Amidst the well-deserved MJ hysteria following the news of his death, I was made aware of the fact that the King of Pop himself not only made the best-selling album of all time, won 13 Grammys, was immortalized in his own super-stellar video game (“Michael’s Moonwalker”), had a chimp named “Bubbles,” was a former Jehovah’s witness, but ALSO ALSO ALSO starred in a DISNEY MOVIE called Captain EO where he combats rather frightening (rather ugly), off-color creatures. Now you all may have known this fact, but I certainly didn’t – and so was amazed when during a little impromptu apartment MJ party, was shown this video.
Let me tell you a few bizarre and rad things about this movie:
(1) Produced by George Lucas (as such, certain Star Wars-like galactical scenes are eerily familiar)
(2) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola (maybe I shouldn’t have told you that one – because if you had watched the whole thing in its entirety (Parts 1 & 2) and then seen the end-credits, you would surely have been like, “WHAT!?”)
(3) The “Supreme Leader” – you know, the prototypical space-age evil woman who, in non-Disney-PG movies would otherwise be able to shoot milk out of her boobs and what not – is played by Anjelica Houston (In my head, I can’t seem to disassociate her with Wes Anderson, so her appearance was a bit WEIRD).
(4) At the time, Captain EO was the most expensive movie ever made on a per-minute basis. $1.76 million per minute! Think about that for a minute. Let it blow your mind. Michael Jackson blows your mind.
Of course, it is MJ’s smooth moves and unbreakable voice that save the planet, turning dystopia into utopia. Predictable, but hey, not gonna lie – I watched it so I could see him jive!
–N
