Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings (2012)
장르 : 다큐멘터리, 음악
상영시간 : 54분
연출 : Tadashi Nakamura
시놉시스
Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings is a compelling portrait of an inspiring and inventive musician whose virtuoso skills on the ukulele have transformed all previous notions of the instrument’s potential. Through intimate conversations with Shimabukuro (she-ma-BOO-koo-row), Life on Four Strings reveals the cultural and personal influences that have shaped the man and the musician. On the road from Los Angeles to New York to Japan, the film captures the solitary life on tour: the exhilaration of performance, the wonder of newfound fame, the loneliness of separation from home and family.
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
마이카 고등학교의 행진 악대 멤버이자 모범생인 리오 벌록(그레이엄 베르체레)은 언제나 사람들 눈에 띄지 않으려고 노력하는 평범한 남학생이지만, 어느 날 스타걸 캐러웨이(그레이스 반더월)을 만나면서 달라진다. 우쿨렐레를 좋아하며 자신감이 넘치는 화려한 모습의 스타걸은 어디서든 눈에 띄고 누구에게나 친절하다. 재미없는 일상도 마법을 부린 듯이 재미있게 만들고 조금의 노력만으로도 사람들의 삶을 바꾼다. 리오와 학생들은 이런 스타걸의 독특한 매력에 단번에 전염되고, 리오의 감정은 스타걸에 의해 시시각각 바뀌게 된다.
전직 소방수였다가 그만두고 지금은 별볼일 없는 직장에서 주급 300달러의 봉급 생활을 하는 죠 뱅크스(톰 행크스 분)는 어느날 의사로부터 뇌종양으로 6개월 선고를 받고 직장을 그만 둔다. 항상 우울함에 빠져 삶의 의욕을 잃고 있던 죠는 그동안 자신이 너무나 무의미하게 세월을 허비했음을 깨닫고 직장 동료인 디디(맥 라이언 분)에게 접근하는 등 그동안 하지 못한 일로 남은 생을 즐기며 살려고 한다. 그런데, 의사로부터 알고 왔다는 노신사 재벌 그래즈모어씨로부터, 남태평양의 위포니올이라는 섬에 가서 그곳에 있는 화산의 폭발을 막기 위한 제물로서 화산에 뛰어들 영웅이 되어달라는 제안을 받고 계약을 한다. 목숨의 대가로 받은 신용카드로 이것저것 여행 준비를 하고는 LA로 가는데 그래즈모어의 딸 안젤리카(맥 라이언 분)가 마중을 나와있다. 또 배로 자신을 섬으로 데려다 줄 그녀의 이복 동생 패트리시아(맥 라이언 분)를 만나게 되어 요트를 타고 항해를 시작하는데.
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항구에 모인 사람들은 모두 오페라계의 인사들로, 전설적인 소프라노 가수 테투아의 장례식에 참석하려고 한다. 그녀가 유언으로 자신의 유골을 자그마한 외딴섬에 뿌려달라고 말했기 때문이다. 당대의 가수들, 지휘자들, 연주자들, 또 이들의 연주를 지원하고 환호했던 귀족들, 왕족들이 모여, 소프라노의 유골을 옮기는 긴 항해 길에 오른다.
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