{"id":110,"date":"2016-07-14T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=110"},"modified":"2016-07-14T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:22:08","slug":"miles-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/drama\/miles-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wqq63ZJ5q3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The consensus on Cheadle&#8217;s biopic of Miles Davies seems to be Cheadle great, film a bit of a mess. It&#8217;s hard not to argue with that assessment. Biopics tend to go for the cradle to grave sweep, or the detailed, representative slice or have a particular theory they want to expound. While Cheadle deliberately (and wisely I think) wanted to avoid the first of these approaches, Miles Ahead doesn&#8217;t really replace it with anything else. It could have taken a microcosm approach, (eg using Ashley Kahn&#8217;s book on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Kind-Blue-Making-Miles-Masterpiece\/dp\/1862075417\">making of Kind of Blue<\/a>), but instead interweaves three or four story lines. One of these involves Ewan MacGregor&#8217;s Rolling Stone journalist, so the film could have opted for the interview as narrative tool, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3416744\/\">End of the Tour.<\/a> It doesn&#8217;t have a particular cinematic interpretation in relation to the music either, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0903657\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Love and Mercy<\/a> attempted. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a strong sense of how it wants to approach the subject or the point it wants to make.<\/p>\n<p>But the film is imbued with respect, love and admiration, and with a tighter script Cheadle will be a sympathetic and engaging director. I&#8217;m not sure there is a good, coherent Miles Davies biopic waiting to be made. Any such film will always fall short of the music, and the man himself. You&#8217;re inevitably left wondering, why don&#8217;t I just stick on Sketches of Spain? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consensus on Cheadle&#8217;s biopic of Miles Davies seems to be Cheadle great, film a bit of a mess. It&#8217;s hard not to argue with that assessment. Biopics tend to go for the cradle to grave sweep, or the detailed, representative slice or have a particular theory they want to&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/drama\/miles-ahead\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}