ABBA 的 Mamma Mia

ABC's Nick Watt is in ABBA heaven

It's just stuff gets more and more advanced everyday. We turn out to our collaboration with Google. The top rising search: The Dark Knight. Unless you’ve just come out of a suspended animation or something, you have doubtless heard that the latest Batman movie is out today. It is the most hyped movie of the summer. And there’s even a talk about a posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger, who plays the villain Joker. Also rising: Muriel’s Wedding. It’s a 1994 movie. And we couldn’t figure out for the life of us why people were searching for it on Google. And then we caught a clip from the movie. Yeah, that’s it. There’s ABBA music in it. Then that explains it, because besides Batman, there is another movie opening today, and like Muriel’s Wedding, it’s about nuptials and ABBA music. The movie version of the obscenely popular musical Mamma Mia is out. And ABC’s Nick Watt is in ABBA heaven, or some might consider it ABBA hell.

Take a chance on me. If you need me, let me know, gonna be around. If you’ve got no place to go, if you’re feeling down… Sorry, just can’t help myself. I love ABBA. So does everybody. For me, the love affair starts with the profound lyrics.

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight.

There was something in the air that night, Fernando.

What happened to our love? It used to be so good.

And this woman is responsible for a reincarnation.

Did you think all of this was gonna happen? Did you think it could be this big?

No.

It’s called Mamma Mia, a musical based on the ABBA classics. That’s played in 19 countries.

It went from the creative process to now running a mini industry.

And now it’s on screen. I mean, Meryl Streep sings “The winner takes it all.” What more do you want? The guy who played Bond is in it. So is the guy who played Darcy. And some cuddly Swede.

A fantasy, really.

So what do the critics make of ABBA on celluloid?

I know it’s Swedish, but it’s hardly Bergman, is it?

No, it isn’t great cinema. But it doesn’t have to be. It’s about the music, which is too good to butcher.

I’ve been humming ABBA all week. I’ve been humming it in bed. I wake up in the morning, thinking “gimme gimme gimme.”

A small price to pay for a musical that has grossed two billion dollars and counting.

Nick Watt, ABC News, London.

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每天的生活似乎都越來越先進(jìn)。我們打開Google搜索引擎。排名最前的搜索關(guān)鍵詞：The Dark Knight。除非你剛從一部被擱置已久的動(dòng)畫片里醒過來，或者忙于其他的事情，否則毫無疑問，你一定聽說過了現(xiàn)在上映了最新的Batman電影。這是今年夏天炒作最熱的一部電影。甚至還有關(guān)于扮演villain Joker的Heath Ledger評(píng)選奧斯卡獎(jiǎng)的言論。熱度提高的還有：Muriel’s Wedding。這是1994年的一部電影。我們想不明白為什么人們要在Google里對(duì)這部電影進(jìn)行搜索。我們來簡單了解一下這部電影。是的，原來是這樣。因?yàn)檫@部影片里面有ABBA的音樂。這樣就可以解釋了，因?yàn)槌薆atman之外，今天還有一部電影上映：像Muriel’s Wedding一樣，是關(guān)于婚禮和ABBA音樂的。流行音樂Mamma Mia的電影版也已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)。ABC的記者Nick Watt正處在ABBA的天堂，也有人認(rèn)為是ABBA的地獄。

相信我吧，如果你需要我，請(qǐng)讓我知道，我會(huì)挺身而出。如果你無處可去，如果你感到失望……對(duì)不起，我不能自助。每個(gè)人都一樣，對(duì)我來說，戀愛隨著深?yuàn)W的抒情詩開始。

午夜之后給我給我給我一個(gè)人…………

那晚夜空中彌漫著某種氣氛，F(xiàn)ernando。

我們的愛出現(xiàn)什么問題了呢？過去一直那么好。

這個(gè)女子要對(duì)她的再生負(fù)責(zé)。

你認(rèn)為所有的這一切都會(huì)發(fā)生嗎？你認(rèn)為作用這么大嗎？

不。

它的名字是Mamma Mia，基于ABBA古典音樂的一種音樂，19世紀(jì)演奏的最多。

它經(jīng)歷了一個(gè)創(chuàng)造性的過程，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)一個(gè)微型產(chǎn)業(yè)。

現(xiàn)在應(yīng)經(jīng)搬上熒屏。我的意思是，Meryl Streep演唱了這首“The winner takes it all”。你還想要什么呢？扮演Bond的人在里面，扮演Darcy的人也在里面。還有一些賞心悅目的瑞典人。

這簡直就是一個(gè)幻想。

我知道是瑞典的，但是不可能是伯格曼的，對(duì)嗎？

不，這并不是一部偉大的電影。而且它也沒必要偉大。這是關(guān)于音樂的，對(duì)屠夫來說已經(jīng)太好了。

我整個(gè)星期都在哼唱ABBA音樂。躺在床上在唱，早上醒來也在唱，心里想著“給我給我給我……”

只要花很少的錢，就能買到這首票房20億并且還在增加的音樂劇了。