Last Days

[MacGuffin]

Poster here.

cool foriegn website with trailer for Last Days here... http://www.mk2.com/last_days/site.html

Starring: Asia Argento, Ryan Fellner, Kim Gordon, Lukas Haas, Ricky Jay, Harmony Korine, Riley G. Matthews Jr., Michael Pitt, Ari Tomais, Nicole Vicius.

Director: Gus Van Sant

Writer: Gus Van Sant

Plot Outline: Michael Pitt stars in a Seattle-set rock & roll drama as a musician whose life and career is reminiscent of Kurt Cobain's.

[cowboykurtis]

Plot Outline: Michael Pitt stars in a Seattle-set rock & roll drama as a musician whose life and career is reminiscent of Kurt Cobain's.

translation: gus van sant couldn't get the film rights from Kobain's estate to do an ACTUAL rock and rock drama on his life, just one reminiscent of his life.

[Ghostboy]

That's kind of like saying he couldn't get the rights to do an ACTUAL Columbine movie, but that's simply not the case.

[nix]

To be honest, I preffer it this way.

For some reason, an out and out biopic kinda turns me off. But the idea of something heavily inspired by real-life is more interesting. It means the filmmakers aren't strait-jacketed to any actual events.

Yes, Elephant would've been weaker had it been an acording to hoyle Columbine movie.

And Boogie Nights wouldn't be the masterpiece it is, if it were a John Holmes movie. Etc. etc.

[rustinglass]

the same goes for velvet goldmine and david bowie

[pete]

yeah, but this is gus van sant--he sucks now, remember?

[cowboykurtis]

That's kind of like saying he couldn't get the rights to do an ACTUAL Columbine movie, but that's simply not the case.

i think elephant was different - it was dealing with a widespread "epidemic" of school shootings - columbine was not the only one( it may have been the most publicized however)

this is about ONE person's life and advertised as a film about " a musician whose life and career is reminiscent of Kurt Cobain's."

elephant wasn't advertised as "a film about  a school shooting reminiscent of Columbine"

boogie night wasn't advertised as " a film about a porn actor reminiscent of  john holmes"

[Ghostboy]

Perhaps. I think, though, that Van Sant is not the type of director who would ever want to make an actual biopic, and that this was his plan for the project from the beginning.

Consider, too, that 'Gerry' was based on suppositions aobut actual events, and you have the makings of a fine trilogy.

[xerxes]

elephant wasn't advertised as "a film about  a school shooting reminiscent of Columbine"

it wasn't?

[Gold Trumpet]

All the hope in the world for this film to be good, but directors need to stop casting Michael Pitt immediately. His imitation Leo DiCaprio looks is the only thing he's got going for him.

[Pubrick]

His imitation Leo DiCaprio looks is the only thing he's got going for him.

also his schlong is bigger than leo's.

prove me wrong, leo!

[Gamblour.]

HAH

[xerxes]

All the hope in the world for this film to be good, but directors need to stop casting Michael Pitt immediately. His imitation Leo DiCaprio looks is the only thing he's got going for him.

i like michael pitt quite a bit actually

[pete]

quuuueeeer.

[cowboykurtis]

i had to turn THE DREAMERS off after 20 minutes - I just couldn't take one second more of his annoying little face.