David Amram - Kerouac's Pull My Daisy (pt. 1) the making of and excerpts

[lactosesyrup]

do somebody knows where is possible to find this movie?

I can't even find the torrent!

[ZenOkeanos]

Amram states that the term "beatnik" was not in use until later however you hear in the Kerouac narration Jack saying "...all these beatniks in the house". Kerouac had to have rehearsed his narration because many sequences are virtually in lip sync. with the characters. Jack had a phenomenal memory for past dialogues and conversations.

[inhaaaaaale]

Who is the man interviewing him?

[asktunes]

Wow, Jeff Goldblum's great in this! ;)

[ilikemike97]

The film clip they show in this format is the best "part" of the film; the film is somewhat hit or miss (somewhat more miss by today's standards eg the wife's face was not completely in the frame when she is supposed to be speaking etc.) However, by inference it gives you an idea of how stultifying american life at the end of the eisenhower era could be, particularly for those caught up in the rat race.

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[ilikemike97]

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I imagine these guys thought they were 2 cool 4 school by drinking beer& blowing a joint early in the morning &passing off some pocket edition buddhist rap but it looks largely like a smug, self-congratulatory & misguidedly self important circle-jerk.

Amram gushes about Kerouac's spontaneous narrative but i doubt that it was all that spontaneous considering that rob frank(the film's creator) states that they started planning/laying out the film in 1957 &shot it in '59;

[ilikemike97]

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and even if it were spontaneous, it never really rises above amusing and or mildly clever while most times it has all the charm of a mathletes'/poetry club underage drinking party.

And what's up with the leader of the discussion asking why more people have not seen this film- how about it's not that good, it's kinda boring, and the characters are not at all that endearing- and that includes Robert Frank's kid, Pablo- who seems 2 have the earmarks of an all star kvetch.

[spipper]

@ilikemike97 I think that may have been the whole point of his narration was to make something completely jovial. Not serious at all. Yes, it may have been celebrated so much because the Beatniks had a name. But planning, spontaneous, its all a joke! Which makes it wonderful!

[Redjack19]

TARATATATAAAAAAAAA

[mortenhook]

I would really like to see this movie in its full lenght! Can anyone help me? Where can I find it?

[Peacelovelennon1]

Did you ever find it? I really want to watch it also.

[LODGE4444]

It's on google video - full length, which is 26 minutes. Go to google and type in google video pull my daisy - the result will be Frank Robert - Pull my Daisy 1959 which is the full 26 minute film.

[ecnalubma696969]

Blockbuster.