"Dandies" (sometimes - "Dudes", Eng. Dudes ) - a film by Penelope Sfiris . Filmed in the USA in 1987 in a mixture of the genres of road movie and western with an alternation of comedic and dramatic episodes. The first feature film featured on the punk rock subculture , following documentaries by P. Sfiris Suburbia (1984) and The Decline of Western Civilization (1981). [1] Rock musicians took part in the creation of some of the images in the film: Flea ( Red Hot Chili Peppers ) and Lee Wing (Fear, MD.45 ), iconic figures in punk culture of the late 1980s.
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| Genre | comedy film road movie drama |
| Producer | Penelope Sfiris |
| Producer | |
| Author script | Randall Janson |
| In the main cast | John cryer Daniel Robook Katherine Mary Stewart Flea |
| Operator | |
| Composer | Charles Bernstein |
| Film company | VISTA organization |
| Duration | 90 min |
| A country |  USA |
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| Year | 1987 |
| IMDb | ID 0092933 |
The first full-length film by screenwriter Randall Janson , who later became famous for such works as The Doors ( Eng. The Doors , 1991), The Mask of Zorro ( Eng. The Mask of Zorro , 1998).
Content
Story
Three character characters: Grant , Biscuit, and Milo , professing punk , set out on a used Beetle from New York to Los Angeles in search of a better life. On the road, a gang of "bad guys", in which someone runs Missoula , attacks them and kills Milo. Grant and Biscuit decide to avenge the murder of their friend. They are joined by a young woman, Jesse , who confuses the persecution.
Cast
- John Cryer - Grant
- Daniel Robook - Biscuit
- Katherine Mary Stewart - Jesse
- Flea - Milo
- Lee Wing - Missoula
Criticism
- Variety staffers : “How can you take seriously a movie that has pooled Queens punks, cowboys, Indians, and insane killer killers in Utah ? The answer, of course, is no way. <...> Humor, which is used according to calculation, turns into a farce. Hopelessly teenage dialogues, very loud music and plot, completely dependent on a coincidence. ” [2]
- “Dudes has a more commercial focus than some of Miss Sphyris’s earlier films, <...> and consists of a series of unmotivated, insufficiently convincing events. Another problem is tongue-tied dialogs. ” [3]
Notes
- ↑ MOVIE INFO . rottentomatoes.com (Flixster, Inc.) (08/01/1987). Date of treatment September 18, 2011.
- ↑ Film Reviews . Variety (12/31/1986). Date of treatment September 18, 2011. Archived on June 7, 2012.
- ↑ JANET MASLIN. Review / Film; Innocents Abroad, In Dudes . The New York Times (06.24.1988). Date of treatment September 18, 2011.