Aside from “Born to Run,” the most fun is had during “Thunder Road.” The song becomes a song-and-dance number in the market with Matt’s dad (Rob Brydon). It’s a piece that sees our stars dancing above the highway when “The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive” is heard. “Born to Run” has a very fun set piece to match the song’s tone. They have to feel like they’re pushing the narrative forward. There’s a reason for why these songs are being placed where they are. They aren’t selecting hit songs just to have a hit song. The filmmakers have a great way of framing this film to the lyrics of Bruce’s songs. You can’t not take your eyes off of the screen when the songs start up. In fairness, both “Promised Land” and “Born to Run” recur more than once. In any event, the following Springsteen songs show up according to my notes: I’ll admit to tapping my foot and leg while during the Sundance screening in hopes of not disturbing the filmmaker sitting to my left. It’s hard to resist the urge to rock out once they start playing. It takes a while before any of Bruce Springsteen’s songs start showing up but when they do, it’s fast and furious. Evans (David Hayman).īlinded by the Light isn’t an outright musical but there are so many song selections that one can’t help but find themselves wanting to sing and dance along. Yet here Javed is opening up placing Born in the USA into a cassette tape player and listening to “Dancing in the Dark.” Javed’s poems had already blown all over the place outside and while he retrieves most of them, one about the NF Scum found its way to Mr.
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His father, Malik (Kulvinder Ghir), recently got laid off by the factory so his mother and family have to pick up the rest of the slack. It’s around the same time that Javed is at rock bottom. He doesn’t start listening to the tapes until the same night that a storm is occurring. His best friend is Matt (Dean Charles Chapman)–a musician who lives nearby–but Javed’s life changes when another Pakistani Brit, Roops (Aaron Phagura) lends him two Bruce Springsteen tapes.
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It’s in the same class where he meets the politically active Eliza (Nell Williams). He was someone who exercised his creativity by way of poetry without his family finding out. Springsteen’s music played a tremendous role in helping the writer to find his voice. Javed (Viveik Kalra) stands in for real-life journlist Sarfraz Manzoor in telling the story of a Pakistani Brit in Luton who became a Bruce Springsteen super fan in 1987. Aided by the sounds of singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, Gurinder Chadha’s crowd-pleasing Blinded by the Light is rocking good time.