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“Ghosts” is a musical movie, 38 mins long, with Michael Jackson playing both the main characters. The first of those characters is a Maestro who lives alone in a haunted looking castle on a hill. Its known he has been entertaining the local town children with scary magic tricks which they have found to be pure fun. Ghosts, in which Jackson is transformed into an elderly Caucasian man with no rhythm,[63] holds the world record for being the longest music video ever made.
Michael Jackson plays the role of the second main character, the Town Mayor, a white aging, overweight man. The make up effects are amazing its not easy to tell this isn’t a real human actor let alone guess this role is being played by Michael Jackson. The Mayor leads some of the towns folk up to the castle along with some of the kids on a mission to run the Maestro out of town. They believe he is not just entertaining the children but scaring them. They, or at least the Town Mayor perceive the Maestro as a “Freak” and “Weirdo”. The children say the Maestro is harmless and want him to be left alone.
When the Mayor backed up by the towns people finds the Maestro and tells him “Are you going to leave, or am I going to have to make you?” The Maestro is unfazed by this and questions “You’re trying to scare me, aren’t you?…I guess I have no choice, I have to try and scare you.” This is when the movies special effects really begin. As you can see from the movie screenshots Michael totally distorts his face and eventually pulls his whole face off just leaving his skull.
The Maestro then reveals he is not alone in the castle and many of his ghostly friends start appearing from balls of light thrown by the Maestro. Michael performs a dance to the song “2 Bad”. This is also followed by some more routines, one with Michael’s skeleton dancing and even moonwalking. The Maestro also enters into the body of the Mayor and makes the Mayor dance to the music. The Mayor ends up disappearing through a window and the towns people appear to accept the Maestro.
Overall the movie really does make the most of some of the latest special effects of the time. The dance routines, although somewhat reminiscent of Thriller, with Michael leading ghosts from past era instead of zombies are amazing and the music is Michael Jackson at his best, maybe not as regards hit records, but ideal for the movie. This is a must see movie for any fan of Michael Jackson.
The movie was released at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 and released on VHS video in 1997. Songs featured in the film were “2 Bad” which was from Michael Jackson’s HIStory album and Ghosts and Is It Scary which were both taken from Blood On The Dance Floor, which was a History in the Mix album with some new tracks.
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This is SOOOOOO AWESOME !!!! I have GOT to buy it !!!! Lovve U MJ !
WOW…I love this soooooo much I had to watch it again !!!!!
Love it! Great Video, Awesome…..
one of his greatest videos of all time. michael you made everyone of us happy. we stood by you 100% for your whole life. we will very, sincerely miss you. You are and will always be Michael Jackson: The King of POP.
August 29, 1958-June 25, 2009
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we miss mj so much. still cant believe he has gone even after 2yrs. i wish this was on dvd!!!!!! at least i won bet that the mayor was mj dressed up!!!! he had a gr8 sense of humour. he is sorely missed. at least my son can c what a fantastic artist mj was through his legacy of videos. thankyou michael. r.i.p
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