We just re-read the script to Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming film “The Wrestler” (full review coming imminently). Written by Robert D. Siegel (who penned the unfortunate “The Onion” movie), it’s a strange film for Aronofsky to tackle on the outside, but once you get deeper in, you see the drama that intrigued the notable director.
It’s also quite humorous in spots. One part that’s pretty hilarious is a scene where the wrestler (played by Mickey Rourke obviously modelled after ‘8os WWF star Randy “Macho Man” Savage) laments where music has gone these days and pines for the days of ‘The Crüe,” and in his extended rant he takes dead aim at ’90s grunge sad-sack Kurt Cobain of Nirvana.
He and his stripper friend (played by Marisa Tomei) go off on poor little Kurt, blaming him for the lack of fun in music and the culture of complaint that became so oppressive in the ’90s. “Then that Cobain pussy had to come and ruin it all,” he spits contemptuously lamenting over beers. While Cassidy, the stripper says, “Like there’s something wrong with having a good time,” ha.
It’s a great little scene and it only gets better and we hope it stays in the final cut of the film. We won’t know until the Toronto Film Festival if all the music in the screenplay found its way into the final version of the film, but the script is replete with specific music cues including classic hair metal and current hip-hop from the likes of Motley Crue (“Girls Girls Girls”), Guns ‘N Roses (“Get In The Ring”), Def Leppard (“Pour Some Sugar On Me” and “Rock Rock”), Skid Row (“I Remember You”), AC/DC (“Back in Black,” “If You Want Blood”), Cinderella (“Fire and Ice” “Don’t Know What You Got”), Great White (“Once Bitten Twice Shy”), Warrant (“Cherry Pie”), Black Crowes (“Hard to Handle”), Celtic Frost, Lil ‘Kim, Khia, Pitbull, and at least a few more.
Of course “The Wrestler” will also include a Bruce Springsteen song in its closing credits. Aronofsky’s longtime composer Clint Mansell (“Requiem For a Dream”) is once again handling the music score job here as well.
Kobain Had more Talent and made better music than most of those other bands combined although I will admit to rocking out to AC/DC and Motley Crue.
That ruined the fucking film for me to honest.. no need for that.
A cheeky Cobain diss ruined the film for you? Are you kidding?
Finally someone said it! I hate Kurt Cobain. Grunge is for burnouts and brain-dead glue sniffers. You'd have to be completely devoid of any musical taste (or brain cells, for that matter) to say Nirvana had more talent than what Celtic Frost displayed on "Into The Pandemonium."
Accept, Celtic Frost, (old) Skid Row, (old) Ratt,(82/83) Motley Crue and AC/DC have more talent than anything Kobain had ever wished to achieve. The 80's was the last great decade for rock. Unfortunately, rock is dead thanks to Nirvana. Metal still lives though and it will NEVER die! Not so much "glam" but real heavy metal and I will take bands like Accept over the talentless, commercialized filth that has plagued the main$tream since 1992. and no, I'm not "living in the past." If you love something, you never abandon it.
Sorry for the seemingly "elitist" rant but I had to say it.
As for "The Wrestler", I give it two thumbs up.
I'm dissapointed in the writer. Sad-sack Kurt Cobain? When did he ever whine in his songs? Everybody makes him out to be this complaining, look-at-me, pessimistic person. In the end, yeah, he killed himself, but it doesn't mean he whined all the time, if ever. He was not a "sad-sack."
And to the first poster, did you SERIOUSLY say Motley Crue, an irrelevant macho-infused boring hair band, has more talent than Nirvana? If you're talking guitar chops, solos, guitar-dexterity, singing high-ass notes, then yeah they're "better." But when did instrument proficiency decide the more talented band? Kurt wrote great songs that elicited feeling (good feelings, might I add) from listeners. Motley Crue wrote songs in order to get girls to take their shirts off. Seriously, get a grip.
Nirvana was the opposite of "commercialized;" you truly don't know what you're talking about.
Actually nirvana were better than all those shit like GNR, ACDC, Motley crue… All those college bands didn't create anything new, they were riding cliché and standards because they were NOT artists. They played the music that was invented by someone else, they studied a lot to do this. In fact, those bands always sounded the same. It's only music for kids that want to look bigger and cool.
To be honest, Cobain was the first emo, he ruin everything, he was a pussy, what ppl are so mad about that, it's true.