{"id":608417,"date":"2024-02-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-doc-about-the-disco-legend\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T02:00:00","slug":"watch-doc-about-the-disco-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-doc-about-the-disco-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Doc About the Disco Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e4ab816996\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e4ab816996\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-doc-about-the-disco-legend\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Doc_About_the_Disco_Legend%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Doc About the Disco Legend&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-doc-about-the-disco-legend\/#%E2%80%9CDoc_About_the_Disco_Legend%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Doc About the Disco Legend&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Doc_About_the_Disco_Legend%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Doc About the Disco Legend&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDoc_About_the_Disco_Legend%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Doc About the Disco Legend&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    From a filmmaker\u2019s perspective, it\u2019s always fortuitous when the name of an artist\u2019s signature work encapsulates the journey that they made in their life and career. What else to call a film about Johnny Cash? \u201cWalk the Line,\u201d of course. A Tina Turner biopic? \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It.\u201d Aretha Franklin? \u201cRespect,\u201d of course. There\u2019s a reason the forthcoming Bon Jovi docu<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> is called \u201cThank You, Goodnight,\u201d and not \u201cYou Give Love a Bad Name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A portrait of the disco luminary but not a biopic, \u201cGloria Gaynor: I Will Survive\u201d follows in this estimable tradition. But Betsy Schechter\u2019s documentary \u2014 which will get a one-night theatrical release in roughly 800 theaters on Feb. 13 following a healthy festival run \u2014 also showcases why that serendipity can come at a greater price to the artist than their film\u2019s marketing prospects: Examining the looming shadow of the singer\u2019s 1970s heyday as she embarks upon a new career as a gospel artist, Schechter chronicles the adversity \u2014 professional, romantic, even physical \u2014 that transformed Gaynor\u2019s chart-topping dance tune into an anthem for female empowerment, the gay community and most of all Gaynor herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film opens as Gaynor, now 40 years into her career, decides to record her first gospel album. Between 1975 and 2013, she won a Grammy for \u201cI Will Survive,\u201d released 19 secular albums and embarked on a grueling, decades-long tour schedule, mostly across Europe. She did the latter at the behest of her ex-husband Linwood Simon, whose will she bent to as a result of adolescent sexual abuse and abandonment issues that were baked into her, some even before she was born.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Though Gaynor divorced Simon years before the beginning of the film and is now coupled in a charmingly combative relationship with her manager Stephanie Gold, it\u2019s easy to see the vestiges of that trauma in her anxiety over the world\u2019s perceived indifference to this new musical expression. (That said, an early clip of her current singing suggests she could easily find a new niche as a Sharon Jones-style belter.) She additionally reveals details about the spinal injury that plagued her since the late 1970s without relief, and unpacks the formative experiences that led her to stay with her manipulative, unrepentant philanderer of a spouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As dramatic as many of these events naturally are, the majority of the film\u2019s runtime is devoted to her gospel pursuits, no doubt a result of the wealth of footage Schechter captured during the five-year process of recording her Grammy-winning 2019 album \u201cTestimony.\u201d It\u2019s clear that Schechter means the film to serve as a cathartic resurrection for this fallen diva, but the filmmaker employs a perspective that\u2019s almost too intimate to communicate the significance of her work and her legacy. While everyone on earth has heard \u201cI Will Survive,\u201d there\u2019s a slightly dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointing absence of music industry experts, record-label executives or other pundits to contextualize what made her special among the disco queens of the era. Instead, we\u2019re treated to Gaynor\u2019s account of events and a handful of personal testimonies (mostly about how great she was) and little else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Among the reasons this may leave some viewers disappointed is that notwithstanding her ubiquitous hit, it\u2019s fairly self-evident that (and why) she was great; \u201cI Will Survive\u201d was a hit disco song anchored by a clean, strong, singular voice at a time when overdubs and studio trickery got a lot of singles to the finish line, and she maintained that power and emotion in all of her music. Perhaps that\u2019s also why so much of the film is about the ups and downs of her purported comeback, where there\u2019s more drama to mine as she seeks collaborators who can give her gospel record a commercial bump and the imprint of legitimacy within the genre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But even a cursory glance at her vast body of work suggests there was much more here to explore. Her first album, \u201cNever Can Say Goodbye,\u201d was historic for its arrangement of a full-side disco mix by Tom Moulton, founder of the twelve-inch vinyl single. She enjoyed early collaborations with members of Motown Records\u2019 studios band, the Funk Brothers. She recorded the main theme to the horror disco film \u201cNocturna.\u201d And outside of its eventual induction into the Library of Congress\u2019 National Recording Registry, there isn\u2019t quite enough attention given to the reach of her music, which has been used in hundreds of movies and TV shows, inspired dozens of covers and copycats (remember Cake\u2019s alt-rock version?), and become emblematic of the disco genre as a whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That said, there are more than a handful of powerful moments in the film to reinforce the triumph of the documentary\u2019s title, such as a public tribute to her by the students, faculty and community at a primary school in Valencia, Spain that provides a much-needed lift just when she\u2019s feeling particularly hopeless about her future. Moreover, Gaynor\u2019s personal transformation (culminating in corrective back surgery, an honorary college degree at age 72 and a second Grammy win 40 years into her career) offers a welcome counterpoint to many of the artists from her era whose careers, or lives, came to an end before the music community and the world gave them their flowers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In what has become an increasingly crowded landscape of behind-the-scenes, true-story documentaries, the appeal of \u201cGloria Gaynor: I Will Survive\u201d may largely be limited to longtime fans of her music. Even so, it takes the song with which she\u2019s synonymous and highlights one of its most important lessons, one it took Gaynor most of her life to learn: When you decide to save all your lovin\u2019 for someone who\u2019s lovin\u2019 you, make sure you start with yourself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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