Looks like the world has missed one helluva concert. Whatever cynicism one might harbor about this Hail Mary piece of cinema -- which can be called the first konsert rehearsal movie ever -- it's a strange yet strangely beguiling film that captures one of pop culture's great entertainers in the feverish grips of pure creativity. The screen is filled with performers, musicians, choreographers, crew members and craftsmen, but the movie's laserlike focus is on Michael Jackson. anda understand what it takes to attain such dizzying heights in entertainment, and perhaps why he chose to stay away for a decade.
Following its simultaneous premieres Tuesday, the film will open on lebih than 3,400 domestic screens along with 96 in Imax theaters and another 27 internationally for a two-week run. That run will be extended if demand is there. Demand will be there.
In case someone just dropped in from Mars, "This Is It" was to be 50-year-old Jackson's comeback, a planned run of 50 sold-out concerts that were to take place at London's O2 Arena over the summer, all of which came to a sudden and tragic end with the performer's death June 25.
Kenny Ortega, the director of the stage show, has put together this movie from 120 hours of digital-video footage -- for which Sony reportedly paid $60 million -- taken during rehearsals at Staples Center in Los Angeles between March and June of this tahun along with casting sessions at the Nokia Theatre and video sequences filmed on the Sony lot.
What strikes anda is how thoroughly professional, even slick, the footage is. Whatever it was intended for -- a making-of doc to accompany the konsert DVD atau a Televisyen show? -- this is no footage rounded up from the crew's cell phones. Interviews with the cast, musicians and production personnel further underscore a clear intent to go public with this material.
Whatever the case, how fascinating it is to watch a huge, complicated konsert take shape. Make no mistake, this was a tunjuk intended for a stadium with a dazzling, mixed-media staging. One can even imagine a Muzik critic in London fuming about overproduced numbers that don't trust Jackson's great song catalog to deliver the goods.
On the other hand, this production might have been just right in scale for the O2 Arena. Dancers pop up through trap doors in elevators operating at "toaster speed." A bulldozer rumbles onstage for a "green" number about saving rain forests.
Shooting in front of a Sony greenscreen, 11 male dancers are transformed into 11 million. Jackson gets mixed into old, black-and-white movie footage so he can admire Rita Hayworth's wiggle in front of an orchestra and dance around bullets shot sejak Edward Robinson and Humphrey Bogart.
perpecahan, berpecah screens convey Jackson, nearly always in sunglasses, performing the same number in different days with different wardrobes and different approaches. There's no soalan who the director is here. Jackson is in complete control. Ortega watches over the production while Jackson manages every moment onstage. His directions are almost poetic. About the tempo of one number, he instructs, "It's like you're dragging yourself out of bed." Another time, he says, "It has to simmer."
The audience at the Nokia premiere didn't seem to know how to react to rehearsal footage. They giggled nervously at missed cues and interruptions. To be clear: No one should expect a konsert film. Jackson clearly is conserving his energy, holding back on dance moves and vocal intensity. He is searching for his concert, the way a sculptor chisels away at marble to discover a statue.
Interestingly, two of his best songs, "Billie Jean" and "Man in the Mirror," look like they were going to be staged simply. Then again, perhaps Ortega is menunjukkan early footage before the addition of dancers and singers. There's no way to tell.
The frustration -- beyond the greater one, that a tragedy prevented this konsert from happening -- is not knowing what you're looking at. Where are Jackson and his conspirators at any telah diberi moment in the creative process? The film tries to be a konsert film without having the actual footage. So when everything comes to a halt, audiences get thrown.
"This Is It" is not a "sacred document," as Ortega asserted to the Nokia crowd. But it is a fascinating one. It shows a songwriter-performer who knows his material intimately. Although not always certain what he wants, he knows it immediately when he gets it. At one point, Ortega asks his bintang how he will see a certain cue onstage. Jackson pauses and then says, "I'll feel that."
And anda know he would have.
Following its simultaneous premieres Tuesday, the film will open on lebih than 3,400 domestic screens along with 96 in Imax theaters and another 27 internationally for a two-week run. That run will be extended if demand is there. Demand will be there.
In case someone just dropped in from Mars, "This Is It" was to be 50-year-old Jackson's comeback, a planned run of 50 sold-out concerts that were to take place at London's O2 Arena over the summer, all of which came to a sudden and tragic end with the performer's death June 25.
Kenny Ortega, the director of the stage show, has put together this movie from 120 hours of digital-video footage -- for which Sony reportedly paid $60 million -- taken during rehearsals at Staples Center in Los Angeles between March and June of this tahun along with casting sessions at the Nokia Theatre and video sequences filmed on the Sony lot.
What strikes anda is how thoroughly professional, even slick, the footage is. Whatever it was intended for -- a making-of doc to accompany the konsert DVD atau a Televisyen show? -- this is no footage rounded up from the crew's cell phones. Interviews with the cast, musicians and production personnel further underscore a clear intent to go public with this material.
Whatever the case, how fascinating it is to watch a huge, complicated konsert take shape. Make no mistake, this was a tunjuk intended for a stadium with a dazzling, mixed-media staging. One can even imagine a Muzik critic in London fuming about overproduced numbers that don't trust Jackson's great song catalog to deliver the goods.
On the other hand, this production might have been just right in scale for the O2 Arena. Dancers pop up through trap doors in elevators operating at "toaster speed." A bulldozer rumbles onstage for a "green" number about saving rain forests.
Shooting in front of a Sony greenscreen, 11 male dancers are transformed into 11 million. Jackson gets mixed into old, black-and-white movie footage so he can admire Rita Hayworth's wiggle in front of an orchestra and dance around bullets shot sejak Edward Robinson and Humphrey Bogart.
perpecahan, berpecah screens convey Jackson, nearly always in sunglasses, performing the same number in different days with different wardrobes and different approaches. There's no soalan who the director is here. Jackson is in complete control. Ortega watches over the production while Jackson manages every moment onstage. His directions are almost poetic. About the tempo of one number, he instructs, "It's like you're dragging yourself out of bed." Another time, he says, "It has to simmer."
The audience at the Nokia premiere didn't seem to know how to react to rehearsal footage. They giggled nervously at missed cues and interruptions. To be clear: No one should expect a konsert film. Jackson clearly is conserving his energy, holding back on dance moves and vocal intensity. He is searching for his concert, the way a sculptor chisels away at marble to discover a statue.
Interestingly, two of his best songs, "Billie Jean" and "Man in the Mirror," look like they were going to be staged simply. Then again, perhaps Ortega is menunjukkan early footage before the addition of dancers and singers. There's no way to tell.
The frustration -- beyond the greater one, that a tragedy prevented this konsert from happening -- is not knowing what you're looking at. Where are Jackson and his conspirators at any telah diberi moment in the creative process? The film tries to be a konsert film without having the actual footage. So when everything comes to a halt, audiences get thrown.
"This Is It" is not a "sacred document," as Ortega asserted to the Nokia crowd. But it is a fascinating one. It shows a songwriter-performer who knows his material intimately. Although not always certain what he wants, he knows it immediately when he gets it. At one point, Ortega asks his bintang how he will see a certain cue onstage. Jackson pauses and then says, "I'll feel that."
And anda know he would have.
H konsert was an idea of his brother Michael, Jermaine. The artists participating in the konsert in London were not announced.
The revelations will be the king of pop will be of great interest since the file contains everything about the surveys were done between 1993 and 2004 concerning allegations of child abuse but also other hitherto hidden aspects of personal life.
A typical example is the case in the effort of the owners of a private jet to leak to the media a video menunjukkan the pop legend to be handed to the police because the categories that aselgise on a 12 years boy.
The file, however, will not shed light on the causes of sudden death in June 2009.
Magical amd Mesmerizing
Inspirational and Incredible
Charismatic and Concerned
Humble and Humane
Amazing and Astounding
Electrifying and Exuberant
Legendary and Loving
Joyful and Jubilant
Adorable and Astonishing
Considerate and Caring
Kindhearted and Knowing
Shy, Soulful and Sensitive
Optimistic and ONE OF A KIND
NEVER TO BE SURPASSED
This is how i would describe Michael Jackson,the one and only King Of Music,a human being we never understood.
Michael was strong ,very,very,very strong !!!!
Inspirational and Incredible
Charismatic and Concerned
Humble and Humane
Amazing and Astounding
Electrifying and Exuberant
Legendary and Loving
Joyful and Jubilant
Adorable and Astonishing
Considerate and Caring
Kindhearted and Knowing
Shy, Soulful and Sensitive
Optimistic and ONE OF A KIND
NEVER TO BE SURPASSED
This is how i would describe Michael Jackson,the one and only King Of Music,a human being we never understood.
Michael was strong ,very,very,very strong !!!!
In particular, speaking about the case in 1993 and charges of sexual assault of then 13 tahun old Jordan Chandler, berkata that the baru-baru ini suicide of the child's father, Evan Chandler, is sufficient proof that it was all a conspiracy.
The Jermaine believes that the dentist who was found dead in his surgery on November 5, having shot herself in the head, committed suicide sejak remorse. Speaking at an event the 54chronos said: "We had a lot as a family, the false charges against my brother since 1993 have cost us. The baby's father committed suicide because he could not stand anymore, and the child finally spoke about the matter and admitted the plot, Michael did not ever touched.
I would Cinta it if there was a Michael Jackson channel on t.v! On this channel, only Michael Jackson video's would play everyday, 24 hours a day. I wanna hear what anda guys think. I think this would be cool, but some of anda may not, so I just want your opinions. I know in my opinion that I would probably watch "The Michael Jackson Channel" everyday. I also think there should be a Michael Jackson channel because, well, he's the King Of Pop! He deserves to be honored and remembered. sejak having a channel dedicated to him, Michael can live on forever. Tell Me What anda Think! ;)
Ben, the two of us need look no more
We both found what we were looking for
With a friend to call my own
I'll never be alone
And you, my friend, will see
You've got a friend in me
(you've got a friend in me)
Ben, you're always running here and there
anda feel you're not wanted anywhere
If anda ever look behind
And don't like what anda find
There's something anda should know
You've got a place to go
(you've got a place to go)
I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
Ben, most people would turn anda away
I don't listen to a word they say
They don't see anda as I do
I wish they would try to
I'm sure they'd think again
If they had a friend like Ben
(a friend) Like Ben
(like Ben) Like Ben
Lyrics: Ben, Michael Jackson [end]
I'd like to be yours
Tomorrow
So I'm giving anda some time
To think it over today
But anda can't take my blues away
No matter what anda say, hey
anda can't take my blues away
No matter what anda say
What anda say, hey, babe
Hey, babe
What's your thinking
No darlin'
It won't, won't change my mind
But anda can't take my blues away
Now tell me what anda say, babe
anda can't take my blues away
No matter what anda say
What anda say, hey, babe
This way I feel
I know that's it's true
Because it's for you
anda know that it's true
But anda try to be
Hard to resist
I ask what it's for
anda know anda close the door
(No no, no no)
Yeah
(No no, no no)
Tell me what anda say, babe
Say, yeah, babe
anda can't take my blues away
Tell me what anda say
What anda say, yeah, babe
I've got the power
Doin' it out
Say anything
'Cause I've got this feeling
Say I
I've got the power
Come on
Yeah
Come on
Tomorrow
So I'm giving anda some time
To think it over today
But anda can't take my blues away
No matter what anda say, hey
anda can't take my blues away
No matter what anda say
What anda say, hey, babe
Hey, babe
What's your thinking
No darlin'
It won't, won't change my mind
But anda can't take my blues away
Now tell me what anda say, babe
anda can't take my blues away
No matter what anda say
What anda say, hey, babe
This way I feel
I know that's it's true
Because it's for you
anda know that it's true
But anda try to be
Hard to resist
I ask what it's for
anda know anda close the door
(No no, no no)
Yeah
(No no, no no)
Tell me what anda say, babe
Say, yeah, babe
anda can't take my blues away
Tell me what anda say
What anda say, yeah, babe
I've got the power
Doin' it out
Say anything
'Cause I've got this feeling
Say I
I've got the power
Come on
Yeah
Come on
I don't knowwhat's going to happen to you, baby
But I do know that I Cinta you
anda walk around this town with your head all up in the sky
And I do know that I want you
Let's dance, let's shout
Shake your body down to the ground
Shake your body down to the ground
anda tease me with your loving to play hard to get
'Cause anda do know that I Cinta it
anda walk around this town with your head all up in the sky
And anda do know that I want you
Let's dance, let's shout
Shake your body down to the ground
Shake your body down to the ground
Shake your body down to the ground
Shake your body down to the ground
anda are the spark that lit the api, kebakaran inside of me
And anda know that I Cinta it
I need to do just something to get closer to your soul
And anda do know that I want to
Let's dance, let's shout
Let's dance, let's shout
But I do know that I Cinta you
anda walk around this town with your head all up in the sky
And I do know that I want you
Let's dance, let's shout
Shake your body down to the ground
Shake your body down to the ground
anda tease me with your loving to play hard to get
'Cause anda do know that I Cinta it
anda walk around this town with your head all up in the sky
And anda do know that I want you
Let's dance, let's shout
Shake your body down to the ground
Shake your body down to the ground
Shake your body down to the ground
Shake your body down to the ground
anda are the spark that lit the api, kebakaran inside of me
And anda know that I Cinta it
I need to do just something to get closer to your soul
And anda do know that I want to
Let's dance, let's shout
Let's dance, let's shout