Barfly's a very fun movie, and terrific for any Bukowski fan. Sure, Bukowski said he didn't like Rourke's performance, but I've also ready where he did like it. Bukowski just hated Hollywood and all the phonies, so like it or not, he would complain, which was his charm. Read his novel Hollywood - he didn't seem to hate Rourke's performance in his novel. So as a huge Bukowski fan, I say shut up and enjoy the film.
@MultiUnreal9 жыл бұрын
All these people talking about "Bukowski hated this film" and "Bukowski thought the performance was shit." Here's a novel idea: how about you tell us what YOU thought of the film. Bukowski is a major influence in my life, but that doesn't mean I have to drink each and every word he ever said.
@DKthailand18124 жыл бұрын
Great advice!
@salbigcookie4 жыл бұрын
He hated it so much that he was in it?
@TheAwetist8024 жыл бұрын
Newpaper articles and reviews from the time when "Barfly" came out actually quoted Bukowski as calling Rourke a genius and describing how much he loved Mickey's portrayal of his alter ego in the film. I was just reading them in archives a few days ago. I don't know where people are getting their info... Anyhow, what you say here is absolutely correct. The film, like all works of art, stands on its own and we don't require the approval of anyone else to enjoy and appreciate it, not even those who helped inspire the work or contributed to its source material.
@AnnaLVajda4 жыл бұрын
Well I liked it. Lots of people might not like how they are portrayed on screen and Bukowski was a grump anyway. I likened it a bit to Mozart people resent a drunk still being that talented they can't even do what he does sober and lots of poets are tortured souls anyway and he did not care about wealth he just wanted to drink and write.
@seanosullivan69514 жыл бұрын
thank you
@carrielucas56725 жыл бұрын
Have always loved this movie. One of my all time favs.
@thomaskennedy3057 Жыл бұрын
Agreed. Have watched it more times than I can remember.
@thenyloncurtain2 жыл бұрын
I LOVE this film‼️ Mickey Rourke at his BEST‼️👏❤️❤️❤️❤️
@mikeyjdoogan28054 жыл бұрын
this clip of genius is how i justify my addiction
@cdream54147 жыл бұрын
Endurance is more important than the truth. Ain't that the truth?
@freddymasters23773 жыл бұрын
The Ugly Truth is something that the most level headed, strong willed SOBER individuals can't even begin to stomach.
@soioioioioioio342 жыл бұрын
Nah he died a drunk
@DarkSkyVideo12 жыл бұрын
Great movie, awesome character, excellent performances.
@richjudycki67385 жыл бұрын
This is a great film
@oldschoolm810 жыл бұрын
Very true. Being a good drunk is a skill developed through years of practice. Most people can't take their booze, they become violent, hysterically sad or pass out etc We've all seen it on a night out.....btw this film is pretty good, not great, but it captures the flavour of Hank's writing quite well.
@jerrodbutali39902 жыл бұрын
Yea, I think the other movie with Matt Dillon is better, but this one has its moments.
@thomaskennedy3057 Жыл бұрын
Love this film. I have watched it at least 20 times and quote it often.
@dmitryowens Жыл бұрын
@@jerrodbutali3990 Matt Dillion was terrible as Bukowski/Chinaski - he's way too much of an all-American college jock type. Not right for the role at all. Mickey Rourke was brilliant.
@holisterbruxly4554 Жыл бұрын
@@dmitryowens Youre projecting. Dillon was excellent.
@dmitryowens Жыл бұрын
@@holisterbruxly4554 I've only seen parts of it, but he just doesn't look the part at all - Bukowski was pretty unattractive and Dillon looks like a GQ model. Total opposites.
@setpunks132 жыл бұрын
I just love this movie.
@catbird00712 жыл бұрын
"Endurance, is more important than truth"...that is one of the heaviest things ever said . .
@RawFitChris5 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately that is what the radical leftist democrat party has. That's all they have but.... it will win over the stupids... there IS strength in lunacy.
@cryforthemoon4 жыл бұрын
They only have endurance to go up against the competition but when it comes to applying their theories it will all fall to shit.
@riddlerrl4 жыл бұрын
@@RawFitChris the only type of pasta worth eating is fusilli. that's what we're doing, right? giving random opinions?
@ahamham45323 жыл бұрын
Endure. Suffer. Press on.
@frankviator83153 жыл бұрын
@@RawFitChris The parties all together have endurance on your mind only. If you ever had one.
@HoosierRooster3 жыл бұрын
To all my friends all my friends one of my favorite movies
@joeyt468 жыл бұрын
it was one of he's best performances ,to all my friends. becuse in the charecter he had no friends .
@AnnaLVajda5 жыл бұрын
The truth endures.
@facedo2110 жыл бұрын
Great Movie!
@carlosandre19922 жыл бұрын
Mickey Rourke actor legendary 🎭
@dayargrosario11 жыл бұрын
not exactly.. first he thought of another actor.. but during filming sessions he said that he was impressed with him,and that he wasn't aware of how good he actually was.
@thomasmaier46985 жыл бұрын
such s nice heavenly guy...God blessed him💓💪
@AndrewsOpinion1512 жыл бұрын
GREAT MOVIE !!!!!!!!
@loducawarrior12 жыл бұрын
@dudesons441 - ehh, it's hard to act like Bukowski. I like the way Rourke played the part, a little over the top, but then Bukowski was over the top much of the time. If you read all of his work, his "voice" is superior sounding, even in the throes of alcoholism and poverty - much like Wanda mentions in the film. How he's the damndest barfly she's ever seen, how he speaks as if he's a blue blood. That was Bukowski, and I think Rourke captured Bukowski's humor, as well as his pathos.
@AnnaLVajda4 жыл бұрын
I think Bukowski just did not put himself down the way society expected him too just because he was poor and had had a hard life. He was a talented writer just like Mickey has had a hard life but is a talented actor so he has a certain confidence too.
@MsLinjohn4 жыл бұрын
I loved this movie! I couldn't forget him after that movie. He made a mark to those who didn't know him and didn't watch a lot of movies.
@nataszasuarez62435 жыл бұрын
Why he wasn't nominated for a Golden Globe or an Oscar? I didn't get it.
@nataszasuarez62433 жыл бұрын
@Tweed Penguin No, it's not.
@infinitejest441 Жыл бұрын
Politics
@lTheRose07 Жыл бұрын
Great film & Mickey is fcukn awesome. Full stop ❤️🔥💯
@ImYourHuckleberry_2912 жыл бұрын
My only sadness is that Rourke wasn't too much into Buk's work. I love em both.
@lionellevaillant44804 жыл бұрын
It takes a special talent to be a drunk, it takes endurance, endurance is more important than truth Tully Sorenson 😋
@markleskosek96323 жыл бұрын
IT takes a special tallent to be a drunk ....it takes endurance to be a drunk....I don't hate people..but...I seem to feel better when their not around
@user98xp12 жыл бұрын
Heyyy... not everybody can be so much of a bummmmm... and have so much charisma.
@crawlingamongthestars37363 жыл бұрын
Bukowski spent decades and countless writings trying to rationalize his alcoholism himself... Not saying that's all he was, but he certainly was in denial about his self-destruction.
@helmepodesarius2198 Жыл бұрын
Self-destruction is a meaningless abstraction based on outside perspective. It takes willpower to slowly destroy yourself for the foreseeable future. It’s simply applied in a different direction that isn’t useful to the collective, but rather to the individual. That’s the reason why there’s a stigma against it. You need to destroy yourself for the collective. Not yourself, is it any wonder addicts don’t care about themselves when nobody actually cares about them? They’re simply doing what society wants them too. Getting rid of themselves.
@BullittMcQueen112 жыл бұрын
-- Mickey Rourke just became a boxer for a while. He seems to be doing alright with the movie roles he's getting these days.
@Toast9602 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see Mickey Rourke come back as Henry Chinaski in an adaptation of Post Office. I know Buk wasn't thrilled with his performance, but nowadays, Mickey Rourke looks a lot closer to how Hank looked.
@O_Towne_Bear11 жыл бұрын
Actualy, watch some doc footage of Bukowski then come here, this is about as dead on as you can get. Putz.
@StanJunior19597 жыл бұрын
barfly adored
@johnkearns60482 жыл бұрын
Drunks are just too stubborn to quit 😂
@knowledgepower72868 жыл бұрын
Endurance is part of truth
@lionellevaillant44804 жыл бұрын
Faut de l'endurance pour être un bon ivrogne
@pape3711 жыл бұрын
Also, anybody recognize the music in the background? Beethoven's Archduke Trio. Beatufiul piece of work. Such a great film on all fronts.
@mr.authentic25053 жыл бұрын
Just finished watching this movie it's free goooo and enjoy it... Feel in love with her man now that's not what bukowski would want lol
@AW-kr9fl Жыл бұрын
“Endurance is more important than truth…”
@misterpig199012 жыл бұрын
the truth is that endurance is, indeed, NOT more important than truth
@jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj1782 жыл бұрын
Hey it's the Borg Queen!
@thedeadchair11 жыл бұрын
are you a bukowski reader?
@pennybaker15458 жыл бұрын
to me bukowski was the best just wish they would turn more of his work into movies
@harmanx.4 жыл бұрын
They truly should make a sequel using the same actors (those that are still around, anyway).
@harmanx.3 жыл бұрын
@@Themes4Voice He looks much more like Bukowski now.
@BansheeMilk11 ай бұрын
That's the Borg lady from First Contact
@lionellevaillant44804 жыл бұрын
Anybody can be a non drunk. Je connais ce film depuis 1990. Depuis je le regarde tous les jours en boucle et depuis 2013 j'ai pu voir la version originale qui est bien mieux que la version française. En effet en tant que brestois, il faut de l'endurance pour picoler. Ici à Brest on est habitué. Boire est la seconde nature avec la mer. Bravo Mickey Rourke et Charles Bukowski pour le scénario même si ce dernier n'a jamais aimé le film. À la vôtre les internautes. Tchin
@Nautilus197213 жыл бұрын
The Borg Queen !
@dramares3 ай бұрын
Hey… Baby… Relax.
@pape3711 жыл бұрын
I think you're misconstruing the scope of his statement. Sure, there's some denial and defensiveness in heavy drug/alcohol users. But Bukowski lived on the margins in every sense, not just chemically. He was against America in World War 2, he chose to live as a bum in order to be free, and he starved for years to be a writer free of the 9 to 5. So when he saw spoiled academics talking about "truth", he's saying: Truth is in living, not in books and degrees. Endurance IS the truth.
@markooklobdzija26264 ай бұрын
That you said beautifully
@richierobinson8332 жыл бұрын
please read bukowski!!! henry chinaski was his pen name.
@zsedcftglkjh Жыл бұрын
He beat women and pretended to be a tortured genius. Very...very mediocre.
@handofsutekh11 жыл бұрын
I loved the film but it's not how I imagined Chinaski either, I imagined him far less flaky, more aimless than hopeless. But Bukowski liked it so what do we know eh
@loducawarrior12 жыл бұрын
@darnaclien - guess you don't read a lot of Bukowski. The humor is what makes Bukowski so great.
@dmanbigd77211 жыл бұрын
you just did brother.
@loducawarrior12 жыл бұрын
@DocHolliday - it's always said that, but not necessarily true. Bukowski changed his mind on many topics for laughs, for his image, etc. If you read his novel Hollywood, written around the time of the movie, he says a lot of complimentary things about the production and everyone involved. He keeps mentioning how they got it right, and how touched he was. So not really the same Bukowski comments as later, older, more jaded, about how bad the movie was.
@JazzlobotomyАй бұрын
Adrienne barbeau?
@imc44011 жыл бұрын
This was pretty bad in my opinion, but what's weird is if they remade the movie I would cast him again. Think that he's been weathered enough now to make sense of the part.
@stopthephilosophicalzombie90176 жыл бұрын
Yeah he was still too pretty.
@dictater23 жыл бұрын
Who cares what Bukowski thought of the film, he wasn't a movie critic or even a movie fan, and the book that came from the process made him more money than most anything he wrote, and that was what was interesting to him, money. I say this as a well-read Bukowski reader.
@fdsafdsa27293 жыл бұрын
It's funny if Bukowski didn't like his acting. When I look at some old Bukowski interviews he sounds exactly like this. Maybe this is a bit exaggarated version but still. I liked Rourke's performance tbh I like this movie a lot more than that one Bukowski book I read (I think it was called post office)
@somethingyousaid50595 жыл бұрын
Endurance is endurance and truth is truth. Why the need to confuse the two?
@matthewdonovan785311 жыл бұрын
@darnaclien Damn, now I want to see Brando in this role.
@AnnaLVajda3 жыл бұрын
It just seems so ridiculous a publisher not understanding about drunken poets he probably couldn't even write if he was sober if his muse was a drunk he would have to drink too.
@thebailey6711 жыл бұрын
for the most part he is playing at the Bukowski Myth.....Hank talks like this....well a bit more cool..lol
@killuminati633 жыл бұрын
VS Jim Layhe LOL
@KneedleKnees11 жыл бұрын
this was a good movie but Mickey Rourke's performance isn't the Chinaski i was hoping for. it's a good role and he did well but i don't know. i like Matt Dillon's Chinaski better in Factotum.
@indepthliterature Жыл бұрын
Rourke is great but he just doesnt capture bukowski
@donaldquirk7801 Жыл бұрын
He just wanted to drink and beat women. This movie was funny but why do some many people want to be like him? They even had him quote Tolstoy in the movie when he hated Tolstoy. Weird.
@MrJC70714 жыл бұрын
Good movie, great performance by Rourke, and Bukowski is in my mind a VASTLY overrated, over hyped Author, though he does have his moments, due to the fact he was a MAJOR CLASS drunk while he wrote, and that fascinates people. I prefer William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac for my "beat" fixes..
@maddymud13 жыл бұрын
Mae West should get royalties ...
@micmil117911 жыл бұрын
what if the Quasimodo faced Rourke did this now? what if, what if?
@AnnaLVajda4 жыл бұрын
Yeah old bukowski.
@DanielGarcia-ws7cd4 жыл бұрын
The book is always better than the movie or the subject. The liquor is always better than either one or both.
@fdsafdsa27293 жыл бұрын
Shouldn't compare the two too much. Two totally different art forms.
@lionellevaillant44804 жыл бұрын
Qui comme moi picole de la bière Bud à 5 heures du matin ? Il faut de l'endurance et moi je suis brestois donc aucun problème 😃
@basman200612 жыл бұрын
I never liked the way he talked in this movie, don't really see why everybody liked his acting so much in this movie. i did like the movie though.
@suzukinez12 жыл бұрын
the best charecter actin rourke film, mickey at his best n underated,,,lookin at the comments feedback for terrible acting,,,,go watch commercials if your into that kind of acting,,,,n before you reply with a negative comment"FUCK OFF"
@GTAfreakazoid2311 жыл бұрын
man, some people huh? they get offended by every opinion they see, what is it with this generation?
@thedeadchair11 жыл бұрын
Nothing to do with Henry Chinaski. Nothing...
@armadillo1231 Жыл бұрын
Not his best role. The Wrestler is his magnum opus.
@chris882211 Жыл бұрын
I love him in this though
@basman200612 жыл бұрын
I don't get why he did this movie, doesn't seem like a movie you do for a quick buck.
@charlesborrall3790 Жыл бұрын
I'm not really a drunk. Society is drunk.
@faithnomore99965 жыл бұрын
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@GTAfreakazoid2311 жыл бұрын
yeah? well todays movies have very terrible acting, it's actually alot worse than this
@lennydl10 жыл бұрын
Hank hated this film
@LikeigiveAFaboutU3 жыл бұрын
Yeah that acting was iffy
@MrBiglode112 жыл бұрын
endurance is more important than truth!!!!!! duh? rally cry for political horseshit. as pre-historic as the ways of thinking used to be, deadlines always tend to be broken. endurance.