Did this movie accomplish anything aside from getting several of its cast members hooked on drugs? Totally useless.
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shareRiver Phoenix made the choice to do heroine...that is a fact. No one made him do it and I don't believe anyone could have stopped him. River Phoenix was just that type of actor. Everything had to be authentic to him.
The kid was doomed from the start.
If he had stayed in mainstream Hollywood films, don't you think he would have come across heroine eventually??
There wasn't really much hope for a kid like him in a place like Hollywood.
My Own Private Idaho was a good film and told a story about something real and painful. I respect the director for doing what he could to make it authentic. I don't really respect the choices actors make to get into their roles however.
River made some bad decisions, yes. Apparently, he wanted to star in The Basketball Diaries too, so if not for MOPI, that role could've led to his demise also. But what about poor Rodney Harvey? Keanu was supposedly doing heroin too, but I don't really care about him. lol
shareRiver made some bad decisions, yes. Apparently, he wanted to star in The Basketball Diaries too, so if not for MOPI, that role could've led to his demise also. But what about poor Rodney Harvey? Keanu was supposedly doing heroin too, but I don't really care about him. lol
Understanding the reasoning is huge and I'd say 99.9% of addicts would tell you tje same(Whether they're still using or not)...
People CHOOSE to use drugs, that's a fact... But addiction is something never fully understood unless you've lived it. I HAVE. Nobody plans to be a scumbag.
Childhood issues, anxiety, depression, abuse etc, I mean, there are a million reasons people become addicted. Rich or poor, black or white. When I read about Phoenix and his youth, I 100% understood why he became an addict. Atleast from an ex users perspective anyway... Yes, he became successful but nobody knows what was inside of his head everyday. The FILM IS NOT TO BLAME! That is the dumbest *beep* I've ever heard. People always talk down on addicts until they or a loved one becomes one. I feel for your brother or anyone else, its an epidemic where I live. Southeastern Massachusetts, I live in a tough City and it's dirt cheap. It's all around you everyday and unfortunately,all it takes is an uunderlying issue to make you take that first hit... The game never ends after that. Phoenix was no different. Success doesn't immune people to real life problems
Understanding the reasoning is huge and I'd say 99.9% of addicts would tell you tje same(Whether they're still using or not)...
People CHOOSE to use drugs, that's a fact... But addiction is something never fully understood unless you've lived it. I HAVE. Nobody plans to be a scumbag.
Childhood issues, anxiety, depression, abuse etc, I mean, there are a million reasons people become addicted. Rich or poor, black or white. When I read about Phoenix and his youth, I 100% understood why he became an addict. Atleast from an ex users perspective anyway... Yes, he became successful but nobody knows what was inside of his head everyday. The FILM IS NOT TO BLAME! That is the dumbest *beep* I've ever heard. People always talk down on addicts until they or a loved one becomes one. I feel for your brother or anyone else, its an epidemic where I live. Southeastern Massachusetts, I live in a tough City and it's dirt cheap. It's all around you everyday and unfortunately,all it takes is an uunderlying issue to make you take that first hit... The game never ends after that. Phoenix was no different. Success doesn't immune people to real life problems
You can not like the movie if you want, but it's ridiculous to think it got River Phoenix or anyone else hooked on heroin. There's nothing about heroin in this movie (unlike "Drugstore Cowboy")and young people at that time (and perhaps just as much now) were just into the "glamour" of heroin use. You can't blame Gus Van Sant for that. Phoenix's drug problems may have pre-dated this role for all anyone knows. And if heroin use was supposed to be some kind of "method acting" tool, it doesn't really even fit THIS movie. Besides, as Stella Adler once said, "You don't have to die to play a dead man".
None of the cast of "Drugstore Cowboy" became heroin addicts, despite the subject matter of that movie. And Corey Haim became a drug addict and died young in spite of appearing in nothing, but trite, mainstream happy-crappy Hollywood garbage.
"Let be be finale of seem/ The only emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream"
How dare you say Corey Haim did nothing good! The Lost Boys is one of my favourite movies. In all honesty though, I'm struggling to the of anything else he was in that was not mediocre.
I don't believe that Keanu was/is a drug addict,his father when to prison because he was a drug pusher.
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