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Running time 114 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English Budget $4 million Box office $2.8 million Sid and Nancy (also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills) is a 1986 British directed by and co-written with Abbe Wool. The film portrays the life of , bassist of the seminal band the, and his relationship with girlfriend. The film also features supporting performances from,. The film premiered at the in 1986, and was released theatrically in the United States that fall. Despite failing to recoup its production budget at the box office, the film was received positively by most critics and has attained status.
Contents. Plot The film opens on 12 October 1978, with several police officers dragging out of the following the death of his girlfriend,.
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Sid is soon driven to a police station and upon arrival is asked to describe what happened. Police officers become frustrated when Sid is visibly troubled and unable to speak. A little more than a year earlier, in 1977, close friends and band members Sid and meet Nancy, a heroin-addicted who had come to to bed the. Sid dismisses her at first, as her sexual intentions are obvious, but begins dating her after feeling sympathy for the rejection she faces from fellow punk stars and after she sells him; it is implied that she introduces him to the drug. The two fall deeply in love, but their self-destructive, drug-fueled relationship frays Sid's relationship with the rest of the band, which eventually breaks up on 17 January 1978, in the midst of a disastrous American tour which features Sid strung out of his mind, often drunk or on meth, and physically violent. Although several of his friends and acquaintances warn him of Nancy's devastating effect on his life, Sid stubbornly ignores these warnings.
Sid, now living in New York, attempts to start a solo career with Nancy as his manager, only to be dismissed as a has-been. By now, both he and Nancy are heavily addicted to heroin, and Nancy has spiraled into a deep. Sid loses interest in Nancy sexually and wants out of a he made with her. Their love affair ends tragically one night when, during an argument in which Sid announces his plans to stop using heroin and return to to re-start his life, a suicidal Nancy begs him to kill her. She attacks him and they fight in a drug-induced haze, leading to him stabbing her, although whether or not it was intentional is left to interpretation. They fall asleep and later Nancy awakes and stumbles into the bathroom, where she collapses and dies.
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Sid is bailed out temporarily by his mother who is also a heroin addict. After getting a pizza, some kids convince him to dance with them.
Some time later, a taxi picks Sid up and he believes he finds Nancy alive in the back seat. The two embrace as the cab drives off. A says that Vicious died of an intentional, and he now shares a grave with Nancy. Their gravestone reads: 'R.I.P. Nancy and Sid.' . as.
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Barbara Coles as Reporter Production Development The film, originally titled Love Kills, is largely based on the mutually destructive, drug- and sex-filled relationship between Vicious and Nancy. Vicious' mother, Anne Beverley, initially tried to prevent the film from being made. After meeting with director Cox, however, she decided to help the production; for example, Beverley gave Oldman Vicious' own heavy metal chain and padlock to wear in the film. Some of the supporting characters are composites, invented to streamline the plot. Casting According to director Cox, he had originally considered for the part of Sid Vicious; however, Cox offered Oldman the part of Vicious after seeing him play the lead role of Scopey in a 1984 production of 's The Pope's Wedding. Oldman twice turned down the role before accepting it, because, in his own words: 'I wasn't really that interested in Sid Vicious and the punk movement. I'd never followed it.
It wasn't something that interested me. The script I felt was banal and 'who cares' and 'why bother' and all of that. And I was a little bit sort-of with my nose in the air and sort-of thinking 'well the theatre – so much more superior' and all of that.' He reconsidered based on the salary and the urging of his agent. He lost weight to play the emaciated Vicious by eating nothing but 'steamed fish and lots of melon', but was briefly hospitalized when he lost too much. Oldman later dismissed the performance, saying: 'I don't think I played Sid Vicious very well'. Recorded an infamous video audition in which she exclaimed, 'I am Nancy Spungen.'
Cox was impressed by Love's audition, but has said the film's investors insisted on an experienced actress for the co-leading role. Therefore, instead, Cox wrote the minor role of Gretchen, one of Sid and Nancy's New York junkie friends, specifically for her benefit. Cox would later cast Love as one of the leads in (1987). Coincidentally, Love would be compared to Spungen later in life on account of her marriage to.
In his 2007 autobiography, guitarist revealed that the casting director hired all five members of Guns N' Roses as extras for a club scene, having coincidentally scouted them in different locations without their knowledge. He said 'all of us showed up to the first day of casting, like 'Hey.what are you doing here?' ' However, Slash was the only one in the group to stay for the entire shoot. Webb and Oldman improvised the dialogue heard in the scene leading up to Spungen's death but based it on interviews and other materials available to them. The stabbing scene is fictionalized and based only on conjecture. Cox told the: 'We wanted to make the film not just about Sid Vicious and, but as an anti-drugs statement, to show the degradation caused to various people is not at all glamorous.'
The original music is by,. A track by ('Swords and Knives') was also recorded for the film but was rejected by the filmmakers for not being 'punk' enough. The track later surfaced on the band's album in 1989. Prominent musicians made appearances in the film including, and of. Rating The film was given an by the for 'very strong language, strong violence and hard drug use', and an in the United States for ', violence, sexuality, and '.
Release Reception and legacy From the 64 reviews collected by review aggregator, the film received an overall approval rating of 88%, with the consensus: 'Visceral, energetic, and often very sad, Sid & Nancy is also a surprisingly touching love story, and Gary Oldman is outstanding as the late punk rock icon Sid Vicious.' Gave Sid and Nancy four-out-of-four in his review for, writing that Cox and his crew 'pull off the neat trick of creating a movie full of noise and fury, and telling a meticulous story right in the middle of it.' Appearing on, Ebert said, to agreement from and applause from the audience, that Oldman 'definitely won't be nominated – and should be', this being for the reason that 'Hollywood will not nominate an actor for portraying a creep, no matter how good the performance is'. In a subsequent article on Oldman, Ebert referred to the movie's titular couple as 'punk rock's.' In his book Sid Vicious: Rock N' Roll Star, Malcolm Butt describes Webb's performance as Spungen as 'intense, powerful, and most important of all, believable.' Oldman's portrayal of Vicious was ranked #62 in '100 Greatest Performances of All Time'. Ranked Gary Oldman as #8 in its '10 Best actors in rockin' roles' list, describing his portrayal as a 'hugely sympathetic reading of the punk figurehead as a lost and bewildered manchild.'
In 2011, said of the performance: 'It's an early high point in Oldman's varied career that showed just what the young actor was made of. Playing the part of an icon known and beloved by many comes with its own demands and risks, but Oldman more than rises to the challenge, completely transforming into the troubled punk bassist.'
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The magazine described Oldman's rendition of ' as 'fantastic – it might even be better than Sid's original version.' In 2003, ranked Sid and Nancy as the third-best rock movie ever made, and in 2014, named it the ninth-greatest music of all time.
Not all reviews of the film were positive., in a negative appraisal, reiterated a line from a review that appeared in: 'Relentlessly whingeing performances and a lengthy slide into drugs, degradation and death make this a solemnly off-putting moral tract.' Was ranked #1 in Uncut magazine's '10 Worst actors in rockin' roles', which described his performance as lead singer Johnny Rotten (real name ) as a 'short-arse regular never once looking like he means it'. Commentary on the Criterion dismisses the film's portrayal of Lydon as wholly inaccurate. Of also criticised the movie for portraying Lydon as 'some sort of fat, bean-slurping idiot.'
Although not a box office success, generating $2,826,523 in the U.S. On a $4 million budget Sid and Nancy has become a cult hit; described the film as a 'poignant and uncompromising '. John Lydon's reaction Lydon commented on the film in his 1994,: I cannot understand why anyone would want to put out a movie like Sid and Nancy and not bother to speak to me;, the director, didn’t. He used as his point of reference – of all the people on this earth –! That guttural singer from? What the fuck did he know about Sid and Nancy? That’s probably all he could find, which was really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The only time Alex Cox made any approach toward me was when he sent the over to New York where I was. This actor told me he wanted to talk about the script. During the two days he was there, he told me that the film had already been completed. The whole thing was a sham. It was a ploy to get my name used in connection with the film, in order to support it. To me this movie is the lowest form of life. I honestly believe that it celebrates heroin addiction.
It definitely glorifies it at the end when that stupid taxi drives off into the sky. That's such nonsense. The squalid hotel scenes were fine, except they needed to be even more squalid. All of the scenes in with the were nonsense. None bore any sense of reality.
The chap who played Sid, I thought was quite good. But even he only played the stage persona as opposed to the real person. I don’t consider that Gary Oldman's fault because he’s a bloody good actor. If only he had the opportunity to speak to someone who knew the man. I don’t think they ever had the intent to research properly in order to make a seriously accurate movie. It was all just for money, wasn't it? To humiliate somebody’s life like that – and very successfully – was very annoying to me.
The final irony is that I still get asked questions about it. I have to explain that it's all wrong. It was all someone else’s fucking fantasy, some graduate who missed the punk rock era. When I got back to London, they invited me to a screening. So I went to see it and was utterly appalled. I told Alex Cox, which was the first time I met him, that he should be shot, and he was quite lucky I didn't shoot him.
I still hold him in the lowest light. Will the real Sid please stand up? As for how I was portrayed, well, there's no offense in that.
It was so off and ridiculous. It was absurd. Champagne and baked beans for breakfast? I don't drink champagne. He didn't even speak like me. He had a accent. Worse, there's a slur implied in the movie that I was jealous of Nancy, which I find particularly loathsome.
There is that implication that I feel was definitely put there. I guess that’s Alex Cox showing his middle class twittery. It’s all too glib, it’s all too easy. Strummer claimed to have met with Alex Cox for the first time after the completion of the film, at a wrap party, but this is not entirely accurate. The wrap party was actually the conclusion of the London phase of the filming, which was followed by filming in Los Angeles and New York City, performed by a largely different crew. The pair's meeting involved discussion over soundtrack work for the film, not the film's script.
In a later interview, Lydon was asked the question, 'Did the movie get anything right?' To which he replied: 'Maybe the name Sid.' Cox's attitude toward his subjects was indeed unapologetically negative, writing that 'Sid had sold out, contributed nothing of value, died an idiot.' Cox went on to say that one of the reasons he was attracted to the project was that he was afraid that if someone else made it, it would portray its subjects as 'real exemplars of Punk like I am; rather than sold-out traitors to it.' He acknowledged that Lydon's hatred of the movie was 'understandable, given that it was based on incidents from his life and centred around one of his friends.'
Neither original bassist nor guitarist have been as outspoken about the movie as Lydon, although Lydon claimed that drummer was more upset over the movie than he was. According to Cox, both he and Andrew Schofield (who played Lydon in the film) did meet with Lydon before the filming. According to Cox, Lydon noticed that Schofield was, like Cox, a, rather than a Londoner like Lydon, and encouraged him to play the part as a rather than a Londoner. Cox took this as a sign that both of them agreed that it would be better to portray a more fictionalized version of the characters rather than a cold re-telling of facts. Cox claims that Lydon drank heavily at these meetings, which may explain why Lydon did not recall them. Cox stated in a book that contrary to Lydon's claims, his meeting with Schofield was not after the film's completion, but rather before Schofield had even been given the part.
He was offered the part the next day. Awards and nominations Won. Critics Award: 1986. Best Actress: – 1986.
Most Promising Newcomer – Actor: – 1987. Best Actress: – 1987 Nominated. Best Make Up Artist: – 1987 Soundtrack The official soundtrack contains no songs sung by either the. Much of the actual film's soundtrack (as opposed to soundtrack album) was composed by, who was contractually limited to contribute only two songs. Nevertheless, he continued to contribute more (unpaid) work because of his interest in the project and composing for film in general. This additional material was credited to fictitious bands in the credits, so as to keep Strummer's label, from knowing what he had done. Another large portion of the music was composed.
Song Artist 'Love Kills' (Title Track) ' 'Pleasure and Pain' 'Chinese Choppers' 'Love Kills' 'Off the Boat' Pray for Rain 'Dum Dum Club' Joe Strummer 'Burning Room' Pray for Rain 'She Never Took No for an Answer' 'Junk' The Pogues 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' 'My Way' Gary Oldman 'Taxi to Heaven' Pray for Rain Home media Sid and Nancy was first released on DVD by in the late 1990s; this version has since gone out of print. Released the film on DVD in 2000. In May 2017, The Criterion Collection announced they would be reissuing the film on and DVD, where it was later released on 22 August 2017. References. Retrieved 20 July 2015. ^ Von Tunzelmann, Alex (6 March 2013).
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