Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Wikipedia 2
My second topic on Wikipedia was the movie Barfly with Micky Rourke and Faye Dunaway. This is a semi autobiographical released in 1987 written by Charles Bukowski using the named Henry Chanaski for the character portraying himself. As with the previous topic I looked up, this one was accurate, factual and within the guidelines but I did find it to be rather short. There would be lots of things I could add if I wanted to. For example it nearly starred Sean Penn who was Bukowski's first pick, but Penn would only do it if Dennis Hopper directed it. Since Bukowski referred to Dennis as a " gold-chain-wearing Hollywood phony" whom he despised, this was never going to happen. In conclusion I would like to admit that there were definitely facts I was unaware of but were nowhere near as relevant to the movie itself as facts that weren't even touched upon. I mean really, who cares if punk band NOFX wrote a song called Green Corn that was inspired by the movie?
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Yeah, people tend to do that, they go off on a tangent and start talking about something totaly irelivant, its so annoying...
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