[font=Comic Sans MS:5gxbc6ea][glow=red:5gxbc6ea]TheRunningGirl wrote[/glow:5gxbc6ea]:[/font:5gxbc6ea]
QuoteBillie Jean was the song that led to Michael parting company with Quincy Jones after the BAD album! Quincy did not like the Billie Jean's song and did not want it on the Thriller album, Michael insisted to have it there. And despite the song finally being included at Michael's request and the final version being near to identical to the Demo version, Quincy did not want to give Michael the co-producer credit and additional royalties.
The Bad Era was the end of Michael's collaboration with Quincy Jones and also Michael's first "film" Moonwalker.
It was the END and the BEGINNING of an Era....
Jonell Star! Hmmm! "She" set the tone for the Hoax, right at the Beginning!!!
Thankyou [glow=red:5gxbc6ea]@TheRunningGirl[/glow:5gxbc6ea] for posting [glow=red:5gxbc6ea]TMP's[/glow:5gxbc6ea] latest videos in "The Legend of Billie Jean" series!
I'm thinking about ENDINGS and BEGINNINGS again, and I think that perhaps the "let it burn" comment by Michael, at the end of the "Beat It" sequence, may have played in here. As you said in your post, [glow=red:5gxbc6ea]@TheRunningGirl[/glow:5gxbc6ea], "the Bad Era was the end of Michael's collaboration with Quincy Jones and also the beginning...Michael's first 'film' Moonwalker."
I am not sure WHICH jacket Michael is burning in TII. There were a few iconic jackets in the BAD Era: Thriller, Billie Jean, Beat It. But the burning of the jacket, I think, is tied in with symbolism of the burning of Joan of Arc at the stake, which in turn connects to the "burning" symbolism in the film, "The Legend of Billie Jean."
The quote below provides a good synopsis of the FIRE symbolism in "The Legend of Billie Jean" film:
QuoteNow, that second bit of symbolism I wanted to address. Fire. At the end of the movie Billie Jean has a chance to confront Hubie's father face-to-face with a large crowd behind her, watching. Including Hubie, a dirty politician who had had it out for her, and the detective who had turned her away in the first place but ever since had been her biggest (and perhaps only) supporter in law enforcement.
This man, Hubie's father, Lloyd, has never come clean about what REALLY happened in the upstairs room that day, what he tried to do. But here it all comes out. He's been profiting off of Billie Jean, too. He's erected a large wooden (at least I think its wooden) statue of her to act as a sort of mascot and is selling all kinds of posters, pictures, and t-shirts with her image on them. They sell like hotcakes, of course.
Lloyd finally, after all this time, agrees to pay the money. He gives even more than she asked for, way more. But, by this time, its gone far beyond the point of the money. She doesn't want it anymore, especially not more than she had asked for. And she knows what this money really is. Its hush money. He sees the writing on the wall and he knows she has more power than he does now.
Billie Jean tells the truth about what happened, what he tried to do, the dirty things he'd said to her. The whole crowd hears it. Including Hubie. There's a small struggle, Lloyd wants the damage to be minimal, he insists she's lying, and during the struggle she knees him int he groin and shoves him down. When he fell, so did a lantern and it starts a small fire. While that's burning, she tells him where he can put his money and throws it in his face, then walks away. Hubie runs off, and does not answer his father's cries for help to save the remaining things from the fire. No one is hurt in this fire, unless you count Lloyd's pocketbook and reputation.
But, as the fire burns, all of the memorabilia Lloyd was using to profit off of Billie Jean goes up in flames. And, along with it the large wooden mascot that was the image of Billie Jean, dressed in her new Joan of Ark look, goes up in flames, too, falling atop the rest of the memorabilia, fueling the fire.
The fire represents many things, but I'm only going to mention a few. First, its an obvious reference to Joan of Ark's burning at the stake. Its also a reference to cleansing fire, righteous fire, and an ending and new beginning.
Throughout the fire, the theme of the movie is playing, Invincible by Pat Benatar.
Reference: http://mzmimbooks.blogspot.com/2011/02/ ... -movie.htm
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Pat Benetar wrote INVINCIBLE specifically for this film and it is one of her most iconic pieces!
The Jonell Star reference [glow=red:5gxbc6ea]TMP[/glow:5gxbc6ea] [glow=red:5gxbc6ea](Dmovie27)[/glow:5gxbc6ea] makes in the video is also an eye opener! Jonell Star's videos set the scene for the HOAX. It was the BEGINNING. The first video was published on 7/17/2009...22 days after the "lights out." 14 videos were made over a 14-week period...and there is more...much more!
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