Final Verdict and Closing Thoughts

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I thought this was like The feel good movie of the year. and I think audiences don't I mean, the film community types don't like feel good movies anymore Because well, I mean, everyone likek Projecttaail Mary, but well that just as good Because if you look at the scores and I thought Michael was outstanding. I went twice and I just had a great experience with both times. If you look at the scores rotten tomatoes this is to thirty percent critics, ninety two percent audience score. On Letterbox, it's a three point six average, but then on the friends, the people everybody I follow, which is about a thousand people in letterbox, it's a three point two. How I was dancing and singing the whole time in a practically empty theater. I had such I couldn't stop moving that film. I'm like pretend I'm Michael. And I get it, not a lot of the younger generation and a lot of the young film people and film content creators. they didn't grow up with Michael Jackson in their lives. You know, by the time he had passed away, they were little kids. maybe they don't even remember him being alive. Maybe they weren't alive when he was alive still But for people who grew up with Michael, We were born and Michael was the biggest star in the world. His music was everywhere. You couldn't see a movie. You couldn't turn on the radio. You couldn't go anywhere with sing something about Michael Jackson Growing up was with that was amazing because culturally he was the biggest star ever. The music was sensational. He was a pioneer, He was a genius, the style, everything. Of course, the controversies are there So I get the perspective of like, For us, it's more nostalgia than anything. and that's really, I think my strongest connection to despite it being so well made by Fuquix He crushed it. Antoine Fuqua destroyed this movie. It's amazing I never saw Michael Jackson live in concert, seeing the music videos, seeing live performances on TV, but this felt like I was watching Michael and Jafar Jackson embodies his uncle so well. Yeah I remember when it was first announced that his nephew would be playing him. Even I was skeptical and I was like, oh, it's Kids thatre keeping in the family. But I mean, surely, I mean, is there no one out there that they've done with auditions? But then when I watch the film There were times where I thought It was Michael Jackson on screen. And there are a few shots in particular when he's in the lawyer meeting with Miles Telller meeting him for the first time cut to that very close profile Like a little low angle. And and he had the sunglasses on and I was like, Jesus Christ, it looks like Michael Jackson. that looks just like him. Yeah And especially in the final performances is the bad performance and human nature. We werere just absolutely spectacular and in embodying the physicality of Michael because Michael Jackson was U Obviously one of the greatest singers and performers ever, but he was also a top tier athlete in an elite physical physical condition And the way he could move his body was unlike anybody else's. And so Jafar Jackson had a huge mountain to climb And the producer Graham King wanted him from the get go. he spent Strafar spent two years training And then they still held auditions two like two months after he had already trained for two years because some of the dance choreographers weren't impressed with him And they didn't think that he had it in him to really do what Michael is able to do on stage, but then Jafar said, hold up Give me three weeks. And then he called he trained endlessly for three weeks. He actually went back to the studio at Havenhurst at the at the the home that Michael grew up in and where he's trained and where he recorded And he spent three weeks busting his ass and then he said, Okaykay, everybody come come over now. And then he put on a performance and everybody on the team was like, okay You're Michael Jackson. We're not going to cast We're not going to hold any moreore auditions like you have the role. This is you got to that level He had an incredible work ethic and I thought his transformation into his uncle was was phenomenal. And in terms of the reception Yes, this movie has like some hallmarky moments. Yes, it has some dialogue that you've seen before But at the end of the day, you know, not every movie needs to be an Oscar caliber screenplay. This this movie, if you look at it really is just It was It was created as a way to celebrate incredible art and music and personality of Michael Jackson and a celebration of what he did to the culture and and how incredible of a performer he was and his impact on us And I thought that that direction they knocked out of the park and And they achieved everything they set out to do and accomplish. and I think that There's two reasons why it's gotten horribly destroyed by the film talkal community and it's one It has these hallmarky moments in You know, these are the films you and I grew up with loving, but like if something isn't perfect from start to finish, it's shit You know, and I saw I've been seeing a ton of people absolutely lacerating this film. And I'm just like, did we watch the same movie And then the other main thing is the controversies the courts, the trials, the accusations It's obviously the elephant in the room and they don't address it in the film Um But do we need that? Michael Jackson was destroyed by the media for Over twenty years, over thirty years and his life was torn to shreds and U The entire world turned against him And Maybe it's okay to have a movie to celebrate him and to do the opposite and try to make people see the humanity that he had and and the love for life and for people and and the love for entertaining that he had. So maybe You know, we don't need that porching kind of movie to really investigate those those aspects of of who he was, but maybe, you know, doesn't he deserve something that's just shows the light that he had in the world and they put the light that he put out in the world Exactly. I'm with you because Listen, I'm not gonna pretend Like We didn't grow up watching the two thousands, the evisceration of of Michael Jackson Depending you regardless of what camp you're in the controversies, the rumors, the accusations, all of that I'm not going to pretend like that doesn't exist and It did. that all happened for a long period of time, But at the end of the day What this movie served as for me as what you've been saying showing the brightness of Michael Jackson, the star that he was. everyvery one is complicated especially geniuses Geniuses oftentimes are the most complex, controversial figures in history mostostly because they're so well documented in their lives. But there's there's never a star. quite like Michael Jackson, there never will be. And I love how that's said in the movie No one will ever be The king like Michael Jackson was. no one ever touch the culture like he did. become the inccomparable star that he was and Jafar Jackson is astounding as Michael in the dancing, it just felt like I was watching Michael, but that's still Even Jafar isn't Michael. That's how good Michael was that even Jafar training for two years mastering the performances that he did in the dance moves unlike anything I've ever seen before my entire life. He still is not Michael Jackson. That's how good he was The impact he had on culture is undeniable and still lasting and everlasting. He'll always be timeless. He'll always still be relevance. And I've just had such a good time with this film And I didn't care about everything else being cut from it. The controversyies being cut from it I just wanted to have a good time and remember What Michael Jackson makes you feel Every time you listen to his music, every time you put on one of his short films, one of his music videos, Growing up watching Thriller on MTV, watching his music on And listening to these music in the car with mom and she loved Michael Jackson growing up. She's seeing Michael tonight. I called her. I'm like, mom, you have to see Michael. She's such a big fan. always was. like so many people Remember the bad video that our brothers made when they were kids Well, no, we were in it. No we were I was talking Oh where we were? Yes, we were. I was talking to mom about this yesterday because so when Anthony and I were kids Um a lot of y'all listening maybe don't remember, but VHS was pretty big. And so Burlington Mall in Massachusetts and something that was a fun pop up that a lot of stores and big malls and Tourist dion booardwalk was like You could go on camera And they there would be a green screen behind you and you could like They would do some fun special effects and you could pick a song and they play the song and you do whatever you want. And so there's this old VHS tape somewhere, M doesn't know where it is Dad was looking for it, Our brother was looking for it. It's somewhere where the six of us all six of us boys are in it. and so we're dancing to bad horribly justust a bunch of nine year old white boys from Boston dancing to bad with with like a Michael Jackson thing behind us the nine are making bies going around, but like this was one of my favorite childhood memories because it was something that was contin. We'd like always every like once a year we'd sit down and you that night you go through all the home videos and home movies and this was like the one that everyone would be dying laughing at for years because we'd just be dancing to bad with all these cheesy ninety special effects going on in the background. and I love that tape. But that's what Michael Jackson was. He entered every home His talents, his prowess his loveability and just the genius of his transcendence of art. No one else did it like him. Well, there's nobody who ever was like him. I mean, he was I think, fourteen years old with six gold records. When you just being a little kid And that's obviously shown so much in the first act of the film. I think they did an amazing job showing the Jackson family because when we were kids, there was a TV movie called The Jackson fiveive which showcased everything happening with the sons and Joseph and the mother. And that that was our TV movie. Yeah. Yeah. that was an intense one. It was like a mini series of like three long episodes, I think. And so I remember I clearly remember watching that because it was a big deal when it came out on TV, because it was oh, it's the Michaelackson's the Jackson mov But then this film did an amazing job of showing that, buildilding on that and also touching on a lot of the same aspects that, but obviously you have such a big budget and big set pieces and to show how forceful Joseph was and showing that Michael Michael never celebrated a birthday Michael never celebrated a holiday He was never able to play with kids. He literally since he was five years old I've been training, dancing and singing and performing at live venues from that young age. nonstop all day, all night every day Um And it was a sad life. It put it offious he gave us the great star that he was and formed that work ethic and built that talent and But it is it's an incredible part of the film that I think really connects the audience emotionally to Michael and even the other brothers. And I get it The other brothers and Latoya and They get very little screen time, but nobody's there to see the Jackson five movie. We're all there to see the Michael Jackson movie. So they can only do so much with the rest of the family. But I do think they did a decent amount with everybody else. I think that obviously the two most important relationships are the mother and the father They get plenty of screen time with Michael. Everybody gets a little pushed back to the back burner, but that's what you expect. This is a two and a half hour movie. If that you can't be doing all these scenes with Jermaine and Randy and and all the other Jacksons It would just be like way too much. There's too much stuff that he accomplished But in the kid who who played young Michael Jackson was Ostanding and he actually is like a Michael Jackson impersonator And he so he already could do all the dances and everything But they had to train him to do young Michael Jackson ' he already knew all the stuff from old Michael Jackson and the dance mo and the songs so they were like, okay, we need you to learn how to be Jackson five Michael Jackson. And he was was such a great. Um performance from him and I think he's going to have a huge career Yeah, Juliano Valdi is Michael. We'll get to the rest of the cast in a minute because there's a couple of standouts in one incredible actor who makes one of the best performances of his career in a very terrifying character. Check out this amazing Odyssey post over my right shoulder provided to us by our great friends at movieposters dot comot We have a coupon code with the website Raiders ten at checkout. 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He just has random cameos. likeike I feel like I haven't seen him since in gllorious Bastards But here he plays Walter Yetkinoff, the president of CBS Records at the time. We also have Nia Long as Michael's mother who was sensational, Miles Teller who plays Michael's attorney after he starts to go solo. But Coleman Domingo, I think is the real standout here and I'd be shocked if Coleman doesn't get nominated for best Spporting Aor and Jfar Jackson should get a nomination for best lead performance because he's that sensational. Coleman is terrifying in this movie because he's a father figure that has great qualities as a father in terms of being strong and wanting the best for his children But that gets the better of him. He's abusive And that turns into he wants everything for himself. and everything he's pushing Michael to do is to better his life and to further himself and all the attention supposed to be about him. Hence why later on the film when Michael wants to go solo For the first time Joseph cannot control Michael, even though he tries to and maintains control of him for several years, forcing him to do Jackson five tours twice after Michael's trying to go solo, but Coleman turns a great nuanced performance of not just an abuser, but someone who controls, manipulates and is able to direct the family into immense wealth For sure is money everything because it obviously tears people apart and turns Michael against him firing his own father with the facts. And so I think it was really well done and it might I think it's come I think people aren't receiving it the right way. I thought it was reallyally subtly done because Joseph Like you said, manipulates and he doesn't say just He gets Michael to do these things by saying the family needs you to do this And so he uses he makes Michael feel guilty and he's physically imposing and emotionally imposing on Michael, so Michaels still afraid of him. That's what makes the bad performance, so so incredible and cathartic Um, And so the factax was not how he really fired him but it was great for the movie But what did really happen was that Michael did in front of fif thousand people at Dodger Stadium say this is going to be their last tour ever. Jackson brrothers didn't know who was going to say that and Joseph Jackson didn't know he was going to say that. So that really happened that him really announcing to an audience to the surprise of everybody that this is our last tour. This is our farewell tour him like putting the nail in the coff into Joseph saying it's over. It was exactly how that played out. 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No there was no time but also we're twins and we think the same we think very similarly. The film's book ended with This great behind sllow Moe and it's got like this smoothing effect sllow Mo that made it feel very nineties with the smoke and I was like, this is such a nineties aesthetic of If we don't see Michael We want to see him from behind His silhouette, we see the shoulders, we see the long hair. U And he just he's jumping up and down, getting ready to go out in front of the crowd And that's all we see And then it bookke ends at the finale where we get to see it from the front now and he's in full bad gear We're getting the insert sh shots of all the belts of the gloves of the leather jacket of his great hair and then he's just filled with confidence. He's free from his father. He's free from his family. He's able to just finally be Michael Jackson. He' about to entertain one hundred thousand people himself. And I thought it was just an extraordinary way to both open and close the film And this is part of the aspect that was done for reshoots. It wasn't the original ending of the film, Antoine Fuqua had to actually put ten million dollars of his own money into fixing the final act of this film because they did touch on the allegations And the first lawsuit in nineteen ninety three that person who made the accusation actually signed a contract with the Jackson Eestate saying they can never be depicted on film or on TV and the The producers weren't aware of this clause in the contract, so they actually were forced legally to cut everything they shot out And so Fucooix and the team had to rush together to figure out the new ending. and so I don't know all the details, but it seems as though they've shaped the ending to really become a standing point for Michael to push back against his father and finally gain his freedom. it being like a celebration of Michael becoming Michael that we all knew at the end of the film, which I think worked really well emotionally. and then it' set up for just pure entertain entertainment escapism of that bad performance, which was one of my favorite five minutes in the theater so far this year Well, the movie is currently over nine hundred fifteen million dollars at the Global box office. so I think it worked out for Guqua and I think he made the right decision. But kudos to him for doing that because I love the ending. you know, The best part of the movie is the performances and recreating them Beat for beat shot for shot, doing it to an extent, but also turning them into their own aesthetic and their own sequences. I think that was the I think that was the important part, especially with the thriller sequence, you get some of the same shots, but you really make this scene its own identity. so it's not just a shot for shot remake, even though it feels like it, but I think it's the dance moves are what's key Watching a genius and how do you capture a genius on screen, especially someone's so oclusive you're depending on Any BTS archival footage you have, reports, articles, interviews. Stuff like that, but you know, what was it really like for Michael Jackson Obviously once he's leaving the Jackson five or doing both at the same time doing pursuing a solo career at the same time as doing Jackson five You know, the first shot of him growing up is him basically revealing to who's it Quincy Jones that he wants to go on his own. He wants to be his own artist It takes some years to obviously break away from his father, but how you capture someone like that how they make music. and I loved the sequences when Michael would go Either we'd see his demos inside of his bedroom with his with bubbles, his monkeet or in his own in his own studio at the house, you know, simple sign of do not disturb work in progress. He goes in there. this is his cave to write and learn. You know, moovies always depict songwriting or artistry differently, you don't want to capture it too mundanely You wanted to ically makes sense for an audience to be able to want to watch it. It's got to move with the rhythm of the movie and the edit and the pacing. And I thought they did a great job. you know, Michael down there humming to himself, doing some beatboxing, figuring out the rhythm of songs and you can hear the rhythm to like Bad or you can hear the rhythm to Billy Jean coming to him because as a genius, You don't know what it's like So you can only kind of with your own circumstances of what it's like for that person to write Oh, I can I can actually touch on that Oh go for it. let's go. That's exact that actually is how he wrote. So he actually wrote ortically or phonetically. So he would actually beat Bx and and sing harmonies and melodies and he would actually sing all of the music and all the percussion and all the rhythms and beats. He would do it all with his voice and record it on his demos. And then he would give those demos and there's no instruments. It's just his voice doing like percussion or just doing like a cool sound effect or doing an interesting melody And then he would give those demos to Quincy Jones and then they would work from there So he would actually phonetically make all of the music himself because it was all in his head. So that's why they captured him doing that in this film because it was the way that Michael Jackson wrote. He didn't know how to read music, he didn't know how to play instruments But he knew but he he used his voice to express what was in his head. in terms of what the songs were Well I love that And also again, Ging back to the performances, the best parts of the film are doing the performances, whether it's the live shows, whether it's the thriller music video, BTS Even the Jackson five sequences are fantastic Yeah. I know a lot of people might think that all of the focus on the performances and the dancing specifically are You know, obviously what you said was people People really want such critical looks at people when they watch a biopic It depends on the movie and I think it depends on the artist The dancing, Michael Jackson' iss dancing was so important to who he was Because that's how he expressed himself outside of singing as well. wasas his dancing. His dancing was just as important to his act as the singing and the music was. and that's undeniable No one Dance like Michael, obviously had lots of influences to his style. I like how they showed him dancing in James Brown when he was a little kid trying to do the James Brown moves, the splits, the twisting of the ankles and the knees and everything but then taking his influences and creating his own style, perfecting it to a point where no one on the planet could dance like Michael Jackson. No one can. People nowadays, I think can because There are so many skilled artists out there and dancers and also the ability to watch videos onn demand as much as you want to, you know, replicate dance movies, like on YouTube or something makes it a little easier. But I think that Mystery and enigmatic artistry of Michael Jackson, a lot of that came from the dancing and the dance moves And that all blended into the wardrobe, his style. No one dressed like him, no one moved like him, no one danced like him and no one sang like him He was so special and I was so happy with how much performing there was in the movie You know, I didn't want to watch An hour and fifty minutes of dramatic sequences of court cases of accusations of abuse from Joseph. There's plenty of abuse from Joseph mostly psychological in this film and manipulative. But I went to this movie theater because what I wanted to do was I wanted to watch Michael Jackson and I wanted to watch Michael Jackson perform. and that's what Fuquix delivered what it would possibly maybe be like to one day go back in time and actually see Michael Jackson in concert. you kind of got a glimpse of that. You sort of got a glimpse behind the scenes of what this star really was like. And that's what I wanted. I didn't want anything else besides that really. going into this film And you know what? sometometimes that's what you need. Sometimes a nostalgia filled movie of a great artist incomparable artist hits the spot the perfect way You know, second film get into the more serious topics for sure. That's what I wanted with this film and that's what I got. And I was smiling. maybe the most during a movie theater experience that I can remember watching this film And I saw before before I saw the film, I read a ton of reactions for people saying that it was like a nonstop concert And it wasn't There was still plenty of There was still plenty of story. and so much character stuff And so many main points in accomplishments in obstacles in his life. whether it be the Pepsi incident with his head catching on fire or trying to get MTV to finally play one of his music videos There's so much to it and all the family stuff in Michael being pulled in all these different directions and struggling with dealing with the fame I don't understand What movie these people watched because it was not a non stop concert. Yes, there was a lot of performance in it, but that's what you want in a movie about a musician Right? him C on guys. And again, I think I think also people can a lot of people were influenced by their negative opinion of him Be they don't know the facts and they don't know what happened. and they don' you and I grew up around the trials and Obviously it's controversial, but You know Just pose the question, what if he didn' never did anything? What if he was innocent? And I think a lot of people walk into this movie or don't want to watch a movie or they judge it harshly because they they think he's guilty And I think that absolutely influenced people. And I see that when when people write positive reviews, I'm looking at people on letterbox and even their positive, you know, three and a half stars are like, you know, it was good and you know, I'm not going to ignore that there's controversies here, you know, it's a controversial figure, but you know, it was a good movev. It's like Nobody has any balls anymore to just say, hey, this was awesome This is how I feel about him everyveryone's afraid of, you know, any kind of blowback, but You know, at the end of the day, I don't think many of these people know exactly what happened And I'm sure the second film will touch on a lot of this and open up the the world, the new world into you know, things that went on and in the second half of his life. And like I said earlier, this guy was Destroyed by the media, destroyed by the tabloids. When we were kids, Michael Jackson, the tabloids were Michael Jackson and Ben Affleck every grocery store M It was those twoust. Yeah. It was Michael Jackson on every tabloid. Jeff Lopez Yeah Jeffreer Lopez in every in the same thing around the world all across the world The media destroyed. This person U The trials destroyed him. Nothing he was We only' have to talk about specifics, but This guy was destroyed by the world And it was very it's very sad if when you think about it and if you actually do your own personal investigations into what happened It's a very sad thing that happened to him because of the media because he was, you know When he won H trials there's a story where his lawyer defense attorney the prosecutor went up to him, No, not the prosecutor, but one of the journalists in the audience went up to the defense attorney. Mael's defense attorney said, you just cost The American media two billion dollars in revenue becauseuse you got him off because he's inoc because because he came off as innocent Isn't that craz L The media, he was a billion billion dollar machine, billion dollars annual machine for the media And I think that make the definitive piece of media to define him for the future I think this is a great stab at trying to show show the world what he was and who he was Michael's other siblings Janet, Randy and Rebby. they don't appear in the film according tont a oya Janet kindly declined to be included in the film, which is understandable. you know, I think it's interesting the Jackson family and being on top of the world for es then Janet was a huge star as well. Janet was massive in the nineties and early two thousands She was a she was a superstar Um It's interesting that she didn't want to be included, but that's that's their that's their decision I know some other family members called the scripts sugarcoated and Full blown lies The Hollywood biops are always going to take inaccuracies And also I think it depends on the biopic. likeike I don't want to sound inconsistent here because we criticize Bohemian Rhapsody for glossing over so much of what Qeen was like And then we see something like Rocket Man take an actual authentic look at an artist's life with that with Elton John. I think with this film, Michael is a little different because of what he meant to the world and still does and we're also going to get a second part of the film This was a story that takes place before all of that happens. This takes place and ends As the bad tour is starting. The bad world tour is about to start. you know, this is like the opening night basically A the end of the film, the book end. thenen So up until this point, there were no allegations, there were no accusations And there's going to be a sequel they obviously have said that multiple times and the movie ends saying that Michael will be back. So there will be a second film So it's not like this isn't going to be discussed. It's not like they didn't shoot this because they've shot I'm sure they are going to use stuff that they shot in the last film that they weren't able to use. uquest said that thirty percent of the footage that they cut can be reused for the sequel. Exactly, so it's not like this isn't going to get covered. The sequel will cover this stuff guys So it's different than a movie like Bohemian where completely glossing over the interesting and darker sides of Queen And obviously, Freddie Mercury. But this movie, as they said, was a a film to showcase Michael Jackson. what he went through as a child to his adolescence to adulthood to become esssentially a superhero on stage to the entire world and become the biggest star on the planet There was a point where he had four point two Billion fans And that was the entire eararth basically Yeah, basically at that time. It was confirmed by several major statician outlets and news outlets that he had four point two billion fans across the world And and right now it's his music is top of the charts again Uh Thrailer hit number one, Pilly Jean hit number one He had the number one movie in theatater to Three weeks ago, he had number one movving theaters It was Michael and then the number one song in the world was I think, thriller or Billy Jean. at the same time There's like, did you know that That Michael Jackson purchased all of Einem's entire music yog in two thousand seven because That song that M and M did Just Lose it in the music video, he pared parodied in d Michael Jackson in the music video. bought his companyies Sony ATV purchased and acquired famous music from Viaom, which was all of Einem's entire catalogue That's just drop the hammer down. Imagine having that much power Like someone makes a disc track of you, so then you buy their entire catalog of music. Who has that kind of purchasing power? first of all, but also That's crazy. that's quite the dis. That's quite the cpack And Em andam actually did apologize after Michael passed away. He said he regretted what he did. in that music video Beuse he probably didn't res That's who he was. Yeah. Yeah. That's who Eminem was. That's why That's why he he was great, you know can't always agree, but like rebellious artists like that, young, naive, but also a rocket star a rocket into the stratosphere of Stardom himself. Yeah. Hey, it is what it is. You're going to piss some people off You you can do some of things you that you don't That don't age well or you regret later in life. I don't think there's anything too wrong with it, but I think it's pretty funny that Michael bought all of his music. 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At the end of the day, though, I really, really genuinely enjoyed this movie. I wish I saw it opening weekend with a pack crowd and a full theater because Holy crap. I was just dancing in my seat. I was dancing in my seat like the whole film I was singing lightly. It was just such a good time. St to finish. As soon as it's over, I was like One of the only people in the theater and I'm clapping to myself and I'm just like That was awesome out loud. it was such a good film. I luckily Qaan I love Fu Ki. hope I hope he gets some awards recognition I could I would like to see him get a nom for Best Eirector for this film because I think he really delivered an incredible movie. It's hard to get that much to shoot that what he shot was it's really difficult the logistics of those gigantic performances in real stages and real locations.' pretty unbelievable. I luckily saw it into packed theaters and The first time I saw it, I had very low expectations because of all their bad reactions And I was like, okay, we'll see how it is. And when it was over, I was clapping and I was like, That was fucking awesome. What's everybody fucking talking about? And from when human nature starts, when we see the human nature performance into bad I was just like on Cloud nine for fifteen minutes. I thought it was just Perfect pure escapism in a theater And I just was, you know, I felt like I was elevated into the air is just so incredible. I left the theater dancing man. what's so wrong with that, you know? Yeah It was the equivalent to putting on this is Michael Jackson on Spotify blasting it and going driving for thirty minutes to whatever you got to do and just listening to Michael. It's just That was the comp for me Obviously the sequel get into the more controversial subjects of his life, the allegations, the serious things that happened to him in the nineties and two thousands leading up to his death So It's not going to get glossed over, I'm sure. And they will. And there were things that were glossed over Hollywood style in this fil that hey I was just happy to be watching Michael perform. It was amazing. Yeah. It's going to be a much different film because you're going to be dealing with those things then also his skin losing pigmentation um and getting wors worsening every year Um and then dealing with what the media was constantly saying about him when his appearance was changing. So it's going to be a darker film and a way more complex film. And I think that Jafar, this being his first film like ever as an actor did such a phenomenal job. And he has a much I think bigger complex job to do on the next film in terms of acting performance. We know he can do the singing and dancing. and a lot of the singing was him was It was a mix of Michael and Jafar because Jafar is actually a phenomenal singer Um But it's going to be a much more difficult job acting wise. So this it seems like he can he really has it he was being his first film, I was immensely impressed by him. So I think that he can absolutely pull it off. And to show how incredible his singer Michael was All of the live, I looked into it because I thought the live performances they sounded so perfect. They were real live performance recordings of Michael's performances