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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} [[File:Music_of_the_Heart_poster_1067.jpg\|frame]] '''''Music Ofof ~~The~~the Heart''''' is a 1999 dramatic/biopic film, directed by [[Wes Craven]] and starring [[Meryl Streep]]. The film is based on the documentary ''Small Wonders'', which chronicled the evolution of a violin program conducted for inner-city kids in Harlem. The woman who started this program is Roberta Guaspari, a renowned music educator who decided to start the program as she felt any child could learn to play the violin, and that it would be a good form of expression for the children who were growing up in a tough, tough neighbourhood. The events of the film lead up to a concert at Carnegie Hall, together with famous violinists who had volunteered to help. The film is notable for having most of the same violinists recreate that concert for the movie. ~~----~~ ~~=== This film contains examples of: ===~~ {{tropelist}} * [[An Aesop]]: Every character finishes the film having learnt valuable life lessons. * [[As Himself]]: All the famous violinists at the concert, including Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, Joshua Bell, Sandra Park and Mark O'Connor. * [[Award Bait Song]]: "Music of My Heart", performed by Gloria Estefan and N'SYNC. Was actually nominated for an Oscar. * [[Based Onon a True Story]]: and not too loosely either. * [[Billing Displacement]]: Gloria Estefan appears in the film much less than the credits, filmposter or publicity suggested. * [[Biopic]] * [[The Cameo]] / [[Real Person Cameo]]: The above-mentioned famous violinists. * [[Cool Teacher]]: Roberta shuffles back and forth from this. One moment she's harsh and unforgiving, the next she's gentle and encouraging. * [[Doing It for ~~The~~the Art]]: Meryl Streep had to learn how to look convincingly like she was an expert violinist - and it's pretty darn good. * [[Gang -Bangers]]: The audience glimpses gang activity in the harlem housing projects. * [[He Also Did]]: Hard to believe this is from the same director as ''[[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street]]''. * [[Inner -City School]]: the setting for the whole film. * [[Kids Are Cruel]]: As expected, many of the kids don't take well to learning the violin. "Violins are for sissies" is an often-used phrase. There's also a boy who makes his sister carry his violin case for him, as he is scared that his friends will make fun of him. Another boy knocks over his stand partner's music stand on purpose. * [[The Magic Was Inside You All Along]]: What Roberta hopes the kids will learn as they pick up the instrument. Line 30 ⟶ 28: * [[The Other Marty]]: ''Madonna'' was attached to the film to play Roberta, and had taken violin lessons for several months, before leaving the film citing "creative differences" with director Craven. Of course, we got '''Meryl Streep''' instead. * [[Time Skip]]: The second half of the film takes place around ten years after the events of the first, and several of Roberta's students, now grown up and accomplished musicians, return to help her with the fund-raising concert. Allegra the dog has also grown up, but she's still pretty jumpy for a 10+ year-old dog. * [[White ~~Mans~~Man's Burden]]: Several of the children and their mothers don't like that Roberta is trying to play messiah to the kids. * [[Wretched Hive]]: Harlem is portrayed as this. {{reflist}} [[Category:Films of the 1990s]] [[Category:Music Ofof ~~The~~the Heart]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Music Stories]] [[Category:Biopic]] [[Category:Film]]