劇情簡(jiǎn)介,多用現(xiàn)在時(shí)態(tài)描述.
In 1900,an orphan is abandoned in the four stacker SS Virginian.He is then brought up by Danny,a coal-man from the boiler room,who determines to raise the boy as his own and names the boy as 1900.Unfortunately,a few years later,Danny is killed in a workplace accident,and 1900 is forced to survive aboard the Virginian as an orphan.When growing up,1900 shows out of the extraordinary self-taught piano talent.He befriends Max in 1926,but never leaves the vessel,even when presented with the opportunity to fashion a new life with a pretty immigrant girl.But he stays current with outside musical trends as passengers explain to him a new music trend or style,and he immediately picks it up and starts playing it for them.
His reputation as a pianist is so renowned that Jelly Roll Morton,of New Orleans jazz fame,on hearing of 1900's skill comes aboard to challenge him to a piano duel.1900 doesn't win the duel until he plays an original piece which imprees the crowd a lot.
Having heard of 1900's prowess,a record producer brings a primitive recording apparatus aboard and cuts a demo record of a 1900 original composition.The recorded music is created by 1900 as he gazes at a girl who has just boarded and who he finds attractive.When 1900 hears the recording,he takes the master,offended at the prospect of anyone hearing the music without his having performed it.He then tries to give the master to the girl who inspired it,but ends up smashing it when he fails.