"Rocketman" Elton John in the cinema: A musician takes off | Movies | '
Sometime in the early 1970s, the time had come: In today's legendary "Troubadour", a music and dance club in West Hollywood, a man literally takes off from the earth. Elton John calls himself the pianist and singer who suddenly starts playing the piano at the club as if there is no tomorrow. That depends. With his teammates, but above all with the enthusiastic audience.
"Rocketman" makes Elton John fly
So the guy actually takes off, hovers over his piano – and the audience does it. They, too, have no grip on the dance floor. As the?
Only in the studio Elton John (Taron Egerton) sits quietly on the piano, he takes off on the stage
We are in the movie. A movie about Elton John, the pop-size that's always been there as long as you can somehow think. So Elton John actually takes off from the ground in Rocketman, one of the most rousing scenes in the movie. And not only that.
The film is more of a musical than a well-narrated music biography. Life is made up of dancing: "Rocketman" explains and develops the star's many early hits, from "Your Song" to "Rocketman" to "Crocodile Rock" and "Candle in the Wind", in the film action always from specific life situations People and musician Elton John, born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947 near London.
Director Dexter Fletcher has previously directed "Bohemian Rhapsody" to an end
Unlike "Bohemian Rhapsody", the immensely successful film about "Queen", which covers a similar period of time and also puts a gay rock size at the center of his narrative, "Rocketman" puts a lot more emphasis on the music. Again and again the plot of dance, song and danced songs is interrupted. Dexter Fletcher, the director of "Rocketman", also staged "Bohemian Rhapsody" after director Bryan Singer was fired during filming – so Fletcher knows his way around the music-film profession.
Brilliant outfits, bizarre eyewear are part of the standard program Elton Johns – leading actor Taron Egerton bears this convincing
"Rocketman" is told as a big review: Elton John (convincingly portrayed by Taron Egerton) sits at the beginning of the film in a bizarre orange-colored body costume like an old, sad peacock in the circle of anonymous alcoholics and opens. He talks about his many addictions, alcohol, drugs of all kinds, sex. And he remembers his childhood. To his life in simple circumstances, to his father, who obviously does not love him or who can not show it, and to his mother, who also does not accept him as he is, and interprets his gay behavior as Menetekel.
Catchy lyrics by friend Bernie Taupin
But the little Reginald at least remains one thing: the music. He is considered highly gifted, at the piano anyway, but also singing can the little one. With his eccentric clothes and glasses taste he tests the limits of the imagination. When he meets as a young man Bernie Taupin (terrific: Jamie Bell), who writes wonderful lyrics, ignites the spark. Elton John, that's what he calls himself now, turns the pop world off balance with his temperament, his stage presence and his musical abilities.
The leap to the US is fast-paced, somehow early on it seems clear that this Brit is more likely to fit into the glittering pop world of the United States than to England in the early 1970s, which still mourns the end of the Beatles and rock bands like the Rolling Stones and "The Who" celebrates.
Then, in August 1970, it comes to that legendary appearance in the "Troubadour". That this evening at Elton John musically goes off the post, this film tells. It's about Elton John's rapid rise to global pop star, his hits, the parties, the friendships, the sex.
Elton John with husband and producer David Furnish at the world premiere of "Rocketman" in Cannes
"Rocketman" is a family production – but also allows dark nuances
But "Rocketman", who of course celebrates Elton John as a great pop star, does not show him as a happy person. This is even more amazing because "Rocketman" is an "authorized" cinema biography. She was produced i.a. by David Furnish, Elton John's husband.
But perhaps it's also because "Rocketman" only focuses on the wild, impetuous and experimental young Elton John of the 1970s. "Rocketman" limits itself to this first decade and then stops. Today Elton John is married, has two children, is recognized and celebrated everywhere and wears the title of nobility. So, apparently, Elton John has made peace with life and career, with the wild years of advancement. He survived him, you might say.
Let look at a startlong boisterous musician career: Taron Egerton as Elton John
"Rocketman" does not just show the beamman Elton John
That's not a matter of course in the world of pop and rock business. Many have fallen by the wayside. Elton John is still there, now 72 years old. Maybe you can afford to look back on a life that started off rough and where you had to overcome many hurdles.
"Rocketman" not only brings audiences closer to Elton John as a "beamman". He also shows a lot of sadness and misery from those years. This is to credit the filmmakers, and of course Elton John himself. The movie is a nice surprise and takes off in some scenes.
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