Yay, I get to write another article about Michael Jackson! Anyone who knows me knows that I love Michael Jackson.
I love him more than the casual listener, and more than I probably should. That being said, whenever anything new comes out that is MJ-related, I’m one of the first to know. On memorial day, Lifetime premiered the film Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland. It was based on the book Remember the Time by Jackson’s former bodyguards Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard.
Now, I read the book and it was fine. I’ve read a lot of books written by people who’ve claimed to be close friends of Michael. When reading or watching things like that, I always take it with a grain of salt.
Everyone thinks that he’s the one who was closest to Michael.(Even Conrad Murray in his stupid book that nobody asked for!) Everyone claims he is the only one Michael could turn to.
It’s funny, a lot of people said this and yet, he died alone and went through his court trials with almost no support from his so-called friends. I’m sure that parts of the story were true, but most of it seemed like complete BS.
When I heard that Michael was getting a Lifetime movie, I knew they were going to try to get the audience to feel sympathy for him. It was going to be very dramatic and I was going to end up crying. I mean, it’s Lifetime for goodness sake. They casted the Michael Jackson impersonator, Navi, to play him.
I’ve heard of Navi and had watched some videos of him online, and Lifetime casting him as the love of my life brought about three problems.
Navi is British. He is British and he cannot hide his accent. So when he’s performing, he barely talks for this very reason.
Navi is NOT an actor. Michael Jackson was way too emotional for his own good. How can we expect someone to properly portray one of the iconic musicians of all time during his most controversial periods when the guy playing him isn’t even an actor!?!
Michael wouldn’t approve. A movie was made about Michael in the 90s and they were considering a non-black actor to portray him. Upon hearing this, Michael became furious and reportedly shut down the production. If this movie was really about honoring Michael, they should have respected his wishes, or even better, not have made it.
The movie itself wasn’t all that, but it really wasn’t too bad either. And if you don’t know that much about Michael Jackson, it is definitely worth the watch.
The Michael Jackson estate didn’t really approve, and his family hasn’t publicly said anything positive or negative about it. But I can’t fully support anything the family doesn’t.
I suggest reading the book instead to really see the side of Michael they try to show. Michael Jackson was an amazing person and people should just stop trying to squeeze every last penny they can out of him. The man has been dead for over seven years!
Let my husband rest.