Culture 03Shenzhen Daily Wednesday August 23, 2017

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Song of the WeekSong of the Week

Something Just Like ThisThe Chainsmokers

I’ve been reading books of oldThe legends and the mythsAchilles and his goldHercules and his giftsSpiderman’s controlAnd Batman with his fi stsAnd clearly I don’t see myself upon that listBut she said, where’d you wanna go?How much you wanna risk?I’m not looking for somebodyWith some superhuman giftsSome superheroSome fairytale blissJust something I can turn toSomebody I can kiss

I want something just like thisDoo-doo-doo, doo-doo-dooOh, I want something just like thisDoo-doo-doo, doo-dooOh, I want something just like thisI want something just like thisI’ve been reading books of oldThe legends and the mythsThe testaments they toldThe moon and its eclipseAnd Superman unrollsA suit before he liftsBut I’m not the kind of person that it fi ts

She said, where’d you wanna go?How much you wanna risk?I’m not looking for somebodyWith some superhuman giftsSome superheroSome fairytale blissJust something I can turn toSomebody I can missI want something just like thisI want something just like thisOh, I want something just like thisDoo-doo-doo, doo-doo-dooOh, I want something just like thisDoo-doo-doo, doo-dooWhere’d you wanna go?How much you wanna risk?I’m not looking for somebodyWith some superhuman giftsSome superheroSome fairytale blissJust something I can turn toSomebody I can kissI want something just like thisOh, I want something just like this

ReviewThis single has the expected char-acteristics of The Chainsmokers’ production style. There’s exuberance on the chorus, led by synths, and driving rhythm throughout. This is a powerful song that can appeal to people’s emotions if you listen closely to the lyrics.

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Stolen 《绑架》

“Stolen,” written by Lucy Christo-pher, is a compelling* story written from the point of view of Gemma, a 16-year-old girl who was kidnapped in Bangkok Airport on her way to Vietnam with her parents, in the form of a letter.

Af fi rst, she kind of recognizes Ty, her kidnapper*, as he approaches her while she is ordering coffee at a nearby coffee shop. Ty waits for an opportune* time to fi rst make his approach, and looking back it all seems to fi t well with his timing. He makes smalltalk as he is waiting for his moment and then the action begins.

She regains full consciousness in a

rustic* house deep in the Australian Outback with Ty.

Ty never sexually abuses her, but she is truly a captive. Little by little, Ty wears down her defenses as Gemma realizes that escape is impossible. Soon she discovers the stark power and vibrancy* of the wilderness and becomes absorbed in it. She also learns that Ty has been stalking* her for years, devis-ing a crafty plan to steal her away to make her love him which she in the end believes she does.

Ty’s capture, taming, and release of a female camel parallels Gemma’s ordeal*. Her unique fi rst-person narrative is written to Ty after her

release. Both characters are as vivid as the desert setting in which they are immersed. Despite the fact that Ty is a kidnapper, the revelations about his diffi cult youth and his usu-ally caring behavior allow readers, like Gemma, to eventually care about him. (SD-Agencies)

A scene from “Birth of the Dragon.”A scene from “Birth of the Dragon.” SD-AgenciesSD-Agencies

“Birth of the Dragon,” a Bruce Lee biopic*, is set in 1964, two years before “The Green Hornet,” when Lee was an expatriate* martial-arts instructor in San Francisco trying to market himself as a star. He was born in San Francisco but raised in Hong Kong. That year, he had a duel with Wong Jack Man, a Chinese master who showed up to challenge* Lee.

According to the opening title of “Birth of the Dragon,” this single clash would change the entire his-tory of martial arts.

The fi lm’s central character wasn’t even Bruce Lee. It’s Steve McKee (Billy Magnussen), a rube* from Indiana who travels to San Francisco, and winds up passing out*, drunk, in front of the studio where Lee gives his martial-arts classes. Lee takes him in and signs him up, and the two become

friendly. It’s Steve who makes him-self into the liaison* between Lee and Wong Jack Man (Xia Yu), a disgraced monk from the Shaolin Temple who shows up in a fedora suit and lands a job in Chinatown washing dishes, which is supposed to be his Buddhist penance* for a mysterious sin.

Wong is quite open about his hos-tility* to the fact that Lee’s students include Caucasians*.

Philip Ng, the Hong Kong-born American actor who plays Lee, has the right face, the right haircut, the right physique — and he’s got a puck-ish gleam of confi dence.

Yet unlike “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story,” the 1993 Lee biopic, this one keeps hitting you with the Lee “mystique*.”

You wouldn’t even know that he was married, and what he did to get

his showbiz career off the ground remains vague.

Finally, he and Wong have their fi ght. In the fi lm, it happens in a ware-house, and it’s as stylized as any fi ght in a real Lee fi lm. Who wins? The his-torical record is a muddle: Some say that the fi ght lasted for three minutes, others say for 40, and most say Lee won, though that isn’t for sure.

There’s a crime plot (more concoc-tion*), a romance between Steve and the indentured beauty (Qu Jingjing) he tries to rescue from the San Fran-cisco Chinese underworld, and Lee and Wong become teammates in this effort. But what a martial-arts fan really wants to know is: Why, and how, did the legendary 1964 fi ght between Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man change Bruce Lee’s fi ghting style? The fi lm doesn’t give a clue. (SD-Agencies)

Birth of the DragonBirth of the Dragon《龙之诞生》