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  • #16
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    Sayles is a hippy and would knock this story out of the park.
    You're showing your age, Lime. Kerouac was a Beat. Hippies had an utterly different lifestyle and sensibility. I was present at both events...

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    • #17
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      Jake I know Jack was a beat. They are different eras, but both represent the antiestablishment. The point is that Sayles would be a brilliant choice to direct this film while Salles is suspect.
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      • #18
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        Apples to oranges, Hairy. Completely different relationship to the "establishment" in each case. Like asking Abbie Hoffman to do a biopic of Bogart, just because they both fought the system.

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        • #19
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          You're still missing the point.
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          • #20
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            Well, there's antiestablishment and then there's downright cool. The Beats (of which there were many, ranging in attitude and competence from Kerouac to Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce to Charlie Mingus, with lots in-between) were more of a lifestyle-based movement; hippies, on the other hand, were far more political, obviously far more to the Left than, say, Kerouac (who at least in his later years was downright reactionary).

            All the Beats I knew in the 60s laughed at the hippies.

            I'm not sure this would be right for Sayles. I think he's at heart a conservative filmmaker, and I think his heart lies in other projects of which I've heard the odd hint through a former producer.

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            • #21
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              Be contrarian if you must, but he's a far cry better choice than a Brazilian with two good films and a steaming pile of notworthwatching.

              Of coruse Sayles choses his own projects and he probably wouldn't be interested in On the Road ... but if he were ... I'd be first in line.
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              • #22
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                The concept of a "John Sayles film" is always better than the actual work itself.

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                • #23
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                  Dean was younger than Jack, right? Would Josh Lucas work as Dean, now that we've greenlighted Crudup as Jack?
                  Neal was four years younger than Jack.

                  Lucas might be okay. He looks right enough. I'm kinda neutral on his acting, though. (BTW, I can't resist pointing out that Matthew McCaughnehey (sp!)is only 14 months older than Josh Lucas.)

                  What about Ewen McGregor? I bet he'd jump at the chance. He just rode around the world on a motorcycle with a buddy. How "On the Road" is that?
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                  • #24
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                    Ewan could work -- McConaughey might be my #1 choice, though - age be damned. Ewan played a kinda lily white version of Dean in Big Fish already. I'm still not 100% sold on Crudup but i could live with the choice. Who would play Old Bull ya think? A bald shaved Bob Downey, Jr. maybe?
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                    • #25
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                      The more I think about it, you may have sold me on McC. They could make the ages look right with make-up and whatnot, couldn't they?

                      Old Bull... Downey has the right verve, but they'll have to beat him with the ugly stick a bit. (Or give him a pound of coke and let him rip...) It's kind of devilish casting, given his proclivities. I like it.
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                      • #26
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                        Old thread, but does anyone have any thoughts on this movie now that it is actually being filmed?

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                        • #27
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                          Originally posted by UrbanSpice View Post
                          Old thread, but does anyone have any thoughts on this movie now that it is actually being filmed?
                          Isn't Garrett Hedlund in this one? He's becoming quite the new feature in Hollywood (Country Strong, Tron).

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                          • #28
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                            Originally posted by joe9alt View Post
                            Ewan could work -- McConaughey might be my #1 choice, though - age be damned. Ewan played a kinda lily white version of Dean in Big Fish already. I'm still not 100% sold on Crudup but i could live with the choice. Who would play Old Bull ya think? A bald shaved Bob Downey, Jr. maybe?
                            I vote for Ewan or Thomas Jane (who can do manic, and I don't think he looks too old). Ewan can definitely do Manic!
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