Kurt and Courtney
By the end of Nick Broomfield's controversy-plagued documentary Kurt & Courtney, I think I knew as much about Broomfield himself as I knew about Kurt Cobain or Courtney Love. The film might have begun as a biographical study, exploring the tempestuous tives of Nirvana lead singer Cobain and Courtney Love both before and after their 1992 marriage, but that's not the story it ends up telling. Instead, it becomes the tale of Broomfield's ongoing battle with Love over the making of the film -- her successful efforts to persuade MTV to withdraw funding, her objection to the use of
several songs, her attempts to intimidate anyone involved in the production.
No one can blame Broomfield for being infuriated at Love, particularly when her 11th-hour legal stunt forced Kurt & Courtney out of the Sundance Film Festival lineup. It might have been easier to sympathize with him, however, if his presence in the film weren't so consistently intrusive. Like Michael Moore, Broomfield has no qualms about filming himself in the process of making his documentary film; unlike Moore, Broomfield isn't entertaining enough to warrant all the screen time. In fact, he's just plain annoying at times, interjecting commentary over virtually every musical selection (or lack thereof) and casually referring to Cobain's hometown of Aberdeen, Washington as a "redneck logging town." Even his habit of shooting from inside the car as it pulls up to various locations feels pretentious, an attempt at you-are-there urgency which conveniently ignores that automotive jaunts hardly make for compelling cinema.
Lucky for Broomfield that his subject is such a wild and provocative one. Kurt & Courtney features as wonderfully twisted a cast of characters as any recent film has compiled: Love's estranged father Hank Harrison, whose casual aggression towards his daughter provides a frightening insight into her childhood; Love's ex-boyfriend and former Portland-area singer Rozz Rezabek, seething bitterness at the career he might have had if Courtney hadn't driven him to hate it; a one-time friend of Love and Cobain named Amy who may or may not have photos of them doing heroin together, but certainly is trying way too hard to look like Courtney. Broomfield also spends time examining rumors that Cobain's 1994 death, ruled a shotgun suicide, was actually a murder engineered by Love. This angle
Introduces us to El Duce, a demented, drunken punk band frontman who claims Love once offered him "50 grant to whack Kurt Cobain.
was born to Mrs. Wendy Cobain and to Mr. Donald Cobain. Wendy was a homemaker.
Jerry Garcia’s life was filled with wonderful things, many of which he never expected in the first place. After an almost fatal heroin overdose in 1986, “ Garcia philosophically stated, ‘ I’m 45 years old, I’m ready for anything, I didn’t even plan on living this long so all this shit is just add-on stuff.’ ” (“Garcia”) This attitude shows why Garcia did all of the things he did and even how some of them came about. Garcia, who “functioned as the preeminent pied piper of the rock era,” led a life of great artistic ability which he used in many ways(“Grateful Dead_ Rockhall”).
In Justin Pearson's memoir, From the Graveyard of the arousal Industry, he recounts the events that occured from his early years of adolesence to the latter years of his adulthood telling the story of his unforgiving and candid life. Set in the late 1970s "Punk" rock era, From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry offers a valuable perspective about the role culture takes in our lives, how we interact with it and how it differs from ideology.
The difference between Americans today and way back when is very different. Johnny Cash and Luke Bryan are both very great men that achieved great things. They are very similar but are also very different. From the 1920s to now, country music has changed drastically from singing about love to having fun and partying, and this shows how different things were important as a whole.
Country music is one of the most popular genres of music throughout America. There are many influential figures that have changed the way country music sounds, and how people interpret it. Two important people who have made a huge impact on country music overtime are Johnny Cash and Luke Bryan. From their early life, their career, and how society views them, they have opened the minds of people and country musicians all over the country. Johnny Cash’s songs help people to experience his life growing up through the Great Depression and how people lived back then. Through Luke Bryan’s songs people could understand what life was like for Luke growing up in Georgia and all the hardships he faced. Johnny Cash and Luke Bryan are two of the many country singers that have influenced country fans to be more optimistic and hopeful.
The definition of an outlaw is “One that is unconventional or rebellious”. Billy the Kid and Jesse James were two notorious outlaws, both icons of the Wild West. Billy the kid, a hard headed criminal with no mercy, a ruthless killer that so many men and women were afraid of became a problem that the law could not put up with. On the other hand Jesse James became an organized crime boss that tried to strike it rich by rebelling against the North. Jesse James also became a large problem to the law. Both men had a story to tell, two different stories that when compared, are not very different at all.
There’s a lot to be learned from this movie. Although completely fictional, the uncanny accuracy that This Is Spinal Tap holds, tells us much about the things wrong with the life of a rock star and the actions of big-label music industries. It still remains a fact that what’s represented in This Is Spinal Tap is a reality for many artists, companies, and audiences that surround themselves with popular rock music. More importantly, it matters because it affects all involved in the demand for this form of entertainment.
He also said that I would rather be hated for who I am than be loved for who I am not.Meaning that he does not care what people think of him.The textual evidence is “Even though he was heroin drug addict he inspired a lot of people”. Our definition is shown in Kurt Cobain because of all the great things that he accomplished. Kurt Cobain is a hero because of him being an activist, and he lived his dream as becoming a rock star. He has made many good songs that have inspired people, and since he did all of this, this shows us that he tried to make the most of his life in the short years that he
Suicide is the most accepted theory to Kurt Cobain’s death, gaining support from not only the Seattle Police Department but Cobain’s own family at the time of death. Cobain was reported to have been clinically depressed for the majority of his life and was crippled with severe drug addiction. In photographs taken of the body viewers can plainly see the medical bracelet for the drug rehab center he had broken out of. He was completely dependent on heroin and was quoted saying “This is the only thing saving me from blowing my head off”. Band members also reported that Cobain was disconnected from his friends and family during his final days. Photos of Kurt Cobain’s body have been stated to show Cobain splayed out on the floor with a shotgun firmly gripped in his hand and a box of
When the documentary was produced, media exposure was limited to private and expensive mediums such as television, movies and radio. These outlets were plagued with marketing agendas designed to sell products under the guise of authentic music and entertainment. Formerly non-existent cultural archetypes such as the boy band, pop diva, and gothic artist were created and promoted by corporations with the intent to profit from their fame. This systematic fabrication of teenage culture was achieved through the monopolization of popular media by people and companies with money. This created a narrow and one-dimensional mainstream cultural media, limiting the prefere...
That list shows the power Nirvana and Kurt Cobain had on the art of music. (CD-Now)
Broomfield previous documentary films such as Kurt and Courtney and Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam gave birth to a new genre in documentary films: tabloid celebrity journalism (Kehr, 2002). The film opened with archival images from the crime scenes of the two killings and thereafter ran on vérité sequences of Broomfield slinging a recorder over his shoulder and a boom mike in his hand; w...
Whenever I was around him I was guaranteed a giggle or two. For example, we know the Hump Day commercial, “Mike, Mike, Mike what day is it... HUMP DAAAYYY!” This was Kurt’s famous saying, as the head coaches for baseball were the same assistant coaches for football they both had names that started with Mike. Wednesday practices would start by hearing Kurt 100 yards away saying, “Mike, Mike, Mike guess what day is it… HUMP DAAAYYY!” and it was spot on from the commercial. That never failed to put a smile on my face. Kurt also liked to exaggerate things to the extreme. For example, the Hermantown High School is getting a new school added on. Kurt had parking lot duty in the morning, so he would drink his cup of coffee with the head construction worker. One game in Cloquet, Kurt kept trying to tell me that school was going to be let out early because everything was ahead of schedule and they wanted everyone out. I being very gullible, believed every word. Of course though it wasn’t true and the head coach Zags, laughing at the fact I believed him, was bickering with Kurt about the school. Zags kept saying, “Why do you do this? Spreading false rumors like that, making kids believe.” In the end, we all had a good laugh because we knew Kurt was just being himself. Making everyone
· Through conversation with the Russian, they learn that Kurtz has not been the most upstanding and moral person. He’s been abusive to the natives.
This article investigates the relationship between biography and authenticity of grunge musician Kurt Cobain. Focusing on Cobain's lyrics involving the human body, the article argues that his idea of the 'sick body' was a metaphor in his various works.