There's a scene in the #Love movie where Sid and Nancy are lying helplessly on the bed and he suddenly asks how long we haven't done it. Nancy said, as long as you want, we can... Sid thought about it and said, you better kiss me. Then the camera turned, and it was the picture on this poster. Nancy leaned her back against a trash can on the street, facing the kiss that SId leaned on. Then the rubbish was falling slowly from the air around them, like grotesque flowers.
This is the warmest, most peaceful scene in the movie, and at that moment I forgot they were punks and thought they were hippies from earlier, lovers hiding in trash cans.
Sid Vicious, the bass player of the most famous British punk band the Sex Pistols, formerly known as John Simon Ritchie-Beverly (Beverly was derived from his stepfather), moved around with his mother who was illicitly selling narcotics and drugs. In 1974, he met John Lydon (later Johnny Rotten), the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, who later changed his name to Sid Vicious after John Lydon's biting pet rat "Sid the Vicious". Sid. In 1975, Sid began to have self-mutilation tendencies and anti-social emotions, which are typical punk characteristics. It is Sid's punk attitude, as well as his thin and cute appearance, although he doesn't know how to play bass, he was also attracted by the punk godfather Malcolm, the agent of the Sex Pistols, and invited him to join the band he likes very much. In 1977, Sid joined the Sex Pistols, the year he met Nancy.
Nancy Spungen, born into a middle-class Jewish family in America, ran away from home to New York when she was 17 years old. There, she became a flesh and blood (Gropie, the woman who followed the band fooling around), followed the Aerosmiths, the New York Dolls, the Ramones and other bands. For a while, she made a living by striptease and occasionally prostitutes. It can be said that Nancy is a very bad girl. She is not beautiful and has a bad temper. Because of drug addiction, she appears to be prematurely senile. Later, she went to London, where she met Sid.
As the title suggests,
How Sid fell in love with Nancy was a little weird. When they met in the movie, there was no spark at all, not a single ambiguous look. After a show, they slept together and nothing happened except Sid muttering to himself in his sleep, Sex was so boring. Later, Nancy cheated Sid of the money to buy drugs. A few days later, she ran into Sid again by accident. They injected and slept together. When Nancy wakes up and leaves, Sid grabs her and they're together. The reality is probably not like this. Because of his mother, Sid became addicted to drugs in 1975. When he met Nancy, he seemed like someone who didn't know where to buy drugs. But one thing is clear, their union is not so beautiful as worldly romance and love at first sight, but because of the same smell.
Although this is a story of two people, and it is often a scene of two people together, the focus is obviously on Sid. Because he's Sid, an early-fall punk icon. There is a scene in the movie where Sid sings the famous jazz song My Way. There are well-dressed adults in the audience and a punk shouting on the stage. The audience is sitting and applauding and cheering. This is the most ironic scene in the film. Do they really like punk? But My Way is for someone like Sid, like Frank Sinatra, the mob boss in
The movie was released in 1986, ten years after the beginning of punk. Sid had been buried for a long time, and his bones were cold. Most of the so-called punk music and punk spirit have also rotted in the arms of business. Alex Cox's work was praised by most of the media at the time, with a few saying he glorified drugs or distorted some facts. He didn't get much support when he started the plan, and people mostly laughed and sneered because times had changed a long time ago. Sid's mother was initially opposed to the film based on what happened to her son, but after meeting Alex Cox, she was persuaded. I don't know how much fanaticism, rationality or interest Alex used to persuade the mother, she even took out some of Sid's relics as props, such as the iconic collar and padlock. Then Alex found someone close to the same-sex pistol as a consultant, so he was generally able to resolve details such as clothing and where the story took place.
In a way, the success of the film lies in the casting of the right actors for both roles. Gary Oldman, his appearance and body are very similar to Sid, and his performance is more like a god. Chloe Webb as Nancy also won praise for her performance, which was powerful and convincing. It's not an easy thing to do for a long time in the film where they're in various drug-related situations and angry but powerless punks, but Oldman and Webb did a great job. Originally, Countney Love was also very interested in the role of Nancy, so she could be expected to perform in her true colors, but the producers only asked her to play another small role in consideration of her acting experience.
#Kills
On October 12, 1978, Room 100, Chelsea Hotel, West Street, New York, which is shown in the opening scene of the movie, Sid wakes up to find Nancy collapsed in the bathroom, he calls 911, and then sits on the bed stupidly. What happened that night is unknown now, maybe it was the movie, maybe it was a drug dealer who got into an argument with Nancy, as people guessed. At one point Sid also said, "I killed her because I'm a dirty dog". He also wrote this poem to Nancy:
You were my little baby girl,
And I shared all your fears.
Such joy to hold you in my arms
and kiss away your tears.
But now you're gone, there's only pain
and nothing I can do.
And I don't want to live this life,
If I can't live for you.
To my beautiful baby girl.
Our love will never die...
Sid once said in the movie, "I can't live without you", very old-fashioned love words and lines, but it is his Voice of the heart. On 2/1/79, the pals held a party to celebrate his bail release, Sid took some heroin from his mom, and the next morning he was found dead of an overdose.
Maybe it should be said like the movie, love to kill people.
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