Mikey Rourke's drunk speech. Barfly 1987

because endurance is more important than truth.

[@loducawarrior]

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.

[@MultiUnreal]

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.

[@DKthailand1812]

Great advice!

[@salbigcookie]

He hated it so much that he was in it?

[@TheAwetist802]

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.

[@AnnaLVajda]

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.

[@seanosullivan6951]

thank you

[@carrielucas5672]

Have always loved this movie. One of my all time favs.

[@thomaskennedy3057]

Agreed. Have watched it more times than I can remember.

[@thenyloncurtain]

I LOVE this film‼️ Mickey Rourke at his BEST‼️👏❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@mikeyjdoogan2805]

this clip of genius is how i justify my addiction

[@cdream5414]

Endurance is more important than the truth. Ain't that the truth?

[@freddymasters2377]

The Ugly Truth is something that the most level headed, strong willed SOBER individuals can't even begin to stomach.

[@soioioioioioio34]

Nah he died a drunk

[@DarkSkyVideo]

Great movie, awesome character, excellent performances.

[@richjudycki6738]

This is a great film

[@oldschoolm8]

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.

[@jerrodbutali3990]

Yea, I think the other movie with Matt Dillon is better, but this one has its moments.

[@thomaskennedy3057]

Love this film. I have watched it at least 20 times and quote it often.

[@dmitryowens]

@@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]

@@dmitryowens Youre projecting. Dillon was excellent.

[@dmitryowens]

@@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.

[@setpunks13]

I just love this movie.

[@catbird007]

"Endurance, is more important than truth"...that is one of the heaviest things ever said . .

[@RawFitChris]

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.

[@cryforthemoon]

They only have endurance to go up against the competition but when it comes to applying their theories it will all fall to shit.

[@riddlerrl]

@@RawFitChris the only type of pasta worth eating is fusilli. that's what we're doing, right? giving random opinions?

[@ahamham4532]

Endure. Suffer. Press on.

[@frankviator8315]

@@RawFitChris The parties all together have endurance on your mind only. If you ever had one.

[@HoosierRooster]

To all my friends all my friends one of my favorite movies

[@joeyt46]

it was one of he's best performances ,to all my friends. becuse in the charecter he had no friends .

[@AnnaLVajda]

The truth endures.

[@facedo21]

Great Movie!

[@carlosandre1992]

Mickey Rourke actor legendary 🎭

[@dayargrosario]

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.

[@thomasmaier4698]

such s nice heavenly guy...God blessed him💓💪

[@AndrewsOpinion15]

GREAT MOVIE !!!!!!!!

[@loducawarrior]

@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.

[@AnnaLVajda]

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.

[@MsLinjohn]

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.

[@nataszasuarez6243]

Why he wasn't nominated for a Golden Globe or an Oscar? I didn't get it.

[@nataszasuarez6243]

@Tweed Penguin No, it's not.

[@infinitejest441]

Politics

[@lTheRose07]

Great film & Mickey is fcukn awesome. Full stop ❤️‍🔥💯

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

My only sadness is that Rourke wasn't too much into Buk's work. I love em both.

[@lionellevaillant4480]

It takes a special talent to be a drunk, it takes endurance, endurance is more important than truth Tully Sorenson 😋

[@markleskosek9632]

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

[@user98xp]

Heyyy... not everybody can be so much of a bummmmm... and have so much charisma.

[@crawlingamongthestars3736]

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]

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.

[@BullittMcQueen1]

-- Mickey Rourke just became a boxer for a while. He seems to be doing alright with the movie roles he's getting these days.

[@Toast960]

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_Bear]

Actualy, watch some doc footage of Bukowski then come here, this is about as dead on as you can get. Putz.

[@StanJunior1959]

barfly adored

[@johnkearns6048]

Drunks are just too stubborn to quit 😂

[@knowledgepower7286]

Endurance is part of truth

[@lionellevaillant4480]

Faut de l'endurance pour être un bon ivrogne

[@pape37]

Also, anybody recognize the music in the background? Beethoven's Archduke Trio. Beatufiul piece of work. Such a great film on all fronts.

[@mr.authentic2505]

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]

“Endurance is more important than truth…”

[@misterpig1990]

the truth is that endurance is, indeed, NOT more important than truth

[@jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj178]

Hey it's the Borg Queen!

[@thedeadchair]

are you a bukowski reader?

[@pennybaker1545]

to me bukowski was the best just wish they would turn more of his work into movies

[@harmanx.]

They truly should make a sequel using the same actors (those that are still around, anyway).

[@harmanx.]

@@Themes4Voice He looks much more like Bukowski now.

[@BansheeMilk]

That's the Borg lady from First Contact

[@lionellevaillant4480]

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

[@Nautilus1972]

The Borg Queen !

[@dramares]

Hey… Baby… Relax.

[@pape37]

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.

[@markooklobdzija2626]

That you said beautifully

[@richierobinson833]

please read bukowski!!! henry chinaski was his pen name.

[@zsedcftglkjh]

He beat women and pretended to be a tortured genius. Very...very mediocre.

[@handofsutekh]

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

[@loducawarrior]

@darnaclien - guess you don't read a lot of Bukowski. The humor is what makes Bukowski so great.

[@dmanbigd772]

you just did brother.

[@loducawarrior]

@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.

[@Jazzlobotomy]

Adrienne barbeau?

[@imc440]

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.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Yeah he was still too pretty.

[@dictater2]

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.

[@fdsafdsa2729]

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)

[@somethingyousaid5059]

Endurance is endurance and truth is truth. Why the need to confuse the two?

[@matthewdonovan7853]

@darnaclien Damn, now I want to see Brando in this role.

[@AnnaLVajda]

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.

[@thebailey67]

for the most part he is playing at the Bukowski Myth.....Hank talks like this....well a bit more cool..lol

[@killuminati63]

VS Jim Layhe LOL

[@KneedleKnees]

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]

Rourke is great but he just doesnt capture bukowski

[@donaldquirk7801]

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.

[@MrJC7071]

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..

[@maddymud]

Mae West should get royalties ...

[@micmil1179]

what if the Quasimodo faced Rourke did this now? what if, what if?

[@AnnaLVajda]

Yeah old bukowski.

[@DanielGarcia-ws7cd]

The book is always better than the movie or the subject. The liquor is always better than either one or both.

[@fdsafdsa2729]

Shouldn't compare the two too much. Two totally different art forms.

[@lionellevaillant4480]

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 😃

[@basman2006]

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.

[@suzukinez]

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"

[@GTAfreakazoid23]

man, some people huh? they get offended by every opinion they see, what is it with this generation?

[@thedeadchair]

Nothing to do with Henry Chinaski. Nothing...

[@armadillo1231]

Not his best role. The Wrestler is his magnum opus.

[@chris882211]

I love him in this though

[@basman2006]

I don't get why he did this movie, doesn't seem like a movie you do for a quick buck.

[@charlesborrall3790]

I'm not really a drunk. Society is drunk.

[@faithnomore9996]

the time of, whe this was. When, we met. the audition was. she'll bring this ouit of me. "endurance is worth more then Truth". This was the one in "Capa", that, kid did myself. I showed, some people, of, how. The persons shown, are confidant, in the arts. Showed in X-Ray. If we ever, get, outed. These moments, or what not. some, key factor areas. Glad its damn near over. 42 left. They are this species, in the play list. "pogg". it'll signiture. a mines, and some. ThenSum. "Johnny Depp; ......__" -aeni`

[@GTAfreakazoid23]

yeah? well todays movies have very terrible acting, it's actually alot worse than this

[@lennydl]

Hank hated this film

[@LikeigiveAFaboutU]

Yeah that acting was iffy

[@MrBiglode1]

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.

[@aurablue2707]

Popeye the alcoholic .

[@AmatriceBand]

Bad casting.

[@blanirvana94]

Personally, the film was a shit in all sense.

[@nickyboy22071989]

Josue L You're a fucking moron in every sense.