Factory Girl

[outdoorminer]

A thread for the Sienna Miller-driven film FACTORY GIRL.

My thoughts:
I really need to get this off my chest about Factory Girl...

First off, you have Sienna Miller, who isn't exactly the exact physical replica of Edie, she has no neck and is short and stumpy, but whatever. But she can't act, as shown in the trailer. I cringe when she goes "Hi!" She's just a bad actress, pretty or not. And you have Hayden...who either chooses really bad roles or can't act.

The makeup and costuming department did a really bad and cheesy job on the costumes - they weren't clothes, they were costumes. They didn't do the hair or the full-on eyebrows because it'd be deemed "weird", the way we all probably felt when we first saw Edie. And that red/black striped shirt? It looks like she got it at Hot Topic. And Andy's clothes are so fake and typical.

Brigid Berlin, Michael Post, and crazy man Nat Finkelstein were the only Factory/Edie's family to work on the film. They are doing this for one thing: to be known for being near Edie, and $$$. Lou Reed has put the film down, Billy Name has put the film down, David Weisman has put the film down, but most importantly, Edie's family is incredibly upset over the film.

The film creates a love triangle between Edie, Andy and this Bob Dylan character "Billy Quinn" - who knew! Harvey Weinstein called David Weisman (director of Ciao! Manhattan) told him he liked Ciao!, and that Harvey himself flipped through the Edie book and looked at the pictures to see what the movie was about. Cool, right? :rolls eyes: The film looks utterly ridiculous.

Oh, and as seen in the trailer, Andy DID NOT make Edie into a fool. He did nothing to her.

EDIT: Also, on Sienna Miller: If she truly cared enough about Edie, which I believe she does, well, she wouldn't have taken on such a false and stupid project. She is either dillusioned in thinking this is accurate or is just doing this for more "fame" :/

I'm sure I have more to say, but that's all for now.

 

[outdoorminer]

stills of the cheesy costuming and makeup from Sienna-online.org

(from Beauty #2: The man is Gino, but in real life Gino was so beautiful :0)

The bedroom that doesn't even look like hers...

Why is Andy painted gray?

the awful shirt!

 

[sosneha]

i want to see this movie

 

[TessaB]

And David Weisman has never ever done anything to "be known as being near Edie" or to milk her memory for his own purposes? That's pretty much all he's ever done in connection with her. Actually he wanted to work on the film and the reason he's so bitter about it is that they turned him down. And with the EdieNation website and Girl on Fire being released within a couple of months of the film- he's not hoping to cash in as much as anyone else?

Whatever you think of Michael Post and Bridget Berlin they actually knew Edie and presumably have a much more emotional connection to her than anyone and support the film. Post even said Sienna was so like Edie in some scenes it was unbelievable. This movie is a small indie movie, consultants would get a tiny amount, if anything.

I certainly wouldn't say Weisman is any better than Finklestein, although I know there is a lot of bad feeling between him and the Edie fan community at the moment.

Oh, and as seen in the trailer, Andy DID NOT make Edie into a fool. He did nothing to her.

We all have our own opinion but I definitely don't agree with this statement. Andy pretty much was a bastard to her and pretty vindicitly manipulating her in some instances, ie the occasion where he apparently spitefully told her Dylan was married to hurt her(whatever you think happened with that relationship).

"Billy Quinn" is being used because Dlyan refused to allow his name to be in the film, so they sort of based him on

The Harvey thing, well he's only distributing it, he had nothing to do with its production, he brought it at Cannes after filming had almost finished.

Biopics stretch the true the whole time for dramatic purposes, hell one of my favourite ones of all time (Karol) invented new characters and situations and it still turned out well and emtionally heartfelt, as did Ali, as did Walk the Line. etc etc

But that's all JMO and I know its hard for something some people, but Edie will still be there just as she was before, regardless how the actual film turns out, just there is a lot more to look at with all the new info.

 

[madison01]

haha crazy man Nat Finkelstein... i really worry about him.
and emily marie i agree with you completely.

the costuming, styling, casting is all very very horrible. i can't understand how they could go so wrong with that... but the main reason i can't dignify this movie is because of the completely fictionalized storyline and Hollywood crap. i mean... a romance between andy and edie? wtf? the Factory was a complex, tragic, and extraordinary place filled with extraordinary people, artists, intellectuals, misfits... a place the masses could never understand. it's no simple matter. i feel like they've Disney-ified it in the film. i think the Velvets, Dylan, Edie and the rest deserve much more than this... they look like fools in it, it's sad.

also, i hate what they've done to warhol in this film like in the jean stein book. he is so easily misunderstood, always made into a uncaring manipulator. andy had deep emotional issues from his childhood that made him unable to be close to anyone, with extreme insecurities. he was no bastard. no one could take care of edie. and we forget that edie used andy as much as andy used edie; it was a two way street. it's not like edie was always the most kindest, unselfish person in the world either.

 

[MulletProof]

I first thought this was about our very own factory_girl.

 

[MissMagAddict]

^ Yeah...Me Too......

 

[sakina]

As horrible as I anticipate this movie to be I want to see it... if only to confirm it myself.

The love triangle between Edie and Andy is completely laughable...!

I hope Bob Dylan sues the pants off of the film for implying anything about him and Edie... (he did threaten to didn't he?)

The clothing/ set looks sadly boring and predictable. I really wished for more.

 

[beeb]

As horrible as I anticipate this movie to be I want to see it... if only to confirm it myself.

The love triangle between Edie and Andy is completely laughable...!

I hope Bob Dylan sues the pants off of the film for implying anything about him and Edie... (he did threaten to didn't he?)

The clothing/ set looks sadly boring and predictable. I really wished for more.

is there any truth to the rumour about bob dylan -
I mean proof?

 

[estherlouise]

can anyone post the trailer?

 

[markie]

F.G. trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z94iXJlBPxY
It looks awful. I don't know what else I can say about it besides this: what a piece of sh*t.

Her Edie voice is annoying like nothing else. Edie did not sound like a wannabe-UKer... that Andy Warhol impersonation kills me... it all just looks so bad.


"Baby he's gonna kill you!"
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Call the WAAAAAAAAMBULANCE.


my 2 cents: read Edie's biography by Jean Stein and see the movies she herself was in (ie. Ciao! Manhattan)- this is a waste of time and nothing more than a marketing ploy for Urban Outfitters.

 

[canuckcutie]

I saw clips of this on TV tonight, god lord it looked bad. Like made for TV movie cheesy type of bad and I know next to nothing about Edie. I am in no way enticed to see this movie.

I just hope Harvey is too busy pushing all his other movies (Bobby, Shut up and Sing, Miss Potter, Breaking and Entering) to suck up to oscar votes and campaign for Sienna. If Sienna somehow gets an oscar nom over the likes of Kate Winslet or Cate Blanchett I will scream and both of those women should picket outside the academy.

 

[Tierney]

what channel was it on?

 

[jennifer~]

I'm disappointed to find more emphasis wasn't placed on the wardrobes; it could have proved one of the film's strong points, in the vein of Marie Antoinette or Memoirs of a Geisha... And an Edie SANS the famous eye makeup? Preposterous... they could've used the opportunity and released a limited edition make-up line, such as there was for Memoirs.

 

[MulletProof]

I just saw the trailer...
hayden christensen as bob dylan...
it looks awful..

...but entertaining. ...

 

[dizzytacks]

trainwreck....

 

[kanita]

I just saw the trailer...
hayden christensen as bob dylan...
it looks awful..

...but entertaining. ...

The trailer looks horrible, but that is true...

 

[tindi-rindi]

I still dont like sienna as an actress. She`s all the same. Of course, its nice and cute to look at her, but no more. And whats up with the british accent in every movie? Thats not proffesional.

I`m going to see the movie,but i dont think anything in it is worth oscar. And i really dont like how Sienna made edie look. I mean Edie was (and still is) so special and unique, and Siennas acting shows her as a wannabe happy shiny girl that causes some problems first time in her life. I expected more. I know that you have to see all movie to judge, but sometimes you just see that it aint gonna work.

 

[Annu]

I can't wait to see this film.

 

[Tierney]

Did anyone else see that Audrey Hepburn movie with Jennifer Love Hewitt as Audrey?

Let us hope that this won't be a repeat of that. pleaseeeee.... haha.