Brian Wilson headed to the Beach Boys one of the most successful bands of all time. The film “Love & amp; Mercy” but also shows how fragile was this musical genius
Paul Dano as the young Brian Wilson in “Love & amp; Mercy” | © StudioCanal film distribution
The myth of the artist between genius and madness – Brian Wilson seems to embody it perfectly. In the first half of the 1960s he composed for the Beach Boys one hit after another. Mid-1960, he expanded the formal language of pop music instrumental and finally loses itself – shattered by drug and psychosis – in the vast expanse of his sound experiments. Twenty years later he is a wreck: he is drawn of psychotropic manipulated by a questionable, validity as money-seeking therapists to the loss of its identity.
Bill Pohlad told in Love & amp; Mercy two dramatic episodes of the tragic life of Brian Wilson. In the first part, the music plays a vital role, in the second love. Pohlad tells his story is not linear but jumps between events mid-1960s and mid-1980s, which back and forth impulsively. The contrast between the musical genius who increasingly lose traction, and the remote-controlled body shell mutated to the Wilson, could hardly act shocking
Wilson is played by two different actors:. Paul Dano sees the young Brian quite similarly, while John Cusack as Brian Dano neither nor Wilson has greater similarity in his forties. Pohlads trick works: The forty years has the young Brian nothing in common, seems more like a frightened child than the masterly studio wizard that during the production of Pet Sounds 1965-66 still an army professional musician with his perfectionism maltreated.
where the drama begins as a fairytale success story. With its sunny version of the Rock’n’Roll the Beach Boys set to music the carefree teenage life of the postwar era and sang girls, cars and life on the beach in California. Three albums created annually 1963-1965, ten Top Ten hits. But just twenty years Brian Wilson held the load, at the same time to be a composer, producer and musician tour, did not stand long. After a first nervous breakdown he gave the live music in favor of working in the studio and devoted himself entirely to his increasingly complex compositions.
1964 separated Brian and his manager Murry Wilson, his father, who he and his brothers Carl Dennis, his life physically and psychologically terrorized. That gave Brian more freedom, but its unstable state did not heal this “parricide”. Almost manically working Brian it to surpass the 1965 Beatles album released Rubber Soul . The interaction of drugs, Wilson’s mental instability and his unconditional desire to succeed led the mid-1960s both to Wilson’s musical masterpieces as his tragic crash. Brought to the studio album Pet Sounds the beach boys there. With a myriad of studio musicians, complex arrangements and unconventional sounds that are reminiscent of the musique concrète, to musical excellence But with the dwindling ability to meet his everyday life, Brian slipped also his compositional ability. The album Smile , the successor to the Pet Sounds and in turn should be of the Beatles, the response to Revolver , was never completed. Whose coronation would have together cut of innumerable Takes number one single to Good Vibrations be. Production wise the piece is a musical collage. Wilson called the hitherto most expensive single production history a “ Teenage Symphony to God “. It reflects not only the quasi-religious drug experiences of the young Brian, but her composed of innumerable parts structure appears in retrospect as the sound of his crumbling identity.
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