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'When You Look at Me' | |||
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Single by Christina Milian | |||
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B-side | 'AM to PM' | ||
Released | June 17, 2002 (Europe) July 2, 2002 (US) | ||
Recorded | 2001 | ||
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Length | 3:45 | ||
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Producer(s) | Bloodshy & Avant | ||
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Christina Milian - 'When You Look at Me' |
'When You Look at Me' is a song by American singer Christina Milian. It was written by Milian, Christin Karlsson, Nina Woodford, Fredrik Odesio and Henrik Jonback, and produced by Bloodshy & Avant for her self-titled debut album. The song served as the album's second single outside the United States, and became a major hit throughout Australia and Europe, reaching the top 10 in Australia, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Writing[edit]
Milian used her school days as inspiration when writing the song. Milian said that 'when I was growing up, I found people were always trying to label me. The first day of school it would be like 'Here comes this girl all dressed up. She thinks she's all that' and they didn't even know me. The message behind 'When You Look at Me' is never judge a book by its cover.'[1]
Music video[edit]
The video was shot on March 2, 2002 in Los Angeles and was directed by Billie Woodruff. In the video, Milian dances in four different costumes and in different rooms. One costume is a white, short sleeved blouse with a pink mini-skirt and is featured in an area with pink and white walls. She is then seen in a blue room, with some jean material on the wall as wallpaper, dancing in with some background dancers. She is wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt. Next, she is shown in an orange room, wearing an orange camisole and orange pants, with a lot of male background dancers in white behind her. After this, she is seen in a small red room, sitting on a couch, wearing a red and black pashmina with her hair long and straight. The music video ends with a reprisal of the chorus, and switching between all four rooms.
Formats and track listings[edit]
These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of 'When You Look at Me.'
- CD maxi - Europe
- 'When You Look at Me' (radio edit) — 3:45
- 'When You Look at Me' (Bloodshy remix) — 2:58
- 'AM to PM' (Groove Chronicles main mix) — 5:36
- 'When You Look at Me' (music video)
- UK Cassette Single
- 'When You Look At Me' (Album Version) - 3:42
- 'When You Look At Me' (Agent X Remix feat. Romeo) - 5:41
- CD single - Promo
- 'When You Look at Me' (radio edit) — 3:45
Charts and sales[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
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Certifications[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^Mytton, Leigh (June 21, 2002). 'Milian charts pop success'. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-09-13.
- ^'Australian-charts.com – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me'. ARIA Top 50 Singles.
- ^'Austriancharts.at – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me' (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
- ^'Ultratop.be – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me' (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
- ^'Ultratop.be – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me' (in French). Ultratop 50.
- ^'Danishcharts.com – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me'. Tracklisten.
- ^'Eurochart Hot 100 Singles'(PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 20 no. 28. July 6, 2002. p. 15. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ^'Lescharts.com – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me' (in French). Les classement single.
- ^'Offiziellecharts.de – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me'. GfK Entertainment Charts.
- ^'Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ' (in Hungarian). Single (track) Top 40 lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége.
- ^'Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ' (in Hungarian). Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége.
- ^'The Irish Charts – Search Results – When You Look at Me'. Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ^'Italiancharts.com – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me'. Top Digital Download.
- ^ 'Nederlandse Top 40 – week 21, 2002' (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ^'Dutchcharts.nl – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me' (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
- ^'Polish Airplay Charts – Lista krajowa 39/2002'. PiF PaF Production. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ^'Arhiva romanian top 100 – Editia 27, saptamina 8.07-15.07, 2002' (in Romanian). Romanian Top 100. Archived from the original on February 16, 2005. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ^'Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100'. Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ^'Swedishcharts.com – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me'. Singles Top 100.
- ^'Swisscharts.com – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me'. Swiss Singles Chart.
- ^'Christina Milian: Artist Chart History'. Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ^'Official R&B Singles Chart Top 40'. Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ^'2002 Australian Singles Chart'. aria. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^'2002 Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart' (in Dutch). Ultratop. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^'2002 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart' (in French). Ultratop. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^'2002 French Singles Chart' (in French). SNEP. Archived from the original on 10 May 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^'Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts'. GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^'Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 2002'. Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^'Jaaroverzichten – Single 2002'. dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^'Årslista Singlar – År 2002' (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^'2002 Swiss Singles Chart' (in German). Swisscharts. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^'2002 UK Singles Chart'(PDF). ChartsPlus. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^'ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2002 Singles'. Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ^'French single certifications – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me' (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ^'British single certifications – Christina Milian – When You Look at Me'. British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved December 26, 2017.Select singles in the Format field.Select Silver in the Certification field.Type When You Look at Me in the 'Search BPI Awards' field and then press Enter.
External links[edit]
- 'When You Look at Me' music video on YouTube
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
Be Cool | |
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Directed by | F. Gary Gray |
Produced by | Danny DeVito Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher |
Screenplay by | Peter Steinfeld |
Based on | Be Cool by Elmore Leonard |
Starring | |
Music by | John Powell |
Cinematography | Jeffrey L. Kimball |
Edited by | Sheldon Kahn |
Distributed by | MGM Distribution Co. |
Release date | |
Running time | 120 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | |
Budget | $53 million |
Box office | $95.2 million |
Be Cool is a 2005 American crime-comedy filmadapted fromElmore Leonard's 1999 novel of the same name and the sequel to Leonard's 1990 novel Get Shorty (itself adapted into a 1995 film of the same name) about mobster Chili Palmer's entrance into the music industry.
The film adaptation of Be Cool began production in 2003. It was directed by F. Gary Gray, produced by Danny DeVito (who produced and co-starred in the first film), and starred John Travolta, reprising his role from the first film. The film opened in March 2005 and was released to video and DVD distribution on June 7, 2005. This was Robert Pastorelli's final film, as he died one year before its theatrical release.
Plot[edit]
Chili Palmer, restless after years of filmmaking, enters the music industry after witnessing the Russian mob execute his friend Tommy Athens, owner of a record company. Chili offers to help Tommy's widow, Edie Athens, manage the failing business, which owes $300,000 to hip-hop producer Sin LaSalle.
Christina Milian 2007 Movie
Chili is impressed by singer Linda Moon and helps free her from contractual obligations to Nick Carr and Raji, who has a gay Samoan bodyguard named Elliot, an aspiring actor and the butt of Carr and Raji's homophobic jokes. Carr and Raji hire a hitman, Joe 'Loop' Lupino to kill Chili before he can save Edie's company by arranging a live performance for Linda along with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith.
Lasalle demands payment of the $300,000, but agrees to give Chili a few days to get the money plus the vig. When the Russians attempt to kill Chili, Joe Loop mistakenly kills Ivan Argianiyev, the Russian Mob's hitman. Carr is furious about the mistake and demands that Raji talks to Loop at once. Raji then kills Loop with a metal baseball bat after Loop 'disrespects' him.
Carr then tries to trick Chili by handing him a pawn ticket, claiming that Linda's contract is being held at a pawn shop owned by the Russians. Chili being much smarter than Carr anticipated, has Edie give the ticket to the police, who pay the Russians a visit. Raji and Elliot set up LaSalle by making him believe that Carr tricked Chili in giving him the $300,000 to get Linda's contract. LaSalle and the DubMD confront Carr in his office, as do Bulkin and his men. Insulted by Bulkin's racist remarks, LaSalle kills him.
Chili squeezes in a dance scene with Edie (a nod to the 'Twist Contest' scene in Pulp Fiction), celebrating as Linda Moon gets to make her appearance with Aerosmith in concert. Based on Linda's success in that concert, Chili assuages LaSalle by making him her producer.
But Carr is not accepting any deal, so he makes Raji put Elliot to kill Chili. By assuring Elliot that he can help his acting career, Chili befriends him. After learning that Chili had gotten him an audition for a Nicole Kidman film, Elliot turns on Raji, who had erased the message on his answering machine. For all his smooth talking and flamboyant wardrobe, Raji finds himself in a firework conflagration which roasts him live on camera. Carr is arrested on murder charges when Chili makes sure he is caught with the bat used to kill Joe Loop, via another pawn ticket.
At the MTV Video Music Awards, Linda wins the awards for best new artist and video of the year. During her acceptance speech, she thanks Edie, Sin and Chili. Edie and Chili leave the award ceremony. And as Chili drives off, he passes a billboard revealing that Elliot is the co-star of a new movie with Nicole Kidman.
Cast[edit]
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Be Cool | |
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Directed by | F. Gary Gray |
Produced by | Danny DeVito Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher |
Screenplay by | Peter Steinfeld |
Based on | Be Cool by Elmore Leonard |
Starring | |
Music by | John Powell |
Cinematography | Jeffrey L. Kimball |
Edited by | Sheldon Kahn |
Distributed by | MGM Distribution Co. |
Release date | |
Running time | 120 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | |
Budget | $53 million |
Box office | $95.2 million |
Be Cool is a 2005 American crime-comedy filmadapted fromElmore Leonard's 1999 novel of the same name and the sequel to Leonard's 1990 novel Get Shorty (itself adapted into a 1995 film of the same name) about mobster Chili Palmer's entrance into the music industry.
The film adaptation of Be Cool began production in 2003. It was directed by F. Gary Gray, produced by Danny DeVito (who produced and co-starred in the first film), and starred John Travolta, reprising his role from the first film. The film opened in March 2005 and was released to video and DVD distribution on June 7, 2005. This was Robert Pastorelli's final film, as he died one year before its theatrical release.
Plot[edit]
Chili Palmer, restless after years of filmmaking, enters the music industry after witnessing the Russian mob execute his friend Tommy Athens, owner of a record company. Chili offers to help Tommy's widow, Edie Athens, manage the failing business, which owes $300,000 to hip-hop producer Sin LaSalle.
Christina Milian 2007 Movie
Chili is impressed by singer Linda Moon and helps free her from contractual obligations to Nick Carr and Raji, who has a gay Samoan bodyguard named Elliot, an aspiring actor and the butt of Carr and Raji's homophobic jokes. Carr and Raji hire a hitman, Joe 'Loop' Lupino to kill Chili before he can save Edie's company by arranging a live performance for Linda along with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith.
Lasalle demands payment of the $300,000, but agrees to give Chili a few days to get the money plus the vig. When the Russians attempt to kill Chili, Joe Loop mistakenly kills Ivan Argianiyev, the Russian Mob's hitman. Carr is furious about the mistake and demands that Raji talks to Loop at once. Raji then kills Loop with a metal baseball bat after Loop 'disrespects' him.
Carr then tries to trick Chili by handing him a pawn ticket, claiming that Linda's contract is being held at a pawn shop owned by the Russians. Chili being much smarter than Carr anticipated, has Edie give the ticket to the police, who pay the Russians a visit. Raji and Elliot set up LaSalle by making him believe that Carr tricked Chili in giving him the $300,000 to get Linda's contract. LaSalle and the DubMD confront Carr in his office, as do Bulkin and his men. Insulted by Bulkin's racist remarks, LaSalle kills him.
Chili squeezes in a dance scene with Edie (a nod to the 'Twist Contest' scene in Pulp Fiction), celebrating as Linda Moon gets to make her appearance with Aerosmith in concert. Based on Linda's success in that concert, Chili assuages LaSalle by making him her producer.
But Carr is not accepting any deal, so he makes Raji put Elliot to kill Chili. By assuring Elliot that he can help his acting career, Chili befriends him. After learning that Chili had gotten him an audition for a Nicole Kidman film, Elliot turns on Raji, who had erased the message on his answering machine. For all his smooth talking and flamboyant wardrobe, Raji finds himself in a firework conflagration which roasts him live on camera. Carr is arrested on murder charges when Chili makes sure he is caught with the bat used to kill Joe Loop, via another pawn ticket.
At the MTV Video Music Awards, Linda wins the awards for best new artist and video of the year. During her acceptance speech, she thanks Edie, Sin and Chili. Edie and Chili leave the award ceremony. And as Chili drives off, he passes a billboard revealing that Elliot is the co-star of a new movie with Nicole Kidman.
Cast[edit]
- John Travolta as Chili Palmer
- Uma Thurman as Edie Athens
- Vince Vaughn as Roger 'Raji' Lowenthal
- Cedric the Entertainer as Sin LaSalle
- André Benjamin as Dabu
- Robert Pastorelli as Joseph 'Joe Loop' Lupino
- Christina Milian as Linda Moon
- Paul Adelstein as Hyman Gordon
- Debi Mazar as Marla
- Dwayne Johnson as Elliot Wilhelm
- Gregory Alan Williams as Darryl
- Harvey Keitel as Nick Carr
- Danny DeVito as Martin Weir
- Seth Green as Shotgun
- James Woods as Tommy Athens
- Alex Kubik as Roman Bulkin
- George Fisher as Ivan Argianiyev
- Serdar Kalsin as Semyon
- Anthony J. Ribustello as Fast Freddie
- Carol Duboc as Pumpkin
- Minae Noji as Miss Bangkok
- Arielle Kebbel as Robin
- Kimberly J. Brown as Tiffany
- Margaret Travolta as Marge
- Scott Adsit as Program Director
- Nick Loren as Assistant Director
- Shanell Woodgett as Music Video Dancer
- Dan Brown as Concert Goer
Cameos[edit]
- Aerosmith (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, Joey Kramer)
- The Black Eyed Peas (will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo, apl.de.ap)
- The Pussycat Dolls (Nicole Scherzinger, Melody Thornton, Ashley Roberts, Kimberly Wyatt, Kasey Campbell)
Soundtrack[edit]
The film's soundtrack was released on March 1, 2005.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | 'Fantasy' | Earth, Wind & Fire | 3:46 |
2. | 'Hollywood Swinging' | Kool & the Gang | 3:26 |
3. | 'Be Thankful for What You Got' | William DeVaughn | 5:45 |
4. | 'Roda' | Elis Regina | 2:35 |
5. | 'Sexy' | The Black Eyed Peas | 4:44 |
6. | 'Suga Suga' (Reggae Remix) | Baby Bash | 4:10 |
7. | 'The Boss' | James Brown | 3:12 |
8. | 'Ain't No Reason' | Christina Milian | 3:12 |
9. | 'Believer' | Christina Milian | 3:14 |
10. | 'Brand New Old Skool' | 777 | 4:34 |
11. | 'G's and Soldiers' | Planet Asia featuring Kurupt | 4:12 |
12. | 'Cool Chill' (instrumental) | John Powell | 3:56 |
13. | 'A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done' | Sonny & Cher | 3:15 |
14. | 'You Ain't Woman Enough' (A 1966 song by country music singer Loretta Lynn, performed by The Rock in the movie.) | Loretta Lynn | 3:31 |
Songs featured in the film but not included on the soundtrack are:
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- 'Act a Ass' – E-40
- 'Autumn Blue'
- 'Best of My Love' – Christina Milian, Carol Duboc, and Minae Noji
- 'Beethoven's 9th' – Dean Hurley
- 'Brazilian Day' – XMAN
- 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' – Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums
- 'Cooliest' – Jimi Englund
- 'Cryin' – Aerosmith and Christina Milian
- 'Deanstone' – Dean Hurley
- '(Everytime I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone' – Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums
- 'Heistus Interruptus'
- 'Kiss Me' – Sixpence None the Richer
- 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' – Bob Dylan
- 'Lady Marmalade – Carol Duboc and Minae Noji
- 'La Primavera'
- 'Melbourne Mansion'
- 'Marvelous Things' – Eisley (video visible in background)
- 'Me So Horny' – 2 Live Crew
- 'Moving On'
- 'Praia de Genipabu' – Barbara Mendes
- 'Rock It Like Diss' – Jahmaal Rashad
- 'Santa Monica Man' – Dean Hurley
- 'Short Pimp' – Noah Lifschey and Dylan Berry
- 'Strings in Velvet' – Manfred Minnich
- 'Travel Russia #2' – The Dollhouse Players
- 'Wild Out' – Cheming (featuring XMAN)
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
On a production budget of $53 million, Be Cool grossed $56,046,979 in North American and $39,169,077 internationally, totaling up to $95,216,056 worldwide.
Critical reception[edit]
Be Cool received a 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 171 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads: 'Be Cool is tepid, square, and lukewarm; as a parody of the music business, it has two left feet.'[2] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 37 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews.'[3] Halliwell called it 'a palpable miss, a movie so lazy and laid back that it falls over; there are none of those insights ... that made Get Shorty so enjoyable'.[4]
Christina Milian 2007 Malibu
In an August 2015 interview with Deadline, director F. Gary Gray discussed the failure of the film, stating: 'With Be Cool, I made some assumptions in thinking that movie was going to work. I'd just made a successful PG-13 movie [The Italian Job], and when I walked into Be Cool, it was rated R and then at the last minute in preproduction I was told, 'Well, you have to make this PG-13.' I should have walked off the film. This was a movie about shylocks and gangsta rappers and if you can't make that world edgy, you probably shouldn't do it. I walked in thinking I was going to make one movie and then it changed. Maybe it was arrogant of me to think because I had success in this realm of PG-13 I could make that work'.[5]
References[edit]
- ^'BE COOL (12A)'. British Board of Film Classification. February 18, 2005. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
- ^Be Cool at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^Be Cool at Metacritic
- ^'Halliwell's Film Guide' ISBN0-00-723470-8
- ^https://deadline.com/2015/08/f-gary-gray-straight-outta-compton-q-and-a-1201498938/
External links[edit]
- Be Cool on IMDb
- Be Cool at Box Office Mojo
- Be Cool at Rotten Tomatoes
- Be Cool at Metacritic