One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur - TRAILER
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- He was called the vibrant new voice of his generation -- the avatar of the Beat movement. In 1957, on the heels of the triumphant debut of his groundbreaking novel, On The Road, Jack Kerouac was a literary rock star, lionized by his fans and devotees. But along with sudden fame and media hype came his unraveling, and, by 1960, Kerouac was a jaded cynic, disaffected from the Beat culture he helped create and tortured by self-doubt, addiction and depression.
He secretly retreats to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's rustic cabin in the Big Sur woods. But his plan is foiled by his own inner demons, and what ensues that summer becomes the basis for Kerouac's gritty, yet lyrically told, semi-autobiographical novel, Big Sur.
The story unfolds through the narrative arc of Kerouac's prose, told in voice-over by actor and Kerouac interpreter, John Ventimiglia (of HBO's The Sopranos); through first-hand accounts and recollections of Kerouac's contemporaries, whom many of the characters in the book are based on such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Cassady and Michael McClure; by the interpretations and reflections of writers, poets, actors and musicians who have been deeply influenced by Kerouac's unique gifts like Tom Waits, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Aram Saroyan and Donal Logue.
Big Sur is one of the most heartbreaking books i have ever read, it broke my heart completely.
Reading Big Sur now for the 2nd time and I just love this little novella...
Jack is so wonderfully descriptive of his time at the cabin - HIS creek, blue jays, mouse. HIS trees and wind and fog and ol' Alf the sacred burro. And THAT bridge, how it terrified him, and the sea and what it said to him, with all it's gurgling fury...
To me it's a brilliantly sad account of his sufferings - from hell to heaven and back again seen through the eyes of hopeless and endless Delirium Tremens....
What gets me about Big Sur is what I read Ginsberg say about it, to be able after the fact to get IT down on paper- what it's like to completely lose your mind as in the last few chapters while not in that state is pure genius and no simple task; the psychosis comes through loud and clear even after numerous readings. A vastly underrated gem of a novel.
This is absolutely great to see! I can't wait to watch this. Good to see Tom Waits in it, by the way!
Kerouac never dies.
'October in the Railroad Earth' is his finest piece of writing.
Happened to catch this documentary on TV one night and it really made an impression on me. I've only read On the Road but I'm really looking forward to plunge deep inside this book!
@mmaccoutinho when hes climbing that first mountain, just starting the first trail i got a brighter picture than any movie has ever given. Oh its all so quiet and serene in these chapters while Big Sur is the old stinking sneezing goopy writing Kerouac always had in him. But man if your not yet finished Dharma Bums the end pictures are the best.
"On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word." -Kerouac
I want my last days to be at big sur, CA, writing my last novel.
Me too...
Great great book, Big Sur is one of the most Amazing places ive ever been!!
Big Sur is my favorite Kerouac book, it's entirely too real...an endorsement from Wait's never hurts
Looking forward to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@noreggi Goddamn man, Dharma Bums is probably one of the best books I've read and i'm not even finished with it... what a ride! I've already laughed and bitten my nails in distress and restrained myself from shedding that kinda marvellous bitter-sweet tears over passages that come out of the blue and hit you in the face like an express ghost train to which you can't cling no matter what. Thnx a bunch!
Amazing!
a great read..
I took the circuitous route with Kerouac, read Orpheaus Emerged and than Big Sur, Sur kind of changed my life, I've read it 10 times and have yet to buy another Kerouac book. I feel like reading on the road will cheapen things after having read Big Sur.
I'm gonna have to read it again. I appreciated "Catcher in the rye" MUCH more the second time around.
Definitely. The ending scared me too.
I liked how Cody returns in the book all grown up, but still nostalgic and unchangeable.
Does anybody know when this is coming out and where I can watch it?
Anyone know where you can see this documentary? Can't seem to find it anywhere.
@mmaccoutinho WAIT! before you do i hopefully offer that you will first pick up The Dharma Bums. You can read all about his growth being fresh and sober in the mind, climbing mountains, and practicing buddhism, so that when you read Big Sur you can really contrast the differences in the thought and writing..its great.
its released october in three formats vinyl,cd/dvd and dvd/book
His first novel since On the Road was published? Didn't he write the Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels in 1958 and 1957 respectively?
I think he meant the first novel that describes events since the On the Road was published (1957). Dharma Bums is about his friendship with Gary Snyder and the events around 1955-1956 and Desolation Angels events are also around the same time. Big Sur starts with his description of the life since On the Road was published (including annoying fans trespassing and trying to see him).
Part 2 of Desolation Angels was written in around 1962 during a return to Mexico I believe, and is considered his last burst of extended writing. The book as a whole was published in 1965 to no reviews.
@@MathTravels To correct myself: The Dharma Bums was written in late 1957 and Desolation Angels was written partly in 1956 and partly in 1961 right before Big Sur
Post Script: And in defense of the characterization by some that Kerouac didn't respect women, I think it would be prudent to consider two things - he was writing in the 1950's when the prevailing attitudes re. women were not much different than his own. Remember this is pre-"women's lib.", Gloria Steinem, etc. Second, his "women issues" revolved around the dysfunctional relationship he had with his mother, which was almost Oedipal in nature. I remember reading a Ginsberg interview in which he described a visit to Kerouac's mother's house in Long Island, during which Jack was pleading with his mother to be his wife, something like (I'm para-phrasing) " Oh mother, please marry me. You know I could never find a woman as perfect as you..." This is a man who spent his life believing that any relationship he formed with a woman would pale in comparison to the relationship he had with his mother. I know this is anecdotal, but at the very least, it puts his attitude in context.
r u joking? lol u still have road to go, Big Sur is the climax of his mind hoboing, one of the most frank and sincere of his works, mocking himself
Des anybody know where I can watch this? I'm in Argentina.
anybody know where i can watch this the whole movie? kerouac is my hero him and johnny cash
somehting knows if it has some kind of subtitles? at least in english? thanks...
ma possibile che non ci sia una versione italiana?
è stata proiettata al festival di Mantova...ma ch è?..ne avevano solo una copia?
@noreggi Oh, thanks for the tip, I'll do so : )
Ah, a bit of Waits to keep me calm before Imaginarium...
I still think he should do a sequel to Cold Feet...Kenny outta jail....
esiste la versione italiana in DVD ?
is there the italian version on DVD?
Did he ever go to Santa Cruz?
4 years of drunking chaos was the cause...
KErouac WoUld say WhY? WhY did it BreAk readers ARTs!
so i suppose he just kept on drinking after those terrible dreams
Wow, I was greatly disappointed with the book "Big Sur". I had already read "Road" and "Dharma Bums" years earlier and LOVED them both. But "Big Sur" was a Big Sleep. Can anyone recollect even one memorable chapter in that book? It was certainly well written, just... Not a fuckin' thing happening. And maybe that was the point.
He was done.
pick up good blonde and others. you get essays and opinions direct from Kerouac and not one of aliases
what are you talking about?most far-left liberals *have* a utopian view of society w/ the middle class (the average man) at the most prominent group (the proletariat, duh)..ever heard of Communism???