“Get on Up” The best soul brought back to life by Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman's hard work and talent

Chadwick Boseman played the role of James Brown, a great artist and unique human being. Honestly, I don't feel any James Brown elements from him normally. He has a stronger impression of the serious and noble Jackie Robinson he played in his previous film, ` `42' ', and has no image of the cheerful and confident James Brown.

``It's hard to find an actor who can play the unique and supremely talented James Brown,'' anyone who knows James Brown must think. But James Brown, played by Chadwick Boseman, was a great "The Father of Soul." It perfectly encompasses all of the words I have written to describe James Brown. He was James Brown, a great singer, dancer, and legendary man who dedicated himself to supporting black people.

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What surprised me was that Chadwick Boseman himself performed James Brown's difficult steps and split rise dance, which Michael Jackson admired and imitated, in the movie without using a substitute. Chadwick Boseman learned how to dance in just 10 days of practice, even though he had never learned how to dance. However, they practice for 6 to 8 hours a day, and this dance is the result of a lot of hard work.

The live scene, which is the highlight of this work, is spectacular, and I'm very happy that they brought back that James Brown dance. A video comparing James Brown's actual performance to Chadwick Boseman's performance is circulating online, and you can see how well Boseman impersonates James Brown. After all, just a year ago he was playing the serious man Jackie Robinson, but here he plays the funky James Brown to perfection.

Comparison video of James Brown and Chadwick Boseman

Four years later, we saw Chadwick Boseman play the innocent superhero Black Panther in ` `Black Panther '' (18). This wide range of motion must have been a valuable and meaningful experience for Boseman as an actor.

The legend of the great musician James Brown. Those fiercely cool dances, humanity, joy, exuberance, troubles and anguish--all were brought back to life through Chadwick Boseman's extraordinary talent and extraordinary efforts. This film is an autobiographical film that depicts even the best soul of James Brown.

Text: Anzureratto

Writes mainly for the magazine "Eiga Hiho" (Yosensha). His book ``Black Movie Guide'' (Small Publishing) is now on sale.

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“James Brown ~The man with the best soul~”

Blu-ray: 1,886 yen + tax / DVD: 1,429 yen + tax

Publisher: NBCUniversal Entertainment

(C) 2014 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.

*Information as of September 2020.

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