'Super Duper Alice Cooper ' - it starts playing in select theaters in the U.S. on April 30 - is a highly stylized film about his transformation from preacher 's daughter Vincent Furnier on influential rocker Alice Cooper on the way .
' Super Duper 'uses footage from cheesy horror movies and an extended metaphor about Jekyll and Hyde Cooper to discuss increasing in popularity and subsequent brushes with addiction to alcohol and cocaine.
Wisely, however, Reginald Harkema directors, Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen also include a lot of shows and vintage interview footage of Cooper, which makes the documentary riveting, entertaining watch. Cooper himself took time to chat with Ultimate Classic Rock, providing new data on 'Super Duper Alice Cooper ‘...
I wanted to talk to you about the amazing documentary that is coming out...
They came to us and said. “If we are to make a documentary about Alice, you have to be as dramatic as the same character " And I agreed with them. They were Jekyll and Hyde with this reason. We avoid all things stereotypical documentary, and what really makes it interesting.
I was going to ask how much input he had in it - how it was collaborative.
They come with the idea of Jekyll and Hyde, and I said. “Wow, I love that I love the idea that you've picked up on the fact that I am not - and then there is the character I play “It’s a species and Anthony Hopkins Hannibal Lecter. I and Alice Cooper character are absolute opposites.
That's what happened with the documentary. And that kind of blow that one that had the problem with alcohol and everything. End it was me, not the character. It was not the monster - it was Dr. Frankenstein.
Was it difficult for you to relive those moments? The documentary was very honest and firm in terms of looking back at all the problems it has had in recent years.
I found that the most uncomfortable parts were the best parts. It was great to see how the band became what it was and how the public embraced him and said. " Wow , it's great to have a villain in the rock" and all records and all sold well , but not always going to be that huge bump in the road .
No alcohol is VI. I do not see at all. I figured everyone was drinking beer at eight o’clock. And when you're in a rock band in the 70s, it was normal! I did not realize it was a problem until I realized it was more like a drug for me. I was drinking in order to get something done, rather than just drink out of the fun. That's when it becomes a problem of alcoholism. Not what you drink; that's why you drink.
We had to handle all that. And I have no problem opening my life to that. And, of course, later in the line, I had to be very honest about cocaine. I never talked about it before, and yet, I said, "its part of history. Unable to ignore. Happened”. You had to cop to it.
The most uncomfortable movie moment for me - you have to remember now , the original Alice Cooper band with Neal [ Smith drummer ] and Dennis [ Dunaway , bassist ] and everyone , went to high school together ; We went to college together ; We starved together ; we did it together . And we all had different versions of why the band broke up. Well, I would not change that; Version of Neal wanted, I wanted the version of Dennis.
During the Tribeca Film Festival, I'm sitting with Neal and Dennis when he's playing! And we just kind of looked at it and started laughing because we have never been enemies. There has never been a lawsuit. There has never been anything. We have always understood that we all just move away from each other.
That's very mature. You will not find many bands that are able to see that.
Well, it was really a thing where Dennis Neal and remain two of my best friends in the world. We do charity concerts together and stuff like that. Still my way; Neal and Dennis and Mike [ Bruce , guitarist ] are the three survivors - [ lead guitarist ] Glen [ Buxton ] ' s no longer with us - but if ever there is someone who says, " Can you put the original band together and come and do a charity thing ? "Come on, “Yes, of course.”
The footage of the film is one of the best parts of it.
You know, it's funny - the production was very important to me. If we had an eight-hour test, which will be seven hours in music. We would spend seven hours to make sure that music was dead - in. In order to do theater, you may not have the icing on the cake without the cake. So for us, the music was more important than the theatrics.
The theatricality easily reached us. That became a natural thing. If you say, "Welcome to My Nightmare," not only says it - you give them the nightmare! Produce him on stage and say, “Let’s make this nightmare come true now.”
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