Saturday, September 12, 2009
{ 3:00 AM }
...she was always fantastic
watched factory girl yesterday after school :]really liked it and honestly, i'm not quite sure why -- there was apparently lots of controversy and critics after the release/during the production. it's got all the elements that are fun and stuff i like (not so much of the drugs and sex but everything else).. but the ending's just so.. morbid. i mean it was just awful really. (hint: severe lack of a happy ending). of course, this is based off the real edie sedgwick, one time superstar of andy warhol (that famous modern pop artist).
"I went to a party once, and there was a palm reader there and when she looked at my hand, she just froze. And I said to her "I know. My lifeline is broken. I know I won't live past thirty. " edie sedgwick, factory girl.
and so i wonder, would you rather live fast and die young(+be remembered)
or live a long yet (boring+) typical kind of life :/
so the story is basically about a girl edie who sets off for new york. she's an heiress and super effing rich :) then at some kinda art exhibition party, she's introduced to andy warhol who asks her to star in one of his "movies". she's really just that breathtaking and fantastic. she was very.. holly golightly in the beginning. she soon begins to gain popularity and attention from the public. she becomes a.. well, star. some dark stuff come out, abuse.. her brothers' death.. minty's was particularly tragic cause he was gay = unacceptable.
**spoiler warning !**
so anyway, her popularity rises and she continues to spend as friviously and recklessly as ever. mainly splurging on clothes and dining at posh restaurants. then her former cambridge friend introduces her to billy quinn (supposedly the character was modeled after bob dylan). this is probably the coolest i've ever seen hayden christensen. i especially loved this scene, when he starts his bike so it drives off the planks, causing it to sink into the water. this needs to be watched for anyone to actually get it but i just loved it. it seemed so..so spontaneous :D
of course then things started to go downhill after edie tries to get the two (andy and billy) to get along since they can't seem to stand each other - billy thinks andy's a bloodsucker who will kill her. billy leaves her and her relationship with andy goes from bad to worse. due to mixing with the warhol group, she picks up all these bad habits such as drug addiction. and besides, to andy, she's replaceable. she becomes confused and pretty much turns into a wreck. she even goes bankrupt cause her father refuses to give her any more money. it's all quite devastating really. very tragic stuff.
in the end she's shown, in a rehab "recovering". the whole movie is basically a flashback sort of thing for her.
(now that's just the movie.)
what's supposedly her "real life story" is a bit different...
i've always liked sienna miller cause she dresses really nicely but i've never really seen alot of her shows. in this one, i thought she was just fab. :) Hayden Christensen was great too. Never thought much for him, i mean he was okay but nothing "swoon-worthy". In the movie, though he was just so cool. His actions and behaviour :P *drools* haha uber cool-ness :O
the real edie sedgewick..
who's simply gorgeous.
don't you think?
as for whether or not andy warhol really ruined edie is well.. debatable i guess :/ probably not.
supposedly he was portrayed as more villanious in the movie. in real life, edie already had issues and was mentally unstable to begin with.
then there's always the andy vs bob dylan thing :/
there was this quote on bob dylan by andy warhol,
"I liked Dylan, the way he created a brilliant new style... I even gave him one of my silver Elvis paintings in the days when he was first around. Later on, though, I got paranoid when I heard rumours that h had used the Elvis as a dart board up in the country. When I'd ask, 'Why did he do that? I'd invariable get hearsay answers like 'I hear he feels you destroyed Edie,' or 'Listen to Like a Rolling Stone - I think you're the 'diplomat on the chrome horse,' man,' I didn't know exactly what they meant by that - I never listened much to the words of songs - but I got the tenor of what people were saying - that Dylan didn't like me, that he blamed me for Edie's drugs."
so much drugs, out of control things, disappointment and whatnot :/ he bio actually looks really sad. as though she spent half her life (not a very long one even) being a wreck.
edie sedgwick was a style icon nevertheless,
even dubbed a "youthquake" by vogue :)
i think.. she seems to have been very much fab :P
"Edie was fantastic. She was always fantastic."
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