Well, here it is, people. We are finally receiving the Biopic movie about Michael Jackson, “the King of Pop.” A legend that everyone should at least have heard of at some point in their lives. Several generations connect with him from birth, as soon as they are shown his awesome energy on his tracks from back then and even now, which, for some reason, not everyone knows that the movie features Michael’s biological nephew acting as him as well.
Why he has become such a legend is because of how amazing he truly was: from his music to his extreme charisma as a person. But there has been some confusion about what this movie is supposed to be. So, here is something you may have missed about Michael, which is the main issue we are having with this movie jump.
If you look up “Flixster”, “Fandango”, or even “Rotten Tomatoes” and search the ratings, the results appear with a score of 39-40 percent, while the audience rating is a 96-97 percent. Of course, this constantly adds or loses a percentage or two, plus this doesn’t determine how good a movie is, it’s more about how much people would recommend it in a crowd, but it seems that online, there are a lot of people who mistakenly think that the movie is solely just a revisit of retelling Michael’s songs when it is more than that. The biopic offers a deeper dive, specifically with who he is becoming and especially one main problem, which is Michael breaking free from his father’s hold on him.
From when Michael was a child, he was already a little different from me and you…in his talent of course. And one person saw that the most..his father, Joseph Jackson, was just a young boy with siblings and a dream of being a star. However, his father knew he had a hidden talent and decided he was gonna push his boy, no matter how hard or what it took.
Meaning that yes, it does have plenty of his most famous songs, including and not limited to “Billie Jean” (my personal favorite), “Thriller“, “Beat It“, “Human Nature“, but of course it couldn’t fit it all and it’s definitely difficult to fit the majority of Michael’s songs in the movie. Although the songs are not used to just revisit and vibe to, they were carefully selected by the director (Antoine Fuqua), who had important moments and impacted Michael’s life the most. Director Antoine Fuqua was looking for the songs that had the most story to tell out of the rest of that album and the ones to build off of the main plot of complications with Michael’s success in going solo and how this affects his relationship with his father, especially, since he was his personal manager as a child.
For example, he would include the starting song of Michael’s “Off the Wall” album since it had a great impact on his career, but not as much of some of the other follow-ups.
But for the “Thriller” album, of course, he included “Thriller” and a few others because of them, and especially this one, being one of his best and arguably his most revolutionary albums, and an album with amazing dance choreography in the short story video.
It is more about how his father would him perform with his brothers as “The Jackson 5” and at one point, when they were just called “The Jacksons”, but Michael is on the journey to take control of his own life and have his own freedom to put out the music that he wanted to freely. It does go through quite a bit of his years, from when he was a child all the way as a young adult, but pretty much only up until 1988 with his “Victory Tour.”
Thankfully, we are actually getting a part 2, but there is no confirmed date to when we are getting it exactly. But some fans are speculating that we might be expecting it in September of this year, while others say it might be next year. There has been no trailer for this second part yet.
For now, if you are going to see it or have already seen the movie, just stay tuned in on the news for “Michael: Part 2” and stay groovy.
