Most Lmao Origin Scenes from Music Biopics

god i love the doors movie so much, it brings me much happiness

Otm

should be a stones biopic where Jagger and Richards are at a park, thinking up band names, and they see some kids playing with rocks and some old woman sitting nearby says "look at those kids just rolling stones" and they look at each other and smile and Jagger says, "bloody 'ell that's it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHEl6Ciee70

i love how in that Doors clip above it depicts the whole song coming together almost at once in this unreal but super mythological way. Robby gives the song a quick intro and before you know it Jim is improvising his own lyrical contribution. they step outside for a second while you hear Ray figuring out the iconic keyboard riff in the background. then they go back inside and get ready to play the song as a band for the first time, count in, cut to montage! perfect.

except the montage is really weak lol. a fews marquees are shown while the band continues to play on the soundtrack (with added traffic noises) standing in for 6 months of live performance.

this thread has reminded me to watch walk hard again soon

Every single frame of the film "Great Balls of Fire"

the truth is I can't bring myself to sit through enough biopics to accurately cite any of these instances

Saw Walk Hard for the first time about a week before watching Miles Ahead. They're blurred together in my memory.

I assume Beyond the Sea has a scene where Kevin Spacey writes "Splish Splash" after having his Saturday night bath interrupted by some friends

This thread has awakened in me a previously-unknown desire, a deep and profound desire, to write a music biopic. All I know so far is that there will be a scene where one of the subjects is speaking to another before turning to the camera and finishing his sentence with the name of their band's most popular album. The camera will then hold on his face for a good twenty seconds to make sure the audience truly sees what I did there.

I think we can do this, let's pick a totally undeserving artist

jim morrison

otm about walk hard, that movie is so funny and so thoroughly skewers these types of scenes that it's nearly impossible for me to take biopics of any type seriously

John C. Reilly is a national treasure

xxpost "It will take more than just your average prayer for my incorporeal form to get this posthumous album released. No, it's gonna take...AN AMERICAN PRAYER."

JONH D RIELLY FOR PRESIDETN
He took down that music biopic thing HARDCORE. DAMMMNNN.

I would legitimately cast a presidetnial vote for Jonh D. Rielly.

i didn't really enjoy Walk Hard, probably didn't even laugh once at it. compared to Spinal Tap and the Rutles it was some weak stuff.

Every single frame of the film "Great Balls of Fire"

― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, May 11, 2017 2:35 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a.k.a. the 2nd greatest rock n roll movie of all time after the doors

agreed. I actually rewatched it recently due to all the praise it gets around these parts

It's a nice idea and Reilly is a great lead but they forgot to write any good jokes

most of the origin stories in biopics play as any more realistic than a time traveling teenager giving Chuck Berry the idea for Johnny B Goode

If I had a rating system that took the difference between how much I thought I was gonna enjoy a movie and how much I actually enjoyed it, Walk Hard would probably be my highest rated movie ever

same

y'all are tripping walk hard was great, or maybe i'm just too blinded by my love for tim the work of tim meadows to see clearly

tim the world of tim meadows needs to be the title of tim meadows' autobio

lol forget that superfluous tim

(also what casting directors seem to be unfortunately saying about tim meadows at this point)

in the ll biopic i hope there's a scene where you see ll in his trailer on the set of deep blue sea, notepad in hand, frustrated - he's blocked. then he catches sight of his hat and his eyes narrow, then widen, then he smiles. cut to 'deepest bluest'.

― balls, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:09 (three years ago) Permalink

not a biopic but this made me think of this thread:

Tom Weschler allegedly helped inspire Reed to create the opening melody. During recording, Weschler told Reed: "Alto, think about it like this: You're in New York City, on the Bowery. It's 3 a.m. You're under a streetlamp. There's a light mist coming down. You're all by yourself. Show me what that sounds like." With that, Reed played the opening melody to "Turn the Page".[3]

I was in a play in high school called A Song is Born, about the creation of the song "Silent Night". I played Franz Gruber, the person who wrote the music.

He inexplicably had no lines, just played the song Silent Night on his guitar and sang it, but the lyricist, Joseph Mohr, had an entire scene where he just sat there going..."Wait....Silent ...Night? Holy! Night. .....all is calm? all is bright? ohhhh, ees good! eeesss good!"

we had actual German students on site who were helping the actors learn German accents. the first thing the asshole actor playing Mohr asks them: "How do you all feel about Hitler?"

I assume they said ohhhh, ees good! eeesss good!

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-MfdvOZD4

Do biopics of writers, painters etc. suffer from the same problem? Or are these films made for a supposedly more sophisticated audience, who are assumed to be able to pick up more subtle allusions to the artist's work in the depiction of their lives?

"wait a minute...I'll LEAVE the penis IN!"

Todd Rundgen to the Mael brothers: whoa whoa whoa boys, now some sparks are flyin’!

Ickey Woods biopic: "Hmm....fans like it when I dance after touchdowns. It's not a dance, so much as a shuffling of feet...HEY WAIT...I 'll call it the..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOw0uTY1kQ

that's an unfortunate title