Desperation, even for the sanest people, causes cloudy, sometimes dangerous judgment. Police officers brandish their weapons before the suspicious can reveal their empty hands, and an abandoned young boy looks to the streets for individual, concrete answers, oblivious to the criminal justice system’s seemingly tight hold on his future. Yet in the first episode of Vinyl, the latest television series by director Martin Scorsese, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, writer Rich Cohen, and producer Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos), desperation stems from obsession, a thirst for a particularly unrefined sound of liberation — that is rock and roll.
Drugs are plenty, girls and guys are ready, and the mystical, human connection between …show more content…
Yet, Scorsese, as displayed in the documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World and the nonfiction T.V. series The Blues and American Masters, applies his love for music history to capture the stunning spiritual saga of an art form cultivated by what was then diametrically opposed racial identities. The plot focus on the black character Grimes, combined with Finestra’s enduring fascination with blues music, establishes this transcendental, cross-racial divide quite gracefully. It begins from the first moment Finestra hears Grimes, as he sheds soft tears while listening to the blues musician’s heart-wrenching, soul-searching serenade. From that moment onward, Finestra never spares a cry when he experiences a performance of similar raw, musical aesthete, further demonstrating that rock, although on an ever-evolving time continuum, answers to a riddled, frustrated …show more content…
Yet, it’s up-and-comer Juno Temple as the aspiring administrative assistant, Jamie Vine, who steals the show. The BAFTA award winning actress cuts Richie Finestra’s pessimism by portraying a zealous employee on the hunt for a future sound. In this way, she parallels Finestra’s earliest years with music promotion, creating a distinction between two differing phases of the executive’s career — one lost in the business and the other doing it for the art form.
As is to be expected, Vinyl’s soundtrack creates a spot on setting, defining a decade coming into glam and punk rock. Although Scorsese is known for integrating rock music as the basis for many of his films, it’s Jagger who supervises the sonic surroundings in this initial episode. The tunes showcase a journey between origin and
Drugs are plenty, girls and guys are ready, and the mystical, human connection between …show more content…
Yet, Scorsese, as displayed in the documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World and the nonfiction T.V. series The Blues and American Masters, applies his love for music history to capture the stunning spiritual saga of an art form cultivated by what was then diametrically opposed racial identities. The plot focus on the black character Grimes, combined with Finestra’s enduring fascination with blues music, establishes this transcendental, cross-racial divide quite gracefully. It begins from the first moment Finestra hears Grimes, as he sheds soft tears while listening to the blues musician’s heart-wrenching, soul-searching serenade. From that moment onward, Finestra never spares a cry when he experiences a performance of similar raw, musical aesthete, further demonstrating that rock, although on an ever-evolving time continuum, answers to a riddled, frustrated …show more content…
Yet, it’s up-and-comer Juno Temple as the aspiring administrative assistant, Jamie Vine, who steals the show. The BAFTA award winning actress cuts Richie Finestra’s pessimism by portraying a zealous employee on the hunt for a future sound. In this way, she parallels Finestra’s earliest years with music promotion, creating a distinction between two differing phases of the executive’s career — one lost in the business and the other doing it for the art form.
As is to be expected, Vinyl’s soundtrack creates a spot on setting, defining a decade coming into glam and punk rock. Although Scorsese is known for integrating rock music as the basis for many of his films, it’s Jagger who supervises the sonic surroundings in this initial episode. The tunes showcase a journey between origin and