recently watched "Velvet Goldmine", a movie made in 1998 to pay tribute to Glam Rock. Gorgeous rock is now out of date. This term has been brought into the category of Shock Rock and Japan’s visual system by the United States. It's original, but there are still a lot of things to watch for people who like that style.
Gorgeous rock and 70s, sequins, eye shadows, saury hairstyles, homosexuality, pre-punk, the content of the film will not be repeated, many people say it is about David Bowie and Iggy Pop ( Iggy-Pop), but it’s not the case, but it’s clear that this film was born to pay tribute to them. Of course you can think of Brian Sley as David Bowie in your eyes and Kurt -White regards Iggy Pope, but the plot of the film is very different from the true relationship between the two men. The countless tribute scenes incorporated in this theme may make music fans even more delighted. I just want to make a (subjective) explanation of the metaphorical meaning of a few important scenes.
At the beginning of the film, the famous gorgeous rock singer Brian Slay performed his last performance and was shot dead during the performance (of course it proved to be a conspiracy afterwards). This show is like the last show of David Bowie's Ziggy stardust tour in 1973, except that the hair color is blue instead of red. At that time, David-Hunting Glimpse of the Fry" Xiao Fei presented the scandium plaque Nao Xi he rise and fall of Ziggy stardust and the spiderman from Mars" and then became Ziggy and started a series of tours and released Ziggy’s second album "Aladdin" "Sane", during the period due to a personal mental problem (According to Bowie himself, he fell into a delusion), Ziggy was declared dead after the last concert. Since then, the period of Ziggy stardust has ended. Since then, his music style has been continuously changed and it has become the exclusion list. Chameleon in foreign music. This coincides with Brian Slay singing pop music as another person at the end of the film after his fraudulent death. It's just that the design in the film makes Sley a rebel. The last concert of this parody is a tribute to David Bowie's Ziggy era.
In the film, Brian Sley made his debut in a dress with long hair in a shawl at a certain music festival. This hairstyle and costume can be seen in the look of David Bowie's albums "The man who sold the world" and "Hunky dory". David Bowie’s early style was a folk song, so the song Brian Slay sang on the stage with acoustic guitar is easy to understand. I personally think this scene is the most like David Bowie (other The scene can only be said to be similar in style and clothing).
Performance by the Flaming Greatures band. It was the performance that the protagonist Arthur saw after running away from home when he was young. The song sung by Flaming Greatures is one of the most famous works of Marc Bolan and T-rex-"20 century boy". Many people say that David Bowie is the originator of gorgeous rock music. In fact, in 1969, Mark Poland performed on stage wearing feathers and sequins for the first time, which was the earliest documented prototype of gorgeous rock music. David Bowie’s transformation from ballad to gorgeous is largely due to the influence of Andy Warhol (American pioneer painter) and The velvet undergound (The velvet undergound. Early members include Lou- Reid (Lou- Reed)). Reed), Nico and others. The name of the film may be a tribute to the band) (and later Iggy Pop?). Mark Poland became friends with David Bowie and had a cooperation plan until Mark Poland died in a car accident in 1977. As the music consultant of this film, the use of this song should express David Bowie’s nostalgia and respect for Poland. In addition, the lead singer of this funny Flaming Greatures band in the film (other musicians did not see clearly) is David -Brain-Molco, the lead singer of the band Placebo, whom Bowie admired very much.
Curt-White. From the moment this character appeared, we saw the shadow of Iggy Pope --- topless, black leather pants, and even Iggy’s "TV-eye" was sung. David Bowie went to the United States in his early years to work with Iggy Pope, who was living on the streets at the time. David Bowie participated in the production of Iggy's early albums such as "The idiot". In the film, Kurt White and Brian Slay's constant relationship and Slay's efforts to help White record records are all in the shadow of these events. And the song "Gimme Danger" that Kurt White sang on the stage after Slay was "killed" is also Iggy Pop's classic.
Brian Sley's wife. In the film, Sley’s wife, Mandy, is an American. In reality, David Bowie’s first wife, Angela, is also an American. Both inside and outside the film are open-marriageists. Mandy is entangled with White due to Slay’s entanglement with White. He stubbornly perished and left him. In reality, when Angela and Bowie divorced, the weird triangle relationship between David Bowie, Iggy Pope and Lau Reid also broke out (the background of the film) There is also a Low-Reid's "Satellite of love" in the music, which happened to be produced and harmonized by David Bowie).
Bite the guitar. In the film, Brian Slay kneels on the stage in front of the guitarist as BJ moves the guitar strings with his teeth and tongue. This action is completely copied from the Ziggy's tour during Bowie and Mick Ronson (Mick Rongson). -Ronson, David Bowie’s guitarist, died of illness in 1995). This action caused great repercussions at the time. The newspapers thought this action was seriously offensive, but it became a clear banner in Ziggy's period.
The imagery MV in the 36th minute of the film. Slei covered his face with blue oil paint and crawled naked on the ground. This look first appeared in the experimental film "The Looking Glass Murders (1970)" based on David Bowie's early music.
Due to the limited space, let’s talk about the things that can be recalled at once. Most of the film’s music is original, and there may be some old works that I did not hear. In addition, because it is a retelling of the deeds of some characters from memory, the inaccuracies are inaccurate. Please forgive me!
I hope that these contents can give you more points of interest in addition to the plot when watching this movie.
2007 3 16
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