贾斯汀·比伯：永不言败

NYT的这篇评论有典型的成人调侃论调，言语没有太过于harsh（还是我口味太重？），但至少也能让人看得会心一笑。转载过来大家一同欢乐欢乐。



Jon M. Chu’s “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” is billed as a concert documentary, but fewer than half of its 105 minutes are devoted to Mr. Bieber onstage. That was the right choice, because he’s more engaging as a star than he’s ever likely to be as a performer.

You don’t necessarily want to talk about sex when discussing someone whose fans are mostly adolescent girls, but Justin Bieber is nothing if not an old-fashioned, carefully constructed sex symbol, somewhere between a more knowing Donny Osmond and a less insinuating Elvis Presley. When the little girls understand you, music and personality are beside the point.

Mr. Chu is certainly aware of this, given the close-up attention he lavishes on the priceless combination of eyes, hair and jawline, of smile, vocal timbre and self-confidence that have carried the waifish — but fit! — Mr. Bieber to pop-culture Valhalla.

And while “Never Say Never” is an approved biography and marketing tool, in which the 16-year-old Mr. Bieber showcases his winsomeness and humility alongside his modest talents as a singer and dancer, Mr. Chu recognizes that the most compelling visual in this story is all those screaming girls.

So he points the camera 180 degrees away from the star a fair bit of the time, and that view introduces a queasy note of apprehension into the otherwise wholesome picture. Occasionally you see a fan whose senses are particularly deranged by her love for Mr. Bieber, and you hope that his security team has her picture on file.

Mr. Chu, who has experience in both 3-D filmmaking and stage spectacles (he directed the “Step Up” sequels), toes the company line the rest of the time, splicing together home movies from Mr. Bieber’s prefame years and shooting numerous boring segments with his handlers and coaches. It should be noted that the film’s producers include Mr. Bieber and his manager, Scooter Braun, a 29-year-old whose inflections and intensity recall the young Rob Morrow.

The concert scenes are perfunctory, shot in the usual manner with the 3-D cameras gliding back and forth at knee level. A duet between Mr. Bieber and Miley Cyrus, just 16 months older, serves as a cautionary example of how quickly a child star can begin to look middle aged and irrelevant. Several appearances with Usher, on the other hand, demonstrate what it means to own the stage. Next to Usher, his mentor, Mr. Bieber just fades away.

In the film’s best and weirdest shot, Mr. Chu zooms in close as Mr. Bieber flings his head back and forth in slow motion, waving his famously floppy hair in a moment that’s both hilarious and creepy, especially when you’re watching in 3-D.

At 70 or 80 minutes, reduced to crazy fans, backstage atmosphere and home-movie footage of Mr. Bieber playing hockey and pounding the drums, “Never Say Never” could have been entirely satisfying. At 105 minutes it’s exhausting, even though it has been expertly cut together.

Mr. Bieber is amiable company, but on screen, at least, he also projects the opacity of the single-minded and self-assured — the quality that, along with good looks and competent management, makes him such an ideal repository for other people’s dreams. Everyone involved in “Never Say Never” is working overtime to prove that he is, as one of them puts it, “just a regular kid who had a dream,” while everything about the movie screams the opposite.


原评论地址 http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/movies/11justin.html?ref=movies

不管怎么样，我就是很喜欢Justin Bieber，喜欢J宝！！！

但又透着一丝嫉妒和艳羡的意味。
希望那些心智不成熟的成年人自重。自爱。尊重。原谅。









最后，如果连一个花季少女你们都不放过，那简直就是连人性的性都不知道怎么写！

Today I just feeled a little down, so I opened the verycd and saw the movie<never say never>in the first place.I thought I might need some cheer up at that moment so I clicked the movie.
I found out it was just an autobiography of Justin Bieber. Actually I was not so interested to watch the movie through cause I'm not into Justin at all. But anyway I still finished watching it.
I've heard of this name for a long time but never knew him. So I searched Justin Bieber in Baidu. To me, the movie doesn't have any function of encouraging me. He is just a 17 year old lucky boy or maybe he does have some talents. And I admit he gets a beautiful voice.
There are some sentences in this movie I like:
1) Keep playing and always follow your dream
2)You gave up normal, this is your new normal
3)There are moments you come across all your life, there's always that moment when you have to let go
4)It went naturally, but naturally doesn't mean easy.There's work that goes into that.And you have to do the footwork.

如果美国没有碧波儿，杰克逊还将是流行乐而不是古典乐天王;
如果美国没有碧波儿，布兰妮将永远是美国甜心;
如果美国没有碧波儿，CA还将是年轻一代vocal系的代表;
如果美国没有碧波儿，MADONNA的巡演票房还将是世界第一;
JB DIVA创造了这么多记录，我们应该爱她的。
如果美国没有碧波儿，蕾丝边风潮将不会刮得如此迅猛;
如果美国没有碧波儿，USHER将永远是GAY(是JB DIVA的出现让USHER变直了）;
如果美国没有碧波儿，Billboard还将是一个音乐排行榜，而不是个人;
如果美国没有碧波儿，我们中国人将不会产生对美国音乐的兴趣。
JB DIVA的魅力改变了社会风气，我们应该尊重她的。
JB DIVA对此表示：一群无知的歌迷，没有如果，别作梦了，本宫不是还在世嘛！MJ、GAGA、麦当娜、BS、JT、TS、Bee、mimi 神马都是浮云，本宫将带领你们走向流行音乐的新世纪，顺我者昌，逆我者亡！至于那个USHER，本宫会寻找更好的替代品！（此句为引用）
现在碧波儿大举进攻影坛了，你，颤抖了吗？你，已经准备好钛合金狗眼了吗？
请跟随一代DIVA的脚步，昂首阔步地走上通向小金人的红毯吧！

PS.有两个句子需要解释一下，以便进行更好的科普：
关于MJ的“古典乐天王”：某护逼宝宣称MJ的时代已经过去了，不能算流行乐，而是古典音乐了，DIVA才是QUEEN of POP.
关于”billboard是一个人“：某护逼宝宣称DIVA的时代已经到来，因为DIVA在QQ音乐上的排行是第一。当有人劝其去查询BILLBOARD榜单时，此护逼宝叫嚣：BILLBOARD是谁啊，他有我们JB红吗？我为什么要去关注他啊？

竟然翻页了，JB DIVA果真魅力无穷
http://movie.douban.com/review/4613221/?start=100