Lonesome cowboys

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Movie
Original title Lonesome cowboys
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1968
length 109 minutes
Rod
Director Andy Warhol
script Paul Morrissey
production Andy Warhol
Paul Morrissey
camera Paul Morrissey
cut Paul Morrissey
occupation

Lonesome Cowboys is a Western - Camp -Persiflage of Andy Warhol from 1968, whose screenplay Paul Morrissey wrote. The main roles are played by Viva and Joe Dallesandro and other members of the Factory ensemble.

action

The brothel owner Ramona D'Alvarez and her exuberant male nanny, as well as a sheriff who works as a transvestite in the local bar after hours , meet five lonely gay cowboys in the western town of Old Tucson . The encounter with the sex-hungry Ramona soon puts the male friendship of the cowboys to the test.

Reviews

“The viewer is expected to display the sexual needs of the players in an exhibitionist manner for a long time. The film gains stylistic quality through the art of transporting the real world into an artificial one, with the game setting ironic accents against the backdrop of a Hollywood western. "

background

In the fall of 1967 Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey came up with the idea of ​​staging a “really successful” Western. As a backdrop, they chose the western town and tourist attraction Old Tucson , which is located in the Sonoran Desert , about 20 km from Tucson , Arizona , and which became known through numerous western films, including with John Wayne . Lonesome Cowboys is the first Warhol film to be shot entirely outdoors and on location, and one of the Factory's most elaborate and ambitious productions to date. So there was initially a fixed shooting schedule of five days and a relatively large amount of material. Warhol and Morrissey used ten rolls 16 mm - color film to 35 minutes in length, which they later on 35mm film recopied for rental. The working title was initially Ramona and Julian as a parodic allusion to the Romeo and Juliet theme. From a commercial point of view, Warhol and Morrissey eventually chose Lonesome Cowboys .

In fact, the film was to become one of the most played and well-known Warhol films, although the result was rather disappointing for everyone involved. The script, if there was a coherent script at all , was changed several times because Warhol cared little about the plot and, as usual, preferred to leave everything to chance. Two of the lead actors, Brigid Polk and Ondine , did not appear on set at all because they feared their drug supplies would not be secured in Arizona. At the start of shooting, Morrissey announced that a script had to be devised which required the talent for improvisation and the imagination of the mostly stoned actors. After all, some key scenes were never filmed - for example, the relationship between the actors is not explained to the viewer - and towards the middle of the filming even Warhol had to realize that the project did not turn out as he had imagined. The shooting turned out to be increasingly difficult; the workers, visitors and locals of Old Tucson felt provoked by the sexual permissiveness and rude manner of the illustrious factory crew, which ultimately turned the mood into hostility. The employees of Old Tucson mocked the "perverts" from New York until Warhol's team was under constant police surveillance, finally gave up and shifted the remaining filming to the Rancho Linda Vista Dude in Oracle to be on the safe side .

During the course of the filming, there were discrepancies between Warhol and his superstar Viva, who lived out her role as a nymphomaniac playmate for the actors even after the shooting ended, dropped out after a dubious rape scene and finally fell out with Warhol after her return to New York. The alleged rape also led to a complaint with the FBI in New York, which from then on monitored Andy Warhol on suspicion of disseminating obscene material.

The world premiere of Lonesome Cowboys took place on December 20, 1968 in New York, in West Germany the film premiered on May 17, 1974.

literature

  • Enno Patalas (ed.): Andy Warhol and his films: A documentary . Heyne, Munich 1971, ISBN 0-200-41991-9 .
  • Stephen Koch: Stargazer. The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol . London 1974; Updated reissue by Marion Boyars, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7145-2920-6 .
  • Bernard Blistène (Ed.): Andy Warhol, Cinema: à l'occasion de l'Exposition Andy Warhol Rétrospective (21 juin - 10 septembre 1990) organized à Paris par le Musée National d'Art Moderne au Center Georges Pompidou . Ed. du Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-908393-30-1 .
  • Debra Miller: Billy Name: Stills from the Warhol films . Prestel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1367-3 .
  • Astrid Johanna Ofner (Ed.): Andy Warhol - Filmmaker. A retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum October 1 to 31, 2005 . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85266-282-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lonesome Cowboys. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ David Bourdon: Warhol . DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2338-7 , pp. 270-274
  3. ^ Victor Bockris: Andy Warhol . Claassen, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-546-41393-8 , pp. 309-313