{"id":3176,"date":"2012-06-15T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T17:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2012-06-15T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T17:43:08","slug":"film-com-will-cbgb-movie-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/06\/15\/film-com-will-cbgb-movie-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Film.com: Will CBGB movie &#8220;work&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already written my own post on this general question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/06\/03\/can-cbgb-spirit-be-recreated-in-savannah-or-anywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can CBGB spirit be recreated \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in Savannah or anywhere?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s this commentary by Jenni Miller at Film.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.film.com\/movies\/cbgb-biopic-casting-commentary\" target=\"_blank\">Will the CBGB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Biopic Actually Work? A New Yorker Breaks It Down<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The piece has the predictable angst about <em>CBGB<\/em> being filmed primarily in Savannah rather than in New York. That&#8217;s in keeping with a number of other articles, none of which seem fully in touch with the illusions of film . . . <\/p>\n<p>But anyway, from the piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kristal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daughter Lisa Kristal Burgman is also one of the producers, and since she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the controller of his estate, writers Miller and Savin will probably have a great insight into the time, as well as access to the people portrayed in the film.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, building an indoor set in Savannah, GA, that uses the actual bar and toilets from the club will definitely not curry favor with people who actually used those toilets back in the day. Perhaps it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that important where the indoor set will be built \u00e2\u20ac\u201d obviously, financial concerns play a big part in this \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but it undercuts the attempts at authenticity that the movie seems to be reaching for. At least they could have shot it in Brooklyn or Queens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_3177\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot_15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3177\" data-attachment-id=\"3177\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/06\/15\/film-com-will-cbgb-movie-work\/screenshot_15-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot_15.png?fit=387%2C247\" data-orig-size=\"387,247\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot_15\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Stiv Bators and Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys in live footage from CBGB in 1977.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot_15.png?fit=300%2C191\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot_15.png?fit=387%2C247\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot_15.png?resize=387%2C247\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot_15\" width=\"387\" height=\"247\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot_15.png?w=387 387w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot_15.png?resize=300%2C191 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stiv Bators and Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys in live footage from CBGB in 1977.<\/p><\/div>I feel pretty much the opposite on both those points: Kristal&#8217;s daughter&#8217;s role as producer will pose some big obstacles to authenticity, especially details that paint herself, her father, or loved musicians in a bad light. At the same time, the authenticity of place was lost with the closing of the club a few years ago, so it really doesn&#8217;t matter where it is filmed. <\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The piece has the predictable angst about <em>CBGB<\/em> being filmed primarily in Savannah rather than in New York. That&#8217;s in keeping with a number of other articles, none of which seem fully in touch with the illusions of film . . . <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/06\/15\/film-com-will-cbgb-movie-work\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[347,461,465,29,348,350,460],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot_15.png?fit=387%2C247","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-Pe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}