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• spud paris, france✭✭✭✭

  January 2017 Posts: 103

  PapsPier wrote: »

  Spud for the good biopics I would say Bird by Eastwood and Round Midnight by Tavernier. I think that the thought process of these movies could have been applied to Django (but it is not really the trend in biopics these days)

  thanks Paps , yes i didnt like BIRD much either but i have never seen Round midnight
  
• wim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica

  January 2017 Posts: 1,568

  hm, disagree that all music biopics are bad... here are a few I've enjoyed:
  
  shine (david helfgott)
  walk the line (johnny cash)
  amadeus (...mozart)
  ray (...charles)
  la vie en rose (edith piaf)
  
  
  of course there are some really bad ones too, which I'll leave unnamed ..
• spatzo Virtuoso

  January 2017 Posts: 771

  "Round Midnight" is a good film but we must notice that it is based on Bud Powell life who was a pianist and not a tenor sax player, but Dexter Gordon is a great musician... The Studio reconstitution of Paris street are a true joke...
  
  "Bird" is based on Ross Russell book on Parker and is not accurate chronologically and is also partially invented (but tks to Ross Russell we have had the excellent Dial recording sessions of 1946)...
  
  The film on Django is said to be also highly fictionnal
• Jazzaferri Victoria B.C.Moderator Dunn Ultrafox, DuPont MDC20 Gretsch Chet Atkins CG

  January 2017 Posts: 3,707

  Insightful comment @stuart

  The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed
• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  January 2017 Posts: 5,280

  I just hope they will tell the truth about where the name Django came from.

  

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
• bopster St. Louis, MOProdigy Wide Sky PL-1, 1940? French mystery guitar, ‘37 L-4

  January 2017 Posts: 513

  Buco wrote: »

  I just hope they will tell the truth about where the name Django came from.

  
  If we haven't solved this by now, we may never have our "rosebud" moment.

  
• PapsPier ✭✭

  January 2017 Posts: 428

  Hey some pictures and a video about the casting are presented here
  http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/rhone-alpes/67e-berlinale-django-tourne-rhone-alpes-fera-ouverture-1166957.html
  
  The pictures are pretty nice

  
• Micky Dunne Liverpool UK✭✭✭✭ Olivier Marin, JWC Modele Orchestre, AJL La Flasque

  January 2017 edited January 2017 Posts: 156

  I'm not expecting a lot from this film being that part of it is based on a book from what I understand. What frustrates me is why they don't tell the real story in biopics. Film studio's or backers always feel the need to ham it up or glamourize things but Django, I mean what a story? The truth is almost impossible to believe.

  

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• PapsPier ✭✭

  January 2017 Posts: 428

  Totally agree with you Mickey: the main events of Django life (without even talking about all the crazy stories/details we can read in biographies) are a legend!

  
• Jazzaferri Victoria B.C.Moderator Dunn Ultrafox, DuPont MDC20 Gretsch Chet Atkins CG

  January 2017 Posts: 3,707

  Truth is often stranger than fiction. I have seen too many movies that are based on a real happening but become one dimensional parodies of the characters to have my hopes up but I will watch it anyway and hope.

  

  The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed