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Stardust Movie Review & Film Summary (2020)

Stardust Movie Review & Film Summary (2020)

    
Stardust This brings us to an overview of the film in question, a new film called ``Stardust'', which should not be confused with the 2007 fantasy adventure or the numerous other films that have gone by that name for decades. [Sources: 1, 8]
    
Johnny Flynn plays Bowie, 24, Mark Malone plays Oberman, and Stardust aims to find the seeds of Bowie's pioneering character Ziggy Stardust on occasional US tours. Music is another difficult area for Bowie Stardust, 24. [Sources: 2]
    
As Bowie's son Duncan Jones tweeted last year, Stardust was created without the blessing of the Bowie family, hence no rights to his music. Its owner refused to license Bowie's music to Stardust, which should have been enough to stop the project, or at least require a major rethink of how it was approached. Indeed, the refusal to license the music in question to Stardust has an interesting and paralyzing effect. [Sources: 6, 10]
    
For example, Stardust's decision to have Bowie cover songs that real artists love -- like Amsterdam or White Light/White Heat, is almost a smart move. For a film about such a famous and imaginative artist, there is no such imagination, either in Bowie's character or in the film itself. Flynn, the original vocalist of Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit, did a few covers of Bowie's songs at the time (like Jacques Brels' "My Death"), but we didn't have the spark—yes, the wit—inner fire even if it was These cover editions are also the work of a particular artist. [Sources: 1, 10, 11]
    
Of course, the big problem with Stardust is that Johnny Flynn isn't pretty enough to play Bowie. Johnny Flynn blasts off the screen with Gabriel Reignes' look at Bowie before he punches Bowie, but the movie is never as original as the main character or plot. Johnny Flynn already has the toughest shoes imaginable to play a young David Bowie, which is further complicated by the films set in 1971 in which David Bowie emerges from the lukewarm reception of The Man Who Sold the World and tries to Collect the Rubik's Cube of your personality. The cuts mean that cheesy Stardust is less of a biopic and more of a slice of life plunging into the moment before David Bowie gave birth to his extraordinary alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. A singer-songwriter himself, Johnny Flynn plays David, an ambitious, shy rock star who has had 12 failed singles in the UK. His last chance to become a star is to make a splash in the United States. [Sources: 3, 5, 7, 9]
    
Regardless, Stardust follows a young David Bowie away from his pregnant wife, Angie (Jena Malone), with whom he has multiple marriages, creating a bold dynamic at a time when Stardust rarely promotes its music to the American public. And record-breaking publicist Ron Oberman (a sarcastic Mark Malone who simultaneously promises the world while doing his best to light a fire under David Bowie to unleash his inner fantasies). When David Bowie tours with Ron Oberman, the label's rugged Jewish romantic, played by Mark Malone, the two go through the heart of Ron Oberman's battered Ford ranch, and "Ziggy Stardust "That's the character. Become like glam rock "Green Book"...minus the subtlety (and glam rock). When David Bowies finally made his first London gig as Ziggy Stardust (wearing Ziggy Stardust headphones, which unfortunately look like they were bought from a clothing store), Ziggy Stardust headphones, we temporarily felt, released A rock star who found himself by leaving a rock star who found himself by leaving. [Sources: 9, 12]
    
You could say Stardust is a coming-of-age story, except that Bowie's groundbreaking character starts out as a shy British singer and ends up as a space rock star. Much of this biopic focuses on David's affairs and personal relationship with Rob Oberman, an American rock promoter for Mercury Records, then on the Bowies label. In Stardust, a film about David Bowie's 1971 trip to America, David (Johnny Flynn), a few years into his career but still, in terms of image, a slightly advanced hippie rocker, finds himself at a convention vacuum cleaner vendors. Without access to Bowie's footage, "The Movie" is reduced to low-key performances of other people's songs met with indifference from the public. [Sources: 0, 2, 11, 12]
    
Stardust is basically a sluggish odyssey, the lack of excitement being exacerbated by Bowie's lack of music. It lacks even a hint of the charm and confidence of its subject, even if buried under the apparent crisis of confidence the film gives the character. Even when the protagonist manages to perform a Bowie-related song, such as Brels' "Amsterdam", the Bowie-related song is almost a one-time backdrop. [Sources: 4, 10]
    
Even the protagonist Stardust (i.e. Ziggy) appears briefly, like a button in a button-down biopic, and is never quite as quirky as Bowie. The Bowie family denied the filmmakers the use of any of Davids' songs, which makes the purpose of this biopic rather silly and unappealing. It's both a weak idea for a film about a beloved musician and an incredibly flirtatious idea for a film made on a budget that did not include licenses for real Bowie rods and was not approved by any of the living heirs of the star. . The film works best as an unintentional street comedy, the words perhaps chilling the hearts of Bowie fans. [Sources: 0, 5, 11]
    
While not particularly interested in how other reviewers have perceived Stardust, I'm definitely interested in what takeaways they have. At times, Stardust feels less like a biopic about the subject and more like a regular musical biopic where the algorithm just dropped the recognizable intellectual property known as "David Bowie" only to realize too late that it didn't. there is a part of that intellectual property which interested all. [Sources: 8, 10]
    



    

        
    



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[0]: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/movies/stardust-2020.html
    
[1]: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/stardust-2021/
    
[2]: https://www.thewrap.com/stardust-film-review-does-this-story-of-the-young-david-bowie-ring-true/
    
[3]: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/stardust-david-bowie-review
    
[4]: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/stardust-tribeca-2020-1290616/
    
[5]: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/stardust-review-david-bowie-biopic-johnny-flynn-1202225126/
    
[6]: https://thefilmstage.com/stardust-review-david-bowie-biopic-fails-to-find-man-in-the-myth/
    
[7]: https://www.ign.com/articles/stardust-review-david-bowie-movie
    
[8]: https://horrornews.net/166576/film-review-stardust-2020/
    
[9]: https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/11/movie-review-stardust-2020/
    
[10]: https://them0vieblog.com/2020/12/11/non-review-review-stardust-2020/
    
[11]: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-11-24/review-stardust-david-bowie-biopic-marc-maron
    
[12]: https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/stardust-review-david-bowie-1234581437/