Because
CBGB is about music, the first thing that came to mind, is that I never want to
see a biopic of Kurt Cobain. Nirvana was my favorite band as a teenager, and I’m
not sure I could take a film like Ray or Walk the Line about Cobain – which I
probably never have to worry about, since for the most part, they like to make
biopics about people who overcome their demons, not give into them, like Cobain
ultimately did. Still, I shudder at the thought of a simple minded Cobain
biopic, who comes up with Something in the Way while literally living
underneath a bridge. Besides, Gus Van Sant already made Last Days (2005), and
while that is not “officially” a Cobain movie, it is pretty much the perfect
one to make about him – a portrait of a depressed, isolated, drugged out rock
star who eventually gives up – told with no glamor or artifice.
For the
record, I also don’t want to see a Wayne Gretzky biopic – yes, he is my
favorite hockey player ever, and yes, hockey is still my favorite sport, but
the movies never get hockey right anyway, and a Gretzky movie would almost
certainly be overly sentimental. And after suffering through not one but two
movies about the making two cinematic masterpieces by Alfred Hitchcock –
Hitchcock about Psycho and The Girl about The Birds – I don’t think I want to
see any other dramatizations about making my favorite movies – even if it’s
obvious Jessie Eisenberg would be great as a young Martin Scorsese.
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