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By Robert Scucci | Published
As an avid musician, I have always had a disdain for programs such as Behind musicas well as the onslaught of musical biopics that have contaminated the film landscape during the last 20 years. The main reason why I do not like this form of revisionist history is due to how many important details are outside the rhythm, leaving so many intermediate moments throughout the career of an incomplete artist, open or frankly exaggerated. Strange: The story of Al YankovicWritten and developed by the “Weird al” Yankovic and starring Daniel Radcliffe in the starting role, it was created with people like me in mind that they have tired of the autoggrandizing saga of the rock star larger than life, and brutally You lick all the genre for the love of the game.
From humble beginnings to superstrome
At first, establishing its tone as a serious biographical film of rock and roll, Strange: The story of Al Yankovic He elaborates the humble beginnings of the icon, when his mother, Mary (Julianne Nicholson), secretly buys a accordion from a traveling seller (Thomas Lennon), to disapprove of his father, Nick (Toby Huss). He separates from his parents after his rebel side manifests itself in the form of an acting in an illegal polka party, which leads his father to believe that he will never be the man of the company he wants because his mind has been contaminated for his love. For music.
Living with his fourth years later, at the beginning to parody songs that he listens to the radio, which increases to play in Baker Bars, and finally leads to his introduction to his mentor, Dr. Demento (Rainn Wilson). The passion of Al by the extravagant melodies of Polka parody quickly becomes a complete race as an artist who sells multiplatin who lives a lifestyle of excess rock and roll.
Serving as a warning story about the ego without control experiences at the height of its popularity as the many biopics that we have all seen before, Strange: The story of Al Yankovic Not only captures the meteoric ascent of the Cordized Hair Cordeon Master, but also the beginning of his fall. While by Lidia with the fact that other artists use it to give their original songs an impulse in the qualifications known as “Yankovic Bump”, it promises to cut the teeth as original composer, which results in a meat with Michael Jackson that can very Well ends his career as he knows.
An exaggeration exercise
Strange: The story of Al Yankovic Take every rhythm that you would find in films like Walk either The Earth And they turn them down, on the side, throw a couple of machine guns in case, and somehow ends up becoming an exaggerated action movie where Daniel Radcliffe’s Yankovic, complete with torn abdominals and a revenge look in his eyes , he has to knock Pablo Escobar (Arturo Castro), who captured the love of his life, Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) for dire reasons.
You read it correctly; Strange: The story of Al YankovicLike man, myth, the music of the legend itself, is a parody of the highest order that takes out the urine of each musical biopia with a sense of humor that is so deranged that you cannot avoid loving how blatantly it goes to the jugular. Daniel Radcliffe, who has recently become one of my favorite actors due to his disposition to assume strange roles, such as the body propelled by orders Swiss army manI knew that the task entered this movie and looks a lot like “Weird al” Yankovic that you would think they were really related.
If you are tired that rock stars stop on a pedestal for posterity in the form of a dramatic music biographical film, then Strange: The story of Al Yankovic It should be the next movie that transmits free of charge on the Roku channel.
