That's just one of many problems with Factory Girl gleaned from the trailer. I don't know if the Jamaican-sounding accent is Sienna Miller trying to suppress her British accent or what, but I've seen Ciao, Manhattan and "Poor Little Rich Girl," and Edie Sedgwick certainly didn't sound like that. Nor did Andy Warhol wear that much really bad white face paint.
Probably the worst thing about this trailer, however, is that there is no proof that Bob Dylan and Edie Sedgwick ever had an affair! While Hayden Christensen's character Billy Quinn is supposed to be a combination of Dylan and Bob Neuwirth (Dylan's friend, an artist with whom Sedgwick actually had an affair), Christensen is clearly Dylan: the iconic scarf, the poofy hair, the harmonica, the screen test (which Dylan did for Warhol). To suggest that the two had an affair is unfounded and highly irresponsible. As far as I know, Factory Girl isn't being marketed as some "imaginary portrait," like Steven Shainberg's fictionalized account of photographer Diane Arbus' life Fur. So, hypothetical or imagined relationships should not have a place in its straight-up biopic universe.
Check it out in all its trashy glory below (or check it out here):
And seriously, after Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic, no other film should even attempt using Bowie's "Life on Mars?" on its soundtrack. It's too big and cinematic a song for the histrionic theatrics and flashy images of this trailer to have to compete with. What sounded so grand and poignant and sad in The Life Aquatic, as Bill Murray sleepwalks through a party on his boat and reaches the end of the boat where he looks into the vast expanse of the sea at the song's climax, just sounds cliched and bloated here and perhaps foreshadows the problems that lie in the film itself. I guess we'll have to wait till December 29 to find out.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
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Edie was a filmmaker, a collaborator and artist with other underground and experimental filmmakers at a time when making a non-Hollywood film was almost a revolutionary act. Like you she was young at a time when a wave of technological advancements– new video camera, audio recorders and film cameras– were putting power in the hands of the people to tell their own stories. This is a pursuit she believed in fiercely. She said often to fellow adventurers in her filmmaking pursuits, “It must be real, if it isn’t real, there is no movie.” On the eve of the release of a HIGHLY fictionalized Hollywood account of Edie’s life, we hope you will join us in our Internet and video experiment of making real screen tests of real people. WE know you can tell the difference, as she would have wanted, between what is real and what is not.
-Melissa Painter
“I do love Alice in Wonderland though. That’s something I think I could do very well. Don’t you think we ought to do an A.W.? A.W.’s Alice in Wonderland? Andy Warhol’s Alice in Wonderland? A.W. stands for a lot of things, I understand. It, uh, it would make a fantastic film. So I wanted somebody to write the script for it, in a modern sense. Think it would be the most marvelous movie in the world. If it could be done. Don’t you think? Really I don’t think they’ve done one since they did a Walt Disney one- which isn’t really doing it. In a sense it is, but not in the way it really should be done. What’s needed right now is a real scene. I mean not just cartoon characters but the actual character of people because there’s so many fantastic people that you might as well use the people.”
– Edie 1965
(visit www.myspace.com/ediegirlonfire for more information about the screen test project)
totally agree..thought I was the only one..the movie is garbage at the least
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