Rev 20 Redlights wrote on Jan 28
th, 2014 at 8:05pm:
If I'm remembering correctly.
Well, I had a chance to see the film again and here's
how I saw it the second time...
1) It isn't so much that Mick is unemotional with his
comments, just unsentimental. Everybody else is
sentimental and nostalgic, but not Mick. It's not that
he disagrees with how great these singers are, it's
just that he thinks its so obvious that he doesn't
need to say it. So instead Mick chooses to be gently
joking. And if it comes across as a little like laughing
in church, so be it. So what. He's in party mode, not
near-obituary mode like everybody else.
2) One comment of his that made me laugh out loud the
second time watching was, after Claudia Lennear
reminesces about how much fun she and Mick used to
have together, wearing each other's clothes etc, they
cut to Mick and he agrees about how much fun
Claudia had!
Its a good joke because you can see from the circa 1971
pictures that Mick was having a blast too, so again
there's no need for him to say it. So he doesn't.
3) I've always maintained that Mick often says the exact
opposite of what he means, and this film is very helpful
in proving that point. When Mick is listening to Merry
Clayton's isolated GS vocal, his face
does obviously show
delight at both those famous notes from Merry and from
the fact that you can hear Mick yelp with joy on the
tape. Right in the moment. But then what does Mick say?
The exact opposite: "Y'know, you come back into the
studio the next day and listen and realize you have
something really good." I can almost guarantee that
there will be plenty of Stones students who use this
quote to "prove" that not even Mick knew what he had
when Merry sang, until the next day. Idiots. It was
a
joke.
4) Here's another pertinent example, not from the film.
Mick always says when pressed about ticket prices,
"I think the secondary market should be illegal", which
he may or may not mean, but what he is also saying is,
"But since its not illegal, of course the Stones are
going to participate in it." Yes, the evil scalpers
that are getting all the blame include the Stones themselves
(through shell companies), and why not? Why should
somebody else get all that extra money?
5) Darlene Love appropriately is made the star of the
film, but Lisa comes very close to stealing the show.
Obviously, I knew she could really sing, but what she
does in the studio, with Sting among others, is just
jaw-dropping. Plus you get to know Lisa personally
in the film. And just fall in love with her. What an
incredibly sweet and sincere woman.
6) You can see why Mick has optioned the rights for
both a reality TV series and a Broadway show. This
subject matter is pure "Chorus Line".
7) I've always been just
flattened about what
Lisa does on that Stripped Olympia GS version. So it
was nice to hear Lisa agree in the film that she was
particularly
in the zone that night.
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