Jimi Hendrix Discussion

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[Georgina]

This sounds promising! Tarantino is a good film maker-he certainly doesn't skimp on the sex violence and drugs and he's quite creative..so hopefully he won't present a totaly sanitised version of Hendrix's life. It may be intersesting...

Is it a documentry or is it going to be a film though its not really clear..

The (v.few) feature films made of Hendrix life in the past have generaly been totaly APPALLING. There was one blink and you missed film where Devon Wilson was depicted as a white woman-can you believe that!!! Just dreadful.

[blahblahwoofwoof]

Let's hope it's good. I just hope that Tarantino doesn't go overboard with the drug scene like Oliver Stone did on "The Doors" movie. I'm not saying I want an antiseptic film; I just want the film to be more about Jimi's genius than about how he was some tragic character.

Like Chas Chandler said, "when I think of Jimi, I think of him with a smile on his face, because he was full of fun, all the time."

I think it's going to be a feature film because there were some rumblings earlier about Lenny Kravitz playing the part of Jimi. Here's the article.

I agree, the biopics that have been made about Jimi thus far are absolute shite, especially the Showtime film, but I own it on DVD anyway.. LOL

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According to the "Ain't It Cool" news website.

[Georgina]

Hey ho what fun and games-we'll just have to see what happens! I thought it was a bit good to be true when they said Tarantino had the rights to all music for the film. I imagine the estate will have a lot to say about that and how they are portraying Hendrix's image..

There have been some good biopics out in recent years-Ray Charles was good, and the Johnny Cash one. I though Val Kilmer did a good job as Jim Morrison-even if the movie was largely inaccurate. So its about time someone did a good film about Hendrix.

Lenny Kravitz as Hendrix I can't see- i know their are similarities but he's not an actor...they just need to get a really good actor who can capture Hendrix's character convincingly- that is the actors craft after all.

IMO I think they should partly base it on the David Henson book (with something else more accurate)-scuse me while I kiss the sky--it really captured a sense of the times-what its like to be a 60's person-and more importantly it really brought to life the characters in Hendrix's inner circle and what their scene was like or could have been like so to speak...

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I agree...the movies about Jimi have been very bad. Hopefully Tarantino will do a good job.