Edie Sedgwick #2

[SusanSuperstar]

^^this one is from the bio too, I love her with dark hair!!!!

 

[Michelle0187]

she looks beautiful with long dark hair

 

[nita-karoliina]

She as in her original haircolour. Beautiful!

 

[Not Plain Jane]

I know we've been down this road before, so forgive me for traveling here again, but I just think if you could take Jennifer Garner's smile ...

(source - her thread here...)

(source - moon in the 10th house)

And combine that with Rachel Bilson's eyes ...

(source - TV Fanatic)

(source - Fabulous life of Diogo Torres)

...Then you'd have a pretty and close approximation of the gorgeous drama of Edie's mercurial face, with her patrician chin, doll-like dimples, black and ginormous eyes, etc. i suppose nothing will ever duplicate her gobsmacking looks coupled with her living-on-the-edge and exciting personality, not to mention her unique and trail-blazing fashion sense; however, when I am looking at photos of these two other current stars, I catch little glimpses and dream a little.

 

[loonaka]

If anyone was going to make another movie about Edie I don't think they should focus all on getting an actress that looks like her because it would be impossible to have someone look like her a 100% and so everyone would go on and on and on and on and on and on and on about who should have played her instead and what not. To me the most important thing is that the person playing her is a good actress and can bring forth her charismatic personality and so on...^^

 

[PonyShow]

I thought Sienna did a wonderful job.

 

[xxfashion]

^ Yeah , i agree. It was really good.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

I haven't yet watched "Factory Girl"; I've been resistant. Though I have heard that Sienna did a great job, particularly with the voice. It's just that I have Edie in my mind. From "Ciao Manhattan", from Andy's footage, from editorials, and from her biography. So I have been resistant to go to a depiction of her. But I suppose I will watch it .... eventually.

 

[babydoll1125]

I'd much rather have an amazing documentary so i can't wait for Girl On Fire!

 

[SusanSuperstar]

^me too!

 

[Not Plain Jane]

My Jennifer Garner image in #708 doesn't seem to being showing up: so here it is again from the original source,

just jared:

Agree with babydoll - looking forward to a really good documentary on Edie!!

 

[Lupe]

Sienna Miller did a horrible job as Edie. I was annoyed and embarrassed at her portrayel, and how she turned Edie into a Caricature and not a person. 50% of the time I was disgusted by the make up and costumes, and the other 50% was trying to not to cry because I kept seeing this "Edie" as some kind of annoying tramp that has the need to balance on everything from boxes to concrete steps.

To be honest the entire movie is a mess.

 

[eli marie]

^ that's so true about the balancing!

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Sienna Miller did a horrible job as Edie. I was annoyed and embarrassed at her portrayel, and how she turned Edie into a Caricature and not a person. 50% of the time I was disgusted by the make up and costumes, and the other 50% was trying to not to cry because I kept seeing this "Edie" as some kind of annoying tramp that has the need to balance on everything from boxes to concrete steps.

To be honest the entire movie is a mess.

Oh-oh, thanks for the warning Lupe. I know you're a devoted Edie fan! I'll maybe still watch it, but with trepidation...

 

[babydoll1125]

Just be prepared to cringe! And if you're a Bob Dylan fan as well it's double.

 

[fairyx]

I think Sienna did a great job with what she had to work with. it was the directors fault it´s such a horrible movie.

the movie would be good, if you don´t know anything at all about Edie.

 

[Michelle0187]

Sienna Miller did a horrible job as Edie. I was annoyed and embarrassed at her portrayel, and how she turned Edie into a Caricature and not a person. 50% of the time I was disgusted by the make up and costumes, and the other 50% was trying to not to cry because I kept seeing this "Edie" as some kind of annoying tramp that has the need to balance on everything from boxes to concrete steps.

To be honest the entire movie is a mess.

I completely agree that Sienna made it into a caricature with the constant giggling and skipping and as you said balancing on everything. I think the people behind this movie watched a few videos of Edie on youtube skipping on concrete and assumed that it was some sorta habit. It's terrible that the director never read her biography and he probably didn't even see Ciao Manhattan. In her bio it was clear that she dated Bob Dylan's manager and his character was nowhere too be seen in the movie. I believe from 1969 to 71 she was in and out of hospitals and wasn't completely sober. In the last months of her life when she was with Michael Post she received shock treatments and was prescribed barbiturates from a doctor which she abused shortly after. At the end of the film Factory Girl her character seemed completely stable and when during the last few months of her life she wasn't

 

[babydoll1125]

I guess they were implying she killed herself because she never got over her time with Andy. It is obvious Edie didn't intentionally kill herself.

 

[Lupe]

Everything about Factory Girl is a mess; from how it was conceived (producer Holly Wiersma seen an Edie window in Paris and wanted a film about her), the casting of Edie debacle (Katie Holmes, Sienna Miller, Brittany Murphy, others), the producers, the weinstein brothers, abusing their power (making the director drastically change some of the scenes, however probably would still be a mess regardless), the writing and Simon Monjack's involvement (supposedly he wrote it but wasn't credited for it, but reports show that he had no involvement). The director's lack of knowledge and respect for Edie's story (in Audio commentary he says he wanted to make a movie about Edie for people who didn't know who Edie was, but not for Edie fans... and that he focused on Andy Warhol's "straightness"). The Ciao! Manhattan Camp & Lou Reed & Bob Dylan vs. The Factory Girl Camp... and then finally the impact it has had on numerous young people who think that what is depicted in the movie is true, and have been inspired by the Sienna-version of Edie... it is the audience's responsibility to look past the movie and find out who the REAL Edie is.

All of those reasons are why we need the documentary, "Girl on Fire!!"

 

[Michelle0187]

I would love for an Edie documentary or even another film adapted from Edie An American Girl. it's a shame the director wanted to make the film for non edie fans. I can rant all day about the atrocity that was Factory Girl, from Hayden as Bob Dylan and Sienna as Edie, her face couldn't handle all that eye makeup. Why did they portray as an annoying dumb rich girl when clearly she had some sort of intelligence after all she went to Cambridge University. The art direction was rubbish including the cinematography and ugh Sienna looked nothing like Edie and the haircut. I believe that no one would ever attempt to do a film about Edie again.