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Richard Thompson, Heartless Bast^rds, Jon DeRosa, Sarah Cracknell, Baby Goats   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, June 08, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

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LOVE & MERCY: If you didn't already know, I'm a big fan of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys.  I've read extensively about their lives and careers.  So Love and Mercy --which depicts two pivotal periods in the songwriter's troubled life--is a film that is both attractive to me, and yet one I could nitpick to death.  What I will say is that this is a very good movie for one that runs only two hours and must have the approval of Brian's second wife Melinda, the biggest influence in his current life.  As such, the role drugs may have played in aggravating Brian's mental problems are down played, and the antagonists in each period, Mike Love and Dr. Eugene Landy, respectively, are rendered rather one-dimensionally, although this is much less fair to Love than it is to Landy (who is well-portrayed in all his ultimate manipulation and greed by Paul Giamatti).  OTOH, Brian is excellently portrayed in both periods -- by Paul Dano as the psychologically deteriorating musical wundekind creating Pet Sounds and "Good Vibrations," as well as by John Cusack who, despite lacking the physical resemblace Dano has, fully captures the lost, missing-pieces quality of Brian after his Smile-era breakdown.  Dano in particular seems to have absorbed film of Brian from the mid-60s to capture his physicalities, and likely hours of studio tape to embody Brian's creative obsessions.  Elizabeth Banks does the most with the role of Melinda Ledbetter, though we learn more about her from Landy's snooping that the real Melinda may have been willing to put onscreen.  The production design is also terrific, nicely replicating the wardrobe and locations of each era. I don't know whether the Pet Sounds sequence was actually filmed in tiny Western Studios, but if not, it's recreated perfectly, while paying at least small homage to the Wrecking Crew of studio musicians like Hal Blaine and Carol Kaye, who executed Brian's vision while the band was on tour.  Ultimately, Brian's story probably cannot be fully explored in 2 hours, and this version may be as true as any of the others.  I highly recommend it for people looking to find out about this American songwriting legend, and to hardcore fans who can take it for what it is. (I also recommend the Beautiful Dreamer documentary, though it seems similarly influenced by Melinda's p.o.v.)

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