it's pronounced "doo-mah"
Listening to NPR. They're talking about Gus Van Sant's new film, Last Days, an abstract meditation on Kurt Cobain's last few "lost days". Sounds pretty miserable. Oh yeah, and it's not really about Cobain, just a fictional rock star played by a guy who looks exactly like him. Right now Van Sant is explaining how this was an artistic decision. I guess it's nice when your artistic decision just happens to also be one that saves your ass from getting sued.
Anyway, I mention all this because the NPR lady insists on pronouncing biopic as "BIO PICK", which I think sounds terrible in a newspeak sort of way. I prefer the almost totally unjustifiable "BUY OP ICK", which at least sort of rhymes with "epic", which is a word I like associating with movies because it usually means the film will either involve a lot of graphic violence set in ancient Rome or a lot of spaceships zooming around.
Is anyone with me? Yeah, didn't think so.
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Hmm...makes me think "myopic", which is a somewhat questionable adjective to associate with a biography. Admirable effort, though.
If anyone can, Michael Pitt can pull it off. See The Dreamers or Hedwig.
And as far as making a fictional film that closely resembles a real event, see Van Zant's Elephant, which is pretty much Columbine as cinema.
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