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Carolina (Taylor Swift Song)
"Carolina" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for the soundtrack of the 2022 murder mystery film '' Where the Crawdads Sing''. Released via Republic Records on June 24, 2022, the song is titled after the Carolinas region in the United States, and sung from the perspective of the film's protagonist, Kya. "Carolina" was met with strong acclaim from music critics, most of whom felt the song's ambience matched the film's atmosphere, and is reminiscent of Swift's 2020 indie folk albums, ''Folklore'' and ''Evermore.'' Reviews commended the song for Swift's vocals, songwriting style, and the overall "haunting" mood. Produced by Swift and Aaron Dessner, "Carolina" is a slow-paced, downtempo, Americana ballad, particularly in an Appalachian folk style, with country and bluegrass inflections. It is driven by acoustic instruments of the early 1950s, such as fiddle, mandolin, and acoustic guitars. "Carolina" charted in Australia, Canada, Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and Cultural impact of Taylor Swift, cultural impact, Swift is one of the Best selling artists, world's best-selling artists, the List of highest-grossing live music artists, highest-grossing performer, the List of music artists by net worth, richest female musician, and the first billionaire with music as the main income. Swift signed to Big Machine Records in 2005, debuting as a Country music, country singer with the albums ''Taylor Swift (album), Taylor Swift'' (2006) and ''Fearless (Taylor Swift album), Fearless'' (2008). The singles "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Love Story (Taylor Swift song), Love Story", and "You Belong with Me" found Crossover music, crossover success on Country radio, country and Contemporary hit radio, pop radio formats. She incorporated Rock music, rock on ''Speak Now'' (2010) and Electronic music, electronic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mandolin
A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled Strings (music), strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of eight strings. A variety of string types are used, with steel strings being the most common and usually the least expensive. The courses are typically tuned in an interval of perfect fifths, with the same tuning as a violin (G3, D4, A4, E5). Also, like the violin, it is the soprano member of a Family (musical instruments), family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass. There are many styles of mandolin, but the three most common types are the ''Neapolitan'' or ''round-backed'' mandolin, the ''archtop'' mandolin and the ''flat-backed'' mandolin. The round-backed version has a deep bottom, constructed of strips of wood, glued together into a bowl. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Where The Crawdads Sing
''Where the Crawdads Sing'' is a 2018 coming-of-age murder mystery novel by American zoologist Delia Owens. The story follows two timelines that slowly intertwine. The first timeline describes the life and adventures of a young girl named Kya as she grows up isolated in the marshes of North Carolina. The second timeline follows an investigation into the apparent murder of Chase Andrews, a local celebrity of Barkley Cove, a fictional coastal town of North Carolina. By April 2023, the book had sold over 18 million copies. A Where the Crawdads Sing (film) , film adaptation was released in July 2022. Plot Part I: The Marsh In 1952, six-year-old Kya watches her mother leave her abusive alcoholic husband. While Kya waits in vain for her mother's return, she sees her older siblings leave. Her father burns her mother's clothes and paintings. Alone with her father, Kya learns to fish. He gives her his knapsack for her collections of shells and feathers. Unable to read or write, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Film Adaptation
A film adaptation transfers the details or story of an existing source text, such as a novel, into a feature film. This transfer can involve adapting most details of the source text closely, including characters or plot points, or the original source can serve as loose inspiration, with the implementation of only a few details. Although often considered a type of derivative work, film adaptation has been conceptualized recently by academic scholars such as Robert Stam as a dialogic process. While the most common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis, other works adapted into films include non-fiction (including journalism), autobiographical works, comic books, scriptures, plays, historical sources and even other films. Adaptation from such diverse resources has been a ubiquitous practice of filmmaking since the earliest days of cinema in nineteenth-century Europe. In contrast to when making a remake, movie directors usually take more creative liberties when c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Reese Witherspoon, various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine named her one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2015, and ''Forbes'' listed her among the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, world's 100 most powerful women in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, ''Forbes'' named her the List of highest-paid film actors, world's highest earning actress, and in 2023, she was named one of the richest celebrities in America with an estimated net worth of $440 million. Witherspoon began her career as a teenager, making her screen debut in ''The Man in the Moon (1991 film), The Man in the Moon'' (1991). After starring in the 1996 films ''Freeway (1996 film), Freeway'' and ''Fear (1996 film), Fear'', her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Olivia Newman
Olivia Newman is an American film director and screenwriter. She is best known for directing '' First Match'' (2018) and '' Where the Crawdads Sing'' (2022). Life and career Newman was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and graduated from The Hudson School in 1996. She holds an A.B. in French and women's studies from Vassar College and an M.F.A. in film from Columbia University. Her first short film, ''Blue-Eyed Mary'', was shown at the Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival in 2010. Newman made her feature directorial debut with the drama film '' First Match'' starring Elvire Emanuelle, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Colman Domingo and Jharrel Jerome, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. ''First Match'' was released by Netflix in 2018. She directed the 2022 mystery thriller film '' Where The Crawdads Sing'', an adaptation of the 2018 novel of the same name by Delia Owens Delia Owens (born April 4, 1949) is an American author, zoologist, and conservationist. She is best known for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Daisy Edgar-Jones
Daisy Jessica Edgar-Jones (born 24 May 1998) is an English actress. She began her career with the television series ''Cold Feet'' (2016–2020) and '' War of the Worlds'' (2019–2021). She gained recognition for her starring role in the BBC / Hulu romantic drama limited series '' Normal People'' (2020), which earned her nominations for a British Academy Television Award and a Golden Globe Award. She has expanded her career taking film roles in the horror- thriller '' Fresh'' (2022), the mystery '' Where the Crawdads Sing'' (2022), the disaster film '' Twisters'' (2024), and the romantic drama '' On Swift Horses'' (2024), the latter of which she also executive produced. On television, she played a Mormon murder victim in the FX on Hulu crime miniseries '' Under the Banner of Heaven'' earning a second Golden Globe Award nomination. On stage, she has acted on the West End in plays such as the adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's '' The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' (2017), and a revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Drama (film And Television)
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thriller Film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, and is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible. The cover-up of important information from the viewer, and fight and chase scenes are common methods. Life is typically threatened in a thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize that they are entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films' characters conflict with each other or with an outside force, which can sometimes be abstract. The protagonist is usually set against a problem, such as an escape, a goal, mission, or a mystery. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identifies thriller films as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, screenwriter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mystery Film
A mystery film is a film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur Detective, sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction. Mystery films include, but are not limited to, films in the genre of detective fiction. While cinema featured characters such as Sherlock Holmes in the early 1900s, several other Sherlock Holmes likes characters appeared such as Boston Blackie and Lone Wolf (character), The Lone Wolf. Several series of mystery films started in the 1930s with major studios featuring detectives like Nick and Nora Charles, Perry Mason, Nancy Drew and Charlie Chan. While original mystery film series were based on novels, by the 1940s many were sourced from comics and radio series. Towards the 1940s these series were predominantly produced as b-movies, with nearly no mystery series being developed by the 1950s. Around the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Satellite Awards
The Satellite Awards are annual awards given by the International Press Academy that are commonly noted in entertainment industry journals and blogs. The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards. The award ceremonies take place each year at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. Categories Film * Best Actor (includes previous drama, musical, and comedy awards) * * Best Actress (includes previous drama, musical, and comedy awards) * * Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature * Best Art Direction and Production Design * Best Cast (2004–present) * Best Cinematography * Best Costume Design * Best Director * Best Documentary Film * Best Editing * Best Film (includes previous drama, musical, and comedy awards) * * Best Foreign Language Film * Best Original Score * Best Original Song * Best Screenplay – Adapted * Best Screenplay – Original * Best Sound (1999–present) * Best Supporting Actor (includes previous drama, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry in the United States, and thus the show is frequently called "music's biggest night". The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone, and the original idea was to call them the "Gramophone Awards". The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and are considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards with the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 67th Annua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
