{"id":18200,"date":"2012-11-22T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T19:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18200"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:47:41","slug":"michael-jacksons-career-for-bad-25-documentary-to-air-thanksgiving-night-at-9-p-m-on-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18200","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson&#8217;s Career For &#8216;BAD 25&#8217; Documentary To Air Thanksgiving Night At 9 P. M. On ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the outset of BAD 25 \u2013 the documentary film celebrating the 25th anniversary of <strong>Michael Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>Bad<\/em> album \u2013 director <strong>Spike Lee <\/strong>quickly dispenses with talk of the pop superstar&#8217;s personal struggles, diving right into the artistic perfectionism that drove him to achieve his career milestones. &#8220;Hopefully, that&#8217;s what this documentary is about \u2013 it&#8217;s gonna have people return to focusing on the music, his art, which I feel is his legacy, in addition to his children,&#8221; <strong>Lee<\/strong>, dressed in a white BAD 25 T-shirt, told reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the movie had its North American premiere over the weekend, after debuting in Venice 25 years to the day since Bad&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>To piece together the making of <strong>Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong> landmark LP, Lee unearthed archival footage from studio sessions and music video shoots and conducted interviews with <strong>Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong> many collaborators, including<strong> Quincy Jones<\/strong>, <strong>Martin Scorsese<\/strong>, <strong>Stevie Wonder<\/strong> and <strong>Sheryl Crow<\/strong>, and stars who were inspired by his music, from<strong> Kanye West <\/strong>and <strong>Mariah Carey <\/strong>to <strong>Questlove<\/strong> and <strong>Justin Bieber<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which will get a television premiere on ABC on November 22nd, follows the making of Bad track by track; though it can feel clinical at times, it also revels in cool details,\u00a0 like the origin of <strong>Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong> gravity-defying lean in <em>&#8220;Smooth Criminal&#8221;<\/em> and his famous expression, &#8220;Shamon!&#8221; Then, abruptly, <strong>Lee <\/strong>shifts to Jackson&#8217;s death in the summer of 2009, collecting reactions from his interview subjects, many of whom choke back tears and break down. &#8220;Those were all real, raw emotions that were displayed,&#8221; said<strong> Lee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the outset of BAD 25 \u2013 the documentary film celebrating the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson&#8217;s Bad album \u2013 director Spike Lee quickly dispenses with talk of the pop superstar&#8217;s personal struggles, diving right into the artistic perfectionism that drove him to achieve his career milestones. &#8220;Hopefully, that&#8217;s what this documentary is about \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}