I knew George Dyer was his lover and that he killed himself in Paris,
but is it all true that Dyer was a thif, and Bacon enjoyed SM sexual act?
And all those charaterizations of Bacon, could it be true to Bacon's real
life?
Hope anybody could comment, who read or heard of Bacon's actual biographical
documents.
One would assume so. I don't know but perhaps you should get a book out about him from the library.
shareWell the credit at the end of the film said it was based on Bacon's actual life. So the filmmakers cannot have invented those.
shareI've read his biography, and though of course, it is condensed for the film, it is pretty accurate. What is somewhat missed in the film is Bacon's gift for genuine friendship and his generosity ... but his cold response to Dyer's final decline and suicide was as depicted.
The standard biography, on which this film is based, is his friend Daniel Farson's book, "The Gilded, Gutter Life of Francis Bacon".
But you ARE Blanche ... and I AM.
the facts are accurate, obviously it is a cinematic interpretation. i have to say, bacon's reaction to dyer's death was cold, but you only have to see the tryptichs bacon painted featuring dyer and his suicide to realise that the reality was more complicated and deeper than a film can convey. the sense of loss and grief in those paintings is undeniable. i have given up defending bacon to people, once he is painted with this stupid broad stroke that he is all about horror ets. will never see how important the guy was and is to art, to painting. go seek out the interviews, they are amazing. so, the guy like rough homosexual sex. so he was a piss-head. he still got up to work at 6 am everyday to work, every day of his life until he died. i wuoldn't partcularly recommend Farson's book. its scurrulous and quite about gossip and exposing the underbelly, like a red-top tabloid. go find the david sylvester interviews instead. they are the bollox. : ) btw, just to add, imho daniel craig is woefully miscast in this. jacobi on the other hand is eerie and so like francis that you forget it is an actor playing him.
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I think that by the time of Dyer's death, although the long relationship sometimes approached something like love, Bacon had had quite enough of Mr. Dyer and his feeling were a mixture of grief and relief ... a relief he was too brutally honest a person to disguise.... Farson's IS a parasite's view, but then, Bacon surrounded himself with parasites, they must have got some impressions, unflattering though they might be ... I agree that the Sylvester interviews are excellent ... another side of the same multi-faceted phenomenon that was Bacon. I agree that Jacobi was perfection ... who would you have cast as Dyer? ... Christian Bale (pre Batman ... pre Bateman?) ... a pre-Potter Rafe Fiennes perhaps?, (in Bruges showed he could step down from his high-horse) ... suggestions?
The big Bacon retrospective was in Sydney a couple of years ago ... I went from interstate to see it ... it was miraculous.
... ...But you ARE Blanche ... and I AM.
i have no idea who would be good for dyer. maybe martin kemp ( he was pretty convincing as one of the kray twins) : )
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