"Жарық күні" фильмі тарихы

1987 film by Paul Schrader

Taft Entertainment Pictures
Keith Barish Productions he avoided being photographed with a cigarette out of fear that it would encourage smoking. Schrader actually wrote the film with Bruce Springsteen in mind, but he declined. That's why he had a copy of the script, with Schrader's original working title, Born in the USA. Schrader had taken his title from a line in a song by Cleveland band the Generators, whom he used as inspiration for the Barbusters. Springsteen took the title for a song he had been writing about a Vietnam veteran. At that point, the film was on hold; it went back into production when Fox agreed to star. To make up for taking that title, Springsteen instead wrote the song "Light of Day" for the film; that became its new title and the Barbusters' signature song. Joan Jett performed the song for the film's soundtrack. Starting from the late 1980s and during the 1990s, Springsteen himself used the song to close his concerts. Schrader has expressed dissatisfaction with Light of Day, particularly its plain visual style: "I had progressed from being a person with a literary vision to a person with a visual vision, and in that film I tried to suppress my new literacy," and the casting of Joan Jett: "it's a good performance, but that piece of casting just did not work."

In a review for the Chicago Sun Times, critic Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half out of four stars and called it the "most direct and painful statement" of a theme explored in Schrader's previous films—"wildly different characters with one thing in common: Their pasts keep them imprisoned, and shut them off from happiness in the present." Janet Maslin of The New York Times stated "Bruce Springsteen wrote the rousing title song and reportedly took the phrase "Born in the U. S. A." from an earlier draft of Mr. Schrader's screenplay. It's possible, even from the finished film, to see what he and Mr. Schrader might share. One of the monologues included on Mr. Springsteen's recent live album describes his boyhood dream of becoming a rock and roller and proving something to his family, to himself, to the world; those ambitions are described in terms of musical triumph, not money or fame. Light of Day wants to embody a similar dream, but it pulls its punches. Mr. Schrader may have started out to make a film about the fiercest, most incorruptible stirrings of young talent. But he wound up making a soap opera along the way." Variety criticized the film's writing, mocking the film's family as "anyfamily USA as written by Eugene O’Neill." The publication was mixed toward the film's casting, writing that while Rowlands did well with the material, Fox was miscast for his character, and "Jett looks the part and even manages to hit the mark from time to time, but for every hit there’s a miss."

The soundtrack to the film was released in 1987. As a single, "Light of Day" reached number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and received additional album oriented rock airplay due to the connection of Joan Jett and Bruce Springsteen. The Barbusters is the name of Jett's band in the film.