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« Reply #215 on: June 06, 2014, 10:27:45 AM » |
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Clint Eastwood on Directing Jersey Boys—And Making a Sneaky Cameo  Music is a key component of many of Clint Eastwood’s films, dating all the way back to 1971’s Play Misty for Me. But the director, 84, doesn’t really think of Jersey Boys as a musical. “What was fun for me is that it’s about musicians, much as Bird [his 1988 biopic about Charlie Parker] was about a jazz player,” he says. “The Four Seasons had all these hit songs, but they were juvenile delinquents! They were just guys from the neighborhood—a place where, if you were a singer, you were looked down upon as strange, unless you were Sinatra.”After seeing the stage show, he lobbied Warner Bros., where a previous incarnation of the project had stalled. “I said, ‘How come you’re not doing this picture? I think it’s terrific.’ I tried to appeal to them on a capitalistic [basis].” He cast most of the major roles from various stage productions and, working in his famously fast way, “we just had a good time.” Says actor John Lloyd Young, who plays Frankie Valli, “Clint Eastwood doesn’t do crazy sequins, so the movie is more of a real-life experience.”Eastwood admits he was too much of a “jazz freak” to have been into Valli’s music back in the day. “The rock era was not my favorite,” he says. “But the novelty songs they did—‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ and ‘Walk Like a Man’—were a cut above most rock ’n’ roll stuff. And ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’ is as near as it gets to the classic songs I grew up with in the ’40s.”
Though he was urged to join in on a big end-credits production number, “I said, ‘Nah, I’m bold at times, but not that bold,’ ” he says. Instead, he settled on a period-appropriate cameo, suggested by actor Erich Bergen, who plays the Four Seasons’ Bob Gaudio: During a party scene, Bergen is shown watching Rawhide, Eastwood’s 1959–66 Western TV series. “That,” says the director, “was my sneaky way of making a Hitchcock appearance. http://www.southbendtribune.com/entertainment/inthebend/entertainmentnews/clint-eastwood-on-directing-jersey-boys-and-making-a-sneaky/article_82878447-dc9a-5d14-aa44-8ef6ef3cb6ea.html |
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« Reply #218 on: June 08, 2014, 01:09:57 AM » |
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I'm looking forward to Jersey Boys, im hoping Mr Eastwood can with his usual deft touch can present an accurate presentation of The Seasons, surely one of the truly grungy(and I use that word advisedly) US groups of the 1960s. From a gritty New Jersey beginnings, nefarious shady background types, a completely looney manager/producer/Svengali/dictator in Bob Crewe, an inspired musical artist (Bobby Gaudio) and a lead singer whose vocals reached an electrifying hysteria, the Seasons deserve a tough, moving and fun cinematic tribute.
The stage show featured fantastic performances from the vocalists and actors and great production values but I felt it suffered from a sanitised story. THe Seasons were true rock n roll pioneers, who, when starting out created some awesomely funky dirty funny crazy rock records ( see Sherry, Dawn ,Big Girls)and later, when Gaudio grew as a writer and arranger created some majestic studio productions to rival Spector and Brian Wilson( See Rag Doll, Let's Hang on, Can't take my eyes) and were almost alone (save the Beach Boys,Jan and Dean,Del SHannon and Roy Orbison) in sticking around to fight the British Invasion. None of this however, rates a mention in the story,to it's detriment.
I hope Clint and his team can rectify this to some extent but then I am a devoted Seasons fan and probably not the target audience. I just hope for some accuracy and authenticity. One thing about period films that has constantly irked me is the inattention to authentic sets,costume and attitudes of the era. So often these movies are plagued by designers wearing rose coloured glasses or coke bottles glasses. If great period ideas are desired have a look at John Waters "Crybaby", Tom Hanks "That thing you do" or Curtis Hansons " LA Confidential " for a master class on how to do 50's or 60's style and do it well.
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