麥可傑克森的崛起與隕落
一部新的傳記電影是傑克遜遺產管理機構在傑克遜去世後開展的——也是利潤豐厚的——“洗白”運動的最新舉措。
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作者：馬克‧比內利
2026年4月14日
有些事情很難想像麥可傑克森會做，例如開車。在即將上映的傳記電影《麥可》的早期劇本草稿中，有一個非常精彩的場景：這位未來的流行音樂之王在前往錄音室的路上，獨自一人駕駛著汽車穿梭在洛杉磯的高速公路上。那是1979年，20歲的他獨自坐在他那輛雜亂的奔馳車裡，哼唱著一首新歌——《情不自禁》（I Can't Help It），這首哀婉動人、略帶怪誕的民謠後來成為了他迪斯科經典單曲《永不停歇》（Don't Stop 'Til Get Enough 'Til Get Enough）的B面。車裡堆滿了筆記本，凌亂得可愛；儀錶板上的勵志訊息預示著他即將迎來輝煌的職業生涯。他正在錄製他的個人傑作《Off the Wall》，專輯封面完美展現了他當時的形象：膚色較深，五官不再那麼精緻，留著符合時代潮流的爆炸頭——儘管已是演藝圈15年的老將，卻顯得格外年輕。就算我想，也做不到……完美的副歌，完美的演繹。去掉「even」這個字讓它更加深入人心。
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在他的母親凱瑟琳傑克森的回憶錄中，她講述了另一個關於邁克爾開車的故事。她說，邁克爾被一個警察攔下後，警察竟然沒認出他，還以為他的勞斯萊斯“像輛偷來的車”，結果他被關進了監獄。這個故事簡直就是一部傳記電影的絕佳素材。但它並沒有被收錄到《麥可》的早期草稿中——或許是因為它鮮為人知，或許是因為它不可避免地會讓觀眾想起傑克森日後與法律的糾葛。
There are certain things it’s difficult to picture Michael Jackson doing, like driving a car. One of the best scenes in an early script draft of “Michael,” the upcoming biopic, describes the future King of Pop weaving through traffic on a Los Angeles freeway en route to the studio. It’s 1979 and he’s 20 years old, alone in his cluttered Mercedes, singing a new song to himself — “I Can’t Help It,” the plaintive, off-kilter ballad that would become the B-side to his disco classic “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough.” The car, endearingly messy, is cluttered with notepads; inspirational messages on the dashboard manifest the sublime career stretch that is just on the horizon. He is in the midst of recording his solo masterpiece “Off the Wall,” whose cover would capture his look at the time: darker and less delicately featured, with an era-appropriate Afro — impossibly young, though already a show-business veteran of 15 years. I can’t help it, if I wanted to. … A perfect chorus, perfectly delivered. Dropping the “even” made it stick.
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In her own memoir, his mother, Katherine Jackson, tells another story about Michael driving, claiming he wound up in jail after being pulled over by a cop who somehow didn’t recognize him and thought his Rolls-Royce looked “like a stolen car.” The anecdote would seem perfect fodder for a biopic. But it did not find its way into that early draft of “Michael” — perhaps because of its obscurity, perhaps because of how it would inevitably remind viewers of Jackson’s future brushes with the law.
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