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Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary
#5454899 - 03/29/06 11:52 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Before you say OMG THIS WAS POSTED IN SHROOMERY NEWS SERVICE - I know. I just don't think the discussion that topic deserves will necessarily go forth and multiply in SNS.
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veggie said: The race for the Timothy Leary biopic March 29, 2006 - insideeonline.com
The race has begun between Hollywood heavyweights to see who can produce a Timothy Leary biopic first.
Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way, is said to be working on a project about the LSD-dropping former Harvard prof who became a popular advocate of the experimental '60s.
DiCaprio's version could have the upper hand as his father, George, was a good friend of Leary's. The psychedelic professor was godfather to Winona Ryder and best buds with her father, Michael Horowitz ? who was also Leary's archivist and has just signed on as creative consultant for the DiCaprio project.
The competition stems from director Darren Aronofsky (whose Oscar-winning girlfriend, Rachel Weisz, is pregnant with his child), who is also said to be working on a Leary-inspired film. Aronofsky's past work includes the sci-fi thriller 'Pi' and the drug-themed 'Requiem for a Dream.'
I would trust Aronofsky's FAR more than DiCaprio's for the very reasons they say it would have the upper hand. It would be too pro-Leary for my tastes. I can already envision a film that portrays him in some sort of messianic aspect.
I think Aronofsky would do a much better job of taking an objective stance and producing a really gutteral film moreso than a "biopic."
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5454904 - 03/29/06 11:55 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Leary > JESUS > YOU > EVERYONE ELSE
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5454907 - 03/29/06 11:56 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well, at least I beat everyone else.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5454908 - 03/29/06 11:56 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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they should make one on ram dass, hes way cooler than leary
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5454914 - 03/29/06 11:58 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I've been waiting for Afronsky's third movie for a long time now. No matter whats its about, it will be great. This topic sounds right up his alley, though.
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#5454927 - 03/29/06 12:05 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: blink]
#5454938 - 03/29/06 12:07 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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blinkidiot said: OMG THIS WAS POSTED IN SHROOMERY NEWS SERVICE
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: Redstorm]
#5455016 - 03/29/06 12:35 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm going to beat them to it and make my own Leary film.
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: Animals]
#5455092 - 03/29/06 12:55 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Maybe they can do a quad release, these two plus the two Shulgins movies.
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: supercollider]
#5455433 - 03/29/06 02:30 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Leary lived a fascinating life that would make a really interesting movie but I really doubt Hollywood will do it any justice. I'd almost rather they not bother.
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: Metasyn]
#5455445 - 03/29/06 02:34 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Metasyn said: Leary lived a fascinating life that would make a really interesting movie but I really doubt Hollywood will do it any justice. I'd almost rather they not bother.
Yeah, I think they are going to portray him as a hippy with a distorted sense of reality or something like that.
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: Stonerguy]
#5455448 - 03/29/06 02:35 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Stonerguy said:
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Metasyn said: Leary lived a fascinating life that would make a really interesting movie but I really doubt Hollywood will do it any justice. I'd almost rather they not bother.
Yeah, I think they are going to portray him as a hippy with a distorted sense of reality or something like that.
Yeah.
And?
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5455455 - 03/29/06 02:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sure he had somewhat of a distorted sense of reality but I think they are going to over play that fact. But I would sitll pay money to see it.
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: Stonerguy]
#5455483 - 03/29/06 02:43 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fsk, I don't want a leary movie...
I want a Kesey movie...
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: wery67564]
#5455492 - 03/29/06 02:44 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Like someone else said I would rather see a Ram Das movie.
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: Stonerguy]
#5455494 - 03/29/06 02:45 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I believe there's a Ram Dass documentary.
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Re: Two Movies Being Made About Timothy Leary [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5455532 - 03/29/06 02:56 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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What ever happened to that Children of the Revolution film?
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