Andre 3000 to play Jimi Hendrix

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For the altogether untrustworthy Hughes Brothers no less.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

as far as I know this is just a rumor. I don't think this project is even in pre-production, just something that's dropped in interviews as "maybe happening"...

that being said, I bet he could do it. He does bear a fairly strong physical resemblance to Jimi, and his personality seems right for it...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe he could just "Remix" some Hendrix songs by putting a beat over them?

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

he looks the part. their films all suck except for the pimp documentary, though.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Can he play the geetar?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, he can pull off the look and he plays guitar, def. well enough to fake it. Well, he plays right-handed, maybe they'll have to reverse the film in all the performance scenes?

I like the Dizzy Gillespie look he's been rocking lately.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Being able to actually act would be a plus as well. Sometimes everyone forgets about that part.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

act schmact, when was the last time that held anybody back?

― Huck Everlasting (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh, speak of the devil ... that song comes on ..

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Purple Haze?? Yeah, ick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"he looks the part. their films all suck except for the pimp documentary, though. "

No way. Menace II Society is by far the best of the mid-90s "gangsta" blaxploitation genre films.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Best of a bad bunch, IMO.

juice had its moments.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Purple Haze?? Yeah, ick.

No, the terrible "remix" of 'My Favorite Things.'

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

They didn't make "Juice."
But "Menace" is damn good. Holds up well, fantastic soundtrack, etc. And "Dead Presidents" has some great sequences.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah. At least the piano player on that track is good!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

They didn't make "Juice."

I didn't say they did!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I was referring to Shakey Mo's last comment.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Boyz in the Hood ownz Menace.

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Boyz in the Hood ownz Menace."

Ugggh! No way! As Eazy-E said at the time, that piece of shit is just "an after shool special with some cussing". Ice Cube is semi-decent, and Fishburne gets a good monologue or two, but the whole story arc is so stupid and predictable. And it strikes me as a very glossed-over, "coat the lens with vaseline" film version of "the ghetto". Menace II Society is actually kind of scary. Hood is just a cautionary tale.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Why don't they make films like those anymore? I thought both were scary as hell.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Judgement Night was the best depiction of day to day ghetto life I've seen, so sad but so true. I firmly believe that everybody else saw that and thought that there were no more hood narratives left to spin.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Holding it down on the real: New Jack City, Logan's Run.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, and the Judgement Night soundtrack was the best EVAH.

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(ps nordic i kiss you)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Menace was propped up by this vacant realer-than-thou posture. All shock value and no substance. Boyz had a redemptive quality to it and it made me laugh. Menace was one dimensional.

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d123/d1238214t1s.jpg

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Or did Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood put the nail in the coffin?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Bladerunner really opened up my eyes to the urban crisis.. all those poor ghetto-dwellers in constant fear of organ harvesters and androids.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Now that was scary.

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

MUDHONEY & SIR MIX-A-LOT!
MUDHONEY & SIR MIX-A-LOT!
MUDHONEY & SIR MIX-A-LOT!
GOOD LORD!

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

is noone else horrified by this prospect? I shudder to think of Andre attempting Jimi's affected British accent. and I can't really see him getting down the right body language or posture either. it just all seems like a really heavy-handed move just to get across "hey look! i play guitar too! I'm part of the lineage of innovators in black music!"

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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

I'm not horrified by this prospect - the movie may suck, but it'll probably be interesting. Sure its an obvious career move for Andre, but so what? Are you saying he *doesn't* deserve to be part of the lineage of black musical innovators? And who else bears a more physical resemblance to Jimi? Will Smith? Denzel? No one else would pick up the feel of being a musician like Jimi as well as Andre.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

plus better andre 3000 than Will Smith

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

or sidney poitier

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

― sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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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 (thirteen years ago)

this is Last Days for Hendrix fans

― piscesx, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:26 (thirteen years ago)

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, July 4, 2012 6:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this is very true, although at this point i feel pretty scorched earth about biopics in general and especially music biopics and ESPECIALLY ones that are an ego trip star vehicle for a musician-turned-actor. so basically still feel the same way i did upthread 8 years ago, fuck this shit, i hope it's a catastrophe, fuck andre, hendrix 4ever etc.

― some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:09 (thirteen years ago)

yes agree on all that. they're not always good when they do that. they're usually, as a rule, bad!

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:12 (thirteen years ago)

i think the last one i didn't venomously hate was the Andy Serkis-as-Ian Dury one, which i think got a lot of help from me not having too much familiarity with the subject to get hung up on accuracy/resemblance/etc.

― some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:14 (thirteen years ago)

not really a biopic if its not comprehensive, more of a memopic

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:16 (thirteen years ago)

the only music one that i can remember liking is 24 party ppl and it doesnt even really belong in the category

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:27 (thirteen years ago)

a non-music one i really like is ed wood

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:27 (thirteen years ago)

man who fell to earth is p good

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:29 (thirteen years ago)

stuck too much to the facts, u need to take creative liberties to tell a good story

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:30 (thirteen years ago)

fair

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:32 (thirteen years ago)

the man who sold the world on the other hand, great bio-song

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:34 (thirteen years ago)

that's true, but i think a bigger issue with this for me is when you make a movie about a TV age celebrity/public figure, the viewer knows exactly what the real person looks/sounds/acts like and it becomes such a preoccupation or requirement. i mean i don't think The Doors is a very good movie but i'm pretty impressed with it just on the level of how uncanny Val Kilmer is as Morrison. (xpost)

― some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:35 (thirteen years ago)

the doors is such an amazing funny movie

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:35 (thirteen years ago)

yeah it's very entertaining

― some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:37 (thirteen years ago)

totally

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:53 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, it's the showgirls of musician biopics

― contenderizer, Thursday, 5 July 2012 03:31 (thirteen years ago)

val kilmer's depiction of jim morrison's fat and bearded final days was vv convincing

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3xs6uVNkj1qcq0mho1_500.jpg

― omar little, Thursday, 5 July 2012 03:54 (thirteen years ago)

Andy Serkis-as-Ian Dury

!!!

when was this

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 5 July 2012 04:36 (thirteen years ago)

Maybe 3 years ago?

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 July 2012 04:39 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 July 2012 06:29 (thirteen years ago)

I will go see this in theaters, just to relish in the absolute fail of it all. Oh, I can't wait.

― Austin, Thursday, 5 July 2012 08:11 (thirteen years ago)

Andy Serkis-as-Ian Dury

See, I really enjoyed the film, but I never really got convinced that AS was ID, not really. People say he did a really good job, and I would agree, but Dury was so much a one-off that I don't think it could have been done. Also, the film was more about Baxter really, which I entirely approve of..

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 08:49 (thirteen years ago)

well that was kinda my point -- i wasn't familiar enough with Dury to be bothered by that

― some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 10:33 (thirteen years ago)

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 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:21 (thirteen years ago)

i'd be WAY more worried about his voice than his face

― some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:24 (thirteen years ago)

Well, for how many years was the running story "Phil Lynott to play Hendrix in biopic" ?

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:34 (thirteen years ago)

lil b

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:35 (thirteen years ago)

Acting can't make you look physically younger though.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:17 (thirteen years ago)

they're gonna cgi his face like Stewart and McKellen in X-Men 3

― Number None, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:20 (thirteen years ago)

Acting can't make you look physically younger though.

― Tuomas, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:17 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematography

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:28 (thirteen years ago)

i kinda think acting can make you look physically younger

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:28 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

"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 (thirteen years ago)

of any true american

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

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

lollllll

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

What does that even mean?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:10 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:11 (thirteen years ago)

finn don't wrinkle-skin

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

lol

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:35 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/arts/music/andre-3000-is-moving-on-in-film-music-and-life.html?emc=edit_th_20140831&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=37355772

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:33 (eleven years ago)

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