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Paragonian visits the set of Leonard Cohen's AFTERWORLD
Daaaar... Huh. I' uh... Plum fergut whad EYE had in noggin for dis intro Diction... But here it done is anyhow. Burnt out whiskey dicked idiot typing nonsense. Forgive... brain in idle. Ripcord loose. Momma dropped baby. Sloth (aka Hairy) out
I saw that Natalie Portman set visit and thought I'd send this in case of a
slow news day or something.
My youngest sister had been listening to a radio station I've always hated
trying to win Summerjam tickets when they mentioned that a film was shooting
at the Seattle Center. They went on to say that the film was 'A Leonard
Cohen Afterworld' written by Scott Rosenberg (Con Air) and starring teen
heart throb Jared Leto. The scene they were shooting was a reenactment of
the Kurt Cobain memorial so either dark clothes, flannel shirts or tye dye
shirts were wanted with no bright colors even though most tye dye is bright.
I decided to wear all black with my 'I'll Sleep When I'm Dead' shirt while
my other sister dressed her four month old daughter in a little tye dye
outfit.
When we arrived, there was about a thousand people there, a lot of which
didn't follow the stereotyped Seattle dress codes ( most of us hate coffee
too). I guess they had already shot the memorial scene cause the crowd
wrangler was instructing everyone to celebrate as they were sprayed with a
fire hose which stood in for the Seattle Center fountains which were turned
off. If you ever want to be an extra in a film, ALWAYS BRING A CUTE BABY.
Jake Gyllenhaal ( October Sky) was shooting his scene right next to us and
had a lot of fun making weird faces at the baby trying to get her to laugh
(she was not amused) but he was still really nice even though the water kept
messing up his makeup ( a giant black spider on his face ) and he had to go
back to get it redone.
Later on, Jared Leto arrived and was hit on by every girl on the set. If he
wasn't wearing makeup and a costume I never would've recognized him though.
He seemed really small and ordinary looking to me as he walked through the
crowd and smiled at the baby as he went by us, of course I am a little
biased since I'm jealous as hell and had an overwhelming urge to kick his
movie star ass. Once my resentment and jealousy passed, my sister decided
she wanted a picture with him. Jared was always accompanied by a guy with a
clipboard and headset who must've been the 'honorary star asskisser' of the
moment but he was still easily approachable. My sister's boyfriend asked if
he could hold their baby as they took a picture, the asskisser and him both
shook their heads and Jared explained that he couldn't at the moment but
would if we stuck around a while longer. I guess they can't do fan stuff
while shooting which is understandable.
I wasn't at the original Kurt Cobain memorial so I can't compare it, but I
don't blame someone who's married to Courtney Love who commits suicide. The
set didn't look very big to me, it had two main cameras, a few small
equipment trucks and about fifty crew members. I'm not sure what the budget
is but I'm sure it's not huge. They had small orange juices and rice krispie
treats for snacks with a guitar smashing contest and gift giveaways for
entertainment. From what I saw, the film looked kind of corny with the 'bad
guys' sticking out like a sore thumb with puss squirting all over. They were
three big guys wearing nice suits, dark glasses and huge shoes with mean
faces, kind of like the British trying to hide in the the forest during the
American Revolution with those bright red uniforms. The plot as described on
the radio station said it was about the two main characters (Leto and
Gyllenhaal, I'm guessing) getting in a bunch of trouble in Las Vegas and
winding up on a road trip through the Northwest trying to evade the bad
guys.
After the shoot ended we waited a little while for Jared Leto who I guess
left while we were on bathroom breaks, so we walked around until we saw a
big crowd which was just the extras getting their pay checks ($65 for 10
hours of standing in freezing cold fire hose water). But then I saw the guy
that I suspected was the DP since he was always running around with a little
handheld changing film and getting every angle. He looked like a skinnier
Buggar from Revenge of the Nerds but was really cool and said he was a best
friend of the director and was just there shooting a little to help out, he
also has a cameo in the whorehouse, whatever that means.
I'm looking forward to this one just to see my face squirming in behind Jake
Gyllenhaal and my hippie looking four month old niece, hopefully we make the
final cut.
Paragonian out.
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they actually used the fountain in the jubilation scene and all I have to say is the mohawk was a really bad choice for jared, and do second rate movie posters (spawn) really count as prizes?
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I'd like to know more about this film. Is this named after the same Leonard Cohen who is an excellent singer/songwriter & an equally wonderful poet? Damn, I hope so! And Courtney Love bashing is cheap and tacky. She's a pretty damn fine singer/songwriter, too (not to mention a very cool woman).
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but I want to learn more about this project before I give it my $7 - I'm really wary of anything trying to exploit this. I just wish they'd release some of the 80+ hours of recordings that Nirvana had done when Kurt died. And, please, bash Courtney all you want. Feel free. She hated her husband's success more than anything. Does the term "evil bitch" mean anything to you? I bought "Live Through This" but no more...Kurt may have loved her in life, and that's cool. But all the things she's done since his death (except for The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man in the Moon - haven't seen the second one but I must admit she was great in the first) have shamed his memory.
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My guess is that the movie's proper title isn't Leonard Cohen's Afterworld, but "A Leonard Cohen Afterworld", which is a lyric from a Nirvana song. The reason I point this out is that when I first saw the movie title, I thought it was a film about the afterworld by Leonard Cohen, which I love to see. Now I see that it's more about Nirvanic culture, which is ok, but not a film by The Man.
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Which Nirvana song had the lyric 'a leonard cohen afterworld'? I don't remember ever hearing it.
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For those who have posted wanting to know about the title and what song, if any, it was taken from... "Pennyroyal Tea" by Nirvana. "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally."
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Jul 25, 1999 10:37:47 AM CDT
A flick about Nirvana? Gosh that's....doomed to fail.
by ghostoflanemyers
Anyone remember "The Doors"? God, how I hate that movie. It got everything wrong and exchanged a decent story for a bunch of Oliver's TimeLapse Filmmaking lessons. Fuck Him.
But, a flick about Nirvana couldn't possibly succeed, because no one would do it right. Mark my words, it'll be another in one end and out the other Hollywood picture of a band.
As for Courtney "It Wasn't" Love bashing? FUCK HER!
Jesus, fucking Yoko!
The woman was sheer poison from the beginning, a gold digging, NO TALENT WHORE who fucked up everything and totally drove (Could've killed, jury's still out.) Cobain to his death.
I loved Nirvana and still do. It's one of the few bands that manages to rise above whatever opinion you have of it.
Hole sucks ass, always has and always will and I hope Courtney Love's Made over ass gets shot by a crazy fan, her and all the gold digging bitches like her. They fuck up everything that is decent and pure in the world.
You know, I hate women so much I could write an Adam Sandler movie! -
I was so excited when I read the title of the article. Could it be? Lenny back from the dead? Doing a movie? Alas, no...only some grunge film about a dead rocker. *sigh*
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I`m a musician/filmmaker from Seattle who knew Kurt and thinks this story device is fucking weak! I was there at the real memorial and this reinactment (which I did not attend) put a bad taste in my mouth. Just a sorry attempt to attract Nirvana fans to the theatre when this piece of trash comes out. This was a painful moment personally and as a fan. Fuck you Scott Rosenberg.
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From what I've heard, the plot involves two kids who are on a road trip and end up at the Kurt Cobain memorial and the memorial changes their lives, hilarity ensues...
They filmed on a sunny, warm day but the scene was supposed to take place on April 10th, which would normally have been much colder. So half the people had tank-tops and half had sweaters and jackets on.
I overheard two different groups of paid extras discussing how rude the 'Spider Dude' was. They said he was being 'just mean'. I didn't know at the time that it Jake Gyllenhaal. -
The script has practially zero to do with Kurt Cobain or his band.
In fact, the only thing it does have relating to Nirvana, are the COVER TUNES throughout the movie (they have hip bands covering Nirvana Classics) and the third act which is a chase scene that takes place during that lame-ass candlelight vigil.
In fact, the kids in the script doesn't even talk, mention, or care about Kurt Cobain at all. Like most Americans. -
Geez, you know people on other boards have talked about you and some crazy shit you were always throwing out, but I'm not impressed.
Matter of fact, I'm amazed how you managed to linger in anyone's memory with the prolific amount of profanity you use and your basic, overall mediocre writing style.
It takes big balls to take shots at an easy target like Courtney Love. I'm not really fond of her myself, but I'm not about to go on a Courtney bash because well....it's just too easy.
Didn't you know that this movie isn't even about Nirvana? And, why are you comparing Nirvana to The Doors?
Lame, lame, lame.
So, unless you're channeling the spirit of Sam Kinison, (Not likely, he was at least original.)
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For a second there I thought for some reason Leonard Cohen was doing a movie(god forbid?). Instead it's just that line from that song by Nirvana. His name is in the title of the movie. (if I understood that correctly). and Kurt Cobain was a huge fan of his. Does this mean that they'll put some of his music in the movie. If so please let it be the early stuff. Anyway, be more careful next time Harry; some of us lead very fragile lives.
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The line "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally" is from Pennyroyal Tea from the In Utero album... you're welcome.
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I was at the filming of the memorial on friday afternoon also, and this guy had to have not been there that long at all because his facts are all fucked up. The dissapeared at about three o'clock, just when they made us get in the fountain. The fountain was on and off for about three hours, then firehoses were brought in to simulate the fountains for closeups of Pilot(Jacob' character). And as for any of the actors and actresses being rude, all were nice. Selma Blair is hot, hot, hot finally getting rid of her ditz image. She was always talking with us extras in between takes, as was jared and jacob. The scene shot involed Pilot coming over the rim of the fountain, with jared and selma standing on the inside of the fountain in the midst of all the extras. Pilot the yells Jake Jake as three bad guys run from the other side. Everyone runs through the crowd and the scene is done. All in all they used the extras that were not paid(like me) in two scenes, the fountain and the actual virgil. Hope this clears everything up.
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As I sit wearing a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt, listening to John Lennon croon about some chick named Lucy, I implore you, STOP EXPLOITING THE DEAD!
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.... 'PennyRoyal' Tea. Damn fine it is too.
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It's actually more about Courtney and the hypocrisy that is her life. "..very cool woman" my ass!
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I agree with some of the comments, in that: Please Harry, I thought Leonard's making a movie. If my browser was any slower, I would have died of a heart attack ! As far as Nirvana goes. I'm not a fan - some of Cobain's "greatest" songs wasn't even written by himself. Leonard is a genuis and should have nothing to do with any Nirvana movie, so I hope the rumour of this link is false.
If he said he's a big fan of Lenny's music, that's great, but that's it - he doesn't have a say any more. -
Hey, I was a paid extra for "A Leonard Cohen Afterworld" and I'd just like to clear things up. First off, someone said we were paid $65, actually (for both days) we were paid about $170. Also, the movie is about two guys (Jake Gyllenhaal and Jared Leto)from Las Vegas and they head up to Seattle and pick up a prostitue along the way (Selma Blair). Also, someone said that people were saying Jake was rude, FAR FROM IT! Jake was so nice! All the actors were really sweet, the would come and talk to the extras all the time! The only rude person I can think of was Cameron Diaz (Jared's girlfriend) who showed up!
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You know, to prepare her for her future massive drug problems.
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