Introduction: "There are many fights on the streets today, but in 1972, it was more like dancing. ”
Fancy dresses, exaggerated makeup and sequins, liberated personalities and no differences in sexual orientation, music becoming "heavy" and "hard", the whole of Britain suddenly became colorful because of the appearance of one person. People no longer appreciate hippies and are eager to find fresh blood.
The seventies of the last century were an era of young people, an era of beautiful rock and roll, and an era that David Bowie began.
Even people who haven't known David Bowie have seen his classic lightning makeup, the rock chameleon's dress style swept the 70s Britain, exaggerated colors, bold bare upper body, men also stepped on ten centimeters of high heels.
His sensitive sense of fashion has influenced the entire fashion industry, and the continuous breakthrough of musical style has also affected the development of rock music, and even the follow-up influence on the visual rock of Japan, and to this day we can see many tributes to his classic makeup "lightning makeup" in many films and televisions.
The title of the film, "Velvet Goldmine," is taken from a song from David Bowie's album Rare, which was apparently born in honor of rock star David Bowie and punk father Ikipop.
The film can see many of Bowie and Pop's classic looks, such as Brian's long skirt and long hair when singing in the tavern, and the lizard crawling in the film MTV.
Wilde, played by Ivan, is a character based on Iki Pop, who wears his upper body bare on stage and his black leather pants are also a reference to Pop's classic look. And the pop classic song "Gimme Ganger" is a wonderful imitation of its typhoon, which is also amazing.
In a small town in England, when a child lands on earth wearing an emerald, he is destined to be different, while another child smears his biting finger on his lip and blooms like a demon flower. The beginning of the story seems to be predestined: when Brian, who has become a folk singer, first meets Wilde on stage, the god in his heart is born.
As Brian's wife said: Only Curt Wilde, and only he, can be Brian's only one. Wilde took root in Brian's heart, and the performance at first sight seemed to break through Brian's ideological taboos and affect all his subsequent musical styles.
Brian was completely on fire in Britain, and his songs occupied the British music charts for 18 months, becoming an idol that young people followed, imitating his exaggerated makeup and clothing, and even behavior, "Rock is a prostitute, British makeup spray perfume, and music is a mask, I use my appearance to convey information." 」 "I like men and I like women." Brian's words restore David Bowie's declaration of his sexuality.
After becoming famous, Brian found Wilde in an underground live, and the real history is that the popular David Bowie found the sloppy Ikypop on the side of the road and helped him produce many albums, and the relationship between the two became inseparable.
If Brian is a rebellious man, then Wilde must be a real lunatic, when two indispensable musical geniuses begin their journey of conquest, their stage is doomed to be deviant, when asked whether the two have a physical relationship, they answer with kisses, the label of "bisexual" or "gay" has long been unable to define them, what they have to do is to conquer the world together, and the eyes of others are ridiculous to them.
And two people who are so similar are destined to be hurt by each other's stabbing, the fact that Pop can't quit the vice of drug use, which seriously affects the career, and Bowie actively helps Pop quit drugs, but the result is that he is also addicted to drugs.
In the film, Wilde overturns the recording engineer's equipment and leaves after a quarrel. When the tight-knit partner is separated, the genius begins to fall, and Brian, who left Wilde, also lives a decadent life, and he is discouraged by his wife and agent to arrange a fake assassination for himself, and a few years later, the truth behind the assassination is investigated again. The narrative of the film also begins here.
"Even though what you're going to see is a film and television production, you can't play it at maximum volume." The film is undoubtedly an audiovisual feast for music fans. The most sincere thing about the film is the almost non-stop music from the beginning to the end of the film, and Pop gave the right to use the music for this film, that is, we can see Ivan singing "Gimme Danger" and "TV eye" on stage, Ivan has been pleasantly surprised by his near-perfect cover, and the film's lavish rock-style recombinant band The Venus In Furs and Wylde Ratttz's luxurious lineup is also very careful: The Venus In Furs is composed of Thom Yorke, the lead singer of the famous rock band Radiostar in the 90s, and his band guitarists, goatskin guitarists and Roxy music band saxophonists, all of whom are well-known musicians from the end of the last century to the present day, and Wylde Ratttzu is also composed of elite members of the Seattle band, Sonic Youth and Puppet Band.
"Velvet GoldMine" is a tribute to the times, and the addition of these musicians can be said to inject soul into the work, Jonas's performance in the tavern imitating Bowie's early style A small regret is that David Bowie refused the film's use of his musical works and was furious because he was not satisfied with Brad's characterization, but fortunately, the film still appeared in the film, "Satelite Of Love", in which Bowie participated in the harmony.
You can think of Velvet Goldmine as a biographical film, simply intoxicated by Jonas and Ivan, or as a love feature film or a musical. Instead of looking for the era like in Midnight in Paris, even if it's not the right time, this movie has shown us that rock 'n' roll boom.