I guess we all know the movies about rock stars and the like. Take for example "Ray" in which Jamie Foxx played a very convincing Ray Charles or "What's love got to do with it?" in which Angela Bassett does Tina Turner justice and more recently Joachim Phoenix who starred in "walk the line" as the great late Johnny Cash.
But in all those movies, the performances are mimed using the real music. But then there's the exception, the movie where the performances really are the real deal, where the actors learned not only how to play the musicians but also how to play like the musicians. The title of that movie?
"Control"
Which is a biopic on the late great Ian Curtis of Joy Division. Director Anton Corbijn insisted on real performances and drove the actors into learning how to play instruments and do it in exactly the same way as the real bandmembers did. So how did they do?
Well here's the real thing, Joy Division performing "Digital"
and here's the cast of "Control" performing "Digital"
