{"id":40832,"date":"2023-12-31T22:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T03:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40832"},"modified":"2023-11-01T17:32:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T21:32:27","slug":"blurred-lines-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/31\/blurred-lines-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurred Lines (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Blurred-Lines-still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Blurred-Lines-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Blurred-Lines-still.jpg 627w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Blurred-Lines-still-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Blurred-Lines-still-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a>In 2013, pop music artist Robin Thicke released a massive hit song alongside music producer Pharrell called \u201cBlurred Lines.\u201d The song became almost iconic, but it also instantly became infamous. Robin Thicke was accused of stealing the tune to Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u201cGotta Give it Up\u201d by Gaye\u2019s family estate. Despite their initial denial, Robin Thicke and Williams were taken to court and forced testify, leading to a startling musical precedent that also ruined Robin Thicke\u2019s career momentum.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Director-Writer Corry Raymond\u2019s \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d is one of the most scathing indictments of one of the more controversial pop artists of the early aughts. No one ever accused Robin Thicke of being talented, but he had charisma, which sent him on a trajectory in to iconic status. The hoopla with his still widely debated theft of \u201cGotta Give it Up\u201d did not help him, and director Raymond deep down seems to understand how both men were victims and culprits in the long run. \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d portrays artist Robin Thicke (played beautifully by Ryan Brown) as a complete sham and something of a patsy who would say whatever he could to get himself out of this trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Williams (played with strong moral tones of gray by Jonathan Taylor) is portrayed as someone who completely threw Robin Thicke under the bus, refusing to go to bat for him or his own work. Taken from a lot of the written testimony, \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d is such a fascinating short dramatization that could have easily been transformed in to a wonderful film in the vein of \u201cThe Social Network.\u201d Where does the tribute end and plagiarizing begin? Was Robin Thicke completely aware of his plagiarism? Did Pharrell somehow trick him to make the song, convinced they were just making music?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s so much to be taken away from the testimony here, and director Raymond really leaves it all on the table for the audience to mull over. The \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d lawsuit is an incident deserving of a feature, and Corry Raymond lays the groundwork without flaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, pop music artist Robin Thicke released a massive hit song alongside music producer Pharrell called \u201cBlurred Lines.\u201d The song became almost iconic, but it also instantly became infamous. Robin Thicke was accused of stealing the tune to Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u201cGotta Give it Up\u201d by Gaye\u2019s family estate. Despite their initial denial, Robin Thicke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,1572],"tags":[237,302,501,698,938],"class_list":["post-40832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","category-rockandrollny","tag-courtroom","tag-drama","tag-indie-film","tag-music","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40834,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40832\/revisions\/40834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}