Sabtu, 11 September 2010

Moonwalker Film

Moonwalker, atau dikenal juga dengan Michael Jackson: Moonwalker, adalah film keluaran Amerika yang dirilis pada tahun 1988 dan dibintangi oleh mega bintang Michael Jackson.
Film ini terdiri dari klip singkat mengenai riwayat Michael Jackson, kumpulan beberapa video klip dari album Bad, serta adegan-adegan tambahan yang merangkai klip-klip tersebut menjadi alur cerita ayng utuh. Judul film ini diambil dari jargon "Moonwalk", teknik tarian yang dipopulerkan oleh Jackson dalam penampilannya pada acara "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever". Meskipun sebenarnya jargon tersebut dipopulerkan oleh media massa, namun Jackson sendiri memilih nama tersebut untuk judul filmnya itu.
Pada awalnya film ini dirilis bersamaan dengan diluncurkannya album Bad pada tahun 1987. Namun pada akhirnya film ini diluncurkan sebagai bagian dari konser "Bad World Tour". Film ini pertama kali ditayangkan di bioskop-bioskop Inggris pada 26 Desember 1988. Pada awalnya film ini direncanakan diputar di bioskop-bioskop Amerika dan Kanada pada hari Natal tahun 1988. Namun terjadi penundan sehingga film ini baru dirilis pada 10 Januari 1989 dalam bentuk Home Video setelah Jackson menyelesaikan tour kosernya. Bedasarkan data 17 April 1989, video film ini telah terjual hingga 800.000 salinan

Daftar isi

Plot

Film ini dibagi atas beberapa segmen yang satu sama lainnya tidak memiliki hubungan yang erat. Film ini lebih bersifat kumpulan video klip Michael Jackson dibandingkan dengan sebuah alur cerita. Namun demikian beberapa video klip dibuat sedemikian rupa sehingga menyerupai sebuah film musikal pendek. Segemen-segemen dalam film tersebut antara lain:

Man in The Mirror

Adegan pembukaan film ini dimulai dengan video klip lagu "Man in The Mirror" yang berupa cuplikan konser Jackson dalam "Bad World Tour". Pada video klip ini juga disisipkan gambar-gambar anak-anak Afrika dan tokoh-tokoh dunia seperti Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lennon, dan sebagainya.

[sunting] Retrospektip

Pada segemen ini ditampil kumpulan potongan video klip Jackson sejak zaman The Jackson 5, Thriller, "The Jackson's Victory Tour", We Are the World, serta beberapa beberapa klip dari album Bad. Sebagian klip tersebut telah diedit ulang untuk memberikan tampilan yang lebih dramatis dan menunjukan perjalanan karier Jackson.

[sunting] Badder

Merupakan parodi dari video klip singel "Bad". Berbeda dengan video klip singelnya, pada "Badder" seluruh pemerannya diganti dengan sekelompok anak-anak yang berdandan seperti Michael Jackson dan penari latarnya. Anak-anak tersebut kemudian menari dan menyanyi seperti pada adegan video klip tersebut. Namun pada video klip "Badder" disisipkan adegan-adegan yang bersifat komedi.
Michael Jackson kecil dalam video klip ini diperankan oleh Brandon Quintin Adams. Sedangkan aktor lain yang ikut mendukung klip tersebut antara lain Jermaine Jackson, Jr. dan Nikki Cox.

Speed Demon

Segmen ini merupakan lanjutan dari video klip "Badder". Disutradarai oleh Will Vinton dan dilatari oleh lagu "Speed Demon" dari album Bad. Pada segemen ini menceritakan Jackson yang dikejar-kejar oleh sekelompok penggemarnya yang ditampilkan dalam bentuk animasi tanah liat. Jackson kemudian menyamar sebagai Spike si kelinci (juga dalam bentuk animasi tanah liat) yang kemudian mengerjai penggemar-penggemar gila tersebut. Dalam pelariannya, Jackson juga menyamar menjadi artis-artis terkenal lainnya seperti Sylvester Stallone, Tina Turner, dan Pee-Wee Herman. Segmen ini ditutup dengan adu tarian antara Jackson dan Spike si kelinci yang berakhir dengan ditilangnya Jackson secara konyol akibat melanggar rambu larangan Moonwalk.

Leave Me Alone

Pada segmen ini ditampilkan video klip singel "Leave Me Alone" dari album Bad. Video ini ditampilkan berupa animasi yang menggambarkan kegemaran, cita-cita, dan hal-hal yang mencerminkan pribadi dari Jackson. Video klip ini juga menggambarkan rasa kekesalan Jackson kepada media dan paparazi yang selalu mencap negatif dirinya. Video klip ini memperoleh penghargaan sebagai video klip terbaik dalam ajang Grammy Award yang juga satu-satunya penghargaan yang dimenangkan dari album Bad.

Smooth Criminal

Merupakan segemen terpanjang dari film Moonwalker. Menceritakan persahabatan antara Jackson dan sekelompok anak-anak jalanan (yang salah satunya diperankan leh Sean Lennon). Pada suatu hari ketika Jackson dan anak-anak tersebut sedang bermain, secara tidak sengaja mereka menemukan markas penjahat kelas kakap yang bernama Frankie Lideo (plesetan dari manejer Jackson, Frank DiLeo) atau yang lebih dikenal dengan "Mr. Big" (diperankan oleh aktor Joe Pesci). Namun keberadaan Jackson dan kawan-kawannya diketahui oleh Mr.BiG dan anak buahnya. Akibatnya, Jackson menjadi incaram kelompok penjahat itu. Selanjutnya, dalam adegan yang bernuansa tahun 1930-an, Jackson berhasil melarikan diri dari kejaran Mr.Big dengan berubah menjadi mobil sport futuristik. Jackson kemudian bersembunyi dalam sebuah kafe tua yang ternyata dihuni oleh hantu-hantu Mafia era 1930-an. Pada adegan berikutnya diperlihatkan Jackson bertarung dengan mafia-mafia tersebut dengan gaya musikal yang diiringi dengan lagu "Smooth Criminal". Sayangnya Mr.Big yang mengepung kafe tua itu kemudian menangkap Kettie, salah satu teman cilik Jackson yang diam-diam mengikuti Jackson dari belakang. Untuk menyelamatkan teman ciliknya itu, Jackson kemudian bertarung dengan Mr.Big dengan berubah menjadi robot raksasa. Setelah Mr.Big berhasil dikalahkan, Jackson akhirnya mengantar anal-anak tersebut pulang dengan berubah menjadi pesawat jet futuristik.

[sunting] Come Together

Setelah menyelamatkan anak-anak dari kejaran Mr.Big, Jackson kemudian mengajak mereka untuk menonton "live performance"-nya disebuah pentas. Pada segemen in Jackson membawakan lagu "Come Together" yang dipopulerkan oleh grup The Beatles dan sekaligus segmen penutup film Moonwalker.

Pemain dan Peranan

Michael Jackson - Himself
Joe Pesci - Frankie Lideo ("Mr. Big")
Sean Lennon - Sean
Kellie Parker - Katie
Brandon Quintin Adams - Young Michael/Zeke

Video game

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Tampilan awal permainan "Michael Jackson's Moonwalker " versi permainan arcade.

Popularitas film ini kemudian diikuti dengan dirilisnya sebuah permainan arcade keluaran Sega yang berjudul Michael Jackson's Moonwalker pada tahun 1990. Permainan ini bersifat Beat 'em up dengan Michael Jackson sebagai tokoh utamanya. Jalan cerita permainan ini mengambil segmen "Smooth Criminal" dari film Moonwalker yang ditambahkan dengan jalan cerita lain seperti cerita zombie dalam video klip singel "Thriller". Misi utama permainan ini adalah mengalahkan Mr.Big yang menculik anak-anak jalanan, sahabat Jackson. Seperti permainan arcade lainnya, Jackson akan dihadang oleh anak buah Mr.Big dalam perjalannya. Keunikan permainan ini terletak pada senjata Jackson yang berupa tarian-tarian, temasuk gerakan Moonwalk. Musik latar permainan ini juga diambil singel-singel hit Michael Jackson seperti "Bad", "Smooth Criminal", "Beat it", dan sebagainya. Permainan ini cukup populer dan menjadi hit pada tahun terebut. Kesuksesan permainan ini kemudian dikuti dengan keluarnya versi PC dan konsol pada tahun yang sama.

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Senin, 26 Juli 2010

This Is It Album (Ver.English)

This Is It (Michael Jackson album)

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This Is It

Compilation album / Soundtrack by Michael Jackson

Released

October 26, 2009

Recorded

1978–2009

Genre

Pop, R&B, new jack swing, funk, soul, hip-hop

Length

92:25

Label

Epic

Producer

Michael Jackson and John McClain^[1]

Michael Jackson chronology

The Remix Suite
(2009)

This Is It
(2009)

Singles from This Is It

"This Is It"
Released: October 12, 2009

Michael Jackson's This Is It (or simply This Is It) is a two-disc compilation album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. Released by Epic Records on October 26, 2009, This Is It features previously released music, as well as six previously unreleased recordings by Michael Jackson. This Is It was released to coincide with the theatrical release of Michael Jackson's This Is It, a concert film documenting Michael Jackson's rehearsals for Michael Jackson's This Is It concert series. This Is It is the sixth album to be released by Sony and Motown/Universal since Michael Jackson's death in June 2009. The previous five albums are The Collection, Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection, Michael Jackson: The Stripped Mixes, The Definitive Collection and The Remix Suite.
This Is It was made available as both a compact disc, an album and an EP digital download. This Is It debuted at number one in fourteen countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Italy and France. Aside from charting at number 11 in Finland, This Is It peaked within the top 10 of the charts in other nations. This Is It has been certified Gold, Platinum, and twice-Platinum in multiple countries. This Is It was the twelfth best selling album of 2009 in the United States and the third best selling album of 2009 based on worldwide sales. The release of This Is It attracted mixed reviews from critics, with many noting that it was just a cash-in attempt, and not to honor Michael Jackson.
The album has sold over 7 million copies worldwide.

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[edit] Background and concept

Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009 from cardiac arrest (it would later be determined that Jackson died of "acute propofol intoxication" with the additional factor of "benzodiazepine effect"). Prior to his death, the singer was planning on performing 50 concerts for his sold out This Is It tour in the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2010. Shortly after his passing, on September 23, 2009, Sony Music Entertainment announced that they were to release a two-disc compilation "soundtrack" for Jackson's concert documentary film, Michael Jackson's This Is It.^[2] In the announcement it was confirmed that This Is It would be released on October 26, 2009, one day before the film's theatrical release.^[2] This Is It is the sixth posthumous album to be released by Sony and Motown/Universal since Jackson's death in June 2009. The previous five albums are The Collection, Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection, Michael Jackson: The Stripped Mixes, The Definitive Collection, and The Remix Suite.^[3] This Is It was released on Sony Music's Epic Records, though, in certain countries, This Is It is listed under Sony Music Entertainment (see release history). The album was made available for pre-order – on Amazon.com as a compact disc and on the iTunes Store as a digital download. As planned, This Is It was released on October 26, 2009 in the US and worldwide on October 27 and 28.

[edit] Music

	"This Is It" A twenty-one second sample of Michael Jackson's "This Is It". In 1983 Jackson recorded a demo version of the song, which he had co-written with Anka. After Jackson's death, his brothers found Jackson's demo version and added their voices and multiple instruments into the background.
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The press release announcing the two-disc album describes it as a "stand-alone companion" to the motion picture.^[4] This Is It was released as a two-disc compilation album. The first disc consists of sixteen tracks, fourteen of which were already released on Jackson's previous studio albums: Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995). Fourteen of the already released tracks were arranged in order of how they would have appeared on the This Is It setlist and how they appeared in the concert film.^[5] On September 23, 2009, Sony Music Entertainment announced that it would release the song "This Is It" as a single to promote both the album and film.^[2]^[6] However, shortly after "This Is It"'s digital debut on MichaelJackson.com, it was confirmed that the single's planned physical release was cancelled.^[7]
This Is It contains previously unreleased music by Michael Jackson, which consists of demos and instrumental versions of his songs. The first disc contains "This Is It", which was written by Michael Jackson and Paul Anka in 1983; the song had originally been planned as a duet between the two for Anka's Walk a Fine Line album.^[8] After Michael Jackson's death, his brothers found a demo of Michael Jackson's version of the song, described as a "bare bone" recording. They added their voices and instruments into the background of the track.^[9]^[10] Two versions of "This Is It" were added to the album; the original and an orchestra version that is over one minute longer.^[11] The second disc consists of four unreleased versions of Michael Jackson's classic hits.^[10] The disc contains three demo versions of Michael Jackson's "She's Out of My Life" (1979), "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" (1982) and "Beat It" (1982).^[11] The disc's fourth track is a spoken word poem by Jackson, entitled "Planet Earth", which was already published in the liner notes of Michael Jackson's 1991 album Dangerous.^[10]

[edit] Reception

[edit] Commercial performance

This Is It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 373,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[12] The album had the fifth-best sales week for an album in the United States in 2009.^[12] This Is It, which also debuted at number one on Billboards Soundtrack chart,^[13] marked Jackson's sixth number one entry on the chart.^[12] This Is It slightly out-sold Jackson's first-week sales of his previous album Invincible which sold 363,000 units in 2001.^[14] This Is It's chart performance tied Jackson with several other artist for the most number one albums on the Billboard 200 chart; among the solo male artists, Jackson currently is tied with Garth Brooks for second place with fifty-one entries.^[13] Jackson's This Is It album was the twelfth best selling of 2009, having sold an estimated 1.29 million units since its release of nine weeks.^[15] The album had also charted alongside Jackson's Number Ones at number three with 2.36 million units, Thriller at number fourteen with 1.27 units and The Essential Michael Jackson at number twenty with 1.15 units in the Top-20 year-end list of 2009.^[15]
Internationally, This Is It had similar commercial reception. The album was released worldwide on October 26 and October 27, 2009 and debuted at number one in fourteen countries. The fourteen countries include Italy, France, Sweden and Holland, the album stayed at number one in Holland for two consecutive weeks.^[16] Other countries where This Is It didn't debut or peak at number one were, placing at number two, Denmark, Australia and Switzerland, placing at number three, Norway and the United Kingdom, placing at four in Germany and sixth in Ireland.^[16] In the album's second week of release its chart positions saw both an increase and decrease.^[16] This Is It increased from four to three in Germany and sixth to fifth in Ireland while it held onto its second and third positions in Switzerland and Norway respectively.^[16] By its third week of release, the album went on to peak at number three in Ireland.^[17] This Is It sold 78,000 units in its first week of release in the United Kingdom.^[16]
This Is It has received multiple certifications since its release from different countries worldwide; although sales per certificate vary per country. Four days after This Is It's release in the United Kingdom, it was certified gold for 100,000 units sold on October 30, and platinum for 300,000 units sold on November 27, 2009.^[18] The album was certified 2x platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 4, 2009.^[19] This Is It was certified Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association for the shipment of over 70,000 units in Australia.^[20] The album was also certified Gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association for the sales of over 40,000 units in Canada^[21] and was certified 3× Platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry for the sales of over 21,000 units in Italy,^[22] as well as 2× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand for the sales of over 30,000 units in New Zealand.^[23] It was the third best selling album of 2009 based on worldwide sales.^[24]

[edit] Critical response

[hide] Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	^[25]
Allmusic	^[26]
Consequence of Sound	^[27]
Entertainment Weekly	(B+)^[28]
IGN	(8.9)^[29]
The Independent	^[3]
Newsday	(favorable)^[30]
The Times	^[31]

Upon its release, This Is It received generally mixed reviews from music critics. Simon Vozick-Levinson of Entertainment Weekly, praised the album and gave it an overall rating of a B+.^[28] Vozick-Levinson described the album's track "This Is It" as being an "uplifting ballad" and felt that "if you’re feeling generous" you can "count the minimally distinguishable" orchestra version of "This Is It" having thought of it as being a "decent if slight addition to Jackson’s songbook."^[28] Vozick-Levinson stated that while the album's second disc only contains four tracks that were unreleased, that included a "fairly unremarkable" spoken-word poem, after hearing Jackson "work out the vocal harmonies" for "Beat It," he in particular, felt that This Is It was "well worth the price of admission (or at least a healthy chunk of it)."^[28] Brian Linder, of IGN, described This Is It as a "freshly designed" release of a greatest hits album, and that the album's tracks of an all-vocal arrangement of "Beat It" was "particularly awesome" and the acoustic version of "She's Out of My Life" allows Jackson's "vocals to shine without the distraction of dated '70s musical underpinnings."^[29] Linder did note that he felt that the album was both a "fitting tribute" to Jackson and a "crass, commercial double-dip."^[29]
Bill Lamb, of About.com, described the "rough take" on "Beat It" as "stunning" and that the album, that is "stripped primarily to vocal parts" has rough takes on a "true classic" and is "in the making" of "something you will want to hear."^[25] Lamb stated that while "many pop fans may look at this album as merely an attempt to further cash in on the uniqueness of the concert documentary, but it truly is a release that has elements to justify its existence."^[25] Will Hines, of Consequence of Sound, gave This Is It a rating of four and a half out of five stars.^[27] Hines commented that: "On one level [of the album], it’s an attempt to focus and draw attention to what Michael Jackson lived for (music), and not what he did (scandal). On a more superficial level, this is Sony milking his legacy. Any true MJ fan will already own 90% of the songs that make up this two-disc set. It is, however, that 10% which justifies this album’s existence."^[27]
Negative reviews from critics were mainly centered around them feeling that the album was released only for profit. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, of Allmusic, gave This Is It two and a half out of five stars.^[26] Erlewine commented that, "an important thing to remember when considering the soundtrack to This Is It: this entire film and CD project was never supposed to happen". He noted that Jackson's death had "created considerable demand" for his final rehearsal footage and that This Is It was an "accompaniment" to the film.^[26] Andy Gill, of The Independent, strongly criticized This Is It describing it as being a "shoddy apology for an album" and felt that it was made just for a profit, commenting,

As a cash-in attempt to scrape as much money from fans' memories with as little outlay as possible, however, it rivals RCA's ruthless (and still ongoing) reconfigurations of Elvis Presley's back catalogue. But then, what should one expect from Jackson's executors? His own father's immediate reaction to Michael's death seemed to involve the promotion of his own label, while his brothers quickly grabbed the opportunity to scour through a box of tapes and find a tepid old track not previously deemed worthy of release and add their own vocals to it (before taking the trouble to find out it was co-written by Paul Anka, who understandably sought remuneration for his work). Who, exactly, stands to gain from this? Not the fans, that's for sure. In the four months since his death, Sony and Motown/Universal between them have issued no fewer than five posthumous album packages: The Collection, Hello World, The Stripped Mixes, The Remix Suite, and now This Is It. That's a busy promotion schedule for a dead man. At some point, presumably, he will be left to rest in peace.^[3]