[8], The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 53% of critics gave Cecil B. Demented positive reviews, based on 80 reviews, with a weighted average of 5.56/10. There's . At their last location, Cecil is shooting the final scene at a local drive-in while law enforcement are alerted. In the ensuing chaos, some crew members escape with the raw film footage while others are shot. Cecil also tells us, "I don't believe in phony life-affirming endings." The ending of Cecil B. Demented (2000) is a parody of Sunset Boulevard's final scene. City Lights 1931. The group's first location is a movie theater playing Patch Adams: The Director's Cut, which they storm with guns and smoke bombs before leaving with their footage. Honey now realizes that her desire to escape would only lead her back to Hollywood, where she is hated for being rude. Cecil B. Demented. [5][6] It was released in the United States on August 11 of that year. Also, by today's standards, it fails to shock. The theatre was restored shortly after Cecil B. Demented was shot there, and since 2004 it has been a live music and theater venue. Cecil sets himself completely ablaze as police arrive, to give Honey a chance to escape. How entertaining is that really supposed to be? Now he seems to have returned to his middle period again, if such a thing is possible. Bittersweet Ending: A majority of the Sprocket Holes get killed during the film's production, Cecil himself likely dies after setting himself on fire and Honey gets taken into custody; her reputation in Hollywood having gone completely down the drain at this point. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Cecil B. Demented - Original Soundtrack on AllMusic - 2000 - Most John Waters films are scored with obscure… Cecil and the crew invade the projection room, and he proceeds to excite the crowd into a frenzy. The ending of "Cecil B. Demented" may be phony, but it's not life-affirming. As with all of Waters' films, it was shot in Baltimore, Maryland. 9/10. My best guess is that John Waters produced the talent shows in his high school. In the ensuing mayhem, the group escapes. It's Melanie Griffith!). One wonders if the script simply says: Everyone runs around like crazy. A crooked politician hires a black sheriff for a small frontier town, with the hope that the people will panic and abandon the land so he and his cronies can run a railroad through it and fill in the name of a faded TV personality. Here's this week's Cinema Fearite column - Cecil B. DeMented. Blue balls for celluloid! The ending of Cecil B. Demented (2000) is a parody of Sunset Boulevard's final scene. John Waters COMEDY-CRIME-movie FRANCE,USA 2000 cast: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt aka(s): Cecil B. DeMented, A morte Hollywood, Abgedreht - In der Gewalt des Cecil B. description: An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Ho The ending of "Cecil B. Demented" may be phony, but it's not life-affirming. Cecil B. Demented (STEPHEN DORFF), is an angry young man who hates everything to do with Hollywood and the commercial films it constantly spits out. He is an anarchist in an age of the cautious, an independent in an age of studio creatures, a man whose films are homemade and contain no chemicals or preservatives. There will, however, always be a (small) corner of my heart filled with admiration for John Waters. Some of this stuff is funny in concept (when they attack the director's cut of "Patch Adams," that's good for a laugh, although the scene itself isn't). No one gets laid until we finish our movie. There will, however, always be a (small) corner of my heart filled with admiration for John Waters. Sometimes, in this film, that geniality works against him; the actors are having a better time than we are. As Honey seems to become more comfortable with her situation, possibly developing Stockholm syndrome, she watches a television special discussing her disappearance. During the course of their filmmaking they attack a theatre showing the director's cut of "Patch Adams," disrupt a luncheon of the Maryland Film Commission, and take refuge in a porno movie theatre showing "Rear Entry." With the film finished, the SprocketHoles start having sex in public before the authorities step in. Cecil B. Demented . . But "Cecil B. DeMented" isn't in poor taste at all -- well, OK, that's if you discount the scene in which a porn star coos with delight as a gerbil wriggles up her ass. Restoration and home media [ edit ] By the late 1990s, most Sunset Boulevard prints were in poor condition, and as the film was shot using cellulose nitrate filmstock , much of the original negative had perished. Waters has an ending that is … Waters had been trying to get “Cecil B. Demented” produced since before his last film, “P****r”. I'm a prophet against profit! BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky. Cecil B. Demented is a 2000 black comedy film written and directed by John Waters. CECIL B. DEMENTED is a tired celebration of anarchy, rampant immorality and anti-Christian bigotry imbued with a self-righteous philosophy favoring total artistic freedom. An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film. The ending of Cecil B. Demented (2000) is a parody of Sunset Boulevard's final scene. Sinclair Stevens, a.k.a. Watched by jude 20 Mar, 2021. The venue operated as a movie theatre from 1914 to 1990, when it closed. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Patricia Hearst, who appeared in Waters' funny "Cry-Baby," is back, for example, to add ironic weight to a story about a kidnapper who identifies with her captors. Cecil B. Demented. Rated R Cecil B. Demented would die for his film. Members of Cecil's crew are either killed or wounded. DeMented's crew worships directors like Sam Peckinpah, Kenneth Anger, Pedro Almodóvar, Samuel Fuller, David Lynch and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and not everybody will realize the irony in the end, but for film buffs who like these tidbits, "Cecil B. DeMented" is an absolute riot. DeMented's crew worships directors like Sam Peckinpah, Kenneth Anger, Pedro Almodóvar, Samuel Fuller, David Lynch and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and not everybody will realize the irony in the end, but for film buffs who like these tidbits, "Cecil B. DeMented" is an absolute riot. De-Mented Forever! Bittersweet Ending: A majority of the Sprocket Holes get killed during the film's production, Cecil himself likely dies after setting himself on fire and Honey gets taken into custody; her reputation in Hollywood having gone completely down the drain at this point. New Line delayed the opening of David Cronenberg’s “Crash” by several months due to the ire of then owner Ted Turner. The crazed Cecil (Stephen Dorff) and his gang of outlaw filmmakers, called the Sprocket Holes, kidnap her. (Cult members have the names of their favorite directors tattooed on their arms.) The ending of Cecil B. Demented (2000) is a parody of Sunset Boulevard's final scene. DeMented.' The film, whose title (also the name of Dorff's character) alludes to legendary director Cecil B. DeMille, is loosely based on the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, who has a cameo role. And Griffith, as Honey Whitlock, gets into the spirit. Restoration and home media. Sinclair Stevens, a.k.a. Revolutionary underground auteur Cecil B. DeMented and his crew of similarly-minded acolytes kidnap Hollywood A-lister Honey Whitlock, aiming to use her for a clandestine production railing against the studio system and its paint-by-numbers product. Honey uses the opportunity to turn herself in to the authorities and they take her away in a police car, but the film group retrieves her soon after. Cecil B. DeMented John Waters spoofs independent filmmaking at its most absurd fringe with this affectionate portrait of a guerrilla filmmaking collective that declares war on Hollywood drivel. Old movie posters are plastered on the walls, the cult hangs around in what looks like a rec room, and there are movie in-jokes everywhere. Apart from the first scene, Cecil, Honey and the crew roam around the city filming scenes at real (unapproved) locations, often involving innocent bystanders in the process. He asks Honey to light her hair on fire for the final shot (which she does). The audience helps Cecil escape. Honey is introduced to Cecil's crew of followers, each of whom wears a tattoo of a noted filmmaker and reveals unique, individual quirks. A gunfight ensues between Cecil's crew and the police, during which Rodney the hairdresser is killed and Cecil is wounded. One wonders if the script simply says: Everyone runs around like crazy. By the late 1990s, most Sunset Boulevard prints were in poor condition, and as the film was shot using cellulose nitrate filmstock, much of the original negative had perished. The SprocketHoles then invade the set of the Forrest Gump sequel being filmed in Baltimore, at Honey's suggestion. All you need to do is turn off Netflix, reject bad cinema, and seek quality, alternative, independent and exciting films. Persons who knew her, including her ex-husband, are interviewed and come clean about how mean-spirited she was in daily life. [10], Cecil B. Demented was a box office failure, grossing $2 million from an estimated $10 million budget.[3][4]. Like Ed Wood (but inevitably at a higher level of artistry), he seems to enjoy the actual process of making films: He likes to go to the set, have actors, say "Action!" In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Stephen Dorff stars as the eponymous character and leader of the group, with Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Michael Shannon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal co-starring as the rest of his gang of filmmakers. Inspired, Cecil decides to invade the luncheon the commission is hosting. Cecil B. Demented (Dorff) is the leader of a motley band of would-be film aficionados who kidnap a Hollywood actress (Melanie Griffith) at the premiere of her latest film. One of my favorite John Waters films is 2000s Cecil B. Demeted.That and 1998s Pecker are timid in comparison to Waters earlier oeuvre and a good example of Waters compassionate and honest temperament, which has always come across in the way he conducts himself in person, with press, the public and when performing or hosting.Demented is an ode to guerilla filmmaking and a middle finger … Each of the SprocketHoles has infiltrated the staff of the theater where the premiere is to take place; they subsequently kidnap Honey as she concludes her remarks on stage. Despite a long relationship with New Line Cinema, the director could not get his new film produced until now. Sunset Boulevard (film) - Wikipedia The title of the 2000 John Waters film Cecil B. Demented alludes to DeMille. "[9] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 57 out of 100, based on 32 reviews. She makes the life of her assistant (Ricki Lake) miserable, she makes impossible demands, she sends back a limousine that's the wrong color (not fiction; I once actually saw Ginger Rogers do this) and she is not a good sport when it comes to eating Maryland seafood ("I'm not interested in some kind of meal you have to beat with a mallet while wearing some stupid little bib, while families of mutants gawk in your face"). Directed by John Waters. We're horny, but our film comes first. It's been like that in a lot of Waters' movies, from the raunchy early sleazoids like "Pink Flamingos," through his transitional phase ("Polyester") to his studio productions ("Hairspray," "Cry-Baby," Serial Mom"). 9/10. With Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier. "Cecil B. Demented Movie Reviews, Pictures", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cecil_B._Demented&oldid=1014849733, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Eric M. Barry as Fidget, the costume designer (, Zenzele Uzoma as Chardonnay, the sound artist (, Erika Lynn Rupli as Pam, the cinematographer (, "An Extra Piece of Dead Meat" – The Locust, This page was last edited on 29 March 2021, at 12:43. Their targets include the Maryland Film Commission, the big shots who produced Honey's new film, and "Gump Two," a sequel to "Forrest Gump," which is being shot in Baltimore. The slash and burn of the white-hot metal will brand you forever with the logo of Cecil B. Demented. There's always been something cheerfully amateurish about his more personal films--a feeling that he and his friends have dreamed up a series of "skits" while hanging out together. In "Cecil B. Demented," the latest offering from Baltimore director John Waters, an underground filmmaker (Stephen Dorff) kidnaps a big Hollywood … Romance. and see everyone have a good time. Cecil B. Demented (STEPHEN DORFF), is an angry young man who hates everything to do with Hollywood and the commercial films it constantly spits out. At first she resists, shooting scenes emotionlessly, but when Cecil demands better results, Honey gives an over-the-top performance in the film's opening scene which pleases him. Last week, Cinema Fearité took a shallow dive into the artsy world of ex. The Ritchie Boys (2004) Although it’s an unrelentingly campy satire that one shouldn’t take too seriously, the self-righteousness of … Cinema Fearité presents 'Cecil B. DeMented' John Waters gets meta with his dark comedy 'Cecil B. I Care a Lot 2020. Honey is taken to an abandoned movie theater where she is kept gagged with tape on her mouth, tied up and blindfolded. The latest honor bestowed on Waters comes in the form of a 20th Anniversary celebration of his ode to indie movie terrorists everywhere, Cecil B. Demented… Despite a long relationship with New Line Cinema, the director could not get his new film produced until now. He sure doesn't. The Demented crew's hideout is the Hippodrome Theatre in Downtown Baltimore. A gunfight breaks out between Cecil's friends and Teamsters who got free. "Cecil B. Demented" got its title, Waters says, because that's what he was called in an early review. "Cecil B. Demented" takes this tendency to an almost unwatchable extreme, in a home movie that's like a bunch of kids goofing off. To be sure, he has real stars in the picture; Melanie Griffith stars as a Hollywood star, and Stephen Dorff plays the cult leader who kidnaps her as part of his guerrilla assault on mainstream cinema. The film stars Melanie Griffith as a snobby A-list Hollywood actress who is kidnapped by a band of terrorist filmmakers; they force her to star in their underground film. His goal: cinematic revolution by any means necessary. 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