Poster for the American version of the movie "The Prom" (2020).
Netflix's "The Prom" (2020) is hollywood's "most politically correct" and "three views" super positive this year, and it is also the "best" song and dance film so far.
Ryan Murphy could have made a story with great "expressive space" and very "social significance" into a social film that "touched the world and the earth", and it is clear that it only shows us a strong sense of justice and goodness.
Stills from the movie The Prom (2020), Kelly Washington Kerry Washington (center)
If our Yu Ma and Xiao Si dare to openly admit their sexual orientation and be more "sincere" to their careers, perhaps this kind of subject will appear in our "pluralistic" vision in another form, but due to the circumstances, Ryan Murphy's business acumen and Yu Ma and Xiao Si are not on the same level.
Even in the operation of the commercial project, Ryan Murphy "re-processed" the script of the Prom, allowing "Oscar heroines" such as Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman like Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman to rush to the "foreground" and design the two real heroines in the script, Joe Ellen Pellman and Ariane de Bos Ariana DeBose, as a side line of the story. The main thrust of his story became "light white" and "sloganized" texts.
Stills from the film The Prom (2020), from left: Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, James Corden and Andrew Rannells
"The Prom" is not as pure as "Dancing Man Unemployment Go-Go Boy Interrupted Season" (2014) about the life of a certain type of people, nor is it as youthful and energetic as the "High School Musical" (2006) series, nor is it as inspirational as Hairspray (2007), it is about how to make a pair of high school gay people successfully complete their work" Graduation Ball".
Bob Martin adapted the play of the same name from 2018 Broadway into a film screenplay.
Stills from the film The Prom (2020), Jo Ellen Pellman (left) and Ariane de Bos Ariana DeBose
The protagonists on the stage are Emma (Played by Joe Allen Perlman), a 17-year-old high school girl in Indiana, and Alyssa (played by Ariane Debos), the two of them just want to be able to really dance together at their graduation ball, but even this small dream has caused an uproar in the school, and has been obstructed by many prejudiced people.
Although her actions are supported by the high school principal (Kogan-Michael Keegan-Michael Key), Alyssa's mother, who is also the head of the parent-teacher conference (Kerry Washington, Kelly Washington), uses her rights to ban Emma from attending the prom on behalf of the parents.
Stills from the movie The Prom (2020), Jo Ellen Pellman (right) finally kisses Ariana DeBose at the prom
However, when Emma wants to show everyone her story with Alyssa, girls of the same age accuse her of ruining their graduation ball. We wanted to witness this different love story that took place in high school and how she reacted to the difficulties, but another pair of centaurs hijacked the real content of the film.
The Prom was Ryan Murphy's first big-screen feature film, and although he was a hit in the television industry, leading the series Rivals: Betty and Joan Fed: Bette and Joan Season 1 (2017) and Hollywood Hollywood (2020), he was still more "cautious" on the big screen, so he followed his early glee season in the second half of the film. 2009) mode.
Stills from the film The Prom (2020), Meryl Streep and James Corden
Ryan Murphy directly changed the sidelines of the stage to the main line, so that two-time Broadway Tony Award winner Di Di Allen (Meryl Streep) and Barrick Rickman (James Corden) collaborated on a no-brainer musical, and their careers plummeted; his two Broadway-seeking "outcasts" Angie Dickinson (played by Nicole Kidman) and Trent Oliver (Andrew Rannells) Help to save their careers from orbit.
The four people who hit it off, by searching for top news on their phones, found news about Emma, a girl from Indiana.
Stills from the movie The Prom (2020), Nicole Kidman
This made the four veteran actors from the Broadway stage in New York "smell" the opportunity to "respawn" the "Jedi Strikes Back" and immediately began to take action, ostensibly with these four people personally going to Indiana to "support" the transgender couple and attend the most important graduation ball in their lives, in fact, they are also winning more "acting capital" for them.
After coming to the high school in Indiana, these four veteran actors who have gradually faded out of the popular Broadway stage, in such a small town, they are very "relaxed" in the process of using their fame and influence to help the girls complete their dreams, and perform a sensational "comrades".
Stills from the movie The Prom (2020), Cogan-Michael Keegan-Michael Key
In the process, these four themselves have undergone unprecedented changes.
It should be said that these 4 theatrical actors from Broadway, fortunately in a very enlightened society, came to this town to "reshape" their public image, where no one will think they are "narcissists".
The purpose of this trip is definitely conducive to "saving" their "sinking to the bottom" of the stage cause, the entire film under the creation of Ryan Murphy, through the bright and pleasant colors, complex camera scheduling, with the dance and lighting design, began a "mutually complete" and full of straightforward humor of the musical.
Stills from the movie The Prom (2020), Meryl Streep by Meryl Streep
Who would have thought that when William Wheeler William Wyler (1902-1981) released the forbidden lesbian film "The Children's Hour" in 1961, he was so "trembling" that he could only meander and obscurely express the subject, which was already very avant-garde in the United States at that time.
Do you remember the long, affectionate kiss that Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis Geena Davis in The End of the Road Thelaughter Thelma & Louise (1991)? They did not commit suicide in desperation, but decided to abandon the boring world.
The birth of this film made the film of female love no longer dodge, until Hilary Swank fell on the lawn of the night to flatten his chest in "Boys Don't Cry Boys Don't Cry" (1999), and the bitterness and pain of female love were rediscovered in front of the public.
In Rene Liu's "Beauty is Singing" (1997), she said loudly to Lin Meili: "If it is a boy I like, I will definitely confess to him loudly, and I will strip naked to show him." This confession of "darkness Chen Cang" shocked the group of women off the screen.
Stills from the movie The Prom (2020), Meryl Streep and Cogan-Michael Keegan-Michael Key
Nowadays, when this kind of film and television theme has long been self-contained and has formed a type of commercial brand, it is difficult for us to see the "ideological" and "sharpness" of this kind of subject, and the only thing presented to the public is the real "please" and "satisfaction", in this regard, Thailand can say that the "entertainment" of this kind of theme has been done to the extreme.
Apparently, Ryan Murphy is also increasingly converging on the way he approaches the series and the film, and he's pinpointed the right character settings so that audiences can see how much meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman are adoring the movie.
Stills from the movie The Prom (2020), Jo Ellen Pellman
"The Prom" also brought real joy to the audience, which cannot be denied. Even with a mixture of self-deprecating irony, you'll see how stupid and selfish broadway theater actors are when they're self-righteously involved in politics.
Most of the songs in the film are made to the scene, and Emma's opening song "Take a Deep Breath" takes the audience through some of the places where she has experienced "ups and downs" in school, making people feel immersed.
Ryan Murphy, who came out publicly, said in an interview with the media: "When I first went to see the stage play "The Graduation Ball", I cried a lot. That feeling is a complete 'identification'."
The Prom (2020) set, front row, from left: Nicole Kidman, Andrew Rannells, Ryan Murphy, Meryl Streep, James Corden; back row: Ariane de Bos Ariana DeBose, Kelly Washington Kerry Washington, Kevin Chamberlain Kevin Chamberlin, Cogan-Michael Keegan-Michael Key, Joe Ellen Perlman, Jo Ellen Pellman
Just because of being in this mountain, it is difficult for the outside world to understand the problem of "gender is not accepted by family, and friends are gradually drifting apart".
Even if there are too many projects in front of them, too many scripts to review by themselves, Ryan Murphy still decided to make this stage play into a movie, he believes that "in order not to let more young people have the same regrets in this world", so that they can better recognize their own needs, more understand that living is only to make themselves "happy" first, rather than letting themselves "wronged" to "hide" their natural sexual orientation, the meaning of "life is short" is to make themselves "happy" first!
Meryl Streep in the film The Prom (2020).
When Ryan Murphy sent an invitation to the Oscar actresses Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, the two were very untimely due to the schedule, and Ryan Murphy directly arranged for the two film queens to go to Broadway to intuitively enjoy the stage play, Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman were deeply moved by the plot and agreed to star in the movie of the same name on the spot.
Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, who have shown their beautiful singing voices again after many years, cast their charm in "The Graduation Ball", singing and dancing, sending a visual feast to the audience.
Meryl Streep has played a lot of roles like this before (with or without songs) and we believe Aunt May can do the role in her sleep, she seems to be very comfortable with the self-driving "self", and you wouldn't be surprised if she took a nap in the car.
It's only when she flirts with Cogan-Michael Kay in The Prom that you see her energetic, "old cow eats tender grass" to show us her new acting skills.
After all, Cogan-Michael Kay is a person who likes Broadway opera very much, and he has seen the musicals in Meryl Streep's career, and based on this premise, the group's final "pairing" success will not be objectionable.
Stills from the movie The Prom (2020), from left: James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Meryl Streep, and Cogan-Michael Keegan-Michael Key
To know that the "political correctness" that Hollywood emphasizes now has undoubtedly reached a surprising "height". These truly top "artists" also began to use "childish" dialogue to tell the audience the truth in their hearts.
Ryan Murphy "subtly" let the audience under the screen still believe that in this world, there is still a place you want to linger on, maybe your "kennel", maybe the person around you who does not want to "cherish" more and more, and maybe the "miracle" will come to you.
Stills from the movie The Prom (2020).
Although "The Prom" is just a "simple and easy to understand" song and dance film, in the world of selling this "fairy tale" dream, we still need such a movie that can make the audience happy, and its function is to make you laugh happily.
This makes us believe that even in the "deep waters" of the United States, even in the entertainment town of Hollywood, they will "enjoy" on the screen to shout "anti-discrimination" ghost tricks.
Maybe it is such a blunt and simple word that will hit your heart, even if you are in the "resistance of the soul", but it can move you at the last moment!
It makes us believe that we are really "fighting" many of the inequalities in life in different ways on a planet, but we all know that it is in a different dimension from us.
So when you look at so many "Brin" sequin-flashing costumes on the screen, you know that what you never lack in real life is the "boiled water" you have to drink every day.
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