Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen recalls the game-changing moment he heard a rare recording of the late art-rock icon at his most vulnerable.
is that once upon a time the Greeks had gods; we have rock stars. David talks about this early on in the film. In many ways, rock stars are our mythical figures.
David was more of a seeker than Kurt [Cobain], but where they are similar is the need to create, the need to purge.Divinity aside, there are qualitative differences to this myth.
At school, Morgen says, he was lousy at art. His difficulties with expression were literal: he couldn’t speak until he was five, had no motor co-ordination skills and spent his childhood in therapy. “I am in awe of artists. I’m in awe of that creative energy that is so overwhelming that it has to be released,” he says. “In both films, that hopefully comes through.”, Morgen’s reverence for the act of creation comes through as nothing less than a design for life.
“But I mean … Bowie took almost everything life handed him and turned it into lemonade. He throws a deck of cards and it’s a castle … Somehow, every time, he manages to turn what should be a disastrous situation into something life-affirming and heroic.”
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