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Cuanto Más, Mejor Cuanto más, mejor CINE Y (MO’BETTER BLUES) Nº 251 (NOVIEMBRE 2008) AZZ SINOPSIS Bleek Gilliam es un músico con una estricta formación como trompetista. Junto a Shadow Henderson, un saxofonista, lidera un quinteto de Jazz que ofrece sus ac- tuaciones en un club de los bajos fondos. Aunque Shadow disfruta de un mayor protagonismo en la banda, a Bleek no le van mal las cosas. Sin embargo, los pro- blemas surgen y se ve obligado a tomar decisiones críticas. Por una parte, Bleek debe salir en defensa del manager del grupo, un amigo de la infancia con problemas de juego que frecuentemente es apaleado por sus acreedores. Por otra, el trompetis- ta se ve en la encrucijada de tener que elegir entre dos mujeres, una maestra de escuela y una cantante. FICHA ARTÍSTICA Bleek Gilliam ...................................................DENZEL WASHINGTON Giant.................................................................................. SPIKE LEE Shadow Henderson ................................................... WESLEY SNIPES Left Hand Lacey .............................................. GIANCARLO ESPOSITO Moe Flatbush........................................................... JOHN TURTURRO Clarke Betancourt.................................................... CYNDA WILLIAMS FICHA TÉCNICA Dirección....................SPIKE LEE Fotografía ..ERNEST DICKERSON Productora ............... UNIVERSAL Montaje ............... SAM POLLARD Duración....................... 127 min. Nacionalidad......................EEUU Productor...................SPIKE LEE Música ..........................BILL LEE Año de Producción .............. 1990 ............................. MONTY ROSS Dir. Artística............. TED GLASS (Color) Guión.........................SPIKE LEE Dir. Vestuario . RUTH E. CARTER EL DIRECTOR: SPIKE LEE Nació el 20 de Marzo de 1957 en Atlanta, Georgia (USA) bajo el nombre de Shelton Jackson Lee. Hijo de un bajista de Jazz, Bill Lee y de Jaqueline, profesora de arte (quien murió prematuramente en 1977); y quien lo apodó Spike. Creció en Brooklyn donde estudió primero en el St.Ann College y luego en el Morehouse College de Atlanta, una escuela exclusiva de la comunidad Afro-Americana, en la que se diplomó en 1978 en Comunicación Social. A la vez fre- cuenta la Escuela de Arte de la Universidad de New York, ingresan- do de ella en 1982. Para esta escuela realiza una serie de cortome- trajes que usa en su tesis, llamándolos: Joe's Bed -Study Barbers- hop: We cut heads (1983), que fue presentada y premiada en el festival de Locarno. Su primer largometraje Lola Darling (1986), fue escrito e interpretado por él mismo, laureado en Cannes. Una pelí- cula que se muestra como uno de los mayores éxitos del cine afro- americano, condición que es nuevamente tomada con sus siguientes films: Aulas Turbulentas (1988) y Haz lo que debas (1989). Es uno de los pocos directores que consigue equilibrar los intereses políticos propios como cineasta comprometido, con la industria superficial hollywoodense. Su productora llamada 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, divide las producciones entre sus films, anuncios para la televisión y videoclips. Combinando así el arte y el negocio. Lee se ha encargado de varias campañas para Levi´s y Nike. FILMOGRAFÍA PRINCIPAL DEL DIRECTOR 1986 Lola Darling 1996 Marcha del millón de hombres (She´s Gotta Have It) (Get on the Bus) 1988 Aulas Turbulentas 1998 El juego sagrado (School Daze) (He Got Game) 1989 Haz lo que debas 1999 SOS Verano infernal (Do the Right Thing) (Summer of Sam) 1990 Cuanto más, mejor 2000 Bamboozled (Mo’Better Blues) (Bamboozled) 1991 Fiebre salvaje 2002 El último día (Jungle Fever) (The 25th Hour) 1992 Malcolm X 2006 When the Levees Broke (doc) (Malcolm X) (When the Levees Broke)) 1994 Crooklyn (Crooklyn) 1995 Clockers (Clockers) 1996 Girl 6 (Girl 6) COMENTARIO En un principio la película iba a titularse A Love Supreme en home- de la historia, con menos diálogos, mucha música y bastante carga naje al legendario tema del saxofonista y compositor John Coltrane. sentimental. En cambio la parte “alegre” la protagoniza Giant (Spike Pero por problemas de derechos de autor, la película optó por el Lee), mánager del grupo, jugador compulsivo y charlatán profesio- título que estaba en la recámara. Hablar de Mo’better blues implica nal. A primera vista esta segunda historieta puede parecer innecesa- un paseo obligado por la biografía de Spike Lee. El pequeño Spike es ria, fuera de tono. Pero forma parte del juego de Lee, de la mezcla de el primer hijo de un matrimonio formado por un contrabajista (Bill drama y comedia. Ambas historias se tocan, coquetean, para luego Lee) y una profesora de arte y literatura (Jaquelyn Shelton). Nada unirse casi al final en un solo de trompeta, dándole más sentido a la más nacer sus padres, se trasladaron a una zona de Brooklyn, Nue- composición. Eso sí, el mayor lucimiento se lo lleva la música, cada va York, llamada Kobble Hill, poblada de raza negra. Lee siempre momento de inspiración del compositor, cada actuación de la banda, tuvo un gran apego a su madre, con lo que su muerte en 1976 pro- cada nota que vuela por el club de jazz o que salpica a la banda vocó un duro revés para el director neoyorquino. Con su padre no sonora. Todo esto está muy bien entonado. La presencia de Denzel guardaba tanta relación puesto que éste estaba siempre de gira, Washington, Wesley Snipes y las pocas apariciones de Samuel L. acompañando a grandes figuras del jazz. Para colmo de males, Bill Jackson no dejan de ser anecdóticas, ya que el peso de casi toda la Lee volvió a casarse, pero esta vez con una mujer blanca y judía cinta recae en el galardonado Washington. Snipes y Jackson actúan (Susan Kaplan), lo que Lee más odiaba. A pesar de todo, su padre sólo como secundarios de lujo. Lo que sí es curioso es que esta tri- colaboró con la banda sonora de Mo’better blues pero nunca llegaron pleta nunca ha vuelto a aparecer en los títulos de crédito de otra a llevarse muy bien, incluso en los noventa rompieron relaciones película. A pesar de trabajar más veces para Spike Lee (pero en casi definitivamente. Sabiendo todo esto de antemano, uno acaba películas diferentes), cada uno eligió su propio camino hacia la fama. entendiendo el por qué de los saltos temporales tanto al inicio como La banda sonora, sencillamente, es una gran banda sonora. Encar- al final del film. Igualmente se nota cierto apego a la vez que odio por gada la composición de la música al que sería su posteriormente el jazz y todo lo que conlleva. Todo ello, llevado de la mano por un habitual, el trompetista Terence Blanchard, la interpretación de los estupendo ritmo y ambientación. Por supuesto en todo momento temas corresponde al mismo Terence Blanchard y al cuarteto de su están patentes muchas de las características del cine de Lee. Empe- amigo, el saxofonista Brandford Marsalis: Brandford a los saxos, el zando por la recreación, según el punto de vista de Spike Lee, de ya fallecido pianista Kenny Kirkland, el bajista Robert Hurst y el uno de los múltiples mundillos que copaba la gente de color en baterista Jeff “Tain” Watts, el único de todos ellos que aparece en la aquella época: el jazz (en Clockers sería el mundo de los camellos, o película, en la cual interpreta efectivamente al batería del quinteto. en He Got Game, las canchas de baloncesto, por nombrar algunos Como curiosidad cabría destacar que prácticamente el único mo- ejemplos). Reitera una vez más sus críticas hacia la supremacía mento donde no suena jazz exclusivamente, es en los títulos de blanca (esta vez recae en manos de dos de los dueños de un club de crédito que abren y cierran la película y también en las escenas jazz), incluso hacia su propia raza (el club prácticamente sólo lo donde aparecen niños jugando. El inicio es claramente una pieza de llena gente blanca). Y, además, vuelve a entremezclar drama con música clásica, a la que, poco a poco y tímidamente, se le van comedia, esta vez saliendo bien parado. A pesar de todo lo nombrado uniendo notas de jazz. En cambio los títulos finales van acompaña- anteriormente, el verdadero potencial de la película reside en un dos por una base de jazz con voces rapeando. De esta manera, Spike guión partido en dos partes y con muy pocas fisuras, unos persona- Lee quiere representar u homenajear a su manera la evolución de la jes muy bien definidos, un ritmo encomiable y una ambientación música negra contemporánea. La película (que es, sin lugar a dudas, envolvente. La historia está dividida en dos partes, por un lado se una oda al jazz) está dedicada a Robin Harris. Actor y comediante centra en Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) un trompetista obse- que aparece varias veces en el film como Butterbean Jones, interpre- sionado consigo mismo. Lee nos dibuja las relaciones de Bleek con tando chistosos y ácidos monólogos. Mo’better blues significó su su banda y sus amantes o musas (interpretadas a la perfección por último paseo por la gran pantalla, ya que falleció el mismo año del Joei Lee y Cynda Williams). Esta, digamos que es la parte dramática estreno. de SOBRE EL REPARTO DENZEL WASHINGTON WESLEY SNIPES Nació el 28 de diciembre de 1954 en Mount Vernon, Nueva York. A Aunque nació en el estado de Florida (1962), Wesley Snipes creció mediados de los años 70 Denzel comenzó la carrera de periodismo en el Bronx. Estudió canto, baile e interpretación en la Universidad de Fordham y a la vez se matriculó en la American En su adolescencia y tras regresar a Orlando, Wesley Snipes fundó Conservatory Theatre para estudiar interpretación en la ciudad de el grupo de teatro Struttin' Street Stuff, con los que actuaba en loca- San Francisco. Tras aparecer en varios telefilmes lograría debutar en les y parques públicos. A comienzos de los años 80 volvió a Nueva el cine en 1981 con la película Llámame Mr. Charley, una comedia York y estudió interpretación en la Universidad del Estado de Nueva dirigida por Michael Schultz.
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