We spoke w/ 'Spinning Gold' director Timothy Scott Bogart about making a movie about his father's musical legacy.
Few music executives can claim to have the influence Neil Bogart had in the 1970s. Besides being the founder of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record label of all time, Neil Bogart helped discover game-changing artists such as KISS, Donna Summer, and Village People. Neil has also helped musicians such as Gladys Knight and Bill Withers to launch some of the most famous singles. However, as an executive, Bogart’s unbelievable story was doomed to oblivion.
Bogart spent the next decade slowly piecing his father’s history together until he could present the project to Timberlake. Unfortunately, Timberlake’s music career led him to give up the part of Neil Bogart, but as Spinning Gold’s director says, the whole process happened in a friendly way. Remembering the early stages of production of his movie, Bogart said:
While most musical biopics have to find actors to play a single artist or the members of a single band, Spinning Gold had the monumental challenge of bringing dozens of musicians to the silver screen. To ensure he wouldn't lose control of the movie's scope, Bogart decided to frame the narrative as the origin story of all these amazing people.
While Bogart's Spinning Gold pays homages to many influential musicians, there was not enough time in a single movie to tell the story of every single his father helped launch. As expected, some things had to be cut out of the script or left behind in the editing room. Nevertheless, Bogart didn't want to lose focus of the story he was trying to tell, which is why he only added musical numbers that helped the audience to understand his father's journey.
Still, while Bogart chose to stick with the film biopic format for Spinning Gold, he didn't follow the expected structure of the subgenre. For instance, Spinning Gold favors a non-linear progression in which we go back and forth in time, witnessing the biggest failures and achievements of Neil Bogart. There are a couple of reasons why the director did this. As Bogart explains:
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