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In the process of watching "Rocketman", it is inevitable to compare it with the global box office and Oscar winner "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Bohemian Rhapsody, hereinafter referred to as "Bomi").
Both films are about British national treasure-level rock stars, both produced by Hollywood studios, and both have been harvested for the feelings of music fans in the 1970s and 1980s. Both have a grand climax at the stadium level. Same-sex love, even sharing a director - Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher after Bryan Singer was fired over allegations of sexual assault on minors , took over the aftermath of that "Bomi", only because of the Directors Guild (DGA) rules and can't list Ben on the list.
Surprisingly, Dexter didn't repeat himself at all in his creative comfort zone, and "Rocketman" didn't become a karaoke chorus movie like "Bomi." This is lucky for audiences who are looking for freshness, but it may be unfortunate for music fans who want to go to the theater to sing the golden songs of the era collectively. Not only that, it seems that the producer of "Rocketman", Paramount Pictures, has suddenly become a high-quality artist who does not want to pursue the box office. He did not use a lot of drug use and same-sex sex scenes for the family's PG-13 box office. Minus, the release version ended up with a minor-restricted R rating. Of course, this comes from the insistence of the protagonist of the story and the producer of the film, Elton John (Elton John), "This is my own story, and I have never lived a PG-13 life!"
Why is a healthy living rock star so eager to use the film to make a biography of himself, and has been preparing a creative team since 2007 (this proves that Elton is not jealous when he sees "Bomi" making a lot of money)? And through the first scene of the film, wearing an exaggerated stage phoenix costume and breaking into the AA, he even declared to the camera in a high-profile manner, "I am Elton Hercules John, Was a serious alcoholic, drug bug, sex addict, overeating, petty theft, bad temper."
This can only show that this unabashed "bad actor" is too narcissistic. Towards the end of the film, he confronts his lifelong lyricist friend, Bernie, and asks, "Why can't you be who you really are, who you are as Reginald Kenneth Dwight? ", Elton finally thought of the answer, "But I just enjoy such a gorgeous stage, this exaggerated life!". Obviously, in the mind of the knighted rock star, the real self has long since become the "Rocket Man" who rushed into the universe, wandering about life ungrounded.
Since he produced his own production and produced it himself, and was considered an autocratic tyrant in his own field of songwriting, Elton John would inevitably brag about his musical talent—of course, he does have a talent that is universally recognized. In a flashback to his childhood, little Elton listened to the "Skating Waltz" on the radio and played the melody on the furnished piano, shocking his mother and grandmother. When he entered the junior class at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 11, the teacher who was playing Mozart's "Turkish March" stopped and asked him what he would order? Little Elton sat down and repeated a short paragraph skillfully, "You just played here, I haven't heard this piece before, and I won't do it again." In real life outside the movie, there is indeed a teacher from the academy who recalled, "This little guy is just a gramophone, Handel's four-page score, you can listen to it once."
However, even under the supervision of "Musical Tyrant", director Dexter was not forced to make a "biography of a great man", but relieved the pressure and made a musical film more arbitrarily. And this is exactly in line with Elton's attempt to show off his creative talent to the world. In the story, after Ayton became a professional musician, the film uses a lot of montage techniques that blend reality and fantasy to turn each famous song into a stage musical or a nostalgic musical. Everything seems to be the same. It's as easy as you can get it.
When he first appeared in a bar to perform an Elvis-style swing dance, he sang "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" in the face of a drunken provocation offstage, and imagined the scene as "West Side Story" The street gang fights with singing and dancing like that; getting the lyrics that his close friend Bernie just wrote at home, he stroked a few simple scales on the piano, and gradually sang the most famous song "Your Song" in his early years; American premiere Later on the hippie carnival night, watching Bernie dancing with a beautiful black girl in the garden, he hummed the most road-like "Tiny Dancer"; During the wedding ceremony scene, accompanied by the high-pitched melody of "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me", the two quickly separated and then divorced; when the stadium collectively sang "Rocketman", it was a matter of course. Fly into the sky.
All these golden songs of the era, which are continuously broadcast in the film, are not sung by Ayton himself, but by Taron Egerton, the protagonist we affectionately call Dandan, who were originally in "Ace Agent". 2" had the first cooperation. Eggy's singing skills are very good. This is not only the result of the sound repair in the later stage of the film. During the marketing process of the film, the two of them went to the TV reality show together and sang "Tiny Dancer" together. However, the performance of "Your Song" in the film will inevitably remind the audience of Ewan McGregor, the high-lyric song in "Moulin Rouge", and even think that Ewan sings better.
In order to make the storyline more infectious, the film also changed some personal historical facts. As the villain's manager, John Reid, who originally met Ayton at a Christmas party, the film set up his appearance at the premiere of the "Bard Club" in Los Angeles in order to establish the image of Bole as a squeezing artist. At that time, the smart and cunning Reid saw Ayton's sexuality at a glance, and believed that he would become his own money printing machine, so he attracted young Ayton to his bed with his elegant temperament and sexy Scottish accent. John Reid is played by Richard Madden, the young wolf master who died tragically at a bloody wedding in "Game of Thrones". So, in the largest same-sex sex scene in the film, it is always weird and interesting to watch the two straight men, the ace agent Dandan and the young wolf master Rob Stark, wrapped together.
In reality, Ayrton's terrible business relationship with John Reid ended in 1998, while the film's story roughly ended in the late 1980s, with the most well-known "Lion King" theme song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" ” and before the appearance of “Candle in the Wind” in honor of Princess Diana. Before the show started, Elton walked straight out of the dressing room, turned away from the stage, dressed in that fancy dress, walked down the street, and walked into AA.
After falling out with his manager, John Reid, he hid in a phone booth, cried to his mother and came out, and her mother replied, "I don't like your honesty." Perhaps this is the source of this mamabao man's choice of life and career. He prefers to float on the world under the stage name of Elton John and with colorful and exaggerated shapes.
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