comment #1

imagineUtopia says ...

hm.. lots of people in that I don't like. Including Terrance Howard and his annoying eyes.

Viggo should be cool as Burroughs though. Buscemi is in it too.

He should play Burroughs in a movie for Queer. I remember when I was in Lawrence KS like 10 + years ago there was talk Buscemi had been around and Queer movie was possible. or something. I dunno.

Queer is a good book. Junky is the best.

comment #2

York "Budd" Durden says ...

The "character names" have been changed from Sal Paradise to Jack Kerouac and Dean Moriarty to Neal Cassady? Surely not.

comment #3

Jeffrey Wells says ...

No, the actors are playing in essence the real-life figures mentioned above.

comment #4

Glenn Kenny says ...

Because that's really the best way to read "On the Road," you know. As a roman a clef.

comment #5

Jewelez Azner says ...

Is their a version of the movie without Stewart?

comment #6

nemo says ...

Isn't Garrett Hedlund a bit square to be playing Dean Moriarty / Neal Cassady?

Surely that role calls for someone a bit driven and dangerous and crazed -- a young version of Mel Gibson.

comment #7

LexG says ...

K-STEW is God come to earth, and you should all be genuflecting in fevered anticipation for this like a Mexican priest awaiting the Second Coming. In short, you will bow to her and anyone who doesn't like Kristen Stewart should be banned from ever seeing a movie ever again (which, honestly, probably wouldn't bother a lot of idiots who come here only to express their contempt for everything, since they're struck out entirely in life.)

Also the word from Cannes is she is consistently NUDE in this, which ought to have been the biggest story to come out of THE CROISETTE, instead of all that Von Trier nonsense.

K-STEW POWER, most beautiful and sexy actress in the history of the cinema. Post a pic of her in the movie or something, not this lame poster.

comment #8

bobbyperu says ...

Nemo-

No, Hedlund's not square. He nailed his performance in Country Strong -- that was a revelation really and unlike all of the prior, wooden performances (Tron included). His swagger, singing and vulnerability in that film were very impressive, lived-in and fully felt. He should do well here.

comment #9

Mark says ...

On the heels of the success of Howl...

This is a movie that only makes sense in the parallel universe of Entourage. Let's just say that it won't be good as the book, and the book isn't as good as you remember. In fact it's about as unbearable as something well written can be...unless of course you are 20 to 23 years old, the one brief but great stretch of life where you may find such characters meaningful.

comment #10

LexG says ...

K-STEW. Naked. This is the lead (or as others spell it, lede, even though that's not in Webster's.)

Kristen.

comment #11

Mgmax, le Corbeau says ...

As uninteresting as Motorcycle Diaries was, this seems like perfect casting for a Salles take on Kerouac, except for Mortenson (though it's bizarre that he's a full generation and then some older than the others, when Burroughs was only a few years older than Kerouac).

comment #12

Gaydos says ...

I have seen the best development deals of my generation destroyed by Studio notes, starving hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the Thalberg Building at dawn, searching for an angry screenwriter.

comment #13

citizenmilton says ...

Does "Sideways" not count as a "road movie"?

Seeing as how he's one of the most ardent supporters of that film, I'm surprised Wells would put "Motorcycle Diaries" before it....

comment #14

BobbyLupo says ...

"or as others spell it, lede, even though that's not in Webster's"

Lex - 'lede' comes from newspaper editors notes and comments; they use non-words like "lede" and "graf" so that the notes aren't mis-read as copy edits, as would happen if the real words "lead" and "paragraph" were used. [Especially "lead", as there are so many words spelled that way.]

It just trickled into the lexicon. I'm surprised that the Webster's you have doesn't refer to it, if only as slang or jargon under "lead".

comment #15

LexG says ...

Lupo: It's in neither Webster's 11th edition nor the Unabridged. So if someone said "Bury the lead!!!" in some movie I was transcribing and I spelled it "lede" as you and others suggest, I would be sued for 5 million dollars and probably sent to prison. I was once suspended for a week for transcribing a hard-core adult film and spelling it "cum" as in "eat my..." Someone asshole with a pointer and a dry erase board yelled it me that it is to be spelled "eat my come" or I would be fined and sued. So it is BURY THE LEAD. Anyone who spells it LEDE is risking JAIL TIME.

On a more important note:

You know, I really really try to get people excited about The Most Important Actress Ever, and time and again, nobody here cares. I mean, this movie has Kristen Stewart. How can that not be the one and only thing to entice you into seeing it?

More and more I'm thinking K-Stew doing "Twilight" was actually THE worst career decision of the modern age. SHE certainly never seems happy about-- has obvious contempt for the spotlight, the annoying fans, the junketeering bullshit. And on the flip side, a LOT of people who probably would've thought her the coolest actress of her generation now just write her off as "the Twilight girl." She was hot on her way to being the next Portman or Johansson when she was working with De Niro and Levinson and Penn and Fincher and David Gordon Green and Figgis and Favreau... Come on, dorks still moon over the 11 seconds of THORA BIRCH from a hundred eons ago, you're telling me that Stewart wouldn't be spoken of with the proper AWED REVERENCE were it not for stupid Bella Swan?

comment #16

BobbyLupo says ...

"I spelled it "lede" as you and others suggest"

I wasn't suggesting it, just explaining it. I think it trickled out because people like to play gotcha with spelling and grammar, like "Didn't you know you're supposed to use 'fewer' when dealing with an actual number and not 'less'?" type of stuff. And nobody likes that more than journo people.

But I am surprised that 'lede' isn't in your unabridged Webster's; it's in pretty much any other dictionary as jargon, and a few as its own proper word. Less surprised about 'cum', though; 'cum' really does have it's origins pretty much straight from porn-video-art and magazines. It's like the opposite of 'lead'/'lede' -- the latter is a correction that people with too much education paying too much attention to spelling and grammar would make, the former is one for people who don't pay any attention to it.

comment #17

BobbyLupo says ...

I do agree with that you that if K-Stew had gotten naked when she was an unknown actress like Thora Birch, more on-line geeks would like her. But when she was an unknown actress, if she'd gotten naked, anybody who saw it would be arrested.

comment #18

raygo says ...

K-Stew AND Kirsten Dunst. Possibly both naked. Consider the possibility.

It's funny how what goes around comes around. I remember in 1980 I was all jazzed to see Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, and John Heard in Heart Beat, covering similar territory. I was fresh out of college and thinking this was going to be the shit. I still remember the thud when it opened.

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