Four Hundred and Seventy-Eight Occasionally Heard
Cervantes-Saavedra wrote the first modern novel in literary history, "Don Quixote".
When the story of the novel takes place, knights have been extinct for more than a century, but the hero Alonso Guijano, because he is addicted to knight novels, often fantasizes that he is a medieval knight, and then calls himself "Don Quixote-de." -La Mancha", which means the guardian of the De-La Mancha area, and then took the neighbor Sancho Panza as his servant, "acting as a chivalrous man", traveling the world, and made various orders that are contrary to the times and order. The unthinkable behavior of people, the result is everywhere hit the wall. But he finally woke up from the dream and died after returning to his hometown.
One is Don Quixote, who is full of illusory ideals, fighting with a spear and a windmill to show the majesty of a knight; One of them is a ridiculous idealist, the other is a ridiculous pragmatist, but they have raised a difficult problem that human beings can never solve: the contradiction between ideal and reality.
Everyone is laughing at Don Quixote's madness, everyone is despising Don Quixote's self-control, everyone is making fun of Don Quixote's madness, everyone is rejecting Don Quixote Jote's departure from reality, everyone is laughing at Don Quixote's stubbornness... Indifferently, triumphantly, mockingly, contemptuously, witnessing the withering of dreams step by step. As everyone knows, with the demise of idealism, the spirit and hope of society are also withering.
The weak figure who fought with the windmill with a spear was drowned in the torrent of the times, just like Sisyphus who tirelessly pushed the boulder but never reached the end.
Don Quixote, that was the first word that came to Renly's mind.
Those days when I'm lying in a hospital bed, watching a movie greedily and eagerly; those days when I'm alone in the practice room, relentlessly polishing the basics of acting over and over; The days of performances; those days when they studied hard acting, and lost sleep and food; those days when they were so obsessed with acting that they blurred the boundary between reality and illusion; those days when they were denied, rejected, ridiculed, but resolutely refused to bow their heads; Those days of dazed self-doubt, teetering on the brink of giving up...
It's as if you are on one side and the world is on the other.
The conflict between dream and reality, the contradiction between ideal and reality, walking alone on this long road, lonely and lonely, the pressure of reality makes it almost impossible to lift the shoulders, every step is so difficult and difficult. I stumbled and stumbled all the way to the current position, but the future is dazed and uneasy, the future is unknown and difficult, there are thorns everywhere, I still can't see the end, and I still can't stop.
He is just like Don Quixote. In this real world, he is crazy, absurd and uninhibited, independent, pursuing an illusory ideal; but he has no way of knowing whether his ending will be like Don Quixote. Like ashes, depressed, one day suddenly realized, realized his mediocrity, and finally died without a problem.
Fortunately, he gradually discovered that he is not the only lunatic in this world.
Heather Cross, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Stanley Charles, George— Slender is like that, Herbert-Jones is like that. Also, the same goes for Eleven Studios.
Raising his head, Renly could see the twinkling light in George and Herbert's eyes, shining like bright sunlight.
Herbert immediately understood the meaning behind the name, the turbulent emotions filled his chest, and he stood up uncontrollably, as if he wanted to do something, but in the end he did nothing.
He fell back on the chair, leaned back on the chair, fell into his own thoughts, and the focus of his eyes gradually blurred.
The City of Sound, a music resort that has been traversing for half a century, is still submerged in the trend of the times, like a bubble burst, and silently withdrew from the stage of history. In the midst of this, what happened, and what happened to those who witnessed the historical process, only they know.
George lowered his eyes in embarrassment. In a short period of sigh, he had tasted the ups and downs of ten years. Only he knew what the retirement life in the past three years meant. Little by little, the color of life is pulled away, like a pool of stagnant water, without any waves.
Don Quixote. How short, but how accurate the description. But the difference is that Don Quixote "awakes", returns to reality, and dies; he doesn't.
He swallowed the turbulent tip of his tongue, raised his eyes again, and looked at the young man in front of him. Twenty-one years old, how young, how youthful, how wanton, how beautiful an age, hides infinite possibilities, as if you can own the whole world as long as you open your arms. George was convinced that Renly could.
What is even more commendable is that George clearly knew that Renly's music was different from the market trend when he decided to make this album in the first place.
Not because Renly's music style is folk, but because the hidden connotation in Renly's music not only re-displays the soul and essence of good music, but also reignites his passion for music, which is in line with the present. The characteristics of mainstream music in the market are completely different, and it can even be said to be eliminated.
In other words, this is an album that is destined to not perform well in the market. Just like Don Quixote.
In the eyes of questioning and contempt, he pursues his own ideals in his own way, unswervingly, persistently and madly, even if this ideal is already behind the times. It's not just Renly's, or George's, Herbert's persistence and dreams, it's the spiritual core that runs through the album.
George couldn't think of a more appropriate name than "Don Quixote."
"Just this name." George replied, all the surging, all the emotion, all the boiling, just turned into such a simple sentence, only those still bright eyes revealed the true emotions of the heart.
The smile on Renly's mouth rose slightly.
He knows that making an album and shooting a movie is the same thing. If he chooses a big company, for commercial reasons, they will definitely formulate more rules and regulations, and everything is in line with "money"; but if he chooses an independent company, the exploration of art and the Pursuit will prevail, which leaves more room for artists to create.
Thankfully, he met George. If this was the only album in Renly's career, it would be an honor for him to choose George as well.
From the selection of the idea to the establishment of the theme, this was originally the most important and difficult part of an album. Sometimes it took two months to determine it, but they only spent less than four minutes before and after - from Renly said "Don Quixote" until George nodded in agreement, which was twenty-five seconds.
Boya is good at drums and qin, and Zhong Ziqi is good at listening. What Boya recites, Zhong Ziqi will surely get it. When Ziqi died, Boya said that the world would no longer have any bosom friends, and that the qin would be broken and the drum would never be repeated for the rest of his life.
The so-called bosom friend is rare, which is probably what it means. Three like-minded partners have taken a steady first step on the road of joint cooperation.
George didn't pause, and immediately cut into the official working state, "Now, all we need to do is to choose songs according to the theme." George rubbed his temples, "Huh, this is a difficult job." Although he is reluctant to admit it , but the fact is that George feels regretful that any song is eliminated. So, he needs the help of Renly and Herbert.
"Herbert?" George's eyes fell on Herbert, but Herbert didn't respond and remained stunned. He had to raise his voice and shout again, "Herbert!"
Only then did Herbert react, "Huh?" Seeing the gazes of Renly and George, he shook his head vigorously, pulled the corners of his mouth into a self-deprecating smile, but did not explain anything. After regaining his composure, he entered directly. Subject, "What's wrong?"
"Song selection. We are going to start the selection now." Under the guidance of George, the three officially entered the production stage of the album.
Unexpectedly, the work that had been going very smoothly before, but came to a deadlock after entering the stage of music selection: because, unable to give up, unable to choose, caught in a dilemma.
From the full list of twenty-seven songs originally provided by Renly, George selected eighteen and Herbert selected twenty, of which the two chose as many as seven and twenty-seven. A total of 23 songs were chosen by at least one party, and only four were eliminated.
This gives a glimpse of the average quality of Renly's compositions. You know, George and Herbert are not rookies who have never seen the world. They are both experienced industry leaders. Their vicious, critical, and accurate vision has long passed the time and market. Validation, without a doubt.
This is only the first part of the puzzle.
More importantly, they had to pick ten songs from this list to include on the album "Don Quixote." This sparked a sparking war of words.
George insisted that the single "Los Angeles" should be included in the album, but Herbert felt that the folk minor did not meet the tone and style of the whole album, and even the spiritual core did not meet the requirements; Budapest", but George was completely indifferent, thinking that the song's pop was too heavy and undermined the integrity of the album.
Both George and Herbert were in love with "Old Pine", this kind of fresh and simple ballad, but it was unbelievably beautiful. Life is not only about the present, but also poetry and distance.
Even if the temperament of the whole song does not match the album, the two still hope to be included in the album. The problem is that there are only ten seats in an album, and each seat is extremely precious, which also means that they can only give up "Old Pine"...
Ten, is there really only ten?