Andre 3000 to play Jimi Hendrix

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That song is definitely worth hearing, Nate, I swear.

scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link

what about that film fresh?
that had one of the most vivid,disturbing scenes ive ever seen

robin (robin), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

also,if anyone can explain what the connection between fresh and the sample at the start of ironman by ghostface is id be most appreciative

robin (robin), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, I've heard it before ("Freak Mama", right?), but I sort of lost the memory of it until it was jogged by that picture. That Cypress Hill/Sonic Youth thing, though... that remains a complete mystery.

nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah! "Freak Mama" Holy smokes.

"I wanna put you in the Mud, honey/Spittin out of them guts like it ain't funny"

scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

I'm totally for this. Anything that's either going to be classic or crap is GREAT. Mediocrity is the true hell.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

plus better andre 3000 than Will Smith

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link

or sidney poitier

omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:03 (twenty years ago) link

Andre 3000 always looks a little small and skinny to me. Maybe that's just in comparison to Big Boi?

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link

Higher Learning is, in retrospect, the funniest movie ever made.

sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago) link

thank you, sym. THANK YOU. That movie wasn't designed to be watched. It was designed to have each scene paused and discussed by a sensitivity trainer.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago) link

Wasn't that the film where everyone ended up doing something theoretically wrong or bad or thrillingly transgressive?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

no, there was this one fellow who wasn't only the token "nice guy" for the assault victim, he was ALSO the token "nice white guy" for Omar Epps!

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:42 (twenty years ago) link

AW

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

You're welcome, Anthony.
I think it was designed to be watched while extremely drunk and obnoxious. Let me see if I can remember the five symbols on the poster...
Female, Black Fist, Swastika, Peace...
Star of David? Dollar Bill? Please Recycle?

sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link

I really appreciated how each lead character had a specific band that played behind them on the soundtrack. Very Peter And The Wolf.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago) link

I'm with Miccio here. Also, Big Boi BETTER have a cameo as Otis Redding.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

It probably helps that I think Jimi Hendrix is really really funny already

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

Enrique Iglesias IS Santana! Oh God, if you're listening...

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

Bright Eyes as Pete Townsend, DMX as Miles Davis, Dizzee Rascal as Little Richard...

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago) link

Dre is much taller than Big Boi, who despite the name is only about 5ft8in.

Apparently Dre's English accent is pretty shit - he tried it in that interview in the last issue of Muzik.

Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:08 (twenty years ago) link

Jimi's presumably was too

Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago) link

I have never for one second thought that Jimi Hendrix affected a British accent, and I've been a massive fan for around 20 years. Where in the heck did that come from?

Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

Those Hughes Bros. are some controversial negroes I tell you what

Annoyed with pop culture (ModJ), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Anything that's either going to be classic or crap is GREAT. Mediocrity is the true hell.

OTM OTM OTM!!

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

Higher Learning was great if only for Busta Rhymes' character.

Is everyone being sarcastic or do most of y'all really hate Hughes bros. movies? As far associal commentaryism goes I would say 'meh', but as far as tales-designed-for-emotional-manipulation-of-the-audience, they're top fucking notch.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Anyway, I cannot even begin to imagine Andre being a worse/less-accurate Hendrix than whoever that asshat was in the last (incredibly shitty) Hendrix biopic.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

Dave Chappelle should be Hendrix.

ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

Hendrix was a funny guy.

ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

Dave Chappelle should be Hendrix.

"Turn my wah-wah up!"

nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 29 January 2004 00:01 (twenty years ago) link

http://robertchristgau.com/icon/n3.gif

Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

I adored FROM HELL. My GF, who isn't a guy or a film reviewer, loved it too.

The girl thing in it was pretty bad, but otherwise, a real pretty hoot. I like the idea of them doing, um, making a Hendrix biopic.

Will Trower dub the live show sequences?

Ian Grey (Ian_G), Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:22 (twenty years ago) link

From Hell was bad, but I read the comics and can't divorce the film from the story I was expecting. Maybe I'd like it if I hadn't read them.

if they're gonna do a black acid rock biopic the better choice (and the better story) would be Sly.

They can't do that one until he turns up dead.

anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

ok, I'm no longer so horrified about this, my focus has shifted to the news of Mos Def being cast as Ford Prefect in a "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" movie.

Al (sitcom), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago) link

Seriously?

sym (shmuel), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040128a.php

Al (sitcom), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't like From Hell, and I've never read the comics. I hate Mos Def's "acting".

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago) link

Robert Downey Jr. would have been a great Zaphod Beeblebrox.

sym (shmuel), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago) link

he had. a bad. experience.

Al (sitcom), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

eight years pass...

No Hendrix music in Hendrix biopic

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/andre-3000-covers-beatles-muddy-waters-songs-for-jimi-hendrix-biopic-20120703

StanM, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link

great idea

funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link

Janie Hendrix is taking a lot of shit in the comments there, but am I right in thinking that his estate was a shambles before she took over? Also, it looks like the filmmakers never had any intention (or at least not enough intention to bother asking) of using any original Hendrix-written material.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link

ya right

funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link

Actually, I'd be in favor of more music biopics framing themselves as "how they got there" pieces rather than dramatizations of the super famous years. Hendrix did a lot of session work and scraping by before Are You Experienced? that I'm not at all familiar with.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link

most good biopics are about a very limited period in the subject's life i find. cradle to grave ones always suck

funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link

otm

blossom smulch (schlump), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link

Hendrix's most iconic visual performances were of non-originals by Chip Taylor and Francis Scott Key anyways

Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link

and my favourite Hendrix track was written by Bob Dylan

gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link

and I'm not talking about Drifter's Escape although that's pretty good too

gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link

this is Last Days for Hendrix fans

piscesx, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link

yes that too

put em all together and u got the magc of the movies

funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link

I'm confused by the article...

"All Along The Watchtower" is used in like 9000 other movies and was not written by Jimi Hendrix, so would they be able to use that? Or what about "Hey Joe?"

billstevejim, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i was wondering the same thing. maybe the movie totally ends pre-stardom, though?

i feel like tuomas is trying to force someone to say "black don't crack"

some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link

Seems to be a glaring oversight in the article IMO since those are 2 of his most famous songs

billstevejim, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link

Also no access to his catalog is a super bummer in general since super-sad-Hendrix-lyrics are a big part of what makes him compelling IMO.

billstevejim, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link

"Star Spangled Banner" would be the centerpiece of any trad life-spanning biopic too, but again who knows if that's even what they're going for

some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link

of any true american

funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link

http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Jimi_Hendrix-1967.jpg

that's jimi in 1967 at the age of 25. andre looks just as young at his current age of 37.

nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link

This reminds me of when they did What's Love Got to Do with It? about Ike and Tina with about 17 versions of "Proud Mary."

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link

haha otm

i wonder if the Noel Redding estate is all "hey, we have a great idea for a scene about the recording of 'Little Miss Strange,' you're welcome to use it"

some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link

Isn't Andre Benjamin like 40 now? How can he play someone who's 15 years younger than him?

― Tuomas, Thursday, July 5, 2012 2:29 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

black dont crack

Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link

i feel like tuomas is trying to force someone to say "black don't crack"

― some dude, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:45 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

shit.

Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link

lollllll

funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link

What does that even mean?

Tuomas, Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link

black people age nicer... they dont get white people wrinkles and stuff

Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link

finn don't wrinkle-skin

funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link

lol

Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

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