River Phoenix documentary (This Road Will Never End, 1996)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- C4, 08-09-1996; A part of the Celluloid Icons: Pretty Boys season, gay and lesbian teens talk of River Phoenix. Plus an interview with the real Mike, inspiration (and cos-star) of his My Own Private Idaho character.
Not my copyright, just sharing found ephemera.
River, if you're up there, look how much you are loved and missed X X
He will always be missed deeply dear one 🌻
I find this very emotional but also uplifting how much River's presence in this World, even though short, affected other people, in such a positive way. He is still very much missed though
He certainly is.
the fact that he still manages to change & impact people to become themselves and change the world for the better is so beautiful
He will always captivate generations to come ...
He had died 3 years before I was born but he played a major role in my becoming a vegetarian.
He was SO much different from the other Idols of my teen years, and I loved him for it- and got made fun of for it! Through all my relationships and 2 marriages, no one has even come close. In '90, when I was was 16, I lost my Mom to Cancer. Hearing on the tv that River was gone gave me the same cold, sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Happy early 49th b-day beautiful! Thanx for uploading this.
@Shayla Yonce yea who'd make fun of someone for that? then again people make fun of others for anything.
(Im a straight man)but I had the same kindof crush on Kurt cobain.
Ps. My own private idaho was one of kurts favorite movies
This is so refreshing to watch..Listening to people speak about him is very intense. Everybody loves sweet River. He never judged anyone he was humble and kind. He really became Mike Waters. River was genius acting and researching for the film.
Rest in peace Riv 🌻
He really felt a closeness to gay people emotionally, that’s why he took the role. He was an advocate for anyone who was true to themselves and didn’t conform to a social norm.
Oh sweet river, holding on to your memory and will pass it on to future family generations
I've always said River would inspire future generations. That was over 25 years ago.
You called him sweet RIVER 💜🌷💜🌷🌸🌷🌸
I still love and miss river so much. Ive loved him for over 30 yrs. he was so much diff to the usual actors and so down to earth and had great values and beliefs. Hope ur at peace river ❤️
27 years later and watching this movie for the first time really touched my queer self RIP River
He died 25 years ago
I went to see the early movie matinee "my own private Idaho".. after it was over, i sat thru it 2 more times, i was struggling with the complexity of the movie.. In this movie, River played a boy that had severe narcolepsy and when stressed he would black out..he was abandoned by his mom, then sexually abused, and to survive he turned to prostitution. he moved to portland, and met Keanu's character. The two of them were merely surviving and being abused by everyone they came in contact with.. Tragic story. In the last scene, he was heading back to Idaho on a remote road, The narcolepsy caused him to black out again, and a car pulls up, you think, "finally, someone is going to show this boy kindness". hoping for a happy ending, and the driver, checks to see that River is ok.. the song, "America the beautiful" begins to play as the driver takes his shoes and leaves him unconscious and alone in the middle of nowhere. I sobbed.. I had to watch it 3 times in a row to grasp the emotions i was feeling. After this touching movie, i was a lifelong fan of both River and Keanu. I wish Keanu would take on more independent films with this level of depth..
I still can't watch Keanu in anything I fell for River so deeply, my young self couldn't disassociate actor from character, which I suppose is a shame. By the way, there was an alternate "happy" ending where he's picked up and he's driven away. Not sure if I saw an outtake or just read about it though.
i'm crying
He was such an amazing actor! He was beautiful inside and out. Almost too good to be true.If he was still here he would be at the top. Above BradPitt,Leonardo,Tom Cruise,Johnny Depp, etc! His acting was above any I just mentioned. It’s sad he lost his life and way before his time. Almost makes ya wonder if he was set up over jealousy. It’s hard to believe he done this to himself but it happens.I miss you River you should still be here with us! Wish you had another chance darling!
I honestly believe he was set up over jealousy, indeed. 😩
I used to be a police detective and I believe that he may have been given something to drink that did him in this is so sad and tragic. I pray he's with the Lord
This movie is about souls who are stuck in a world full of child/soul abusers and who are trying to go home while living in a dreamworld. Mike is half awake but can't wake up fully due to.....youl fill in the blanks. Ofcourse some people only look at the surface level for whatever reason.
15:45 that's so sad Mike. I hope your life is better now.
River was murdered!!
Why do you think that? By who?
@@Amalia-no7xt
John F Of the red hot chili peppers gave him a liquid drink of lethal amounts of heroin and cocaine called a speedball, some think Johnny Depp ordered it
21:15 so TRUE River was very real and stood by values very very rare nowadays with the phonies.
One of my cherished memories from the very early 90's is of the night hanging with River Phoenix at a NYC club.
Which club?!😎
23:25 I can relate to that a lot
7:35 so TRUE. When I met him in 1989 he wanted to know all about me.
Hi.I am a big fan of River!!
When im watching his videos your coments are always there hahahahah.
Would like to know your own experience with him,sorry my english, im a 14 years old Argentine girl!
Where's Mike parker now?
Living in Oregon and now has a wife and children
@@blondeboyworld thx, glad to hear that
@@blondeboyworld how did you know?
when in the movie does he say i’m a connisuer of toads
*road's
22:14 part if it
23:40 deep down inside you knew you loved him
19:11 thru 20:05 WOW
Amen
I only saw one of his movies, Stand By Me, and I'm wondering about these blackouts that happen in this movie. Ex: 22:35 in this video. Did this character have epilepsy?
Narcolepsy. Watch the movie - it's beautiful.
Thank you William and everyone for making this documentary.
And thank you, River.
wow that final shot of him walking away from that corner at night and then it switching to what that same corner looks like now.... AGHH!! wahhhhh
River was a beautiful soul. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt reminds me of a very young River. His scene with the runes in I Love You to Death is flawless dark comedy. Rest in powerfully precious peace, River. Thank you for the joy of having your gentle, gifted spirit in this world.
Shiloh is beautiful. She is warming up to her femininity
Gay icon river jude phoenix
Gorgeous, wasn't he.
@@ppotter yes he was everything gorgeous beautiful intense. More people should know this video exist, how this only has 20k views? Should be 20 millions view
@@catloveme3206 last time I looked it only had 2k, so at least the word must be spreading.
@@ppotter river fansbase should spread this link video on instagram fb and twitter so more people will know about it. People should remember him as what he had done when he was alive not how he died.
A room full of Vipers. Yeah, better not go there.
Does anyone know who the guy at 4:30 is / his name or where he is now ?
It has 'thanks to' several people at the end, so he may be one of them.
Was River gay?
bi
+my name Thanx
No
No. He was a gay "Icon" because he played a gay rent boy in My Own Private Idaho. He was actually a straight man
He was straight.
What everybody is missing: MOPI is an honest portrait of a boy growing up without a father and then turning to men to find a father figure. It's the standard biography for the majority of gays.
starlodear there’s a bit more to the movie and mike’s story than just a lack of robust father figure. Besides, he was literally looking for his mother for a good quarter of the movie.
Not all gay men have daddy issues, btw.
It may be for you, but not the 'majority' - that's a terrible cliche :)
He had a father and knew it. Watch the movie again during the trailer scene. He was told his father was his brother ...yet another reason he was so f'ed up in the head.
Who?
have a sausage 🌭
At is the move?
pardon me?
Not surprised at all that even lesbians fell in love with him. Sometimes people are so extraordinarily there souls touch you, no matter the gender, it transcends everything and that is why he was so natural with everybody...
It’s because River in himself was in a male body but had a more sensitive soul some might call feminine, so the androgyny is very appealing to lesbians and some gay men.