Velvet Goldmine
- R
- Year:
- 1998
- 118 min
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Although what you are about
to see is a work of fiction...
Although what you are about to see is a work
of fiction, it should nevertheless be played...
Although what you are about
to see is a work of fiction...
...it should nevertheless be
played at maximum volume.
Histories, like ancient ruins,
are the fictions of empires.
While everything forgotten
hangs in dark dreams of the past...
...ever threatening to return.
Dublin 1854, birthplace of Oscar Wilde...
Lord'n heaven!
Madame Wilde! Richard! Come quickly!
I want to be a farmer.
I want to be a barrister.
I want to be a truck-driver.
I want to be... A pop-idol.
Get him, get him!
Leave him!
is the happiest time in life.
But as long as he could
remember, Jack Fairy knew better.
Until one mysterious day, when Jack would
discover that somewhere there were others...
...quite like him.
Singled out for a great gift.
And one day...
...the whole stinking world...
...would be theirs.
Hey!
Look! It's Jack Fairy.
Who's Jack Fairy?
"The streets of London are ablaze in
sparkle make-up and glittering frocks... "
"... As the boys and girls
of the current glam-rock...
...craze pay tribute to their patron saint... "
"pop-star Brian Slade"
"... And his space-age rock
persona - Maxwell Demon. "
"Yeah, Brian Slade, he's just so different. I
mean, I've never seen anyone quite like him. "
"And 'Lipstick Traces', his last album was
just... it was just something special. "
"It's an album that's like, appealing
to so many people like that. "
"A palpable whirl of anticipation can be
felt outside London's Lyceum Theatre... "
"... As fans await the final show
on Slade's smash world tour. "
"Security around the performer is tightened
following a recent BBC interview... "
"... in which he admitted to premonitions
of being assassinated on stage. "
Turn it off!
"... Any of his enthusiastic
and colorful followers... "
"... Some of whom have been queueing
here since late last night. "
Brian, the time!
Ladies and Gentlemen!
The Lyceum Theatre.
In cooperation with "Bijou Music"...
...is proud to present...
...straight back from their fantastically
successful European tour...
Maxwell Demon and The Venus in Furs!
Singer Brian Slade shot on stage.
Put out the torches! Hide
the moon! Hide the stars!
For once, there was an unknown land...
...full of strange flowers and subtle perfums.
A land of which it is joy
of all the joys to dream.
A land where all things are perfect.
And poisonous.
"It appears today's youngsters
have fashioned a whole new bent... "
"... On the so-called sexual
liberation of the flower-power set. "
"The long hair and the love-beads
have given way to glitter make-up... "
"... Platform shoes... "
"... And a whole new taste for glamour,
nostalgia and just plain outrageousness. "
"Is London not shocked?"
"London is improving. "
"Well, I think it's a disgrace. "
"Parading around all ponced-up
like a pack of bleeding woofters. "
"Bloody hell! What will they think of next?"
"And heading up this flash stampede is
none other that pop-giant Brian Slade... "
"whose stylish escapades have paved the way
for a whole new breed of performing artists... "
"... From Curt Wild and The Flaming
Creatures to Jack Fairy and Polly Small. "
"Thanks to Slade, today's youngsters
are singing a whole new tune. "
"So, you're saying you're bisexual?"
"Yeah. I like boys, I like girls. "
"They are all great. No
difference, is there?"
"Mr. BBC"
reaction to accepted standards. "
"And homosexuality has been
going on for centuries, yeah. "
"At the moment, having a gay image is 'in'."
"You know, just like a few years
ago it was trendy to wear a... "
"... A long grey coat with a Led
Zeppelin record under your arm. "
"Everyone is into this scene, because it
is supposedly the thing to do right now. "
"But you just can't fake being gay, you know.
If you're gonna claim that you're gay... "
"... You're gonna have to
make love in gay-style and... "
"... Most of these kids
just aren't gonna make it. "
"That line - 'Everyone's bisexual' - it's
a very popular thing to say right now. "
"But personally I think it's meaningless. "
Meaning is not in things, but in between them
- Norman Brown.
SLADE SHOOTING A HOAX!
sensation", gasped the Rocket.
And he went out.
Ok, Lionel. That's it. Thanks.
I don't get it.
What don't you get? It was a
stunt. The guy faked his own murder.
- Yeah, but why?
- Publicity.
Arthur, any recollection?
Of what?
Of this Slade fellow.
Well, he's an early 70s glam-rock singer.
"Mr. Old Time Rock'n'Roll".
Yeah.
Count on me for what?
I thought I was on the Reynolds trip.
Well you are.
But the president isn't due until the 8th.
And I need a piece for the Weekender now.
Great.
Next week is the 10th year anniversary
of the whole shooting stunt incident.
I'd like you to find out what
happened, where he is today.
"What ever happened to Brian Slade?" Ok?
Yeah, and naturally you want me for this,
because I'm the resident Brit. Right?
Nah. No, no, no. I want
you, because you remember.
New York 1984
"President Reynolds is urging
young people everywhere... "
"to sign up in their local government
offices and join the committee... "
Because I remember.
Suddenly I was being paid to remember all the...
...things that money, the
future and the serious life...
...had made so certain I'd forget.
And for what?
Some meaningless prank, a decade old.
Why was is suddenly up
to me to figure it out?
Clearly there was something.
Something from the past, spooking me back.
I didn't realise at the time... It was you.
"Thank you 'Trans-Electric' and 'CRA'."
"'Micro Atlanta' and 'Dupree'
"Thanks to president Reynold's
'Committee for Cultural Renewal'...
"... For making this prodcast
possible. And thanks to you. "
"Three billion viewers tuning in
right now on global satellite".
"Yesterday upon the stair, I
saw a man who wasn't there. "
How I wish he'd go away. "
Ten years.
changed so completely that...
...that the life I'd led in England
seemed like someone else's life.
Someone else's story. Anyone's but mine.
"There were times, when it
appeared to Dorian Gray... "
"... That the whole of history was
merely a record of his own life. "
"Not as he had lived it in
act and circumstance... "
"... But as his imagination
had created it for him... "
"... As it had been in his
brain and in his passions. "
"He felt that he had known them all...
"those strange terrible figures that
had passed along the stage of life... "
"and made sin so marvelous and
evil, so full of subtlety. "
"It seemed that in some mysterious
way their lives had been his own. "
Can you lend us a couple of
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