John Fardy
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And then he has great success with that.
And there's this tug between him and his dad who wants him to stay with the Jacksons.
Then we have Thriller where
which goes, you know, interstellar and galactic.
And we see lots of clips of him making that and shooting videos and stuff.
But it's just really, there's no drama.
There's no interior life of Michael Jackson shown in this.
So it's just Michael Jackson, the star.
And like, you know, so whenever you see a biopic, there's usually like if it's, you know, Cash, Elton John, all these people, there's moments of them falling in love or there's moments of them just being broken by something.
We don't really see any of that.
The only thing we see is him befriending animals as in as an escape.
You know, he's bringing llamas home and he's
there's a scene where this truck arrives and the whole family are standing in his mansion and they're wondering what is it what is it michael and a monkey comes out and this is bubbles and that's about as dramatic as it gets to be honest and there's occasional scenes of him staring at peter pan books going that's who i want to be but like to me that's just that's very pedestrian screenwriting you know
Yeah, I mean, some of the reviews have called it bad karaoke and they've called it just like cosplay.
You know, there's absolutely nothing in it.
Now, there is all of the scandal around Michael Jackson, which was left out.
And we were told that was because there was a legal agreement between one of his alleged victims and the Jackson family or the Jackson Trust, which meant that that case couldn't be mentioned.
But I mean, it's not really a reasonable explanation, is it?
Because you can avoid mentioning that one case and fulfil the obligations of that legal agreement, but you don't have to leave out all of the scandal around Michael Jackson and the claims that were made against him.