Re: Film characters that reminds you of Michael
Yes, I read an article about the similarities between Mozart and Michael. The resemblance was quite scary. I haven't seen the movie yet, will definitely watch. thanks!
I've seen the movie about a 100 times and while I adore the music of both, I really don't see anything uncanny or scary. To me both MJ and Mozart seem like two personalities that couldn't be more different from each other but that's just my gut feel. It kind of bothered me to see Mozart being portrayed as this guy with zero tact. Every director will take artistic license to convey their own impressions.
There certainly is the child prodigy overlap but that's about it. I still find "Amadeus" to be a great movie because it makes people willing to open up to Mozart's music because they certainly will show you some of his most haunting works. The Requiem and the Piano Concerto in D-Minor.
I felt like watching MJ to a degree when watching the movie "Farinelli". And I really don't mean the high voice and castrato aspect of it, that's not what I mean at all. More the ability to deeply move people through music.
To me it always seemed like MJ structured his concerts like an Opera, I mean he started the "Dangerous" Concerts with a big fat pathos of "O Fortuna".
Farinelli in his time was what MJ was in our time. Incredible musical talent, sibling with questionable motives, beautiful man torn by the desire to move people through music, the desire for have children, to experience love aside from adoration and adulation from the masses. The movie Farinelli certainly is a lot of fiction but in a sense it applies to MJ as well. Both Farinelli and MJ inspired other musicians and composers to create.
So, to me the character of "Farinelli" seems close to some of MJ's issues.
(again, I don't mean the whole castration and high voice part!)
Farinelli MOVED people the same way MJ did. They literally freaked out, screamed their heads off and were ready to throw themselves onto him.
Farinelli's brother was writing music for his brother that primarily showcased technical grandness and at some point Farinelli grew tired of it, wanting to sing music that had a deeper meaning than just showing off.
I loved one of the featurettes of This Is It- Memories of Michael. At one point the Thriller Interlude is being described as "operettique", MJ gets up and starts singing, describing how the voices should be high, etherial etc. LOVED IT!
I saw it when I was a kid and since then I fell for Chopin's music :wub:
