Velvet Goldmine

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Release date 1998

Duration 124 min

Producer(s) Christopher Ball, Scott Meek, Sandy Stern...more

Director(s) Todd Haynes...more Todd Haynes...less

Writer(s) James Lyons, Todd Haynes, Todd Haynes...more

Cast Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale...more

Genre Drama,

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Reporter:
Brian! Why the make-up?
Brian Slade:
Why? Because rock and roll's a prostitute! It should be tarted up! Performed! The music is the mask, while I, in my chiffon and taff - well - varda the message!

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Brian Slade:
[lying in bed in a coke haze] Woman defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
Mandy Slade:
[standing at the end of bed with head down] I lost my girlhood, true [lift's head with tears in eyes]
Mandy Slade:
but it was for you.

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Brian Slade:
There is suffering at the birth of a child just as there is suffering at the birth of a star.

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Brian Slade:
I knew I'd create a sensation, gasped the Rocket. Then he went out.

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Mandy Slade:
[voiceover on New Year's Eve '69] And on winding roads, in crowded clubs or hotel bar, this shipwreck of the streets rehearsed his future glory. A cigarette tracing a ladder to the stars.

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Reporter:
So you're saying you're bisexual?
Guy:
Yeah, I like boys and girls, they're all great! There's really no difference is there? Mr. BBC.

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Mandy Slade:
I was beaming, truly, like someone's mum.

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Brian Slade:
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person... Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth.

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Malcolm:
I don't believe that there is much of a future to speak of.
Pearl:
We're in a bit of a decadent spiral, aren't we?
Billy:
Sinking fast.
Ray:
Big Brother, baby, all the way.
Malcolm:
Which is why we prefer impressions to ideas.
Billy:
Situations to subjects.
Pearl:
Brief flights to sustained ones.
Ray:
Exceptions to types.
Pearl:
And yourself?

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Mod Girlfriend:
So what are you, modder or rocker?
Brian Slade:
Six of one, half a dozen of the other, really.

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Cecil:
According to legend, when Curt was 13 he was discovered in the family loo at the service of his older brother, and was promptly sent off for eighteen months of electric shock treatment. It was guaranteed the treatment would fry the fairy clean out of him, but all it did was make him go bonkers whenever he heard an electric guitar.

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Mandy:
Today, there'd be fighting in the streets. But in 1972, it was more like dancing.

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