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Bird 1988 123movies

Bird 1988 123movies

Jul. 01, 1988161 Min.
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Watch: Bird 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – Saxophone player Charlie “Bird” Parker (Forest Whitaker) comes to New York City in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. Despite becoming a drug addict, his loving wife Chan (Diane Venora) tries to help him through his personal issues..
Plot: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
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Ratings:

7.1/10 Votes: 12,654
83% | RottenTomatoes
78/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 253 Popularity: 11.393 | TMDB

Reviews:

Not Jazzy Enough
I feel as though the film did not do justice to the musically phenomenal life “Bird” went through. He was one of the most influential Jazz musicians crating an entire style of music. Which i felt was not portrayed fully. As one of the comments i’ve heard before stated “it seemed they had a choice between Charlie Parker as a musical genius or Charlie Parker as a junkie and they chose junkie.”

I felt as though the musicians playing the bird solo’s did a bad job reflecting his “sound.” As in Charlie Parker had a sound that filled up an entire room with complicated be-bop phrasings and with a blues background. While the musicians just had him playing fast notes most of the time which was sometimes difficult to hear over back ground noise, very “unbird like”.

However i did enjoy moments of the film, that showed even Charlie Parker had to play some weird gigs.

My last point is that it felt as though Chan Parker was portrayed as a stable part of bird’s life, and was one of the central idea’s of the film. As in the love story between him and his wife, with a love hate relationship. Which i think could have been less focused on and centralized more around Charlie Parkers music.

i do understand that Chan actually helped the script writer to write the film so it may have been a somewhat biased perspective.

Review By: aerslife
“Bop King found dead in heiress’s flat!”
Thus read the headline in the “Melody Maker” in England in 1955.I read the front page article on the top deck of the trolley bus going to school and determined to play the rare “Dial” 78 s my best friend had loaned me to wean me away from Louis Armstrong that had been languishing under the All – Stars’ double sided “Basin St Blues” for some time. Shortly after that I heard the Massey Hall LP with Dizzy and Bud Powell and moved Bird right alongside Louis in my pantheon of musical gods where he remains over half a century later. I am a great admirer of Mr Clint Eastwood both as a director and an actor and am grateful to him for putting his money where his mouth was and making “Bird”. Charlie Parker had the avid mind of the poorly – educated intelligence,he read widely,had eclectic musical tastes,improvised some of the most profoundly moving music of the second half of the 20th century but most of his adult life was ruled by a heroin habit. He stole,lied,cheated and pimped to satisfy it,alienated many who loved him and,of course,ultimately it killed him.The story of his life was never going to be the typical Hollywood biopic,rags to riches but still basically the nice guy/girl of childhood sort of stuff. Bird came from a world alien to most Americans of the 50s,harsh,violent divided along race lines,awash with alcohol and drugs,it would have been surprising indeed if he had passed through it unscathed. “Bird” is disturbing to watch,wonderful to listen to and required viewing for anyone wanting to know about the life of the second most influential jazz musician in history. Stan Kenton alumnus Mr Lennie Neihaus masterminded the soundtrack and isolated the Parker solos from their original background,re – recording them with contemporary musicians,arguably not particularly ethical perhaps,but the muddy 50 year old records still have some joyous saxophone playing mixed with pristine state of the art resources. Mr Eastwood doesn’t bowdlerise Bird’s life,he presents an uncompromising picture of an improvising genius unable to take control of his own life and unwilling to let others control it for him.
Review By: ianlouisiana

Other Information:

Original Title Bird
Release Date 1988-07-01
Release Year 1988

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 41 min (161 min)
Budget 9000000
Revenue 2000000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama, Music
Director Clint Eastwood
Writer Joel Oliansky
Actors Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 10 wins & 9 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Cameras and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Bird 1988 123movies
Bird 1988 123movies
Bird 1988 123movies
Bird 1988 123movies
Original title Bird
TMDb Rating 6.844 253 votes

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