After entering the fifties, the films produced by MGM decreased year by year, and the money for making films became less and less. But judging from the increase in salary, they really want Alex to participate. It's just that big studios have their own rules, and Alex wants to fight against such rules, which is still not good.

"Then refuse it, I won't appear in this film." Alex replied without hesitation.

"For what? Do you think the other party is too low? ”

"No, I'm just not interested in playing a role like a bad boy. Besides, I'm not the main character. ”

Dill thought for a moment, and then didn't say anything more, he knew that once Alex decided something, it would be difficult to change it.

Alex believes that in the script of "Blackboard Jungle", it simply facializes white bad students and black good students, and does not highlight the depth of the characters. He asked to revise the script, hoping to dig deeper into this role and increase the role. Unfortunately, MGM did not agree to this request, so he no longer wanted to participate.

Alex did not appear in this film, but he still used the song "Day and Night Rock" as the theme song of the movie. This is the first time rock 'n' roll has appeared in a movie, marking the new era of subculture that has become a powerful tool for Hollywood to cater to young audiences.

When "Blackboard Jungle" was released, Alex went to the cinema to see it, and he wanted to see how the movie he had missed was doing. The poster of the movie is very scary, it is a female teacher who clenches her fists in horror and puts her mouth in shock, and there is a silhouette of a black man in front of her.

People who see this poster will definitely wonder what happened to that woman and what the hell is going on. In fact, it is just a gimmick of the film company to attract people to the cinema through this tactic.

This time I went to the cinema to watch a movie, and Alex came out after being carefully dressed. He wore a cap on his head and an old outfit before going out alone. When he walked out into the street and was caught in the crowd, he suddenly regretted it a little.

"I should have brought my bodyguards out, it's too dangerous."

It is indeed very dangerous, and the United States in this era is developing rapidly, and it is accompanied by chaos. Public safety and order are disrupted, and crime is happening everywhere.

Alex had just passed by, it was a convertible, and the guys in the car were obviously gangsters. They shouted and rampage, knocking over cars parked on the side of the road and knocking them to the ground.

The crashed car tumbled right in front of Alex and burst into flames. At that time, if he walked a few steps faster, he would be hit by the flying wreckage. Fortunately, no one was injured, otherwise they would have died and would not know who to seek revenge.

Beneath the bustle of New York City lies a myriad of evils. At night, all kinds of gangsters run rampant, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil.

Even in broad daylight, people only dare to walk on the streets and do not dare to walk through some dark alleys. In that kind of place, it is the place where robbery, homicide, rape, and so on occur the most.

"Next time, you must bring your bodyguards out, you must bring them!"

After Alex bought his ticket, he sat down in his seat in horror and began to watch the movie called "Blackboard Jungle" with his heart. The opening of MGM's movie is still a roaring lion, but it is very different from the lion in my memory. The lion did not look as majestic as the one in later generations, as if it had escaped from a zoo.

Before the film began, a large section of subtitles scrolled on the screen, claiming that the purpose of the film was to "care about juvenile delinquency, its causes and effects, and so on." ”

At the beginning of the film, it appears at the gate of a middle school campus, and students and teachers rush in. The background music is "Day and Night Rock" sung by Bill Harry! It's a fast-paced piece of music that gives the film a touch of the times.

The song was brought over by Alex to Bill Harbour, and the lyricist became himself.

In July 1955, "Day & Night" reached number one on the pop charts, marking the dawn of the rock era. Its singer, Bill Harry, became the first rock 'n' roll idol admired by teenagers. Since then, rock music has become popular all over the country.

The song occupied the top spot on the charts for a long time, and it was because of this song that many teenage viewers were attracted to the cinema to watch the movie.

Nowadays, film companies are paying more and more attention to young audiences, and some people have studied and analyzed: "The audience that really buys tickets to watch movies is composed of younger people."

Movies depend on children between the ages of 10 and 19 for their survival, who always slip away automatically and habitually to go to the movies.

Half of those over the age of 30 don't see an average of one movie a month, and half of those over the age of 50 don't watch movies at all. ”

The main character, Dadi, is a soldier who has been discharged from the army and comes to a middle school for an interview and wants to become a professional teacher after the war. He has a pregnant fiancée who is beautiful and cute, sensitive and suspicious.

When Alex saw Duddy's fiancée, he thought it looked familiar, the clothes, hairstyle, makeup, etc., as if he had seen it somewhere. After using the "trace" ability slightly, he immediately found the answer in his memory, and it turned out that the reason why he felt familiar was because the woman's dress was exactly the same as Don's wife Betty in the American drama "Mad Men".

Alex shook his head with a smile and said, "It should be almost the same person, it's so similar." ”

Maybe Betty's styling borrowed from the film's character image, or maybe such a woman image was the fashion of the fifties.

In the film, after Dudi entered the school, he soon found that it was difficult for the school to restrain the students, and it was difficult to maintain even the normal class order. In particular, there was a bad white student in the class who had been working against him. In the beginning, he was able to calm down and convince people.

In his office, Duddy argues with the other teachers, accusing them of not having the obligation to actually be a teacher. Through these scenes, the director wants to highlight Dadi's persistence and sense of responsibility that is different from other teachers. From these shots, it can be seen that the director is very skilled in scene scheduling.

The passage consists of a single shot that lasts for nearly two minutes, with the other teachers sitting at their desks and Duddy standing around them talking and walking. The only-for-tat opponent with Duddy is Murdoch, who is always at the center of the picture. The two people moved and stood still, creating a stark contrast.

In the film, not all teachers are as sleek and sophisticated as Murdoch, who treats students with bad natures with a negative attitude. A math teacher played jazz music to his students in an attempt to communicate with them in this way, only to have the records smashed by the students.

In the eyes of these students, jazz is outdated, and they like rock 'n' roll. The director uses such a storyline as a metaphor for the deep generation gap between adults and teenagers.

The film attributes the reason why the children are so stubborn to the fact that when they were growing up, their father was on the battlefield and their mother was busy with work, so they lacked family life and had to fool around on the streets.

During this period, Hollywood made many films that reflected social problems, and invariably pointed to the deterioration of teenagers to the disintegration of the family caused by the war, so that the children grew up in an incomplete family. However, in 1954, according to a survey by Dr. Wiitham, the main causes of adolescent delinquency were superhero comics and Hollywood movies.

This survey report directly led to a major reorganization of the comic industry, and American comic companies suffered a heavy blow, and almost 90% of comic companies closed down because of this. Seeing that this fire is going to burn to the film industry, this is of course something that Hollywood must not agree to.

The film uses David Bordwell's "backward scene scheduling" in many scenes to activate the depth of field of the film sequences.

For example, after the students smashed the math teacher's record, Duddy taught them.

In this passage, the director uses a single shot with a fixed camera position, and places the two minor leaders of the students, Miller and West, the Irishman, in the center of the foreground, in order to allow the audience to compare and examine the different reactions of the two in detail, and the teacher Duddy, the sports center of this scene, is placed in the background.

Irishman West is the role that MGM wants Alex to play, and the actor in the film plays this role as unruly and bad. It's a pity that I didn't dig deep into what this character would become so hateful.

The good black students and the bad white students are like a pair of front and back in the film, and they appear on the screen at the same time many times. Whenever this time, the two of them are like a yin and a yang, always able to catch the audience's attention.

After Alex watched more than half of the movie, he always felt that the actor Duddy seemed to have appeared in other films. He used the "retrospective" ability again, and sure enough, he found other films of this male lead.

The actor who plays Duddy is named Glenn Ford, and he also played Clark Kent's father in the 1978 film Superman. Interestingly, in the film "Superman", the song "Day and Night Rock" also appeared.

The film "Blackboard Jungle" is like any other movie, the ending is always so cliché, the bad guys are punished in the end, and the good people can finally live happily and happily. This film reflects the problems that exist in society, but does not delve into why there is such a problem and how to solve it.

After the film was released, it attracted the attention of many young audiences, and they went to the cinema to watch it. This small-budget film, without the participation of a popular star like Alex, was able to achieve unexpected box office revenue.

During the release of this film, it also caused a lot of commotion and chaos. In many movie theaters, teenagers stomp their feet in excitement when they see students smashing their teacher's records.

When the teacher and the students clashed head-on, the young people in the movie felt the same way, waving their arms and shouting loudly. In particular, in one of the scenes, Mr. Duddy had a wonderful confrontation with a white bad student.

The teacher said, "I said bring the homework." ”

The student said, "I said, 'For what?' ’”

Seeing such a tense atmosphere clip, many teenagers in the movie theater stood up and threw mineral water bottles at the teacher on the screen. There were also those who simply rebelled in the cinema, causing a lot of riots.

In the end, the film was banned, not only in the United States, but also in many cities in the United Kingdom. Billy Harry, a rock star who was already very popular, became even more popular after the release of this film.

Teenagers throughout the world went crazy because of this movie interlude and coined a new term, "RockandRoll".

In fact, looking at rock in this era from Alex's point of view, I always feel that the arrangement is simple and the lyrics are superficial, but people just like such songs. The Carpenter brothers' songs are also popular, but they don't reach the point of making people crazy.

Elvis Presley, Billy Harry, Chuck and others have such abilities, and it is because of their efforts that rock music has continued to grow over the years, and more and more people like this new form of music.

Billy is a peculiar rock star, he doesn't have the best looks and gorgeous outfits like other singers. Billy always wears a crisp suit and tie, and his hair is combed and shiny, looking like Alex's memory of Mei Superman.

If such a person walks down the street, you will never believe that he is a singer. No one thinks he's a rock star, but he's a rock star.

After meeting Alex, Harry became one of the brightest stars in the rock and roll world.

In just two years, he hit 12 hits, including "BumthatCandle," "SeeYouLaterAl-ligator," "R-O-C-K," "HotDogBuddyBuddy," and "Rudy's Rock," among others.

From a standpoint point in the rankings, Harry is clearly more popular in the UK than in the US. After all, the United States has too many rock singers, and in addition to rock music, there are also jazz and country music singers competing for the market.

In the UK, he was barely hindered, while in his homeland only five songs made it into the top 20 of the charts.

Until March 1957, Harry reached the top 20 of every record he released in the UK through Brunswick. In February 1957, Harry was warmly welcomed as soon as he arrived in the UK.

From Southampton to London, Harry travelled on a Harry train provided by the Daily Mirror. At Waterloo, he was warmly welcomed by thousands of fans, many of whom waited there for a day.

This scene is known to some as the "Second Battle of Waterloo". It can be seen how much influence it had on the British music scene at that time.