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The day before yesterday, 2020.02.20, is not a once-in-a-millennium day, but Kurt Cobain's birthday, if he is still alive, he should have just turned 53 now, and Bao Buqi can still sing on stage for 3 hours. Of course, there is no if, everything has long been settled, in such a day, you can only broadcast an unplugged or Bleach, with dozens of minutes to remember him, by the way, recall his crazy obsession with rock and roll time.
What we're going to push to you today is not a disc, but a movie, the April 2015 documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. The documentary took director Morgan 8 years, not to bring the deified rock legends back to life, but rather, the production team and Coburn's relatives did their best to show some of the details in the film, in order to let the world know what the big boy really was.
"It's time to revisit this guy and reduce him to a normal person," Kearney Laff said.
Connie Love and Kurt Cobain, circa 1992.
Dora Handel/Corbis Outline, via HBO Documentary Films
In March 2007, in Los Angeles, Courtney Love, dressed in red, suddenly arrived at the Beverly Hills Hotel, followed by a lawyer, thinking about the legacy of her husband, Kurt Cobain. For the first time, she intends to unreservedly provide a documentary filmmaker with all sorts of materials from Coburn's lifetime, including his diary, art creations, home videos, and more than 100 cassettes that no one had ever heard of before, which have been quietly kept in a mysterious locker.
Connie ended up choosing brett Morgen, the ill-conceived director of the nonfiction film, and the two went to the hotel's Poirot Hall, where he sat next to her and gulped down his food.
"It is time to take a good look at this man, to reduce him to an ordinary man, to take away the values that people have imposed on him, the aura that the saints have given him—melancholy, world-weariness, and unambitiousness, and the ridiculous myths that surround him." Actress and musician Ms. Love said in a telephone interview.
Nirvana's lead singer, Kurt Cobain, committed suicide in 1994, leaving behind his wife, Love, and his 20-month-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, the first officially licensed documentary since his death.
Surprisingly, the shooting process did not go smoothly.
Kurt Cobain and daughter Frances Bin Cobain
HBO Documentary Films
Director Morgan, who had shot the critically acclaimed Robert Evans film memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture, initially thought it would take about 18 months to make a documentary about Corborne. Unexpectedly, he ended up spending eight years working on the mystery — Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck will be released in select theaters starting April 24, 2015. In addition, Morgan also has to deal with a mother-daughter relationship legal drama for a long time, and selecting materials in the locker has become an extremely large project. "Indeed," said Love, "I've never seen that pile of stuff." ”
In the end, Morgan, 46, said he found such a man who was "very complex, much more complex than I thought." This is an artist who has suffered a deep cultural misunderstanding, who has been confined to a twisted circle.
Bright Morgan, director of Kurt Cobain: The Troublesome Montage, in Los Angeles
John Francis Peters for The New York Times
"I thought I was going to make a rock star who was tired of fame because I'd seen all the descriptions of him," Morgan said. But the more he dug in, the more he felt that "an image that had never been seen before began to emerge in my mind." Admittedly, the tragedy of the romanticized rock saga is still here: the pressure to accidentally be the face of a generation, disturbing art and diaries, the terrible heroin addiction. "But he's also a cute, funny, warm guy, and he's happy with some aspects of his life," Morgan said.
The deep-seated view of Cobain was that he was a helpless stray child without any ambition, completely suppressed by Raf. Morgan said the documentary "shattered" that notion. "In the home footage I saw, Kurt didn't fit that image, and Connie wasn't trying to control him. I think this film is really going to challenge people's perceptions. ”
The film contains a shocking 1992 home video in Which Cobain and Love live happily in the filth of an addict in Los Angeles. Cobain stood on a towel in the bathroom, with shaving cream on her face, and joked to Rav, saying that her image in the tabloids was like a monster eating men. "You and Rossini," he jokingly said of Roseanne Barr, "you two are trying to be the most hated women in America." Rave listened and pretended to be angry.
Morgan said the 108-disc cassette he found in lockers in Southern California was the most valuable. They were all recorded by Cobain when he was unknown, and from these recordings, we can see how a budding musician tried to experiment and create with the guitar. He sang Beatles' "And I Love Her"; he called, giggled, and listened to '80s pop songs like Kim Wilde's "Kids in America," when he wrote a few songs that would be the prototype of later "Nirvana" songs, such as Polly; and he told stories in unadorned language, all about his miserable teenage years.
Little painter Cobain.
HBO Documentary Fims
Cobain was a man who refused to throw anything away, and after his death, someone began to steal his belongings. But fortunately there was quite a few left, and Raf saved all the rest and transferred them to a special storage place. Over the years, some writers have seen this material, including Charles W. Bush, the author of Heavier Than Heaven. Charles R. Cross, the book is also considered a biography of Cobain's coffin. But the cassettes morgan found, apparently no one had ever heard of. Asked how he could have never heard of these cartridges, Love replied a little impatiently, "I'm not going to listen to 108 noisy tapes!" ”
There is a recording in "The Montage of Troubles" that seems to be a window into Cobain's heart. In this lengthy monologue, Cobain recounts his time in high school with a "very fat" girl in a special education class and intending to end his virginity, only to be discovered by his peers, and Cobain feels very humiliated and begins to panic. "I can't stand their taunts and ridicule," he said in the recording. "So I took my medicine, drank alcohol, and walked all the way along the tracks," he said, lying on the tracks, intending to commit suicide.
Cobain in break
"For me, it's the truest, most honest, most revealing thing he's ever recorded," Morgan said. The film slowly connects the dots of Cobain's life: the despair of his adolescence, his later suicide, and humiliation, which seem to be one of the important causes of his death (Cobain had suspected Of Love's infidelity).
Fans of Nirvana will no doubt feel that "The Montage of Troubles" is necessary, but some may dislike Morgan's views. For more than 20 years, the debate over why Cobain shot himself after drugging has never subsided, and Kroos concludes (he himself was not involved in the film) that there has never been a satisfactory conclusion. "Everybody wants to draw conclusions, but there's no final conclusion at all," he said. "There is no easy answer to this question."
Kurt Cobain and Frances Bin Cobain
He also said that most fans hoped that the story should be that Cote was burdened by fame and thus overwhelmed. "But the truth is, this man has been very, very miserable, and his body is full of contradictions," Kroos said. "What part of Cotter is you willing to believe?" What did he write in his diary? What did he say in the interview? Or did he say it to his friend? ”
There are also viewers who may question some of the decisions on filming. For example, Nirvana's bassist Krist Novoselic remembers Coburn in front of the camera, but an interview with drummer Dave Grohl is not included in the film. Morgan explained that the interview will appear on the LONG VERSION of the DVD. Moreover, the film ends abruptly, ending before Cobain's suicide, leaving the scrutiny of the incident and its subsequent events to the unauthorized and highly shocking 1998 documentary Kurt & Courtney.
Kurt Cobain as a child
"The problem with most biopics is that they always want to put everything you can see on Wikipedia into the film," Morgan said. "But you can't do everything, that's the goal of writing a book. I want my film to be the kind of documentary that can get closer to the truth, but the "documentary" thing is essentially the opposite of art and film. Morgan also knew that his documentary had to overcome a difficulty, that is, "authorizing" documentaries usually deified the protagonist again.
14-year-old Cobain
Wendy O'Connor, via Insight Editions
"Films like this tend to be bland," Morgan said. "But our films won't." He said Cobain's family members, particularly his sister and mother, were upset about some of the footage in the film, but eventually they survived.
In particular, there is such a paragraph, which was taken by a friend, and the family will be particularly sad to see it. In the shot, Cobain is snoozing in excruciating pain, holding her little daughter in her arms, and Love is trying to cut her hair. "I think they all want him not to be addicted to shanghai loin," Morgan said. "That's what I hope so."
Cobain and girlfriend Tracy Maranda over Christmas
Morgan said Lave was not involved in the creative process, but 22-year-old Frances Bin Coburn served as executive producer. In 2010, Frances reached a secret agreement with her mother, and since then she has also had rights such as her father's naming rights, and her relationship with Love was once very unstable, and Love last lost custody of her daughter in 2009.
"Frances wanted to emphasize the artistic component," Morgan said. She felt that Cobain had been very badly deified, and she hoped that in the film she would reduce him to an ordinary person, which was important to her. She and I agree exactly on this. ”
Frances and her mother, Love, at the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January
Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press
The name "Troubled Montage" comes from a tape recorded by Cobain in 1988, and during the film festival's screening, the documentary won various acclaim. Cobain's family is also very happy with it. "I love it," Says Love, who also largely reduces her to a normal person. "It's trying to be honest." Frances declined to comment, saying in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, "It's the closest way to get Cotter to tell his own story in his own language, his own aesthetic, his own view of the world." ”
When Love went to Morgan, he didn't know that overcoming difficulties and dealing with extremely huge subjects had long been his best play. In high school, Morgan directed his graduation work, a rock musical called The Conformist, based on Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 political play; Morgan's work also featured numerous dances starring his classmates Jack Black and Maya Rudolph.
Cobain in 1970
Morgan, who later studied American mythology at Hampshire University in Amherst, Massachusetts, said people called him a "crazy documentary scientist." Partly because of his long, messy hair, but mainly because of his style. "Would you mind if we go to SoulCycle," he glared at me when I got to the office, soulcycle, his gym. "We pedaled our bikes and did interviews." Is he serious or joking? Hardly.
But the main reason for this nickname is that the way he makes documentaries is so unique. The famous director Ken Burns is also an alumnus of Hampshire University, but the two have very different styles. In 1999, Morgan co-directed "On the Ropes," a 1999 film that told the story of three young boxers, deliberately stylized documentaries in the style of fictional films, and it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary that year.
"Light and Shadow" is also co-directed by Morgan and Burstan, once again challenging the documentary format. The film tells his story from the perspective of the exaggerated filmmaker Evans himself, using unconventional visual means such as animation. In 2007, Morgan also experimented with the animated documentary "Chicago 10," which tells the story of anti-war demonstrators who were tried after the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
And "The Montage of Troubles" uses all these means. Cobain's diary was animated, and part of the film was actually like a music video, with distinctive Nirvana songs accompanied by cute photos of Kirburn as a child. When talking about Cobain's chronic stomach disease, Morgan's camera seems to slowly shake into the stomach where the gastric juices are pouring out.
"What Bright does is very unique in presenting the psychological state of the characters," said Sheila Nevins, director of HBO's documentary division. "His films are like abstract paintings. In this film, you can feel Kurt Cobain's severe stomach pain, as well as his talent and anger. Nevins said Morgan himself was a suffering artist. I don't think There's anything bretted like he's doing particularly well," she said.
However, Morgan is also proud of his perseverance, and he has overcome various obstacles and has never given up on the film. For several months, When Frances Curt and her mother went to court for various rights, Morgan put the film on hold for a year to make "Crossfire Hurricane," about the Rolling Stones.
Morgan said Cobain's long journey "drained me of everything." In January of this year (2015), he said, after the completion of "The Montage of Troubles," he himself "went into the bathroom and cried for about 25 minutes."
Excerpt from: The New York Times, April 21, 2015
原标题：With ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,’ Brett Morgen Demythologizes a Legend
Chinese original title: "The Montage of Troubles" sent Kurt Cobain to the altar
Originally written by Brooks Barnes
Translation: Dong Nan
Don't leave! And Easter eggs!
Today we also prepared some "MTV Unplugged in New York" vinyl for all Nirvana fans, the number is not much, friends who want to collect a piece can reply to the "Nirvana" or "Nirvana" inquiry in the background of the public account to buy.
Like Nevermind, "Unplugged" is one of the most classic Nirvana records, and of course it is one of the most classic scenes in The History of Nirvana and rock and roll. On November 18, 1993, Nirvana recorded the soundtrack of the live performance at Sony Music Studios in New York. Almost all of the artists who appear on MTV's show record song by song, and then edit it by TV station. Nirvana, on the other hand, performed their entire repertoire in one shot. It's not entertainment, it's real rock 'n' roll live.
The pictures are for display only, and the real thing is brand new and untouched