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[lauralh]

My older brother is four years older than I am, which means he went off to college just as I entered high school. He was pretty much my hero until that point, and I got into metal and Depeche Mode because of him. But I didn't get his Sex Pistols obsession - he had a poster of Sid Vicious in his bedroom - till I was a lot older. I mean I still prefer the Ramones, but you know.

Sunday morning after my walk I put on Sid & Nancy. I'd never seen it before, but I knew Courtney Love had a bit part. I also knew that my brother wrote letters to his girlfriend in high school calling her "Nancy." And I knew the basic story, that they had a suicide pact. Er, Sid & Nancy, not my brother. But I had no idea how horribly shrill and annoying the character was. Not sure if that was the actress or the director, but GOOD GOD she really confused me as to why any fucking person would spend more than five minutes with her, let alone have a love affair.

Apart from that I liked the movie. The ending was a downer but I was ready for it. Gary Oldman was fantastic, as he always is, but the amount of weight he lost to play punk junkie Sid Vicious was almost frightening. And of course the music was kick-ass. I am now convinced that Courtney Love's not getting this part led her to just lead the life, except for failing at dying.

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

According to every interview I've ever read nobody understood why Sid wanted to have a love affair with her.

He turned down fucking Chrissie Hyde - who was willing to marry him!

[amphitrite8.livejournal.com]

God I love Gary Oldman, that was the role that really kicked off his acting career in the US. I also really love Chloe Webb and have loved her in many other roles, she is really great in this little known tv drama about San Fransisco called 'Tales of the City', it's been years since I've 'Sid and Nancy' I am assuming her shrillness was for the Nancy character.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

That takes - what's the opposite of balls?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I figured as much.

Gary Oldman is da man.

[amphitrite8.livejournal.com]

I have a very naughty love for Gary Oldman, it is sooooo naughty! <3

[sgtred.livejournal.com]

IMO, the "love affair/obsession" really was for heroin.

BUT HE COULD HAVE DONE THAT WITH ANYONE!

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I remember thinking at their meeting, though - "Ah yes, the inevitable triad/threesome of a drug with two addicts."

[kellwho.livejournal.com]

Chloe was in a movie where she either was or took care of a mentally ill sister, too. I remember she was good in that. I heard Courney Love just got a bit part rather than the main role because she was TOO like the character (i.e. unreliable druggie groupie.) Must've watch Sid and Nancy a dozen times when I was 16. Had all the Sex Pistols albums and posters and t-shirts and Sid Vicious fantasies, too. Sick little thing, I was.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

You didn't date my brother right?

j/k