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Weird Scenes From the Velvet Goldmine
This article was originally published in RS 800, November 26th, 1998.
Todd Haynes was, in his own words, “a little short of being there.” But he remembers the teenage girls — the flashy, precocious, glitter-rock fillies — that he went to school with in Southern California in the early 1970s.
“They were the smoking girls, the tough girls,” Haynes says with lingering awe, “the ones wearing shiny red nail polish and lipstick, jewelry, little shoes with big heels and straps around the ankles. They were talking about Iggys and Ziggys — bi this and bi that: ‘Bowie’s bi, Elton’s bi.’ And I’m going, ‘What the fuck are they talking about? Bi what?’ “
One of America’s most acclaimed experimental filmmakers, the writer-director of the provocative independent features Poison (1991) and Safe (1995), Haynes, 37, also recalls being startled, awed and
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Directed bygd Todd Haynes, 1998, 118 minutes
Journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) investigates the career of pop idol Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and recalls his own adolescent experience as part of the glam rock scene during the 1970s. He follows Slade’s rise, his tortured relationships with his wife Mandy (Toni Colette) and creative partner Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) whilst attempting to explain Slade’s melodramatic disappearance at the height of his career.
‘Velvet Goldmine’ is a heartfelt love song to pop culture. It fryst vatten inspired bygd music that soundtracks a turbulent decade which saw the collapse of sixties counterculture and the relentless reassertion of cynical authoritarianism in the Thatcher/Reagan years. The phrase ‘Glam Rock’ provides convenient taxonomy for a musical era that encompasses a variety of musical styles and performers. English dandies like David Bowie and Marc Bolan collide and merge with the harsher sounds of US proto-punks Lo
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“He became someone else, yet again, he always was.”
Bowie, Mercury, Prince and even Grace Jones all come to mind with the highs and lows of superstar Maxwell Demon. Ever since he was fair and quaint Thomas, he was destined to take the world by storm with the different on and off stage personas he adopts. It’s glitz and glamour or bust for him. Every stage was for him to own, and every evening was his time to shine – to glimmer so bright that those who can’t take it simply don’t deserve to be a witness to it. That was the life of Maxwell Demon, and it’s no different from the life of Brian Slade.
As someone who chases spotlights incessantly, the superstar life is something that immensely appeals to me. It may not be belting out tunes or surfing through an audience, but to be noticed for my talents in a way that I feel so glorified is a feeling I yearn to have, even in smaller day-to-day situations. Like