This was one of the great movies about an important history of Blues, which was the birth of Rock and Roll.
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I think that this is a good movie for the music fans, but people with little patience for poor Beyonce performances will grow tired of it at times. Leaving us waiting for more scenes with Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Chuck Berry. Not only is it extremely unlikely but it drags the movie on a different path for far too long. My only other problem is the long and boring parts of the movie featuring the subtle love interest between Beyonce&ap os s Etta James and Adrian Brody's Leonard Chess. Muddy Waters looks no older from when he arrived in Chicago than from at the end of the movie which should be about 15-20 years later, the same goes for Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, and Cedric the Entertainer. Also, there is not enough age progression shown on behalf of most of the characters. For example, I don't think that Chuck Berry's concerts and records directly resulted in instant integration of the races.
It can also be a little too simplistic with the summaries of events. I think that they did the best they could in trying to tie together all the story lines of a huge cast of characters. I love all of the music in the movie and most of the performances. Hope this helps you decide.Thanks for reading! :) Read full review And racial barriers seem to come tumbling down with segregated mental mindsets and government decrees lagging far behind, though not without terror and tragedy in its wake. And as key dramatic sequences are more often than not described rather than enacted, or conveyed as over the top whining rather than emotionally compelling, the weaker, shrill narrative rhythms of the story fail to harmonize and pale in comparison to the music.Īdrien Brody is Leonard Chess in Cadillac Records, a Jewish immigrant and Chicago nightclub owner turned music promoter who was a key figure in integrating what was once known shamefully as 'race music.' A shrewd wheeler dealer businessman, Chess is unaware when he recruits struggling, uprooted Mississippi sharecropper street musician Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), that his proposed financial arrangement with this genius guitarist would be historic.Īs the Chess music business expands from recording to radio and the experimental explosive sounds evolve with the addition of Howlin' Wolf (Eamonn Walker), Little Walter (Columbus Short) and Etta James (Beyonce Knowles), the nation is taken by musical storm. But the storytelling is another matter, a distracting weakness not helped by doing on screen explanatory damage control via voiceovers by Cedric The Entertainer, as barely realized blues musician and songwriter Willie Dixon. And, a concurrent racial and musical cross-pollination that was rock 'n roll.ĭarnell gets the sounds just right, miraculously from actors making their own music.
A NATION TAKEN BY MUSICAL STORM- CHART TOPPING HITS!įeatures Acotrs:Cedric The Entertainer,Jeffrey Wright,Eamonn Walker, Columbus Short,Beyonce Knowles,Adrien Brody.Ĭadillac Records chronicles the birth of Chicago blues and the subsequent impetus to the breakout popular recorded music in the 1950s.
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