Better Man (2024)
Directed by Michael Gracey
Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.
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James Mangold’s direction reflects those latter traits – spellbound by Dylan’s talent but not going overboard the way the recent musical biopic Better Man frequently did.
…the monkey business of the Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man”…
Other movies like Rocketman, Elvis, hell, and even Better Man, take bold risks to handle their figures and tell stories that fit their personalities and lives.
…como podría ser el caso de «Better Man» (2024), el film que cuenta la historia de la estrella británica, Robbie Williams, con el detalle de que está personificado por un mono generado por computadora…
…you could have a CGI monkey like Robbie Williams in Better Man…
Mientras propuestas más arriesgadas como Better Man o Kneecap buscan jugar con la ficción, la fantasía y el absurdo, evitando el clásico y soporífero formato del biopic musical…
Other than the uncomfortably honest Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and the parodical Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, these films seldom break out of the finely carved mold of image-rehabilitating cinematic exercises.
You’ll get your occasional Better Man, Rocketman, and tick, tick… BOOM!: What makes these projects stand out amongst the rest is their ability and willingness to portray the artist in question from a vulnerable lens.
The best musician biopics—movies like Rocketman, Elvis, and Better Man—never forget their subjects are mortal.
…it still fails to creatively play with an overdone genre to the levels of surprisingly subversive and emotionally resonant biopics like the Elton John musical Rocketman or even the Robbie Williams-is-a-CGI-chimp romp Better Man.
It’s a genre that favors bold swings in the form of something like Better Man, or even the bombastic insanity of Elvis.
While there’s always the occasional film like Better Man that finds creativity within standard templates…
“Better Man” is a flawed movie, but it at least took visual and thematic chances in its depiction of Robbie Williams’ struggles so as to feel fresh, even as it retread the familiar rock star problems.
The decision to tie Bruce’s struggles with fame and creativity to his childhood trauma recalls another recent biopic, Michael Gracey’s Better Man, which explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of Robbie Williams alongside the star’s complicated relationship with his dad.
The physicality convinces, as do the animal strength, agitated shrieking, and sudden explosions of violent rage—even if the masks and prosthetics often recall the headgear worn in 2024’s bizarre Robbie Williams bio-musical Better Man, requiring considerable suspension of disbelief.
Primate is no Better Man…
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2024’s underrated Better Man, for instance, re-casts its subject — British pop icon Robbie Williams – as a CGI monkey.