
The movie Piece by Piece which consists of music, a documentary, and a biographical film all at the same time is an idea which is rich in concepts. It can be expected that producer and musician Pharrell William’s famous song, Happy which was number one on the charts, is going to be a great addition to his animated musical. Don’t forget, Williams’s music which can be described as playful and genre crossing is perhaps too much for a simple live action narrative to communicate. However, Morgan Neville has had a difficult time telling William’s life story with any depth or detail.
As a filmmaker, Neville returns to his roots of steady narration in his documentary styled film Piece by Piece. For example, the opening sequence uses a fairly common trope in behind-the-scenes films. the camera is behind a Lego Pharrell (who voices himself) as he enters the house. He interacts with Helen saying he needs quiet because he will be interviewed. Now, reaching for the camera within the confines of the room, Pharrell sits on one of two chairs prepared the other was for Lego Neville. He asks the Nigerian born star to narrate his life and pictures a baby Sea horse searching for Neptune the Roman God of the sea, who is the father figure to sea babies. That type of origin narration leads us nearer to Neptune’s shores Virginia Beach, which is where the singer was born and where he is still residing with his parents at the Atlantis projects.
The rest of the movie then proceeds normally as a biographical trying of the music genre of music stars wherein a character has a normal climax only to experience a tragic end. At primary school, Pharrell meets his Neptune partners Pusha Missy Elliot and Timbaland, followed by Chad Hugo and Shay Haley. Teddy Riley a well known music producer captures their hearts, and Williams and Hugo become motivated to realize their complete potential.
This leads to engaging with Gwen Stefani Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake, and numerous others. A plethora of hits, of course, gives appeal to the film from the jukebox angle. But philosophically, Neville, when trying to depict the surroundings in his music videos for Hollaback Girl and Drop It Like It’s Hot, uses Legos to recreate the videos which is tacky, to say the least. Pharrell’s journey towards success then becomes the central problem of the narrative at hand as he tries to do too much by being a hitmaker and a head for a fashion product line at the same time.
It’s all quite dull, as it were. Biopics specially ones with the major people involved deeply in the process are always scrubs. Despite its purported lucent phrasing that is often bleeped through Love Piece by Piece is too clean. Pharrell in this movie only comes out and reveals his two biggest flaws, I don’t want to get my heart broken, and Yeeah I’m trusting. The first gets him into problems eas due to A&R men trying to make him sell out. The second happens in his career by genre hopping or in his personal life by jumping from girlfriend to wife. Not by any means do these present challenging roadblocks. But they cannot serve as the entirety of a person’s face. More like Neville puts forth, Pharrell’s trust in God and love for his friends who shooting Pusha T in despair of collab with him and endless creativity are emphasized more.
Many narrative questions are left dangling by such aims. They even make such emphasis that the Neptunes were signed to the Teddy Riley label, but it will never be said how the group went out of this contract once they have got management. Pharrell’s mother and father are depicted as comic relief but not much more is known about them apart from that.
Pharrell compares his songwriting to assembling Lego bricks until the light bulb of the concept comes forth. This is the only concept that is probably the most concrete in this case his functioning process.
More importantly, the picture does not often reach for many fresh angles in discussing the more personal details of his creativity. The Mississippi sequence which depicts the artist’s synesthesia is the only one where such colors explode across the screen in broad strokes at once. Other funny elements include a living Neptune statue and Pharrell dreaming of being abandoned at sea by unscrupulous A&R guys. Yet this film never gets as fun as it wants to give you the impression that it is.
Be inspired by the too long and poorly conceived Piece by Piece which almost always attempts to meet the criteria of its genre. There’s no creativity in the musical numbers, the Lego paste is not applied effective the biosketch aspects are too strict and the jokes are occasional. Also the audience what audience? This picture has foul language so it cannot be aimed at children. The animated look simply raises the question of how many adults will be interested in a film that tries to be clever and innocent at the same time.
In its current version, Piece by Piece does not have anything that stands out to be compared with its subject and hence lacks memorability.
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