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Brian Slade-this character is at least the fusion of David Bowie and Marc Bolan (the coquettish male protagonist of T-Rex). Let me talk about Marc Bolan's argument first. 1) Placebo in the film (I don't know who Placebo is? Sigh. You know that Placebo is said to have inherited the mantle of David Bowie, the hero of Placebo. Yes, it is the little eye shadow man who is privately raised by Master DB. ) The 20th Century Boy sung by a demon is originally sung by Marc Bolan and T-Rex. 2) In the film, Brian became popular with the TV show, and so did Marc Bolan. In March 1971, he became popular all over the country with his appearance on the British legendary TV show Top of the Pops. The first No.1 hit he won was called "Hot Love". What is the difference from the "Baby's On Fire" (not written by Marc Bolan!) in the film?
David Bowie – This is something that you can see at a glance if you have a little rock background knowledge, but I admit that I put the cart before the horse. After watching the movie, I went to test the evidence and was gradually led to the rock journey by TUT. Those who are already familiar with everything in the DB family, please skip this paragraph, but if you are already a bit confused while watching the movie, I guess most of it is because you don’t understand the background: 1) Why is he called Maxwell Demon for a while? Called Brian Slade for a while? Maxwell Demon is a fictional character by Brian Slade, a stage image. Brian Slade is touring as Maxwell Demon, and Venus in Furs is the name of his band. This idea is obviously from David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust. Ziggy Stardust comes from a concept album by DB in 1972, the full name is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (The Spiders from Mars is the name of the band that followed Ziggy Stardust). Ziggy Stardust is an alien transformed into a rock singer, with an alien message: in five years, the earth will be destroyed. But his rock and roll couldn't attract people's attention, so that it was impossible to convey this message. In a song Rock'n'Roll Suicide, he was killed by the audience and the ultimate alien power on stage. DB himself once toured as Ziggy Stardust, and finally announced the death of Ziggy on the stage. Before being shot on stage, Maxwell Demon kept predicting that he would die on stage, alluding to the story of Ziggy Stardust. 2) The title Velvet Goldmine came to DB to write for the character Ziggy Stardust. In 1971, DB's fourth album was released in Hunky Dory within a few weeks. DB had already started recording the Ziggy Stardust album, but the song was already created during the recording of Hunky Dory. (This song was only released in Space Oddity in 75 years) So the title is both a tribute to this story. 3) The characters have something in common. David Bowie and Brian Slade are openly bisexual. In the film, Little Richard, the black musician that Brian Slade liked when he was a child, is indeed one of DB's profound influences.
Curt Wild-Nima Ewan looks so much like Kurt Cobain and even his name Curt is like Kurt, but it shouldn't matter at all. . . Neither the time nor the story can talk about Grunge, it is estimated that the screenwriter just borrowed flowers to offer a Buddha. The role of Curt Wild should be a composite of Iggy Pop (Iggy Pop and the Stooges) and Lou Reed (Velvet Underground Banana Group) (yes, I smiled vilely when I wrote this sentence). Even if you are a rotten girl with a clear mind, you will be helpless to see the entanglement between these people! Probably like this: Lou Reed (openly bisexual) and John Cale (who was molested as a child) in the Velvet Underground are already entangled, and behind the VU artist is Marilyn Monroe printed version of Andy Warhol Still mingling between the two (Lou Reed and John Cale wrote for him after Warhol's death Drella, which is the nickname of Andy Warhol, allegedly a combination of Dracula and Cinderella. Obviously, single man or single woman It’s so boring, everyone should have two sexes!) Then Iggy Pop and Lou Reed have a good personal relationship, Lou Reed and David Bowie have a good relationship, David Bowie and Iggy Pop also lived and created together in Berlin. Acquaintance. You understand what I mean.
The innuendo plots in the specific film include: 1) Curt is naked when he comes out. This is definitely Iggy Pop's business. Have you seen Iggy Pop wear a top? Have you seen it! 2) In the film, Curt's band The Rats and Iggy Pop's own band The Stooges are both whistleblowers (this is not what I found but written on the Wiki.) 3) When Iggy Pop and David Bowie really hooked up in Berlin It was when Iggy Pop's drug addiction problem was the most serious, DB had no problems at the time, but to put it bluntly, Iggy Pop was raised to his shelter. The age in Berlin was when DB’s works were the most prolific. The Berlin trilogy "Low", "Heroes" and "Lodger" are the ones I personally think are the most unsurpassable (as for the relationship between these three and Brian Eno, see Below). 4) It is said that Curt is a horse and wolf, because Iggy Pop was really homeless when he was young and grew up in the park. 5) The opening of the film shows that Curt had received electroshock therapy when he was a child because of his homosexuality. This is the true story of Lou Reed. Ok. 6) There is another allusion about Lou Reed, that is Maxwell Demon’s band Venus in Furs, which is a famous song by Velvet Underground. ). 7）Curt和Brian最深爱最和谐的时候那首歌Satellite of Love揍是Lou Reed的歌呀。
Jack Fairy-I personally think this role is a mix of Marc Bolan and Brian Eno. Marc Bolan will not say anything. He is the first person to set off the whole Glam Rock and just like Jack Fairy, he is the first person, everyone is his descendant. There are several arguments about Brian Eno as follows: 1) Brian Eno also started from the Glam Rock band Roxy Music, and the connection with Glam Rock is also rooted. 2) In the second half of Velvet Goldmine's story, after the breakup of Curt Wild and Brian Slade, he left alone in Germany. The real-world story goes like this: Beginning in 1976, punk invaded and replaced the flashy Glam Rock. Iggy Pop's drug addiction problem is serious. David Bowie also tried to transform from Glam Rock. The two ran to Berlin to rent a small house to live in. Basically, DB master raised IP. At this time, electronic music (or the rudiment Krautrock) in Germany is gradually developing. Brian Eno and the people of Neu! have known and learned a lot of electronic music, minimalism. It was Brian Eno who helped David Bowie in Berlin that made the famous Berlin trilogy come out. It's hard to tell how big the artistic composition of Iggy Pop is here. But you can see the parallel clues in the movie: Brian helps Curt who is addicted to drugs; Jack helps Curt who lives in Germany and so on. 3) The name of Brian Slade's artistic character Maxwell Demon is actually derived from the name of Brian Eno's first band Maxwell's Demon:) The story is not exactly the same, but the source of inspiration is roughly the same.
Arthur Stuard-is the little reporter played by Christian Bale. I guess the prototype behind him will be another Glam general Steve Harley, who always plays as Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Of course this is not very well-founded, just because Steve Harley was a small reporter before he officially entered the show business. The key is that a lot of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel songs are used in this movie: Brian Slade's long-haired Sebastian, blue-faced Tumbling Down and "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" at the end.
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