{"id":19704,"date":"2009-04-10T03:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2009\/04\/10\/joy-division\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T03:30:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T03:30:47","slug":"joy-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/joy-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Se acaba de estrenar &#8220;Control&#8221;, un film dirigido por Anton Corbijn que pretende hacer un retrato de Ian Curtis, el m\u00edtico l\u00edder de la banda Joy Division, fallecido en 1980 a la edad de 23 a\u00f1os. El film parece dar a entender que las dos causas principales de la compleja personalidad de Curtis fueron b\u00e1sicamente su epilepsia y sus problemas sentimentales. En este entramado, Joy Division se convierte en un mero tel\u00f3n de fondo de las dudas sentimentales de su cantante. No es extra\u00f1o, pues el film se basa en el libro &#8220;Touching from a distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division&#8221;, publicado en 1995 por Deborah Curtis, la viuda del cantante y compositor y es ella misma la que ejerce como productora de &#8220;Control&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7c2_B_cWK_M&#038;hl=es&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7c2_B_cWK_M&#038;hl=es&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Para contrarestar, vale la pena recuperar ahora &#8220;24 Hour Party People&#8221; (2002) dirigida por Michael Winterbottom, en la que se recrea, en forma de falso documental, la energ\u00eda creativa de Manchester entre finales de los 70 y principios de los 90, donde fueron surgiendo grupos como Joy Division, Happy Mondays o New Order, entre otros. Tony Wilson, el presentador de programas musicales de Granada TV y fundador del sello Factory Records se convierte en este film en el hilo conductor cargado de iron\u00eda, \u00e1cida s\u00e1tira y mucha inteligencia, de una historia en la que quiz\u00e1s no todo es cierto pero que sin duda sabe transmitir el esp\u00edritu, la atm\u00f3sfera y la energ\u00eda de ese momento y ese lugar que hoy se nos parecen tan especiales.<br \/>\nRecordemos una de las primeras escenas  (memorable) en la que uno de los primeros conciertos de los Sex Pistols cont\u00f3 s\u00f3lo con un p\u00fablico de 40 personas&#8230; de las cuales 40 (o por lo menos 39) luego ser\u00edan figuras claves en la escena musical brit\u00e1nica. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A1Qz2x94q6A&#038;hl=es&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A1Qz2x94q6A&#038;hl=es&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Se acaba de estrenar &#8220;Control&#8221;, un film dirigido por Anton Corbijn que pretende hacer un retrato de Ian Curtis, el m\u00edtico l\u00edder de la banda Joy Division, fallecido en 1980&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6783],"tags":[5672,5574],"coauthors":[6368],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joy Division &#8211; 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