Why hasn't there been a flick about Kerouac and the Beats?

Who would play a good Jack Kerouac?

nice retort :)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOer13WNPfk
http://www.onefastmove.com/
http://www.kerouacfilms.com/

about this flick. I'll check it out. Do the beats still have a following in Europe?

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my Swiss husband is a huge fan of Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg, as am I. :D

For our (Swiss) goddaughter's 15th birthday, we gave her a copies of Kerouac's "On The Road" and Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" in Italian. She loves "On The Road" and is pecking out her own novel now on a 1950s "Baby Hermes" manual typewriter. We're _horrid_ influences, aren't we? :rofl:

At fifteen she's old enough for a grown-up typewriter.

Love that you gave her Kerouac and The Second Sex, too! Quite a bit of disparity in tone, there! :D


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One of the coolest things I did when visiting SF the last few years was 1. go to City Lights! :woohoo: and 2. take the Beats tour through North Beach and then have a beer at Vesuvio! So cool. Skip the Beat Museum, though, waste of money. Better to just walk around with a guide book or guide.

THE POETABLE JACK KEROUAC

Poetic and musical celebration of Beat icon Jack Kerouac, an event honoring the publishing of Viking’s The Portable Jack Kerouac and Selected Letters. Hosted by longtime friend Allen Ginsberg and biographer Ann Charters, we are lavished with extensive readings and quotes from Kerouac’s many works and intimate letters. All-star performers include Maggie Estep, Ed Sanders, Lee Ranaldo, David Amram & Graham Parker. Poet Clark Coolidge has written an exquisite long poem in Jack’s honor & musician Dave Van Ronk croons an evocative road ballad. (2 hours, 1995)

http://poetswearprada.home.att.net/ThinAirVideo.html

love the URL name....


Ed Sanders lives!



"she wore a tiny pushup bra made from the eyelids of an elephant"

something like that

A film version of On the Road and The Big Dharma are in development.

Heart Beat, a movie staring John Heard, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.

It's about the relationship between Kerouac and Cassidy.

I saw that one and it was all right...

Also, a good documentary I saw back in the 90's was "On the Road with Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats"

Here is a review from the NYT

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/36302/On-the-Road-with-Jack-Kerouac-King-of-the-Beats/overview

And Jack Black is all set to play Allen Ginsberg in biopic currently targeted for an early 2012 release.

Thanks for the heads up, Orrex! :thumbsup:

Watch for it!

Played the Burroughs charactor Bill Lee...

Played the Burroughs charactor Bill Lee...

and Shia who's it? saw him in one thing, and casting him in anything like this is like casting Tom Cruise as that vampire.

simply HORrible

If you examine the plot lines of "On the Road" and Transformers 2 you will notice that they are the same. The writer/director is obviously a huge fan.

Jeff Goldblum comes to mind, but he's probably too old. Maybe this guy?



He played Claire Danes' boyfriend in My So-Called Life and he just with the black nail polish and eyeliner he looks like the kind of emo loser who'd kill himself at his own birthday party. AFTER getting a pony.

It has Keanu Reeves as Neal Cassady. It's not great, but it's okay. I don't think Kerouac actually appears in it, except as the person Neal is writing to.

They've been trying to make On the Road into a movie for years, and there's another version in development now. Perhaps this one will fare better. There's also a movie ("Howl") in development about Ginsberg's obscenity trial after Howl. The guy playing Kerouac is not someone I'm familiar with.

is in postproduction.

I could play him! We grew up in the same neighborhood, both French-Canadian, I was a bookish kid who hung out at the Lowell library and read books, I used to write stories and poetry...hmmm...but I'm nowhere near as cool. And havent crisscrossed the country yet :shrug: Oh, and I'm not a religiously confused alcoholic. So...yeah maybe not!

Thanks for the photo. I hadn't seen that in any of the Kerouac biographies I've read.

.....this is their story told to the hot rhythms of fabulous jazz!''

haaaaaaaa

get with it, hepcats:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054351/





BTW, anybody who doesn't dig On the Road, especially the scenes in which he describes listening to live music, is particularly L7.

check this CD if you can...my library has it: Kerouac reading his own material>>>

"Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road"
CD/813.54/KEROUAC,J


some of it is simply stunning ('Jazz of the Beat Generation'). some of it, not so much