Movie Batman and Prince
Prince is the prince of cult rock music (if such a genre exists). Wearing heavy makeup and lace-adorned clothes (sometimes none at all), he freely plays dozens of instruments and sings. Starting with "Dirty Mind (1983)," he competed with the king of pop Michael Jackson until the early 1990s, releasing masterpiece albums almost every year.
His music is rebellious. The lyrics are filled with all sorts of sexual codes and socially taboo subjects like drugs. His voice, which sounds like a pitifully howling beast, captivates the audience's ears with one of the most distinctive sounds in various rock music. It would be more accurate to say he caresses the song rather than sings it. Therefore, his music reveals its true value more when listened to through headphones or earphones than through speakers. The secrecy of others not knowing what music I am listening to...
Director Tim Burton, who entered the film industry as a Disney animator, could not endure the boredom of drawing the same picture every day, so he threw in his resignation and debuted as a film director, then began making films his own way. The source of his imagination was the crude 1950s sci-fi movies and low-budget horror films aired on TV, as well as cartoons he saw in his childhood. Strange films like "Frankenweenie (1984)" and "Beetlejuice (1988)," which cannot be explained by just one or two genres, sprouted from Tim Burton's childhood memories.
The meeting of the suspicious Prince's music and the strange Tim Burton's films was "Batman (1989)." Warner Bros., recognizing Tim Burton's talent, did not hesitate to entrust the secretly ongoing Batman project to him. Warner Bros. wanted the Batman film to be produced as a blockbuster series like "Indiana Jones" or "Superman." However, Tim Burton created a unique, eerie night hero with his distinctive bizarre sensibility, even within the huge capital, and survived.
Tim Burton asked his close friend Danny Elfman to handle the overall background music of the film and chose Prince for the music used in the film's highlight scenes. Watching the music video for the biggest hit on the Batman soundtrack, "Batdance," you can understand why he is a quirky figure who habitually deviates from the mainstream pop market as a hobby. Wearing a purple suit (the makeup and costume of the supervillain Joker!), singing while moving between women's legs, he looks like a performance artist.
However, Prince did not become the greatest musician of his time solely through his genius musicality and provocative behavior. He criticized his label Warner Bros. as a monster producing slaves. He changed his name to a symbol instead of letters so that he could not use his name, tattooed the word "slave" on his face, and even performed with it. His reckless fight gained the support of many musicians and continued in the form of the Ticketmaster struggle led by the rock group Pearl Jam in the 1990s.
PS. Steven Spielberg said that if Michael Jackson is a "burning fawn in the forest," then Prince is a "lion in a dark cave." When a deer and a lion fight, the lion wins... haha
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