The Kid Stays in the Picture

Sol M.

Sol M.

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If you haven't seen this autobiographical documentary about Robert Evans then you must go out and see it now.  If you don't know who Robert Evans is, then do yourself a favor and check out this movie.  You will come to find that he is one of the driving forces behind some of the biggest films of the last 50 years (Godfather, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Marathon Man, etc. etc. etc.:)).  But more than that, this is one of the first films that actually got me fired up in a long time.  Evans narrates the entire film as he tells his story, and his personality and character just leap of the screen. :)

I thought this movie would be boring because it's mostly stills, the thought of which reminded me of PBS docs (most of which I find largely uninteresting).  Boy, was I wrong! For one, the still photographs are put together in a way that really moves the story along; it's not just pans of photos one after another as some guy talks the whole time.  It's hard to explain, but the stills are given depth where, while you know they're simply stills, you still get a feeling of "being there".  Very nice.:)

Robert Evans is a very interesting character, and he is what makes this otherwise fairly normal doc incredibly watchable.  All in all, a must watch in my book.  Check it out!  ;D
 
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Yo, where's the love for my man Bobbie Evans? :(

Don't tell me no one has seen this!? ???
 
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I said, "don't tell me..." ;D

Seriously, I was initially hesitant to check this flick out, but after seeing it, I'm just looking for the right deal to buy it :) It's definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it. 8)
 
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I love this documentary. I actually have friends who worked with Bob Evans on Kid Notorious, and he's quite the character. This was right when his personal office and museum (memorabilia from his movies) burned to the ground. Very sad. He's really not in the best of health, can barely walk, and was just divorced from his wife of one year. This is a guy who's lived more in a year than most of us do in a lifetime.
 
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I liked the movie.
I liked how was achieve. The work with the photographs is great.
Normally i could get bored just with still pictures.

But is totally false. And when i watched i was really angry to see how a man can dressed up his life.

If you like to know more about Evans try to read Peter Biskind´s Easy riders, raging bulls.
It is a book about the new hollywood generations (Coppola, Scorsesse, Hopper... Evans...)
Luckily I was reading the book when i saw the movie. And the difference in his biography are big.

Anyway the movies was good done, it´s just false, but a lot of the movies are entirely false (even in the documentary shell)

The book is great.
 
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