I'll Quit, Vows Gallow After Brown Bunny Boos

[ilovemovies]

Apperantly Vincent Gallo's movie The Brown Bunny is getting majorly bad reviews at Cannes and he's not happy about it. Here's the story from Reuters:

Vincent Gallo (news) is so hurt by the scathing reaction to his film "The Brown Bunny," that he has vowed to make it his last.


"I'll never make another movie again. I mean it," Gallo told Reuters, after his road movie had a disastrous reception at the Cannes film festival (news - web sites) and he was booed at a press conference.


"Being booed at was not much fun. It's really not very nice that people are so nasty. I'm very disappointed," he said early on Friday at the star-studded amfAR AIDS (news - web sites) fund-raiser.


Gallo, going through what he says is the worst week in his life, has also apologized to those who financed the film.


"It is a disaster of a film and it was a waste of time. I apologize to the financiers, but it was never my intention to make a pretentious film, a self-indulgent film, a useless film, an unengaging film," he said.


Critics guffawed openly at the screening of "The Brown Bunny," which Gallo wrote, directed, produced and starred in, and groaned at the highly graphic oral sex scene at the end.


Many found the long driving scenes interminable and monotonous and the symbolic use of a toy rabbit plain just silly.


Screen International has ranked the film the worst of the 20 films competing for this year's Palme d'Or.


"Vincent Gallo's monumental folly has already become a defining moment in Cannes history. Awestruck future generations will ask: 'Were you there the night they screened The Brown Bunny?"' one of the magazine's critics wrote Friday. A clearly depressed Gallo said he had hardly been able to face his friends since Cannes critics, bored by what they say is a miserable harvest of films, started laying into his movie.


"If my film is not comprehensible to people then I have failed in my purpose. I am disappointed that once again, what I like is unpopular. I can only apologize to the people who feel they have wasted their time," he said.

[jackson13]

It took me forever to decipher the title to this thread.


Now that I figured it out I just gotta say: Whassa matter, poor baby cant handle criticism? Just because people boo your movie doenst mean you have to puss out and leave the industry. Suck it up and make something better! Simple as that!

[Buck Turgidson]

Promises, promises...

[The Other]

Never heard of this guy, but I looked up his movie at the IMDb. It's got 13 votes total, 1 ten and 12 ones. Ouch...

[FilmBuff84]

All I can say is I guess it's a good thing that Kirsten Dunst wasn't hired for the film after all, because, being a fan of Ms Dunst, I would hate to see her ina film getting so much bad press.

Gallo, you only have yourself to blame.

[electriclite]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
"If my film is not comprehensible to people then I have failed in my purpose. I am disappointed that once again, what I like is unpopular. I can only apologize to the people who feel they have wasted their time," he said.



Well at least he's taking responsibility for his failure, instead of using the filmmaker's universal denial tool: "You just don't get it!"

[sharkstank]

Good.
don't like him.
but all this negative hype makes me want to see the movie(if it's ever released)

[Buck Turgidson]

Well Dunst sort of sucks anyway, so she'd probably be perfect...

[flowrchild]

Originally posted by Buck Turgidson
Promises, promises...

:D

I really like the movie Buffalo 66. But this new one just sounds like an egocentric vanity project. I mean he has a 5 minute scene of Chloe Sevigney LITERALLY giving him a blowjob. That's fine for a home video but...

[moviefan80113]

thanks

[MyClone]

If he recognized it as so bad, why the HELL did he take it to Cannes?! It's a tough business, ask the makers of Ishtar, so suck it up or get out!!!

[Tuukka]

Buffalo 66 is a great film, so I wouldn't mind Gallo continuing his filmmaking career. Anyway, this sounds like a terrible film, but nearly all directors have some disaster in their hands at some point of their career. Get over with it.

[Dude]

A mainstream actress giving a graphic BJ in an american film?......I am SO THERE just for THAT. :D

[James Logan]

Man's an idiot. He made his movie, he made choices about 'em, he tried making the best movie he could -- just stand by it and assume, bitch. His reaction is the most pathetic one I've ever heard of.

[Nate6]

I think Vincent Gallo should grow some balls, realize he made a film that may not be extremely popular, and then show everyone next time. That's what a respectable person does...

[ilovemovies]

Originally posted by Nate6
I think Vincent Gallo should grow some balls, realize he made a film that may not be extremely popular, and then show everyone next time. That's what a respectable person does...

Exactly. Did Joel Schumacher bitch about Batman and Robin? No he instead he came back with Tigerland. A great movie. And Phone Booth. And now this upcoming movie that looks good with Cate Blanchett that is called Veronica Guerin.

[FeverDog420]

The Affair of the Brown Bunny, one of the most astonishing episodes in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, took another turn Friday when director Vincent Gallo apologized for his film and said, "It is a disaster and a waste of time."

Gallo's "Brown Bunny," which screened as one of three American entries in the official competition, was the lowest-rated film in the history of Screen International, the British trade paper that tabulates votes of a panel of critics. It was booed and laughed at during its screenings, there were countless walkouts, and its inclusion as an official selection called into question the judgment, even the sanity, of the programmers. That several French critics liked it was, Gallo said, "almost like salt in the wound."

The film consists of an unendurable 90 minutes of uneventful banality, as Gallo's character travels cross-country toward a motorcycle race in California, followed by a hard-core sex scene in which he imagines he receives fellatio from his lost love, played by Chloe Sevigny. Let it be said that Sevigny, who reportedly cried during the screening, is heroic in the way she finds conviction and truth in her character, in the midst of the general catastrophe. Many minutes of the earlier scenes consist of such shots as a windshield gradually accumulating dead bugs.

Gallo is talented as an actor, and his first film as a director, "Buffalo 66" (1998), was so quirky and free-spirited you not only forgave its eccentricities but cherished them. Nothing in his previous career would predict the disaster of "Brown Bunny."

"I accept what the critics say," Gallo told Screen International, whose panel gave the bunny its record low rating. "If no one wants to see it, they are right. I apologize to the financiers of the film, but I must assure you it was never my intention to make a pretentious film, a self-indulgent film, a useless film, an unengaging film."

"L'Affaire Brown Bunny" has generated so much publicity, as the low point of a dismal year at Cannes, that it may actually find French distribution; there may be a cachet attached to seeing such a universally derided film. Some French critics specialize in defending the indefensible, to show that they alone can understand a rejected work; their explications of "Brown Bunny" may be--indeed, must inevitably be--more entertaining than the film.

Gallo might be expected to leave town quickly after the bunny debacle, but he is also an actor in Peter Greenaway's "The Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story," which plays in the official competition here over the weekend. That means he will be expected to march once again up the red carpet and into the Palais--where, he said, the "Brown Bunny" screening was "the worst feeling I ever had in my life."

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by fareastthunder
I think this Gallo guy needs to take it a little on the chin.

Like Chloe Sevigny did?

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by FeverDog420
several French critics liked it

Why does that not surprise me in the least?

[Buck Turgidson]

Originally posted by FeverDog420


The film consists of an unendurable 90 minutes of uneventful banality

That was my basic opinion of Buffalo 66 (although I enjoyed that bizarre, appealing scene w/ Christina dancing around the pole to King Crimson's Moonchild.)

It's a wonder flowrchild ever talks to me...

[flowrchild]

Originally posted by Buck Turgidson
That was my basic opinion of Buffalo 66 (although I enjoyed that bizarre, appealing scene w/ Christina dancing around the pole to King Crimson's Moonchild.)

It's a wonder flowrchild ever talks to me...

Flowrchild is honored to speak with you, Buck :D

[electriclite]

Originally posted by Grebdron
Like Chloe Sevigny did?



OH! *rimshot*





Anyone ever notice how sexual that term sounds?

[freakandgeek]

i liked buffalo 66. but if he was really passionate about movies, vincent wouldn't just stop making them after making a bad one. he'd keep going. you have to get back up on the horse after you fall off.

[Paterfamilias]

I think it's a poor reaction. I mean even if he did decide to not make movies again, why say it now. Just don't make 'em. You don't need to proclaim it.

I liked Buffalo 66, so I would like to see him try again.

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by electriclite
OH! *rimshot*

Thank you. Thank you. I'm here all week. Try the veal. Tip your waitress.


Originally posted by freakandgeek
you have to get back up on the horse after you fall off.

Like Chloe Sevigny did?

Damn. Doesn't work as well the second time around.

[zeppelin]

Oh come on, some people (me included) would do anything just to make a movie, and this man is giving it up just because he's getting some bad reviews? If people don't like it, then move on to the next film and try again. Giving up is the worst thing you can do in this industry. Do you know how many actors, actresses, and directors were constantly told that they sucked early on in their career, but kept trying, and ended up being great successes? Paramount wanted Al Pacino to be fired from The Godfather, and he would always get bad remarks from studio executives while on the set, but he didn't quit. And he was nominated for an Oscar for that very role, and quickly became a star. That very role that Paramount didn't want him to have is widely regarded as one of the best performances of all-time. And Coppola (director of the film) was also getting bad remarks for his casting choices, but he didn't care, and look at him and his movie now. He's made 3 of the all-time classics of film, and The Godfather is considered by the majority of people to be one of the best films ever made, and a lot even call it THE best. And as for his "poor casting choices" that Paramount thought he made, it's also regarded as the best-acted movie ever by many. Actually, if you want the best example, look at Edward D. Wood, Jr. Now THAT is a good example. His films were criticized like mad, and he was booed on numerous occassions, but he never quit, and he was actually very cheerful about it all. He was even named "the worst director of all-time", but he still kept making movies, because that's what he loved to do, regardless of what people thought of him. Obviously Vincent Gallo is more interested in what people think of him than what should be every director's passion. I'm sorry for getting carried away here, but it just really pisses me off when people like Vincent Gallo quit just because people don't like their movie.

[flowrchild]

Originally posted by zeppelin
I'm sorry for getting carried away here, but it just really pisses me off when people like Vincent Gallo quit just because people don't like their movie.

I know, he needs to grow the hell up. Clearly he never learned how to deal with criticism. He needs to get over himself, pronto.

[JCR]

I would still be willing to give this film a chance. The cannes critics also booed Twin Peaks: FWWM which is one of my top 10 movies.

[Scarface98.9]

With the director about ready to pull an Alan Smithee on us, I can't help but wanna see this movie. I've seen plenty of pretentious, self indulgent messes of a movie, but to see the oft-considered worst of the bunch, I make it my life goal to see this flick. A blow job with Chloe whatever her name is scene also adds to the splendor

[edonline]

More on Vincent Gallo, charming fellow that he is...

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/58303.htm

GALLO RIPS 'FAT PIG' EBERT

June 2, 2003 -- VINCENT Gallo is turning his acid tongue on movie critic Roger Ebert. The reviewer reported that Gallo had apologized for making his widely panned movie "Brown Bunny," which scandalized the Cannes Film Festival with its graphic oral sex scene between Gallo and Chloe Sevigny. "I never apologized for anything in my life," Gallo told us. "I like the movie. I had 100 percent creative and financial control of it and if I didn't like it, I would have changed it. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him." Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that Gallo had expressed regret for making "Brown Bunny" to a reporter from Screen International, the British trade paper that tabulates critics' votes ("Brown Bunny" received the lowest rating in the paper's history). Gallo says Screen International made up his quotes. "I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me," he snarled. "I'm sorry for a lot of things, but I'm not sorry for making this movie."

[flowrchild]

:eek: :eek:

Did I actually just read that?

[MarkItZero]

Someone should make a movie about the making of and screening of this film.

[Nate6]

Originally posted by edonline
More on Vincent Gallo, charming fellow that he is...

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/58303.htm

GALLO RIPS 'FAT PIG' EBERT

June 2, 2003 -- VINCENT Gallo is turning his acid tongue on movie critic Roger Ebert. The reviewer reported that Gallo had apologized for making his widely panned movie "Brown Bunny," which scandalized the Cannes Film Festival with its graphic oral sex scene between Gallo and Chloe Sevigny. "I never apologized for anything in my life," Gallo told us. "I like the movie. I had 100 percent creative and financial control of it and if I didn't like it, I would have changed it. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him." Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that Gallo had expressed regret for making "Brown Bunny" to a reporter from Screen International, the British trade paper that tabulates critics' votes ("Brown Bunny" received the lowest rating in the paper's history). Gallo says Screen International made up his quotes. "I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me," he snarled. "I'm sorry for a lot of things, but I'm not sorry for making this movie."

Well now I wish he'd just go away. Stupid, disrespectful prick.

[Grebdron]

But he's right.

Ebert is a fat blowhard.

[Nate6]

Originally posted by Grebdron
Ebert is a fat blowhard.

And so's Vincent Gallo.

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by Nate6
And so's Vincent Gallo.

That's a given.

[Scarface98.9]

Fat blowhard or not, that was a pretty cheap trick. Gallo's like that kid from elementary school who peed his pants, people laugh at him, he starts crying, then yells "Shut up, you, you stupid dumbfaces! Stop it!" and walks away drenched in piss. Fuck dignity

[Buck Turgidson]

It should be graphically clear and plain to anybody not in total denial that this guy is, at the very least, a seething, immature twerp, blaming all and sundry for his many failings.

That last little quote skirts dangerously close to open bigotry. The ad hominem crack on Ebert is also extraordinarily foul. I'm proud to say that I loathed Buffalo 66 from the moment I saw it, and have always considered this guy a churlish asswipe.

It's good to be proven right.

[Tom Samborski]

Talk about a crybaby. A lot of directors made bad movies that also flopped when they were new to the buisness, and look how they turned out. I guess he never heard of the words "try again".

[edonline]

The problem with Gallo is that he considers himself to be an auteur, so anyone who doesn't "get" his movies are automatically designated as idiots, people who have no taste or do not appreciate Art. He doesn't realize that quite possibly he just made a bad film,

[FeverDog420]

From The New York Post:

Roger Ebert is giving a thumb way down to actor/director Vincent Gallo, who in yesterday's PAGE SIX called him a "fat pig" and claimed he'd put a curse on Ebert's colon. Gallo went ga-ga when Ebert, like many other media outlets, reported in the Chicago Sun-Times that Gallo had apologized to a British film journal for his critically savaged flick "Brown Bunny" (Gallo says the British pub fabricated his quotes). Ebert, who was a fan of Gallo's breakthrough movie, "Buffalo 66," tells us he's crafting a reply to Gallo's attack that he'll deliver this weekend on his TV show, "Ebert and Roeper." But for those who want a preview, Ebert says he's lost 30 pounds - "So if Gallo gains 30 IQ points, we'll be even." As for the colon crack, "I don't know what he meant...but when I had my last colonoscopy, they let me watch it on a little TV, and it was far more entertaining than 'Brown Bunny.'"

[edonline]

I'll say this much, at least Ebert has a lot more wit than Gallo does.

[Cyclonus]

Does anyone else here think that Brown Bunny might actually beat The Life of David Gale for the coveted #1 spot on Ebert's "ten worst" list at the end of the year? I look foward to reading the actual review. It will be one of his best ever. :)

This Vincent Gallo guy sounds like one of the most self-centered, immature individuals working in the film industry today. Even Jennifer Lopez isn't known to openly insult others like this.

[ilovemovies]

Here's an update from IMDB:

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert said today (Wednesday) that he can produce tape recordings of director-writer-actor Vincent Gallo making the comments that Gallo now says he never made. In an interview with the New York Post on Monday, Gallo maintained that he never disowned his movie, The Brown Bunny, which received disastrous reviews when it was screened at Cannes last month, and that he had never apologized for making it. "The only thing I am sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon," Gallo said. "If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie then I'm sorry for him." Ebert responded that he wasn't too worried about the curse. "I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than The Brown Bunny." And paraphrasing a perhaps apocryphal remark by Winston Churchill, Ebert concluded: "It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of The Brown Bunny."

[Dude]

Good for Ebert....even if he has to become thin thru death and decomposition....Gallo shouldnt have gotten personal...Ebert attacked the FILM, not the director..contrary to what directors may think, THEY are NOT their film...unless its an autobiography of their own lives.

...now DAMNIT...where are the pics of Chloe slobbing a knob!

:D