A Gazeta Central blog presents its Readers or Film " We can only imagine . Nos Cinemas

RENATO  SANTOS  13/06/2018   A Gazeta Central blog presents its readers or films "We can only imagine" A film that tells the story of Bart Millard and promotes a great human discussion or direction.  

In theaters all over Brazil, the film "I can only imagine", inspired by the song of the same name, re-ignites the debate on the rights of children and adolescents. The film tells the story of Bart Millard, lead singer of the band MercyMe and composer of the group's most famous single. The young person suffers during all the childhood with an aggressive father and an omission mother, that leaves him still very young.

Marked by childhood traumas, Bart uses his pain as inspiration to develop the group's most successful song. The music expresses the composer's autobiographical journey of overcoming and faith.

"I remember asking Bart, 'What's the experience of writing' I can only imagine 'and why do people love this song?" And he said, "It's a wave of hope." And I think that's what the film offers, "Jon Erwi, one of the film's directors, said in an interview.

Understanding the importance of information, the feature film signed a partnership with the Ministry of Human Rights and performs before all sections of the film an awareness action on the ways of reporting human rights violations through dial 100.

About the song

The song of American origin was written in 1994 and released in 1999. "I Can Only Imagine" went on to win two Dove Awards in 2002. In Brazil, the song has already been recorded by artists such as Chris Duran, Eduardo and Silvana, Giselle Di Mene and recently by the Throne Ministry, which made a special version for the film.

More than him Bart?  Bart Marshall Millard  (born December 1, 1972) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known as the leader of the band MercyMe. 

He has also released two solo albums: Hymned, No. 1 in 2005 and Hymned Again in 2008. The latter garnered him a solo Grammy nomination in the category of Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album.

In high school,Millard wanted to become a football player, a dream which ended when he injured both ankles at a high school football game. 

As a result, Millard took choir as an elective. Millard's father, Arthur Wesley Millard Jr.,[2] died during Bart's first year of college, and his youth pastor invited him to work with the church's youth group worship band. 

Millard accepted and worked with the video and audio systems for the group. James (Jim) Bryson played piano for that band and later went on to play with Bart Millard and the worship band on a trip to Switzerland. 

This trip inspired Millard to pursue a full-time musical career. Millard and two of his friends moved to Oklahoma City, and formed MercyMe. 

Since then, the band has recorded six independent, nine studio, two exclusive, two Christmas, and one compilation album.

Millard made a promise to his grandmother to record a hymns album before she died, which he did with Hymned  and he subsequently shared the story of how he was inspired by his grandmother's faith. 

Millard did the second of his two hymn albums because he realized that the church he was attending did not sing hymns, and he wanted his children to have hymns as a part of their lives.

Millard said his dad heavily influenced him in his musical direction with respect to the hymns albums, drawing particularly on Willie Nelson and Louie Prima. 

Millard stated that these influences would not be appropriate for MercyMe, as MercyMe is similar to Coldplay, while these hymned efforts are more in the vein of Frank Sinatra. 

Millard said that he embarked on his solo effort in order to give expression to musical styles that would not have been compatible with MercyMe. Millard said that they sang a Hank Williams song called "I Saw the Light" in his church growing up.

The title of Hymned Again is a "tongue-in-cheek" reference to the first album. The first album was an effort to make songs that he did not particularly care about more cool, and the second album was created to achieve a Kansas City swing/shuffle mood in the vein of Louie Prima, Harry Connick Jr. and Jamie Cullum, which is what was achieved. 

According to Greer, this album was very reminiscent of She by Connick, which was done five or six times according to Millard.Millard said he accomplished this by listening to a stack of albums by these musicians. Millard said the songs on the album Hymned Again are in the tradition of the Great Revival era musically, but that this was not done on purpose. 

Millard said the one original song on the album, entitled "Jesus Cares for Me", was written by Thad Cockrell, a song which according to the singer "could’ve been written 50, 60 years ago."

Millard nervously asked Vince Gill to participate on the album.[5] On the subject of another "Hymned" effort, Millard said, "Man, I hope so."