No pun intended obviously. And as the title a riff on one of the hit songs from the duo ... well I am not sure I can only call them duo ... considering how many people were behind the success. Still the two "singers" are the faces (but especially the bodies) of the success. This is a really crazy (mostly) true story we get served here.
I am really curious and want to watch the documentary that has been made about them. But this is really well done - it does concentrate more on one of the two members ... but they are both mesmerizing ... they are both really charismatic ... they both had something about them ... and they both rose up too fast for their own good.
Even with almost a two hour running time, there is a lot this cannot cover ... the movie makes fun of the backstory (how long do you want to cling on the past/kids days?) ... but it is necessary to see where they came from - again more focus on one of them.
The almost funny thing about everything is, that I watched a dubbed version (Schweighöfer did his own voice, not sure about the two leads - I assume they did their voice too - but again, super funny no matter who did their voice). I only went to that version because I thought the movie would be in German ... them having success and living here.
I do not know too many details ... but the leads and every actor for that matter did a terrific job. I never had heard of the female that helped Farian ... also her being (probably/allegedly) one inspiration for the band name .... nickname being Milli.
Details seem to fit the bill ... but there are many versions of the story and the truth may not unfold totally ... like when the movie also tells us ... hey we don't know if this actually happened ... on the other hand - both "singers" may not have remembered everything that they went through ... for apparent reasons (see the movie).
Then there are things that I do wonder about ... like their look - the hair thing gets sort of touched upon. There is a scene that explains it - though I have no idea where they found those pictures. Anyway, there is also the clothes ... the style that was used. They were quite ... well if you saw them, they stuck with you! Who decided that? It looked like Milli was responsible, but maybe it only looked like she decided that ... maybe it was Farian .. maybe the duo themselves had a saying ... whatever the case, the movie is really well done ... ba ba ba ba ba baby! Don't forget their number! Important lessons learned - hopefully.
Edit: I watched the press conference they gave ... the one that is also in the movie. The real one was quite the mess ... the movie did a good job ... by not copying it. But made it something almost different. Obviously real life is way more complex - you can't comprehend or put everything in this. I still wish I had known this was shot in English - even more so because some French passages were kept in French anyway.
The music still works, I showed their first music video to a younger colleague and she was quite smitten by them. Or at least that's what she told me. I choose to believe they still would have that effect on people. Fame and money ... they are quite poisonous ... add drugs to the mix and it gets out of hand. Music history was written ... and quite a crazy one ...
I am really curious and want to watch the documentary that has been made about them. But this is really well done - it does concentrate more on one of the two members ... but they are both mesmerizing ... they are both really charismatic ... they both had something about them ... and they both rose up too fast for their own good.
Even with almost a two hour running time, there is a lot this cannot cover ... the movie makes fun of the backstory (how long do you want to cling on the past/kids days?) ... but it is necessary to see where they came from - again more focus on one of them.
The almost funny thing about everything is, that I watched a dubbed version (Schweighöfer did his own voice, not sure about the two leads - I assume they did their voice too - but again, super funny no matter who did their voice). I only went to that version because I thought the movie would be in German ... them having success and living here.
I do not know too many details ... but the leads and every actor for that matter did a terrific job. I never had heard of the female that helped Farian ... also her being (probably/allegedly) one inspiration for the band name .... nickname being Milli.
Details seem to fit the bill ... but there are many versions of the story and the truth may not unfold totally ... like when the movie also tells us ... hey we don't know if this actually happened ... on the other hand - both "singers" may not have remembered everything that they went through ... for apparent reasons (see the movie).
Then there are things that I do wonder about ... like their look - the hair thing gets sort of touched upon. There is a scene that explains it - though I have no idea where they found those pictures. Anyway, there is also the clothes ... the style that was used. They were quite ... well if you saw them, they stuck with you! Who decided that? It looked like Milli was responsible, but maybe it only looked like she decided that ... maybe it was Farian .. maybe the duo themselves had a saying ... whatever the case, the movie is really well done ... ba ba ba ba ba baby! Don't forget their number! Important lessons learned - hopefully.
Edit: I watched the press conference they gave ... the one that is also in the movie. The real one was quite the mess ... the movie did a good job ... by not copying it. But made it something almost different. Obviously real life is way more complex - you can't comprehend or put everything in this. I still wish I had known this was shot in English - even more so because some French passages were kept in French anyway.
The music still works, I showed their first music video to a younger colleague and she was quite smitten by them. Or at least that's what she told me. I choose to believe they still would have that effect on people. Fame and money ... they are quite poisonous ... add drugs to the mix and it gets out of hand. Music history was written ... and quite a crazy one ...