Demented vaguely celebrates rebellion and underground filmmaking with uninteresting stakes, talking the talk but a little too polished and barbless to actually seem. Demented is a 2000 black comedy film written and directed by john waters. Cecil forces her to act for him and this experience will lead the. Demented, a film that brilliantly and hilariously dissects this very subject while savagely reminding us just how tolerant we are of hollywoods mostly lousy. Demented is the funniest mainstream movie that john waters has ever made. Demented and his crazy crew the sprocket holes are considered as terrorists in the world of cinema for their unconventional movies and for the issues they talk about on the screen. Demented is a satire of the hollywood movie industry and its fucking brilliant. Demented dorff and his cult group kidnap spoiled movie star honey whitlock griffith, who will be forced to star in their film. Demented and his guerrilla production crew invade the streets of baltimore to shoot their nobudget epic. The film stars melanie griffith as a snobby alist hollywood actress who is kidnapped by a band of terrorist filmmakers.
Demented goes behind the scenes with a group of obsessed cinema terrorists whose goal in life is to avenge the crass sins of commercial movie culture. Demented, a wildeyed cinema radical who rails against mainstream, profitmongering movies and is trying to make his own celluloid manifesto. John waters, onetime pope of trash, has gone back to his roots with cecil b demented, the story of a filmmaker turned urban guerrilla. A famous hollywood actress is kidnapped and forced to star in an underground film by a lunatic director a. The film spends its whole time parading stereotypes and leaves us with a very bad taste in our mouths. Stephen dorff plays the title character in cecil b. Directorwriter john waters latest contribution to this rare happening is cecil b.
An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage. Demille foundation, which strives to support higher education, child welfare, and film in southern california. Vowing to punish the crass sins of commercial cinema, cecil b. Demented stephen dorff captures stuckup movie star honey whitlock melanie griffith and forces her to star in the kids no.
He satirizes the selfrighteousness of independent filmmakers who are. As the movie begins, the title character and his sprocket holes gang kidnap honey whitlock. Demented is a film directed by john waters with melanie griffith, stephen dorff, alicia witt, adrian grenier, year. Stephen dorff, right, playing a lunatic film director, grabs melanie griffith in a scene from john waterss film cecil b. Demented, the leader of an equallyderanged group of filmmakers who call themselves the sprocket holes and base themselves in baltimore, maryland. The venue operated as a movie theatre from 1914 to 1990, when it closed. A 2000 black comedy film by john waters, starring stephen dorff in the title role as deranged independent director cecil b. Demented stephen dorff and his sprocket holes, as he refers to his underground film crew, crash a hollywood ceremony to kidnap alist hollywood movie star honey whitlock, played by the wonderfully innocent melanie griffith, for their underground film. Filming locations for john waters cecil b demented 2000, in baltimore. Demented, a gang of undergroundfilm kids led by mr. I wanted to address how gaming industry in korea is willing to make changes which film industry in korea did in last couple decades. Demented goes behind the scenes with a group of obsessed cinema terrorists whose goal in life is to avenge the crass sins of commercial movie culture through acts of brazen filmmaking and. Cinema quarantino is an ongoing series of alternative streaming picks for the selfquarantined and the socially distanced, as selected by the film staff of boston hassle. Selfstyled guerrilla filmmaker cecil stephen dorff leads a baltimore moviemaking collectivestreet gang called the sprocket holes, which includes cecils girlfriend and frequent leading lady.
For shits sake, cecil and his crew raid a screening of patch adams the directors cut lmao. Hes assembled a small and renegade filmmaking crew the sprocket holes whose assignment is to take back the cinema along the lines of acting like a bunch of. Demilles legacy is maintained by his granddaughter cecilia demille presley who serves as the president of the cecil b. Demented this satirical comedy goes behind the scenes with a group of obsessed cinema terrorists whose goal in life is to avenge the crass sins of commercial movie culture through acts of brazen filmmaking and vigilante outlaw cinema retribution. Senator theatre, york road, baltimore both waters himself and barry levinson premiere most of their films at this picture house, which features a walk of fame celebrating local cinematic accomplishments on. Demented melanie griffith stephen dorff alicia witt 2000 a renegade filmmaker stephen dorff kidnaps a pampered hollywood star melanie griffith and forces her to play the trashy wife of a failed artfilm. An insane actioncomedy about a young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists who kidnap a movie goddess and force her to star in their underground movie. Demented, povede bandu filmskih pobunjenika kako bi oteli honey whitlock, veliku zvijezdu visokobudzetnih filmova. Demented goes behind the scenes with a group of obsessed cinema terrorists whose goal in life is to avenge the crass sins of commercial movie culture through acts of brazen filmmaking and vigilante outlaw cinema retribution. There are no subtitles, but the soundtrack is closedcaptioned. Demented and his guerrilla production crew invade the streets of baltimore.
If you have amazon prime, i implore you to check this movie out. An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an alist hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film. A dirty shame better exhibits his successes with trashy risks when swinging big. Demented 2000 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. With melanie griffith, stephen dorff, alicia witt, adrian grenier. Demented dorff and his cult group kidnap spoiled movie star honey whitlock. A young director and his cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a movie goddess and force her to star in their underground movie. The most sinfully unfunny waters film ive seen thus far. The demented crews hideout is the hippodrome theatre in downtown baltimore. Vowing to punish the crass sins of commercial cinema, fueled by revolutionary zeal and their selfimposed sexual frustration, cecil b.
Cecil blogging on his work, art and games section studios is making. An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage film makers kidnap an alist hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film. The film stars melanie griffith as a snobby alist hollywood actress who is. Ils nauraient jamais du logiquement travailler ensemble. A group of cinemaobsessed guntoting bandits, they open the film with an extravagant kidnap of honey. Demented takes this tendency to an almost unwatchable extreme, in a home movie thats like a bunch of kids goofing off. Demented 2000 online sa prevodom poremeceni filmski redatelj, cecil b. To realize his latest film, cecil decides to kidnap the hollywood star honey whitlock, whos considered a fickle diva. Supplemental materials include a commentary track by the director.
Watch the trailer, watch the first few minutes, then pass. Demented apallingly egotistical film star honey whitlock spends most of her time emotionally torturing her assistant, until she is kidnapped by cinematic terrorist cecil b. Comment on facebookcomment comment on twittercomment. Despite a long relationship with new line cinema, the director could not get his new film produced until now. Demented with your friends and start a discussion on facebook or twitter. Cecil je zeli u svom novom antihollywoodskom filmu, kojeg pokusavaju snimiti na raznoraznim bizarnim lokacijama. Melanie griffith plays a famous hollywood actress that gets kidnapped by a. If john waters last few gentler and slightly more commercial movies pecker, serial mom, crybaby had his fans thinking the oncewarped director had lost his edge, that perhaps he was. The english soundtrack is rendered in dolby digital 5. Every so often a great movie comes along that does what all the best movies do. Demented 2000 starring melanie griffith and stephen dorff on dvd and bluray. Demented comes to dvd with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.
As the movie begins, the title character stephen dorff and his sprocket holes gang kidnap honey whitlock. Their targets include the maryland film commission, the big shots who produced honeys new film, and gump two, a sequel to forrest gump, which is being shot in baltimore. Cecil wants her in his movie, a screed against hollywood they film during blitzkrieg attacks on a multiplex, a maryland film commission press. Demented stephen dorff leads the ragtag group named the sprockets holes. Their mission is to bring down mainstream cinema and destroy the studio system of filmmaking to. New line delayed the opening of david cronenbergs crash by several months due to the ire of then owner ted turner. Demented stephen dorff, is an angry young man who hates everything to do with hollywood and the commercial films it constantly spits out. Demented original soundtrack on allmusic 2000 most. The movie has a radical premise, as weathermantype movie lovers try to destroy dumb commercial films, but pitches it at the level of a very bad sketch on saturday night live. Demented is my least favorite john waters film but its still a really interesting movie worth checking out.
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