"The Brown Bunny" sexually explicit film from "devout" bushie

[LiviaOlivia]

http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-et-dutka4aug04,2,2593713.story
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Turning to shock value to promote 'The Brown Bunny'
By Elaine Dutka
Times Staff Writer

Aug 4 2004

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Controversy is nothing new to (Vincent)Gallo's "The Brown Bunny," an unfinished version of which elicited boos at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Film critic Roger Ebert called it the worst picture ever to be screened at the event. Dismissing the possibility it could land a distributor, Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote: "No one in America will ever see a frame of this film."

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Taking a page from the playbook of Miramax Films chief Harvey Weinstein ("Dogma," "Priest" and "Kids," and more recently "Fahrenheit 9/11") and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," the (Vincent)Gallo contingent is banking on the notion that controversy translates into box office.

In spite of what's taking place in the billboard scene, which Gallo says wasn't shot with "smoke and mirrors," the 42-year-old denies that his billboard design is the act of a provocateur. His aim, Gallo contends, is to legitimize the film, diffusing charges of gratuitous sexuality by calling up "iconic references" to sophisticated, X-rated fare such as Bernardo Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" and John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy." Gallo says the X rating, which the Motion Picture Assn. of America replaced with the NC-17 label in 1990, is his own marketing device to suggest that the movie is for grown-ups, rather than pornographic.

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The film's release coincides with the Republican National Convention in New York, which Gallo, a devout supporter of President Bush, plans to attend. Although some might question his association with the party's "family values" stance, the director sets things straight. "The right-wing people I know are more tolerant than the left-wing commies you find at Cannes."

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[ForrestGump]

1. Left-wing commies? Are there actually RIGHT-wing commies?

Actually...maybe the totalitarian communist states qualify (or qualified), but they don't vote at Cannes, that den of iniquity and Frenchpersons.

[drhilarius]

2. V. Gallo

is an egotistical, pretentious, and little talented monkey. His first film, "Buffalo '66" was alright, but he viscously attacked anyone who had the slightest criticism of it. He had some choice words for Ebert after his criticism of BB as well (Ebert was the best about it. When Gallo called Ebert fat, Ebert replied "One day I'll be thin, but he'll always be the director of 'Brown Bunny'."). I think it's hilarious he decided to become a republican because (awwwww) people didn't like his crappy movie. He's as petulant as Bushie.


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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Oh yeah they're so tolerant...I dare them to hang out with you

[DrWeird]

4. Ah, The Brown Bunny.

Starring Vincent Gallo as the lead, about a motorcycle racer who drives across country in his van, looking for an old lover. The movie includes long, uncut shots of the view facing out of the front of the van, an uncut shot of Gallo stopping the van, washing the van, then getting back in the van for more driving, and then when Gallo finds his lover in the end, she gives him an actual, uncut blowjob. Apparently it was so bad at Cannes that Gallo apologized to the audience for ever making the movie. To bad he didn't mean it.

[Doomsayer13]

5. Great, one more right-wing Egomaniac

News to Vincent, the job of self-serving right wing narcissist has already been taken by Bill O'Reilly.

I quite enjoyed Ebert's quote about the movie in which Gallo put a curse on Ebert's cancerous colon, to which he responeded "My colonoscopy was more entertaining than Brown Bunny."

[Susang]

6. Vincent Gallo....

You mean that guy from the Gap ad? ;-)

yawn.

[LiviaOlivia]

7. This article partly focused on the billboard

ads for this film. I wonder if Mr. Gallo and co. used Clear Channel billboards?