Fans of this movie might want to check out the new Hold Steady record "Stay Positive". The last track ("Slapped Actress") contains several references to this film. Also, it's awesome.
Man, we make our own movies.
True that. That song is pretty damn rad.
shareA true gem on an incredible great album. Never saw the movie, but just ordered the DVD, just because of this song. Man, I wish, this becomes their standard concert-closer from now on...
shareIt's not just "Slapped Actress." There are references to the film throughout the album...
shareIt's not just "Slapped Actress." There are references to the film throughout the album...
Didn't know there was a song dedicated to this film. Although I don't want this to sound weird but Gena Rowlands is the best actress to get slapped, she does it so well I don't know what it is. It's very real and raw but dramatic at the same time it's kind of hard to explain.
shareTo Porschecarerra, your post makes me want to cry.
I don't think you sound weird, I think you are simply stating the raw emotion Rowlands feels as her character is slapped. She feels it 100%, as if someone were slapping her in real life, and not as someone who would just get frustrated by the rudeness and shock of the impact, but as someone who feels the totality of the slap, the underlying issues of dominance, and the chauvinistic rut that humanity is still so slowly trying to crawl out of.
This slapping scene may bother some people. Some viewers may even resent that it was included (For example, Le Tigre's song "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" ponders whether he was a genius or a misogynist.), but for the amount of issues it tackles and the consciousness that it inspires with its realism, I think those were some choice slaps.
The cast and crew of this movie don't merely deserve little bronze statues, they deserve humble bowing, overflowing praise, and most importantly, they deserve for us to take their messages to heart.
"Legs wide open on the opening night..."
shareFelonious-Punk, please don't cry. Your gangster-mates and former prison-mates might make fun of you. With all the crap that's allowed on TV or exists in the real world, you're going to be bothered about a slap in a movie? I'm glad she didn't kick a puppy.
shareI got a feeling Gena had a lot of practice hitting the floor or the wall while her husband was around. He was a drunk, and being an artist the way he was, (a very tortured one at that) he probaby more than once took his frustration out on his wife. Just a feeling I have...
It's a one-legged race to the liquor store
It's just a hop, skip and jump into the tomb
Somehow I doubt it. Gena's a tough broad... I hardly think she'd have let him do something like that. From what I gather in interviews I've read, Gena was more like the Nick character in A Woman Under the Influence, and Cassavetes was more like Mabel. :)
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Well, he was a drinker and he went "out" with the boys (and apparently the girls) whenever he damned well felt like it AND he insisted that she work her ass off at 8 months pregnant for the houseful of friends and cohorts he had stay there to work on a piece he wanted to get done. She complained about being tired one time. He scowled at her and her mouth never opened about her problem with leg and back pain again. This is all documented in documentaries and interviews. I also know from interviews with Gena that she and John NEVER owned even the modest house they lived in for 25 years or so. He kept morgaging her home and leaving the bank account completely empty. Not a net in case of emergencies? Now if that's NOT abusing your wife then I don't know what is! So, going back to my initial post on this subject. I do not believe that slapping his wife around was beneath John Casevettes. I saw him slap her hand away because she flubbed a couple of sylables in Opening Night. I don't know what it all added up to. I do belive that he was very dedicated to his craft and his craft was his real love. I am sure the two of them loved one another. Poeple learn to live that way. She had a wild hair too but one of them had to stay concreted to the realities of life. I would assume it was her joh to keep the wheels of reality turning while he lived in a world of his own creativity and his main reason for existing was to finance his next dream.
shareYeah, I know about this film through Slapped Actress aswell. Great lyrics. Amazing song.
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