David Bowie's film roles

On January 10th, two years have passed since the "man who fell on Earth" decides to fly away forever. I guess it was time to return to his planet - in Nicholas Rowe's film "The Man Who Fell to Earth", Bowie become an alien humanoid in need of help because his native land undergoes catastrophic drought. How much this is just a role and how much Bowie is just trying to steal from our water you decide. But anyone who has spent days, weeks or months in Major Tom's study, Ziggy Stardust, or The Thin White Duke (some of his many alter egotis) is clear that there is something inhuman about the whole thing. There is something inhuman about releasing 25 studio albums, 10 of which are great, and the other 15 are just as good and decent achievements. There's something inhumane about having 18 months of cancer, being weak, but still creating an album that ranks up to your most brilliant achievements from 40 years ago, and you go with one of the most memorable swans songs in the music. And finally - there is something inhuman about putting so much love into your music and managing to be so deeply human.

Perhaps the first impression Christopher Nolan's "Prestige" leaves is for a dizzying and mischievous story. But even the British musician has contributed to the magnetism of the conundrum.In fact, if you are well acquainted with Bowie's temperament and Nikola Tesla's enigmatic spirit, the picture becomes quite distinct, and everything comes to the scene. Nolan says he has failed to imagine anyone else in the small but important role, so he personally met Bowie to beg him to enter the Serbian inventor's skin. In the end, we received one of the most mysterious images in the history of science played by one of the most mercurial people in the history of music. Surely there is something to thank Nolan, though sometimes overdoing his characteristic obsessions. Bowie seldom worked with American directors, but I guess everyone would have made an exception for Martin Scorsese. We find him as Pontius Pilate in the personal and provocative "The Last Temptation of Christ". This may be Bowie's most "acting" role, a thin and concealed reincarnation. Of course - Pontius Pilate, whom we know from the popular religious mythology, is quite different from Scorsese. We find him in much more inexorable and steadfast light, far removed from the popular vile image. This very non-standard point of view is indicative of the choice of the legendary director.

One of the most distinctive features of Bowie's musical career is his eclecticity - our beloved alien humanoid has not stopped experimenting with a variety of styles and approaches constantly refining his ideas and skills. Originally, as one of the most prominent representatives of provocative glam rock, along with Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, he switches to electronic and cutting-edge music, preserving the typical emotion of his voice and lyrics. This transition to more avant-garde and experimental music Bowie is due to the genius of ambition-music - Brian Eno, with whom they create a trilogy of albums called the "Berlin Trilogy". Later, we may even notice disco and funk direction in his work. This amalgam of ideas, styles, and sounds he transmits to cinema in the form of different roles. Whenever it comes to Bowie and his film work, the cult dark adventure "Labyrinth" pop up first. The film is known for its thematic references to "The Wizard of Oz" and "Alice in the Wonderland," which has failed cruelly in the box office but later rediscovered. I will leave Labyrinth for another time, and in this text I will draw attention to two other roles, which sometimes remain in the shade.

We must also pay special attention to the underestimated and ignored "The Man Who Fell To Earth" by Nicholas Rowg. If, like Pontius Pilate, we find Bowie in his best acting role, we see him in Rook's indie science fiction in his most natural look - Bowie like Bowie. Adorable, naughty, provocative, emotional and unthinkable. Certainly the quintessence of his film work, Rowe's film succeeds not only in trying to show us the extraterrestrial essence of the musician, but also as a pure science fiction, attacking capitalism and the already familiar alienation of the modern world. Interestingly, Lynch's Twin Peaks Masterpiece is also being visited by David Bowie, again a matter of enigmatic role - he is an agent whose engagement with the series will forever be left unconscious, which is normal and expected - nevertheless it's about David Lynch. We were expecting Bowie to return to the third season, but that could not have happened ... Still, his character was played by a kettle. Yes, kettle.

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