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Deacon Blues takes a brief look at MAN ON THE MOON
Hey folks... Harry here with our friendly little glimpse at ol Deacon's look at MAN ON THE MOON. It's just a brief piece here... but I believe that it pretty much says again that Carrey is amazing.... he bitches a bit about Courtney Love... but then it seems everyone does that... I don't know, I liked her quite a bit in THE PEOPLE VS LARRY FLYNT... Well... here's our guy.... P.S. Right now, Moriarty is gnashing his teeth angry that he hasn't managed to get into one of these yet...
Harry: I was fortunate enough to be at the right place and right time to get
into a test screening for MAN ON THE MOON. The usual work in progress, color
was off blah blah blah….. But I can say, this is easily one of the year's
best that actually lived up to the hype. No "Eyes Wide Shut" Here.
On looks alone, Carrey was a doppelganger for Kaufman. During long shots,
YOU COULD NOT TELL that he wasn't Andy.
Now having been just a tadpole when Kaufman was at his peak (I've seen Taxi
on reruns, and have only a vague recollection of his SNL and FRIDAY'S
appearances) I can't say if this is an accurate depiction of the life of
Andy…maybe you geezers can help me out. But the film totally lives up to
showing why he was ahead of his time.
Carrey, DeVito, Giamatti are all excellent, but why does Milos keep working
with Courtney Love….the woman has ZERO talent and it shows in every frame she
has to read her dialog like a she's being fed it word for word….
The movie lags briefly during the wrestling angle, but overall I think using
the word Oscar isn't out of the question. I can't wait to see it when it's
finally released.
And remember Harry: "They call Alabama the Crimson Tide. Call me Deacon
Blues."
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. . . I gotta say, I've liked everything I've seen by Forman. I liked Larry Flynt, there are some great performers in that. And don't knock that story, Flynt is hardly a zero. Whether or not you agree or believe, the man did influence the current free speech and press interpretations we see today. I personally think he's a scumbag, but I think the battle was important, and interesting. Who says that the subject of a biopoic has to have contributed something valuable to society, anyway? That's stupid. . . why make movies about Stalin, or Hitler? They contributed nothing but death and misery, and yet some fine films have been made about them. Amadeus was brilliant, I thought. Just because you don't like the subject, doesn't mean it can't be a good movie. Here we have an interesting subject about a fascinating person directed by a wonderful (IMHO) director. Where's the problem? Biopics are supposed to be about people who are unique, and who are intersting. They don't have to be famous, they don't have to be pillars of society. How is an Andy Kaufman or Larry Flynt movie any different from the Doors movie? Some would argue that Morrison was just a fucked uop druggie with some good musical ideas. I think some of the people on this talkback are firing off for rather odd, if not poor, reasons, without thinking their statements through. Of course, I may be wrong, and if I am, I apologize.
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crap. scroll up, if you want to read it. thank you.
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Tell ya what..... you can have GANDHI, NIXON, CRY FREEDOM, etc. I'll take MAN ON THE MOON, and any other celbrity biopic, over garbage like that any day. Whenever Hollywood decides they're going to present "history," I get nervous (and, in the case of Oliver Stone, physically ill.) There's less potential for harm when they're only canonizing their own. In any event, as long as you have perspective, it's okay to revel in a little Hollywood Babylon.
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thanks for responding. It's hard to get a clear picture when only seeing a few pieces, so I appreciate your thoughts. I'm still not an Andy Kauffman fan, but it gives me a little bit more understanding into the whole situation. As to Squash's remarks, I can only say: one man's garbage..... If movies (or art) were only made about historically "important" people, this would be a very dull world. Picasso, Van Gogh, shit just about any artist (and many film makers) have made works about ordinary people or people that did not have a profound historical importance. WHy? Because there was something about their lives that some of us can relate to and identify with. We can't all be lion tamers. Yeah, a lot of it is romanticized, revisionist bunk, but it's a movie, it's entertainment. You want to change that, go and tell the stories you want to see. I'm sure to a lot of people, a movie about Andy Kauffman is a cool thing. Maybe I'll see you in line for Fight Club.
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That seems to be the question many people here are stumped by. A lot of people don't recognize his talent. A lot of people just don't get him. That's okay. Maybe you weren't around when it was happening. His first appearance on TV was on the first episode of SNL, and as Michael Stipe from REM put it, "It was one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen." Not exactly faint praise from someone who's a bit of a genius himself. He was on SNL 3 times before he ever spoke a word, and when he did, it was as foreign man. He never broke character on TV. For years he never appeared as anything other than foreign man. Now I was a little kid at the time. For years I thought that was who Andy Kaufman was, this nervous foreign little guy. And he was great. Wierd, but great. Then he had a TV special where he broke the illusion. He wasn't Foreign Man. This was the real Andy Kaufman. Finally I knew what he really sounded like. He did the whole thing with a fake English accent. Fooled again.
He brilliantly manipulated the media and the audience to think what he wanted them to think. Whether it was that he blew a sketch and encited a fistfight and waterthrowing on Fridays, or that he got his neck broken and bitch slapped by a pro wrestler on Letterman (WOW!! Maybe wrestling is real!)
I was in High School when the classic Letterman and Fridays episodes happened, and we didn't know what to think. All we knew was that this guy was making watching TV really interesting.
Ultimately, the reason Andy Kaufman is worthy of his page in history (and a testament to status as a world class mindfucker) is the fact that anyone who was a fan of Andy Kaufman (and many who were not) is not absolutely, 100% sure he's dead at all. I mean, my God, it's documented, the guy was planning on faking his own death and disappearing for 10 years when he died!!!! His best friend, Bob Zmuda, summed it up pretty nicely when asked what Andy Kaufman would be doing if he were still alive. He said, "If Andy Kaufman were still alive, he would have faked his own death".
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In the movie Leprechaun 2 (the most egregious absentee from the AFI 100 list) there's a huge graffito on a wall that reads "Andy Kaufman lives." True? I'll look for more hints in "Man on the Moon."
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