Vincent Gallo

Sean Azze · March 24, 2006

Hi,
Tu mama tambien and Run Lola run weren't made in Hollywood (or even America, or by Americans) and the Woodsman was funded by Rap Producer Damon Dash out of his own pocket, so wasn't part of the typical Hollywood film making system.

Mr Haas,

I was replying to a comment a Miss Kim Vickers made in reference to movies in general, not Hollywood. I think the fact that "Y Tu Mama Tambien" is completely in Spanish (Mexico) and "Run Lola Run" in German (Germany of course) is a dead give away that they are not Hollywood films. Anyway, Miss Vickers' criticism that movies are playing it too safe encompassed all industries from all countries (and if I'm putting words in your mouth, forgive me Miss Vickers). My argument was that there are a lot of great, original, and controversial movies out there that push the boundaries of what is safe, and I feel this pertains to manyindependent films, as well as those optioned by major studios.

Thanks

Matt Pacini · March 25, 2006

And do homeless people look any different from other people? They dress differently and maybe have different hair, but the facial features and body shapes are not different from the rest of us. SO I don't know what do you mean when you say someone looks like a homeless guy. It has to do with style, not looks.

Nice try, attempting to spin my comment into insinuations of bigotry.

Homeless people look just like everyone else? Then how does anyone have any idea when someone is homeless out there?

Pretty flippin' obviously, most homeless people don't bath, shave, or cut their hair for weeks or months on end, and that photo of Gallo on IMDB.com looks exactly like most guys you see pushing around a shopping cart full of garbage.

I'm not making fun of anyone, it's just an obvious observation.

I have nothing against the guy personally, I've never met him. I just see him as an average talent guy, who's made a career somehow in spite of (or because of) being a jerk, shameless self promoting arrogant blowhard ("I'm selling my sperm for $1,000,000"????)

Right. Which is why he has to put it in plastic bags and leave it around the city. That's pretty damn disgusting.

MP

Steve Wallace · March 25, 2006

Pretty flippin' obviously, most homeless people don't bath, shave, or cut their hair for weeks or months on end, and that photo of Gallo on IMDB.com looks exactly like most guys you see pushing around a shopping cart full of garbage.
I'm not making fun of anyone, it's just an obvious observation.

...I just see him as an average talent guy...

Have you spent much time in LA on NY? Are you aware of white trash chic? Have you followed fashion photography over the last 10 - 15 years? Have you been to art installations or galleries of this sort? If yes, than I think his look should be more than self-evident. In no, than it is obvious that he is comming from a branch of media you are not aware of (which there is nothing wrong with BTW).

To me, he looks like a LA/NY hipster, and to say he is of average talent is rediculous to me. He is extremely talented, and someone who hits the radar while still actually taking risks. Do I agree with him all the time, No. Do I think everything he does is a success, No. Do I think the way he goes about doing things is always correct, no. Do I admire his aesthetic and think that he represents what is great about art. Yes.

Although, Matt you are more than welcome to your opinion. And I'm not trying to change it. I just think your comments should be put into a real world context.

Filip Plesha · March 25, 2006

Nice try, attempting to spin my comment into insinuations of bigotry.
Homeless people look just like everyone else? Then how does anyone have any idea when someone is homeless out there?

Pretty flippin' obviously, most homeless people don't bath, shave, or cut their hair for weeks or months on end, and that photo of Gallo on IMDB.com looks exactly like most guys you see pushing around a shopping cart full of garbage.

I'm not making fun of anyone, it's just an obvious observation.

I would not call it looks, but rather style.

If you have good bones, you can grow any kind of hair and still look good, if you have unactractive bones, you can be all shiny, shaved with a cheery on top, but you still are ugly.

The bones determine the shape of your body and face, and that's basis of any good look

Now I'm not saying this guy looks good, I'm saying that that style can only enhance good looks, but style can not make someone look good if he simply doesn't

Of course beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but I'm speaking within that frame of what one sees as pretty.

Steve Wallace · March 25, 2006

Now I'm not saying this guy looks good, I'm saying that that style can only enhance good looks, but style can not make someone look good if he simply doesn't

After all, he was a model for Calvin Klein before Buffalo '66 came out. Someone must have found him attractive, right?

Filip Plesha · March 26, 2006

After all, he was a model for Calvin Klein before Buffalo '66 came out. Someone must have found him attractive, right?

Well I think he is modeling material, he has this doped look, which works great in fashion photography. And I'm not being sarcastic, fashion cameras love people like that.

By the way, being pretty is not always the same thing as being attractive. Some people are estethically good looking, but but may or may not be as much sexually attractive, it also works vice versa.

In fact It works vice versa much more often. How many times have you seen a woman you feel extreamly attracted to, yet would not use her as a fashion model? Happens all the time.

You have to look cold for fashion, cold, futuristic, expressionless, that is a sort of an esthetic beauty, like a pretty object, or a sculpture.

On the other hand warmth, personality, imperfections etc all are part of sexipile.

But we are getting off topic here.

Back to Vincent. As I am a heterosexual male, I can only comment on his esthetics, which I think are great. He has a sculptural face that camera loves. Good for movies and modeling.

I can't comment on how attractive he is sexually, I'll let the ladies be the judge of that.

Filip Plesha · March 28, 2006

This really comes as a suprise to me, but this guy actually answers e-mails, makes them short, but still..I've been ignored by people who are a lot less than directors and movie stars.

J. Anthony Gonzales · March 28, 2006

Must be something to Mr. Gallo in order to draw out this thread? :)

I don't know him personally, but here is what I do know.

I really like Buffalo 66. I like the story it tells.

I like Gallo as an actor. I think he has a certain way about him that tranlates well into the characters that he plays, even if it's the same one mostly: vulnerable a**hole.

Talent is relative and personal. I think he's got a lot more talent then half the stuff I've seen.

But, that's justmy opinion.

Didn't know he was a staunch Republican :blink: ... Nah, I won't go there. <_<

John G.

Filip Plesha · March 28, 2006

Didn't know he was a staunch Republican blink.gif ... Nah, I won't go there. dry.gif

That's really strange

He would probably get spit on by most right-oriented politicians for some of the things he said, and did in his life, yet he supports right politics.

I mean I've never heard of a right-wing supporter that has served as a male prostitute to homosexuals and is still ok with it.

I won't judge, I'm just saying he belongs more to the left-wing.

As for his acting, well his own character most of the time radiates from all those characters, he just can't hide himself. In his own movies, you might say he is not even acting, he is just playing his life in front of cameras, which is easier than acting if you feel free about exposing yourself.

He has probably exposed him self, inside and out more than any other actor.

In Buffalo he has almost toled his own lifestory, right down to the details. Shooting it in his own old house, copying his own parents, revealing details about their life, even using his fathers recording in the father music number.

And obviously in Brown Bunny, he is not acting in that sex scene.

In fact its hard to say he is acting at all in his own movies

I would never dare to expose my life like that to the public. I'm a very selfcontained person.

The more people know about me, the weaker I feel..

Jon-Hebert Barto · March 28, 2006

Open note to everyone flabergasted over Mr. Gallo being conservative:

There is such a thing as having a conservative gut and a liberal mind.

For example, I know plenty of gay men who agree with Bushs' foreign policy(Iraq War) but, obviously, differ with his domestic agenda. :huh: I know staunch Democrats who don't believe abortion should be legal, and they don't believe in God either so there is no faith based agenda. :o Hell, I even know a card carrying Republican who thinks dope should be legalized! :blink: People are people, it's the ones who are all or nothing on either side that scare the crap out of me.... :unsure:

Filip Plesha · March 28, 2006

I'm going to use this thread for one question about Buffalo 66

How were the optical effects done on that movie? The collage, and flashback sequences, optically or with digital compositing.

Also, Wikipedia mentions that for those flashback inserts, 16mm was used. Is that true?

Michael LaVoie · April 5, 2006

Making a film as good as Buffalo 66 proves that he has the potential to deliver a critically successful film. As far as him personally, I was a bit put off by his remark in the Filmmaker magazine interview where he referred to his first DP on Buffalo, Dick Pope as a "frightened fairy" because he was reluctant to shoot 35mm reversal stock. I respect and admire Dick Popes work greatly and it's a bit arrogant to ridicule someone for doing their job which among other things is providing sound technical guidance. Gallo replaced him and went ahead with the reversal film and nearly destroyed his project. They were barely able to strike a print.

Filip Plesha · April 5, 2006

I think Brown Bunny was a great film also.

It's maybe not for everyones taste, because it has that intentional student film naturalistic-documentaristic feel, but I like that. Long cuts, slow pace, subtlety on every corner, attention to detail, thigs you never notice when watching normal movies. The film really makes you stop and examine the frame, the details.

It has that relaxing nostalgic feel of old home movies. A lot of the shots look like something that might have been a clip posted on film-shooting forum by someone.

Most of the movie is such a slow ride through esthetic warmth, then the end reveals shocking dramatic twist, one of the most heartbraking revelations I've seen.

The ending was so intense that It pulls you from that esthetic mood, into a painfull reality, which would never work if it had been revealed at the begining of the film.

And as for THE sex scene, well it certainly isn't usual, but really its all about our inhibitions. That's what people do, and there is no real reason why film should hide it. Of corse not everyone practices oral sex, but some do, and that's the reality of it. As long as the film is limited to adults, it's ok.

I don't think its a porn scene, I think it has a place within the story. Endless films have sex scenes, it's just that this one shows it from another camera angle.

So I don't mind it within the context of the movie.

What I do feel a bit reserved about is an actress doing real sex for money. I know these two have already had sex for real, but still it's more or less for money and its not faking.

Making a film as good as Buffalo 66 proves that he has the potential to deliver a critically successful film. As far as him personally, I was a bit put off by his remark in the Filmmaker magazine interview where he referred to his first DP on Buffalo, Dick Pope as a "frightened fairy" because he was reluctant to shoot 35mm reversal stock. I respect and admire Dick Popes work greatly and it's a bit arrogant to ridicule someone for doing their job which among other things is providing sound technical guidance. Gallo replaced him and went ahead with the reversal film and nearly destroyed his project. They were barely able to strike a print.

Well, it was a lot of risk, but I think it was worth it because the film would never look the same if it were shot on negative stock.

I remember, I bought this DVD just for remembering the look of the photography after viewing a few scenes on TV. It turned out to be a great movie in terms of story and characters, but its the look that attracted me to it in the first place and made me discover it.

It's looks just yummy.