As I told you in some posts ago, watching movies and reading books are things that I really enjoy doing in my spare time, and it`s even more interesting, but tricking at the same time, when a book has a movie version or viceversa, as in the case of “The Commitments” (written and based on the story of Roddy Doyle). I say it may be tricking because, in my opinion, movies always miss details of the story told in the book, or it`s not like you imagined it when reading it. Which is also good because it helps to develop the imagination, and then make the contrast.
In the case of “The Commitments”, both things told the story of this hard working class band from Dublin, Ireland, whose members were recruited by Jimmy Rabbitte; the manager, in order to play R&B songs. However, there was a big "break" at the end of the story; what it´s true is that the band was disolved, but while in the movie the members were all separated, in different occupations, what happened in the book, is that Jimmy tried to make them join to start playing again. That was kind of dissapointing when watching it.
In the case of “The Commitments”, both things told the story of this hard working class band from Dublin, Ireland, whose members were recruited by Jimmy Rabbitte; the manager, in order to play R&B songs. However, there was a big "break" at the end of the story; what it´s true is that the band was disolved, but while in the movie the members were all separated, in different occupations, what happened in the book, is that Jimmy tried to make them join to start playing again. That was kind of dissapointing when watching it.
One of the best parts of this story was when Jimmy set the requirements to join the band, he wanted members who had SOUL, what did he mean by this?...then they found it out. At the moment of reading, it was a lot of fun to imagine how thet carried out their first rehersals, and the gigs. It´s really interesting and funny, how a band goes through ups and downs, and how well the performances are through gig and gig. The same happened to me when I saw the movie "Almost Famous". There are very simmilar situations. Troubles between the manager and some members, the ego issue, the groupies issue, the fights between members, etc....is not easy to be a "music star", don´t u think?
Apart from recommending this movie, as well as the book, I´d like to highlight the language that it is used, which I liked learning it a lot. It´s cool when we read things with all kinds of language, especially the "everyday" one. I don´t like the idea to speak like a grammar book because I´ve never tried something different.
Watch this movie..you´ll laugh and have a good time.
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I watched it. I laughed and had a good time.
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