BFrank Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 The way I see it is that someone has taken on the task to honor Miles. As Jazz fans, why should we bitch about that? Good, bad, or indifferent, it's a big budget movie about one of our musical heroes. From a marginalized genre. More, please...I don't have a problem with it being made, I just don't think I need to see it.I like Don Cheadle and I think this is his personal project. I hope it does well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesoul Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6722945/don-cheadle-defends-creative-liberties-miles-davis-miles-ahead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Miles Davis invented the Twitter hashtag in the eighties! BBCThe closing credits feature Cheadle’s Miles in concert during the early ‘80s, wearing a leather jacket with an insignia that says #SocialMusic. “Social music” is the term that Miles thinks should be used instead of jazz (“a made-up word,” he says derisively), but all I could think was: nothing was marked with a hashtag in the ‘80s! Surely Cheadle knows this, but the idea seems to be that as a filmmaker, he can be as loose and improvisatory as he wants to be. He may even think that he’s working in the spirit of jazz. But biographical dramas, unlike jazz, need to be grounded in reality. And Cheadle’s performance, while it makes Miles Ahead worth seeing, should have been grounded in a more focused and tough-minded movie.★★☆☆☆ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 If you're making a straight biographical drama then it needs to be grounded in reality. Obviously Cheadle did not intend this movie to be a straight biographical drama, but something a little more experimental and free-flowing, the reviewer might try actually reviewing the film he is watching...not the film he expected to be watching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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