Heart Of Stone wrote on Aug 1
st, 2008 at 12:13pm:
It mentions a new Stones film, that's interesting, how come no movie has ever been made about The Stones??? about their life story, they did this with The Beatles, Backbeat, but never about The Stones, unless you want to include that film, Stoned, more about Brian Jones, but no real film about The band, but it all goes down to if the Stones want it made or not.
as gazza says truth is tranger than fiction yet that only confirms there is a story to be told but it would be a difficult one to tell through a film imho - a lot of important nuances could get lost in the translation
while the stones story is full of drama what they stand for or what they mean is heavy, complex and not very clear - unlike the beatles, say, whose story has a clear almost predicatable thread and despite their vastness as a phenomenon deals in fairly simple propositions - all you need is love indeed - the stones on the other hand have always been more comfortable with the murkier uncertanties of life - every cop, after all , is a criminal... and what is clear is not always very nice - plus , again as gazza noted, the story isn't over yet...
still someone like tarantino could probably make a rattling good yarn about the stones from the end of WWII to Altamont - it would end, after rising on the high tides and the green grass, through a glass darkly, like some Greek tragedy, on a huge downer... with the ever-mysterious watery death of Brian followed by the clear cut bloody killing of meredith hunter closing with a shot of mick flying out of the US off into the distance for st. tropez and a south american bride with a suitcase full of the Large Green $$$$ to set up his stall as the proto type '70s rock star celebrity jet setter - now there's a morality play for you!!
but it's the supporting roles of people lesser known that make the story as much as the band themselves Oldham, Stu, Klein, Keylock, Shirley Arnold, Anita and Marianne - and what was the name of that copper who busted everybody in the 60's who was later done for corruption ( and there you have it, some cops,at least, are criminals) ... Pilcher was it??