![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, Haynes recruited a few indie rock acts (Shudder to Think, Grant So you end up with a movie and a soundtrack which scream Bowie! but don't actually include any of his music. Haynes originally intended to create a David Bowie biopic of sorts, but Bowie rejected the script and refused to let his music be used instead, Haynes ended up with a fictional work about the rise and fall of an elusive glam-rock artist ("Brian Slade") that drew from Bowie's history and musical evolution and interactions (primarily with an Iggy Pop stand-in). For me, it was primarily a great soundtrack which happened to have a film attached to it. Personally, while I thought the plot was a little by-the-numbers (in a Citizen Kane/Eddie & The Cruisers way), I thought some of the gender-bending characterizations were interesting and the musical numbers were fantastic. ![]() Like many of his films, Todd Haynes' 1998 Velvet Goldmine, a sort of glam rock fable, draws mixed reactions. ![]()
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