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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 398109" data-attributes="member: 57984"><img src="https://www.tellytalk.net/attachments/mopi-jpg.51524/" alt="mopi.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO is a flawed but fascinatingly little avant-guard, occasionally cinéma vérité, mess of a movie (they use real street boys in the cast) and is the perfect film to capture the cusp-of-the-&#039;80s-and-&#039;90s zeitgeist (whatever that is). Perpetually on the edge of a nap, River Phoenix is terrific; Keanu is Keanu, and tries to master the Shakespeare; the cinematography is breath-taking. And it almost works.And it has those numerous prescient moments contained in so many River Phoenix movies (like his collapsing onto sidewalks, roads, etc.) we&#039;ve come to expect. Like Natalie Wood in peril near the water.Curiously, Gore Vidal turned down the role of the pederastic mentor of a band of hustler kids (ultimately played by William Richert) a real-life portrait of the guy cast to give River a B.J. in the near-opening scene. Although Vidal liked the movie -- well, he wrote Myra Breckenridge -- he didn&#039;t want to play it (some have suggested it was too typecasting for his tastes).But the picture ends on the same song that opens BONNIE AND CLYDE, and it confuses me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 398109, member: 57984"] [IMG alt="mopi.jpg"]https://www.tellytalk.net/attachments/mopi-jpg.51524/[/IMG] MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO is a flawed but fascinatingly little avant-guard, occasionally [I]cinéma vérité,[/I] mess of a movie (they use real street boys in the cast) and is the perfect film to capture the cusp-of-the-'80s-and-'90s zeitgeist (whatever that is). Perpetually on the edge of a nap, River Phoenix is terrific; Keanu is Keanu, and tries to master the Shakespeare; the cinematography is breath-taking. And it almost works. And it has those numerous prescient moments contained in so many River Phoenix movies (like his collapsing onto sidewalks, roads, etc.) we've come to expect. Like Natalie Wood in peril near the water. Curiously, Gore Vidal turned down the role of the pederastic mentor of a band of hustler kids (ultimately played by William Richert) a real-life portrait of the guy cast to give River a B.J. in the near-opening scene. Although Vidal liked the movie -- well, he wrote [I]Myra[/I] [I]Breckenridge [/I]-- he didn't want to play it (some have suggested it was too typecasting for his tastes). But the picture ends on the same song that opens BONNIE AND CLYDE, and it confuses me. [/QUOTE]

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