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This is a very sterling movie that houses an exceptionally gargantuan performance by Jamie Fox as music chronicle Ray Charles. I must confess that as a genre, the biopic is not my common, especially of figures as well known as Ray Charles. We usually receive in such films distorted portraits of them, or undeserved adulation. RAY is one of the more balanced biopics I have seen. Ray Charles is presented as a musical genius who had managed to overcome physical disabilities that would have stopped most others, but it doesn’t attempt to calm the serious and unflattering personal good problems he had with drugs and his exploitative treatment of women. Nor is he revealed as a legal saint or loving person. Though generous with others for the most portion, Ray is shown as a proud, independent, and slightly self-absorbed, a bit selfish in his treatment of women. As a result, Ray Charles emerges in the film as a believable human being, suited of dejected decisions, but also improbable music and the occasional worthy accurate stand, such as when he refuses to beget in a racially segregated crowd in a venue in Georgia. In fact, the film is built around three foci: his early childhood when he witnessed the death of his younger brother and gradually lost his sight; his musical career from 1948 until the mid-1960s; and his heroin addiction. The film ends with his overcoming his heroin addiction, which also-as numerous music critics have noted–corresponds to the destroy of the peak of his career as a creative musical performer. Charles continued to acquire albums after getting off heroin, but all of the gargantuan songs that we associate with him were written and recorded while on heroin. For the last forty years of his career, his sets consisted almost entirely of songs he made noted in the fifties and early sixties, with covers of songs by other musicians. There has been a long debate as to whether his addiction somehow aided his musical creativity, but even if so, no one would have wished him to continue to endanger his health and life.
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Jamie Fox will without any possible doubt receive an Oscar nomination for this performance. This is considerably more than a generous impersonation of Charles: it is almost as if Fox channels him. As powerful as I loved other biopics of music legends like THE BUDDY HOLLY Chronicle or WHAT’S Savor GOT TO DO WITH IT, throughout each I was conscious that Gary Busey was playing Buddy Holly and Angela Bassett playing Tina Turner. I completely forgot that Jamie Fox was playing Ray Charles, and despite being quite familiar with him, imagined that I was actually watching Charles onscreen. Yes, he does a killer impersonation of Charles, but he manages that first on top of that provides an wonderful dramatic performance. This is substantial acting, not merely a grand impersonation. The only performance of current years of an actor portraying a prominent entertainer as pleasurable as this is Robert Downey in CHAPLIN.
I also really loved the examine of the film. Since it ended in the mid-1960s, the entire film was essentially a period film. There was a sense of visual veracity from beginning to waste. I loved the cars, the clothes (especially the ties! - am I alone in thinking that the 1950s was the immense decade for neckties? ), the interior decors, the furniture. The scenes in the shanty town where Charles was a child were very effective.
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The cast aside from Fox was quite strong, made up mainly of relatively unknown performers. There were many other things to devour about the film. Of course, the music is absolutely sensational, consisting either of remasters of unique Ray Charles’s recordings, or recent recordings for which Charles provided the vocals. I also loved the relationship in the film between Charles and Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records. There is nothing of the stereotypical relationship between artist and executives that invests so many of the stories of musicians in the 1950s and 1960s. Ertegun is rightfully remembered as one of the truly big figures in the recording industry, someone who was in it more for the music than for the money, and who treated his artists with a degree of respect that was too frequently absent. The film does a generous job of presenting Charles’s dilemma: ABC-Monument made him an offer that he simply couldn’t refuse, yet at the same time we are all aware that Charles was, in a scheme, screwing Atlantic over by leaving them for ABC-Monument. All in all, I loved this warts and all near to the subject matter. There is absolutely no query that Ray Charles was one of the most amazing performers of the fifties and sixties, and doing all he did despite his blindness is an fantastic saga. He truly was a genius, even if he was a somewhat flawed person. But you have to adore the procedure that he managed to overcome his personal shortcomings to become not merely one of the most successful but one of the most beloved musical performers of his age.
I went to witness Ray in the theaters last night because my sister suggested it and because I was in a mood to peer something “critically acclaimed”. For the describe, I knew very runt about the man and so had very few preconceptions. What I saw made a deep impression in my mind and heart.
Ray Robinson, aka Ray Charles the singer, songwriter and musician, was blind since the age of 7. He had to deal not only with bigotry for his disability but for being shadowy in Georgia before the civil rights movement. Throughout his life many people (both dark and white) would try to recall advantage of the blind man, ripping him off financially or hoarding his talent for their maintain come by. Ray had both the blessing and the curse of being a ladies’ man, resulting in serial affairs while his wife stayed home and raised their family. It surprised me to learn that he fought an addiction to heroin for well over a decade before finally beating it in the `60s. Nevertheless, Ray carried all this baggage and more through the 40s and 50s as he made a name for himself playing piano in the Country, Jazz, etc. pop music circuits. Eventually of course he rose to become one of the most recognized and beloved musical artists worldwide.
The man that this film showed me was an wonderful example of determination, charm and simple human spirit. I have heard others say that Jamie Foxx’s acting was so reliable that they were half-convinced he was channeling Ray Charles’ ghost. I’ll steal their word for it that it was an proper performance, but regardless, it was also a tall performance! Down the line each of the supporting actors was perfectly convincing and exact, but none more so than Foxx. I will denounce the Academy if he isn’t at least nominated for an Oscar.
The least of Ray’s imperfections was his physical blindness –yet he had a grand gift and the ability to near into the collective soul of a nation. Over his long career as a musician and songwriter, Ray Charles Robinson created and performed some of the most memorable music to audiences across the country. Your color, age and creed doesn’t matter; chances are, you’ve heard and loved at least one Ray Charles song in your lifetime. We’ll never have another like him.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle.