Vinyl (film)

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Movie
Original title vinyl
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1965
length 66 minutes
Rod
Director Andy Warhol
script Ronald Tavel
production Andy Warhol
camera Bud economist
occupation

Vinyl is an underground film by Andy Warhol . It is based on the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess .

action

The film is about the juvenile offender Victor who spends his time lifting weights, dancing and torturing people. When he is fighting with his friend Scum Baby, he calls the police. Victor is given the choice of going to jail or undergoing behavior changing measures. Victor decides to have treatment and is handcuffed to a chair by a doctor. He is forced to watch violent videos and describe what is happening on the screen while hot candle wax runs down the back of his hand. After a while, Victor renounces violence and is untied. He refuses the doctor's requests to beat him and take drugs. Victor is healed.

background

Vinyl was the first adaptation of the novel A Clockwork Orange , which was re-filmed by Stanley Kubrick six years later (see Clockwork Orange ). Warhol bought the book in the spring of 1965 and passed it on to his screenwriter Ronald Tavel . He allegedly secured the rights to the fabric for $ 3,000. The film is only loosely based on the original and reproduces the plot in a very shortened form. The names of the characters have been changed.

The shooting of vinyl took place on one day in April / early May 1965. The budget was very low, there were no rehearsals. The only location for the film is a corner of Warhol's Factory . The Auricon brand 16 mm black and white camera stood on a tripod and was hardly moved.

Vinyl was originally supposed to consist of an all-male line-up and make Gerard Malanga big; However, when the attractive photo model, Edie Sedgwick , whom Warhol had met earlier this year, happened to show up at the factory to start shooting, Warhol gave her a role in the film at the last minute. Some of the extras that appear in vinyl were not even aware that they were being filmed and have no relation to the plot. Instead of an opening credits, the title of the film and the names of the actors are read out by the actors.

The songs you hear in the film are Nowhere to Run by Martha & the Vandellas and Tired of Waiting For You by the Kinks . Nowhere to Run is played twice in full length while the actors dance to it.

Vinyl was first performed on June 4, 1965 as part of Jonas Mekas ' Film-Makers' Cinematheque .

Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film adaptation begins, like vinyl , with a close-up of the main character's face. Why the film is called vinyl remains unclear.

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. ^ David Bourdon: Warhol , DuMont, Cologne 1989, p. 203