How to spot a lie—Kenny Ortega Part 3

This interview is with Oprah Winfrey. Here is part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mj8S0gchIM&feature=related.

2:00 Oprah asks, “Have you been able to process that he is gone?” Ortega, smiling, responds, “Little bits, he’s still so much alive for me. Thank God.” That’s weird. Michael Jackson has been dead for about 4 months. I would think that it would have hit Kenny Ortega by now, and that he would not be smiling.

2:10-2:20 Oprah eyes dart up and to the left while she recalls watching the movie.

2:20 Ortega says, “He is so present in the film that you can forget that he is still not with us.” Check out his face after he says that. Once he registers what he said, he licks his lips, blinks rapidly, and then smiles. The first two are signs of anxiety.

2:30-3:10 Oprah says that she heard that Michael would call him in the middle of the night and shout out ideas. Watch Ortega when she says, “fireflies”. He says “yes”, but shakes his head “no”. He then goes on to explain what “fireflies” means, hardly looking at Oprah, until he gets to the part about looking up the word “bioluminescent”. Once he finishes he shrugs his shoulders. Maybe that is not what “fireflies” truly means. If you noticed, he kind of changed the subject. Oprah asked what it meant, referring to what it meant to Michael and why he wanted them, but Kenny Ortega turns it into how fireflies represent Michael Jackson.

4:05 He says they started rehearsing in late April. Check out his eyes while he is thinking of that, they are up and to the right. He is lying!

4:25 Oprah says “Weren’t you close to going to London.”Ortega responds, “We were about eight days away.” Check out his posture, he starts to get real fidgety.


Oprah interview part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuEKB47gaF8&NR=1.

1:50-2:50 He says Michael Jackson was healthy, no drug abuse. There are no signs that he is lying.

5:30 Oprah asks if there were any concerns. Ortega shakes head “no”, but says “yes”.

Believe.

How to spot a lie—Kenny Ortega Part 2

The next interview is Kenny Ortega on BBC news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zam7KJwTMjM&feature=related.
This interview is much shorter, but this is what I see:

1:47 He is asked if it is strange watching the This Is It and knowing Michael has passed. He shakes his head “no” and says, “He thought it was going to be.” He keeps on by saying that it was “helpful being in there with Michael”. Take that how you want to, be it spiritually of physically, but he could have worded it better.

3:20 He says there was nothing wrong with Michael’s health that Michael called and said, “Kenny, this is it, we’re going to do it. This is the one.” Ortega continues to say “and you saw how quickly….”, before the interviewer cuts him off. How quickly what?

4:30 “You see him working with everybody, invested in every aspect. You see him choreographing, and directing. You see him as a filmmaker, as a musician, as an entertainer.” Filmmaker? He is rehearsing for concerts not filming a movie.

Believe.

How to spot a lie—Kenny Ortega Part 1

The first interview I want to talk about is Kenny Ortega’s interview with CNN from October before the release of This Is It. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PUgdBcjrlo.
Breaking it down, this is what I see:

0:30-1:00 Kenny Ortega is asked what his reaction is to Michael’s death. He answers telling how it was good that everyone was together when they got the news. He keeps glancing off to the right especially when talking about the people that were collapsing and wandering the halls. He constantly stutters and the only time that he really looks at the interviewers is when he says, “Thank God we were together” and goes on talking about the rehearsals.

1:00 He is quick to say that Michael was fine. There is no stuttering and he is looking directly at the interviewers.

1:50-2:50 He is asked about Michael not sleeping. When he responds about the ideas that Michael said were coming to him, he keeps glancing up to the left as if he is remembering the event. There is very little stuttering and he is looking at the interviewers.

3:30-4:00 He says Michael was healthy and in the shape he wanted to be in. He stutters very little.

4:15-7:10 He talks about the film and Michael as a person. As when he mentions Michael’s health, there is no stuttering and he looks directly at the interviewers.

7:10-end I think this is the most interesting part. When he says that Michael’s life did not have to end this way he glances quickly to the right and stats stuttering and looking around for something to say. He reacts to this question in almost the same way as he did to the earlier questions at 0:30 about Michael’s death. He says that he believes Michael’s death was unnecessary and he is going to leave it at that for right now. To me, that is the weirdest statement ever.

Kenny Ortega knows something he isn’t telling. Every time the interviewers brought up Michael’s death, he became nervous as stuttered so much it was hard to understand him. When they talk about Michael being in great shape and the film, This Is It, he has no problem answering the questions and at times he seems happy and excited.

Believe.

Michael Jackson’s Funeral—Set Lights

Most likely you’ve seen this picture before and wondered what that floating light was. There still is not a good explanation for it.

To me, it looks very much like this light.

If you take a look at the light above, it doesn’t look like it has any supports holding it up. I would assume then that it must be hanging from the ceiling. Like the This Is It light, the light at the funeral looks like it is floating. We see no supports under it and no supports above it even though it looks like wires would attach to the two white dots on the top of the light. The only problem to that theory is that the funeral was outside. What could hold the light up then? Something has to, because lights don’t float. So, was the funeral actually indoors? If you zoom in and compare, they look pretty similar.

Along with this strange floating light, other lights similar to the ones in This Is It are used.

The Funeral:

This Is It:

These lights look to me exactly like the lights used in the last four pictures of the funeral. So, the big question is where were these lights? Were they still inside the Staples Center or were they brought to Forest Lawn?

The making of This Is It, the movie

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. So, I know that I said that I was moving away from the O2 Press Conference, and I am. I just haven’t left This Is It, yet.

According to Kenny Ortega and many other members of This Is It, the movie came about because the concert was not happening. They have said this over and over starting not too long after Michael Jackson’s death. I never believed it, though. His rehearsals just happened to be recorded and the recordings just somehow happened to be in high-definition, perfect for a movie. It was too much of a coincidence.

Here are some interviews that Kenny Ortega gave about This Is It. I’ve typed out the important part, but if you want to watch the whole video or if you just don’t believe me, I’ve provided the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ODaOQ6UVOE
:33- Ortega: “Beginning the film, it was tough. I..I didn’t think that I really had the emotional objectivity to be able to step into there and to work with this, the fabric of Michael’s image and hearing his voice. I thought, ‘I’ll collapse. I’ll never get through it.’ You know. It is just too hard, too soon, but in fact, it was healing and helpful.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zam7KJwTMjM
1:47- Ortega:“I thought that it was going to be, you know. It was very difficult for me in the beginning when they first asked me to direct the film. But in fact it was helpful, you know, being in there with Michael in way that I never expected. I mean it really helped me get through a very difficult time.

Those two were basically the same. Ortega was talking about how hard he thought it would be watching rehearsals of Michael, trying to piece them together to make a movie knowing Michael was gone. He said it helped, though, to get over his death and move on.

Check out this one though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZDmPEPqQ3U
1:15- Smith (interviewer): “How many hours of stuff did you have to work with?”
Ortega: “Uh, we had about 80+ hours that we sifted through and, uh, that, you know, ultimately became the film.”
Smith (interviewer): “As you were trying to figure out what to use, what was your guiding principle?”
Ortega: “Every day I woke up. I just brought Michael into the room with me, you know. We just lived in the editing room for weeks, 7 days a week, and we just really thought about the fans and what they were looking for out of the project.”

“I just brought Michael into the room with me.” Obviously, he wasn’t gone then. Either it was worked on before June 25, or it was worked on after June 25 and Michael had hoaxed his death. If the movie was made before June 25, what about the concerts? The movie was supposed to be made to let us see what the concerts were going to be about, and if the movie was planned while Michael was alive, then the concerts were never meant to happen. So, somehow he needed a way to get out of the concerts. What better way than faking your death?

Don't lose hope.

Have a great New Year.

E’casanova vs. Michael Jackson--Who was it?

This post was inspired by MJTruthSeeker on youtube. I was watching his/her video’s earlier and it got me thinking. Check them out they are worth a watch. The videos are located here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MjTruthSeeker

In the videos, he/she tries to prove that E’casanova was the speaker at the O2 Arena and not Michael Jackson. As I said before, I was not 100% on who I thought it was. I seemed to keep wavering back and forth. But, right now, after watching the videos and doing some research and I am coming to the same conclusion that MJTruthSeeker came to.


Let’s compare them, shall we. Here are the obvious, easy to spot differences.

Michael Jackson:

• Height—5’ 10”
• Right handed

E’casanova:

• Height—not positive.
• left handed

E’casanova’s actual height is hard to tell. I can’t find it anywhere on the internet and in all the pictures, like this one, he seems to be leaning. I would probably put him a little shorter than Michael Jackson, though if I had to guess. So, if E’casanova is slightly shorter than Michael Jackson that would explain the heel on the shoes that I mentioned in a previous post.

Another point I made was that one is right handed and the other is left handed. If you watch a person long enough in situations where they have to move their hands, it is easy to tell if a person is right handed or left handed. For example, I am right handed and my friend is left handed. So, not only do we write with different hand, we also move different hands more often when we talk. We each favor a one hand over the other, she her left and me, my right. If you were to give something to my friend, she would reach out her left hand to take it, while I would reach out my right. We don’t think about what hand we use, it is subconscious and automatic. Though, the differences are subtle, if they studied long enough you can spot a difference.


Example: Dermot O’Leary

I searched and searched the internet to find out if Dermot O’Leary was right or left handed to help prove my argument, but I could not find anything. I would say he is right handed. Since statics show that about 90% of the world is right handed, I would have a very good chance of getting it right if I was just randomly guessing. But, I’m not. Watch how he moves during the conference. He adjusts the, microphone with his right hand, and then when Michael Jackson comes toward him to ask a question, the first thing he does is reach out his right hand to intercept him. So, just by watching him I am pretty confident that Dermot O’Leary is right handed.

Example: Michael Jackson

So, Michael Jackson is right handed, right? Look it up if you don’t believe me. But, if he is right handed, who was at the press conference, because I would say that person is left handed? Here are some stills from the O2 Arena. When the person talks, he moves his left hand the most. That is strange for a right handed person. We might move both hand, butif we are moving one it is normally our right. In the next picture, he calls over Dermot O’Leary, but he beckons with his left hand. Then, he is seen adjusting the microphone with his left. All this pictures are left, left, and left. Not once do you see him raise just his right hand while talking, nor adjust the microphone with just his right. Check out the press conference, again, and look for the movements he makes. They are movements of a left handed person.

These points along with what MJTruthSeeker pointed out in his/her videos leads me to believe that it was not Michael Jackson at the press conference, but E’casanova. If the facts fit, it is normally the correct answer.

The obvious is normally the truth.

This Is It—Concert Date's Timeline

• March 5—Michael Jackson announces 10 concerts
• March 10—Ticket presales begin to anyone who registered for them the day of the press conference
• March 11—20 new dates are added because of the demand of the presales
• March 12—The show number is now up to 50 spanning into 2010
• March 13—Tickets go on sale to the general public and are immediately sold out
• March 20—First dates of This Is It are postponed-July 8, 10, 12, 14

Since, basically, as soon as the tickets went on sale and were sold out, many people turned to other ways of getting their tickets. Mainly, they bought at a much higher price from someone who had bought the tickets just to resale them. AEG made sure that messages were spread that those tickets would not be refunded if the shows were canceled.

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/michael-jacksons-new-record-it-tour-sold-out-seconds

Were they hinting at something?

Michael Jackson vs. Dermot O’Leary—Height

Most sites on the internet agree that the height of Dermot O’Leary is about 5’ 8” or 5’ 9” and Michael Jackson is about 5’ 10”. So, in this picture everything looks normal, right? Both are standing up straight, and Jackson is slightly taller than O’Leary like he should be.

But, check this out.

As you can see, O’Leary, on the far right, is wearing flat shoes. His height with the shoes is about the same as his height without. But…

On the other hand, you can tell that Michael Jackson was wearing shoes with a heel which probably would add an inch or so to his height. So without, the shoes would Jackson be taller than O’Leary? Probably not, at least not the two inches he should be. So, was it really Michael Jackson at the announcement or an impersonator? You decide.

Here are some other pictures of Michael Jackson. You can see that his shoes had a little bit of a heel, but they aren’t as drastic as at the O2 Arena.

What do you think? Was it him or not?

Dermot O'Leary

The announcer during Michael Jackson’s O2 speech had some interesting things to say about the experience later in an interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uA7ZEYp8tk
I wanted to touch on what I thought was strange in what he said.

Right off the bat, Dermot O’Leary says that he got a call the day before to announce Michael Jackson. That seems normal. O’Leary is a major announcer. He is best known for announcing The X Factor and Big Brother’s Little Brother, so it is pretty obvious why he was chosen. The only strange thing was he was called the day before. I’m not positive on how much notice a person is normally given when they will be an announcer at an event, but I think that it is more than a day. Even the interviewers thought that it was crazy and they questioned him over that thinking maybe he had exaggerated it a little. He stuck to his story of the day before and acted like it was no big deal, so maybe it is common, but I just don’t think so.

Later when talking about Michael Jackson giving him a hug, he says that Michael Jackson was “ripped”. That is in obvious contrast to the reports of Michael Jackson being underweight and could not lift a weight. So, which one is the truth? O’Leary had no reason to lie.

Overall, O’Leary said the whole thing “was so weird”, because basically all that was said was “this is it, because this is it, because this is it, thirty times over”. He also says Michael Jackson came to him at the beginning of the announcement to ask if the teleprompter was on. O’Leary, though, believes that Michael Jackson did not need it because all he said was “this is it, because this is it, because this is it”. I just wonder if that was the speech written on the teleprompter, because if it was I agree with O’Leary and see no reason for a teleprompter. The speech was just extremely strange and said absolutely nothing.

So why did he give it?

These or This?

As I said in my previous post, I believe that Michael Jackson's O2 Announcement was the starting point of the clues that were left proving that he is alive. I know I said before that near the beginning of his O2 speech Michael Jackson said, "These will be my final show, performances in London". That is what many news articles say including:

• The BBC-- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7925388.stm


• Time Magazine-- http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1883416,00.html


• ABC-- http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WinterConcert/story?id=7009523&page=1
  

But, when I kept searching I noticed that other people say he said, "This will be my final show, performances in London", including:

• The Chicago Tribune-- http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/mar/06/entertainment/chi-0306-michael-jackson-tour-ftmar06


• Mojo-The Music Magazine-- http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/mar/06/entertainment/chi-0306-michael-jackson-tour-ftmar06

So, did he really say these or this? It makes a big difference. The word these means these shows, these performances he was doing in London. But, what does the word this refer to? Did he mean this announcement, as in "This announcement I am giving now will be my final show, performance in London"? Was he telling us in March that the This Is It tour would not happen?

You decide.

This is it?

There has been much debate on whether or not it was really Michael Jackson who gave the speech at the O2 Arena in London. We may never know for sure, but we do know that the announcement was interesting to say the least. All that was said basically was “This is it. This is really it.”, but a few phrases did catch my attention.

I was watching the announcement again, today, and reading his This Is It speech from a news article and I noticed a few things that I had not previously heard. During the announcement one of the first things he says is “These will be my final show, performances in London. This will be it. This is it. When I say this is it, it really means this is it.” He means these are his final shows, right. This was it; there will be no more after these. That is how I took it the first time. But, is that what he really says? Read it word for word. “These will be my final show, performances in London.” By adding the “in London”, it gives the sentence a whole new meaning. They aren’t his final performances anymore. They are his final performances in London. Check out the way he says it. Every word is slow and articulated, until the end when he rushes into the “in London” part.

Maybe it is just me. I could be hearing things that aren’t there. What do you think?

More will be coming from the O2 Announcement. This is where I believe the first clues were given.

Here is a good video of the announcement if you want to watch it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-am6sHH_wUQ&feature=related

and here is the BBC article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7925388.stm