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A Bizarre Film about Bizarre People
The 1996 film "I Shot Andy Warhol" is a bizarre film based upon the true story of a bizarre woman named Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) who, in the late 1960's in Manhattan, became an acquaintance of the famous pop artist Andy Warhol (Jared Harris). Obsessed with misandry and blaming men for all of the world's problems, Valerie wrote a booklet advocating an anarchistic and violent revolution to be carried out by women in order to create a female-only society. Valerie used the booklet, which she named the "SCUM Manifesto" (where SCUM referred to "Society for Cutting Up Men"), as a way to try and make money, often by attempting to sell copies (that she had typed & copied herself) on the streets of New York City, and at parties given by Andy Warhol at his famous art studio known as "The Factory" to which Andy had invited her. (During the film, Valerie is often shown quoting directly from the "SCUM Manifesto".) Valerie also wrote a play equally hateful of men that she asked Andy Warhol to produce, but his apparent lack of interest and misplacement of her only copy that she had lent him to read angered the already highly irrational Valerie. This encouraged Andy to ignore Valerie and set the stage for the film's final scenes. <
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>Though often times difficult to watch with the scenes involving drug use and the various odd people that were part of Andy Warhol's life in New York City, it is the quality of the acting performances given principally by Lili Taylor, Jared Harris and Stephen Dorff (who played the drag queen known as Candy Darling, the only man that Valerie appeared to trust) that made "I Shot Andy Warhol" worth watching. For her efforts, Lili Taylor won a special recognition award for her performance in "I Shot Andy Warhol" at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. The film, though low-budget, had very high production values and cinematography. Hence, my overall rating for "I Shot Andy Warhol" is 4 out of 5 stars. <
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Lack of ambition!
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>I shot Andy Warhol was by itself a fortunate idea but to my view, wasted the fabulous opportunity to show both sides of the coin. And the script would seem to be much more interested around the tragic anima and the psychical disturbances of the woman in question rather than to remark Warhol' s relevance in the Pop Art. Perhaps the aim was to consider his murder as simply a departure point, as historical reference and nothing else. <
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Compelling look at some pretty bizzare people.
I really enjoyed this film. As a Factory fan, I was hesitant to get this, perhaps due to the off-putting title. But I'm glad I did. The acting was great, especially the actor who played Warhol himself - dead on. Also, Ms. Taylor was 100% believable as the unfortunate, demented, freaky Valarie Solanas. <
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>I notice that a lot of negative reviews for this and other films consist of a rant about the film being the worst they ever saw, a waste of 2 hours, etc., but these folks never explain WHY they didn't like it. This is true for some of the bad reviews here. <
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>Additionally, I'm not sure that that filmmaker Harron not taking a blantant stance against the SCUM Manifesto constitutes and endorsment of it; rather the opposite. It seems to me that Solanas' rants are so out there and crazy that it isn't necessary to say "Hey, this is wrong/bad/whatever." Her insane writtings speak for themselves. Why do people need to be spoon fed the obvious? <
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>While not a masterpiece (hence the 4 stars), this certainly is a good movie and a fascinating subject. It is clearly not for everyone, as some of the reviews here illustrate. If you are into Warhol, 60's radicalism, the art scene, or that varried social movement called feminism, you'll like this movie. If not, this film is not for you.