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    Spike Lee’s “Bad 25”: 25 Reasons To See This Michael Jackson Documentary

    Saturday, November 24th, 2012 @ 4:52 pm | Education, Entertainment

    On Thursday night, November 22, 2012, the ABC television network broadcast award winning director Spike Lee”s documentary celebrating the 25th anniversary of the late Michael Jackson’s seminal album “BAD”.

    On a September weekend in Canada, during the Toronto Film Festival, cinephiles saw the debut of the documentary,”Bad 25″, about the making of the album directed by Lee. Included in the film story promoted along with the 25th anniversary re-release of the album, are people who knew and worked with the King of Pop; they provide inspiring details about the genius of the man displayed when recording the album’s songs and accompanying music videos. There are interviews with artists like Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Cee Lo Green, Chris Brown, and Questlove; they speak of Jackson as fans of the entertainer as well as fellow musicians.

    We love Michael Jackson and we find it difficult still to accept, nearly three and a half years following his death, he’s no longer here to share his gift with us.

    The following list of the “25 Baddest Things About Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson Film”, compiled by Jada Yuan, was found by one of our staffers while surfing Vulture.com.  As previously stated: We Love Michael Jackson… and we love everything on this list!

    25. Spike Lee knows his sound levels. The roar of the crowd during extended concert footage of songs like “Man in the Mirror” and “Another Part of Me” is so captivating it feels as though you’re experiencing the show live. If you’re unable to see it in a theater,  watch it at home, with the volume turned up to high.

    24. Spike’s favorite MJ song (he revealed during the post-screening Q&A) is “Wanna Be Starting Something,” and his favorite video is “Stranger in Moscow.”

    23. Spike’s high-pitched MJ impression: He used it while telling the audience what MJ would say about his movie (“I loved it, Spike”) and also while retelling the first time he met the singer. MJ came to his house in Brooklyn, played him HIStory, and said he could direct a short film of any song he wanted. Spike picked “Stranger in Moscow,” and MJ was like, “any song but that one.”

    22. Stevie Wonder, interviewed at a piano. He does an impromptu rendition of “The Way You Make Me Feel.” In the Q&A session which followed the screening of his film, Spike Lee said he wants to make a documentary about Stevie Wonder.

    21. The audience actually gasped (in a “for shame,” tsk-tsk kind of way) when it was revealed  the first album to break Bad‘s record of five consecutive No. 1 singles was Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream album.

    20. The second collective gasp came from seeing Martin Scorsese with dark hair and a mustache and no glasses as the director of the 1987 “Bad” short film.

    19. MJ wouldn’t allow anyone to call his videos “videos.” They were all short films.

    18. The “Bad” short film was MJ’s way of reaffirming his cred in the black community, so he recruited “the Jewish asthmatic and the Italian asthmatic,” said Richard Price, who wrote the script as a bleak social drama, not knowing it would end in a dance sequence.

    17. Young Wesley Snipes! Huge applause from the audience. (Also, Sheryl Crow’s 80s perm. She was his backup singer on the Bad tour. You have to see it to believe it.)

    16. Seeing the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway stop, where they filmed “Bad,” back in the day. MJ loved the pee stains everywhere.

    15. Spike Lee asking Martin Scorsese, “Were you familiar with the whole Michael crotch-grabbing?”

    14. Jacko and Prince met once. Prince apparently brought a “voodoo box” and MJ was convinced he was trying to cast a spell on him. Spike tried to get Prince to do an interview for the movie, but he refused. He also refused to let Lee include footage from a 1997 VH1 interview with Chris Rock where Prince explains why he didn’t do the “Bad” video. (He would have wanted to play Wesley Snipes’s character and couldn’t see a situation where he would allow MJ to sing the song’s first line, “Your butt is mine,” to him, or where he would be okay singing that to him.)

    13. MJ free-style scatting.

    12. The alternate ending to the “Bad” video.

    11. Learning that “Shamone!”  or “Shamon”(?) isn’t just a cool way to say “come on,” but MJ’s tribute to the inimitable singer Mavis Staples, who used it in a live version of “I’ll Take You There” in 1975.

    10. Every time Lee shows the studio where Bad was recorded, MJ is represented by a life-size cardboard cutout, because, as he explained in the Q&A, “who’s going to play Michael?”

    9. The original Bad cover was supposed to be Jacko’s face behind black lace, like the famous Gloria Swanson Vogue cover.

    8. MJ tossed popcorn at Siedah Garrett’s face during most of the recording of “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You.”

    7. A photo montage of MJ in his various disguises. He apparently got really excited because he’d been able to go door to door as a Jehovah’s Witness for a full day without getting recognized.

    6. Those are real Crips in the video for “The Way You Make Me Feel.” They were so mesmerized by MJ’s dancing that shooting stopped when everyone on set froze just watching him.

    5. Footage of MJ in a bathroom imitating four different California raisins.

    4. Hearing MJ’s vocal exercises. And learning that he actually had a range of three and a half octaves. He could go down to a low C (bass range) and had a baritone speaking voice, but chose to speak and sing in tenor only.

    3. Seeing the “Smooth Criminal” dance sequences next to the Bob Fosse and Fred Astaire moves that inspired them.

    2. You will find out who Annie, from the “Smooth Criminal” Annie are you okay? lyric is. You will never find out how they did the lean.

    1. The segment of the documentary showing Jackson’s brother as he announces Michael’s death is most moving. You will cry about his death all over again as you observe those who worked with him become aggrieved again.

     

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