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Bird

  • 1988
  • R
  • 2h 41min
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7.1/10
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Forest Whitaker in Bird (1988)
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La problemática vida y carrera del músico de jazz Charlie "Bird" Parker (Forest Whitaker).La problemática vida y carrera del músico de jazz Charlie "Bird" Parker (Forest Whitaker).La problemática vida y carrera del músico de jazz Charlie "Bird" Parker (Forest Whitaker).

  • Dirección
    • Clint Eastwood
  • Guionista
    • Joel Oliansky
  • Elenco
    • Forest Whitaker
    • Diane Venora
    • Michael Zelniker
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    7.1/10
    14 k
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    • Dirección
      • Clint Eastwood
    • Guionista
      • Joel Oliansky
    • Elenco
      • Forest Whitaker
      • Diane Venora
      • Michael Zelniker
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    • 23Opiniones de los críticos
    • 78Metascore
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    • Ganó 1 premio Óscar
      • 10 premios ganados y 9 nominaciones en total

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    Forest Whitaker
    Forest Whitaker
    • Charlie 'Bird' Parker
    Diane Venora
    Diane Venora
    • Chan Parker
    Michael Zelniker
    Michael Zelniker
    • Red Rodney
    Samuel E. Wright
    Samuel E. Wright
    • Dizzy
    Keith David
    Keith David
    • Buster Franklin
    Michael McGuire
    Michael McGuire
    • Brewster
    James Handy
    James Handy
    • Esteves
    Damon Whitaker
    Damon Whitaker
    • Young Bird
    Morgan Nagler
    Morgan Nagler
    • Kim
    Arlen Dean Snyder
    Arlen Dean Snyder
    • Dr. Heath
    Sam Robards
    Sam Robards
    • Moscowitz
    Penelope Windust
    Penelope Windust
    • Bellevue Nurse
    Glenn Wright
    • Alcoholic Patient
    • (as Glenn T. Wright)
    George Orrison
    • Patient with Checkers
    Bill Cobbs
    Bill Cobbs
    • Dr. Caulfield
    Hamilton Camp
    Hamilton Camp
    • Mayor of 52nd Street
    Chris Bosley
    • First Doorman
    George T. Bruce
    • Second Doorman
    • Dirección
      • Clint Eastwood
    • Guionista
      • Joel Oliansky
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    hb_wichita

    Brilliant and Moving

    Those viewers who claim the film is flawed are missing the point. Screenwriter Joel Oliansky (who also directed the film "The Competition") attempted (quite successfully I believe) to combine the elements of jazz music with the visual medium of film. Rhythm, tone, the improvisational aspects of be-bop, all of these elements go into creating a movie unlike any produced. It is not to be viewed in the traditional sense of linear story-telling. The mood created by Jack N. Green's cinematography is completed suited to the atmosphere of the 1940's and 1950's. As for acting, let us point out Forest Whitaker's Best Actor Award from the Cannes Film Festival and Diane Venora's Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics. This film resounds with fine filmmaking, headed by Clint Eastwood's passion for the music. And what music! Parker's original solos were cleaned up and integrated with modern musicians into a seamless flow. The picture won the Best Sound Academy Award (sadly, its only nomination). Look at this film as a tribute to a man and a music, a recollection of a brilliant yet dissipated life, and a kind of filmmaking rarely seen by today's audiences.
    9lunaticprophet

    I just love this movie...

    There are certain movies that leave you dazed when you walk out of the theater. For me, "Bird" was such a movie.

    On a nice evening in 1988 I decided to take in a movie on the spur of the moment. I walked to the nearest theater (Fine Arts, Downtown Chicago) and looked to see what was playing. I had never heard of Charlie Parker nor his music, but I was developing a love of jazz and the movie being directed by Clint Eastwood didn't hurt.

    I went in, found a seat and had no way of knowing that, in a couple of hours, my life would be different.

    The music penetrated my soul in ways I could never express. I was in awe and filled with emotion as the music carried me away while the visions of Charlie Parker's life flashed in front of my face. When the final credits scrolled up the screen, I could not move. I was frozen to my seat, dazed, overwhelmed, completely awed. I couldn't get the music out of my head, songs were playing back as if I'd listened to them a thousand times. My mind felt as if it were orbiting the sun.. spinning round and round, bathed in this warmth of beauty.

    I didn't walk out of the the theater so much as stagger. I walked around for miles just playing over and over in my mind what I'd seen and heard and finally, hours after the movie ended I found myself in front of an all night music store where I bought the soundtrack and raced home to listen to it.

    No matter that I had to get up in the morning for work... no matter that the movie had ended before 10pm but I didn't find my way home until after 2am. No matter that I was dead tired from walking dazed miles in a haze of thought.

    I played that CD until I fell asleep then took it to work and played it all day... I played it constantly for weeks and then I started to buy other Charlie Parker CDs and reading everything I could about him. Charlie Parker is my favorite musician of all time, to this day, nearly 20 years later... and it began with this movie.
    bob the moo

    Tragic story, great central performance

    The story of jazz great Charlie Parker. The film follows his rise from clubs to records and follows him across tours, drug abuse, personal loss and his eventual death. At the time of his death at 34 he was so eaten up by drugs that the coroner assessed his age at 65.

    This is a well put together film about a creative but flawed artist. The plot doesn't glamorise him too much, although it maybe sympathises a little with his addiction and doesn't show it quite as harshly as it could have done. That said he is a pretty unpleasant person when he isn't performing. The film focuses on his adult life, which is good as it saves us child actors running around and it means more time is spent on the important years. The covers a lot of time, but it doesn't feel rushed. His drug addiction is honestly handled and it shows both the ups and downs of his life as a user.

    The direction is pretty good, it's obvious Eastwood likes his jazz, and he uses the clubs well getting a great sense of mood. Elements are quite funny and this tempers the more tragic side of his life well. Whittaker is excellent in the lead role, but Diane Venora as his wife is not as good. She doesn't totally carry her lines in the same way - she's OK but you feel like something is missing. The rest of the cast come and go - there are good performances all round from a mostly low-key cast. The main star is the music, and it's treated with a lot of respect with Eastwood giving it plenty of time and creating a good mood for it to work in.

    Overall a tragic story well told with a good central performance and great music.
    6bwaynef

    A sincere but disappointing tribute to Charlie Parker

    Clint Eastwood's reputation as a serious filmmaker was given a considerable boost with this lengthy biography of jazz legend, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, who Eastwood, a jazz aficionado, saw perform in Oakland, California in 1946. For this labor of love, Eastwood assembled an excellent cast including Forest Whitaker as Parker, Diane Venora--flawless as Bird's woman, Chan Parker--and, in a small role of one of the musician's flirtations, Ana Thompson (the "cut whore" from "Unforgiven"). With the aid of cinematographer Jack N. Green, Eastwood captures the neon burnished lights and darks of the night world Parker inhabited, and the music, featuring genuine Parker solos augmented by modern musicians, can't be faulted, but despite its merits, this "Bird" never takes flight. It is long--too long--and the story it tells, though certainly dramatic in its bleak and uncompromising portrait of an artist whose music was often overshadowed by his drug addiction, weighs down too heavily on the latter than the former. Why is Charlie Parker so important? That question isn't answered here, but another question--why was Charlie Parker dead at 34?--is addressed and answered at length. There is potential on view here--Parker's struggle to survive as a musician in a culture that is more appreciative of rock and roll than of jazz is a minor thread that could have been expanded--but much of it is unrealized. "Bird" is a handsome film, but its craftsmanship and artistry is defeated by the script.
    ralpho2001

    Cool Soundtrack! Overall good movie but, flawed.

    If you like Jazz you can't 'not like' this movie. If you like Noir you will dig the overall look of it. My only problem is that Eastwood concentrates more on presenting the tragic side of Charlie parker's life and so we get a very dark and somber film.

    While we do get glimpses of Parker as 'musician', Forest Whitaker's, Parker as 'junkie', tends to weigh down the story. If Eastwood had to choose between highlighting the story of 'The greatest jazz musician of all time' or 'The premature death of a self-destructive Junkie', It's obvious which route he chose to take...the easiest one.

    Ultimately it becomes more a movie about Parker's relationship with his wife Chan, and less about Parker's relationship with Jazz. In my opinion, Clint doesn't really succeed at showing us why we should love the character of Bird and maybe this was not his intention; but if a separation of the personality (warts and all) and his art is necessary to show an honest depiction; then why not also highlight the music and allow it to speak for itself? In this case, by making it a more satisfying listening experience like Formans "Amadeus" or Tavernier's "Round Midnight". The way they allowed the music be THE lead character of the movie.

    Still, the improved fidelity in the remix of the soundtrack makes some of these old recordings easier digestible for those who may be new to Parker's music. Incidentally, this is the best fidelity of Charlie Parker you'll find anywhere. On the whole this is not a bad movie; It is not a complete depress-fest like two other movies about drug induced pop culture icons: 'The Doors' or 'Sid & Nancy'. Indeed this movie has its moments. There's a scene where Parker (blowing on his sax) wakes up Dizzy in the middle of the night to improvise on 'Now's the Time'. I also love the scene where he takes a gig with Red Rodney to play at a Jewish wedding. I wanted more of this type of interaction with his fellow Jazzers!

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    • Trivia
      Clint Eastwood approached Chan Parker, Charlie Parker's common-law wife on whose memoirs the script was based, for input. She gave Eastwood a collection of lost recordings she'd kept in a bank vault.
    • Errores
      When Charlie Parker goes to Dizzy Gillespie's house in the middle of the night and asks Dizzy to write down a tune, the year is 1953. The tune is "Now's the Time", published and recorded in 1945.
    • Citas

      Doctor at Nica's: [while Bird's body is being retired] Charles Christopher Parker, Junior. Preliminary diagnosis: heart attack. Stocky, male, negro. Approximately 65 years of age.

      Baroness Nica: [with a sad look] He was 34.

    • Créditos curiosos
      Pre-titles card: "There are no second acts in American lives." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Conexiones
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Punchline/Heartbreak Hotel/Memories of Me/Bird/Kansas (1988)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Mary Land, My Maryland
      Performed by Lennie Niehaus

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    Detalles

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 30 de septiembre de 1988 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Yardbird Suite
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Kansas City, Misuri, Estados Unidos
    • Productoras
      • Warner Bros.
      • The Malpaso Company
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    Taquilla

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    • Presupuesto
      • USD 9,000,000 (estimado)
    • Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 2,181,286
    • Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 27,116
      • 2 oct 1988
    • Total a nivel mundial
      • USD 2,201,136
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      2 horas 41 minutos
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      • Color
    • Mezcla de sonido
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

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