I have not watched the movie Spun. However, after seeing the above clip (WARNING: EXTREMELY NSFW), in which Rob Halford plays a sex store clerk and Mickey Rourke evidently plays a meth manufacturer, I have a burning desire to do so. (Note that Rourke’s character buys a video called Rectum for a Dream.) Spun’s director was Jonas Åkerlund, who briefly drummed for Bathory in the ’80s. He later became an accomplished music video director, with clients including Madonna, Christina Aguilera, U2, Roxette, and Satyricon. (The latter two are on Spun’s soundtrack.)
Halford’s tattoos are quite visible here. They remind me of how Rourke’s body is also a canvas of sorts in The Wrestler. The movie is good, but Rourke is great. His performance is almost enough to forgive the hair metal soundtrack and the most cringe-inducing rendition ever of Ratt’s “Round and Round.”
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Why should the soundtrack be forgiven in any way? It’s fitting to the characters aesthetic completely and even satyrized slightly with the “what’s wrong with just wanting to have some fun” (the answer of the movie is apparently “a lot”). I thought The Wrestler was good but not great. I wanted Aronofsky to go deeper into the motivations of his main character, but it seemed he sort of fell in love with Rourke’s rendition of him. “The Fountain” remains my favourite film of his. Then, ?. The less said about Requiem for a Dream, the better.
Spun also has a brief cameo by Satyricon (in video form, on a TV), but it can’t be saved – it’s a nihilistic, boring piece of drug-abuse-porn. At least Requiem For a Dream has a hilarious talking refrigerator.
Replace Round N’ Round with Cherry Orchards, that would be more kvlt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI74tyUefY4
Holy hair! Thanks for sharing. Tom G. Warrior never looked scarier.