Basquiat Film Analysis
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Basquiat
A movie taking place in New York and starting in the year of 1979, that is following a young Haitian artist. We first see him in a dream or vision from his mother. She is crying, with what seems to be happy tears, and looking proudly at her son. He is a young child and he has a golden crown that glows until the vision ends. Then we jump and see where he is in the present day of 1981. He is homeless and sleeping in a cardboard box in the middle of some bushes behind a park bench. He carries what he owns with him in a plastic bag. He wanders around town drawing and writing graffiti on walls and pillars. He later meets a girl in a cafe and they end up in a relationship. Soon after moving in with her he meets and sells …show more content…
Some of the major people include Andy Warhol, played by David Bowie (RIP), who was his mentor, and Rene Ricard, played by Michael Wincott, was an art critic and poet. His most steady relationship is with Gina, a waitress that he met and drew in syrup on a table at the cafe she worked in. She is played by Claire Forlani. Basquait interacts with many other people as well. Some in an inspirational, such as the limo driver that conversed with, but also some people negatively. He believed that the white woman he worked for as an electricians assistant looked down at him because she didn’t know his name, and asked him to move things out of the way for her. He also thought that people should know him because of his art and graffiti that marked many streets. I choose this movie because of the interesting reviews online. Not only were their reviews on the movie itself but also on a book written by Jennifer Clement titled Widow Basquiat. The movie portrayed the common actions of the people of the time well. It didn’t avoid the topics of drugs and homelessness in larger cities. It also showed some racism towards his skin color. Not only from others but from himself towards rich white people that he was working for. Overall I think that this movie did a very good job of showing his life, the good and the
Basquiat
A movie taking place in New York and starting in the year of 1979, that is following a young Haitian artist. We first see him in a dream or vision from his mother. She is crying, with what seems to be happy tears, and looking proudly at her son. He is a young child and he has a golden crown that glows until the vision ends. Then we jump and see where he is in the present day of 1981. He is homeless and sleeping in a cardboard box in the middle of some bushes behind a park bench. He carries what he owns with him in a plastic bag. He wanders around town drawing and writing graffiti on walls and pillars. He later meets a girl in a cafe and they end up in a relationship. Soon after moving in with her he meets and sells …show more content…
Some of the major people include Andy Warhol, played by David Bowie (RIP), who was his mentor, and Rene Ricard, played by Michael Wincott, was an art critic and poet. His most steady relationship is with Gina, a waitress that he met and drew in syrup on a table at the cafe she worked in. She is played by Claire Forlani. Basquait interacts with many other people as well. Some in an inspirational, such as the limo driver that conversed with, but also some people negatively. He believed that the white woman he worked for as an electricians assistant looked down at him because she didn’t know his name, and asked him to move things out of the way for her. He also thought that people should know him because of his art and graffiti that marked many streets. I choose this movie because of the interesting reviews online. Not only were their reviews on the movie itself but also on a book written by Jennifer Clement titled Widow Basquiat. The movie portrayed the common actions of the people of the time well. It didn’t avoid the topics of drugs and homelessness in larger cities. It also showed some racism towards his skin color. Not only from others but from himself towards rich white people that he was working for. Overall I think that this movie did a very good job of showing his life, the good and the