Scott Kalvert
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Think of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries, Angelina Jolie in Gia and Heath Ledger in Candy.
Maybe he's a teenage fatalist; or maybe he's just familiar with the long, intoxicated legacy that precedes him onscreen in films like Drugstore Cowboy , Trainspotting , Beautiful Boy , The Basketball Diaries , Requiem for a Dream — the latest initiate in what you might call an already-exhaustive Portrait of the Addict As a Young Man canon.
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Directed by Felix van Groeningen
influenced by The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Characters Themes
Playing a down-and-out drug addict is a rite of passage for a young actor, from Al Pacino in "The Panic In Needle Park" to Robert Downey Jr. in "Less Than Zero" to Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Basketball Diaries."
After all, the pained-young-artist-as-junkie trope arguably peaked with The Basketball Diaries, and Chalamet's tousel-haired and doe-eyed performance adds little to the equation.
Heaven Knows What (2015)
Directed by Benny Safdie
influenced by The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Themes
New York's drug subculture has occupied its share of screen time over the years, from "Midnight Cowboy" to "The Basketball Diaries," but few of those portrayals are as brutally raw as "Heaven Knows What," directed by the sibling team of Josh and Benny Safdie.
Hirsch may now be where Leonardo DiCaprio was around the time of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and "The Basketball Diaries."
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Directed by Nicholas Ray
influenced The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Themes
Bringing Carroll's '60s it-happened-to-me saga into the '90s, director Scott Kalvert, who cut his teeth on Marky Mark videos, bites off raw chunks of "Rebel Without a Cause," "West Side Story," "Saturday Night Fever" and other alienated-teen flicks, and splices them together with luridly "realistic," Tarantinoesque touches�lots of messy violence and drug use.
The rest of the performers, including Brittany Daniel ("The Basketball Diaries"), Kid Rock (the singer making his feature film debut), Jamie Pressly ("Tomcats," "Ringmaster") and Joe Don Baker ("Tomorrow Never Dies," "Cape Fear") all deliver the same sort of uninspired caricatures.
Bringing Carroll's '60s it-happened-to-me saga into the '90s, director Scott Kalvert, who cut his teeth on Marky Mark videos, bites off raw chunks of "Rebel Without a Cause," "West Side Story," "Saturday Night Fever" and other alienated-teen flicks, and splices them together with luridly "realistic," Tarantinoesque touches�lots of messy violence and drug use.
As portraits of the young street artist go, Eminem's Rabbit is a more layered and credible creation than, say, Leonardo DiCaprio's mewling and teeth-gnashing Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries.
I also thought about those kids who died by imitating the characters in the 1993 film The Program and about the 1995 The Basketball Diaries, which was pulled from video shelves because of similarities to the Columbine High School "Trenchcoat Mob."
Bringing Carroll's '60s it-happened-to-me saga into the '90s, director Scott Kalvert, who cut his teeth on Marky Mark videos, bites off raw chunks of "Rebel Without a Cause," "West Side Story," "Saturday Night Fever" and other alienated-teen flicks, and splices them together with luridly "realistic," Tarantinoesque touches�lots of messy violence and drug use.
As an interior narrative of a psychological voyage into the abyss of the self and back out again, Johnson's "Jesus' Son" belongs to a tradition that includes Dostoevski's "Crime and Punishment" and Jim Carroll's "The Basketball Diaries."
Acting was his big ticket out, and the industry welcomed him with open arms, feeding him supporting work in "The Basketball Diaries" and "Renaissance Man," but the real test of Wahlberg's skill as a potential leading man arrived with 1996's "Fear."