For the movie to succeed massively with revenues of $ 609 million while his original budget did not exceed 52 million!
2 – Once 2007
An Irish movie, starring Glenn Hansard and Marcita Ergelova, written and directed by John Carney, makes it the third work on the list for this music-oriented director on the one hand and dreams that seem elusive and need faith in their owners in order to give them unconcerned wings with the world disregard for them and their capabilities.
The movie is set in Dublin and we see a young man repairing vacuum cleaners beside writing songs and composing them and then singing them on the ears of pedestrians on the roads while playing the guitar in exchange for what they can do it for money, and there is also that girl who came with her mother and daughter from the Czech Republic in order to expand livelihood. Between cleaning houses and selling flowers on the street, what she really likes is writing songs and playing the piano even though she never had one.
The two meet in the way, Vetarafan, and begin to tell the secrets and dreams on the ears of each other, they exchange – shyly – talk about the obstacles that stand in each other’s way, then enter each other’s home to witness his life and details untold, to come together to love music, no They care that if their dreams seem impossible, their simple and continuous attempts to follow them are enough.
The distinctive feature of this movie, which will be welcomed by music lovers is that songs and music have been used in many scenes instead of dialogue, in addition to another point of attention and approved by the makers of the work, is not to use any names of the main characters as the movie begins and ends without knowing the name Hero and heroine!
What makes the story the only focus of the events, a very ordinary story, which could have been ourselves heroes, and despite the excessive normal was able to uniquely space for itself on the screens, amid the enjoyment of the audience and critics work, so that the movie won a lot of awards, most famous award Oscar best original song about Falling Slowly.
1 – August Rush 2007
American movie, directed by Christine Sheridan, starring Freddie Haymour, Kerry Russell, Jonathan Reese-Myers, Terence Howard, and Robin Williams. The work belongs to the category of dramatic musical movies, albeit not without fiction, suitable for those who believe in fatal miracles, and the triumph of love and happiness in the end.
The movie tells the story of Laila Novacic, a musician who plays cello and singer Louis Conley, a regular band. The two meet and fall in love, and then soon break apart. Laila discovers that she is pregnant, but her father tells her that she has died so as not to stand in the way of her career. Farewell by one of the orphanages.
Ivan, a child, is raised in that house and remains there for 11 years, but when circumstances change, Ivan leaves the house for one reason and then becomes a musician in the fields for money. When a priest discovers Ivan’s unique musical talent, he joins the Juilliard school.
Meanwhile, his biological mother discovers that her son is not dead and begins to look for him. Chris, the father, has been searching all those years for Laila that he loved and could not forget, and events continue to witness how music will eventually reunite this family.
It is worth mentioning that the movie has achieved considerable public success despite the difference of opinions of critics about it between the negative and the positive, as well as the work nominated for the Academy Award for best original song before losing the award for the movie Once, although this does not prevent that the movie has a soundtrack and music pieces distinctive almost Do not forget.
