![]() Wolf (Eamonn Walker) and Etta James (executive producer Beyonce Knowles). Label takes off, and he rapidly brings in talents such as Little Walter (Columbus Short), Berry (Mos Def), Howlin' When Chess takes up with Muddy Waters (played with growling charismaīy Jeffrey Wright, also recently seen as Colin Powell in "W." and James Bond's CIA buddy in "Quantum of Solace"), his Successful recording artists like badges of honor. That's the closest the film comes to explaining Chess' obsession with the cars, which he later dispenses to his Girlfriend's father that he'll transcend his poor origins: "Don't worry where I'm from, my wife's gonna drive a Cadillac." ![]() The story starts in Chicago in the 1940s, with Chess (Adrien Brody) as a young Polish immigrant promising his Leonard, on some of the label's biggest personalities and on the music they made. "Cadillac Records" shrugs off Phil Chess and the label's early years in order to focus on Stories, when South Side brothers Leonard and Phil Chess relaunched Aristocrat as Chess Records and started releasingĪlbums by the likes of Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' The film may also induce dejà vu in longtime Chicago residents, because there's a chance they lived through these In "Cadillac Records," it's straight-up history. In "Dreamgirls," the sequence is a flashy, fictionalized amalgam of events from the Motown era. There are lots of flashy new cars as symbols of success.Īnd above all, there's the music, the motivator and the moneymaker, the one thing that heals all wounds - or at least in the case of the blues, expresses them. Musician's song and turns it into a hit single. There's the white group that steals a black Racism and cross over from the R&B ghetto to the white-dominated pop charts. There's the driven record-label owner who's dispensing payola to deejays, trying to buy his way past institutionalized There's the plucky upstart studio where African-American musicians are pioneering new kinds of music. The story is remarkably similar to one told in the middle of 2006's "Dreamgirls," in a montage set to "Steppin' to the Bad Side." ![]() Fans of musical dramas may experience some dejà vu while watching "Cadillac Records." ![]()
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