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I can't stop playing the new short This Is It trailer, the "Billie Jean one. Amazing!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISSNpkW2du8
Warning: This article is based on one writer's opinion, so it has some of those dodgy parts, but I wanted to post it here anyways, since it made some other cool points. What do you think?
Michael Jackson's This Is It: whatever 'it' was, it looks impressive
A fitting eulogy to the world's greatest entertainer or a shameless cash-in taking advantage of the public's morbid fascination? The Michael Jackson conundrum continues …
Here's the trailer for This Is It - the film that promises to lift the veil on the rehearsal process that should have led to Michael Jackson's hopefully triumphant return to live performance … but ended suddenly with his death in June.
Every shot of this trailer will undoubtedly inspire unbridled (though somewhat melancholic) glee in Jackson's millions of fans. That is, after all, who it's for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKUSa2G1MeA&feature=player_embedded
Blimey. "Blimey" is, officially, one of the things that one might think upon watching the trailer for This Is It. Some of the others - though certainly not exhaustively - might include:
"That doesn't look like a man at death's door."
Because it doesn't. While the news reports and rumour, autopsies and backstage sources might speak of drugs and addiction, exhaustion and physical decline. This trailer doesn't suggest that.
It promises glimpses of the magic that hundreds of thousands were hoping to catch at the O2 in London. Sharp movement, top-class choreography, and all the electricity and energy that Jackson was known for.
Whether that's what the film looks like isn't clear. Whether that's what all the rehearsals looked like, we're unlikely to hear. Whether that's what the O2 shows would have ended up like, we will never know. This film is what will remain. And what may change the historical perception of the way this icon died.
"Wait, is he laughing?"
We've been so used to the media image of Jackson hidden behind a towel, or a mask, or a paper bag that seeing him laughing or consulting, or arguing:
… or at least pointing – seems weird. Not that we can hear what he's laughing about as yet. And we don't see much in this trailer, apart from his face. It's weird.
"Yes! His face was weird by the end, wasn't it?" - is another perfectly fair thing that people might think, watching this trailer.
Doesn't detract from what he achieved, they just might think, too.
"Cripes. How bloody big WAS this show going to be?!"
Big. Huge. There appear to be a cast of hundreds of dancers and musicians, intermingling with lights and enormous amounts of CGI.
It looks like the biggest, spangliest most incredible spectacle you can imagine. Seriously. From the looks of these things, U2, Madonna, Britney, all those "I've got a great big live arena show" people … this makes them look like "I've got a little gig down the pub if you're interested" people instead. And these are only the rehearsals for the show that the world will never see.
But then you wonder: "IS this the show that will never be seen?" Or once this film gets released and the talk turns to what a dreadful shame and a big pity it is that all that hard work came to naught, it feels like there's a possibility that they'll find some way of making this happen. Holograms, most likely. Or regeneration. There'll be some sort of way, you would think.
It's like the rumours, or the stories, or the man himself. You get the feeling they're not going to let him lie.
Is it? I mean, It certainly was. It was meant to be it. And then, that was "it" for MJ, and that was that and this isn't happening any more.
Then, magically, it was again. And for people who waited so long for a live return from Jackson, this is as close as they will get.
But it's hard to tell from this trailer how it's going to pan out.
Whether it's destined to be
a) the triumphant footage of a man retaining a tight grip on his greatness that will please the fans and possibly rewrite history.
b) an intriguing portrait of a man desperate to reclaim his throne, but weakened by circumstance and an ultimately tragic sudden, dodgy death – and morbidly interesting because of that. OR
c) Yet another attempt by the people that surrounded him and helped organise the London concerts to create something they can milk money out of that will hit the box office hard, then go like the clappers in the Christmas market.
And once you've answered that, there's likely to only be one thought remaining – which is: these people, 30 or so seconds into the trailer:
Are they people praying to Michael Jackson? Is that something that people do now?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/sep/15/michael-jackson-this-is-it-trailer
Warning: This article is based on one writer's opinion, so it has some of those dodgy parts, but I wanted to post it here anyways, since it made some other cool points. What do you think?
Michael Jackson's This Is It: whatever 'it' was, it looks impressive
A fitting eulogy to the world's greatest entertainer or a shameless cash-in taking advantage of the public's morbid fascination? The Michael Jackson conundrum continues …
Here's the trailer for This Is It - the film that promises to lift the veil on the rehearsal process that should have led to Michael Jackson's hopefully triumphant return to live performance … but ended suddenly with his death in June.
Every shot of this trailer will undoubtedly inspire unbridled (though somewhat melancholic) glee in Jackson's millions of fans. That is, after all, who it's for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKUSa2G1MeA&feature=player_embedded
Blimey. "Blimey" is, officially, one of the things that one might think upon watching the trailer for This Is It. Some of the others - though certainly not exhaustively - might include:
"That doesn't look like a man at death's door."
Because it doesn't. While the news reports and rumour, autopsies and backstage sources might speak of drugs and addiction, exhaustion and physical decline. This trailer doesn't suggest that.
It promises glimpses of the magic that hundreds of thousands were hoping to catch at the O2 in London. Sharp movement, top-class choreography, and all the electricity and energy that Jackson was known for.
Whether that's what the film looks like isn't clear. Whether that's what all the rehearsals looked like, we're unlikely to hear. Whether that's what the O2 shows would have ended up like, we will never know. This film is what will remain. And what may change the historical perception of the way this icon died.
"Wait, is he laughing?"
We've been so used to the media image of Jackson hidden behind a towel, or a mask, or a paper bag that seeing him laughing or consulting, or arguing:
… or at least pointing – seems weird. Not that we can hear what he's laughing about as yet. And we don't see much in this trailer, apart from his face. It's weird.
"Yes! His face was weird by the end, wasn't it?" - is another perfectly fair thing that people might think, watching this trailer.
Doesn't detract from what he achieved, they just might think, too.
"Cripes. How bloody big WAS this show going to be?!"
Big. Huge. There appear to be a cast of hundreds of dancers and musicians, intermingling with lights and enormous amounts of CGI.
It looks like the biggest, spangliest most incredible spectacle you can imagine. Seriously. From the looks of these things, U2, Madonna, Britney, all those "I've got a great big live arena show" people … this makes them look like "I've got a little gig down the pub if you're interested" people instead. And these are only the rehearsals for the show that the world will never see.
But then you wonder: "IS this the show that will never be seen?" Or once this film gets released and the talk turns to what a dreadful shame and a big pity it is that all that hard work came to naught, it feels like there's a possibility that they'll find some way of making this happen. Holograms, most likely. Or regeneration. There'll be some sort of way, you would think.
It's like the rumours, or the stories, or the man himself. You get the feeling they're not going to let him lie.
Is it? I mean, It certainly was. It was meant to be it. And then, that was "it" for MJ, and that was that and this isn't happening any more.
Then, magically, it was again. And for people who waited so long for a live return from Jackson, this is as close as they will get.
But it's hard to tell from this trailer how it's going to pan out.
Whether it's destined to be
a) the triumphant footage of a man retaining a tight grip on his greatness that will please the fans and possibly rewrite history.
b) an intriguing portrait of a man desperate to reclaim his throne, but weakened by circumstance and an ultimately tragic sudden, dodgy death – and morbidly interesting because of that. OR
c) Yet another attempt by the people that surrounded him and helped organise the London concerts to create something they can milk money out of that will hit the box office hard, then go like the clappers in the Christmas market.
And once you've answered that, there's likely to only be one thought remaining – which is: these people, 30 or so seconds into the trailer:
Are they people praying to Michael Jackson? Is that something that people do now?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/sep/15/michael-jackson-this-is-it-trailer
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, just as that, he died, not fair, these were only the rehearsals, i feel sad now, Michael should be alive and performing right now, why he died?, why he had to die now?
