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PAUL VERNON CHESTER
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Django Reinhardt has been portrayed in several films, such as in the opening sequence of the 2003 animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville. The third and fourth fingers of the cartoon Reinhardt are considerably smaller than the fingers used to play the guitar. Reinhardt's legacy dominates in Woody Allen's 1999 Sweet and Lowdown. This spoof biopic focuses on fictional American guitarist Emmet Ray's obsession with Reinhardt, with soundtrack featuring Howard Alden. He is also portrayed by guitarist John Jorgenson in the movie Head in the Clouds. In the Italian western Django, the title character is presumably named after Reinhardt. In the climax of the movie, his hands are smashed by his enemies and he is forced to fire a gun with his wounded hands. Reinhardt is also the idol of the character Arvid in the movie Swing Kids, where the character's left hand is smashed by a member of the Hitler Jugend, but is inspired by Reinhardt's example to keep playing. Reinhardt's music has been used in the soundtrack of many films, including in The Matrix; Rhythm Futur, Daltry Calhoun, Metroland, Chocolat, The Aviator, Kate and Leopold and Gattaca; the score for Louis Malle's 1974 movie, Lacombe Lucien; the background for the Steve Martin movie L.A. Story; and the background for a number of Woody Allen movies, including Stardust Memories. Reinhardt's music has also been featured in the soundtracks of several video games, such as the 2002 game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven and several times in the 2007 game BioShock. J'attendre Reprise http://www.hotclub.co.uk/html/film.html .....................................................so little visual record of one man revered by so many 'Emmet Ray' played convincingly by Sean Penn in 'Sweet and Lowdown'
Tribute by Woody Allen - 'Sweet and Lowdown' A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmet Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. We follow Ray's life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizarre hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music. The Guitarist who dubbed and taught Sean Penn was Howard Alden
Howard Alden was restricted to a 6 string for the recording of the S & L Soundtrack and he really missed that extra string while laying down the tracks. That has now been overtaken for the future thanks to flexibility of manufacture at Manouche Guitars Custom 7 String Grande Bouche Manouche Guitar
The guitar
playing in the movie is actually by Howard Alden. You will want to own the
soundtrack. Alden taught Sean Penn to play the guitar, in lessons so
successful that Allen's camera never has to cheat: We hear Emmet Ray and
we see Emmett Ray's fingers, and there is never reason to doubt that Penn is
actually playing the guitar. The
Script Biography of Emmet Ray The
audience for these giant talents included foreign musicians who modelled
themselves after the American originators. Many Europeans played on a high level
but only one became a major influence on American jazzmen -- the gypsy
guitarist, Django Reinhardt.
The captivating music of Django invokes nostalgia for the period and has been featured in many films by Woody Allen and of course - Chocolat - Directed by Lasse Halström and yet more bizarrely - Matrix |
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