Too many words to write a short review...

Arden 2022-03-21 09:02:24

As a music fan of The Runaways, I came to see this movie about them, and found that the discussion was mostly about the actors. Fanning was only 16 years old when he appeared. The plot of the movie was adapted from Cherie's autobiography, and she also participated in the screenwriting work. Joan Jett was involved in the production as a producer.

So Cherie will undoubtedly become the first heroine, but I still like to see this movie as a double heroine mode. I feel sorry for Cherie after watching it. Obviously, the producer has been tricked. Joan is a fugitive. Soul figure, its later musical achievements are obvious to all, and another guitarist Lita Ford is also quite successful after going solo. But when it comes to rock, I'm just a layman. Drugs, sex, and resistance are all too far from my life, but their songs are really good! Their looks are really cool, Joan is really handsome, Cherie is really beautiful! But as far as the movie is concerned, the choreography is not satisfactory. It is not bad for the biographical movie to be straightforward, but there is no ups and downs and it should not be. The whole movie relies on the golden songs of the escape band to set off the atmosphere.

The love between Cherie and Joan is really exciting. It can be seen that Joan cherishes Cherie very much. I don't know if they still have contact later.

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The Runaways quotes

  • Kim Fowley: Cherie Currie! Welcome. You look great. What song are you going to sing for us today?

    Cherie Currie: Um, "Fever".

    Kim Fowley: "Fever"?

    Lita Ford: A Peggy Lee song?

    Sandy West: Who's Peggy Lee?

    Joan Jett: My mom likes Peggy Lee.

    Lita Ford: Kim, you should have told her. We don't play that shit.

    Cherie Currie: Suzi Quatro covered "Fever".

    Lita Ford: It's a slow song. We don't play slow songs.

    Joan Jett: Well, can you do a different song?

    Cherie Currie: Yeah, it's just the only one I learned for today.

    Kim Fowley: [interrupts] Go! Wait outside. Go. Go!

  • Kim Fowley: Joan, come here. Bring your guitar. We have to do it for her, I guess. Cherie? Cherie.

    [listens to Joan's guitar]

    Kim Fowley: She's a wild child. She's a wild girl.

    Joan Jett: Yeah.

    Kim Fowley: She's a wild girl. She's a, oh she's a firecracker. Give me something else. Something else. Firecracker, rocket, bomb, bomb. Cherry bomb! Cherry bomb.

    [Joan changes guitar riff]

    Kim Fowley: Do it again. She's a ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb! Ahh!

    Joan Jett: [laughs] That's good!

    Kim Fowley: Yeah. Cherry bomb, right. Hello daddy.

    Joan Jett: Hello mom? I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb! That's good!

    Kim Fowley: Right? Yeah!