Good is Not Nice: Larry himself freely admits that he's a sleazebag, but the movie clearly positions him on the right side of the debate, as opposed to the self-righteous (and hypocritical) puritans he opposes.Occasionally she has another woman with her, in erotic postures. In the strip club, every time the curtains open between acts, a woman on a swing is seen.Girl on Girl Is Hot: Played very straight in the hot tub scene.After he come back from his drugged up stupor in 1982, Larry fires the vice president in charge of marketing who was telling him about President Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and how it had shifted their business plan.They think he's just angry, or not in his right mind, so they keep right on working. Larry fires his staff over the phone from a mental hospital.Gargle Blaster: Larry's home brewed moonshine.A deleted scene even had him show them he had an exact replica of the house he grew up in built in his new mansion because he never wanted to forget where he came from. Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Not "bad" exactly but Larry never lets his unashamed sleaziness and opportunism get in the way of being a loving son who who cares deeply about his parents and eagerly uses his wealth to provide for them.Doomed by Canon: Althea, since Canon here is Real Life.The screenwriters also have brief appearances. Creator Cameo: Flynt himself plays a judge.Courtroom Antics: Larry offers plenty of courtroom antics, including going to the courtroom with the American flag as a diaper! It later gets to be too much, though, and no decent self-respecting law, judge or court is willing to take on his case.For instance, he is depicted being wounded in the 1978 shooting attack on Flynt that event happened to Gene Reeves, Jr. This character essentially stands in for all the legal assistants Flynt had employed. Composite Character: Edward Norton plays a character named Alan Isaacman, after the lawyer who defended Flynt before the Supreme Court.The Jackie O issue went to three printings, not four. I never served biscuits and molasses at the Club. Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: According to The Shooting Script, when the Real Life Larry Flynt found out about the movie, he met with the writers to go over the script as it was at that point. ![]() Bittersweet Ending: Larry wins his big court case against Falwell at the Supreme Court.but he doesn't have Althea to share it with him. ![]() Big Fancy House: Larry's home in Cincinnati is nice, but his Los Angeles home is the paragon of this trope.Big Brother Mentor: Larry to Jimmy Flynt.Bedlam House: Larry has to stay in one for fifteen months after an outburst in court gets him declared insane by the judge.As Himself: A doctor and a bodyguard who took care of Flynt in real life do the same on-screen here.Charles Keating is a straighter example, as he would be one of the central figures in the S&L scandal of the 1980s.Isaacman forces Larry into following decorum to remain his counsel. Amoral Attorney: Inverted: Most of the lawyers, even Isaacman, are against Flynt's erratic public behavior.Adaptation Expansion: Due to Althea not making it to the end, and the extra expense needed to insure Courtney Love, the writers gave her a LOT to do in the movie in order to get as much use of her as possible.The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Actor (Harrelson) and Best Director (Forman). It is the second of screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski's trilogy of Biopics of "anti-Great Men," after Ed Wood and before Man on the Moon, about Andy Kaufman. Along the way, the virtues and downsides of organized religion, pornography, capitalism and free speech are explored. The film begins with him as a young boy selling moonshine to hillbillies and ends with him hearing about the outcome of his Supreme Court case. Woody Harrelson stars as Flynt, with a supporting cast that includes Courtney Love, Edward Norton, and James Cromwell. ![]() Larry Flynt is a 1996 biopic directed by Miloš Forman about Larry Flynt, the founder of Hustler magazine.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |