“Stop Making Sense” A music movie that you can “experience” created by Talking Heads and Jonathan Demme

The movie was director Jonathan Demme's idea.

Director Jonathan Demme was the first to come up with the idea of ​​turning it into a movie. According to an interview published in the 1980s book ``Talking Heads'' by David Kuns, Demi was inspired by a concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and began thinking about turning it into a film. "The concert seemed like a magical emotional journey. It felt like watching a movie. They themselves were interested in making a movie about the band's tour," Demi said.

However, it seems that the former Heads did not understand such feelings. In another interview published in "LA Weekly" (November 9, 1984), he said the following. "The last time I saw them in concert was in 1978 in New York's Central Park. At the time they looked like four robots. But at the Greek Theatre, they were amazing on every level. It was thrilling to see the band evolve and expand. There was a story to the concert. It was a great rock concert, but it was more than just a concert."

Although they proposed making it into a film, they were unable to find anyone to invest in a rock concert film, so the Heads raised most of the production costs themselves (approximately $1.2 million). Filming took place at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles in December 1983, using seven cameras and Sony digital sound (according to the book "Talking Heads", everything was recorded digitally). It was the first musical film to feature The camera was photographed by changing the position of the camera, such as from the right or left angle, depending on the shooting date.

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According to the audio commentary included on the DVD, there were two movies that were used as references. Martin Scorsese's concert film masterpiece " The Last Waltz " (78) and Neil Young's concert film "Last Never Sleeps" (79). Director Demme has actually made three music films about Neil Young since the beginning of the 21st century (Young is also one of the musicians who is interested in visual expression). One of the films, ` `Neil Young/Heart of Gold' ' (2006), is a video of a concert by Young and his friends held in Nashville, and it has a simple warmth that appeals to us. (The cinematographer who created the beautiful image was Ellen Klass, who worked on ` `American Utopia. '')

Demme is good at bringing out the human charm in characters, and actors often give their best performances when paired with him (Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs , Philadelphia ) Tom Hanks (1993) holds an Oscar). In ``Stop Making Sense,'' the musicians who barely speak on stage are able to capture their expressions, whether playful or serious, and you gradually begin to see their characters. The same can be said for the musicians of ``Gold.''

The charm of Demi movies is that they are not just filming a concert, but that the characters are depicted with warmth and warmth, and that personality is alive in this movie as well.

He is also good at capturing the moment of a character's performance, and in ``The Silence of The Silence of the Lambs,'' Hopkins gave a terrifying performance as Lecter, mind-controlling people inside a fence. Also, in ``Philadelphia,'' Tom Hanks, who plays the main character on the Harmonium of death, gave an ultimate performance while surrendering to Maria Callas's opera.

Byrne, who starred in ``Stop Making Sense,'' uses props such as glasses and a desk lamp to perform ``seven transformations,'' ranging from a vampire to a kind city dweller. Many visual highlights are created by demonstrating Demi's skills as a performance director.

A movie where you can experience the concert itself