1. It seems strange to start making a biopic while the protagonist is still alive. It always feels like Elton John, a singer who has been a legend all his life, should be filmed after his death. However, combined with the fact that EJ has almost completely disappeared in the pop music industry in recent years, we can almost refer to the logic of "Let's make a documentary after the athlete's sports career is over".
2. Although Freddy Mercuy's documentary won an award, and a musical film such as "La La Land" won an Oscar a few years ago, it does not mean that the biography of a pop musician + musical will be successful. At least "Rocketman" is not so likable.
3. Excessive excavation of the inner world of singers in the post-glam rock era will end up with nothingness in the end, or it is completely the same routine, which is almost the same in "Velvet Goldmine", "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman". Similarity, that is, "unhappy childhood + unusual sexual orientation + drugs + psychological deformity under the reputation + return to the original", this is true, without exception.
4. Based on the fact that this is a corrupt country movie, the two points of base and baldness are almost inescapable topics for the characters. I am very grateful to the director for expressing this theme directly in the movie, which is very good.
5. Based on this is a biographical film of a musician, there seems to be no problem with two sentences when acting unexpectedly, and the dancers are also quite professional actors, but there is no surprise in "Velvet Gold Mine".
6. The two films in the "Ace Agent" series, "Eagle Eddie", make people suspect that he is the only actor in the new generation of the rotten country, and he is a little bit visually tired. It's a pity that Jamie Bell in "Out of My World" doesn't even have a dance plot, which is a little surprising.
7. The male character of Radish has no rivals in the whole film, including the male protagonist.
8. In the whole movie, the music is surprising, the acting is qualified, and the stars are abundant, but the routines of the plot and the inherent flaws of musicals, as well as the previous popular genre films, are destined to "Rocketman" will not become "Rocketman". Velvet Gold Mine, which is called the temple of glam rock in the memory of people of an era, will not become a phenomenal film like Bohemian Rhapsody that can win prizes and box office.
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