Everything about it is pretty amateurish, including young Vincent. But he's so CUUUUUUTE!
Feels like cradle snatching.
It's pretty grainy and fuzzy, but it's worth it just to get this early glimpse of His Loveliness.
Without my managing to to find Vincent's scene in JFK (obviously my fast forward was TOO fast, 'cos I missed it) or acquiring Malcolm X, which shows him in the same tiny role I believe, that's the end of the films. Any ideas for a new project?
His scene was cut from 'Malcolm X'
ReplyDeleteGood Lord *faints*!
ReplyDeleteYeah, here's one suggestion -- we all could get together and write a book about our obsessions with Vincent/Bobby. It would be a SMASH HIT!! Cheers!!
ReplyDeleteI never did understand this, but it had some nice eye candy which made it worth watching :-D
ReplyDeleteAs Judith said, I believe his scen was cut from Malcolm X..I watched it all the way through once just to check. His scene in JFK isn't too far in, as far as I remember. I think the tv he appears on is in a bar..but thats abotu all I do remember, sorry.
According to a viewer entry on IMDb..."This is a story about the misadventures of Warren (Reed Bye) a Brooklyn filmmaker who has his documentary film about pigeon racing in Brooklyn stolen from him (along with cash he's just withdrawn from an ATM at 3 am) by two Brooklyn teenage hoods Bennie (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Angela. The rest of 'Honest Citizen' shows Warren flailing around and going through the motions (you can't really call what Reed Bye does 'acting') of trying to recover his documentary (which we never see more than a few seconds of and that's in the opening credits) and encountering other criminals and shady types such as Sidney the Lawyer (Allen Ginsburg) and Paul the neighborhood mafia don (William s. Burroughs).
ReplyDeleteCutting to the chase here, what little there is shown of beat poets Ginsburg and Burroughs is good (watch for some great extemporaneous verse from Sidney the Lawyer), D'Onofrio shows some tiny promise of his future acting abilities in a scene that takes place in a restaurant booth, and the rest is a mess. Hugh Levick's score is abysmal, grating and detracts from the film, Reed Bye and Mary Tepper (who plays Warren's girlfriend Anita) are painfully wooden, the screenplay by Jacob Burckhardt, Reed Bye & Rochelle Kraut is uninteresting, and careful attention to the credits will show that most of the cast members also have technical credits on 'Citizen' (and they really shouldn't gloat about either contribution). 'Citizen Kane', this ain't.
It is interesting to see how grungy Brooklyn was in the 1980s. I wonder how NYC mayors Giuilani and Bloomberg would feel if prospective NYC tourists were shown this film.
Worth watching only by die-hard fans of Ginsburg, Burroughs, and completionist fans of D'Onofrio (and D'Onofrio fans won't have much to cheer about)." And, this movie is up 69% in popularity on their "MOVIEmeter".
The best part of this film was watching very early D'Onofrio. Yes, he definitely was the BEST part of this film. And yes, unfortunately, Vincent's scene was cut from Malcolm X. And his appearance in JFK is relatively early in the film.
ReplyDeleteOh, how beautiful....those damned eyes that can make me do debauched things at a whim!
ReplyDeleteThis is from Malcolm X?
ReplyDeleteMalcom X, it's a rip-off! I've seen the film only for Vince! Spike Lee is a Joker! lol
ReplyDeleteIn JFK, he appears 20 sec! Oliver Stone is a Joker!!! This movies are very disappointing for me...:(
One suggestion : some pics of Being Human...:o)
I'm sure you'll think of something else to do...!
ReplyDeleteThe film where he was in a bar as 'himself' was called 'Overnight' and if you blinked you missed it!! There was a number of British actors in it.
ReplyDeleteIt was about a group of people who became famous overnight then got to clever and lost there're fame. It was done doco. style.