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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).
- Ganó 1 premio Óscar
- 10 premios y 9 nominaciones en total
Glenn Wright
- Alcoholic Patient
- (as Glenn T. Wright)
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- CuriosidadesClint Eastwood approached Chan Parker, Charlie "Bird" 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.
- PifiasWhen 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 adicionalesPre-titles card: "There are no second acts in American lives." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Banda sonoraMary Land, My Maryland
Performed by Lennie Niehaus
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Ornithology
"Bird" will probably be most appreciated by jazz fans who come to it already familiar with Charlie Parker and his incalculable contributions to jazz and influence on generations of musicians that continues to this day. The script contains many shorthand references that might be lost on the average moviegoer -- e.g., Parker calls Dizzy Gillespie "Birks," which was his middle name, but many people probably don't know that.
But there is the music, and tons of it. There are extraordinary performances by Forest Whitaker as Parker, and Diane Venora as his common law wife, Chan. In many ways the film seems more a love story than the standard musical biopic. Chan was unfailingly supportive of Bird, despite his self-destructive drug use, alcoholism and chronic infidelity. He loved her in his own way, and I think she realized that she was in love with a genius who would forever be plagued by demons, and that she couldn't have one without the other.
Clint Eastwood's love of jazz is well-known, and in "Bird" he provides a wealth of wonderful music, beautifully performed. The actual playing of Charlie Parker is augmented by accompaniment from contemporary musicians, and Parker has never sounded better. Eastwood also provides an unflinching portrayal of the complicated lives of jazz musicians, and the addictions to which so many succumb.
Despite the mess that Bird made of his life, he remains a charming and sympathetic figure. And his music, years ahead of its time, and so complex that countless fledging saxophone players have attempted to copy his recordings note for note, will forever live on.
But there is the music, and tons of it. There are extraordinary performances by Forest Whitaker as Parker, and Diane Venora as his common law wife, Chan. In many ways the film seems more a love story than the standard musical biopic. Chan was unfailingly supportive of Bird, despite his self-destructive drug use, alcoholism and chronic infidelity. He loved her in his own way, and I think she realized that she was in love with a genius who would forever be plagued by demons, and that she couldn't have one without the other.
Clint Eastwood's love of jazz is well-known, and in "Bird" he provides a wealth of wonderful music, beautifully performed. The actual playing of Charlie Parker is augmented by accompaniment from contemporary musicians, and Parker has never sounded better. Eastwood also provides an unflinching portrayal of the complicated lives of jazz musicians, and the addictions to which so many succumb.
Despite the mess that Bird made of his life, he remains a charming and sympathetic figure. And his music, years ahead of its time, and so complex that countless fledging saxophone players have attempted to copy his recordings note for note, will forever live on.
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- 10 may 2006
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- Presupuesto
- 9.000.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 2.181.286 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 27.116 US$
- 2 oct 1988
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 2.181.474 US$
- Duración2 horas 41 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1
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