Vinyl (1965 film)
- Gerard Malanga as Victor
- Ondine (Robert Olivo ) as Scum Baby
- Tosh Carillo as a doctor
- J. D. McDermott as a police officer
- Edie Sedgwick
Vinyl is a underground film by Andy Warhol. It is based on the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Action
The film is about the juvenile offender Victor, who spends his time lifting weights, dancing and torturing people. When he beats with his friend Scum Baby, this calls the police. Victor will be given the choice to go to jail or to undergo a behavioral change measure. Victor decides to treatment and is tied by a doctor to a chair. It forces him to watch violent videos and describe the action on the screen while hot candle wax running over back of his hand. After some time, Victor renounces violence and is unleashed. The calls of the physician to beat him and take drugs, he refuses. Victor is healed.
Background
Vinyl was the first adaptation of the novel A Clockwork Orange, which was filmed again six years later by Stanley Kubrick (see A Clockwork Orange ). Warhol bought the book in the spring of 1965 and gave it to his screenwriter Ronald Tavel on. Supposedly he had the rights to the material for $ 3,000 secured. The movie is only loosely based on the template and returns the action in a very condensed form. The names of the characters have been changed.
The shooting of vinyl took place on one day in April / early May 1965. The budget was very low, there were no samples. The only setting for the film is a corner in Warhol's Factory. The 16 -mm black and white camera, the brand Auricon, standing on a tripod and was hardly moving.
Vinyl was originally supposed to consist of an all-male cast and Gerard Malanga to bring out great; However, as the attractive fashion model Edie Sedgwick, the Warhol had met earlier this year, coincidentally appeared the beginning of shooting in the Factory, Warhol gave her at the last minute and still have a role in the strip. Some of the extras that are seen in vinyl, were not even aware that they were filmed and have no connection with the plot. Instead of a leader the title of the movie and the names of its contributors will be read by the actors.
The songs that you hear in the movie are Nowhere to Run by Martha & the Vandellas and Tired of Waiting For You by The Kinks. Nowhere to Run is played twice in full length, while the performer skipped dance.
Vinyl was first performed on 4 June 1965, during Jonas Mekas ' Film-Makers ' Cinematheque.
Stanley Kubrick's film version of 1971 begins, as well as vinyl, with a close-up of the face of the main character. Why the movie is called vinyl remains unclear.