The Runaways (film)
PostPosted:Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:09 pm
I watched it last night; a good drinking film. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
It focuses primarily around a teenage Cherie Currie and Joan Jett back in the mid-70's and their band The Runaways - the all female rock band that inspited Courtney Love, Kat Bjelland, and Jennifer Finch to form their own all-girl rock-band before they went off into their own separate bands: Hole, Babes in Toyland, and L7. Although the accuracy of the film is off - as it cuts out a lot of stuff and condenses a 2 year period (or a 7 or 8 year when the film extends out a bit towards the last half hour) into a few short months. The story is much more focussed around the characters themselves; and I doubt Joan Jett was as much of a controlled bad girl who always making the right choices, as the movie made her out to be; Joan Jett was the producer of the film afterall - so she probably took some liberties with her own character. I don't know. Some other things that were a little off was the sexism against female musicians very strongly in the film because "women didn't do rock music"; which might have been true in the 60's, but there were already other female rock singers out there before them including: Blondie's Deborah Harry (who actually had an all girl proto-punk/rock band called the Stilettos in the early 70's), the slits, and Patti Smith; the Runaways weren't exactly the original pioneers the movie makes them out to be.
It's a fairly good movie for those who are into that sort of music.
It focuses primarily around a teenage Cherie Currie and Joan Jett back in the mid-70's and their band The Runaways - the all female rock band that inspited Courtney Love, Kat Bjelland, and Jennifer Finch to form their own all-girl rock-band before they went off into their own separate bands: Hole, Babes in Toyland, and L7. Although the accuracy of the film is off - as it cuts out a lot of stuff and condenses a 2 year period (or a 7 or 8 year when the film extends out a bit towards the last half hour) into a few short months. The story is much more focussed around the characters themselves; and I doubt Joan Jett was as much of a controlled bad girl who always making the right choices, as the movie made her out to be; Joan Jett was the producer of the film afterall - so she probably took some liberties with her own character. I don't know. Some other things that were a little off was the sexism against female musicians very strongly in the film because "women didn't do rock music"; which might have been true in the 60's, but there were already other female rock singers out there before them including: Blondie's Deborah Harry (who actually had an all girl proto-punk/rock band called the Stilettos in the early 70's), the slits, and Patti Smith; the Runaways weren't exactly the original pioneers the movie makes them out to be.
It's a fairly good movie for those who are into that sort of music.