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35love
Oh funny you guys are funny!
I try to monitor what goes into my head. What am I doing here indeed, ha ha ha
One day I’ll watch it.
Oh you gotta see it. It's Mick at his absolute best.
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35love
Oh funny you guys are funny!
I try to monitor what goes into my head. What am I doing here indeed, ha ha ha
One day I’ll watch it.
Oh you gotta see it. It's Mick at his absolute best.
Agreed. It is not an easy film. It has depth. That is why you got people like Rocky and Rockman still talking about it 50 years later. I think someone tuning in waiting to see Mick in the buff, and hopping around may be disappointed. well, you do get that, just not in the way you expect it.
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Stoneage
If Jagger hadn't been in it no one would have remembered it.
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Stoneage
I wonder what Keith's initial reaction was when first watching this?
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Stoneage
Sure, Syrel. But the Jagger part is what most people remember. Not the acting per se but the fact that he took part in it. To be fair, change no one to very few then.
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Rocky Dijon
Can't really imagine the film without Mick. From the soundtrack through to the promotion, it was about Mick and what a danger decadent anti-establishment androgynous rock stars seemed at the time. Cammell deserves credit for seeing the connection to the mob and showing both sides of Turner from creative bohemian to respectable businessman. The film is similar to SUNSET BLVD. in that both have a young man on the run seeking asylum in the strange home of a reclusive retired star. Both are about death and how the strange intersection of celebrity and unchecked hedonism often result in tragedy. The public wants celebrities to be wild and weird, but not too weird or they'll turn on them just as the media directs them to do. The irony of a young gangster who has murdered and tortured people for the sake of money and power looking down upon the decadent rock star is also wonderfully pointed satire.
PERFORMANCE isn't a film I could watch all the time, but it is a fascinating and artistic piece. THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS is the only other Mick film that I think is really worth revisiting. The soundtrack is terrific and deserves to be part of any Stones collection. I'll take the Jagger solo single of "Memo from Turner" over the METAMORPHOSIS version any day.
For the record, the January 1971 date was the UK release. Stateside, it played in 1970 along with NED KELLY.
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Palace Revolution 2000
But hold it a minute - I am transfixed by that last sentence/ quote; is that a signature quote?
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Sure, Syrel. But the Jagger part is what most people remember. Not the acting per se but the fact that he took part in it. To be fair, change no one to very few then.
Yeah, I'm sure it's what most people remember - and he's not uninteresting, as Jagger is really playing Jagger (when he tries to plays something not Jagger, eg Ned Kelly, it hasn't ended well...). I just think the film is actually quite a good film (coming from someone that really doesn't like films very much, though I am probably arty and intellectual ;-) )
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35love
What stadium is in the picture behind him?
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35love
What stadium is in the picture behind him?
Photo's from the 2006 Superbowl Halftime at Ford Field, Detroit.
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Rockman
Hope he signs that book for Rockman ……
Hey yeah that'd be nice …….
Pretty sure Mick's interview in the book
is the first he has ever given about Performance …..