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Trailer here. (http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movies/2006/factorygirl_025513/factorygirl_trlr_01_dl.mov)
Release Date: December 29th, 2006 (limited)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Meredith Ostrom
Directed by: George Hickenlooper (The Man From Elysian Fields)
Premise: A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young, artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality.
Hayden as Dylan....ehhh, maybe. Still gonna see it.
you don't cut to the beat of life on mars.
this would have made a good book, probably. i didn't want to see it until i saw it was guy pearce at the end - i hadn't even recognized him throughout the trailer. bravo, i guess.
Sedgwick biopic gets Bob Dylan's attention
Forget "Blonde on Blonde." Try "Lawyer on Lawyer."
A character patterned after Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic "Factory Girl," about the rise and drug-hastened fall of 1960s actress/model Edie Sedgwick, has prompted the folk-rock legend's lawyers to demand that screenings be canceled until they can view the movie before it is released later this month.
The fear: that viewers might infer that Dylan was responsible for Sedgwick's drug death in November 1971, several years after she and Dylan had become close while living in Manhattan's infamous Chelsea Hotel.
A letter sent by Dylan's lawyers claimed that the portrayal "remains both defamatory and a violation of Mr. Dylan's right of publicity" and demanded that all screenings be canceled.
Orin Snyder, a lawyer for Dylan, declined comment, saying he was not authorized to discuss the matter. Attempts to reach the producers — Holly Wiersma and Aaron Richard Golub — were unsuccessful. Spokeswoman Sarah Rothman declined comment for the Weinstein Co., which has scheduled a limited Dec. 29 release for Oscar consideration.
The movie script initially named Dylan and implied that he and Sedgwick had a romantic relationship before Dylan cast her aside, a series of events that launched "her tragic decline into heroin addiction and eventual suicide," according to the letter, first reported in the New York Post's "Page 6" gossip column Thursday. A source confirmed the contents of the letter but declined to provide a copy to The Times.
In the movie, the folk-rocker's character has been morphed into "Billy Quinn," purportedly drawing from several performers. But people who have seen the movie say Quinn, played by Hayden Christensen, has Dylan's mannerisms and sports a checked scarf similar to the one Dylan has on the cover of his classic "Blonde on Blonde" album — on which, legend has it, Sedgwick inspired two songs: "Just Like a Woman" and "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat."
"You appear to be laboring under the misunderstanding that merely changing the name of a character or making him a purported fictional composite will immunize you from suit," Snyder said in the letter. "That is not so."
Sedgwick became part of Andy Warhol's Factory in the 1960s before she left to try to establish an independent career in movies, a dream that crumbled with her drug use and lengthy stay at treatment centers.
Miller and Pearce are really the reason to see this. They capture and totally immerse themselves in their "characters."
I've always had a fascination with this era, Warhol and The Factory (I was in heaven when the 4 hour PBS doc aired), so I was a bit let down by this biopic of Sedgwick being so on-the-surface since she has always just been a footnote when talking of this time. But I did enjoy the focus being on her relationship with Warhol, and vice versa. To paraphase a line of dialogue: this film is like a glossy soup can, but if you were to open it, you would see that can is empty.
how is anakin? i heard he's hilariously miscast. kinda made me want to see this.
Quote from: Hedwig on August 06, 2007, 06:39:54 PM
how is anakin? i heard he's hilariously miscast. kinda made me want to see this.
He kinda is, but I don't think it's entirely his fault. That article I posted about Dylan suing looks like it played a part in his character being very vague; not really calling him by name, using Folk Singer in a news article. Christensen is trying to be Dylan in voice, but it feels like you can tell he doesn't want to do a full on impersonation.
i was enjoying it, i liked the part where they're having dinner with edie's parents and then the father calls warhol 'a full blown queer'. it was cool to see warhol as the vulnerable, death-fearing freak he was, rather than the grandiose superficial monster this movie decides to portray later. cos seriously, after that scene, pierce just stands in the room all emotionless like a piece of plaster. then it becomes warhol vs. dylan, which seemed stupid and fake, and then hayden 'spawn of the devil' christensen ruins what's left of the movie. he ruins it. easily one of the worst casting choices i've seen, and i'm not that big a fan of bob dylan, so it's not because i'm being defensive.
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oh and edie sedgwick. her story was sad, but who cares. am i a monster for not giving a shit about her? i've realized that the more i grow, the more i respect warhol's body of work. the man kept everyone guessing if he was being serious, and i think he was. time is making him more relevant. why not make a picture about andy warhol instead of making a 'kinda biopic about warhol', a now officially trite genre. i read somewhere that warhol's friends do him as much harm as his enemies. the art market is filled with people who claim to be influenced by him, mostly cheap imitators, and it seems like the world is finally getting tired of superstars with all the lindsays and paris'. in conclusion, this movie sucked because of bad timing. making a movie in this day and age about a drug addict, out of control superstar and, at the same time, about andy warhol being a bloodsucking bastard was a stupid decision.
mary harron did a much much better job at portraying a female troubled icon with bettie page two years ago. not only was gretchen mol adorable, but the story gave room for empathy. and it was a fine, if a little caricatured, period piece. that probably means 'i shot andy warhol' ,which i'll see soon is a better film than 'factory girl'.
plus they had a FAKE VELVET UNDERGROUND SONG. i keep reading its weezer playing heroin but that doesnt sound that heroin.
just catched this yesterday out of curioity for sienna miller, who i think kicks some ass every time around. some day she'll get a juicy part in a respectable film, I hope. This wasn't that film. Nor Interview, but in both films she proves to be the real thing. She and Guy Pierce are, as someoe said before here, the true rasons to see this. It's a shame the film gets lost in a strange "nothingness" and simplicity on it's own subject.
I was watching the making of an it was evident Hickenlooper was in a tight spot and everyone was feeling not to enthusast on the whole thing once reshoots and rewrites started happening. Watchnig Sienna and Jimmy Fallon write their own dialogue on the spot and then shoot, and then she saying "everyone is doing some writing" gives you an idea of what was going on. The funniest part of that making of was listening to one of the producers or writers (?) talk about the Dylan character refering to him as a "popular folk siner" or something along those lines twice in the same sentence just to avoid mentioning Dylan's name. Hayden was miscast and kida pathetic to see. So I hope Sienna gets a call from a great director so sh can show off in a better film.
Ehhh....just what I thought. Not as good as I was hoping. Bleh. Damn it, they didn't get the atmosphere just right. Maybe I'm being too picky.